It may be the same generation, but it's probably not the same people.

I think the argument is that growing up with something doesn't necessarily make you good at it. I think it rings especially true with higher level abstractions. The upcoming generation is bad with tech because tech has become more abstract, more of a product and less something to tinker with and learn about. Tech just works now and requires little in assistance from the user, so little is learned.

Yeah, I have a particular rant about this with respect to older generations believing "kids these days know computers." (In this context, probably people under 18.)

The short version is that they mistake confidence for competence, and the younger consumers are more confident poking around because they grew up with superior idiot-proofing. The better results are because they dare to fiddle until it works, not because they know what's wrong.

In Javascript that Google "bug" only occurs if an array has more than 4503599627370495 items. You may run into memory issues before running into that bug.

Do you see rising birth rates in Ukraine and/or Russia?

Well, in the US at least, it was after the war was over, not during it.

Is the war in Ukraine over yet? The baby boom happened after World War II, not during.

The article points out this common misconception, it started before World War II.

Ukraine has conscription for over 25s so that they can have children before going to the war.

it would happen after the war is over.

Baby Boomers are the folks born from 1946 to 1964.

The war is the cause, but it has to end to do it.

To quote an analyst from the Dotcom bubble era: "Everbody's happy, everybody's making money, something's wrong here"

This is how it's supposed to work. Nobody has to get screwed. It's not a zero-sum game.

There were catch bars in the 90s, and Roppongi has been full of assholes as long as I can remember (anyone remember Tokyo Gas Panic?). I have not been to Japan for more than ten years so I do not know how bad it is, but my point is that even in the good old days you could get ripped off as a gullible foreigner (usually by other foreigners).

Yes, agreed. I’m not talking about places like Roppongi or the sketchier parts of Shinjuku and Shibuya, Dotonbori, Umeda, etc., which have always been red light districts.

I’m talking about a more pedestrian type of ripoff, which is simply to overcharge and underdeliver - think of $40 for tough meat, labeled “Kobe beef”, and you’ll get the idea. It’s always been around, but far more prevalent now.

Gorillaz had five top-ten albums in the US, of which two were number one in the UK.

Ah, there we go then =) I could only remember one song off the top of my head to check

I went to our local museum carrying my tritium marker to see if I could induce some trails on their radiation cloud chamber. Boy was I disappointed that I could not create a single trace from it. The plastic encasing seems to protect pretty well (like 100%) from beta radiation.

There is a very famous German song with the (translated) title "Life begins at 66".

So here we have it, 40s and 60s, no science required.

Yes, he writes that after he left the battlefield they became more common.

There was a video of a soldier wading through massive amounts of fiber near the front line. Just imagine that for each drone attack there will be 10-50km of fiber dropped on the landscape. It will not rot and stay there until someone cleans it up.

I've always wondered if the burning batteries and electronics in the drones have any significant environmental impact when compared to conventional weapons.

I'd rather have old fibre cables and lithium batteries than old unexploded ordinance

(If wishes were horses I'd rather Russia hadn't invaded a sovereign country in the first place, but we are where we are)

According to the article, you will get BOTH of those, no? Some of the bombs on the drones don't explode.

If it has value as a recyclable, it will be cleaned up. Does it ?

Works on my Firefox on Windows.

The website is awesome, however, I am not sure if the palettes are very useful.

Or rather, they're ugly.