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@hemmes@lemmy.world
- Comment on just have a fag bro 1 week ago:
Okay I think I fixed it
- Comment on just have a fag bro 1 week ago:
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Subsidies have always been about fostering new technologies and innovation.
- Electricity in rural homes: In the 1930s, private utilities often would not run power lines to rural areas because it was not profitable enough. The Rural Electrification Administration used federal loans to help local electric co-ops build out rural power infrastructure. Before that, only about 1 in 10 farms had electricity, while most urban homes already did. Today, obviously, electric service is a basic expectation almost everywhere.
- The internet: The internet’s roots trace back to ARPANET, a Defense Department/DARPA-funded research network created to connect computers and share digital resources. That publicly funded networking research laid the groundwork for the modern internet: email, web browsing, cloud apps, phones, business systems, and everything else that now runs daily life.
- GPS navigation: GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and remains a government-owned system. It was later opened for civilian use, which is why we now casually use it for maps, delivery routing, fleet tracking, aviation, farming, construction layout, timestamping financial systems, and finding the nearest pizza place.
- The Interstate Highway System: The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 created the Interstate Highway System as a massive federally backed infrastructure project. That public investment helped shape modern commuting, trucking, suburbia, logistics, road trips, distribution centers, and the way stores stock everyday goods.
- Microchips and semiconductors: Early integrated circuits were privately invented, but government demand from defense and space programs helped create the first major market. The U.S. military and NASA were early buyers of integrated circuits for missiles and space guidance systems, helping push the technology forward before it became cheap enough for consumer electronics. That helped lead to the chips in phones, cars, thermostats, routers, controllers, appliances, and BAS equipment.
- Phone cameras and digital imaging: Modern phone cameras owe a lot to NASA/JPL work on CMOS image sensors. NASA describes the CMOS image sensor as one of its most widespread spinoff technologies, enabling cell phone cameras, HD video, and modern digital imaging.
- Medical research and everyday medicine: A lot of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical knowledge start with publicly funded basic research before private companies commercialize the final products. NIH describes itself as the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and says decades of NIH-funded work have driven advances in health and science.
The government absorbs early risk, funds infrastructure or basic research, creates a first market, and then private industry scales it into something ordinary people use every day.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
I’m thinking this is really because you don’t like your job.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
Damn shame
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
- Comment on Ultimate laptop 5 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of instruction sets, it can run _ all_ apps!
- Comment on stony tony 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the balls!
- Comment on Why is kissing? 5 months ago:
schwing.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 8 months ago:
I don’t know I’m not buying this whole thing.
My company is a Microsoft partner, we deal with all types of issues and requests including account hacking and lockouts. This just doesn’t read like a Microsoft customer support email. It reads more like a scammer actually.
The first paragraph sounds strange and not how they would typically start an investigation response.
They can, and have, recovered full access to our customers’ data in such an event, so weird to say they can’t.
even our engineers cannot retrieve them.
That just reads very strange. They don’t talk like that.
Then the final line with “Sincerely,” improperly indented looks like classic scammer text alignment.
And they wouldn’t sign it as “Microsoft Customer Support”. It would be signed with the agents name and wouldn’t be finite. Their ticketing system places footers that instruct the user to reply to the email for continued support.
This message looks bogus to me.
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 10 months ago:
Oh man, that is cool as fuck
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 10 months ago:
The fact that it’s so cool and then he tries to erase it like it’s not cool is what amplifies the Streisand effect.
It’s like nuclear Streisand
- Comment on My kid got heart shaped balloons 11 months ago:
Those are some nice balloons
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 11 months ago:
Unless OP means they shoot the homeless and afterwards attempt to feed them
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Were your parents the least bit concerned?
- Comment on Saw this somewhere with Canada, fixed it 1 year ago:
How did these two even come to this position??
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 1 year ago:
Black Mirror
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 year ago:
VoIP systems are getting us closer to your example. Properly provisioned VoIP (on-prem or cloud) can take a SIP user which looks exactly like an email address and direct digital calls to a physical phone. These days it’s likely going to be sent to an office desk phone or a Teams user, but many years from now it will likely be more common to dial out like that from/to any phone device.
I think your example is a bit more nuanced in that there’s some sort of regional database that I suppose one could register for when they change their address. But I don’t think we’re moving in that direction. Things are moving in a decentralized manner and folks hold onto their digital identities, regardless of their geographical location. So like others comments have said, the phone book system is not evolving any further, because modern communication systems are already the evolved version.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 year ago:
This is awesome.
The multi xxxx registration is god damned mad lad max level.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 year ago:
Yeah, I use that feature all the time. It’s really great. I can upload an image of text data and get an output in table or summary format.
- Comment on Stopped getting group texts for some reason 1 year ago:
My dude, I think they blocked you broski… /s
Just kidding…maybe you have the group silenced?
- are you just not getting notifications but they still end up in the thread when you open it, or you can’t see them at all?
- is this happening with all participants in the group?
- are you on an iPhone or android and which app?
- if you don’t have anything important in the conversation, maybe try deleting the thread and see if you start receiving from the others
- Try starting a new group chat from your device.
- Comment on I don't want a lot for Christmas.... 1 year ago:
Ladypool and Wolverpool team up?
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 1 year ago:
Nah, I was just kiddin’!
This was a great post and fun to comment with
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 1 year ago:
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 1 year ago:
These aren’t the post titles you’re looking… 👋
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 1 year ago:
But does she like your Torx?
( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Stat of the day 1 year ago:
Nah, just missing
ana ,FTFY
- Comment on Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time” 1 year ago:
I’m sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in them, they get a little antsy in their pantsy. You just can’t keep them under control.
- Comment on Leaked photo 2 years ago:
That’s what every wants. But instead they turn everyone against one another for votes aka donations.
- Comment on Protect your PC 2 years ago:
Everyone loves listening to their favorite purchased movie while watching a black screen