And modern mid-range photo cameras come with crazy features. Autofocus that can detect human and even animal eyes and instantly focus on those. Lenses with whisper-quiet and crazy fast ultrasonic focusing motors. Image stabilization both in the lens and in the camera.

Oh, and your photo camera can record video, too, because why wouldn't it?

Well, there is a big difference between "someone submitted a talk about going full AI to the KDE conference" and "the KDE conference wants to have a talk about going full AI and this is probably what the leadership wants and is just looking to get rubber stamped".

Imagine if someone made a post called "I think the lemmy.world admins should sell out to Meta and make big money" and this was reported as "lemmy.world is debating selling out to Meta; this is probably what the admins wanted to do all along".

The core of the matter may be true but the way it's talked about is anything but accurate.

True, of course, but we did make huge leaps in fusion power in the last years. We're currently at a stage where several teams are currently constructing reactors intended to demonstrate break-even (so more energy comes out than is put in), with ones viable as power plants already being designed. The one I mentioned plans to run their demo reactor in 2027; the 2031 one is supposed to be the commercially viable one.

That's a hell of a lot better than the "we will have some kind of viable reactor at some point within the next three decades" we've been hearing for the last 50 years. It could be several simultaneous high-profile scams, of course, but their plans are plausible.

Mind you, this won't take us to a future of unlimited cheap power and micro fusion reactors in every pocket. Deuterium and tritium don't grow on trees and fusion reactors have a fairly substantial minimum size. Also, renewable power sources are a much cheaper and easier way of generating power. Fusion's strength is that it's a "generate a lot of heat and drive a turbine" type of power source so it can be used as a cogeneration plant (providing both power and district heating) or to provide heat for industrial processes, which renewables aren't great for.

Mind you, a commercial fusion reactor company is currently aiming for net energy production in 2031 using a stellarator. Their series A funding round raised 130 million Euros so investors seem inclined to believe them. Technologically it also checks out; both stellarators and tokamaks have taken major steps forward in recent years.

The eternal 30 year timeframe has shrunk an awful lot over the last decade.

Absolutely.

Continuity is extremely important in trade relations. If I plan to tie my economy to yours I want to be certain that the rules of those ties won't suddenly change. That's not the case with the USA anymore; that's one side of the coin.

The other side is that the USA are a big market that has, until recently, been fairly reliable. There's a lot of money to be made by dealing with them and there are a lot of established relations that would be expensive to change. In some cases companies can't even pivot to other markets as their business is too specific.

So trade will continue but the States are no longer guaranteed to be the preferred partner. Especially when making new trade deals the USA no longer get the benefit of goodwill. Previously they could argue that signing a deal with them meant decades of reliable access to a large, stable, and prosperous market and that a few unfavorable tradeoffs are worth it. Now they can't even guarantee that the deal won't be unilaterally canceled within months or that their market has much purchasing capacity. As a result everyone else is much more inclined to seek alternate trade deals and play hardball when the USA come to negotiate.

The current government is the worst one by far that I can remember us ever having. (That obviously means postwar.)

And that includes highlights like the Schröder cabinet where we unnecessarily deepened our dependency on Russian gas and implemented an unemployment policy so bad it had to be declared not to be in violation of human dignity by our Constitutional Court (which I consider one of the court's greatest missteps). For the record: Germany considers dignity to be one of the most important human rights. I consider the unemployment benefits system we've had since 2005 to be a literal human rights violation. And Merz is worse.

Or the Merkel cabinet which decided that the best way to prepare the country for the future was to cut infrastructure spending to near zero for twenty years and then make a Pikachu face when bridges start collapsing and the railroad network becomes unreliable. Merz comfortably outperforms that degree of incompetence.

The Merz cabinet manages to take the worst possible stance on just about every single matter, including matters that weren't even up for debate until our so incredibly esteemed chancellor just had to open his mouth again. I'm ashamed to be represented by these people and I'm ashamed of how the country conducts itself under what they call leadership. They're blatantly working against everyone, domestic and abroad, who isn't rich and they absolutely do not care about how much suffering they inflict.

The only thing worse is that due to the CDU/CSU's steadfast refusal to take a stance against the hard-right and known-antidemocratic AfD, those assholes have a fair chance of becoming the dominant political party so the next government might be even worse.

The flared base is to keep it from tipping over during travel, which space stations are known to do a lot of.

Mind you, they immediately went and developed less harmful versions of warp drive; both Voyager and the Defiant are known to do better in this regard. There was less than a year between warp drive being found harmful and the Defiant getting pressed into service. Voyager launched a few months later.

Getting subspace-friendly warp drives into ships must've been an extremely high priority for them to retool at least two ship classes late during development.

(Also, it was mentioned a few times again, even if only barely. TNG mentioned it a couple times in the same season and VOY mentioned it once. Not much but something.)

I prefer the Picard/Q version of the song.

Not if you've been taught that everything is a zero-sum game, which apparently many people believe, especially in the States. If you believe that one person gaining something necessarily means that someone else loses something to an equal or greater degree, caring about other people inherently means having to compromise on your own happiness.

Of course it becomes a lot easier if you believe that it's possible to win together and that giving a little can make a huge difference in someone's day.

I'd say that ATLA is an animated show but doesn't feel like a cartoon. For me personally, "cartoon" and "anime" are different subcategories of "animated show or movie".

Try working on a codebase that's all event-driven hexagonal CQRS with hand-crafted SQL for persistence. Add additional buzzwordy methodologies to taste.

Adding a single property to your product means you now have to update an aggregate class, several DTOs, and several event classes and handlers before you can even think about touching the UI.

And that's in your main solution. There's also at least one facade service you'll need to make compatible and you also need to update the event simulator used for testing. The latter night involve having to touch every single line in a 2000 lines long SQL script.

Having to go though three separate 600-2000 LOC PRs for one PBI isn't that exotic.