I expect so.

KDE Connect also works great as a remote control for many things, presumably including this.

$10 says anti-suicide.

Try 78: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

Obviously not everyone reaches that. Even if you set the retirement age at 50, some people would die first.

Yes,

But also, perhaps superannuation being (at least here in NZ) not means tested and larger than all other welfare combined implies there is a problem.

It means more tax take and less superannuation spending. Depends on the country’s superannuation system, of course.

That means more money available for all the things taxes are used for, many of which are very very necessary.

How can you justify cuts to the healthcare system because you claim to not have enough money, but then pay pensioners some thousand dollars a fortnight, regardless of what assets or other income they have?

Even “App App” would be better.

Yeah; it’s ‘sufficient’ for a lot of purposes. It’s like complaining about things being made out of cheap plastic; it’s not as good but it’s often good enough. There are ethical concerns but they won’t generally stop its use.

Using it to make decisions or write actual technical documentations is different. But most art doesn’t need to be correct; it’s art.

Apparently that’s the new way to do math in AI. The AI works out you’re trying to do math, tries to write some Python code to do the math, runs the python codes, gets the answer, writes a response around the numeric answer.

I can’t think of any possible issues with this; it’s infallible. /s

European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I’m sure they’ll cope.

I’m not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

Yeah, add two zeros, especially if using hard drives rather than SSD.

“Greater Canada”.

You’re probably not going to save 95% of the trees given the major earthworks likely needed for managing sewage, stormwater, and other utilities. You’ll probably save most of them, though.

40k looks pretty optimistic for the size and number of buildings, too.

If it’s not got design drawings, specifications, and QC, it’s improvised.

I can make any ad-hoc modification to a machine and be paid for it, and that’s improvised.

This is why it’s important to operate with enough available reserves (fast and slow) to cover the unexpected loss of your biggest generator, transformer, and/or transmission line.

Their black start procedures are going to be getting a good workout; I hope they’re well tested.

Oh, I’ve had the name for a lot longer than that.

As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.

There’s still a lot of flights through Russian territory.

Korean 007 could have been intentional (I believe the pilot involved still claims it was a military plane) but Hanlon’s razor still applies here. They’re firing a lot of SAMs at many targets without good controls.

The US is barely better; they shot down one (nearly two) of their own fighters about a week ago and then there’s the Vincennes incident.

On underground lines, the PSDs are mostly for air-sealing. It allows you to air-condition the platforms without trying to cool the tunnels, and it helps the piston effect of moving trains pull air through the tunnels, rather than just swirl air around each platform.

Also probably helps for fire engineering.

The Elizabeth line is already built with platform screen doors, although I believe they’re only on underground sections. I don’t know enough about this station to say whether it had them; I expect not.

Platform screen doors tend to be used underground mainly for airflow management. They are not primarily for safety.

They work less well outside. No overhead structure to anchor to, weather has a larger impact (particularly snow/ice), and they can become something to climb rather than an obstacle.