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Just did some brief Wikipedia browsing and I'm assuming it's WatsonX and not Watson? It seems Watson has been pretty much discontinued and WatsonX is LLM based. If it is the old Watson, I'm curious what your impressions of it is. It was pretty cool and ahead of its time, but what it could actually do was way over promised and overhyped.

I really don't think that will be competition at all. People like to travel and the demand is there for faster international flights. For business travel, people either prefer to go in person or have to be in person. Also with time zone differences, virtual meetings require one party to often have to meet at odd times. The ticket price probably will be higher than what most people want to spend for vacation, but there will still be plenty of people willing to pay.

Yes, it will make a huge impact during the investigation and adjudication process. For TS and TS/SCI, even with naturalization the chances for approval will be slim and naturalization likely won't help, especially if they have family in China. For the government, it's all about calculating risk of someones loyalty, character and having things that can be exploited by financial issues (debt is the biggest disqualifier), foreign contacts or family, and anything they'd want to keep secret that could be used for blackmail.

There's probably a much greater amount of energy lost from conversion to liquid form and stored and converted back into usable electricity from steam generators. I believe the article mentions it but it likely has better long term storage than batteries as well. The equipment required for the 'air' battery would have a longer lifespan and be cheaper to repair then a massive battery bank. On top of that batteries aren't exactly the most 'green' thing to produce, so from a carbon footprint perspective, I imagine the air battery is much more efficient.

I recently have been working on setting up a HA Postgres Cluster on K8's... its for a pretty small DB use case and not knowing much about the world of Postgres and Databases I ended up using the Crunchy Postgres Operator which amazingly did all of the work for me... (I honestly don't know much about Patroni other then it manages the switchover to replicas during a failure)... anyway I'd recommend the Crunchy Operator...

As a side note, we've found that it takes quite a while for the initial pgBackRest job to run (like 8 minutes) which seems like a lot for an empty DB, but we aren't using SSDs

I'm really suprised the article didn't mention anything about Tizen. For Google, Tizen looks like a big issue. At some point in the future, their biggest hardware seller, Samsung, will start switching all of their devices to running on Tizen and other partners in the Tizen Association (from wikipedia) are Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT, NEC Casio, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sprint. Google's going to have to get very aggressive with Fuchsia to compete with Tizen.

Here's a thread from last year which have a few insightful discussions on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614

I imagine he used some of the "tools in his toolbox" he acquired from various fields of Physics. Given that it was a PDE his answer also probably was an approximation

The QC's don't completely wash out background noise. If you listen to your music loud enough (which is probably too loud), you literally won't hear anything around you. But normal use, I find that it muffles outside voices enough not to get distracted, but not so much to the point where if someone says my name I can respond. An added plus, is people will bother you less if you're wearing them. Sometimes I like wearing them without listening to any music, just to create a quieter environment.

Hopefully it transitions into a similar way that C++ is managed.

I can't imagine any competitor is anywhere near what Steam has in user numbers, however many publishers have their own exclusive clients now. EA with Origin, which actually has great customer service (you can chat with customer service reps without waiting a month), Activision-Blizzard though I think Activision still releases games on Steam, GOG which I have no experience with but hear its good and then there's Uplay which is fine, integrates with Steam. But I like many Steam users am invested in the platform, I just wish they did some things better.

Unlikely, the NAO Robots have been around since 2008 and they still cost quite a lot of money. The hardware on these things is pretty impressive, and since it's more of a platform for R&D then a general product, the demand for them will be constrained to University research labs and R&D groups at companies able to afford the like $100k+ price tag, so they'll never be mass produced. The same situation exists with the NAO robots.