Generally speaking, you learn more about how something works when the core functionality is exposed to the user, and just janky enough to require fiddling with it and fixing things.

This is true of lots of things like cars, drones, 3D printers, and computers. If you get a really nice one, it just works and you don't have to figure anything out. A cheap one, or something you have to build yourself, makes you have to learn how it actually works to get it to run right.

Now that things are so comodified and simplified, they just work and really discourage tinkering, so people learn less about core functionality and how things actually work. Not always true, but a trend I've experienced.

39 here and still playing. The worst part is STILL having a huge backlog of steam games to work through.

Nah, long enough car trips you figure out how to not only stack all the rings, but in correct rainbow order.

"Easter is the day Jesus rose"

...then it should be a set date. It is not.

My understanding of dark energy is a little different. As I understand it, we figured gravity pulls things together, right? So everything should be kinda slowly falling back together from the big bang. It was theorized to end in a 'big crunch' where the universe collapses back and then explodes again in a cycle.

Only when they tried to measure how fast distant objects were moving relative to us, they found that things were still moving away from each other. More than that, the farther away things were, the faster they were moving. Meaning distant objects were accelerating.

Acceleration requires energy, but we don't know the mechanism behind this, or where the energy comes from. Hence, dark energy.

"I contributed a bag of quickrete!"

Yeah that wouldn't work here.

Same. It's kinda funny how some people how some people are terrified of dying alone. For me that's a goal. I know that pain, and I don't wish that on others, especially anyone I care about.

Maybe this is what Apple is trying to solve with spatial computing.

We put the charging port underneath the car!

Well, sort of. Thing is time flows at different rates for different things. There is a lot of relativity shenanigans that kinda breaks the idea of a universal clock.

Dude, bidet add-ons are like $40 that work great. I agree I wish it was more widespread though.

Could we have a future where we have an arm main CPU, gaming GPU, and also an x86 card?