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Hate to say it, but most likely the reason is "just because". I'm guessing they assume people will use 4k now and 8k a little later. Anyone not on those is using HD at the amazing 1920x1080. Phew! They sell TVs. Do their TVs commonly support those 1440 resolutions?

Related gripe about Sony: they lost my business when they scrubbed the dev kit for the ps vita. I wanted my own games on there. Even preordered a book. Then when I finally had time and some tutorials and discovered I needed a key but the key server had been taken offline. So Xbox it is and not so much Sony. I don't buy anything Sony now. Its been so long but I'm still salty about it.

Those silly apes leaving good food on the ground! That's quality aged meat!

Thanks for your 'answer' then.

Glad about the explicit exploration of "extra" versus "more".

Extra to me is often about your development. Learn now to do it next time either better/faster/smoother etc etc. I'll agree with that idea.

The issue of extra is often then who pays for it. That can really make you enemies. People like free. Also, being over eager about improvements can put you on people's radar as a threat depending on how dysfunctional either they or the organization are.

As a contractor the extra means you can get the same output faster or with less effort because you improved your process. Or you can charge more.

Now differentiate this from "more". If you do more you over deliver. Instead of two deliverabkes, you do three. I'm ok with that if you get paid for it. It might even get you promoted if someone notices. Be careful that when it doesn't help it might actually hurt you later. Expectations from not-so-good bosses can be subject to inflation when they see you provide more than they pay for.

There are pros and cons to both. Its not an either/or situation either. You can use both to advantage.

Why did you put emulates in quotes? The machines were real.

Thats probably for the best.

Ok, I know nothing about nuke power. That said, I have a few questions:

Nuclear power is just about making steam isn’t it? Its ultimately about using heat to boil water, isn’t it?

Why can't they continue making steam from this reactor? Its not exactly cooling down, is it?

Plenty of what we eat isn’t that great for us either.

Humans are complex critters.

Unpopular opinion: I'd not let either side off the hook. Politics caused multiple screw ups in the pandemic response. Still is.

Partisan politics aren't a good idea when forming public health policies. Nor is fear. Especially the fear being used for political gain.

The most enlightening aspect of the whole COVID debacle was just how bad politicians are with science. Democrats criticised vaccines just for political reasons. Republicans did also.

As for censorship, that never leads anywhere good. If the public discourse cannot openly mock bad content because it has already been "disappeared" then we are not better off.

I'm just hoping this pandemic doesn't cause a meltdown into outright authoritarianism. We've already seen what nazism and communism did and I'd rather not have society try either of them again.

It's not that people are "nuts" as such. They're scared and, more often now, terrified. Scared people aren't known for their ability to reason.

Its why governments often abuse fear for political means. Its rocket fuel for propaganda.

Windows telemetry controls seem broken/incomplete by design. We should be able to turn it off by describing the process over the phone to a 80yo relative. It needs to be simple but not simplistic.