But it is not super reliable or friendly.

[1] https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet

Open competition kind of spoils this model. It's not really sustainable.

So I think new technology is generated through research funding, either public sector (universities) or R&D depts in private companies (today companies like Apple, previously old school companies like pre-Welch GE). I guess BT was more like the latter, except state owned.

In telecoms there's also a universal service obligation, which does not make economic sense when driven purely by profit motive. Cost of rolling out fiber to a small village will probably never be recouped. Thats why FTTH w/ Virgin Broadband was only available in cities for a long time, and expensive.

In the US where telecoms have regulatory capture, and no public access telecom network, you see stories of rural communities trying to fund their own infra. It's expensive.

Cost of rollout and universal service can be helped by rolling out at scale, building the factories, reducing unit price etc.

So all this together.... I think private companies _can_ have the foresight to do this kind of forward planning... But a big nationwide rollout of a public good? Where is their financial incentive? They would provide an environment for the acceleration of future commerce and technological development. But if they don't make money from it, why would they?

That delayed fiber rollout in the UK by decades.

Was that a success? Could be they were too early to justify the cost? But without someone pushing ahead, who develops the technology?

Does anyone have experience if the issue been resolved in more recent designs, or is this something Apple users are now expected to live with?

I think that should then be enough to know to Google "Low platelet count". The person may not know the significance of that immediately, true.

The LLM _HAS_ empowered the patient to act on his own health, which is undeniably a good thing.

Not sure about seeing the LLM as a companion.

Sure OpenSSL has myriad inscrutable options, but the majority of these probably aren't going to be used by 90% of people. Yet including them in a CLI gives less clutter/overhead versus what they would in a GUI. They can just stay out of the way for the people who need them.

I guess the same could be said of an "Advanced Features" second page of a GUI though.

I recently migrated to Obsidian and although the learning curve is steeper, I'm quite happy with the results.

How cute.

Once EES comes into effect the stamps may not be necessary anyway, but much like fusion, it's perpetually 6 months away.

Eurostar wanted to change this to allow direct trains from Amsterdam around the time of the pandemic, but they always struggled for space. I suppose this construction will result in a definitive solution.

Is this not the case?

So the man from the water company comes and says it's very hard to detect where the leak is, but he will come back with his dowsing rod to find it.

We told him not to bother, and figuring the leak was somewhere between the house and the water mains under the pavement (about 2m distance), started digging holes where the ground started getting soggier. Found it quickly by applying a bit of common sense.

We're in agreement what exactly was the purpose of the survey...

See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...