Youtube comments of Scott Franco (@scottfranco1962).

  1. The majority of compilers output an intermediate language. The advantage LLVM had over GCC is that, which GCC has an intermediate, it is kept entirely in memory between compiler phases. This means that adapting it to other languages was difficult, and thus GCC makes a poor module in a set of compiler tools. LLVM has an intermediate file format.
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  2. Can it recognize a single upraised finger?
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  3. I had a friend who was studying to become a lawyer, and as part of his studies, agreed to take part in a "sting" operation for car dealers. He was of Mexican descent, and spoke English and Spanish and looked Mexican. He would go to the dealers and pretend to only speak Spanish. They would present him with loan papers, in Spanish, that they then compared to the same paperwork provided by the same dealers in English. As you might guess, the terms given in Spanish were markedly worse than the ones given to English speakers. It got written up in the local newspapers.
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  4. Russia agreed to leave Ukraine as an independent nation after they agreed to give up nuclear weapons. That deal is broken, and so will the other "deals" be broken.
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  5. Nvidia is a real success story. The only blemish is (as illustrated by Linus Torvald's famous giving the middle finger to them) is their completely proprietary stance on development. Imagine if Microsoft had arranged so that only their C/C# compilers could be used to develop programs for Windows. CUDA is a closed shop, as are the graphics drivers for Nvidia's cards.
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  6. I'm sure burning a couple more stores to the ground will fix this.
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  7. Simple proof: why did Elisabeth Warren try to get herself classified as a minority if it didn't confer special privileges on her?
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  8. There is a new Turing test. Its how long you will talk to an AI customer service bot before realizing you are getting nowhere and hang up.
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  9. I own both of these cars, a 2017 Bolt and a 2018 Tesla M3. My wife drives the Bolt, I drive the M3. We both had EVs previously, a Leaf and a Spark. What changed principally from day to day is that we don't both rush for the charger every night. My wife likes the hatchback, the fact that the Bolt is slightly smaller, and she appreciates the fact she does not have to worry about range to get anywhere around the city. She rarely if ever charges away from home. I have a long commute, 44 miles round trip, charge about every 3 days, and use chargers away from home only when we take long trips. The biggest difference between the cars is charging away from home. We went from San Fransisco to Los Angeles in both cars. In the Bolt, we were restricted to highway 101, a longer route, because the shortest and most heavily traveled route has no CCS chargers. At all. According to plugshare, it still does not. Trying to charge down the 101 is somewhat hit or miss. There "appear" to be a lot of high power chargers for CCS, but most of them are actually 1/2 power chargepoint 25kW stations that take way longer to charge. On the way down we made it with one charge, but we left fully charged, stopped for 2 hours (!) at a 50kW charger, and barely had any charge when we made it to San Fernando Valley. On the way back we hit three chargers, made worse because the hotel we stayed at had no charger, so we had to hit one on the way out. Note: if you can find a hotel with a charge spot, even only an L2, this is a huge help, since you leave the hotel fully charged. With Tesla we left fully charged, hit the Harris ranch charger even though we could have gone farther, and charged twice in LA before returning on the I5. Another charge at Harris ranch got us home. There really is no comparison between cars when it comes to on the road charging. With CCS charging you are luck if there are two 50kW charging spots, and the chances are good one of them is out of order. When you get there you fiddle with a card, and even having a card does not always help. My EVgo card works only %50 or less of the time, and they have sent me several replacement cards. Thus I waste 10 minutes at each charge calling them and setting up a charge on the account. With Tesla, we go to chargers and there are 10 spots, with some up to 20 (!) spots. You plug the car in and go. The billing is completely automatic, and the prices are reasonable. There is an odd thing going on with the A/B system, if you plug in to A, and another car is on B, or vice versa, you both get slowed down, so you pick an A-B pair that is unoccupied. Coming into a charge station at about 50 miles left (my personal minimum), you get to see the car charge at over 100kW/h for about 2 minutes to reach over 200 miles left, then less after that. Its truly a breathtaking sight to see a car charge that fast, and apparently this is unique to the model 3, which has improvements in charging speed even over the Model S. In short, we are happy with both cars, but the Bolt is clearly a local, city car, and the M3 is for long trips.
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  10. Say what you will about Russia, they have some clever folks and they try stuff.
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  11. I downvoted you, mainly because you appear to have never studied any programming language history. At all.
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  12. As a blindingly white person, I find this really sad. Dark skin is beautiful. Nature's sculptures are perfect. Loving yourself as you are is essential to life itself.
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  13. Just a short story to address your last point. I worked for a company that shall remain nameless. They were failing. The CEO skipped the country because it had been discovered he was embezzling. They laid off half the company. We got written up in the press, and one writer said, and I quote "clearly the only workers remaining there are stupid and cannot find other work". I was one of the few people actually working there. Others were playing board games on the whiteboards. This was after the 2008 downturn, so jobs were not easy to find. So I left to take a contract. I would not say my career tanked, but those were some bad years and some stretches of unemployment. The company? They got bought by a very good company, and people I know there went on to work for years there productively. The moral of the story is that what seems to be black and white, sometimes isn't.
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  14. My favorite application for mems is in aviation, since I am a recreational pilot. One of the first and most successful application of mems was accelerometers, which don't need openings in the package to work. Accelerometers can replace gyroscopes as well as enable inertial navigation, since they can be made to sense rotation as well as movement. With the advent of mems, avionics makers looked forward to replacing expensive and maintenance intensive mechanical gyroscopes with mems. A huge incentive was reliability: a gyroscope that fails can bring down an aircraft. The problem was accuracy. Mems accelerometers displayed drift that was worse than the best mechanical gyros. Previous inertial navigation systems used expensive laser gyros that worked by sending light pulses through a spool of fibre optical line and measuring the delay due to rotation. Mems accelerometers didn't get much better, but they are sweeping all of the old mechanical systems into the trash can. So how did this problem get solved? Well, the original technology for GPS satellite location was rather slow, taking up to a minute to form a "fix". But with more powerful CPUs it got much faster. But GPS cannot replace gyros, no matter how fast it can calculate. But the faster calculation enabled something incredible: the GPS calculation could be used to calibrate the mems accelerometers. By carefully calculating the math, a combined GPS/multiaxis accelerometer package can accurately and reliably find a real time position and orientation in space. You can think of it this way: GPS provides position over long periods of time,, but very accurately, and mems accelerometers provide position and orientation over short periods of time, but not so accurately. Together they achieve what neither technology can do on its own. The result has been a revolution in avionics. Now even small aircraft can have highly advanced "glass" panels, that give moving maps, a depiction of the aircraft attitude, and even a synthetic view of of the world outside the aircraft in conjunction with terrain data. It can even tell exactly which way the wind is blowing on the aircraft because this information falls out of the GPS/accelerometer calculation.
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  15. I used chat GPT for a while until my company forbade it. It was useful to explain Javascript programs to me, since I am mainly a C/C++ programmer. As far as using it to write programs from scratch, this is a management wet dream. It would be like firing all of your good programmers and hiring idiots, which is not far from what they are trying to do. Good luck.
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  16. The FET, and especially the MOSFET, was a close equivalent to the way vacuum tubes work. This fact is often skipped in the history of transistors. In electronic design, the vacuum tube was an easily understood device. Put a voltage on the grid, stop current. Remove the grid voltage, current goes. On/off.
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  17. Missing from this is "cracking". When gasoline became popular, a lot of research went into increasing the amount of gasoline that came out of the oil refining process. The result was "cracking", which produced more gasoline, and thus less diesel from the input oil. The tradeoff was that it took more energy to crack the fuel. Gasoline is a more expensive fuel than diesel, besides being less efficient. The theory was that more use of diesel would not only create more use of the normal diesel output of refineries, but also allow them to reduce use of cracking to produce more diesel and less gasoline, and better fuel efficiency to boot. What was the price of that? More air pollution, of course.
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  18. I think I told this story here before, but it bears repeating. In the early 80's windowed UV erasable proms were a thing. It was the time of Japan bashing, and accusals of their "dumping" on the market. We used a lot of EPROMs from different sources, and Toshiba was up and coming. We used mainly Intel EPROMs at the time. The state of the art back then was 4kb moving to 8kb (I know, quaint). Because of the window in the top of the EPROM you could see the chip. Most of us used this feature, when we had a bad EPROM, to get a little light show by plugging in the EPROM upside down and sealing the fate of the chip. Anyways, Intel and Toshiba were in a price war, so the chips from each vendor were about equivalent in price. But side by side in the UV eraser tray what you saw was shocking. The Toshiba chips were about 1/4 the size of the Intel chips. Yes, those "inferior" Japanese were kicking our a**es. Intel struggled along for a while, and exited the market for EPROMs. The "anti-dumping" thing had exactly one result. We could go to Japan, to the akihabara market (from street vendors!) and get chips with twice or four times the capacity of USA chips for cheap and bring them back in our luggage.
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  19. Good overview. I left verification just after the Verilog revolution came to pass. We used hardware simulators at that point, with accelerated simulation. Sea-of-fpga emulation was not yet popular. The bottom line was that the company I worked for (nameless, but huge trust me) was new to hardware chip design. They had lots of money to buy toys, but had the idea that the tool would solve all. Thus the expectation was that the new, more expensive tool would relive them from the need to write test cases. I enjoyed being the one employee who understood the tools, but rapidly realized that it was a falling rock I had volunteered to sit under. I left the company soon after.
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  20. It isn't just bandwidth that makes fibre attractive. It is also its ability to transmit long distances without repeaters, 1000's of miles. A repeater needs power, so requires undersea cables carry electrical power along with the fibre.
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  21.  @UpcomingJedi  His part was gathering information. Your take on this is flatly offensive. We are done.
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  22. The joke about Brazil, told to me by a Brazilian: God and the angels are creating creating Brazil. God says: "I'll put most of the mineral resources there, the forests, the water power, the gold, everything, into Brazil". An angel: "isn't that too much to put into one country?". God: "Don't worry. Wait until you see the people I put there...".
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  23. Should mention here in the "dumping" era, yields (number of good chips on a wafer) in the USA were about %50, whereas yields in Japan were %90, and thus that was a good part of the cost advantage. The Japanese makers were also climbing the scaling curve. This was when Intel was still making EPROMs and they had transparent lids to allow UV erasure. To users of these parts, the difference between Intel and other US makers and Japan was obvious: you could clearly see the die sizes on US parts was twice as large as the Japanese parts for the same memory size. Thus the US electronics consumers took the whole "dumping" nonsense, led by Micron, with a large grain of salt. I recall in those days going to the Akihaba market in Tokyo and being able to buy memory chips from street vendors at 2-4 times the capacity of US available memories for half the price. And no, that is not a joke. Literally street vendors with one seller and a table.
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  24. As an aside, the book "Content Addressable Parallel Processors" by Caxton C. Foster (1976) discussed the ability to have a mass memory do computation. It is bit serial, but is parallel to all memory locations, meaning that you can do things like multiply all memory cells by the same number and similar operations. Its a good read.
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  25. I have taken some heat before when joining projects that were in bad shape and the prevailing opinion was that they wanted to start over. I say, "you'll just make the same mistakes over again". I read a great story about a professor who took a position in a college for the electrical engineering section. The lab for it was in terrible shape, the instruments were all broken. The administrator asked the new professor to make a list of needed equipment and he would see if he could find the money for it. The new professor replied "no, not a problem. We will use what we have". The administrator left, stunned. The new professor started his classes and took the new students out to the lab. Over a course of months, they took apart the broken equipment, got schematics for them, and went over what was wrong with each instrument as a group project. Slowly but surely, they got most of it working again. The students that did this because some of the best engineers the school had seen. The moral of the story is applicable to software rewrites. The team that abandons the software and starts over does not learn anything from the existing software, even if they didn't write it. They create a new big mess to replace the old big mess. Contrast that with a team that is forced to refactor the code. They learn the mistakes of the code, how to fix it, and, perhaps more importantly of all, become experts at refactoring code. In the last 2 years, I instituted a goal for myself that I would track down even "insignificant" problems in my code, and go after the hardest problems first. In that time I have been amazed at how often a "trivial" problem turned out to illustrate a deep and serious error in the code. Similarly, I have been amazed at how solving hard problems first makes the rest of the code go that much easier. I have always been a fan of continuous integration without calling it that. I simply always suspected that the longer it took to remerge a branch in the code, the longer it would take to reintegrate it, vs. small changes and improvements taking a day or so. I can't take credit for this realization. Too many times I have been assigned to merge projects that were complete messes because of the long span of branch development. As the old saw goes, the better you perform such tasks the more of it you will get, especially if others show no competence in it.
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  26. MCMs faced two major issues during my time at Intel several years ago. The first was the most obvious: putting multiple chips in the same package meant the heat dissipation of the package now had to be designed for the two chips - ostensibly doubling the required heat dissipation. We handled that by throttling down the chip clocks, a process that has been largely automated by onboard temperature sensors and variable clock generators. IE., if you put two of today's advanced chips in a single package, they will self-throttle downwards. The second issue is that anytime you have a signal leave or enter a chip, it goes in or out via a pad driver, essentially an amplifier of that signal designed to drive the large capacitance of a PCB trace. This adds delay to the line. A lot of it. Internal trace drivers only have to worry about driving very short lengths of narrow and flat aluminium/copper. Not so with PCB traces. MCM pad drivers could be backed off a bit to compensate for minimal traces in the MCM, but typical MCMs unite chips that would normally be packaged separately, requiring a design change. PS., like the old movie "support your local gunslinger", keep in mind I am a stupid guy in the process world. The real process guys have to keep a fan on their heads to keep their brains from overheating :-)
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  27. Boeing was not fighting a European aircraft company, it was fighting the governments of Europe, and doing pretty well at that. What set airbus ahead is that they embraced modern avionics and cockpit automation at a time when Boeing was slow to modernize. Boeing sat back and claimed that airbus was making aircraft for less trained pilots, but that was exactly what was, in fact, going on. With countries around the world getting into aviation, pilot training was a problem. Reducing pilot workload and making the aircraft easier to fly was the killer app. Boeing, I think, turned this situation around. If it hadn't been for Airbus, boeing would have stayed decades behind. The competition has been good for everyone.
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  28. Note: a big advantage of solid state/semiconductor relays is that they can switch an AC voltage at its zero point. That is, it can watch the line voltage reach zero in the cycle, and switch at the zero point, effectively breaking the circuit when there is no current whatsoever flowing.
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  29. The FSB "inherited"? The FSB IS the KGB with a new coat of paint.
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  30. I like you stuff, but supercapacitors have been "about to replace batteries" for several decades now...
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  31. Probably the LAST honest president.
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  32. A final vulnerability: Reverse engineering chips is an industry, and a highly automated one to boot. Shops take the chips, depackage them, then put them in etch baths and take progressive digital images as the layers come off, then use software to reverse the circuitry. And we'll call it "scotts law", you can create an RE shop for a fraction of the expense of creating a fab. There is a whole section of Silicon Valley devoted to just that.
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  33. Don't try that in California. Do it once, people think you have an interview in sales, or are weird. Do it consistently and they start to avoid you. No seriously, I have always dressed in Silicon Valley style, jeans and questionably clean tee-shirts. My wife got on my case about not dressing nice, and I should do better. Finally I just went whole hog and wore a suit all days except for casual Fridays. People thought it was hilarious, but after a month the amusment when down. After that I just got an occasional "you in sales" comment. Honestly aside from getting me better looks from women (which I didn't really need, being married) and making me the odd man out (ok, I have always been the odd man out), I didn't really see the difference. The suit thing stopped with the marriage, oh well.
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  34. This has been going on for decades. Its one of the reasons I prefer to buy desktops and not laptops. right to repair does not fix everything. I was proud of the fact that I fixed my expensive laptop after the keyboard got wet. It was a difficult repair involving 100 or more screws. Later I found that several of the case screws had fallen out after the repair, turns out if you don't locktite them they will do that. Good luck finding the screws! I have been looking for some online for months now. Of course they are one of a kind and unobtainable now.
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  35. As elsewhere said, properly "vi". A lot of programmers have professed their love to me of vi, but they are actually talking about vim. Vi was akin to using a chainsaw without a guard. We used it in the early days (1982 or so) for Unix on terminals in the 1200 baud range. Basically every key did something, which meant that if you accidently elbowed the keyboard, you were better off aborting the edit and starting over than to try to figure out what mode you had invoked. Worse, the crappy terminals and serial lines of the day would drop characters on the line, meaning that what you thought you were typing was not what you were editing anymore. For this, you had a "refresh key" that would cause the entire screen to be repainted, and you hit that anytime you had the strange feeling that your and the machine were no longer in sync. Loads o' fun.
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  36.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Yes, it would have been used as a back stage for a commercial compiler. I don't really see that as much of a "danger" these days, since there aren't that many commercial compiler operations. Most of the ones I know of are compiler groups within organizations, that use them for special projects and optimizations (like my company does). LLVM is BSD (open license). So the point is basically moot now. LLVM is a more modern project, so I am sure some would say better, although I have heard different opinions on this matter. I personally don't use anyone else's back or front ends, I have always preferred to write my own.
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  37. My standard answer for "how long will this project take" is one month. It's always one month. Why? That's long enough to get started, realize that there is no way its going to happen, and find a new job.
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  38. We get it, leftist news is not leftist enough for you.
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  39. Small nit: AMD started by making minicomputer components, that is, the chips that made CPUs before they were all single chips. Mini computers went from the 1960's into the 1980s and were still more powerful than single chip computers until the late 1980's/early 1990's. AMD also second sourced the 8080, then Zilog's Z800, and finally the 8086 series that started their long patent wars with Intel. AMD has come and gone as a competitor to Intel, more often than not a process generation behind that they "made up for" by being more efficient technologically. It was nice to see AMD finally pull ahead in both technology and process than Intel, but the game is not over. Intel is known for falling behind, then waking up and charging ahead again. We'll see. PS I designed hardware with AMD "bitslice" components in the early 1980's. IMHO AMD always was a step ahead of Intel in design, which Intel overcame by superior process and by sheer number of designers. I am an ex-Intel employee, but I bought Ryzen recently when I upgraded my home system.
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  40. The Gurd dam, at 3.5 million acre-feet, is a tiny fraction of the Aswan high dam at 136 million acre feet, and the Gurd does not even straddle the entire Nile (as stated). I think they can work it out without violence.
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  41. Basically, air conditioning becomes your life support. You go from an air conditioned house to your air conditioned car, to your air conditioned office, and back again.
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  42. To be specific, they are not a radiation hazard (they can be handled), but rather, like all heavy metals, they are poisonous and can contaminate things like ground water.
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  43. "the braindead nature of the x86 CPUs makes that difficult to do otherwise" THANK YOU. I have had endless debates with people who claim that including drivers in the kernel is the only way to go. In fact, Intel designed the x86 memory model to support three rings, from 0 to 3, with the drivers living outside the kernel. The problem is (as usual for Intel) they botched it. They tried to build tasking into the hardware, and the result was a bug ridden low performance mess that nobody uses. In fact, if you go back and read how Multics was designed, you will realize that Intel copied Multics design into their 80286 processors (yes, that Multics, the overcomplex system that Unix was created as a rebellion against). I explain the origin of 80286 protection model as being like the episode of Startrek where they go to a planet that is structured on the gangs of old Chicago because some previous visiting ship messed up and left a book on Chicago history behind, and they based their whole civilization on it. If you read up on the x86 protection/memory model, which all stems from the 80286, you realize that the designers read a book on Multics and that was it. They imitated the design. As one German Zeppelin engineer stated when getting a look at the R-101, which crashed and burned in France killing almost all abord: "you have imitated our design completely, including our mistakes". PS. before you mark me as an Intel basher, I am an ex-Intel employee.
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  44. A really short sighted view of the Intel/AMD competition. AMD traditionally lagged Intel in process, but at the end of the last century, AMD design lapped Intel and Intel was forced to drop their attempts to lead in processor design, Itanium, and follow AMD's design instead. At the same time, AMD lapped Intel in terms of multicore design. AMD managed to blow their lead of intel yet again, but made the essential move to farm out their fab operations -- just as most of the industry did. The result was they caught up to and passed Intel in process thanks to the Asian fabs. Intel hasn't regained their lead in process, and may never. What occurred was the evening of the desktop CPU market between Intel and AMD, but that market is (and has been) slowly declining vs. non-desktop environment dominated by ARM architectures, which neither Intel nor AMD make.
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  45.  @janlanik2660  I think you misread what I said. Microsoft (or any OS maker, Apple included) could have easily made it so that only their compilers could be used on their systems, no GCC, no independent developers. That is what Nvidia has done.
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  46. The basic reason why heat pumps are more efficient is simple: it is easier (less energy) to MOVE heat than to MAKE heat. Also, the freezing problem has a simple answer. Place the outside coils underground where it does not freeze. This works everywhere from Arizona to the arctic, and has the added advantage that the outside unit needs no fan and makes no noise. Alas, this obvious solution while used, is not that popular because many local governments suffer from severe head-stuck-in-posterior disease and don't generally permit such installations because they don't want to encourage deep digging (you might hit something).
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  47. "lets mix them all together" made my back teeth hurt.
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  48. It takes energy to make gas cars as well. In addition, a lot of the carbon emissions in gasoline are hidden, which is to say it takes a lot of energy to produce gasoline during the drilling, extraction and especially refining processes. All of this must be taken into comparative account unless you are the Wall Street Journal.
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  49. When I came to San Jose in 1987, there was a bit of a scandal that got printed up in the Mercury news. Seems a tester for the city had found a lot of toxic materials in the sewer, heavy metals and chemicals. That turns out to be easy to track. They just keep taking samples from the sewer upstream until they find where the materials no longer exist, then they have found the outlet of the chemicals. At that time, Intel was running a fab, and they were cited. However, there were others on the list. As the video says, it was a shock to many here who believed that the silicon fabs were "clean" industries.
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  50. Correct. Spring driven clocks existed, but the spring changed the amount of force it had as it unwound. The answer was a new type of escapement that relied on the mass of a wheel in the watch turning left, then right, then left again, etc. You can still see this escapement at work in most mechanical watches.
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  51. The original design of the shuttle would have reduced costs. That was the design where the first stage was a much bigger version of the shuttle, which was also piloted and would return to earth as a glider. Nasa tried to reduce costs by introducing solid boosters and ceramic tiles, both of which caused way more trouble than they saved in cost. In particular, spraying the shuttle with ablative material before each launch instead of using tiles (the same thing spacex is proposing) would have reduced costs and been safer to boot. The shuttle was a mismanaged program. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the idea.
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  52.  @nicksrub  I'm 65, I have been an engineer since 19, technician before that, and repaired TVs in my parents garage for money when I was 15. I guess what other folks think of as career markers just strike me as a phase. The story above was 2009 if I recall, just after the "great recession" of 2008. I didn't escape that, but not for the obvious reasons. My wife of 13 years decided that was the time to get a divorce. About the only good thing that resulted from that is that our house's value was depressed, and so I could buy her out. Things have changed since then. During the time I described, I got very good at making spreadsheets, and what I found in those days was that I was going to lose the house shortly. I rented out two rooms for a while and got past that. I think by 2010-2011 things took off again, and they really haven't slowed down since then. I did full time up to 62 years of age, and preferred that. After 60, I got lots of interviews, but no interest. Since then it appears more companies are interested in having me as a contractor. I can't say if it is because of my age, or the times we live in. I can't say it is not possible to get full time now, when there seems to be a lot of demand. It just seems far easier to get contracts, and those have been good. My last contract was Apple. My current one is Google. Not exactly poor companies :-)
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  53. Its very true. I am the one who leaves the job. If I am not happy, and the job does not seem to be going anywhere, I leave. Usually for more money, and, lets face it, fresh and interesting work. Its sad but that is life.
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  54. Unifying all of the operating system data and application data in a single place was a colossally stupid idea. I don't use the registry in my applications.
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  55. Before anyone goes on about "evil corporations", the USA is one of the few countries on the planet that requires a cut of earnings from companies even if they produce products outside the USA and sell them outside the USA. So the USA is literally requiring payment based simply on where the company has declared its headquarters to be. This produces a lot of incentive to do things like create companies outside the USA in name only, and also keeps cash from flowing back into the USA, where it would help our economy.
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  56. Thailand, as far as having a native disk drive company, lost to Allan Shugart, my old boss at Seagate. They had lots of company. Seagate would sell their grandmother for a few cents of cost advantage. They are a shining example of how an American corporation stays on top, mainly by subsuming any advantages the competition has at any cost. Do you want a Thai native disk drive company? Seagate is probably as close as you can come. They do everything there.
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  57. “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
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  58. Two bit: I would only disagree with the "Model 3 was an inconvenience" part. At 70mph, that's 210 miles for 3 hours. Stopping at a Tesla charger for 20 minutes will cover that, which means certainly dinner, but it would also cover a bathroom stop with a coffee reload. The Tesla is a cross country car with just a little bit of planning.
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  59. Do you expect a C++ compiler to be written from scratch? Well, Clang was written from scratch.... No I mean in the last 5 minutes....
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  60. I notice that since the 1960's, we have seen the rise of economists and historians with a leftist agenda, like Paul Krugman, who want to counter capitalisim. Slavery was not new with the Americas, serfs existed in many cultures and was the dominant system in the middle ages, and the serfs were all races, and usually the same race as their masters. Capitalisim largely eliminated that.
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  61. There are a lot of tech workers who complain about tech companies not hiring them. I'm 67. Yea its hard. But the answer has been the same since I started working in tech at the age of 19 (yes really). Be the guy they need. Find out just what they want. Convince them you are the only guy to do that job, that it would take weeks or months to find another who can do it. Yes it reduces the number of companies who want you. But it works.
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  62. Verilog and VHDL took most of our fun away. I liked the schematic method of design a lot. We used the same workstation for layout as well.
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  63. So start some. My brother in law from Colombia is high tech, but had to go to Texas to get a good job, even though he still lives in Medellin. Your country has the talent. Just stop exporting it.
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  64. I don't doubt for a second that centrally run healthcare by the government will bring down costs. This effect will be more pronounced in the years after when the resulting health care system starts to kill off the elderly.
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  65. I don't tan. It is a ticket to skin cancer.
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  66. Evolution in nature also followed this curve. Nerves started slow, but sped up using electrochemical reactions. It was a dead end. Nature didn't give up on speeding up neurons as much as discovered the advantages of parallelism. Your brain is a relatively slow communicating, but massively parallel machine.
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  67. The proper verb is: Californication. Its even a song now.
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  68. I came across this basic idea while looking in my refrigerator. We had butter from France in there. My wife likes to shop at Trader Joe's, who has a lot of stuff like this. Now the thing is, we live in California, which recently passed Wisconsin as the biggest dairy state in the USA. So let's say there is not a lack of butter here. Further, I have been to France, they like products of California, they are all over the stores there. Thus I don't think it is a stretch to imagine that our French butter headed for California passed another ship with California butter headed for France. Thus, everything is going everywhere on our little planet. And that's why the ports are all stuck up.
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  69. Its like highway 1. They keep rebuilding it because it makes so damm much money it's worth it. I grew up in the Palisades above LA. When I was a kid I used to walk down the main street to the end at the cliffs overlooking the ocean where it ended abruptly. I would look over the edge and noticed there were a lot of pipes coming out of the cliffside. In my older age, I realized that what I was seeing was the remains of the many houses there that the ocean had taken.
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  70. Honorable mention: A recent toy that consisted of small magnetic balls, that you could use to form sculptures. Turned out that when ingested by small children, the balls would stick together in intestines and cause wonderful things like internal bleeding. Fun toy!
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  71. Ah but now that comrade Bob is out of power, everything is going to be fine right? Right?
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  72. Great video on one of my favorite subjects. I'd like to add a couple things. First of all (as the poster below said), this history skips a very important branch of IC history, the gate array, which FPGAs (which are a namesake, the Field Programmable Gate Array). Basically gate arrays were ICs that consisted of a matrix of transistors (often termed gates) without the interconnect layers. Since transistors then, and largely even today, are patterned into the silicon wafer itself, this divided the wafer processing into two separate divisions, the wafer patterning, and the deposition of aluminum (interconnect). In short, a customer could save quite a bit of money by just paying for the extra masks needed to deposit interconnects, and take stock wafers to make an intermediate type of chip between full custom and discrete electronics. It was far less expensive than full custom, but of course that was like saying that Kathmandu is not as high as Everest. Xilinx used to have ads showing a huge bundle of bills with the caption "does this remind you of gate array design? Perhaps if the bills were on fire". Altera came along and disrupted the PLA/PAL market and knocked over the king o' them all the 22V10, which could be said to be the 7400 of the PAL market. They owned the medium scale programmable market for a few years until Xilinx came along. Eventually Altera fought back, but by then it was too late. However, Altera got the last word. The EDA software for both Xilinx and Altera began to resemble those "bills o' fire" from the original Xilinx ads, and Altera completely reversed its previous stance to small developers (which could be described as "if you ain't big, go hump a pig") and started giving away their EDA software. Xilinx had no choice but to follow suit, and the market opened up with a bang. There have been many alternate technologies to the RAM cell tech used by Xilinx, each with an idea towards permanently or semipermanently programming the CLB cells so that an external loading prom was not required. Some are still around, but what was being replaced by all that work and new tech was serial EEPROM that was about 8 pins and approximately the cost of ant spit, so they never really knocked Xilinx off its tuffet. My favorite story about that was one maker here in the valley who was pushing "laser reprogrammability", where openings in the passivation of a sea of gates chip allowed a laser to burn interlinks and thus program the chip. It was liternally PGA, dropping the F for field. It came with lots of fanfare, and left with virtual silence. I later met a guy who worked there and asked him "what happened to the laser programmable IC tech?". He answered in one word: contamination. Vaporising aluminum and throwing the result outwards is not healthy for a chip. After the first couple of revs of FPGA technology, the things started to get big enough that you could "float" (my term) major cells onto them, culminating with an actual (gasp) CPU. This changed everything. Now you could put most or all of the required circuitry on a single FPGA and the CPU to run the thing as well. This meant that software hackers (like myself) could get into the FPGA game. The only difference now is that even a fairly large scale 32 bit processor can be tucked into the corner of one. In the olden days, when you wanted to simulate hardware for an upcoming ASIC, you employed a server farm running 24/7 hardware simulations, or even a special hardware simulation accellerator. Then somebody figured out that you could lash a "sea of FPGAs" together and load a big 'ole giant netlist into it and get the equivalent of a hardware simulation, but near the final speed of the ASIC. DINI and friends were born, large FPGA array boards that cost a couple of automobiles to buy. At this point Xilinx got wise to the game, I am sure. They were selling HUGE $1000 per chip FPGAs that could not have a real end consumer use.
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  73. I'll bet your car would have looked worse after the 1907 earthquake...
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  74. Bummer the Brits missed out on having protesters throwing red paint on Lancaster in a Brit museum...
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  75. Prevent DUIs. Take away Pelosi's license.
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  76. Actually Microsoft forced that. Even besides , Itanium, Intel was ready to introduce an incompatible 64 bit upgrade to x86, and Microsoft didn't want to have to support two different instruction sets, so they forced the two to come to terms. Its a classic story that I assume will be covered here in part deux.
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  77. Of all the SoAm countries, I least understand Argentina. They keep recovering from the worst dictatorships and economic systems. Then they try the same thing over again.
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  78. Thanks for pointing this out. I know a certain switch company that, using Linux and C++ for their operating software, decided to code "non-critical functions" in Python. They were pretty good at it, incorporating the Python interpreter in the OS and getting pretty good at translating between the languages. After a while, they announced a new policy, namely going back and rewriting python programs in C/C++. This was due to customer complaints about how sluggish the OS was. The moral of the story was that, Python wasn't wasting time in any critical functions. It was wasting time *everywhere*, and general slowness was the result.
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  79. You already reached 100k???? Anyways, good video, well researched. Thank you.
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  80. $100 or so at Home Depot gets you a battery powered saw that will cut through concrete and steel. You can't secure anything anymore without an extensive security system with cameras.
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  81. I don't know why people don't get this. The purpose Hamas had and has in mind is that Israel will capitulate in exchange for the hostages. No way Hamas is going to negotiate for their own demise. Because Hamas cares about the well being of Palestinians? Sinwar just said that he is fine with Palestinians dying for his cause.
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  82. The issue with rockets to space vs. flying to space is that it takes more net power to fly to space than to rocket to it. Flying to space leaves the craft taking more time in the atmosphere and inducing drag, which takes power to overcome. A ballistic rocket spends less time fighting the atmosphere. The factor that could change that is using air breathing engines to the highest point possible. Since part of an air breathing engines power comes from the oxygen in the atmosphere, that can replace carried fuel, ie., oxygen. Additionally, the air can be quite thin. A craft flying very fast scan scoop a lot of oxygen from a very thin atmosphere. Hence, the interest in ramjets. However, without advanced jets, and perhaps even with them, it still does not make that much sense to fly to orbit. It takes more time, exposes the aircraft to heating effects longer, etc. So the question is, as it was, why bother with it when we know so much about getting to space directly, with rockets. Most of the "flying space vehicles", such as the shuttle, don't use the wings to go to space, but rather to be maneuverable once it returns to atmosphere. Ballistic entry vehicles have no guidance at all (Apollo). Elon has proposed an intermediate solution, a rocket that uses fins designed to direct its path on return, sort of a cross between the two.
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  83. PSH or pump storage hydro, is the most efficient and cost effective means of storage. It doesn't really matter HOW efficient it is, since storing power is more efficient than just throwing it in the garbage because you can't use it. Further, a HUGE number of reservoirs are high mountain reservoirs feeding lower storage reservoirs. These systems can easily be converted to send the water back up from the lower to the higher dam. Its even possible to run PSH without fresh water or without a reservoir. Creating a reservoir for seawater in the high mountains can do it without using any fresh water, then letting it run back to the ocean. Water can also be let into abandoned underground mines and then pumped back out, again possibly as sea water.
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  84. No eye plata (hay = eye). You won't be far wrong if you just forget the "H" exists in Spanish. Its not pronounced. So hay becomes ay.
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  85. She didn't just die. She died trapped, alone, slowly and horribly.
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  86. No, it was not reverse engineered nor did it need to be. Many people made CP/M compatible systems, including ZCP/M and, ahem, me. In fact, CP/M was compiled from PL/I code (Gary's own language) and not assembly language. Compilers in those days weren't very good. No way would you have even wanted to use that code.
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  87. The "dumping" wave was led by Micron for their own benefit. They were perhaps the first tech company that showed they could have a big effect by spreading money around Washington. The rest of us paid for that. DRAMs in the early days were a big cost item for computers. The 64k "wall" was a big step, forgotten now. It meant that the entire memory space of the 16 bit address processors could be filled with a single chip, and led to the implementation of transparent bootstrap roms, which, with a cpu hardware bit, could be read, but writes would go to main memory. This allowed the computer to copy it's bootstrap rom into dram, then turn the bit off and run in full 64kb with dram only.
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  88.  @teamtoken  Boeing used automation to cover a design issue with the airplane due to an engine change. They were trying to save themselves a few bucks in not having to retrain pilots. Because they didn't adequately train the pilots how to handle the system if it went wrong, they didn't know what to do when it happened. This was covered extensively in the WSJ.
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  89. Simplest explanation is the best. That equipment is needed in Ukraine. Russia talks a lot, but doesn't really believe NATO is a threat to Russia. A threat to their ambitions, yes, but not for a direct attack.
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  90. There has never been an amount of wealth that socialism cannot destroy.
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  91. A couple of facts here: The Gazans voted for Hamas as a government. Second, the Gazans tolerate Hamas operating and arming themselves in their midst. Gaza qualifies as a self governing nation, and thus this is nation on nation war. Undoubtedly Israel will try to minimize Gazan civilian casualties, and its worth noting, this is a courtesy afforded by virtually no other nations waging war against other attacking nations, including the USA and Europe.
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  92. For us non-truckers, what is the issue with the term "semi" for Tesla trucks?
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  93. ​ @marctemura2017  Sorry what had that to do with my reply?
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  94. Small nit: the tech is not based on adding a new "satellite antenna" to the phone. Rather, recent satellites such as starlink have cell phone base stations on them. Its like trying to talk to a very far away cell phone tower, so that is why you need to face the satellite. The comparision with other satellite communicators is apples and oranges. They don't work by trying to talk to the satellite via cell phone bands.
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  95. Thanks for this. The continuous anti-vape ads in California really make me sick. The government is throwing all their credibility away with kids with this nonsense. I should specify that I don't vape, and I quit smoking decades ago.
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  96. After I got married to my second wife, I came home and found she had stuffed all of the cast iron pans I had in the garbage can. They were rusted. I took them back out, gave them a once over with steel wool, then showed her how to season the pans. Short story, she became a cast iron nut after that, always looking for new cast iron things to buy. Cast iron can be great if you make friends with it. Of course you don't put it in the dish washer, but a quick brush in the sink and immediate dry does it, and they were the original non-stick surface. Seriously. Like you could make nuclear weapons in the things and they won't stick.
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  97. Now do Russia vs. Cleveland, Ohio.
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  98. Just think if Ukraine had NOT given up its nuclear weapons...
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  99. What a fresh, new joke. We never heard that one before.
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  100. Just a quick word. I the early days, what they called a "detector" or radio frequency detector, was just a (relatively) high frequency low current diode. For amplitude modulation, if you perform half wave rectification of an RF signal, you are left with high frequency DC waves with AM modulation. Those high frequency components of the DC signal would be rolled off by the primitive circuits of the day, and thus leave just the DC AM modulation. Thus even a point contact diode could receive AM broadcast on a strong signal, especially if listened to with headphones. Thus they called them "detectors", really just a rectifier in today's language.
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  101. And unmentioned, the director stood by while Hamas dragged hostages into the hospital and into the tunnels. Way to take a side NBC.
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  102. If RFID tags are comolded into plastics, as is already done with many products, the plastic can be separated from the recycle materials and fed back, most likely to the original manufacturer. This just needs the will to implement it. It just happens to help retailers as well, since RFIDing all products makes things like mass purchase work (passing a cart by a reader to purchase).
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  103. Josh, congrats on the pronunciation of Menachem Begin. I suspect you worked at that.
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  104. Yes, unlike the propaganda, Arabs were not forced to leave by the Israelis. Many were TOLD to leave by the Arab states that attacked the new state of Israel, and some refused.
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  105. How many people came here thinking how cool it would be to let loose Warthogs in Ukraine?
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  106. In California, we not only stopped fires, but we stopped logging and virtually put the lumber industry out of business in the name of the environment. Lumber production in CA is 1/6 of what it was in its peak. So now we have way more standing timber with dryer conditions. What is happening to all the trees we saved? You're breathing it now. Good going.
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  107. A park yes, but a private park. Would Apple have been terribly inconvenienced by having the park lands be open to the public? When I worked there I could not even give my wife a tour of the park, let alone the building. It symbolizes Apple itself. A closed club for rich people.
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  108.  @bunyu6237  I think others would supply better info than I on this subject, since I haven't been in the IC industry for decades, back in the late 1980's. At that time, the industry (reverse engineering) was moving from hand reversing to fully automated reversing. However, if you don't mind speculation, I would say there is no concrete reason why the reversing industry would not have kept up with newer geometries. The only real change would have been that its basically not possible to manually reverse these chips anymore. I personally worked on reversing a chip at about 4 generations beyond the Z80, which was not that much. At that time, blowing up a chip to the size of a ping-pong table was enough to allow you to see and reverse engineer individual transistors and connections. Having said that, I have very mixed feelings about the entire process. I don't feel it is right to go about copying others designs. I was told at the time that the purpose was to ensure compatibility, but the company later changed their story. On the plus side, it was an amazing way for me to get onboard the IC industry. There is nothing like reverse engineering a chip to give you a deep understanding of it. However, I would say I think I would refuse to do it today, or at least try to steer towards another job. For anyone who cares about why I have a relationship to any of this, I used to try and stay with equal parts of software and hardware. This was always a difficult proposition, and it became easier and more rewarding financially to stay on the software side only, which is that I do today. However, my brush with the IC industry made a huge impression on me, and still shapes a lot of what I do. For example, a lot of my work deals with SOCs, and I am part of a subset of software developers who understand SOC software design.
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  109. "There's only one problem with Canada... it's full of Canadians" - Dudley Doright.
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  110. I fake liked this.
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  111. Bill gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Larry Elison, michael Dell... What do they have in common? In general the companies they created require their engineers to have degrees and discriminate against those who don't.
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  112.  @All2Skitzd  I really can't believe some of the replies here. Giving different and worse terms in the language of the buyer is fraud and it is illegal. Don't be STUPID.
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  113. It IS an important point. Simply mining the border would not have done it. The Swiss made sure that Hitler knew well they would pay the price to conquer a heavily armed populace that could fight from the mountains. Also, having every male in Switzerland required by law to have a rifle and ammo at home kinda renders the gun control debate there moot no?
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  114. I build I c header parser a long time ago. The first try was just to recognize keywords and attempt a translation, much like a macro processor. I klash-trashed around with it for some time, and the program got quite large. Finally I decided that it wouldn't work in terms of handing all case, so I realized that the program needed to be the top half of a C compiler with the bottom (actual code generation) chopped off. I rewrote the program as a scanner/preprocessor followed by a syntax follower. That worked much better.
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  115. Well good news and bad news, Joe. Good news is all the freaking money in the world is available for you complete this project. Bad news is everyone in the company is watching if you succeed, and nobody is even sure its possible. Good talk. Meeting at 11am.
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  116. Don't wait. Embalm Putin now.
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  117. News from the future: 2063: The world largest solar plant in the Sahara was shut down due to extensive theft of the copper cables it uses to transport power...
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  118. My first job was for $0. I did it for the experience only. Now I make 6 figures. I never went to college. That first job was well worth it.
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  119. I am guessing that GM is looking to transfer as much liability as they can to LG. Surely this has wide ranging consequences.
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  120. I think Ukraine took invading Taiwan off the table. If China invaded Taiwan and it was not a complete success, it would show the PLA as a weak force, which I believe it still is, and all of Xi's work to build up the idea of the PLA as invincible would be lost for decades. I think Xi will not take the risk.
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  121. I know of one person who got wiped out by unrealized gains, it is already possible for the government to do it. It works like this. This person worked for a startup that was bought by another company. There is a "lock out" period for such sales, the stock of the startup was traded for an agreed on exchange rate for the buying companies stock. After the sale, the buying company stock went down. This person could not sell that new stock. The government considered the exchange from the startup stock to the buying company stock to be a sale of the old stock and a purchase of the new stock. Thus, he owed taxes on gains that he never saw, and never could have got because of the lockout period. In fact, the amount of tax he owed was more than the sale of the new stock could cover. It was more money than he had, even if he sold his house. He was bankrupted, and still owed the IRS money since they don't consider bankruptcy to end their debt.
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  122. Besides the fact that pretty much any complex item of sheet metal is made by stamping, you can always tell how the part is made by looking for the "signature" of stamping on the edge. This is a unique pattern left on by the stamping where half of the edge looks one way, and is a different color, than the other half. The reason it happens is because when the die is punching out a section of the material, it will compress the metal until it reaches about half way into the sheet. At that point the sheet metal will give way and essentially "fracture" as the punched out material rips away from the stationary part of the sheet metal. Stamping is an amazing process that goes back into the 1800s. It essentially enabled mass manufacturing of a lot of goods. The dies were made by hand, and many or even most still are. A die is carefully fitted by a die maker, and then stamps out hundreds or thousands of parts at high speeds. And then they wear out and need to be repaired or replaced. Its been the way heavy industry is done for more than 100 years.
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  123. Depends. On PCBs, when very high accuracy is required, they laser trim them. We used laser trimmers on resistors in hybrids as well, really nothing beats it for accuracy. There was an outfit selling laser configured ICs, like an FPGA but the fuses were laser burned. The company failed, and I ran into one of their engineers later and asked him why. "contamination" -- was the answer.
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  124.  @nicksrub  Invest heavily in Microsoft? Kidding. Probably get a PHD. My career never really got to the levels of tech that I wanted. Other than that, I don't think there was a perfect path. The guys I knew who really took off in the valley just retired early or became managers. I never wanted to shorten my career, just work on better quality stuff.
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  125. Maybe ranching is a better use of the land up there. Here in California they basically forced agriculture into the central valley, including stupid sh*t like rice farming, as if the place was a tropical rainforest. What we have now is water shortages and salt water incursion issues. Making the whole world into verdant farmland is a 1800's fantasy.
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  126. I like that quote: "it can take years to get overnight success".
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  127. I think these go in two different directions. The old flow is graphical floorplanning, cell based design, etc. The new way is Verilog, tested on FPGAs and sent off to a "conversion" firm or to the end fab that takes the design and runs it though automated floorplanning and process prep. All of the SOCs I have been involved with for the last 15-20 years have been done this way. The nice thing is the Verilog route is going to be much more amenable to open source processing.
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  128. I grew up in the area in the 1970's. It was in full on decay, with trashed canals besides virtual slums. The city of LA helped the area's decline quite a bit with rent control. One of the leftovers of the Venice era was at Venice high school, which was a large mural of Venice inside the main building. It made a nice backdrop to the daily knife fights in the cafeteria. Oh well. Venice looks better now, or it DID, before the homeless encampments along the beach. My stepfather got rich by buying houses there and flipping them later when Venice finally turned around. Another segway about Marina Del Rey (the marina of kings!) was that it was built with the main sea access canal leading straight out to the ocean. This led to sailboats having to tack back and forth in the canal to get out to sea and being screamed at, or screaming at, the power boaters who went straight down the canal. Basically the designers of Marina Del Rey may have been kings, but they sure weren't sailors. Marina del rey. We lived there for 30 years. My fathers ashes went into the water off the harbor. Good times.
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  129. Small note: Those estimated salaries by Indeed to just made up from average data by the indeed server. The employer placing the ad didn't have anything to do with that. Indeed, ads placed on indeed have little to do with the employer in general. I have talked to several employers on indeed, who said the job was no longer available and they couldn't get rid of the indeed ad. Indeed has a financial incentive to keep old ads around and make job searches return an artificially high number of results.
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  130. Yeltsin had got pretty far with self-Embalming before he died.
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  131. mmmmm I have github projects with submodules. You can clone with something like git submodule update --remote. The key is all of my submodules are themselves stand alone libraries that have value as individual projects outside of the including projects. This avoids having to tell people "I have this neat module, but it is buried in this other project"
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  132. You can't be the 11th ranked country by GDP and also be one of the three biggest military powers in the world... forever.
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  133. 1. AI is not here. Winning at Go is not driving a car, making dinner or making a computer program. 2. Even if you believe AI will "take over the world", I think it is a good guess that won't happen soon, or even in your life time (certainly not mine; I am old). You have time to drop your Mcdonalds job and learn a real trade. 3. During the (very) long time people have been predicting the demise of Capitalism, the major alternative (socialism) has retired many governments, and several million people. 4. The usual solution, UBI (Universal Basic Income) is not a replacement for capitalism, it is a parasitical system that relies on it.
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  134. Zelle always worried me, so I only use it to pay trusted persons. Thanks for the deep dive, I didn't really know much about Zelle.
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  135. The definition of "basic english" is: a list of words that, if they can't directly express an idea, they can be strung together to express an idea, like "water thing to sit in to clean self" for "bath", etc. This is covered well in Bodmer's "The loom of language", the hypothesis of which is that if you are going to learn a language, you might as well learn the languages closely related to it at the same time, like the Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, etc).
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  136. I'm a California born American. And I got mine. So get STUFFED.
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  137. Who's up for a fund to free Simon? What do you say.
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  138. Just one small addition: When Intel pushed onboard graphics, where the graphics memory was part of the main memory of the CPU, it was thought that the video solution would actually be faster, since the CPU would have direct access to the frame buffer, as well as having all of the resources there to access it (cache, DMA, memory management, etc). The reason they lost that advantage in the long run was the dual advantages of VRAM or dual ported video ram, a ram that could both be read and written by the CPU at the same time as being serially read out to scan the video raster device, as well as the rise of the GPU, meaning that most of the low level video memory access was handled by a GPU on the video card that did the grunt work of drawing bits to the video ram. Thus Intel ran instead down the onboard video rabbit hole. Not only didn't they win the speed race with external video cards, but people began to notice that the onboard video solutions were sucking considerable CPU resources away from compute tasks. Thus the writing was on the wall. Later, gamers only knew the onboard video as that thing they had to flip a motherboard switch to disable when putting a graphics card in, and nowadays not even that. Its automatic.
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  139. Although depreciated here, I suspect mainland China attack missiles would be an important part of a Taiwan defense. It would be hard for China to sustain a war if they have missiles incoming to the mainland. Without that, China can present the war as being an overseas problem. Much harder to do if they are getting bombed on the mainland.
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  140. Depends. Desal turns power into water. California is short of both. Then again they also are alike in that California dumps both of them in the trash can, power is generated from solar farms and wind farms, and then thrown away if it is generated at a time when it cannot be used. Similarly, some %50 of the rainfall in California is simply dumped into the ocean. Now if California were to take the excess power and use that to desal water and store it, it would be a win-win.
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  141. Spoken like a non-ev owner. The biggest drawback for the charging station makers is that most EV charging is done at home right now. Using high power, and expensive, on the road chargers is rare. I make less than one long trip per year that justifies road chargers. There is no way that is the basis of a business model.
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  142.  @janlanik2660  I see that is a recent addition (opencl on nvidia). However, that was not really what I was talking about. I don't think nvidia yet has opened their architecture so that anyone can write a driver or compiler for their machine, which is what Linus was talking about. If I am incorrect about that, I would be happy to be so.
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  143. Great video. Think of it this way: a gas engine combines the functions of making power and using the power to drive the wheels. EVs don't make the power, it is stored in the batteries. Since the motor has way less to do, it can be much smaller and more efficient, as well as do more things (torque vector, anti-slip, traction control, etc.).
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  144.  @zheuscher  That's just San Francisco's way of saying "welcome".
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  145. Sounds like Europe. %30 employment does not happen overnight. So lets take a real example. Mcdonalds goes full auto. I mean you order from a kiosk, the food is made entirely by machine, delivered to a slot in front. Their not far from that now, I would argue that Mcdonalds would end itself by doing that, you don't want to narrow the difference between you and a vending machine to zero. But lets say for sake of argument. Now a very small slice of the population makes a career of Mcdonalds. Some do, and I honestly love those guys, Miky'ds makes them wear ties, cause they are the store managers. They are freeking awesome. They are the ones who are going to run the world someday. No, most are kids using Mcdonalds to pay for school, and they will be out of there soon. So as valuable to society as burger flipping is, or nowadays pressing buttons on the burger flipping machine, I suspect there are more valuable careers. So they are studying for the medical profession, or insurance actuary, whatever. The way you get to %30 unemployment is to give people infinite unemployment benefits, more than they every put into the system by working. That's how Europe does it, and that's how we did it. Remember the 99's? That was the program that dramatically increased the unemployment benefits length. We ended that program, and everyone in Washington predicted disaster. So what actually happened? Turns out employment shot up. Right after they canceled the program. Now we have this "universal basic income" jazz, which means we take money from people who work (me) and give it to people who want to smoke pot all day. IE., we want to be like Europe now. Now before you dismiss me as a snot nose rightist, I lived through the 2008 crash AND a divorce AND with two kids to support AND a house to keep out of foreclosure. I had a 6 month unemployment time at the bottom of the recession. Nobody could get a job then, even in my tech fields. I used to keep spreadsheets on my finances every week, and I ran red ink for years. Whats the solution? Again, stop whining and go to work. You don't have to be the smartest worker or the hardest worker. You just have to be smarter than the other guys, and work harder than the other guys.
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  146. "you've never had people in power make other people weathy" sure, but people in power are quite able to make themselves wealthy. Bernie is a good example.
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  147. This is taking shortcuts with history. At the time of the Louisiana purchase, Napoleon was fighting a slave rebellion in Haiti and realized (correctly) that the US would start a war over the territory if it were not sold to them from France, which was exactly what happened to Mexico later. Thus Napoleon sold on good terms.
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  148. Yea JD nailed the twins.
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  149. @SuperWhisk Its a big subject (age). It would explain why companies take efforts to figure out your age even if you are not allowed to list it. I used to have companies that would ask me for my date of birth while quickly adding "its just for identification purposes!". Perhaps this might shock you, but I think I don't blame them. If you are in or near retirement age, the company has to assume you are looking at the calendar and wondering if your keeping working is really worthwhile. Does that apply to me? I don't think so. If I were in retirement and someone gave me a remote contract with reasonable hours I would take it, even if I had to come to the company part of the time. And this arrangement seems popular. But then I like to work, and like to get out of the house on occasion. My wife of 10 years feels the same way. Is age discrimination unfair? Wellll... yes, but discrimination by skin color or similar reasons is a lot less fair. I would say trying to categorize everyone is really the issue. A short story (yea, again sorry). I worked at a place where another employee was clearly older, and likely retirement age. His boss was a friend of mine, and he ended up terminating him. I asked him about it, and he said he gave him several chances to improve his productivity, but without result. It seems to be all relative anyways. At 65, I found that unless I take a nap after lunch I can't function. I sit at my terminal and fog out. a 20 minute nap fixes that. I had one boss that had a real problem with that. At my current contract (Google), they actually have rooms to take naps in (god I love this place).
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  150. Probably not a bad idea to also go into flat panel makers, which has become a "winner take all" industry much like ICs, and also rides the scaling curve.
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  151. Autonomous. The good news is that autonomous flying is way easier than autonomous driving. No obstacles to avoid, no road construction, no stoplights, etc. Airplanes are already capable of autonomous flight, from takeoff until touchdown, but what is physically possible is not legally possible. Garmin solved this by introducing a mode where the aircraft lands itself IF you press a big red button. The fact that an emergency exists gets around all those pesky laws. The next horizon is automatic avoidance of other aircraft, which, again, current technology already can do (ADS-B).
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  152. Stalin kept the USSR together with terror, and indeed it fell apart after he died. I don't think people get Stalin or Kim Jong-un, they both realized that terror was more important to keeping their power than an effective army.
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  153.  @harrickvharrick3957  The technique is to remove the passivation on the chip (top level of glass), then use a scanning electron microscope to read the values of memory cells and other elements on the chip. They use this to perform live debugging on chips as well. I have seen it in action. The operator can literally tell the machine what trace to watch, then it outputs a scope trace as if you had probed it. Its very impressive and very expensive technology. The simple answer is there is nothing that cannot be REed with effort.
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  154.  @psd993  ATI is known for opening their arch. Imagine if CPU makers had a closed architecture, and only allowed certain compiler makers to work with their products.
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  155. Who cares? I don't. The man does his research. Sit down and eat your jujubees.
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  156. Here in Silicon Valley, I have seen a number of large properties sit for years. Looking up the owners, they are invariably very large concerns (REITs). These are real estate businesses that work by different rules. They have a large amount of money sitting in their properties, and they can afford to be patient, and wait for the next (inevitable) run on real estate in the valley when everyone is looking for leasing space. To them most of the value is in the property, not the lease or the building
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  157. I wrote software for two of these types of meters. They have two basic functions, to meter the power being used and to send it upstream to the power company. The former you can easily do without messing with the meter simply by hooking an ammeter arrangement up to (say) a Raspberry PI. You can even do that without breaking the circuit (non-contact ammeter). If you are interested in verifying your power bill is correct, that is the way to go. The other purpose would be breaking into the billing part to scam the power company. It would be a lot of work to do, and the power company can do things like tally the individual meters against the power consumption for the whole neighborhood to trace down who has broken into their meter, resulting in anything from having your power cut off to jail time.
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  158. Also, little projects like portfolios are the ones that are the smallest, and thus the ones that cost the least to host, so why get rid of them.
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  159. Ditto.
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  160. "natural gas production in the USA has gone up 80% during fracking" well, actually this is more impressive than it sound. NG production in the USA was a going concern even when oil production was in decline, because the wells where oil was running out still produced NG. When the frac revolution started, NG was essentially a byproduct of oil drilling, and still is. If you want oil, and frack to get it, you get NG whether you like it or not. So the USA got flooded with NG. And a lot of it is simply burned off at the wellhead.
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  161. I think of these as the baseball, then basketball wafers. I did fab work at the baseball generation, which was nice because you could easily carry around the wafers. By the time basketball wafers came out, I was out of the fab business. Now the next looks like "pizza" wafers. I plan to graduate to breathing dirt around that time.
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  162. The real situation is not that nobody will work if overtaxed (they would try). When government tries to take too much out of the economy, it gets sicker and sicker and starts to die. Government is like a tick that gets bigger and bigger and starts to take so much blood from its host that it cannot survive. And both die.
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  163. "France will be led by a woman, me or Misses Merkel" - Le Pen OMG funny...
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  164. Water is power. They can pump from the lower locks to the higher locks, or even back to the lake. They can pump sea water up to the locks. It would effectively supplement the lake water with electrical power, and it would only be needed during low water problems.
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  165. Yea, I am not seeing the problem there... PS your chances of remaining single long with a cute little girl at home are basically zero...
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  166. You mean give them 6 billion dollars?
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  167. Next: what if Los Angeles attacks San Diego...
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  168. There is also the "assault on the Liberty" a USA spy ship attacked by Israel, believed to be because it was observing israel's deployment of nuclear weapons.
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  169. After driving an M3 for months now, I can tell you: The idea that the M3 does not need cooling or even does not need it as much as an ICE car are rubbish. The M3 needs to move air, and a lot of it. Its cooling the battery, it is cooling the motors. Further it does that all of the time, not just while driving. Our summers get to the 80's or 90's here, and above about 80 the self cooling for the car cycles continuously. I got a cover for the car and made the mistake of covering up the front grille by accident. The car went into hyperventilation mode, turning its fans up to full until I figured it out and moved the cover. The standard Tesla cover has a grille vent hole in it for this reason. If anything, BEVs need air more than ICE cars. ICE cars don't self destruct in very hot or very cold weather. I am not putting the M3 down here, I love mine. Its just I'm getting tired of this myth being repeated. It is not true.
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  170. A great overview of how the government messes up the housing markets. In Santa Clara CA (aka Silicon Valley) housing prices are out of control, but this is primarily due to the government's restrictive zoning laws.
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  171. My favorite banana story: when my new Colombian wife came to the USA, I rapidly learned that the word, kinda, for bananas was "platinos". When my beautiful wife asked for platinos, I pointed to the pile of fresh, yellow bananas at the local store. "Esta no es platinos" (not bananas) was the reply. We repeated this a couple of times. Finally, we went to the "Tienda Mexicana" (Mexican supermarket). We came across a table where there was a pile of bananas, but clearly past their prime. Brown and rotting. Yeech. My wife, seeing this, clapped her hands together and exclaimed "platinos!". Turns out to latin America, yellow bananas are unripe, and brown ones are where the fruit has achieved the maximum sugar content!
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  172. The SS Palo Alto was a concrete ship that was repurposed as a pier on Seacliff Beach, CA. When I first came to Northern California in 1987, you could go to the foredeck of the ship. It once was completely usable as part of the pier. Now it is completely off limits and in fact slowly sinking into the waves as a the last of the concrete breaks up and washes away.
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  173. I doubt seriously that Putin and Xi are so lovey-dovey that Putin can pull all the troops off the China border as well.
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  174. Actually there are a number of issues with the binary (root/user) permissions method, and note that Windows really copied that system. Its not for nothing that hackers talk about "flipping the permission bit". There is no real reason to have a "super" access to everything. There are a number of ways to improve this. 1. Separate the permissions out by type and have users individually obtain each type (like access to a particular disk tree, for example). 2. Stop requiring applications be installed globally. Most applications can be installed in the user directory, meaning that installers don't need root access. 3. Give users the ability to form sandboxes easily. You are installing software. Why does the installer need root permissions? It only NEEDS permissions to its install directory and perhaps a few other resources. 4. Remove the "flip permissions" ability. The OS should not give every user in the system the ability to boost their access level. A better model is to have processes be able to restrict access, but never add it. Thus the root spawns user logins, and a user process can execute a subprocess with less permissions that that, but no process can boost their access back up again. It means if you want higher level access, you have to use a higher level account. The improvement is that there is no way to increase your access level programmatic ally via the OS. None.
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  175. And given another decade or so, XCB may even be documented.
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  176. You mean because they don't tax the hell out of their corporations?
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  177. Side note: IBM (back when they were a major fab power), bet big on X-Ray machines. The epilog to that chapter appeared in Spectrum magazine, who detailed that a visit to the IBM fab saw those machines sitting out back under tarps. End of dream.
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  178. In the category of alternative materials to silicon, unmentioned are diamond (carbon) and gallium arsenide. There was also a vogue for sapphire as a base material (coating of the wafer prior to patterning), which if this old man recalls was SOS or Silicon on Sapphire.
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  179.  @divyanshbhutra5071  And I go to LA from San Jose, 500 miles, Reno, and portland. LA for example is a one charge stop if I leave with a full charge. Its a 5 hour trip, I stop for lunch, the car charges in less than 30 minutes, shorter than my lunch time. its about 2 1/2 hours per leg (to and from the charger). I would not want to sit in the car for 5 hours in any case. Thus, extra time waiting for the charger: 0 (zero). In fact I probably spent less time "fueling" up the car than you do, because you go, pump or have gas pumped, go to the counter, pay, then go to the restaurant and have a meal. I drive to the charger, plug in, and forget about it. This thing has been played up in the anti-EV press wayyyy to much. In actual use, no problem.
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  180. Just a comment about MOSFETs verses bipolar. MOSFETS are basically a capacitor. Its not rocket science to figure out that a capacitor is going be slower than a transistor that is not based on a capacitor. Moving stored charge around costs time. However, simple math would tell you that as ICs scale, the capacitor would become less and less of an issue, until a crossover point is reached. In the 1980s, I programmed an IC simulator that modeled transistors as an RC (resistor-capacitor) with a switch. IE, the function of the waveform out is that of a resistor discharging a capacitor. The idea comes from Bell Labs, and it allows analog simulation of transistor networks with a dramatically simpler model than SPICE, and thus much faster math than SPICE, which must carry out a relaxation because of reactive effects.
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  181. Its a good documentary. It also feels older than its date here on youtube, a lot of emphasis on the model S, not much model 3. I like the fact that they actually found and interviewed an ex-Tesla employee. American TV has been really behind the curve in showing the real face of Tesla. The german makers are stepping up to the plate with mid-price cars with real range and charge times like the e-tron. However, they have a lot of ground to make up and tesla is moving ahead again, with lower prices and a new 250kW charger vs. the 150kW/350kW chargers of the CCS family. The issue there is that Tesla is far, far ahead in charger numbers. The vast majority of CCS charging stations are 50kW or even less (its hard to tell since the best web site, plugshare, will not filter by charger wattage). Eventually, the American makers along with Europe will wake up and push chargers, but this is not really their priority right now, since the number of cars capable of 150kW or better charging is minimal. The lag was the german makers has been impressive. BMWs car series has been expensive cars with the same range, < 100 miles, as the low end EVs with no competition for Tesla whatever. The Porsche Taycan is competition for the Model S, a high end one at that, a car that is already going obsolete. Good luck finding a 350kW charger for this science project. The e-tron is more direct competition for what is becoming the main car of Tesla, the model 3, but again, is far behind on the charging curve. VW shows the most promise, but so far that is all we have seen from them, promises promises. In short, the german makers are talking now about waking up and meeting the competition from Tesla. If that is true, then the german makers need to put down the coffee and get on the train to work. Time is ticking away. One thing I think gets lost in the "car makers vs. Tesla" story is that EV makers around the world are not competing against american car makers, who are still (by comparison) fast asleep (in the back of a pickup truck). They are competing against silicon valley, and silicon valley companies MOVE. Like rapidly.
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  182. Way easier than that: "what year did you graduate". Simple way to find out your age.
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  183. I respectfully disagree with the idea that the USA and the USSR would have fought WWIII with each other if nuclear weapons were not around. I base that on: 1. Even without nuclear weapons, a war between them would have been catastrophic, with very little to gain. 2. The USA DID have nukes when the USSR didn't, and they even had advance warning that the USSR would shortly have nukes, and arguably could have waged nuclear war on the USSR even after their first test. And yet they didn't. Bottom line is both sides have little to gain and a lot to lose, which is why I guess I don't agree with your premises. Even Hitler would not have started a nuclear war if he understood it would be the end of Germany.
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  184. Just a side note: its true that FUSSR (former USSR) lacks warm water ports, but they have more than made up for that by becoming experts in the use of cold water ports. They can port submarines that come and go under ice, and roam under the north pole ice pack undetected, even though the USA has the best underwater submarine detection in the world. That, in conjunction with land based mobile missiles, has kept them a formidable foe to any nation.
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  185. Ok, but I am also suffering their decisions, as a lifelong republican who was born in California and have lived here my whole life. CA is still about %40 republican, but you would never know it. And our one party state as started fixing the vote in their favor. I got bumped off the voter rolls even though I have been registered to vote for 45 years and have lived in one place for 20 years. Democrats legalized vote harvesting and are using it to overturn the last places Republicans control, like San Diego and Bakersfield, and actively practice gerrymandering. What is your advice for how to deal with it? Without abandoning my lifelong home state?
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  186. "reverse RPN" is not Reverse Reverse PN, it is just PN. Polish notation is like + 1 2 or add 1 and 2, RPN is 1 2 +. Polish notation was specifically prefix notation, which was considered more natural than 1+2 because you can write +1 * 2 3 to mean 1+(2*3), and indeed, this is a common notation used in compiler intermediate codes. However, RPN is considered even more natural than this because 2 3* 1+ exactly expresses operands and the operators that use them in proper order. Thus get 2, get 3, multiply, then get 1, and then add to the result of 2*3. It also is stack machine friendly. If there never were such a thing as polish notation, I'd agree that reverse RPN makes sense, but polish notation was a thing before RPN.
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  187.  @PaladinJenkis  Because you have never been fired for not being able to accomplish a task that was not possible to do in the given deadline, even though you told them it was not possible. I have. I even found out later through a coworker that they realized after I left it was not possible, and that I did a good job after all. I'm still waiting for them to call me and apologize[1]. [1] For the humor impaired, that is a joke.
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  188. The issue is that government agencies will do ANYTHING to protect their jobs. Reagan came into office with the idea that you had to cut the budget of federal agencies to get them to shrink, like you cut off blood to a tumor. And it worked. The second part of that equation was that government can and will spend every dollar that it gets in taxes and then some. Thus you have to cut taxes FIRST before cutting budgets. Government will never willingly leave money on the table it has got through taxes. Did the Reagan revolution increase the debt? you betcha. Government continued to overspend even with the cuts. But by the end of the 1980's and into the 1990's, the economy was growing at such a rate, and the government was NOT growing at such a rate, that by the end of the century the budget balanced and even went into surplus, which of course the democrats took credit for. That's probably the last surplus budget I will see out of the government in my lifetime. Perhaps yours too.
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  189. I noticed that. They also allowed each other full answers, while still being very combative. We could learn something.
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  190. Get an L2 charger and relax. I charge my Bolt about once a week.
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  191. And now the government will take private property and turn it over to other private citizens "more deserving". This is theft, pure and simple.
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  192. Anyone else get the urge to shoot something?
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  193. What people miss about the RISC revolution is that in the 1980s with Intel's 8086 and similar products, the increasingly complex CPUs of the day were using a technique called "microcoding", or a lower level instruction set inside the CPU to run instruction decoding, etc. It was assumed that the technique, inherited from mini and mainframe computers, would be the standard going forward, since companies like intel were increasing the number of instructions at a clip. RISC introduced the idea that if the instruction set were simplified, CPU designers could return to pure hardware designs, no microcode, and use that to retire most or all instructions in a single clock cycle. In short, what happened is the titanic turned on a dime: Intel dropped microcode like a hot rock and created pure hardware CPUs to show that any problem could be solved by throwing enough engineers at it. They did it by translating the CISC x86 instructions to an internal RISC form and deeply parallelizing the instruction flow, the so called "superscalar" revolution. In so doing they gave x86 new life for decades. I worked for SUN for a short time in the CPU division when they were going all in on multicore. The company was already almost in freefall. The Sparc design was flawed and the designers knew it. CEO Johnathan faced questioning at company meetings when he showed charts with Java "sales" presented as if it were a profit center (instead of given away for free). I came back to SUN again on contract after the Oracle merger. They had the same offices and the little Java mascots on their desks. It was probably telling that after my manager invited me to apply for a permanent position, I couldn't get it though their online hiring system, which was incredibly buggy, and then they went into a hiring freeze so it was irrelevant. I should also mention that not all companies did chip design in that era with SUN workstations. At Zilog we used racks full of MicroVaxes and Xwindow graphics terminals. I still have fond memories of laying out CPUs and chainsmoking in the late 1980s until midnight.
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  194.  @allentchang  Hummm.... back in 1987 it was LSI workstations, if I recall. I don't know the operating system, but I believe they were Tectronix graphics terminals (Zilog). They were not fast, but very high resolution for the day. In 1993 it was Apollo workstations (Seagate), which were running Mentor. It certainly ran a Unix variant, but it was an unusual one. Into the new century, its all been Verilog using Xilinx software (various startups), running on Windows (does Xilinx even run on Linux/Unix?). Our fabs also tell the story: last century it was custom fab (Zilog), then AT&T fab (Seagate), then after that probably TSMC, I don't recall. Afternote: Actually I do recall, at Zilog the Tek terminals were driven by racks and racks of LSI-11's, a PDP-11 that fit in a single or double RU. I remember because we had a big serial port mux that would allow you to get a connection to any of the machines. I used to write scripts that would start jobs on multiple machines overnight, which was the only way to get reasonable simulations of chips. I believe they were running Unix. Our chip simulations were done on a custom gate level simulator that I learned a lot from, since it would simulate things like domino logic. And yes, I am old.
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  195. In short, Joe Biden is not what he used to be. And what he used to be was not that hot either.
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  196. I'm sorry, why, exactly, do we need to get him back?
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  197. Yes, I am very familiar with this theory. Smart programmers just understand code right? How about you come back after a year and tell me what you code does? How about if you don't know then we get to smack you upside the head? How about if you don't understand what that other John Q Clever did with HIS code?
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  198. Med - A - Yeen. Medellin. Home of my extended family in fact. Interesting that you all get so many Spanish words wrong when you have a Spanish version of this channel. Don't you guys talk to each other???
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  199. I won't be holding my breath. The world's champion chess machine/program, Deep blue, used repetitive pathfinding to beat Gary Kasparov, not AI. Floorplanning and routing uses the same principles, and can use the same brute force attacks. Lets say I have my doubts. The most productive area for AI has, so far, been the obtaining of grants.
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  200. Most of the real world storage both existing and currently being built it PSH. Further, a huge number of conventional dams can be converted to PSH. Many high mountain dams feed lower level reservoirs, and those systems can be converted to PSH by pumping the water back up hill. Seawater is another open question. It can be pumped uphill to dams or even let drop into mines, then pumped back out. In the USA, I think a lot of storage projects are overrated. We are switching wholesale to natural gas, which has the side effect that it can be switched in and out of the grid fairly rapidly. This complements solar generation well. The big use for storage is wind, which blows mostly at night and thus needs to be stored for use.
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  201.  @jacksons1010  " I was expecting Tesla to use open standards." when the other standards are inferior, you don't have to. Also, Tesla standards ARE open. Tesla shares the design.
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  202. Yes, there are signs in Venice (the Italian version) warning not to bathe in the water.
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  203. On the global warming side, natural gas has already decreased the carbon output in the USA dramatically. Thus it makes no sense to continually go after fracking like its the enemy. Further, all of the renewable energy sources need backup power to level off their peaks and valleys. Gas turbine generators can serve that purpose for decades, and if we stop blocking nuclear power, this will serve as a backup to renewable energy permanently. What is going on right now is the perfect as the enemy of the good. Decide: Fracking and nuclear power is the end of the world or global warming is. You can't have both at once.
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  204. I worked on CCTV masts for a while. I was replacing a CCTV installation inside a large aircraft hangar, about 3 stories up, and I realized I had placed the lift, an extensible ladder, about 3 feet off center, which was apparent only after climbing up it. I went ahead and proceeded to unscrew the mount on the very heavy camera, leaning out to capture it. I realized, too late, that I had misjudged the length of the mounting screw and the camera was coming down before I was ready. I made a decision in that moment, and stood back and let the camera fall rather than try to catch it. I returned to the CCTV company, placed the broken camera on the bench and walked out of that job then and there. My life was worth more than that messed up job.
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  205. Teddy Kennedy lives...
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  206. Well, from WWII on Russia strategy was to throw bodies at the fight. But now soldiers are not so expendable, and a huge backlash awaits when people find out their kids aren't coming home. Time is not on Putin's side.
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  207. @D R That's a great question. In fact we could just use the altitude from the GPS system. Right now you dial in the barometric "base pressure", or pressure at sea level. This is used to calibrate the altimeter so that it delivers accurate results, I believe it is within 100 feet of accuracy (other sources say the FAA allows 75 feet of accuracy). Its a big big deal. A few feet could mean if you hit a building or pass over it. Thus when you fly, you are always getting pressure updates from the controller, because you are going to need updates that are as close as possible to the pressure in your area. So why not use the GPS altitude, which is more accurate? 1. Not everyone has a GPS. 2. Even fewer have built in GPS (in the panel of the aircraft). 3. A large number of aircraft don't re calibrate their altimeters at all. 4. New vs. old. Aircraft have been around for a long time. GPS not so much. If you know a bit about aircraft, you also know that number 3 there lobbed a nuclear bomb into this conversation. Don't worry, we will get there. First, there is GPS and there is GPS, implied by 1 and 2. Most GPS units in use are portable (in light aircraft). Long ago the FAA mandated a system based on transponders called "mode-C" that couples a barometric altimeter into the transponder. OK, now we are going into the twistly road bits. That altimeter is NOT COMPENSATED FOR BASE PRESSURE. In general the pilot does not read it, the controller does (ok most modern transponders do read it out, mine does, but an uncompensated altitude is basically useless to the pilot). The controller (generally) knows where you are, and thus knows what the compensating pressure is (no, he/she does not do the math, the system does it for them). Note that GPS had nothing to do with that mode C discussion. So for the first part of this, for a GPS to be used for altitude, the pilot would have to go back to constantly reporting his/her altitude to the controller. UNLESS! You could have a mode S transponder, or a more modern UAT transceiver. Then, your onboard GPS automatically transmits the altitude, and the position, and the speed and direction of the aircraft. Now we are into equipage. Note "onboard GPS". That means built into the aircraft. Most GPS on light aircraft are handheld, which are a fraction of the cost of built in avionics. Please lets not get into why that is, its about approved combinations of equipment in aircraft, calibration, and other issues. The mere mention of it can cause fistfights in certain circles. Ok, now lets get into number 3. If you are flying over, say, 14,000 feet, its safe to say you are not in danger of hitting any mountains, or buildings, or towers. Just other aircraft. So you don't care about pressure compensation. So the rules provide that if you are over 18,000 feet, you reach down and dial the "standard pressure" of 29.92 inches of mercury, which the FAA has decreed is "standard pressure" (the FAA also has things like standard temperature, standard tree sizes, etc. fun outfit). So what does that mean? Say you are TWA flight 1, and TWA flight 2 is headed the opposite direction, same altitude. Both read 18,000 feet. Are they really at 18,000 feet? No, but it doesn't matter. If they are going to collide, they are in the same area, and thus the same pressure. Meaning that their errors cancel. It doesn't matter that they are really at 19,123 feet, they both read the same. Thus climbing to 19,000 (by the altimeter) means they will be separated by 1,000 feet. So the short answer is the final one. The barometric system is pretty much woven into the present way aircraft work. It may change, but it is going to take a long time. Like not in my lifetime.
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  208.  @DumbledoreMcCracken  I'd love to make videos, but I have so little free time. Allen was a true character. The company (Seagate) was quite big when I joined, but Allen still found the time to meet with small groups of us. There were a lot of stories circulating... that Allen had a meeting and fired anyone who showed up late because he was tired of nobody taking the meeting times seriously, stuff like that. He is famous for (true story) telling a reporter who asked him "how do you deal with difficult engineers".. his answer "I fire them!". My best story about him was our sailing club. I was invited to join the Seagate sailing club. They had something like a 35 foot Catalina sailboat for company use, totally free. We ended up sailing that every Wednesday in the regular race at Santa Cruz Harbor. It was owned by Allen. On one of those trips, after much beer, the story of the Segate sailboat come out. Allen didn't sail or even like sailboats. He was a power boater and had a large yacht out of Monterrey harbor. He rented a slip in Santa Cruz, literally on the day the harbor opened, and rented there since. The harbor was divided in two by a large automobile bridge that was low and didn't raise. The clearance was such that only power boats could get through, not sailboats (unless they had special gear to lower the mast). That divided the harbor into the front harbor and back harbor. As more and more boats wanted space in the harbor, and the waiting list grew to decades, the harbor office came up with a plan to manage the space, which was "all power boats to the back, sailboats to the front", of course with an exception for working (fishing) boats. They called Allen and told him to move. I can well imagine that his answer was unprintable. Time went on, and their attempts to move Allen ended up in court. Allen felt his position as a first renter exempted him. The harbor actually got a law passed in the city to require sailboats to move to the back, which (of course) Allen termed the "Allen shugart rule". Sooooo.... comes the day the law goes into effect. The harbormaster calls Allen: "will you move your boat". Allen replies: "look outside". Sure enough, Allen moved his yacht to Monterrey and bought a used sailboat which was now in the slip. Since he had no use for it, the "Seagate sailing club" was born. It was not the end of it. The harbor passed a rule that the owners of boats had to show they were using their boats at least once a month. Since Allen could not sail, he got one of us to take him out on the boat, then he would parade past the Harbormaster's office and honk a horn and wave. Of course Allen also did fun stuff like run his dog for president. In those days you either loved Allen or hated him, there was no in-between. I was in the former group, in case you could not tell. I was actually one of the lucky ones. I saw the writing on the wall, that Segate would move most of engineering out of the USA, and I went into networking for Cisco at the time they were still throwing money at engineers. It was a good move. I ran into many an old buddy from Seagate escaping the sinking ship later. Living in the valley is always entertaining.
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  209. So if the biggest fab goes to subsistence level by overproducing and oversupplying the market, and that causes the smaller fabs to go under, I am guessing the big fabs don't shed tears.
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  210. Spectre works from the fact that speculative execution can access pages that are normally forbidden, because if the access were to actually go through, it would terminate with a page fault. The "cracker" code then uses timing differences to read the fetched data. As an example (I'm probably messing this up, its been a long time) the speculative code can mask a single bit from the illegal data location, then use that as an address indirect to two pages, one with the bit 1 and another with the bit 0. The two pages have known access speeds, so the timing difference of execution tells you if the bit is set or not. Then you repeat for each bit. Thus you can know the contents of data at a location even though you cannot directly access it. This kind of thing can be easily prevented by proper CPU design, such as stopping speculative access immediately for addresses that do not have permissions. It can be stopped in software by randomizing the locations of sensitive data or even the ordering of pages. I recall a big push for Linux kernel designers to randomize the page placements of the OS to prevent reading of locations in the kernel.
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  211.  @HsingG32  Proprietary hardware is a pet peeve of mine. You are locking out independent developers, and there is no reason for it. If you open the specs to your hardware you will just increase the market for your hardware, and nobody (who didn't already have the capability) is going to be able to copy your hardware just by the spec.
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  212. The Laundries went right to the place their son was found after the park opened? At the very least this is withholding information. Sorry, no sympathy.
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  213. Its a good question (further research into hard drives). They are still doing some amazing things, advanced magnetic materials, layered recording, etc. However, the basis of the industry is electromechanical, which means it is inherently slower and more complex than SSDs. You can only move a mass (head arm) so fast. The recent research in disk drives has gone mainly to increasing their density, and therefore reducing cost. Because this does nothing to help the speed disadvantage of HDDs, this trend will actually accelerate the demise of the HDD industry, because it accelerates the trend of HDDs towards being a backup medium only. HDDs cannot get any simpler. They have two moving parts: the head and the disks, and both probably spin on air now (certainly true of heads, not sure about spindles). Because HDDs are more complex and take more manufacturing effort than SDDs, the cost advantage of HDDs is an illusion. The fall is near.
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  214. Seems to me like an alligator delivered final justice...
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  215. IC masking and screen printing: Well, I think more accurate to say that these techniques were well known from the manufacture of printed circuit boards, which were in full swing at the time of the first ICs, and from there you get back to printing, both screen printing and lithography. Also, resists were in use before ICs, used to perform etching on metal, rock and other surfaces, which is very much a thing today. In fact, etching glass with acid, still done today, is almost a direct line to ICs, since silicon dioxide is basically glass.
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  216. "us parliament"? Bloody hell...
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  217. Nothing forcing you to watch this. How about go elsewhere?
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  218. "500 feet from persons or property" is the basic FAA altitude law. This means, theoretically, you can fly 2 feet high if you are above open land, even if that land is not yours. Here "property", means buildings, cars, etc. Does anyone actually do that? Well, outside of crop dusting, I know of pilots that like to go out into the desert and fly "on the deck", low to the ground.
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  219. Binkov: Time for a refresher on Ukraine vs. Russia!
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  220. The sheer beauty of "unrealized gains" is that the government can claim that, while you could have cashed in your stock or whatever in January, but suffered a loss in February (say), that you cheated them out of the gains you could have had and paid them taxes. This has ALREADY HAPPENED to people we know.
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  221. This also happens in human speech with aircraft. Two airplanes can talk to the radar controller but not hear each other, leading to talking over each other. Pilots make this a bit better by listening carefully to the controller, since there is a request/reply thing going on.
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  222. This is why Finland will never be invaded, but Taiwan will. Finns understand that every last man must be armed and ready, vs. Taiwan thinks buying expensive toys will save them. Modern Taiwanese don't understand what it means to fight.
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  223. Do you think this was a left handed shot at Macron's wife?
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  224. Thanks, really, for making it clear what complete tools you guys are.
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  225. "Tesla faces competition from the big car companies" Really? Where? So far the "competition" is low range overpriced cars (compared to gas cars). The closest competition is the Bolt from GM, with yawn worthy styling and no effort AT ALL to try to meet Tesla's fast charging infrastructure. When the M3 comes out, it is a sexy car with cool factor and access to the Tesla Charging network. Its biggest competition is... hot air. Lots of promises. By the end of this year and into next, GM and Ford are going to be watching their sales slide even further while Tesla sells every car it can make. Then we get another round from them both about how "nobody could have seen this coming", and perhaps another government bailout.
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  226. "the human is the horse. Humans are going to find themselves unemployable" Humans aren't horses. People used to be mass farm workers, which didn't involve much more brainpower than the turnips they were picking. You can study and get smarter. I recall when I started in computers that everyone said graphical user interfaces were needed because "there was no way the average person would learn to type". Look now. We are a nation of typists. If you are stupid, and want to remain stupid, then you go hungry. Hunger is a great incentive. The AI thing is a complete canard. Computers are amazingly stupid compared to people. In a 100 years, they may be smarter. So its simple. Get smarter faster than a computer. Or go hungry. Be a horse or be a thinking human. Its your choice.
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  227. I reused my old coolermaster case with the double wide 120 AIO. There was space for two fans on the top of the case already, so I mounted the radiator to the top inside of the case, then mounted the fans on top of the case in a pull configuration. This gave me enough clearance to put the new MB in place. I had to customize the mount, because the old fan spacing didn't match the radiator, and also needed to drill a new hole and put a grommet to bypass the fan cables into the case. Very satisfactory result.
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  228.  @real_hello_kitty  Well, people resources are %50 of your career. I suspect the employers you think are smearing you are not going to do so. These days employers are very worried about litigation, and managers are told to stick strictly to the facts. My references are from coworkers that I know had experiences directly with my work. My dad (also an engineer) said it best: if you worked for a company for 2 years or so, that says a lot regardless of what your previous manager(s) say. Why did they keep you working there if you weren't producing? Finally, here is an ace of spades for you, that is a common industry trick. Get a friend to act as a potential employer and call up your previous manager(s) to ask what they think of you. This will give you a very solid overview of where you stand. I have been an engineer for 40+ years. I have had a few employers that I didn't want to use as a reference. So I didn't. I left them off my resume. There is one thing that isn't in doubt. People are important. I have been at companies that were failing, but what I got out of it was far more important than a job. Good people, and good contacts. If you realize how valuable they are, you can work on developing your contacts. It works both ways. People call me after their last job ended, and I try to get them started on a new position, with my company or another.
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  229. I had a classic interview once in Silicon Valley. I was walking between buildings with the HR guy I met for the face to face interview. He was bragging about their automated resume checker, and told me that it did a wonderful job of removing candidates who didn't have engineering degrees. Then he happened to look at me and must have seen the look on my face. I am an undegreed engineer. I didn't get the job.
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  230. No sale. Everything on the aircraft, laptops, phones, other electronics are generating plenty of radiation. Avionics are not that sensitive. The FAA has left it up to each aircraft captain to allow or forbid cellphones. I don't turn my cellphone off in flight and have much the same equipment in my private aircraft as you do. Cellphones just aren't very useful in flight, the reception is spotty. In high altitude aircraft that is far worse. Ground stations are not that easy to interfere with by fast flying cellphones. If it were true, they could easily block your phone. At the end of the day, we are going to end up where the aircraft provides a "micro cell" that gives people on the aircraft essentially a cellphone tower on the aircraft itself.
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  231. The roots of the conflict go back to Belgium rule. The Tutsis were a minority in the congo, and tension existed between the Hutus and Tusis. The Tusis improved their position by becoming administrators in the rulers before the Belgians. When they took over, they increased Tusi power in the country, and the Hutus didn't forget it -- or forgive it. Thus when the Belgians left, the tensions between the two groups turned violent, and that continues to this day.
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  232. The saying is (stop me if you have heard this): "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". I'm 61. I've been programming most of my life (since 19). To give you examples, when I started, C and Unix were obscure subjects that few knew about. Lets go through a couple of mistakes that keep getting sold to new programmers over and over (and over) again. "AI will soon render programmers obsolete" "We invented a language that was so simple, anyone will be able to program" (cobol, then Basic, now pick your favorite interpreter). "visual interfaces will soon make typing on a keyboard obsolete". "with modern computer speeds, you won't need compilers, interpreters will be enough" "there is no need for more memory than X" (where X keeps going up -- and up and up) I'm sure others could up with several as well. I had a very intelligent programmer state to me the other day that "any program written more than 5 years ago is irrelevant". I didn't bother to point out to him that the language (C) and the operating system he uses day to day (Linux/Unix) go back 40-50 years. Don't worry. There are people around that DO learn from history. And they will be happy to teach you the lessons from it. Over. And over. And over again. And your wallet will be lighter afterwords. But you might be wiser. Good luck.
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  233. Fatboy: a Bolt vs. Volt review would be a good idea. But sorry, could not agree with your logic less. Lets take the Volt vs. bolt as a *second car*. For dropping that gas engine in the Volt, you get 150 miles more of range. That means for my wife, charging about once a week (she has a very short commute) and she never worries about range. With the Volt, she would be back to nightly charging. The Volt may make sense as an only car, but not as a second. I have friends with a Volt, and their thinking appears to mainly be centered around never having owned or leased a true battery electric car. The "I'm going to get stuck" thing is an imaginary fear. I had a Leaf for 3 years, had the supercharging option, and used a supercharger perhaps 3-4 times a year. I "got stuck" exactly once, a couple blocks from home, because I tried to push the range too far, and that was mainly because I was going through a side of the city that has no real charging capability. With a Bolt and a TM3, my ideas about charging and range are completely different, and realize I drove the Bolt for a year and a half before getting the TM3. On these cars I think about charging when I see 50 miles of range, so my "don't go below" range is most of the entire range of my old leaf and Spark which both got 75 miles of range. In both cars you can afford to keep that kind of reserve, and in fact its better for the car not to be nearly discharged as I used to do for my Leaf.
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  234. The show accurately demonstrates how oil companies think about renewable energy.
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  235. Yea, Guam is pretty safe.
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  236. The sea has always been advancing in California. When I was a child in the 1960s in the Pacific Palisades, we would walk to the end of the main street that ended abruptly at the cliffs and see things like plumbing coming out of the hillside going nowhere. I later understood that houses fell into the sea there. Also, another contributing factor to wildfires is the governments opposition to logging and mismanagement of the subsequent "saved" forests, which has led to lots of fuels for the fires. Where are the trees the government has saved? You are breathing them...
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  237. This is a good first hand look at the border and the issues. It is a bit biased however. It says "a wall never stopped anyone throughout history". This is not true. Any military person will tell you that undefended barriers are useless. The barrier is to slow people down. The crucial part of the barrier is following it up with patrols or cameras or more likely a combination of both. The barrier on the border of California and Mexico is an example. It is a steel barrier followed by a fence with a road between them. Sure, people can put effort into climbing the first barrier, but by that time they have been spotted, and a patrol has been sent to pick them up. The very use of "wall" is also a bias, one that even Trump uses. There is no brick and mortar "wall" along the border. Its not necessary. What is used instead is fencing or steel sheeting, and the next development is the Bollard fence. Steel sheets are hard to get through, but opaque. Fences can be seen through, but are easy to cut with tools. The Bollard fence is a compromise of square steel tubing that cannot be cut without advanced tooling. PS. Fences keep people out, not drugs. If drug mules are on both sides of the fence, it is easy to just throw a bag over the barrier to people waiting on the other side. Both sides of the fence mus be watched to prevent drug trafficking.
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  238. Give me a break. The politicians who are easily corruptible bear equal blame.
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  239. I like reason TV, but there are a few points that need to be made here. First, the Wiki, from "wiki wiki" Hawaiian for "quick quick" as a group edited web page was around before wikipedia. Second, as John Stossel points out in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRgJYMw6YA In which Stossel demonstrates that putting known and verifiable facts on a wikipedia web page gets deleted without explaination because it does not fit the leftist agenda. Wikipedia has become a bastion of left leaning editors deciding what the "truth" is according to their agenda. I Spent something close to a year trying to fix a web page on a subject I was/am an expert that was bascially being hyjacked by people trying to push their own agenda. I succeeded, but one day I looked around and noticed that the same page had the old distortions in other languages that had never been corrected. Short story, I gave it up. Today I trust Wikipedia about as much as a cockroach in the kitchen. It's true that Wikipedia later had a "catharsis" and instituted a program of higher level editors to try and maintain order in the system, but (as Stossel points out) that simply replaced group kaos with a group of biased overlords who have blanket permission to censor and distort facts as they please.
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  240. My theory: Management pays attention to what programmers say in direct proportion to their pay scale.
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  241. So this video series came out just before covid. That put a new light on everything.
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  242. The point was that raindrop shape is determined by airflow. Two bit does good work. Chill out please.
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  243.  @jacksons1010  Why? Tesla has offered to give the technology free to other makers, and to share their charger network if the other makers will help pay for it. What more were you expecting?
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  244. The reason a lot of manual testing goes on is because of management attitudes. "it will take too long to automate that test". Then, after the manual testing has been repeated dozens of times "we are pretty sure we are at the end of testing... to automate it now would be a waste of time". Honestly I got tired of pushing automated testing. Its too much work to overcome management biases, and if I succeed, often the result is that I get reassigned to test work, usually at a loss in pay and essentially volunteering to do a boring job.
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  245. A Turkish waiter expressed this to me eloquently: Turkey deals with both Ukraine and Russia, and wants to walk the middle line.
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  246. A very impractical weapon. Relative to ICBMs, this would have a very slow delivery time coupled with difficulty controlling the weapon, either to direct its path remotely or recall the weapon.
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  247.  @jfbeam  Yea, semiconductors tend to fuse closed, unlike most circuit boards, which tend to fuse open, or, as you say, contacts, which tend to fuse closed. When I worked in ICs we had a failure analysis presentation that showed why, complete with photos. Silicon... well, it melts with enough current. It forms a nice runny, and very conductive, river of molten silicon for an instant. I imagine that is right before it forms a miniature explosion. You kids won't remember, but we used to have UV erasable EPROMs with little windows in them. If you plugged them in backwards, cause, you know, stupid, or on purpose, you got a nice little light show. This probably accounted for the fact that bad ones never got kept around. They were too much fun to plug in backwards.
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  248. "I kept my word" "I'm sorry, what word would that be? For or against fracking?"
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  249. There was an incident last century where they detected what the USA believed was a nuclear explosion in Africa. Nothing further came of that. Anyone know what happened there?
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  250. Not sure Applied qualifies as unappreciated. The Wall Street Journal follows them closely, and has for decades. My favorite story about them was I briefly dated a woman who worked there. She was PHD physics, and standing to close to her brain could give you a sunburn. I asked her how she liked working at applied, she said "I like it, but don't like the fact they make me talk to CUSTOMERS". IE, applied employs brainiacs.
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  251. If government would simply ALLOW competition, then there would be no problem, and it would cost taxpayers nothing. In our city of San Jose, CA, not exactly a low tech area, Comcast, the only real high speed provider, has had a monopoly for decades on cable service, despite the fact that Comcast has one of the worst customer service records of any cable company. Simply allowing other cable companies to run their lines in the same city would dramatically lower the cost of broadband, as it has virtually anywhere cities have more than one cable provider option.
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  252.  @tcmtech7515  I do hear that a lot... from people who don't own an EV. The standard refrain is that "I'll buy an EV when it gets 400 miles range", even though 200 miles was a common range for gas cars before high mileage hybrids. 400 miles, or likely 100kWh batteries, is an inefficient battery to haul around every day when average needs are 50 miles a day or so. It comes down to the story people tell themselves. "30 minutes for a fast charge is too much" means to me that people are trying to fit EVs into what they know about gas cars. I have owned EVs since 2013, and I average 2-3 times per YEAR when I wait at a charger. The rest is home charging when I don't really track, know about or CARE much about how long the car took to charge. Everyone I know who actually GOT an EV is pretty much the same. All the concerns they had before getting an EV are gone AFTER they actually get one. I went from leasing a leaf, to a Bolt that my wife now drives, to my Tesla M3. All were practical, but all differed in terms of range and convenience. A 75 mile range leaf was practical as a commuter car, but not for long trips, and took planning to be able to run significant errands during lunch. I charged it every night, and would have issues if I forgot to plug it in at night, usually requiring a stop off at a supercharger. The bolt changed that model to only needing to plug in 2-3 times a week, and made long trips possible, if not convenient. It took it from San Francisco to LA once after I got it, which required planning and some fairly major stops to charge along the way. With the Tesla M3 there is no issue with long distance driving for me at all. I don't drive for 300 miles without stopping, which is 4 hours even at California highway speeds, so the 20-30 minutes it takes to charge can be taken during lunch or dinner breaks, and nowadays I pull into Tesla highway charging centers with 10 to 20 charging spots, most unoccupied.
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  253. Pretty much all of these additions, CSD, disappearing scroll bars, etc. Are designed to conserve screen space. That's a good goal, but another way to go is just get more screen real estate and forget about it. Two monitors is my minimum, and these days that's two 23 inch monitors side by side or stacked, and 4k res. If you are incensed by too much space in your title bar that just begs for another button or menu, perhaps try more screen space. Its wonderfully relaxing.
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  254. Not particularly, although that prediction has been made several times over the years. Moore's law DID change, but it was more like the assumptions about Moore's law that changed. We assumed that both the size of transistors would shrink as well as their speed increase. The latter died an unfortunate death due to several factors, including leakage. Thus speeds of ICs have not dramatically increased for several years now, and the industry focuses more and more on parallelism. Is there actually such a thing as a barrier to further shrinkage? Its undoubtedly so. However, several people way smarter than me have studied this, and we are nowhere near the limit. Our working basis for the individual elements may change, but we will keep moving downwards. Moore's law has more room to run.
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  255.  @dengsamuel4557  So the Taiwanese should fight with an arm behind their back to keep from offending their attackers? Interesting...
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  256. No FSD by 2021. More likely 2031. The tech problems are just now reaching acceptable solutions, and the legal problems are just beginning.
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  257. I feel like I should wrap this subject with an opine on reverse engineering (RE) in general. IMHO this tends to be a glint in the eye mainly of incompetent engineers and managers who like the idea of cutting engineers out of the process. Engineers are troublesome little critters who bitch a lot and eventually discover the joys of sex and the consequent burdens of children. I have always found that it is easier to create software/hardware designs from scratch than to copy the work of others, since REing others work makes it harder and also because the state of software design today is typically crappy, poorly documented code. I often do scratch designs even when given others' source code. REing a chip just gives you a fat binder of schematics (probably a lot of fat binders nowadays). It does not give you the design of the chip, and the design processes of the chip are farther than ever from the schematic thanks to the size of the designs and the fact most of it is done in Verilog. I'm willing to bet most RE today is done by silicon makers wanting to figure out how that new stacked DRAM cell works.
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  258.  @bunyu6237  A couple of reasons (better software than hardware). First of all, there is a larger group of people working on software than hardware, so the jobs are more plentiful and the demand greater. Second, hardware/software crossover people are considered odd birds, and when I used to do that I had people literally telling me to "pick a side", go one way or the other. I find it easier to get and do software projects, and the pay is better. I dabbled in Verilog long after I stopped being paid for hardware design, and I realized it would take a lot of work to get a foothold in good Verilog design with virtually no corresponding increase in salary, and more likely a decrease for a while during the time I gain credibility as a Verilog designer. The last time I was paid to design hardware it was still schematic entry (and yes, in case you haven't figured that out, I am indeed that old). Of course, a lot of this is my personal situation. I am not sure any of the above would serve as career advice. I definitely consider my hardware background to be a career asset, since specialize low level software design (drivers, embedded, etc). Having said that, I keep up with hardware advances and have often dreamed of uniting my Verilog experience with software experience. That dream is unrealized.
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  259. No, the supersonic boom of the Concorde was used by a group of eco-nazis to scare people into restricting and banning it. I experienced a supersonic boom from an aircraft flying 100 feet from me. It is not that bad.
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  260. This is the birth of Kurdistan.
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  261. Good job. There was a bit of conflation there with microcode (its firmware?). It would have helped to underline that it is entirely internal to the chip and operates the internals of the CPU. In any case, microcode was discarded with the Pentium series, KINDA. It actually lives on today in so called "slow path" instructions like block moves in the later cpus, which use microcode because nobody cares if they run super fast or not, since they are generally only used for backwards compatibility and got deprecated in 64 bit mode. I await the second half of this! Things took off again with the AMD64 and the "multicore wars". Despite the mess, the entire outcome probably could have been predicted on sheer economic grounds, that is, the market settling into a #1 and #2 player with small also-rans. Today's desktop market, at least, remains in the hands of the x86 makers except for the odd story of Apple and the M series chips. Many have pronounced the end of the desktop, but it lives on. I have many or even most colleges who use Apple macs as their preferred development machines, but, as I write this, I am looking out at a sea of x86 desktop machines. Its rare to see a mac desktop, and in any case, at this moment even the ubiquitous Mac pro laptops the trendsetters love are still x86 based, although I assume that will change soon. Me? Sorry, x86 everything, desktop and laptop(s). At last count I have 5 machines running around my house and office and 4 laptops. I keep buying Mac laptops and desktops, cause, you know, gotta keep up with things, but they grow obsolete faster than a warm banana. Yes, I had power PC Macs, and yes they ended up in the trash. And yes, I will probably buy Mac M2s at some point.
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  262. Just a thought: I would not bet on a Russian nuclear threat. Zelenski has had enough time, they have the material, and lots of knowledge and scientists to make a little toy of their own. Or two. And they are close enough to Moscow to drive it in or use other means. My guess is it would be used in back channels to get Putin to back off any such threat.
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  263. Does anyone else find these avatar vids annoying? Give me diagrams or something. AI generated avatars is just lazy.
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  264. I got a 2018 model 3. It had a leaking right taillight, and developed a crack in the back roof glass. Both issues were fixed punctually by Tesla. When I got the car, everyone was on about the panel gaps, but I never had that issue. In exchange for this, I got a car that was 10 years ahead of any car on the road. Unfortunately, it is still 10 years ahead of any car on the road. Now everyone is trying to copy Tesla. If Tesla was and is a failure, it is a dammed successful one.
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  265. In Russia, Putin's top scientists invent a time travel machine. Putin dials it to go 10 years into the future, then return him to the present time. Donning a disguise, he steps into the machine and finds himself on a street in Moscow. He heads into a local beer hall, sits down and orders a beer. Chatting up the bartender, he says "I've been out of touch for a while. Did we win the war in in Donbas?". "Yep", replies the bartender. Now happy, Putin presses further. "did we win the war in Ukraine?". "Yep", replies the bartender. Now Putin is ecstatic. "Great... how much do I owe you for the beer?". "five Euros", replies the bartender.
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  266.  @divyanshbhutra5071  I commuted 50 miles a day, meaning 100 miles round trip per day, for more than a year on a home charger. You don't own an EV, you are just making this up.
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  267. You characterize this as a transfer from the young to the old, but seniors paid taxes for this throughout their lives. Is the outcome unequal to income? Sure, but that is government mismanagement of the money. Any reasonable calculation shows that the private sector could have done better with that money. What governments got out of the system, which nobody talks about, is a guarantee that the old won't end up on the welfare rolls, and the street. I am a standard American retiree. I reached full retirement age, filed for social security, and kept on working. The SS money is not enough to live on unless I sell all of my assets. In the meantime, I work, I am perfectly able to, and I both pay into the system as well as get money from it.
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  268. On my best projects, I keep the tests, the code, and the compete report generated by the test, which is time and date stamped, in the repo. When I worked at Cisco Systems, we went one better than that and kept the entire compiler chain in the repo, including compiler, linker, tools, etc. I teach the init-test-teardown model of individual tests, and one of the first things I do when entering a project is mix up the order of the individual tests in the run. This makes them fail depressingly often. Most test programmers don't realize that their tests often depend inadvertently on previous test runs to set state in the hardware or simulation. I do understand your point about running them in parallel, but admit I would rather run then in series, then mix them up in order. Why? Because running them in parallel can generate seemingly random errors, and more important, aren't repeatable. I would run them in order, then mixed order, then lastly in parallel because of this. Finally, many testers don't understand that testing needs to be both positive and negative. Most just test for positive results. Testing that the target should FAIL for bad inputs is as important, or I would say MORE important, than positive tests, since they go to the robustness of the system. Further, we need to borrow concepts from the hardware test world and adopt coverage and failure injection.
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  269. Spoken by a guy who doesn't know how to design a driver interface.
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  270. 25 years average lifetime. And yet my 172 is 46 years old now.
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  271. My wife bought French butter for our house in California. I read an article that California butter is popular in France. There in a nutshell is why global shipping has gone wild. We are exchanging everything around the world.
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  272. Nothing wrong with short names in a context, that is a short function. The rule is, if you can see the declaration right above its use, you don't need a long identifier. The coding style where you have veryunecessarlylongidentifiers is tedious and overly verbose.
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  273. Bad news. The millionare version of you is the cool one with the hot wife that made better decisions.
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  274. The first thing the lawyers do in those cases is search for the parties with the deepest pockets to sue.
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  275. Right out of Stienbeck's "the pearl", which, spoiler alert, is not the Pearl.
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  276. There are other organizations besides goodwill that have the business model of taking in used items for free and then selling them. The idea is that they "donate profits to charity", but if you read the fine print, its a very small percentage. Does it mean they are bad? Most of that stuff would just have been thrown away in any case.
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  277. Yep, absorbing Britain into the EU "fixed" the Irish issue. Now it is "unfixed". Bummer.
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  278. John, it was worth the wait (the more complete version of Quake). In those days, I bought computers just to run your games. Quake came out, and I bought a faster machine just to run it. I'm probably not the only one.
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  279. So a Cessna Caravan is still a fairly big aircraft, seating 9 people. If they are not filling that, what is the matter with filling the "essential need" with Cessnas/Pipers? (4 seater aircraft). An independent company could do that.
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  280. You can also get panel breakers with built in GFCI. I'll take both GFCI and ground. I don't think you made your case.
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  281.  @mnoxman  yacc does not really determine any formats (like intermediate). Its a tool.
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  282. Absolutely, people who don't agree with you are stupid and crazy.
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  283. First class analysis.
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  284. There's a lot missing from this analysis. First, the Gazans VOTED for Hamas. Nobody asked for a cease fire against the Nazis in Germany. Second, it isn't Iran vs. Israel. Iran has been backing Guerrillas against almost every country in the middle east, and they have few friends. The fact that Egypt refuses to take in anyone from Gaza should tell you everything, they consider them to be equivalent to the Muslim Brotherhood, which killed Sudat and almost took over their country.
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  285. In the very early days, you were either in the S-100 (Altair compatible) camp or outside. The Altair and other copies were extendable with plug in cards, and the number and type of those cards multiplied enormously. The first cards where build it yourself, but at some point more cards were shipped prebuilt. The S-100 standard evolved into 16 bits with 24 bit (16 meg) addressing, with various processors, including the 8086 family. The Altair itself fell behind the market it started, gaining a reputation for being less reliable than others. When the IBM-PC shipped, it began to replace the S-100 family, but it took several years for that to happen. I used a S-100 compatible up to 1987, mainly because the IBM-PC was not a more powerful computer until the 80386 came out, and even then didn't get a OS powerful enough to actually use the 32 bit features of the CPU until 1992-1995 (Unix, OS/2 and Windows 95). I made up the difference, like many people did, by using "extenders", systems that used the 16 bit DOS/Windows OS, but hosted a 32 bit program on the 80386.
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  286. Those "the brain has the equivalent of so much memory" are like saying a beach is the equivalent of a computer because they both are based on sand. Its not the memory capacity that makes your brain.
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  287. Libertarian is training wheels for republicans. When you get tired of throwing your vote away to pot smoking lunatics, join us.
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  288. Actually that was true in the original Rome itself.
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  289. Taking money from people who earn it (called "taxes"), and passing it out to people who don't is socialism with a new coat of paint. And it has never worked, anywhere, at any time. In fact, when the "war on poverty" by Johnson started, the poverty rate was trending downward, and since then has flattened out. Subsidizing things, including poverty, simply makes more of it.
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  290. USA today, which everyone knows is a very serious and experienced aircraft accident investigator, found that in many instances the manufacturer was to blame, based on the results of civil litigation. And everyone knows just how unbiased civil litigation can be when large damage awards are in the offing.
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  291. By the way, I am conservative and don't regret the dropping of bombs on Japan, and even I don't believe the common explanation of nuking Japan. What the dropping of the bombs did is convince Japan that we could move from fighting a conventional war to fighting an almost "free" war that involved no men or materials, but simply flying over the island of Japan and slowly reducing it to a glowing pile of rubble. Remember that in those days nuclear bombs were not that powerful, and it would have taken dozens of nuclear weapons to bring Japan to its knees. The dropping of the second nuclear bomb was necessary because Japan, which by the was NOT stupid or without spies and probably knew something about the a-bomb before it was dropped on them, had reason to doubt that we had more than one of the weapons. They would have been right. In fact, to drop a third one would have been a problem for us. The idea of being able to fight wars with pushbuttons was short lived. With proliferation of nuclear weapons, even to just the USSR, meant that even the "unthinkable" conventional wars would be fought under a nuclear umbrella and in fact by proxy, as was exactly what happened. Thus the cost of war actually went up, not down (as it should be). As for the current crop of crybabies wringing their hands over nuking Japan, the answer is simple. Nuke 'em again. They have been getting uppity of late, and that would put an end to this whole argument.
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  292. If you are going to claim that you were forced to use nukes in a conventional war, does it not help if you didn't start that war???
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  293. Good job on this, nice graphics.
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  294. Not big on sarcasm eh?
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  295. Is that for Colombia or the USA?
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  296. I toured the NUMI plant before it closed, and I toured it again after Tesla started making cars there. I also went back their to pick up my wife's Tesla later.
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  297. Are you ASKING what they think or PUSHING them to say what you want to say.
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  298.  @derekwood8145  Tesla doesn't sell hybrids! Apples and oranges. Here we go with another "hybrids ARE electric cars".... that great EV enthusiast Abe Lincoln said it best: "calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg".
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  299. I know what you are saying but the company has a responsibility to accurately judge work as well. Managers who are not knowledgeable about what their programmers are doing tend to have heavy politics going on. We are programmers, not salesmen, The way this gets done is to hire knowledgeable managers who understand the work their programmers are doing, and frankly, strong tech leads as well. Unfortunately too many companies fall into the cycle where only the programmers able to sling the most b*llshit get promoted, and all of us know about that incompetent programmer who was working as fast as possible to climb into management before anyone figured out they had no idea what they were doing. This collapses the management tree into yesmen, and stops true recognition of talent and properly done work. And then the competent programmers leave, and the situation just gets worse.
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  300. So amazing that we can just shoot down satellites from a jet like that. I think Elon has provided one answer. How easy is it to shoot down 5,000 to 30,000 satellites? Also, for the jamming issue, sure, downlinks can't be jammed. But every practical satellite uses uplinks, and those can be overloaded with RF energy. This has short term and long term effects.
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  301.  @NL-tq1yr  What the 5000 satellites part? Not even then. Unless you want to set off dozens of them in LEO. Even then they would have to be nuclear nail bombs. Nukes don't do as much damage outside the atmosphere.
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  302. I have two electric cars, but I am for people doing what they want. EVs are better cars, and in time people will figure this out. Until then, I think it is wrong for the governments to FORCE people to change. Name a food that your parents forced you to eat that you like.
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  303. I think of software design as a parallel to architecture. It has merged with art a bit, and heavy on engineering. There are objectively "good" buildings and "bad" buildings, but over the centuries, we have come to understand that poorly designed buildings fall down and kill people, a lot of them. Software today is divided into life critical applications and non-life critical applications. I have worked on both (medical applications). The problem is that there is not enough recognition that software projects fall down. Our complexity is simply out of control, and many projects end when the software has too many bugs and not enough understanding. Programmers move on; the code was not that well understood to begin with. Most software isn't designed to be read. Printed out, its only useful in the toilet, which dovetails nicely with today's idea that software should not be printed. In the old days (1960s era), it was common to keep programs in printed form, usually annotated by the keeper. If I dare to suggest that a given bit of code is ugly, I am told that nobody is ever going to look at it, and it is going to be discarded shortly in any case. If we are engineers, we are a funny bit. Electronic engineers don't produce schematics that are messes of spaghetti without much (or any) annotation. Same with mechanical engineers, or (say) architects. I'd like to say that software is a new science, and we are going to evolve out of this phase, but I don't think I will see it in my lifetime.
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  304. She adds words with the hope that you get tired of listening and figuring out what she is saying, and stop paying attention. It works.
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  305. Small correction: Itainium was a joint project of Intel and HP (referring to the "HP went to Intel for Itainium").
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  306. I'd rather be at work sick. You get paid, your work does not suffer that much, and the people there are probably the ones who gave you the illness. This whole idea that you are going to create a sterile workplace at work is a crock. People get sick. Its part of what makes you more immune from getting really sick, and its part of life.
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  307. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Elon tends to be "overoptimistic" on schedules.
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  308. "What's wrong with USA treating llegal immigrants the same way that Mexico does?" oh you mean raping and killing them? We don't do that because we are not a-holes.
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  309. Nothing has changed. Most true multicore/threaded designs are one-off. Think supercomputer clusters. True multithread/multicore software engineers are hard to find. The average software engineer is scared to death of multithreaded designs, and it would not be a stretch to imagine that most multithread apps have latent bugs.
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  310. He was referring to the lack of and/or/not for integers, as in original Pascal. C can do that, and indeed, most extended Pascals can do that. Is it possible to do it in original Pascal? Yes, actually. I have routines like that. It isn't pretty, but it is possible.
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  311. We need to get RID of base 10 numbers! There are NO base 10 computers! We need to stop converting to and from antique base 10 numbers to compute them!
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  312. Congratulations on hitting the big 100k!
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  313. Otto Warmber wasn't punished for taking a poster. He was punished for being stupid enough to go to North Korea of his own free will.
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  314. A little too short. The next chapter is being written, which is the introduction of quantum computers that can break RSA and other codes. These will be breathtakingly expensive, which means that governments will be the first ones with the ability to break the codes, and likely we won't know they are being broken. These things are always an arms race.
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  315. You have tapped into a classic boondoggle here. When I was with Cisco around 2000, the big "new wave" was about all optical switching, which was supposed to be faster than converting optical to electronic and back again, often with DMMs (Digital Micro Mirrors). Howed that work out? The startup world was littered with smoking holes of failed companies. I think the bottom line is we know a lot about devices that operate on electrical signals, but not so much about devices that work on pure light. As in everyone knows what an electrical nand gate is, and optical nand gates are possible with optical signals, but good luck getting that to work, be integrated at high densities, and be efficient. Lets start with the basics. You can route signals easily in electronics, and the 10+ layers of interconnect on current ICs talk to this. What's a light conductor on an IC? Well, air, which should be free, but is far from it. You would have to couple in and out of the IC at many points, which is expensive in terms of real estate. You could conduct with glass, and that is a whole 'nuther level. I'm not saying never. I'm just saying that with any breathless new wave of technology you have to look at history and see if that wave has not broken previously, or like every 5 years or so (cough.... AI).
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  316.  @jackholler3572  Yea, and the EU is responsible for Erdogan taking over turkey, and the US is responsible for Putin trying to take back the USSR. Please.
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  317. Come on guys, there are U-tube channels showing how to do this stuff. You think it is a secret?
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  318. Little known fact: when electrons move, they generate magnetic fields. Turns out if all the cars in the USA were electrified and all driving on the roads, the USA would generate a huge magnetic field and be sucked into Canada!
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  319. Thanks for the overview. I have a high end threadripper CPU, nice to know how it got manufactured. First class video as usual.
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  320. Government programs that fail are not the problem. The problem is they live on after failure. Like zombies...
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  321. The "go pro" war...
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  322. Another note: one of the drivers of the first transistorized computers was the realization that flip flops build with transistors could be built that were far more tolerant of variations in transistor manufactured parameters than analog applications such as radios. When attempting to make transistors with stable parameters for consumer applications, the method used was to mass manufacture them, test their parameters, and live with a high rejection rate. As a result, the computer makers were able to come in and buy up lots of "defective" transistors for use in computers that couldn't be used for consumer electronics.
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  323. This would be better if it wasn't clearly agenda driven.
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  324. In other words, Soviet jets have been converted to use USA missiles. Verrrrrryyyy interesting...
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  325. Gavin Gruesome is taking lessons from Kamala. That was a complete run on non-answer.
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  326. There is also a tremendous speed and power advantage to routing high fan out peripherals on chip vs. off chip. Anytime you have to pass a signal through a pad driver and externally, the driver power goes up and the speed of the line goes down. One of the great drivers of SOCs were the making of cells out of standard design blocks such as CPUs. To do this, silicon designers would separate the cells (CPUs, peripherals, etc) from their pad ring drivers. Thus a single cell design could be dropped into a SOC using multiple cells internally, or drop into a pad ring to make a stand-alone design.
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  327. Why does Rwanda have a low murder rate? There is nobody left to murder...
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  328. Yea, how about we don't do that anymore...
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  329. The Canadians have power coming to each carport, because if you don't plug your car in up there, it's dead in the morning. The power is for the car heater. So obviously it can be done if people want to/need to.
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  330. "boiling point of water is arbitrary in Celsius"... Yes, it is. Its 64 in hex.
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  331. Dedollarization is a good idea, but not for the reasons in the video. Its because the USA is inflating the currency.
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  332. I'll bet somehow the reactor also managed to leak oil...
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  333. ....and that was only the beginning. Now electron microscopes can be used instead of mask lithography, and allow the creation of ICs beyond the current reach of technology, giving researches the ability to see what lies at the next shrink level. There is a variation of the SEM that allows reading the voltage on a trace in a live IC with the passivation removed, giving a scope style trace of what is going on there. This is hooked up to the layout database allowing the user to select a wire in the design to display. And FIB or focused ion beams came from the same science, allowing companies to cut out and add material to ICs... literally editing an existing design. The possibilities are endless.
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  334. "the Washington monument remains the tallest building in Washington DC" its by law. No building may exceed its height.
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  335. Maxine Waters is doing her level best to combat the demons who took over her mind.
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  336. I agree with your basic premise here, even though it wasn't stated in the video title, which is that all of the "advanced effects", like warping cubing, etc, windows wasn't that valuable. The most valuable thing is to make the creation of windowed and graphical programs easier.
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  337. Telsa thermal management has been getting much better. I believe the estimate is the M3 has about twice the cooling capacity as an MS or MX. If you want to see the net effect, look up "model 3 drives autobahn" or somesuch. Also, the M3 can use the air conditioning to help the car get rid of heat. If you want to get a good idea of the battery heat issue, short a common battery for a while. It gets hot! Batteries can dump all of their power almost instantly, but it costs in terms of thermal runaway.
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  338. Lets see, what has been going on in Detroit non-stop since the early 1960s? Oh yea.... AN UNBROKEN CHAIN OF DEMOCRAT MAYORS. Go figgure.
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  339. Tulipmania. Nothing is really new.
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  340.  @shadeblackwolf1508  Let me guess. You don't own an EV. Here in silicon valley we have more EVs than anywhere in the country. No "grid restrictions". Its nonsense. Name one other industry that would go out of business because of too much demand for their product.
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  341. How about realtime observation from space? Those coordinates could be relayed to the JDAM.
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  342. Basic's use of single equals ("=") predates C and other languages by several years. I don't see how you can say it "got rid" of double equals. Further, double equals was necessary to differentiate the compare operation in C from the assign operation, and that only because assignment is an operator in C. None of that is true in many other languages.
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  343. The shirtwaist fire is why you see doors marked "Alarm will sound". Backdoor theft was still an issue, and requiring rear doors that opened from the inside still enabled that. So the compromise was to alarm the door so that opening was still possible, but sets off the alarm. There are still occasional back door thefts even with this system.
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  344. The Hyperloop would compete with a system of equivalent speed and essentially free "track": airlines. The economics make no sense at all.
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  345.  @fleurdewin7958  Capacity means cost, and write burnthough is overrated. SSDs already meet the 10 year computer tech standard (anything that lasts for 10 years is ok, since it will be obsolete in 10 years). HDDs are a bad long term bet, and by the way HDDs don't work forever either.
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  346. Sure, what is the clock speed of the human brain? Probably less than a 1khz. Yet all of the computers in the world cannot equal one. Parallel processing in 3d solids baby! Oh, yea, and all that for the cost of a beer or so...
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  347. That sampling rate demo was worth the price of admission, well done. PCM or pulse code modulation should have nothing whatever to do with sampling. Pulse code modulation means to represent audio with simple on and off waveforms, ie., pure binary digital sampling. It was invented for the bell system, and means that instead of representing audio as a series of values, say 0-255 as for 8 bit sampling, you represent it as 0 or 1 values but represent the frequency information by increasing the frequency of the pulse transitions. There is no other meaning of the word "pulse", which is a digital term, not an analog one. PCM got hyjacked a as a general term for analog to digital convertion, perhaps because IBM-PCs used to be capable only of pulse code modulation of the speaker. There was not A/D converter, programs made all sounds via pure on/off waveforms or squarewaves, and there were even some programs that attempted to make crude speech via this method. I note that you are calling this PDM in the video, but, again, the word "pulse" is unambiguous. It does not mean A/D conversion. Sometime I would like to research when and perhaps why the term PCM got misappropriated.
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  348. Tun Tun questionnaire: [ ] Turn in family member. [ ] Turn in neighbor. [ ] Turn in everyone on your block.
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  349. I like the fact that several complained about the Israel government. Lets see the citizens of Gaza or the West bank complain about their government.
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  350. I used to be fairly blah on Asus Mobos, but the ROG I recently upgraded to is outstanding. Also, they answer the %*#$ phone, something uncommon with the Asiacos. Thanks for the vid. Your presentation is getting smoother and smoother.
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  351. "you want to convice me that israel will last more then 10 years, no one believes so" France cried and went home. Israel IS home.
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  352. So if you like downtown, and you like living in big apartment complexes, its not sufficient to just live there. You have to dump on everyone who prefers houses and open spaces.
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  353. During the time of "Laissez-faire" banking, there was also massive bank fraud.
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  354. Not sure where you were going with the "bigger chips have mask problems" the number of chips on a wafer is 100's to up to a 1000 or more. Bigger chips simply cut down the total number of chips on a wafer. The constraint on chip size is because of the net yield of the wafer in terms of number of working chips, which is a function of the defect density of the process. This in turn is the number of defects in the wafer, as spread across the wafer in essentially random locations (when I worked in semi we thought of this as like taking a shotgun to the wafer, and the shotgun pellets spread across the wafer). The bigger the chip, the more likely a chip will have one of the defects contained within it. It stops long before reaching one chip per wafer, because you reach a point where the likelyhood of any one chip escaping having a defect reaches zero.
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  355. I think the fact that Unix was written in C had a lot to do with the language's rise. It is impossible to know just how big a factor that was. By the time I got ahold of a Unix implementation (Unisoft on the 68000, 1982) I had written a stand-alone disc operating system in assembly that was modeled on Unix, or at least the notion of Unix universal serial I/O drivers (which Unix didn't and does not, in Linux, actually use, but BSD Unix does). The fact that Unix was written in HLL was very compelling. Computers and systems, even up to the PDP-11 were quite compact back then, and so was Unix. The PDP-11 had a 16 bit address limit, in bytes, even though it was a 16 bit machine, because it was byte addressable. If you look at the original source for Unix back then, you would be amazed both at how compact it was as well as how many odd tricks of the C language were used. In any case, in the 1980s the two main systems were Unix and the up and coming Windows franchise. The PC was mostly assembly then, but by the end of the 1980s was mostly C. Throughout the 80s and into the 90s Unix was considered a "real" operating system and Windows/DOS/Apple to be toys by comparison. Windows NT and then Mac OS X changed that, and by then we were firmly in a C based world.
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  356. Its probably about equal to the amount of money paid to bribe building inspectors to sign off on the project.
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  357. I'm sold. Can I get it on Amazon? Seriously, I hope lots of Russian tanks take one of these up the kester. Go Ukraine!
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  358.  @MrMarkOlson  I'll bite. How does curbing your wheels prevent theft?
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  359.  @MrMarkOlson  Not too shabby, I wouldn'ta thunk of that. I not only turn the wheels into the curb but back up/forward to test they hit the curb. A runaway on a hill in SF would be a nightmare. As a side note, I never drove a clutch in SF but I had to in Mexico once on a hilly section because they don't believe in auto transmissions there. I was swearing up a storm by the time I got it parked. Also I grew up in LA so I knew from way back never to leave anything in the car.
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  360. Hey... I just wrote an X11 app... Yes, I am in the "don't move it until it's needed" case. Why move to Wayland unless I have to, as in, it doesn't work on x/wayland.
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  361. The right answer is let the USA and European makers go and make whatever they need to make. Stop subsidizing EVs. BYD and China are going to undercut the auto industry over time with cheap EVs, and the makers are going to be forced to make EVs over time to stay competitive. EVs inherently cost less to manufacture and BYD is demonstrating this. By subsidizing EVs in the USA and Europe, we are simply paying taxpayer dollars to support unions and keep the prices of EVs artificiality high.
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  362. My biggest issues with X, either having to extend it or missing extensions are: 1. External event handling, like timers. I did it but it was unbelievably ugly. 2. Text drawing of arbitrary scaled text. Yes, it exists, but not well integrated. 3. Text arbitrary rotations. Still basically an unsolved issue. 4. Image rotations/scaling. Pretty much a do it yourself project.
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  363. Its a myth that C is more efficient because it is more primitive. The performance is in the compiler. In fact, most of the things in C that are supposedly "for performance" are ignored by the compiler. Examples include register variables, and using c++ to increment instead of c = c+1. The compiler does not care, and will happy override what you are doing and do it the more efficient way. Why is Java less "performant" than C? Most of it is library overhead and the fact that there is not as much demand for high levels of optimization in the language.
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  364. Now is your chance American pilots! Go to Ukraine and get a fast course in flying F-16s, and a fast boost to your flying career! Plus, it looks good on your resume ("flew against Russian pilots...").
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  365. I'd like to see a review of ITX boards in the same 3 architectures. SBCs are nice, but to develop code in the alternate archs, ARM/RISC-V, you are going to need a host desktop unless you cross compile everything (ugghh). The ITX boards are minimum for full power and standard case with cooling.
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  366. Yes, I read about the study that most EV owners wanted to switch back to ICE. But you FAILED to mention that the same study found Tesla owners were the exception, that they DID plan to stay with Tesla. I have owned 4 different types of EVs and currently have two Tesla M3s. The short answer is the EV charging for those other cars sucked it. That is why they are giving up and going to the Tesla charger standard.
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  367. Languages that have new versions incompatible with past versions say to me that the designers can't plan for the future and don't value the past.
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  368.  @abaoaqu1333  RA = Read Again. Nobody claimed that fibre could go an indefinite distance.
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  369. These "displaced people" saw the value of their properties skyrocket and, unless they were stupid, sold at a huge markup and moved away to cheaper places. I'm not going to cry for them.
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  370. I understand the idea, but I feel its better to go to a new job where you and provide good work than to slow down at a company that does not value your work or you feel has overworked you in the past. IE, just move on.
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  371. Simple logic defeats this idea of "self defense". A lot or even most of the rockets are fired by remote control. Thus the militants are not only putting civilians at risk, but they don't want to be hit by return fire.
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  372. This is needed, I am going to try it out. I have at least 4 different systems I manage in my "workhouse" (working from home). Its a mess of different computers, desktops, laptops, laptops used as desktops, and some on the same desk connected by KVMs (hardware).
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  373. We do it here in San Jose! come get your nice glass of recycled sewage! No takers?
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  374. Its a bargaining chip. Its a signal that Zelenski envisions trading Donbas for peace.
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  375.  @PaladinJenkis  It was a situation of a bad boss who had never been an engineer. He drew several complaints from underlings and the group had a healthy turnover. I think that was the third time I had pushed back on schedules as a being unrealistic and the boss gave me an ultimatum about meeting the schedule or being dismissed ("this is your last chance"), so it was not unexpected. He picked an interesting subject to press on. There was a hardware issue, in fact one of several I had successfully gone after, which was why they assigned it to me. Thus the exact cause was unknown (it was a SPI interface to a ram that was being corrupted). I came up with several innovative diagnostic tools to determine what the issue was, but I knew on day one that there was no way that would yield an answer by the given deadline. My take on the situation is the same today as it was then. I said "no" too often to a boss who didn't like to hear the word. I think there is a continuous balance in programming about telling managers the unvarnished truth about what is going on vs. what they want to hear. I got my best feedback from a manager I talked to years after a company we both worked for failed and closed their doors. He said "you have no filter... you state things as they are without any sort of polish". I kinda like that actually.
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  376.  @SianaGearz  Microsoft method for dealing with limits: Ow! I cut myself on this broken glass bottle. I will throw it down the path a couple yards. Later.... Ow! I cut myself on this bottle. I will throw it....
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  377. You mean besides the fact that it is heavily biased?
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  378. ARM as tried to go into the desktop market before. I attended an ARM fest about 5 years ago when they were pushing the 64 bit ARMs for desktop and high graphics.
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  379.  @aymericdekerdanet9318  ARM tried it before. MIPs tried it before. Intel tried it before (Itanium). I think all this proves is people have short memories. Would I like a true desktop alternative? Oh yes. The real issue is that even if you give a IBM-PC motherboard based on a different CPU, but with the same peripherals and PCI-E slots, your driver issues and application issues are going to be terrific. Linux can handle it (easily) but then Linux is like %1 of the desktop market no? When you win over the gaming rig boys, we'll talk. I am not a gaming rig guy, but I follow them. I have to. If my builds don't burn holes in the rugs, they don't interest me.
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  380. Dang we are headed for Picometers? Wasn't that supposed to be impossible?
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  381. Grandpa the Grey There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two groups, and those who don't.
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  382. That was a classic ditch, into the water straight ahead, slow as possible with the stall horn blaring. Did it ever get explained why the plane had to ditch? Newslady needed to be seriously slapped with a fish, but I never take the news seriously when it comes to airplane accidents.
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  383. Scott Franco Ok I saw it a couple pages down.
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  384. Nice try. Stop looking at other women. If you can't manage that, then at least make sure your wife does not see you doing it. Most men develop the ability to see traffic cops through walls. Being able to see if your wife is looking at you looking is trivial.
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  385. Did you know that %26 of statistics are simply made up on the spot?
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  386. "and in parting, I want you to know one thing... That me and my family have put away like a billon dollars from my time in public service.... suckers!"
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  387. True story: in the 1980s my company got a Univac 1101 mainframe computer FREE from the government research lab in White Sands, New Mexico, just for the shipping cost. Why? It was costing them more money for the power to run it per year than to buy a new one. We needed it because Univac would not sell us one, since we were a competitor (yes, that is legal).
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  388. Well, did they get him or not?
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  389.  @lorabex791  1. I work at Google, so no. As in they may be trying to do it somewhere, but not here. We still use it. Whatever people think of C++, they worked very hard to make sure it was efficient. 2. Drivers are different than kernel code. The majority of drivers are created in industry (I have worked on both disk drivers and network drivers), and a lot of it is C++ nowadays, which is the preference. There are a lot of Windows drivers in C++, and it is customary to borrow code between windows and Linux drivers. 3. I wasn't talking about replacing any code. This is about new drivers. I don't have a dog in this fight. As a driver/low level guy I do most of my work in C, but increasingly I have to do C++ for higher level stuff. Google loves C++ (despite what you heard). Rust is "said" to be gaining traction at Google, and I have done deep dives in Rust, so I'm not (completely) ignorant in it. Any language that claims to be a general purpose language, IMHO, has to have the following attributes: 1. Generate efficient code. 2. Interoperate with C since that is what virtually all operating systems today are built in. This includes calling into C and callbacks from C (I don't personally like callbacks, but my opinion matters for squat these days). [1] Rust is fairly good at calling C, and gets a D grade for callbacks. Golang is basically a non-starter, because they have such an odd memory model that interactions with C are expensive. Any language can interoperate. Python can call into C, and its an interpreter. Its about efficientcy. Obviously its a moot point at this time, since "Linus an't a gonna do it", but it should be discussed. C++ is too important a language to ignore, especially if rust gets a pass. Notes: 1. There are some rocks in the stream of C, including zero terminated strings and fungible pointers (pointer parameters that are NULL for "no parameter" and small integers for "not a pointer"). Most languages outside of C do not support some of all of this. These are bad habits in C and are eschewed these days, see the various arguments over strcmp vs. strncmp.
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  390. I read Tarbel's book. She was a true heroin of the day. When the refineries started, they were crude affairs where the oil was heated in large vessels. Being flammable, a refinery catching fire was common. The refineries that refused to sell to Rockefeller would suspiciously catch fire.
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  391. You had me by 4:00. Subscribed.
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  392. You didn't cover the principle problem with deploying GFCIs everywhere, like the main panel. Many motors trip them. The problem is the motor windings can absorb enough current to look like an imbalance for long enough to trip the GFCI.
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  393. This video: Communist!
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  394. Why into hidden directories? Why not put everything into hidden directories so that ls gives you an empty listing? When I can, I turn on options to list hidden directories. I'm not big on hiding things from myself, either in computes or in real life. Oh crap? I hit the dresser again! Its invisible!
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  395. Not true, EV1 started with lead-acid, then went to NMH later.
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  396. So turns out that Cessna high wing design with the support bars underneath was actually hyper efficient. I am going to predict right now that it will make more sense to strengthen the wing by other means and make it thinner than to add the truss. The existence of the truss is going to add drag and take away from your net efficiency.
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  397.  @allentchang  So I have not been part of direct IC design for a lot of years. Last time was at Segate, but we didn't do the layouts or see the layouts (sad). I imagine that analog is still schematics. I think what happens now is that the Verilog tools deliver mostly automated layouts that use "fixer" layout people to correct automation problems and for special layouts, again, including analog. A company like Intel or AMD might typically use a mix of both, for example if the design calls for say a cache, that's going to be mostly laid out by hand for a single cell of it, then replicated many times. The author of this video series is not quite correct that everything is standard cell. Even in the old days, when we used cells they were usually from a library of custom layouts made for that particular design. I guarantee you the latest x86 processor does not use standard cells. The other issue is drive lines. One thing an IC designer does a lot is change the drive strength within the chip to match drive to length of line so that it does not drive it too little or too much, and matches the rise time requirements.
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  398. Russia is buying cheap ballistic missiles from Iran. They will rain missiles down on Ukraine that cannot be stopped by AA measures. This is insanity if Ukraine cannot retaliate.
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  399. So called "tracer bullets" were used, interspersed with regular rounds in a machine gun to show where the bullets were going. Those are the streaks of light you see in WWII films. Someone figured out that if you load only tracers you can bring down Zeppelins, since they light the hydrogen on fire. Simple really.
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  400. Small correction: I regularly travel to Oregon and Washington, the homeless problem goes all the way up the coast. Portland, Seattle, all have a large and growing homeless population occupying virtually every freeway offramp and similar spaces.
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  401. Test strips are an example off microfluidics? That's a stretch.
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  402. Pretty sure slamming it a few more dozen times will fix it...
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  403. Socialist democracy: When %51 of the population votes to take money from the other %49.
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  404. These territorial concerns are obsolete in a nuclear age. Nobody is going to attack Russia as a nuclear power. All they are doing is creating a new enemy on their border.
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  405. Good research on this, but you left out a critical player: Germany and more specifically ASML company. The flow now is TSMC provides chips, USA provides designs and software, but ASML provides the machines that make the highest technology chips. So China now wants what ASML has, but the USA stopped ASML from providing it. So China invades Taiwan and takes their ASML machines right? No, the problem with that is the machines take incredible tech support. ASML simply stopping servicing the machines would bring them to a halt. A modern way of thinking of it would be as if ASML made moon rockets and shipped them to Taiwan. The machines are huge and extremely high tech, so much so that other companies (and countries) have yet to copy them.
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  406. Couple comments: 1. 386sx was a cut down version of the 386, so much more powerful processors existed in that time. 2. The lack of a key on the floppy connector was specific to that board. Those kinds of connectors had a key system for decades. Typical was to skip a connector and place a block on the female side to prevent mating. 3. The hologram on the Intel CPU module was for counterfeiting. That was actually a large problem at the time, people would erase the markings on chips and relabel them.
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  407. The city council never ran a business. This is %90 of the problem with government: they have not a clue about how real world economics works.
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  408.  @zvxcvxcz  You are doing a pretty good impression of an idiot. There is no such law. Go back to your cat videos.
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  409. It means there will be less and less consensus in congress going forward, because the majority will simply roll over the minority with less trouble. The net result will be our binary system will be less stable, because the electorate will tend to get galvanized to one side or the other more easily, and thus government will change hands more frequently, and divided government (both halves of congree elected by different parties) will be the norm. Most countries have a system of multiple parties that, while making government less effective, forces consensus since that is the only way to get things done. For us, it means the two parties are edging closer and closer to outright warfare.
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  410. Mirek: "P.S.: Started using computers, since I was 3. Learned to code in Assembly on the 8085, from my father." My dad was a computer engineer, hardware. He took me to see the mainframes, and gave me a section of what they called "greenbar", a wide sheet computer printout. It was full of symbols, no text, and I spent a long time trying to figure out what it meant, got bored and gave up. Later I found out exactly what it meant. It was garbage. He gave me printout from the discard bin, probably after someone accidentally printed a binary. Imagine what a early start I could have had if he gave me real printout. I went for years thinking computers printed rather boring nonsense.
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  411.  @ttb1513  The last company I work at silicon design for, Seagate, was emblematic of the basic problems with ASICs. It was 1995 and they were new at ASIC design in house. And they weren't very good at it. It was random logic design before Verilog. An example of this was our timing verification. We had timing chains that were too long for the cycle time, and thus they simply alllowed for the fact that the signal would be sampled in the next clock cycle. Now if you were an ASIC designer back then, what I just said would have made you reach for the tums, if not a 911 call for cardiac arrest. Its an open invitation to metastability. And indeed, our AT&T fab guys were screaming at us to stop that. I got put in charge of hardware simulation for the design, and I have detailed this fiasco in these threads before, so won't go over it again. The bottom line was that ASIC process vendors were loosing trust in their customers to perform verification. The answer was that they included test chains in the designs that would automatically verify the designs at the silicon level. It mean that the silicon manufactured design would be verified, that is, defects on the chip would be verified regardless of what the design did. My boss, who with the freedom of time I can now certify was an idiot, was ecstatic over this new service. It was a gonna fixa all o' de problems don't ya know? I pointed out to him, pointlessly I might add, that our design could be total cow shit and still pass these tests with flying colors. It was like talking to a wall. In any case, the entire industry went that way. Designs are easier to verify now that the vast majority of designs are in Verilog. I moved on to software only, but I can happily say that there are some stunning software verification suites out there, and I am currently working on one, so here we are.
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  412. I have two Teslas, and have had EVs since 2013. They work for me, I don't pay the high gasoline prices. What's the problem? The real problem is that EVs became a political issue, roughly along left/right lines. Sad.
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  413.  @FlashMustache  Yea, but they drive on the wrong side of the road, too.
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  414. I don't smoke or vape, but I was disgusted by the push against vaping. It is so clearly made up nonsense, and the only possible result is for the kids to learn that adults make up facts for things they don't like.
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  415. Decided by whoever has the biggest guns.
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  416. This is the problem, the whole "they had it coming" idea of October 7th. Everyone wants a reasonable accord in Israel/Palestine. I don't think pushing conspiracy theories is helping.
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  417. All of these theorems on redistribution and socialism miss one essential point. If these policies are taken to their ultimate, the end is violence. Always has been, always will be.
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  418. You can make a bump stock with a wooden board and a piece of pipe. You can bump fire with a belt loop. There are plenty of youtube videos showing this.
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  419.  @NL-tq1yr  No, because most of the leo satellites won't be in that area or on that side of the planet. They circle the earth. Because there is no atmosphere, it would only kill the satellites in line of sight at the time of the explosion. This means to kill off a constellation of satellites would take repeated nukes, likely dozens of them. In the meantime I am guessing someone would notice and get a mite upset.
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  420. Come on. The reason AMD passed Intel was because they were free to use TMSC, just as Apple did. Intel couldn't outperform the world's highest tech fab, so instead they told everyone they could. They lied. That is what caught up with them. Also Intel DID try to complete in the graphics market, by putting graphics onchip and having it take frame buffers from the main memory (see "Intel Graphics Technology" at Wikipedia). It was a brilliant cost move, because the graphics could take advantage of the high speed access to main memory and caching. Unfortunately it resulted in slower graphics, and the standard for PCs was to disable it and put in an external graphics card. The result was Intel spent chip space on a block of logic that typically went unused. Intel got burned by this and didn't try to enter the graphics industry again.
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  421. In China its "sheee links" :-)
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  422. The classic Expo tower game. How high can you stack expos free standing on the floor without falling over. "umm... did you see what happened with all the expos from the meeting rooms?..."
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  423. Rainforests don't make good farmland... Good. Maybe that will slow down burning it down.
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  424.  @afr65536  Good guess. Wrong, but good guess.
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  425. Still a lot of subhumans in that area...
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  426. Its very true. The cable contract for our city (San Jose, CA) came up for renewal, and the city begged them to renew the contract with Comcast, when they should have opened it up to all bidders. Now we have some of the worst service in the USA.
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  427. As I am sure the next 10 C++ versions after that. And 10 more after that, and....
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  428. Get over it. Real astronomy is moving into outer space in any case, with observatories on the moon or at the Lagrange points. Musk has been very cooperative about painting the satellites to minimize interference. We need a system like starlink, and leos will eventually give cellphone service around the world as well. As far as collisions go, the "space network" satellite constellations have very regular patterns of travel and can be predicted pro grammatically. Indeed, that's how these systems work, ground stations can predict were satellites will be. Space is a big place, and even just limiting it to the sphere of a launch window, satellites are not difficult to avoid. The idea of LEOs contributing to space trash is unserious. LEOs are self limiting, and indeed, that and the low altitude is what makes LEO attractive. LEOs will, in time, replace mountaintops as the locations of choice for communications, and this has already paid huge dividends for society (like GPS). Deeper space satellites are far more of a concern.
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  429.  @juliuscaesar1062  That indicates you are either not married or soon to become so.
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  430. Good to know it is not just California.
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  431. Ask the uighurs how rich they feel.
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  432. I read an article on muon catalyzed fusion, and it it seemed pretty reasonable. Then pons and Flecshmann came out and trashed the entire thing. There is still scientific basis for it.
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  433. The Hindenberg didn't "explode", it burned.
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  434. Its popular because Ford's idea of an assembly line to produce products took over as a business model. The idea that everything could be produced as a linear progression.
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  435. Yes, I keep running into SGI vets in the industry. SGI died as a company, but lives on as a tech incubator like Fairchild from the early days. We occupied some of SGI's real estate in their final days, along Shoreline blvd. Eventually SGI occupied one of their own buildings closest to the bay. SGIs footprint from their heydays was large and now forms the basis of Google's headquarters. The final days of SGI remind me of an army making their last stand with their backs to the sea. From the roots of old trees grow the new ones. Google's campus is now like SGI on steroids. They not only bought up the old SGI buildings, but seem to be on a tear to buy up every last parcel of real estate on the shoreline, surrounding the amphitheatre like a giant octopus. You can still see the remnants of SGI in the giant sculptures they commissioned there. Its worth a drive around the shoreline area if you ever get to Mountain View.
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  436. Obvious clickbait, but fun.
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  437. "spends less than they receive in taxes". "spends less than they receive in taxes". "spends less than they receive in taxes". "spends less than they receive in taxes". "SPENDS LESS THAN THEY RECEIVE IN TAXES". You listening, Biden? Harris?
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  438. I'm a contractor for google. All of the perks, none of the bad stuff in this video.
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  439. You need a high pressure vessel to contain the hydrogen, which after all, is a gas. As done with hydrogen cars, this adds a very heavy tank, and puts you right back into the weight issue. Moreover, a compressed hydrogen tank is a bomb waiting to go off. There are several companies working on carbon fibre tanks that are light, but high pressure. Its a work in progress.
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  440. They should use the USA/Mexico agreements over the Colorado river as a model. Oh, wait, there was no agreement and the USA cut off the river from Mexico. Never mind.
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  441. I don't believe you are going to be able to upgrade your system to powerwall/battery. Battery systems are based on DC panels. You would have to remove the microinverters.
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  442.  @TheBackyardChemist  Do tell. I know it changes the waveform around, but it still has a zero crossing?
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  443. This is typically presented as a China vs. USA struggle, but its not. China faces the idea or either cooperating or antagonizing its neighbors, in Asia and even the FUSSR (former USSR states). And China is not off to a good start on that.
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  444.  @johnhorner5711  When the Cypress 22v10 EE version came out, I built a programmer for it. Cypress was one of the few companies back then willing to disclose programming details. It didn't work! I could program it once, but then it stopped working. Spent a lot of time on the Cypress apps line trying to work it out, never did (maybe it was you I talked to!). I loved that device, I built it into a lot of things. After that I did chip design at Zilog and didn't get back to programmable logic for 10 years, which by that time was dominated by Verilog, and then got back into programmables with Xilinx.
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  445. I was discussing WWII history at work (I know, not a wise thing to do), and was talking about the fact that the USA actually bombed Switzerland at one point. It was the city of Schauffhausen, and it was bombed accidentally (yes, really, look it up). One of the guys in a cubicle next to mine, who I knew was in fact Swiss, jumped bolt upright and said "The US SAID it was an accident!". Apparently it is widely believed in Switzerland that the bombing was payback for cooperation with the Nazis during the war.
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  446. PS tie the comments about water in Arizona to the record low in lake mead!
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  447. I pay taxes for those ^& streets, for those sidewalks, those parks. I paid that so everyone can walk there, enjoy the parks, drive their cars. I didn't pay for them to house the homeless, be a drug shooting gallery, or anything else. That takes away my rights, what I paid for, and hands it to a few people who squat there and make it impossible for anyone else to use and enjoy. I get so tired of people telling me those homeless have mental issues. Yes, if you do drugs all day you are going to have mental issues. If you get locked up, you can't shoot up.
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  448. The problem I had with the meters is that you can't get your own power readings directly. You have to wait for a power bill. So you paid for a meter whose information you don't have access to.
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  449. Because it is a looser. Elon said it best, your car is not plugged in at home when you need the battery power, and anyways you would be taking charge from the car that you need to drive it. Better to have a dedicated battery for your house.
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  450. I have had a Tesla since 2018, and a Bolt since 2017. I have two chargers, one Tesla at 48 amps and one J1772 at 30 amps. They are on individual drops from the panel, so they can both be used at the same time. I rarely use the Tesla charger now, because I get a charge for free at work, so why not. I could do a bunch of calculation to get the best range, or I could do what I do, which is just drive fast and don't worry about it. There are Tesla chargers everywhere in California, so its rare I need to extend range. 275 Kw chargers are common here, and non-Tesla chargers are here at 350 Kw, yes, more than Tesla. You can get a charge in 15 minutes, but frankly I rarely do that. Even just stopping for coffee more than covers 20-30 minutes. Even at my wasteful use of power, it cost $20 for the trip I just made from San Francisco to LA. Try that with a gas car. The point is, charge fast, drive fast, be happy. EVs at WORST are far better than gas cars at their BEST. And everyone is going to be driving that way in their EVs very soon anyways.
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  451. Word.
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  452. Laundrie got eaten by an Alligator. They drag their kills back into the water.
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  453. Why would anyone want to do this?
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  454. Sooooo close....100k.
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  455.  @dneuf6146  A brave man... nowhere near the front.
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  456. The power of having your back against the wall...
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  457. Naw, sorry. Get a pair of good cutters and just cut them. Way easier than trying to use twist ties.
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  458. A lot of systems are GUI (graphical user interfaces) overlaid on command line interfaces. There is nothing wrong with this sort of system if it is properly one.
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  459. This was a case where everyone won. Now do Huawei. I am getting tired of my laptop maker being bashed.
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  460. I would not dismiss the idea that Ukraine could retaliate with a nuclear strike of their own. They have the weapons expertise, and they have reactors, and they might do impressive things under the pressure of having been struck by a Russian nuke. And by air is not the only way to deliver such a weapon given the close proximity.
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  461. Agreed. The first order of business for the military and AI is image interpretation, ie, targeting weapons intelligently and autonomously. Otherwise there is always going to be a need to communicate long distance with the weapons and thus that is the weak link in the system.
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  462. program test(output); type pi = ^integer; var p: ^pi; begin new(p); new(p^); p^^ := 42 end. Original Pascal, checked on two different compilers. The pi definition was because the type after ^ must be a type id. Not pretty, but works. Making pointer definitions take a type id perhaps was designed to depreciate the idea of pointers to anything, but didn't make it impossible. The central idea of restricting pointers in Pascal was that a pointer is bound to its type, and that could only be allocated from dynamic storage. Thus coining a pointer to a static object as &p (in C) was not possible.
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  463. I'm loving it. However, I don't really see the problem. Maybe this video will lead to more prominent disclosures of who backs videos. If you believe everything you see in videos, that strikes me as a personal issue.
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  464. There is a simple reason to remove support for old cpus: lack of test hardware. Unless Linux wants to be known for buying old dusty machines off Ebay, its going to be hard to find test articles.
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  465. "the US had long overcome its internal divisions".... Um....I think Mexico lost.
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  466. PS I am guessing another reason for the filament connection to battery top is to accommodate thermal expansion.
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  467.  @Bialy_1  Yes, I am not thrilled with the video makers avoidance of the subject of socialism. However, there is an important point here in that the Latin American problem is putting up with autocracies/keptocracies, getting fed up with it and going whole hog socialist, then rinse and repeat. My adopted country of Colombia may be entering this cycle again, we are all scared.
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  468. Makes no sense no M.2 card. There was plenty of room on the back.
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  469. Although flippy tank aircraft are more common than Cessna's four way valves, I don't understand why they are so common. They figure into a disproportionate number of starvation accidents.
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  470. This will look wildly different as a the PLA marches up from the beaches. And that is certainly part of the plan.
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  471. Wow. What is funny about this is that even the Wall St. Journal, a supposed financial paper, does not get these facts. They are blinded by a decades old war on Tesla.
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  472. Ground and neutral SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED. Like ever. As in never.
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  473.  @giacintoboccia9386  Which is why many people confuse ground and neutral ("hey, they go to the same place right?"). Ground and neutral are connected at the main panel, but NOT subpanels. To discuss why ground and neutral are NOT the same would take a whole 'nuther video (hey there is a video suggestion for technology connections). The short answer is that neutral is the center tap of the transformer on the pole next to your house, and ground is, well, ground! As in there is a wire that attaches to a copper rod driven into the ground, or your cold water pipe if that goes underground for an appreciable length (in most modern houses it in fact does not anymore). Can you get shocked by a neutral? Why yes you can. In fact, getting shocked by a neutral is one way (the hard way) to find out that, surprise! Ground and neutral are not in fact the same thing.
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  474. "infrared vision"??? Sorry, completely made up.
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  475. Its a big problem. We need to modify windmills to dramatically increase their kill ratios, its not nearly enough bats killed.
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  476. Recessions are not always caused by inflation. The 2008 recession occurred without substantial inflation.
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  477. Yes, but probably pay protection money to the local gangs -- a defacto government.
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  478. Why would we be happy that the airlines are raising prices for regional flights?
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  479. Pete Townsend is one of the few real geniuses of rock and roll. He also has a good voice, but part of the genius of this song was letting Roger handle it with his ability to sing clearly even while on the edge of screaming.
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  480. Walk back about 20 yards. Pete paid a large sum for sex that night. That is called "prostitution".
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  481. "if the Russians take Mariupol they will control access to the black sea" not unless they control Odessa, which explains why UA is working so hard to defend it.
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  482. Christopher seems to be a one man sales operation for RISC-V (right!). I am for that, but the future dominance of RISC-V is far from assured. The development money is going into ARM and the only thing that seems assured is that X86 is slowly going down. Veryyyyyy slowly.
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  483. Yea, what are the coordinates of that base again? No reason...
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  484. I'm sorry, why is O'Rourke running for office in Texas? Did he make a wrong turn in New York and get lost???
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  485. Rewriting is a good way to introduce new bugs. Those utilities are tested for decades. I also find the "faster" thing to be dubious until proof is presented. A lot of these utils are I/O bound and thus not code efficiency dependent.
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  486. My first job was $0 per hour. I wanted to learn electronics repair at 15, so went to a repair shop and offered to wave salary in exchange for the experience. After the guy who ran the shop picked his jaw up off the floor, I went to work there. In another year later, that was a paying job. The minimum wage makes no sense at all. It just increases unemployment.
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  487. Dude.... awesome.
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  488. You don't want too much of a paper trail after the Chinese invade... :-)
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  489. Umm, if the manufacturer discontinues the parts for a machine in 5 years, then they have just told you how long they expect that appliance to last. 5 years.
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  490. I have had similar experiences playing against a computer. At first you lose, then you find out what the weakness is of the computer and you can form a strategy. For example in the quake style shoot em up, you can often win by instead of taking the "power pill", which only lasts for a while, you can simply wait in a corner for the computer players to take it and shoot them as they try. When Gary Kasparov played the computer for the world championship, I am convinced he was doing the same thing, finding out the weaknesses and learning to play against them. At one point he accused the computer makers of changing the program during play, and whether true or not, I believe he thought the computer had changed strategy for no apparent reason. In fact, by his own description, he was learning to make a series of apparently senseless moves before pressing an attack to confuse the program.
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  491. The question is not if Ukraine qualifies as a EU country. The question is if Turkey qualifies as a EU country!
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  492. The major purpose of the GPS system was to give submarine launched ICBMs a guidance source during their boost phase and thereby dramatically improve their accuracy. Sub launched ICBMs get the initial guidance for their onboard inertial navigation units from the INAV unit on the sub itself, which has limits on accuracy. When the ICBM breaks out of the water, it lights off and enters the boost phase to send it to its target. It is during this time that it can achieve a GPS position and fine tune its course.
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  493. The solution is price control aka rent control? I think that is part of the problem. Second, mental illness? Its called drug addiction. Take away the drugs, people stop acting weird. Amazing.
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  494. Before Windows, MS bought MS-DOS from another vendor, Tim Paterson, as 86-DOS 1.10. When Windows went internet, there were external add on packages for Winsock to do that. Microsoft was never the tech leader. Maybe MS-Basic.
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  495. Yes, now include stats on how many Russians were killed by the enemy during WWII vs. the ones Stalin himself caused to die.
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  496. I don't believe Linux won out over proprietary Unix just because it's free. Companies don't care that much about paying a few bucks for server software. I think the biggest factor was availability of the source. What was a Windows license for source? Like $100,000 Unix would have been similar.
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  497.  @christopherneely2237  He bought an EV company and completely remade it into Tesla. Not the same thing at all. I knew someone would pick that nit.
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  498. So I always wondered how DNA can be so long and be in a compact space without getting tangled. If I put my earphones in my pocket, they come out so tangled it takes a half hour to untangle. Turns out the answer is: nature has that problem as well. DNA is kept in a special structure that keeps that from happening.
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  499. I don't disagree with the premise of the video, but I would say "so what is new"? NASA always relied on subcontractors to design the different parts of its missions. Perhaps the only difference is that now the companies, like spaceX, will deliver whole systems to NASA.
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  500. Went nuts over nuts eh? Sorry, I just had to. A guy got assaulted over a salted nut. Please, I can't stop.
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  501. Nice.
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  502. Most Unixes/Linuxes run on 64 bits now. The clock is extended to be 64 bits, so the 2038 limit is gone. Its up to the programs to update their storage requirements. It comes down to if the time is stored as LONG in C/C++, which automatically updates to 64. IE, we have 15 years to fix stupid. I'm not worried.
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  503. The coup d'merd.
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  504. 2nded. The Finns "settled" for less than Uncle Joe initially offered them, but they knew if they accepted the blackmail, it would not stop. It would seem you get your best deal from an enemy after you have bashed a few of his teeth out.
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  505. TSMCometry?
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  506. I don't use paypal. I formerly used it for ebay payments, but ebay has become scambay. Now all I hear from paypal is various scam letters.
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  507. Its a repeat of what we saw in WWII. The USA was the only country that found oil, coal and iron ore in huge quantities within the country. It took us a while to get going, but by mid war we were making mass quantities of steel and throwing it at the war.
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  508. FInally gets to the friggin' point about 2:30.
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  509. Before China, India passed Hollywood, as well. Its just population numbers.
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  510. How to become Argentina in a few easy steps.
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  511. So how do off-the-shelf LED lights work? I assumed that they are RGB combined LEDs, but you are saying that would look unnatural. So how do bright white consumer LED bulbs work?
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  512. So as an American I have some sympathy for Putin's assertation that NATO is attempting encirclement, which of course they are. However, Crimea was said to join Russia by referendum, so why is that suddenly not good enough for Putin to let the rest of Ukraine that is left vote on their own future? It sounds way to much like Putin knows he would lose such a referendum. He seems to be asserting as well that Ukrainians are being brainwashed against Russia, which translates to "we don't trust the democratic process there". I work with Ukrainians from Kiev. You get a way different story from them. Putin should be pushing for proper international election certification and then let the Ukrainians decide if they wish to restrict themselves from joining NATO. We (the rest of the world and Europe) have no business telling Ukraine they have to accept such a restriction. I think a moratorium on joining NATO for a period of time would be acceptable to Ukraine if it meant peace.
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  513. Concurring with the other poster, I would say China is a bigger threat than earthquakes. Earthquakes stop. China would not.
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  514. And so the conversation degenerates. What a surprise. Let me tell you a story. I grew up in LA. Once I was walking down the sidewalk, and three black kids were walking the other direction. I moved to the right side of the sidewalk, and they formed a line to walk abreast, blocking the sidewalk, and then some. I stepped into the street and waited for them to pass, glaring at me as they did so. This was the 1960s, a bad time in LA and elsewhere. I was 10 years old, so you will forgive me if I didn't understand the meaning of it all. But then, the kids who wanted to teach me a lesson about black rights were, in LA, highly unlikely to have experienced the need to cross the street to the other side to avoid a white person, which happened in the deep south. So you will forgive me for pointing this out, but this was an example of people protesting a problem they had never experienced, and putting that protest against a person, me, who never had done anything like that, and in fact didn't even know what was going on. The reason I recount the story is that it is very emblematic of what is going on now. What we see on TV now is the rioters (and they are rioters) burning down businesses. And if your channel feels the need, you will also see the aftermath. A sad man or woman walking through a burned out building and talking about how they will (or will not) rebuild their family business. But they are capitalists right? They have it coming. Scrape the politics off that argument and you will see small business owners who lost their livelihood. Some of them black (as if that matters). So whats wrong with a tooth for a tooth? After such an unfortunate event as we witnessed --- fair to shoot down white people at random? Or less extreme, burn their houses? Their cars? No, its businesses. That store. The car dealership. Burning and looting is reparations. And on and on. So why then? Because they are easy targets. They are downtown, and nobody (or most people) are going to have sympathy for them, because they are rich capitalists, right? Actually, you would not be wrong for thinking that in general. Smart business owners have insurance. But at the end of the day, they are going to move out. Use the insurance to start again -- elsewhere.They have been punished for things they had no part in (unless capitalism itself is guilt). So they are going to take it as an act of god and get out of town. Now ask yourself who is helped here? Do business owners have a responsibility to rebuild and take it? Should they just accept higher insurance premiums? Is a large company, a grocery store, legally obligated to do business in the public interest?
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  515. The first problem with UBI is that the politicians will balk at making it "universal", ie., why pay it to rich, or well off, or even moderately high income earners. Thus it rapidly devolves to just being another welfare system. The second problem, very much related to the first, is that, again for political reasons, it becomes a "soak the rich" plan, which does not provide enough money to support it, but also begins to erode investment. Since politicians (despite evidence to the contrary) are not stupid, and rich people can afford tax lawyers, it brackets down to the very people who are supposed to get benefits from UBI. And then it becomes a system where the government takes your money, then gives it back to you minus their "cut".
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  516. "Hamas believes occupying the Philidelphi corridor violates the 1979 peace treaty" and Hamas invading Israel, then raping and killing citizens there does not?
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  517. not sure why everyone has a jones to get rid of the round gages. They make good backups. Standard nonsense is: "oh, the vac driven instruments have a far greater failure rate than full electronic, the vac system will fail after x years". No, the vac system as a backup has to only last 1/2 to one hour, which is enough time to get out of a full power failure situation that takes out your full electronic system. A vac system is completely besides the electric system, thus the chances of a electric and vac fail at the same time are astronomical.
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  518. I'd be for DC as a state if they move the Federal government out of there. My vote would be to Guam...
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  519. This is how Venezuela will end up, and the USA as well unless it changes course.
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  520. Its pronounced like SAN WALK'N. You say that in California and people are going to start laughing.
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  521. Just one quick comment. I have been building my own computers since 1978 and you young guys don't realize how good you have it. It used to be that the cards you plugged in would or would not work depending on which slot they were in, and putting other cards in would cause the first cards to fail. So you would have to try different combinations to get it to work. The basic electronics have gotten much more stable in the last 2 decades. As recently as the 1990's with IDE you could get drive errors with the length and types of cables, which went away with SATA. Life is good.
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  522. MCMs are old tech. NASA and the military used them to put into spacecraft because they don't like PCBs, which fail when heated and produce bigger circuits. We did mixed MCMs/hybrids (ICs, passives, transistors) at Hughes for satellites in the 1980's and before.
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  523. Ditto the other comment. This reads like an ad for the park, and leaves out the important detail of an accident. Its not up to your usual standards, and earns a thumbs down.
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  524.  @louisryan5815  Clearly I missed where Hamas dropped leaflets warning Israeli civilians in the south that they were about to be attacked. I think I also missed where the allies dropped leaflets on Dresden, or Hiroshima that they should leave or face death. Anyways, we both know you are a Hamas apologist and this is a little Youtube game.
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  525. Wouldn't this mean the USA never should have become a democracy, since we had a lot of territory, the people there (indians) were hostile, and we had to field a large force to subdue them?
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  526. When I toured Rocketdyne as a 15 year old, they were making the shuttle engines. They showed us also what looked like a 2 story tower that had the shuttle engine and a turbine mounted with it. The idea was that it could be transported where needed, then lit off and generate huge amounts of electrical power on demand. I don't know if they ever used it.
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  527. This is another Biden cuckup. Portrayed as smart international politics, it ends up being simple appeasement. The good that can arise from this? My wife's home country lies on the brink. Petro needs to go, and hopefully this gives the Colombians the counter example they need to stop playing footsie with the revolutionaries. Once the socialists take control, they don't give it back.
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  528. I feel the need to mention here, that I consider (along with others i'm sure) that the proper term is "stored program computer". Von Neumann had nothing to do with the invention of the stored program computer design, which was due to Ekert and Mauchly, the designers of ENIAC. Von Neumann simply took notes on the design and published it under his own name, which led to a misinterpretation that he (ahem) declined to correct.
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  529. Walt would have done more amazing things if he had stayed with us. And oh, yea, he was NOT a liberal.
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  530. Russia is the 9th largest economy in the world, and 1/10 the size of the USA. Its time to think of Russia in terms of containment. They are now similar to North Korea, a nuclear armed state that uses blackmail to get what it wants.
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  531. There is no cure for stupidity.
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  532. "iran has veto power over a caspian sea rail bridge" I found elsewhere that Irans naviagational rights would be preserved by a bridge 100 meters over the sea. Apparently the veto is about ship navigation.
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  533.  @housemana  You have not listed any FACTS about what I have or haven't done wrong, this is just a general attack response. Pretty rude at that. So get lost.
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  534.  @paranoidpanzerpenguin5262  mmmmm Sun, now Oracle, open sourced their SPARC cpus. For the second, you are muddying the issue. AMD/ATI released full details on their cards and their drivers, which was very important to the early days of Linux. Things have not changed much since then. AMD is suing someone for copying their chips? Stop the presses! Comon man.
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  535.  @Stef3m  1. Its the difference between no source and source. 2. I am just telling you what the Linux kernel group reported. 3. I suspect you are arguing to press an agenda here, thus this is my last answer in this thread.
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  536. Sez the guy who does not have one.
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  537. "AI is plagiarism because it is trained on other people's software" You just described every programmer that exists.
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  538.  @sweswirl  I am asked that *all of the time*.
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  539. The boyfriend wouldn't talk, and now is on the run? That's not suspicious...
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  540. "the world is going to end because of XXX" "That's bad, anything we can do about it?" "Yes, spend money on XXX" "how much money?" "how much do you have...."
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  541. Worldwide, the paradox is that the countries with the highest inequality are those with socialist governments, the very governments that were supposedly elected to solve that very issue.
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  542. "Ukraine had nukes".. yea that gets mentioned a lot, but it wasn't true. The Russian nukes were on Ukrainian territory, but they didn't have the launch codes, and the missiles were very well protected. Its up for debate if the Ukrainians could have broken into the firing mechanisms.
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  543. PS. The process of introducing lead free aviation fuels is currently underway. There are several unleaded fuels that are direct replacements for aviation gas.
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  544. No it's "worserer". Sheezzz.
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  545. I'm guessing TSMC would be the only one that could qualify for a bulk discount from ASML.
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  546. Small nit: if transistors had never been invented, vacuum tube technologies would have followed the same curve. By the time transistors arrived, tubes were being miniaturized, and we had invented cold emitters, tubes that didn't need a heated filament. In fact, integrated circuits using vacuum technology appeared later. They were proposed as an alternative flat panel display technology. Extra bonus nit: It was true that early vacuum tube computers tended to operate for short times because a tube would burn out. However, the Univac series of computers, in a company founded by the inventors of the stored program computer, Eckert and Mauchly, fixed the tube lifetime issue by "derating" the vacuum tubes, that is, running much less filament current through them than normal, thus prolonging their lifetime and enabling the machine to solve serious computing problems. The next most difficult problem in computing, that of creating a large memory store, was solved, ironically enough, by neither vacuum tubes nor transistors, but by little magnetic donuts known as magnetic core memory. Thus computers reached much of their current form before transistors arrived. Taken together, magnetic memory, magnetic tape and magnetic discs formed a huge part of what made computers successful through the end of the century and beyond. I guess it does not sound as sexy to have a title like "Rust: the most significant substance of the 20th century" :-)
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  547.  @MrSunturion  Substitute "USA" for "Argentina" in that phrase and it still works. Or any European country.
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  548. Take a Spanish class.
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  549. "Germany is one of the most literate countries" they invented the BOOK, wadda expect?
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  550. "our model of socialism doesn't work" no model of socialism works. Socialism is like poison. A little makes you sick, a lot kills you,
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  551. Women's first date question: do you have a job?
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  552. Pure politics. Inconvenient truths: 1. The USA has done more to REDUCE carbon output than the countries in the Paris accord. 2. The reduction has been largely due to fracking, and the increased use of natural gas. 3. The left has stopped and reversed the deployment of nuclear power. 4. Nuclear power would have reduced carbon output to practically zero by now if it hadn't been actively blocked. And that is long before global warming was recognized as an issue. 5. The blocking of nuclear power has not only reduced nuclear power output (and contributed to carbon output), but it has made nuclear power much LESS SAFE by also blocking improvements in nuclear power modernization and safety (for instance by comparison to France). 6. California's (the "state to follow") efforts to REMOVE the use of natural gas to generate electricity has actually INCREASED pollution, because it caused California to make up the lost power by buying out of state power. This is not only more expensive, but dirtier as well.
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  553.  @TheWeepingCorpse  Then do tell.... what is being modulated about the pulse if not the width? As in what is PCM? If you look up the definition of PCM? Here is the wikipedia: "Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amplitude of the analog signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, and each sample is quantized to the nearest value within a range of digital steps." Meaning that the value is "sampled regularly at uniform intervals" and " quantized to the nearest value" meaning fed through a A to D converter. What part of that is PULSE???????
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  554. I had a 100 amp panel with an outside breakered feed. I added another 100 amp subpanel, thus 200 amps total. Most homes can do this. So no issue.
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  555. And AMD is not happy about Intel buying its second supplier.
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  556. From the quality of code I see generally, I believe a lot of performance improvements come from giving each program its own core. This is because the programs are looping or polling continuously waiting for conditions to end, such as a read call, a network transfer, etc. Programmers have been taught to be lazy and use so called "non-blocking" calls to get things done. The result of this is that giving such a program a dedicated core to just sit in a loop will increase overall performance because it is not getting in the way of other programs executing. I call this "burning a core" (like dropping a useless card in a card game). This mode of programming automatically limits the usefulness of adding cores. Once you have enough cores to waste on programs that parallel task inefficiently, then further cores will not help your speed.
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  557. I don't know. Most of the war and political turbulence of Asia passed the Thais by. Look at their neighbors.
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  558. Core meant core (originally). As in magnetic core rings.
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  559. It kinda happens already. AMD and Intel engineers can practically throw forks at each other during lunch...
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  560.  @AlexanderSylchuk  Oh, you are begging for my favorite story. I interviewed with a company that made precision flow valves. These were mechanical nightmares of high precision that accurately measured things like gas flow in chemical processes. This is like half the chemical industry (did you know a lot of chemical processes use natural gas as their feed stock?). Anyways, what has that got to do with this poor programmer? Well, like most industries they were computerizing. They had a new product that used a "bang bang" valve run by a microprocessor. A bang bang valve is a short piston that is driven by a solenoid that when not energized, is retracted by a spring and opens a intake port and lets a small amount of gas into a chamber. then the solenoid energizes, pushes the piston up and the gas out another port. Each time the solenoid activates, a small amount of gas is moved along. Hence the "bang bang" part. If you want to find one in your house, look at your refrigerator. Its how the Freon compressor in it works. Ok, well, that amount of gas is not very accurately measured no matter how carefully you machine the mechanism. But, it turns out to be "self accurate", that is, whatever the amount of gas IS that is moved, it is always the same. The company, which had got quite rich selling their precision valves, figured they could produce a much cheaper unit that used the bang bang valve. So they ginned it up, put a compensation table in it so the microprocessor could convert gas flows to bang bang counts, and voila! ici la produit! It worked. Time to present it to the CEO! The CEO asks the engineers "just how accurate is it?" Engineer says: well... actually it is more accurate than our precision valves. And for far cheaper. The story as told me didn't include just how many drinks the CEO needed that night. So the CEO, realizing that he had seen the future, immediately set into motion a plan to obsolete their old, expensive units and make the newer, more accurate and cheaper computerized gas flow valves. Ha ha, just kidding. He told the engineers to program the damm thing to be less accurate so that it wouldn't touch their existing business. Now they didn't hire me. Actually long story, they gave me a personality test that started with something like "did you love your mother", I told them exactly where, in what direction, and how much force they could use to put their test and walked out. I didn't follow up on what happened, mainly because I find gas flow mechanics to be slightly less interesting than processing tax returns. But I think if I went back there, I would have found a smoking hole where the company used to be. And that is the (very much overly long) answer to your well meaning response.
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  561. Reminds me of what people said in the 1960s about the draft in USA: "no they won't draft me, I am going into college".
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  562. Dude, back off the double expressos ;-) The biggest deal for me as a programmer is scriptability. My rule is if you have done the task manually twice, its time to script it. I automate everything. It not only is less work, but it gives you a repeatable recipe to perform the task, and documents it to boot.
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  563. There are two holes in this argument big enough to drive a (electric) truck though: 1. EVs are NOT inherently expensive. BYD is making cheap ones, which we are banning from the USA. The rest of the world is not. 2. Apples vs. apples: going into how much pollution is generated by mining, etc. Those things are done for internal combustion cars as well. A real comparison would take that into account, as well as the hidden aspects of gas, namely that refineries generate a lot of pollution before the gas ever gets to your car. I have owned 4 different types of EVs, and I presently own two Teslas. I didn't buy the cars because of subsidies. The real issue here is EVs became political. Real EV adoption is slow and should be voluntary. Will EVs save the planet? It does not matter, simply because the people preaching that obviously don't believe it themselves, otherwise they would immediately buy one. Thus it will happen (adoption of EVs) when and if people want that. Stop the subsidies? Yes.
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  564. There should be a special award with successfully arguing with a squirrel like AOC.
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  565. Even before this I assumed that GD was not anonymous. If you leave a review after termination, especially for smaller companies, they will be able to figure out who it was. For large companies, such reviews are less valuable, since the experience will vary by department/situation. However, this is good information. I am far less likely to use GD now.
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  566. What does AOC drive? Turns out, three gas cars and does not take the NY subway. Gather any 10 backers of the "green new deal" and its unlikely any one of them has done anything to "decarbonize". Why? Because they want YOU to change, and in fact they want it done to you by force of government.
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  567. Yea, if only the police had a video of the thieves in action with something they could trace, you know like a car they were driving... I'm done going to SF. I used to like to walk around there and see the sights.
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  568. Good. Bye.
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  569.  @brodriguez11000  So is AI.
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  570. Better idea: declare New York to be Part of Puerto Rico and be done with it.
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  571. I wouldn't put it past Putin that the people they grabbed as responsible had nothing to do with the attack. What better way to get a quick resolution and show FSB competence than just make up the attackers.
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  572. Ships go UP and OVER Panama. The rainfall into the lake is what powers the system. It was a work of genius after the French found that a sea level canal wouldn't work. I flew into Panama city once at dusk, the sight of all of those ships lit up waiting for the canal was an impressive sight.
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  573. Why doesn't it make more sense to add shielding (lead), especially since a smaller CPU die would use less shielding?
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  574. Linus does not need to change. The world does.
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  575. I won't see this in my lifetime. Minimum 20 years.
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  576. I have great confidence in the power of governments to mismanage their economies into the ground. This happens regardless of which country or system it is. China did well because government got out of the way of the economy. Now emperor Xi wants to run it all. Seen this movie before.
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  577. Amazing. It brings to mind that if there were a clear profit to be made on fusion reactors, there would probably be a portable plug-in model by now (Mr. Fusion). Money crosses all kinds of bridges.
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  578. Put on a unisex uniform and suck it up. Communism, sorry, progressivim, has no place for inequality.
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  579. even mechanical machines suffer damage.When the working babbage difference engine replica was shipped to california, the shippers also dropped it, resulting in many parts of it no longer functioning.
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  580. The technology is tied to the state of battery technology. The reason that EVs are impractical for aircraft use is the weight of the batteries. Not only do they weight much more than the fuel they replace, but, unlike liquid fuel, they don't get lighter as they fly due to consumption of the fuel. If/when batteries improve significantly, that calculus will change. The other factors are: 1. Noise. Most of the noise in an aircraft is the blade noise. This is why (for example) yard leaf blowers aren't really much quieter than gas powered ones. 2. Reliability. Sorry, they comments here are just wrong. The reliability of electric motors is far greater than piston engines, and compares more directly to turbine engines. 3. Power. The horsepower output of an electric engine is significantly greater than a piston engine, and exceeds even a turbine engine per weight. This allows an electric aircraft to use multiple engines and thus gain even better reliability. Again, it mainly depends on battery technology advances. Most of the stock bets on Evtols have been about the idea that batteries will significantly improve in a short time. They actually have. They have about doubled in the last two decades, but then the battery chemistry has changed radically, from lead-acid to lithium. It is not certain we will see that much improvement in the next two decades. Also, the majority of research being done now is to reduce the cost of batteries, not so much to reduce the weight, which is not as important for ground vehicle use.
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  581. They have a new technology, you find a river, go upriver until you find a valley, which rivers tend to make, then place a dam there and let the river water fill it. Cheap and easy. Ok, maybe not that new...
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  582. Donated from my Facebook salary. Sorry, I had no idea about any of this.
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  583. All wars end with a peace treaty. The one exception was North Korea, and look how well that turned out.
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  584. So questions: 1. Does the black hole at the center of our galaxy also have these effects (accretion disk, jets). Would we expect their effects to be quite large? 2. Do we have any evidence that black holes exist without accretion disks? Thanks.
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  585. Not dramatically different than what Japan did. They came up with a simplified set of characters, but not Romanized (Katakana/Hiragana).
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  586.  @bighands69  There was an article some years ago on it in the Wall Street Journal during the war with Serbia (yes, that old). The issue was the fired rounds, on hitting the target, sprayed outwards and even into the air.
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  587. John Denver was killed by pride. If he had accepted that he messed up fueling the aircraft and landed straight ahead in the water, he would have lived. Instead he tried to flip the tank switch behind him and over his shoulder and lost control of the aircraft. Apparently the idea of losing the aircraft he just bought and having to be rescued from the ocean was too much for him.
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  588. Maybe Ukraine figures this is the only way to bring an end to the war. So far, Russia has not paid a price for invading Ukraine outside of men and materials. This introduces the idea that Ukraine could do damage to or even capture Russian territory.
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  589. Communism fell, but dictatorships are alive, well and growing. Welcome to the third world era, counting Kingdoms, communism, and now dictatorships. When I was young, people used to say that democracies never voted themselves out of existence, with the sole exception of Germany. Now lots of democracies have voted themselves out of existance. And the trend appears to be growing.
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  590. The union's job is to promote workers, and on a good day they do just that. The company is secondary.
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  591. These are just random video clips, mostly unrelated to the subject.
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  592.  @BrodieRobertson  Yea, I get that, and (rant on), this just seems to be the trend right now. GTK3 to GTK4 is rip up and retry, and I believe GTK2-3 was similar. There is lack of respect for existing users going around. What did Linus say? Change the user API and I'll break your arm? I went through the Python 2-3 thing at Apple, and it was just tremendously annoying. In fact, they have so much python code in their support code that I suspect it will be years before they get it either fixed or give up on sections of the code.
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  593. The freight dogs will be first, then passenger airlines by number of passengers, ie., big airliners last. But it will happen. My guess is at some point one of those pilots will have a bad day and decide to fly underground, and cause a big rucas.
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  594.  @Trentberkeley86  Dosen't matter what they spend. They probably spent half of it on racial sensitivity training. They can patrol the streets, they can make theft an actual CRIME, and they can prosecute. Other cities are not out of control this way.
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  595. GTK does not inherent enough of the environment it is running on. Its one reason other TKs are still around. As for the GTK2-3-4 issues, they have this concept called "backward compatibility". What a concept.
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  596.  @wadecodez  Both.
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  597. The problem in Unix/Linux is that, for a host of reasons, users are encouraged to take root permissions. Sudo is used way to often. This breaks down into two basic issues. First, users are encouraged to install programs with privileged files or files in privileged areas. Second, in order to fix up problems, it is often necessary to modify system privileged files. The first issue is made far worse by effectively giving programs that are installing themselves global privilege to access system files and areas. Its worse because the user often does not even know what areas or files the program is installing itself in. The first issue is simple to solve: install everything a user installs local to that user. Ie., in their home directory or a branch thereof. The common excuses for not doing this is that "it costs money to store that, and users can share", or "all users can use that configuration". First, the vast majority of Unix/Linux system installations these days are single user. Second, even a high end 1tb M2 SSD cost 4 cents per gigabyte, so its safe to say that most apps won't break the bank. This also goes to design: a file system can easily be designed to detect and keep track of duplicated sectors on storage. The second issue is solved by making config files or script files that affect users local, or having an option to be local, to that particular user. For example, themes on GTK don't need to be system wide. They can be global to start but overriden locally, etc. A user only views one desktop at a time. The configuration of that desktop does not need to be system wide. My ultimate idea for this, sorta like containers, is to give each user a "virtual file system", that is, go ahead and give each user a full standard file tree, from root down, for Unix/Linux, BUT MAKE IT A VIRTUAL COPY FOR THAT USER. Ie, let the user scribble on it, delete files, etc., generally modify it, but only their local copy of it. The kernel can keep track of what files are locally modified by that user account, akin to copy on write paging. You can even simulate sudo privileging so that the system behaves just like straight Unix/Linux, but only modifies local copies, etc.
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  598. Yea, apprenticeships and vocational training, the kind of things the USA has completely abandoned. Now our kids either go to woke universities or hit the streets.
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  599. The fewer hours Biden works, the less damage he does.
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  600. Lawn dart catching is bad? Who knew... Anyone remember "Jainway manufacturing? It was a Saturday Night Live joke about interviewing a guy who manufactured "kids toys" like "bag of broken glass" and other clearly dangerous things.
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  601. Unmentioned here, but covered elsewhere is the fact that a lot of land in the USA is returning to its native state. Farming is very efficient, and we don't need as much land to do it. Also, paper does not have to be %100 trees. Cotton and other fibres can be used, and generally its considered better quality paper. Its also possible to use plastics (petroleum).
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  602. Just one small thing: I lived through the implementation of proposition 13. The issue at that time was the increasing value of property, and the corresponding increase in property taxes, was throwing retired people out of their own property that they had paid off. This was because they lived off fixed income, and the property tax was becoming unpayable, resulting in the sale of property. Good for new residents buying property, bad for retirees. Because older people vote more than younger ones, this resulted in the "taxpayer revolt" and the passage of prop 13. Would that pass today? A good bit of the exodus from California is due to retirees moving out of CA. Not from property tax increases, but because all of the costs, including taxes has risen, and the differential of property values in CA vs. other states, makes it attractive to move away. Thus fewer people would vote for a prop 13 today.
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  603. News flash: water is wet.
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  604. Ok, so we are on the same page about Linus. He gets high subscription counts, but he basically takes fairly average facts about Linux and dresses it up with song and dance. That's fine, it just is not interesting to me.
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  605. Body fit issues: that was during the first manufacturing of the model 3, in late 2017. I have a 2018 model 3, and the fit and finish was fine.
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  606. My cut rate car from Japan was a Miata. My father had a Porsche 911, but I didn't have that kind of money. The Miata was my Porsche. I did that again with a Tesla M3.
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  607. Spoken by an overly cute, privileged white girl...
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  608. I disagree with the "sameless" theme. We don't live in a museum. People get what they want and value most. If you want a counter example, look at Portland, or indeed, Oregon in general, where people flock to individual businesses. Funky restaurants have lines out the door, and offbeat coffeeshops and bars flourish, in the same environment as the franchises.
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  609. The old near line storage was tape. I went from Seagate to working on tape drives, because as big as HDDs were getting, there was a need for more storage to archive data. But tape was continually in a race for capacity, with disk drives nipping at their heels. Eventually, arrays of cheap disk drives simply turned into the long term storage solution as well, so they wiped out the market for tape and optical disks as well. I recall the words my old boss at Micropolis said to me when, as a brash 19 year old, I read about optical disks and said to him "optical disks are going to replace our magnetic disks". He told me then that magnetic data could easily surpass optical disks since they were limited by the wavelength of light. That was the late 1970s, and it came true. Will disk drives come to a complete halt? It seems unlikely. HDDs have a use going on into the future for large, cheap storage.
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  610. The joke of the "new environmentalists" is that the recommended answer, socialism, has only delivered environmental damage and there is no reason that will change.
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  611. Its exactly the random vs. strategy element that makes the games so different and generates fights. Sorry is popular because it has virtually no strategy, relying on the luck of the draw. The result is that even small children can win. Monopoly has too much strategy, and every family I know of that played it fights over it.
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  612. Spotting the wrong aircraft does not cover busting the 200' altitude limit. Even if the heli obeyed the limit that's only 240' separation (420' crj, 200' corridor ceiling).
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  613. I don't believe any of this cr*p, and I work at a FAANG.
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  614. Can't erase the internet. Too late. Didn't know who she was before. Now I know to turn her off.
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  615. And this time, we have lined up 20 army surplus grenades......
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  616. This is the liberal view of history. The "solid south" existed up until the 1960s, and republicans were active in civil rights legislation throughout that time. The party that changed were the Democrats, who came to a head with George Wallace (yes, democrat). LBJ went against his party against much of his own party and joined with the Republicans to pass the civil rights act, and what was effectively an apartheid state in the south collapsed. Democrats did an about face and changed from being the party to suppress blacks to being the party of socialism, with a laundry list of social engineering acts modeled after what FDR attempted to do during the great depression. This is the important point. The republicans believed, and believe in basic freedoms and limited government throughout the time from Lincoln to the present (Lincoln believing that the basic freedoms of man extended to blacks as well). The Democrats believe virtually all problems have a government answer, as expressed through FDR and then the rise to socialism with LBJ. This brought a backlash with Reagan and a huge rollback of the regulative state, and a huge boost in the economy. With the war, Obama and a huge snap back to socialism and fall in the economy, once again the forces on the right are feeling revolutionary. However, unlike the last time when there were clear leaders, we have Trump. Trump is a symptom of the deep divisions in this country. The democrats have done the USA a great favor by all but declaring intent to carry the flag of the socialist party (when Obama was first running for office, the head of the French socialist party declared that "the way you run as a socialist in America is by proclaiming you are not a socialist"). This fight, now so clearly defined between socialism and capitalism, big government and limited government, will come to a head, but I suspect not in this election, which is more like Huey Long vs. Teddy Roosevelt than Reagan vs. Carter. Perhaps the next election.
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  617. What the hell is a rabid communist doing speaking at Google? Last time I checked, Google was an evil capitalist corporation...
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  618. "if you want your Tesla by 2019, you better put your order in now"... Neat. Of course that make no sense whatever. If Tesla can get its act together, then the wait list should shrink below 6 months (as it did for Model S). If not, then adding more customers will just extend the wait. Oh the statement makes every sense for a salesman ("for a limited time only"). But as a production statement, it is nonsense.
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  619. James Fukfist Are you idiots done insulting me? I was simply giving you another joke of the same kind as this. How about go f**k yourselves.
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  620. This now becomes a chess game. If it advances to SCOTUS, that court is divided 4-4, which means trump looses by default (lower court rulings stay in case of SCOTUS deadlock). So ideally it would wait for the 9th justice, but that may not be possible. Whatever happens, it increases opposition to Gorsuch, since the dems will realize that the 9th justice will tip the court over in Trumps favor. This will be complex and interesting. If you listened to any of the live stream of the case before the 9th, you will realize that Trumps lawyer was incompetent. Trump didn't pick him, he was there from the previous administration.
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  621. You went from "a person detained in jail by police", to "anyone who is an illegal immigrant who calls police", in one step. That is, if an illegal is in jail but due to be released, will be held over and deported. Then the "word gets out", and all illegal immigrants will be afraid to talk to police, and crimes will go unreported. Those things are unrelated.
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  622. Holy crud read a book now and then...
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  623. Gonna need a few more coats of makeup to make that socialist pig look attractive.
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  624. Nasa and Boeing's days of rigging space system contracts are coming to an end. All of the commercial traffic is bypassing Nasa, and soon military contracts will as well as the ULA (United Launch Alliance) falls apart. The next step? JPL will contract direct with their actual launch supplier and Nasa will be broken up into units. Government cannot compete with industry. Boeing will learn fast to compete on real price and performance or fall out of the launch business. Nasa is not a "thing" but an artificial unification of science initiatives.
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  625. Would you all hate me if I said this is a choice between two crappy candidates?
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  626. How long would a united Africa last? How long do fission components of a bomb stay together?
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  627. The push for socialized housing created the artificial effect of "city center collapse", where the centers of cities became a mix of business only districts and areas of poverty as people escaped to the suburbs. Now with gentrification, this effect is being reversed in many places. What is the answer for low cost housing? Better jobs, economy and less need for subsidized housing.
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  628. Yes, that is the standard socialist answer, "you don't care...". And then socialism increases poverty as a result. Venezuela's program to distribute wealth has resulted in food riots and near starvation in that country. The resources were repeatedly taken "from the rich" by the government, and as a result capitolisim was generally shut down in the country. There is a class of new rich in the country, namely the ones running the government. Chavez's family are rich and live in walled off security compounds, as well as maduro's. Whenever the government promises to redistribute wealth, much of the redistributed wealth end up in the sticky hands of the government. Look south of the border in the latin countries. You will find that the government has up to %50 of the workers. Does the government do anything to create wealth? No, it just runs various programs to regulate and redistribute. How have things changed under Obamas mildly redistributive government? - median household income was down 3 percent as of 2014, and the official poverty rate was 1.6 percentage points higher. - The rate of home ownership has dropped to the lowest point in nearly half a century. - The federal debt owed to the public has more than doubled — up 107 percent. (according to factcheck.org). And in fact both Obama and HRC have cited the need to grow government employment to counter poverty and joblessness.
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  629. National Review had an article that covers the conservative point of view far better than I ever could: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259761/against-negative-income-tax-jim-manzi I recommend this for readers interested in the subject.
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  630. Ha ha. Wait till HRC is president, then the Don will find his businesses getting hit by the government every which way. Payback is the bitch.
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  631. You are like a crazy person with money....
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  632. A good presentation, but having to use vacuum tubes without the invention of the transistor would have slowed down integration only a bit, if at all. After the "death" of the vacuum tube, cold cathode emitters were invented, and several highly integrated solutions based on vacuum electron transport were demonstrated later for applications such as flat screen TVs. A good example of dual path technologies is CMOS architecture. That was considered a loser technology behind MOS for many years before its inherent advantages allowed it to become the predominant technology.
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  633. The Ampex spiral recording method was one of the pure feats of genius in the postwar era. Bing crosby heard about it and invested huge amounts of his personal fortune in the technology, resulting in his becoming very wealthy.
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  634. Please go read a book before you answer next time.
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  635. The block cannot possibly begin spinning, that is, releasing rotational energy, in the short time the bullet is imparting its energy to the block. It spins after it has already been lifted. What this means is that the rotational energy is a fraction of the energy it took to lift the block.
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  636. "Who would WANT self driving cars?" That's really the right answer. I don't, I enjoy driving. The standard answer I hear from technology jingoists is "yes, but a computer driver is safer than you are". I have never had an accident that I have caused in my life (only been rear ended - including stopped and not even in the car). Hard to have less accidents than zero. I'm 60 years old. By the time they wring out the bugs, establish a track record of self driving cars, and then (inevitably) pass a law against humans driving, I will be very safely dead or in the drooling lounge. Now having said all that, I plan to buy a Tesla and play with self driving mode, probably a lot. Its a neat toy. I just don't plan to trust it 24/7.
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  637. Highways are racist. Fascinating. Now show how French Fries are racist.
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  638. Aren't we supposed to reverse the man made damage and get rid of the Salton Sea, according to green philosophy?
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  639. A good documentary, but wrong on at least one point. After the S-curve takeoff, which will result in only about %25 of new cars being sold as pure EVs, the net result will be the USA becoming a net oil exporter, and changing our trade deficits from negative to positive, since the biggest contributor to trade deficits is foreign oil purchases. This will be a bigger positive effect on the USA than any other country in the world, since we are the only ones that both produce huge quantities of oil but also use huge quantities. The biggest losers in the oil market are oil dependent nations such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Canada and others. Thus the biggest side effect is the acceleration of war and regime changes around the world as such countries loose their power to effectively bribe their populations into quiescence.
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  640. You don't need price controls for education. If the colleges charge more than the market will bear, then their attendance will go down. The fact that this didn't happen in the face of massive price increases is clearly because of the continual ratcheting up of Federally backed student loans, even WHILE we were being told that federal aid was the answer to college affordability.
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  641. Now show how the invasion of England by the French helped America. Or how about the Romans. Or modern plumbing. Or......
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  642. That was an amazing video. Seems like computers have set off a new building boom.
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  643. Why did the concord fail? Because of liberal ass clowns like you.
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  644. The natural direction of any species that is successful is to breed uncontrollably until natural resources are depleted, leading to die off and natural selection. This oscillates. The good/bad news is that intelligence, unique to humans, counters this effect. This is good, and bad because (as the German example) maturing societies encounter a population collapse.
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  645. He said Solynda, Fisker and Tesla. The first two were boondoggles and failed. This is politically slanted bullshit. Get a life.
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  646. What would the language of the new united Roman Empire be? LATIN, of course. The fact that Hebrew was a dead language didn't stop Israel...
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  647. Based on this video, I put salt in a pan and heated it. It just burned, it didn't melt. I call BS.
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  648. This video was generated by AI.
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  649. I resonate with your comments about being given low value work. I left a job at Intel where they tried to downgrade my position from a developer to tester and I refused. It was during Covid, and I got two contracts back to back with Apple and Meta. High paying and seemed good at the time, but in both cases it became obvious after starting the work that they had put me on low level work, debugging and testing, apparently with the idea that someone with what was clearly a high level developer background should be able to handle it easily. This was of course true, and I wasn't in a position to drop the contract(s), even though both companies had clearly misrepresented the position. Long story short, both contracts ended with the complaint that I wasn't working fast enough for their tastes. And more interesting, better, developer level jobs in both companies were interested in interviewing me during time there, and I suspect rapidly disappeared when they found out that I was currently at a below developer position in the company despite my resume. After the end of both contracts, I got a job with a startup last year that gave me valuable developer work, abet with a pay cut. I'm already drawing SSI and have an overpriced silicon valley house I can sell to get out of here, so the next move for me is to just quit working and move if the bottom falls out again. you kids have my every sympathy for what is going on now, but I will say that I have been a silicon valley engineer for 40+ years, and times when the employers have the upper hand has come and gone before. It will go again and the companies will realize that they got sold a turkey with the "AI revolution" just wait it out.
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  650. I get rejection notices within a day after putting a resume in. I know for a fact that they are getting hundreds of resumes for positions, because web pages like linkedin tell you the number of applicants. There obviously isn't time to get through that many resumes. These are AI resume evaluation programs.
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  651. Simple reversal. You are going shopping with our daughter? Why weren't me and your son invited?
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  652. Great. Now do reverse mortgages. That's how my mother lost her house. Hint: you are not supposed to be able to lose your house to a reverse mortgage, but it happens all the time.
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  653. Dude this is turning into your obsession. Relax, its over.
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  654. True story, "savvy", comes from the Spanish word saber, to know or understand. The early Americans used it on the Indians, because they were, well, stupid. They were basically speaking bad Spanish at the Indians, who, shockingly, didn't understand it any better than English (at that time). Its actually pretty racist all around if you think about it.
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  655. The only fair way to split California, and it does need to be split, is north-south along a line of latitude that evenly divides the state for population. This would be roughly 1/3 up and would make LA/SD a superstate by itself, and leave SF and most of the open agricultural areas as the Norcal state. It would not politically advantage anyone, and it would stop CA from being run primarily by LA. So Norcal and Socal, which is already what a lot of people here call it.
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  656. How dare you work without a union.
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  657. "Would love a train ride from India to Russia" and can end with a very nice tour of a Russian prison.
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  658. Junta is pronounced "hoonta". You guys want to cover Latin America, aprendes a pronunciar espanol! Also, there is no "R" at the end of America! Its America, not AMERICERRRRRR. Sheez.
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  659. I'm sorry, this is idiotic. The github says "it will be archived". Github IS and archive. They are going to erase it? They are going to stop developing and or fixing bugs on it? They can simply turn it over to other interested developers, and it can be forked. There are tons of projects that are no longer being worked on actively. The're still there. This is meaningless, sorry.
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  660.  @user-he4ef9br7z  Ok but I stay with my previous answer. If the project has interest, people can step up and handle it themselves. Walking away from a project and locking it up is a pure act of spite, IMHO. In any case, that is why god made forks, you just copy the original project and move on. The whole idea that FOSS can be "removed" from the web makes no sense to me.
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  661. Then why not C++ as well? Linux does not like exceptions, so disallow exceptions. C++ is too major a language to bypass this way.
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  662.  @BrodieRobertson  Yea, benevolent dictator and all that. But I doubt Linus is also going to program in Rust, more likely he just didn't see a reason to exclude it. I' with Google (I don't speak for Google) and we program a lot in both C++ and Rust (and Golang... "golang should be in the kernel" said nobody, ever, for any reason). There's a big difference here between drivers and other kernel code. There's a lot of C++ driver work going on out there. If a company can submit a driver in C++, and it runs tests, it ought to be accepted. If the community can be persuaded to accept a rust driver, they should be able to talk Linux into taking a C++ driver. Note that I am not particularly a fan of C++. Have to go work on my Python disk driver now...
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  663.  @jaxxrr  Just for fun: Pentair Fairbanks Nijhuis HP1-4000.340 has 60,000 liters per second flow rate, for 216 MILLON liters per hour, so it is not days. Especially if you use more than one. The internet is your friend.
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  664. If you are poor, communism looks attractive (take money from the rich!). Unfortunately, this means the left has an interest in keeping people poor. And so it goes.
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  665. If EVs effectively export our pollution to China.... I am ok with that.
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  666. I bought a camper for $10,000, and it cost $31,000 per person for temporary housing? Why not just buy campers for people like they did in Katrina?
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  667. eh. I think the coup did succeed, just more slowly. Putin and the oligarchs got control of the country.
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  668. This is serious. Without nuclear weapons Europe could roll over Russia in days. Before this, the nuclear armed countries used weapons to be "unconquerable", but now we see a country using the threat of it to throttle its neighbors unimpeded. This would be the model for N. Korea and Iran if it works.
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  669. Why do I get the distinct feeling that every one of those pictured complaining about the situation in Springfield probably voted democrat?
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  670. I thought the left decided they were anti-jewish now...
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  671. When/if they do this, there will be a mess of drones malfunctioning, hitting objects, dropping out of the sky, and package thiefts.
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  672. Used to be all the great powers f**ked over Iran. Now the do that to themselves.
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  673. Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah - Paul Simon
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  674. I have both paid (bought with the computer) and unpaid versions. The unpaid one has annoyances, like the ad in the lower right corner and the fact that I can't customize it. However, if you ask what it takes to license windows 10, its over $100. I never paid that much for the system before it was "free". Its just like the huge price hike with office. Things were far cheaper before they were "free".
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  675. Just a small comment on "wouldn't home depot like to forbid other stores"... They have. Lowes had to fight Home Depot in our city to gain its stores. Home depot got local groups to come out against the stores. Companies fight dirty. And the government helps them. This is corruption writ large.
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  676. Its a good example of how progressivism is not making things better here. Instead the anti-development movement is just freezing these neighborhoods in time. San Francisco tried to become a museum, and so they lost the population race to San Jose. Some folks were upset about that, but it made sense. San Jose now has condo towers for young workers who appreciate the proximity to downtown.
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  677. So you believe the Earth might end right? And you are driving an electric car? You are powered by solar panels? So you don't realllllly believe it, now do you?
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  678. The problem is plastics are unique, but then ground up and mixed together. If you embed RFID tags in plastic, then they can be identified when thrown out, and sorted or even sent back to the maker for recycling by type.
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  679. You can build a reliable connection on top of an unreliable connection, but not vice versa. PS the "infiniband contract" is that if you can guarantee packet ordering, you get rid of most of the overhead of a TCP/IP protocol, because the protocol does not need to wait for further packets to arrive before processing them. If you get a packet out of order, its an error, plain and simple. This can't be done on the internet, but it can be done on a local net.
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  680. Wasn't this a movie with Laurence Olivier???
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  681.  @rkeogh3467  No, Khartoum.
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  682. I flagged a video as advocating a dangerous electrical procedure. Never heard anything more about it, and the video is still there. I won't bother next time.
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  683. Jupiter is like a solar system within the solar system (a joviansystem?).
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  684. What is complex here? If something works, keep doing it. Don't just stop.
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  685. "the handful of people who have experienced blood boiling in space" wait what? Who died in a vacuum?
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  686. As mentioned in passing at 12:00, the language often accused of being 1 based is Pascal. However, this not be so: array [0..9] of integer; Is possible. It would be correct to say Pascal is lower bound agnostic.
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  687. When photography was invented, people said it was the end of art painting. This is the same moment. AI copies what people did, usually on the internet. It has no creativity. Take the art of photography. Everyone knows a professional photograph when they see it. Most photos are snapshots, and you can tell that immediately. And there is some filtering and processing, and different lenses, but the majority of art photography is knowing when to shoot, the angle, where the light is coming from, etc. The brain behind the camera.
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  688. Soooo, Hamas has GPS guidance. The USA perfected local GPS blocking, basically jamming of the GPS signals locally. I would think they passed this tech off to the Israelis.
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  689. I stopped using small local banks years ago. After trying one, I had them deny a series of withdrawals, charging $300 per bounced check. I had deposited my paycheck there. I read up on the rules, and turned out they were taking the maximum time allowed by law to make the funds available, and collecting bounce charges in the meantime. I pulled out of that bank and went big bank ever since. It cost me about $1000 and lots of bad will with my creditors. That bank closed shortly thereafter for fraud. Never again.
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  690. Hydrogen has considerably more problems and cost than sustainable synthetic fuels, like ammonia, and others.
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  691. Desantis will run and win... in 2028. 2024 is Trumps to lose. And he will.
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  692. I have electric leaf blowers. I don't think they are much quieter.
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  693. As a tech worker who is 64 years old, I have had plenty of job applications where I was told the position was filled, but then saw the ad for the same job placed yet again. The message is clear. Companies would prefer to lie to you than tell you the truth. I don't bother to follow up on job applications anymore. They don't call back, I just don't care. Move on to the next job.
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  694. I just went through 6 months of job search. On every one of those job applications, probably according to law, it asks what your race is. A fascinating question for a society that is supposedly color blind. You could say, well, the government needs that data because they want to make sure people are not hired according to their race. However, as MW says above, the obvious evidence is that they are, in fact, hired according to race. This simple question on job applications makes that possible even without meeting up or talking with the candidates.
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  695. Neat. How do we get rid of them?
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  696.  @Bonanzaking  The Islamic republic didn't exist 40 years ago. Read your history.
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  697.  @Bonanzaking  I disagree that we have to hand over the funds from a previous government to whomever took over the place by force. And America has agreed with that position for 40 years. Further, the timing of the funds transfer suggests it was a ransom, not a reimbursement. Further, we have several times confiscated funds from terrorist organizations held in international banks, and world courts have agreed with that. Finally, this discussion is about Hamas, unless you equate the two, which you seem to be doing at the moment. On that small point, we in fact agree.
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  698. So 5:00. Take fueling time for gas cars, take recharge time for EVs and extrapolate. This assumes people wait around to charge their cars like they wait around to fill their gas cars. I have an EV, the amount of time I spend charging my car is 0. 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, because I have home charging. I come home, I plug in, I go about my life. Do I use on the road chargers? Sure, then I use fast chargers. So the right mix is slow chargers at home, fast chargers for trips. This rant from the video author assumes worst case. So everyone does not have home charging right? Sure. There is no particular reason the vast majority of car users cannot do so. In Canadian north, cars have to plug in to heaters or they die, because it is cold. So you have a stall at your apartment that has a plug. Wiring is not that expensive, and most apartment buildings with covered car areas can be equipped with plugs. Note PLUGS. Giving everyone an internet connected charger controller is unnecessary and expensive. Should everyone be forced to drive an EV? Of course not. But the issues with EV are way way (way) overblown. I charge my EV perhaps 2-3 times a week for my commute, and my employer has 6kw plugs. Thus I could charge without having any home charging at all. We (the EV community) are very familiar with these lists of "why EVs can't work". They all have a common feature: the author does not have an EV and does not know how they work.
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  699. There is a vignette that applies here. When transcontinental telephone lines were first being built, a reporter asked a lady in a rich area of san fransisco what she thought of the idea that she could now call Texas by telephone. She replied: "sorry but I can't imagine why I would EVER want to talk to someone in Texas..."
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  700. Sort of. You could have a simple plunger arm do the job if they could STANDARDIZE the placement of the port, or even better yet, come up from the ground and drive over it.
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  701. Yes, the fact they are comparing hybrids vs evs here totally negates the title of this video.
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  702. You can swipe a credit card to get gas anywhere. The most work you have to do is enter the postal zip code to validate it. Can you do that with chargers? It is sooooo stupid it makes my head hurt.
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  703. Gee, someone rising to the ultimate power in China by political intrigue and elimination of their enemies. There is nobody like that today is there Emperor Xi?
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  704. "there's a reason all the other cars have buttons.. they just work" No, they are just what you are used to. Cell phones used to have keyboards before the Iphone. Now nobody complains about a lack of keyboard.
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  705. scanf("%d", &x); Sorry, you didn't pass the interview. Leave your guest badge at the door...
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  706. Andy was right. Developing a monolithic kernel in 1992 was a mistake. However, Unix was monolithic, and Linux was a Unix work-alike. And people don't recall just how badly monolithic Unix was. The drivers were compiled in. If you wanted to support a new printer, you had to compile the entire system. Linux fixed that. I don't agree with HOW they fixed it, but it did get fixed. The fact that kernel drivers emulate symbolic linking is what creates %90 of the problems with Linux kernel drivers.
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  707. Feel free to refer to it as a "stored program computer". I don't believe in giving credit where none is due, and you previously issued a video acknowledging that Von Neumann did not, in fact, come up with the stored program concept.
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  708. Georgia join NATO? You have to be kidding. Georgia is the dog that putin kicks now. The birthplace of Stalin is not going to join NATO. The proper response to Putin now is to put NATO troops on the Ukrainian border with Poland. "Why is NATO putting troops on the border?", oh its purely defensive. Putin would get the message. The problem is that NATO and Biden lack the cajones to do it, and Putin is well aware of that.
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  709. Biden does not back Tesla because it is non-union, and therefore does not have a union to line democrat pockets.
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  710. Thats really amazing. I had always assumed that ANY satellite based system would be slower than a terrestrial cable based system. I would point out, however, that short range terrestrial will probably still beat it due to uplink/downlink overhead. An amazing presentation. Good job.
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  711. Umm, lets see. It captures CO2 out of the air. But it needs power. That power produces CO2. Hmmmmmmm.....
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  712. The people who lost their government paycheck can get real jobs. Feeling sorry for people who are newly poor because they are no longer sucking off the government is like feeling sorry for a parasite whose host died.
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  713. I have been using copilot for a week now. I found that it got much better after I started correcting it. You tell it how to write things, or give it context dependent info like "use the routines in xyz library, which you can find here". After a while the autocomplete advice starts to look scary accurate. At other times it just appears to be copying other parts of my code. The jury is still out, but I can see how it will become useful.
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  714. I marinate with a spike (a skewer). More work, but it gets the marinade throughout the meat.
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  715. My favorite latam joke: "gringo go home! .... and take me with you". Brazilian joke: One day one of the angels comes to God: "God, my assignment was Brazil, but there is a problem". God says "what's that?". Angel says, you have put a huge amount of land, wood, and mineral wealth into just one country!". God: "don't worry. Wait until you see the people I put there".
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  716. Microsoft could save themselves, eliminate a lot of their costs, and emulate the Mac/Apple model in less than a year by one simple step. Port their GUI on top of a Linux or BSD kernel. The result would still run windows programs, look like windows, remove a major cost item from Microsoft in one step, maintaining their own kernel and drivers. X windows, even Wayland, would be considered less high tech than the Windows GUI layer, and Windows would be as portable as Linux/BSD even if they keep the source code proprietary. Windows does not rely that much on special features of its NT kernel any more than X does. It pushes files, it runs tasking, it has a driver model. Linux even supports the NT filesystem. With a couple of API layers over Linux, they could park the majority of Windows GUI code over the kernel. The Windows GUI could take over the video subsystem the same way it does now.
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  717. Before I got a house, I had various gas and electric stoves. I hated the electric ones, which were just coils, but I love my current electric stove that has resistance under glass. Its a lot safer. You can put a paper towel under a pan and it gets burnt, but does not go on fire as a coil stove would. It has lag issues, of course, but they can be dealt with.
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  718. So you are saying the idea sank? Sorry. Why not treat the iceberg water as... well, water. Oil tankers are some of the biggest ships on the seas. One could be converted to store water instead, then you go to the icebergs and lay two pipes to the middle of one, the first that pumps heated water to it, and the second that intakes the water, both the heated water and the melt water. You'd be creating a meltwater lake in the middle of large iceberg. You'd give it up after the iceberg went unstable. Basically it would be converting oil energy to water, much like desalination, but presumably cheaper, since the source was fresh water to begin with. The result would be a taker of fresh water, that would then sail home.
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  719. Geez, your soundtrack needs a new drive belt. The warble is hard to listen to.
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  720. Yes, the key takeaway here is that the "successful" socialist revolutions, supposedly against industrialization, all happened an agrarian societies, NOT industrialized ones, and were largely centered around forced industrialization (USSR,China). IE., were used on the wrong people to achieve the ends communism was supposed to be against. Why? because in the end communism was about power, and using people as disposable pawns to achieve it.
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  721. Hydrogen is an energy storage technology, not a generation technology. Thus it is racing against battery technology, which is currently ahead. Its a better bet that batteries will improve at the same or better rate than hydrogen tech, and will still look like a better technology 10, 20 or more years from now. Hard to compete with a tech that does not involve gas transfer or storage.
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  722.  @real_hello_kitty  Sure.
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  723. "The only thing worse than being a enemy of America is being a friend of America".
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  724. The REAL history of Christmas: from prehistoric times, people celebrated the return of the sun in Europe from its southernmost tilt, because they knew that with it would come spring and summer. Realizing that they could not compete with this celebration, the disciples of Christ shifted the date of his birth and hijacked it by rebranding it as Christmas. Carry on.
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  725. It strikes me that the central issue with models of the universe is the two ideas of infinite universe and the big bang theory. If the universe is infinite, but the big bang theory is true, how could an infinite universe emerge from a point origin as postulated by the big bang? And yet we have positive proofs for both. There is evidence of the big bang, and just as well there is evidence that the universe extends beyond the observable universe, meaning that we can never get positive proof for exactly how big the universe actually is.
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  726. You realize that a generation growing up with only LCD screens is going to consider this to be an irrelevant artifact of history.
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  727. How about employers feel a recession is around the corner? AI IS affecting the tech job market already. Because employers are using it to scan resumes. I get rejections in under a day. The record is 11 hours from application to rejection. This is done by an AI resume scanner. Those companies have 100's or 1000's of resumes. No way a human gets through those resumes in 11 hours. That is a resume scanner tied to automated rejection letter generator.
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  728. Oscars? What is that?
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  729. Gonna cross the big half million I see. I've been watching since less than 100k. Congratulations.
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  730. "rebuilt...twice as fast with fewer people, %33 fewer lines of code, %40 fewer files 2x request/sec" you could say that about any rebuild project. When A project is reprogrammed, the programmers apply the lessons they learned from the first build to the second and come up with better solutions. The last claim is the most suspect. You are comparing a pure interpreted language (JS) vs a compiled language (Java). Whatever resulted in that speed improvement, it didn't come from the language itself. Sorry, not trying to rain on your parade, but these claims are pure advertising fluff. Second, sorry, your description of threads is just plain wrong. Threads are not expensive, and you don't "run out of threads". Most operating systems have no limit on the number of threads possible outside of the memory required. Furthermore, the threads don't "require new hardware". You can have as many threads as you like running on the same CPU. I suspect you are (inaccurately) describing the assignment of threads to different cores. This only really gives better performance if the threads are truly running in parallel, not awaiting I/O, which is the vast majority of the time.
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  731. Small nits (I like the video): 1. Heaps can be implemented by the program if the time to execute heap via system call is unacceptable. Typically this means fixing the size of the heap at compile time. 2. Stacks in modern operating systems like Linux are essentially unlimited in size. This is done by placing the stack above invalid pages in memory and only allocating the stack as it executes page faults.
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  732. It will change little. Iran already has territorial integrity because everyone is afraid of them. If they attacked Israel with it, they would kill palestinians as well, and iran would end as a glow on the horizon from israeli retaliation. What would change is saudia arabia would then go nuclear as well.
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  733. I am fine with farmed Samon. Just stop lying about it and stop coloring it.
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  734. Been using vi since the early 80's. Not by choice.
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  735. Unmentioned here is one of the biggest advantages of Germany: THEY DON"T BELIEVE IN PRINTING MONEY FOR POLITICAL REASONS! Like certain other countries we know.
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  736. For a committed anti-capitalist, you sure have a lot of commercials.
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  737. As another video went into, the air does not just come through the walls. Most or all homes are built with an expansion gap between the sheet rock on the walls and the framing/joists. It is there to prevent the sheetrock from cracking due to expansion. Those gaps add up - you probably have more than a square foot of total space that comes from the outside. But outside.... where? exactly? There is the rub. Most commonly the outside is the attic, and the pathway into the house is through the walls and into the rooms via the various electrical and other outlets. In fact on some houses you can even see a trail of dirt next to an outlet from years of such "negative pressure" ventilation. You are drawing air that is dirty and dust filled from your attic into the house.
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  738. If you go after the king, you better not miss.
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  739. Yes, its really funny how Microsoft went from dissing the Apple Iphone, to trying to copy it, then getting passed like a snail on a salt lick by Google with Android. Microsoft STILL hasn't learned it's lesson from that, which is that if you open your OS to hardware makers and developers, you will succeed. Look at the XBOX, it is a success, but it is a completely closed environment.
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  740. "Milei is the first president of Argentina to become an international superstar"... ummm...Evita, for all the wrong reasons.
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  741. One small nit: that Iceland DAC plant is a special case. Iceland is overrun with geothermal power generation, which is a reason why Alcoa put an aluminum plant there (heavy power user). Thus they have a lot of cheap, carbon free power with which to run the DAC.
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  742. "3 times the height of the space station" Do you think the geniuses in DPRK figure out if they are going to hit something in orbit before they launch?
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  743. Biden faces a republican congress. The people voted for divided government yet again.
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  744. This is a lot like our trade group, the IEEE or Institute of Electrical and Electronic engineers. They lobbied the government for years about engineer "shortages" as a reason to increase visas for foriegn engineers until its own members started to complain that this was begin used mainly to find engineers willing to work for lower salaries. Being here on an engineer job visa is basically slave labor. You can't change jobs immedately, and if you are dismissed, you are then deported.
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  745. So I noticed that nobody stated the blindingly obvious here. If someone came out to put an "out of order" sign or bag on the charger, that someone could have FIXED THE DANG THING!. Especially if it is just a matter of turning the power off and on.
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  746. You need to go read your computer history. John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert created the stored program computer architecture. Von Neumann took notes and wrote a report, and then just kept quiet when it became clear that it wasn't his own work. A true travesty of history.
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  747. I used GE circle lamps long before CFLs came around. The real problem is that the lamps were hard to find when they (inevitably) went bad. Plus we had lots of 4' fixtures built into the ceilings at my house. Now that is all LED, including the 8' lamps in the garage. Kindof a shame, since the new high frequency ballasts were way betterer, but now I have like 6 8' lamps in the garage and they are dead quiet, vs the buzzing noises of the old lamps.
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  748. Brazil is an example of what happens when you continually play footsie with socialism.
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  749.  @honkyjesuseternal  Elizabeth's smarter sister. :0
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  750. Congratulations on crossing 200k!
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  751. Libya vs. 2.0.
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  752. What he tried worked well in Venezuela.
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  753. Credit where credit is due. Edwin Armstrong invented the superhet, and David Sarnoff of RCA stole it. This is the same guy who shafted Farnsworth out of the invention of television. Armstrong later committed suicide over this.
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  754. I loved "war dogs", great flic.
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  755. Comon, Xi, do it!
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  756. Python is written in C. I think that says it all.
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  757. I write good documentation. I get user feedback that in the first sentence, its obvious they didn't even look at the manual. I care about this for simple users. The problem is I get people on my FOSS projects who come in and say "XYZ needs to be rewritten as ZYX" AND they clearly haven't read the manual. Users can be educated and I will spend all day helping them. Contributors with the "gotta rewrite that" itch make me believe my FOSS projects won't live 5 minutes longer than I do.
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  758. One big factor with electric airplanes is that weight of fuel goes to zero as the airplane flies. I didn't see that factor in the video?
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  759. Griswald Christmas: an example of what real Christmas is like. I never watched Elf all the way through, it makes me physically ill. But then all Will Farrell movies do that to me. Miracle on 34th street: the original tear jerker Christmas movie. Die Hard: what guys watch to say they are watching a Christmas movie.
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  760. Word.
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  761. Microsoft "loves open source"? So where do I download the open source version of Windows? Hello?
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  762. I don't know about "aviation's biggest mystery", perhaps the most recent one. Planes fly over open oceans. Lots of them disappear. Ships do as well. There is a ton of them at the bottom of the oceans. The good news is these types of accidents are going to be far less likely in the future. The irridium satellite network has the ability to track airplanes anywhere in the world by their mode S transponders, and aircraft manufacturers and airlines are removing the ability of pilots to turn the system off.This real time tracking will enable tracking aircraft until the point at which they land or break up, meaning that the search area will be accurate to within a few meters.
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  763. Why the hate for subway? Compared to Mcdonalds???
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  764. If Colombia had stayed unified, things would have been different. Brazil was large, had all the usual authoritarian/communist issues, but is emerging as the SOAM power state simply because of its size, population, and the amount of wealth it controls. I don't think you can say that the USA succeeded initially because of those factors. It was stable, and then it acquired a lot of territory fast.
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  765. Just a note: The modern age of ICs would have still happened without the transistor. Micromachining can and does create vacuum based electronics, it was considered for a while as a technology for flat panel television. Similarly, cold cathode vacuum tubes were invented before transistors arrived (no need to heat the tube). If transistors had never been invented, the IC revolution would have been delayed by perhaps 5 to 10 years. The only real constant here is human ingenuity and the continuous desire to improve. In any case, according to the quantum computer researchers, we are going to leave transistors behind at some point anyways.
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  766. The principal enemy of Iran is modernity, and the leaders of Iran are quite aware of that. This is why they have to keep their people from gaining from the modern world as much as they can. This strategy is destined to fail at some point. As the USSR found, you can't run a country as a jail forever.
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  767. There are good looters and bad looters 🙂
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  768. Yea, you have to go microwave before skin effect takes over. Like gigahertz.
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  769. What is the frequency of the sun, anyways?
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  770.  @ghostblackmormor8120  It will get better, but it is worth noting that these LLMs are not telling us anything we don't already know. Its basically just rehashing code examples from the internet. Employers need to understand this. To solve novel problems still takes a meat machine, and will for the foreseeable future.
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  771. Funny, having a cute girl dump junk mail on me while lying down is one of my fantasies as well!
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  772. Two massive waves are waiting to hit the auto industry. The first wave is cost inversion. EVs cost less to make than gas cars, and will soon move to being a considerable discount to gas cars. The American car makers are not ready for this, which is why they are lobbying to keep BYD out of the USA. It won't work. BYD will be selling everywhere outside the USA, including over the border in Mexico, which means they will be here soon like it or not. The second wave is autonomy. That is end of decade stuff, but it will change the car industry utterly.
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  773. Has anyone seen the bridge? Where's that confounded bridge?
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  774. Fine, go after FISA. This ability of the government to do secretly surveillance on American citizens "would never be used against American citizens", then rapidly did just that, first being applied to "conversations where one of the parties was a foreigner, then where foreign involvement was suspected, and then applied for political attacks. This major loss of our liberties, it seems, cannot be repealed. Our liberty is being chipped away, more and more with each generation.
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  775. This is overblown. I have been driving a Tesla M3 for 5 years now. You learn to do quick glances at the screen. All of these "studies" on how hard touchscreens are to use survey people new to the touchscreen, not people who have learned to use it.
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  776. Biden's vote buying. Ok, this is going to p*ss off everyone, but we really don't need a strategic petroleum reserve anymore. This is an excellent time to sell it off and get rid of it. The SPR was put in place at a time when we didn't produce enough oil to satisfy our consumption. At that time, we had, and have, HUGE shale oil reserves but we didn't have any way to get that oil short of strip mining. Now we do. The oil, enough for centuries, is still down there. We just slowed down production of it. If we had another "oil crisis", based on limited international supply (as happened in the last oil crisis), we could easily start producing and cover all of our needs. Thus we have an SPR in the ground. Any time we REALLY want it.
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  777. Islamic = freedom yea, tell that to the people of Iran.
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  778. Trumps worst enemy comes out again: Trump.
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  779. Old dude here. I always turn all the "helpers" off on the IDE. I can type fast, and I don't appreciate the editor always adding templates or autocorrecting. It's like fighting for keyboard control with an idiot.
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  780. It just means, in western society, women get sperm donors from the %10 of men who are very attractive to women (and only during their 20s), women get married to the state, and little boys get brought up in a feminist household and get taught by their one live in parent feminist values, ie., self hatred. What to do if you are a %90er male? Become a step dad or get a passport. Is all of this a problem? Depends on your point of view. Its going to happen whether you like it or not. Me? The life lesson I learned is: go to the end game FIRST. I got my passport.
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  781. I love the "127". Good to have a specific number in mind. 126 need not apply.
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  782. Jeezzzz back off the double espressos. Rust is a religion? And C++ is not? For me, sorry, new language, new operating system. End of story.
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  783. So Ford loses money on each car. And Tesla should as well, right? But Elon musk has made billions from Tesla. Its almost like Tesla knows what they are doing and Ford does not, right? As an EV owner since 2013, I don't want the government to subsidize EVs, but then I never did. But then it also makes sense for the government to STOP keeping BYD OUT of the American market. The Ford and GM subsidies are PROTECTIONISIM and they are what is allowing Ford and GM to SUCK at making EVs while still staying in business. BYD is making cheap EVs for the world, the world outside of the USA. And keeping BYD out is part of the "we are stopping the bad Chinese" meme Biden (and before him Trump) are selling you. That bad Chinese company is selling you cheap cars simply because they are evil. Right. Let the f***king market work and things will get better. Ford and GM may not survive, but they should be allowed to stand for fall of their own accord. Your government has shoved a truly impressive amount of money into Ford and GM to "keep American jobs", which is people making like $50 and hour to put a screw in a car. THAT's why Ford is losing money. Tesla is standing on their own and competing head to head with BYD in their own market. And they could do it without subsidies. They do it by offering a better product. What a concept. I have had both a GM Bolt and a Tesla. Bolt is a nice car, but falls far short of a Tesla for the equivalent price. GM sucks at software, and I know why personally, I have seen their operations.
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  784. Classic spatial disorientation. Flew into a cloud, lost control and spun out. I used to live in that area around 1990, and flew out of that airport.
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  785. Why worry about Amaon? GIve them the job of moving the Coronavirus vaccine around the country, and the pandemic will be over by march. As opposed to next year at the current rate.
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  786. You want the truth? Tim Russert pushed the idea of Red is Republican and Blue is Democrat because the system of choosing party colors from flag colors had not been entrenched in the media and he saw the chance to entrench the practice. Russert was a leftist journalist and realized that most people had come to regard the democrats as pushing a pure socialist agenda, and therefore red would be the appropriate color, as indeed it was around the world. Thus he switched the colors, and the Republicans didn't complain, since it was obvious that the color red carried no significance to their party, not being socialist. The head of the communist party in France said it best when she said, when Obama won the presidency, "that is how socialists win in America, by denying they are socialists". And so it goes.
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  787. All of our systems rely on random use. If we all flush the toilets at the same time, the sewer system would backup. If everyone got on their cell phone at the same time, the cell system collapses, etc.
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  788. I think most of the Reunification was paid for by selling chunks of that wall.
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  789. How many people think that a huge building sinking into the sand around the bay pretty much symbolizes San Francisco?
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  790. Wordpress is programmed in Fortran! Wow, that is big news, I'll tell everyone you said that!
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  791. South Korea going nuclear is a fait accompli.
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  792. Good. Leave to work for the government. Better pay for me in tech.
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  793. Exactly. In Taiwan, the only arms the citizens have are the ones they put in the air to signal surrender. That's right, to this day its illegal for citizens to own guns.
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  794. Ok, I skidded off the road here. L2 is behind the earth so it blocks the sun from the telescope? So why does it need the cooling thing?
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  795. Get an extended battery. End of problem.
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  796. Wikipedia didn't kill the encyclopedia, the internet in general did.
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  797. Clearly a clickbait title.
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  798. 'That place is too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore" - Yogi Berra.
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  799. The NATO members don't want to join the war against Russia, we are fine fighting them to the last Ukrainian. Think of how great this is. We can sit around and drink coffee and watch how our weapons hold up against the Russians, and even see it on Youtube, all without risking a single solder. Yea USA!!!
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  800. Aircraft engines still use the flat/opposed arrangement, along with air cooling. Its a light, simple and efficient engine.
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  801. Which leads to the question. Why is Moldova not applying for NATO membership like now now?
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  802. Could also be read as "what are contractors... you'll find out shortly" :-)
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  803. I used one of these "nano fridges" on a consulting job where I only had a desk and very little space. The company was paying for the power, so ya know, didn't care. Kept my diet coffee creamer in it.
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  804. How do you tell an artificial diamond? Its too perfect. That means the diamond mining industry is on its way out.
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  805. I'm offended by your post.
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  806. Who is Belarus going to nuke? Themselves? Their biggest enemy is internal opposition.
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  807. Dude, give up..... Phosphors are pixels.
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  808. We did this same algorithm in the 1980s to drive the first automated integrated circuit packaging bonders, the machines that attached the wires from the package to the chip. Without this, the work had to be done manually and the computer revolution would have been stalled.
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  809. Wall streen journal just published an article that the states have, in fact, lost little revenue in taxes. Certainly there have been expenses in reference to covid, but the numbers from the dems are designed to make up for the loss of SALT deductions. IE, this is a backdoor reversal of a previous policy they didn't like.
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  810. Yea, its amazing how much LCDs simplified everything. Now we are getting to the point were everything is going to be a color LCD with touch whether it is needed or not simply because of economies of scale.
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  811. And unmentioned: Hollywood is in LOVE with the AR-15. It stars in a lot of movies. And yet where are the libs complaining about their buddies in Hollywood basically acting as salesmen for the gun industry?
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  812. Color fully bit programmable LCDs are taking over the world. Using other types of displays were just to save a few pennies. As volume discounting has more and more effect, even using black and white programmable LCDs won't give you a price advantage. Why do I care? Because I have to program these things. When some idiot designer tells me they are saving 5 cents by picking a cheaper display, despite the fact that we have to spend more time programming around the quirks of a special display, I get annoyed.
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  813. The points: 1. Locating wind farms offshore solves the "bird kill" issue, because birds don't fly offshore. This also solves real estate issues and even does not affect shipping, since ships can go through the arrays. 2. Solar panels can be recycled. 3. Solar and wind are complementary. 4. PSH (pumped storage hydro) works to store energy on large scales for cheap. 4. We are well along on the technology to make small "peaker plants" run with natural gas that can be put online to backup renewables.
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  814. 20gb of data... Humm. I don't believe that considers compression. A black box is not going to use much compression, if any, and especially not lossy compression. A satellite uplink would, and some lossyness would be allowed. Is BB data compressible? Yes, actually, slow moving data like control positions is very compressible. Also add the idea that systems like starlink can handle a lot of data bandwidth, requiring a large antenna that is only practicable on a large airplane, and finally the idea that soon starlink or similar capability is going to be standard on airliners to feed the demand for in-flight internet.
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  815. This is really, seriously, the most useful channel on Youtube.
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  816. I don't really believe the "higher pollution to build an EV than an ICE car" theory that gets bandied about. First of all, you never see the net pollution emitted by building an ICE car lined up against the same for an EV. Its always just the net energy cost of a BEV, so there is nothing to compare to. Second, that calculation is done for EVs built using a standard power source in the USA, which is not true of Tesla. The Fremont factory uses power from a natural gas powered grid in Norcal. In fact, the majority of the remaining coal power grid in CA is in Socal, and that is because of power imports from Nevada. Third, a lot of the pollution counted in making an EV is because of the relatively poor infrastructure in Bolivia and Argentina where the lithium is extracted. In fact, this industry is rapidly improving and moving elsewhere, to Chile and Australia.
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  817. Amen.
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  818. I usually printf() debug. I had a boss at a certain company (rhymes with "fun") who stood over me and tried to make me use their IDE debugger. I usual use gdb against assembly language, since if I am at HLL, printf()s are easier. If I need gdb, its because the sh*t has hit the fan and I need lower level debug.
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  819. All told we would use AI to prevent war and to get laid. And we have an equally bad chance with both.
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  820. Good job Wendover. A timely and needed video.
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  821. "directional changy bit" I don't know... these talks are too technical for me...
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  822. Um, is it just me, or does the map of the Falklands have an strange resemblance to the UK?
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  823. I toured an abandoned nickle mine Nevada. It shut down because the price of nickle was too cheap, not because they ran out of nickle. As for cobalt, please tell me any industry where using child labor is more efficient than modern machine methods. ie., it does not have to be that way. Congo is a f**ked up country. For lithium mining, the reason Australia is becoming more important is because Bolivia and Chile both have issues with inefficient mining practices and socialism. Finally, I have been to a refinery. Making gas, and drilling for it, is an incredibly dirty process. Apples and oranges and all that.
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  824. Its nice that Vox does not even feel the need to APPEAR to be neutral.
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  825. The increased use of extenders and plug strips came about largely because of the explosion in the quantity of small electronic devices, which tend to be low current devices. Thus having extenders plugged into extenders and full plug strips is not dangerous. All the plug strips I buy are equipped with breakers, and I buy long extender cords with reasonable gauges. Should the USA adopt better standards? Yea, but then we should be metric as well. Americans have never been impressed by arguments that we should join the rest of the world.
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  826. So Carl Sagan was a moron. What a shock...
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  827. Bat lives matter.
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  828. The 8086 series was a looser from the get-go. Software professionals preferred the cleaner architecture of the 68000 series, which did away with segmentation (a disease more than a technology). Indeed, the 8086 was in fact failing in the marketplace until IBM "rescued" it by using it in the IBM PC. That was the first crisis for the x86 family. The thing about segmentation is it is impossible to hide from higher level software. Even the language has to adapt to that hack, and indeed, C of the day had special features just to adapt to it. The result was that software was divided into x86 specific software and non-x86 software. Intel was happy about this because their users were non-portable. They doubled down on segmentation long after the size of chips enabled better architectures with the 80286, which could be explained as "you will like eating sh*t if we make it a standard". IBM again propped up the x86 family by releasing the IBM-PC/AT, which, even though it used the 80286, never saw wide use of a 80286 enabled operating system (cough OS/2). This carried x86 into the age of RISC. The x86 family entered its second crisis as improved 68000 processors, the Sparc and other RISC processors nipped at its heels. The introduction of the 80386 saved Intel, got rid of segmented mode, and allowed a Unix implementation of x86 for the first time. The next crisis for the x86 was when the series fell behind RISC processors in performance. Intel pulled off a genuine coup de gras by rearchitecting the x86 as an internal RISC that translated the crappy x86 instruction set to "ROPs" or internal RISC operations and made the CPU superscalar with Pentium. The final crisis for the x86 was when Intel tried to dump the dog of a CPU with Itanium, only to 180 again and join AMD with the "hammer" AMD64 bit arch. Now we are in the age of RISC-V. The x86 has become like a case of herpes, bad, but livable, and seemingly never to go away. We'll see.
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  829. I had that same walkman cassette tape player. It was built like a watch and barely bigger than the tapes it played. I used to show people by putting it into a cassette box. It finally died. I was very sad.
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  830. Simple. Ukraine goes nuclear. They have the material and the know how, thanks to the USSR. They would have to keep it very secret and announce it very suddenly, since Russia would bomb any development site. But that is the surest and easiest path to maintaining Ukrainian security.
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  831. I like the talk in general but I think a point is missed. The reason some of us, or even most of us, develop side projects outside of work is because: A. I would never have learned programming unless I did that, since they don't hire you to do jobs you have not done for quite a while, and B. You have to combat underemployment to stay relevant in software. What is the typical software job? You get hired and interview for development work, but then the actual job means getting to reduce the bug list on existing products. Development today is %10 new code and %90 fixing up code that does not work. The actual development jobs are handed out like plums to the "top programmers", or simply assigned by the luck of the draw, ie., who came to work there first. Those are the "legendary" programmers who invariably left for other companies, and often left a mess to be cleaned up by the next crew of programmers.
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  832. I say we give Iran several nuclear weapons free of charge. Preferably at hypersonic speeds...
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  833. I don't buy it. Tesla does not get the credit, its buyers do. Tesla's interest is in getting cars out the door and money in the bank.
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  834. Spain can't (apparently) keep itself in one piece. And you want the old empire to unite? Not likely.
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  835. Why do global warming alarmists not want nuclear power? Why, when you ask, do they still drive fossil fuel cars (when alternatives are available)? Why do they not have solar power at home? Simple explaination: they don't really believe the world will end in 10 years. Or 100.
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  836. If you don't show your subscriber numbers, then I don't hit subscribe. Why would I?
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  837. Sarnoff's main talent was taking credit for other people's work, stealing others inventions (like Farnsworth), and inventing imaginary accomplishments (like claiming he heard the Titanic sinking on radio). Do some digging, the history is all there.
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  838. Good for Russia. But they would save way more money by not starting wars with their neighbors.
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  839. Everything I buy here in San Jose, CA, is up dramatically. For me the CPI is complete nonsense.
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  840.  @GazzaDazzle  Probably depends on the level of disassembly. The mach-w19 keyboard has a small (about the size of a gnat) screw at each key location.
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  841. Its not too late. Tell Canada they can have it back...
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  842. He missed a point, which is the prisoner's families are compensated if they die in the war. They are set up to die.
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  843. So %2000 would be 20 times the price, right? So 18 million becomes 360 million, which is close to the 300 million the reporter on the right says nearby properties sold for. Where is the overvalue here?
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  844. I love parking. In San Jose (same place as Apple pictured here), we have plenty of it. A short drive north in San Francisco, there is basically no parking. They have contests to see who can find a parking spot. The quality of life is dramatically better here.
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  845. Led on a stick......mmmmmmmm.
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  846. I believe this tech will work, but only if the fuel is sealed into the SMR at the factory, and it is returned to the factory at end of life, and the onsite operators have strict instructions not to mess with it. This removes the major cause of errors, namely human. If this seems extreme, note that it is what we do in other industries. Modern jet aircraft are very complex, but nobody services the most complex element, the jet engine, on site. Engines are made easy to swap out and transport, and if anything even looks wrong with it, they swap the engine out for another and send the engine back to the manufacturer.
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  847. So if a Palestinian could prove that he/she owned property in Israel proper before 1948, and wanted to join Israel and recover their property, vowing allegiance to Israel and whatever is required, could they?
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  848. gotta love that shot of them carrying Jiang Zemin, one guy on each arm. That's how the secretary of the party ends, when you can't stand. Reminds me off Hillary Clinton.
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  849. "if California were a country, it would have the fifth largest economy" - don't worry, the California government is working hard to change that.
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  850. A society that is completely equal is a dead society, because there are no incentives. When socialists say "is it fair that CEOs earn X times the average worker" they are saying it should be up to government to determine who is paid what. For the argument that rich people have to much money look at Bill Gates with billions. Sure, he is giving all of that for "good causes". Was he using it for "bad causes" before? That money created 100's of thousands of jobs, and untold number of jobs from services and goods those people made use of. And yet now Bill is a "good guy" simply because creating jobs is not valued by the press.
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  851. Normalizing measurements across international boundaries for aviation is worthwhile. Everything else is arranged so you don't have to change when going from country to country. It reduces work and errors.
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  852. California's regulation on refining will simply result in higher prices as we import more fuel from elsewhere. Newsom might cry crocodile tears for that but there is a long history here of hounding "bad" industries out of the state, everything from surfboard manufacture to chrome plating to oil refining to explosives manufacture, the list goes on and on. The bottom line is California government thinks you can pay, and we keep voting for them, so apparently it be so.
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  853. Its a complete waste. Nobody is going to waste a missile on Switzerland.
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  854. There's also plenty of stories from American pilots who say that corporate will can them if they don't go ahead and fly with such "non-critical" malfunctions.
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  855. read what Elon Musk writes and get back to us (last time I checked, the World's richest man).
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  856. Nawwww.... too many teeth.
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  857. Again, why are they blurring out the faces of shoplifters? We are protecting who???
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  858. "they spent four years teaching kids to feel inadequate.... and succeeding at it".
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  859. I didn't say that.
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  860. I remember mp3 cd players. I bought one. It was interesting for about... 5 minutes. Putting mp3 on a mini hard disk make it look like a toy format.
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  861. You're going to cross 1 million!
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  862. Notice something about these Russians and the same kinds of questions asked in the USA. In the USA the kids are either knowledgeable about the subjects or don't care. The Russians clearly know a lot and care deeply about it, even if they are not that willing to talk about it. You just don't appreciate what you have until you don't have it anymore.
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  863. Nice, I liked the graphics. Subscribed.
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  864. Intel did good, they sold us second rate architectures for decades. But with the lapse of "king PC" the X86 arch is slowly falling. Intel had their chance to get into the ARM business and they punted it. They could take over RISC-V by simply showing up, but they won't do that either. They have literally tied themselves to the X86, and they will go down with it.
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  865. Soviet playbook. Educate your kids, and use them against you. "does your mommy or daddy not recycle properly? Tell us their names and address...".
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  866. And I though you were going to demo it with a suicide cord in hand standing in a bathtub with water in it.
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  867. 1. Universal basic income is communism warmed over and repackaged to look new to todays kids. 2. It will probably look very attractive to the next generations, who find history boring and are ripe and ready to repeat histories biggest mistakes. 3. UBI, as all socialist plans, rapidly devolves in practice to enforced communism. Those receiving it feel less and less incentive to work, while those paying it feel more and more incentive to avoid paying for it, or simply switch teams and become takers themselves. 4. With less and less people providing the income and more and more people taking it, the system rapidly goes out of balance unless more and more force is applied to take more and more from providers. This in turn increases flight from the provider class and accelerates the process in a loop. The final end of this is not good. It never is. It never will be. And yes, mankind is destined to repeat it. Over and over again.
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  868. Redistribution, a nice word for taking people's money and passing out to others, can be called "socialism" if done by the government. Communism is Socialism achieved by force. Since, the last time I checked, nobody works hard to get income and then voluntarily turns it over to the government, socialism is a fantasy and communism is the actual system being advocated. Are we "advancing past the need for economic systems of the past" as in, of course, capitalism? Humm. Socialism/communism is not a new system, has killed of massive numbers of people, has been "reintroduced" several times with a new coat of paint and ends the same: A little of it causes problems, a lot of it kills people. This is hardly an advance. It is hardly new. I'm sorry you don't feel like working, but that's not my problem, I work for a living. Go try it and quit bitching.
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  869. Client side scanning... it used to be called having a virus.
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  870. The most sensible end of the war is an agreement between Ukraine and Russia to continue the lease for Sevastopol to Russia as a black sea port. That's how things were since Ukraine won independence, and cutting Russia off from black sea access would simply leave Russia wanting to get that back - permanently.
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  871. That's the problem with monopolies. Once they control the market, they raise prices. Oh wait, they don't charge for Chrome! Never mind.
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  872. If you leave a pile of food out on the sidewalk, you get insects. If you leave a pile of government money out, you get lots of hands in it. Its not rocket science.
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  873. As a married man, I am happy with women remaining single... Actually, come to think of it that would work even if I was not married.
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  874. They cleaned up SF for Xi's visit.
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  875. Although the transistor was a stunning achievement, its doubtful the world would have been that much different without it. Vacuum tube technology was the rule until the early 1960's, and the technology was well understood and getting better rapidly. Most of the problems with it were being solved, and integrated circuits using vacuum tube principles not only were possible, but this was in fact done later because of some of the advantages with the technology, for examples in early flat panel displays. My guess is lack of solid state would have set the electronics industry back some 5 to 10 years.
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  876. This video is actually posted by a young guy living in Oregon who just wants old people to leave the west coast. Beware.
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  877. Even this is beating around the bush. What the employers want to know is "will you work all hours and sacrifice your health and family for this job". Old folks are far less likely to do that.
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  878. This is a fairly vacuous comparison. None of the BRICS nations are going to unite to form a force, and are in fact more likely to start wars with each other. Further, the real comparison, GDP per capita, is unmentioned here for the obvious reason: it is stacked in the favor of the USA, which is $57k, vs. Brazil $15k, Russia 26k, China $15k and South Africa $13k. The USA spends more money than other countries on defense because we have better technology than other forces and are more effective than others, again per capita, and that relationship to per capita GDP is not an accident. Finally, you have to consider the force equations of each of the respective countries. Russia and India devote a lot of their forces to counter china, but not each other, since they don't share a land border. China counters the USA in the pacific, but probably still reserves the majority of their forces for Russia and India, their bordering states. Brazil could effectively do without any military, since the only credible threat is Argentina, and nobody would take Brazil's territory even if it were offered free. South Africa has a large military but no credible enemies, which leads you to understand the real reason their large military exists, to control their own people. India does not consider the USA as a threat, quite the contrary they consider the USA an ally. Thus the net force facing the USA is China and Russia, and neither state seriously considers the USA to be an invasion threat. Thus I sleep well at night.
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  879. So if I understand correctly, they garroted the internal M.2 drive by giving it a two lane PCI, whereas the PCIE card mounted drive got double the performance due to four lanes of PCIe.
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  880. Just get a file and file down that bigger pin and "voila".... you can plug it in either way! Also works if you take a big pair of cutters and cut off the ground lug.
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  881. I think if TC man here made a video about dishwashers that you light on fire, that would have covered the subject matter for this year...
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  882. I didn't vote for that. California does not need to play with trains. We need to transport water, not people.
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  883.  @2ndPigeon  We don't NEED trains. We have fast and efficient air transport between LA and SF. Trains would be better suited to solving the housing issue, which CA government CAUSED, by establishing efficient transportation in and out of the metro areas, but the train was not designed to do that. Instead, it was designed to complete with the airlines WITH heavy government subsidies. And that the train was never capable of doing. So instead of WASTING money on the train, we could have been solving a REAL problem such as the water shortage here in CA.
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  884. With VOX my rule is "10 seconds to neutral". VOX does produce good content that is viewpoint neutral, but it is mixed in with biased garbage. If that shows up in the first 10 seconds of the video, I drop it.
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  885. "all the leo projects went bankrupt" but Elon won't go bankrupt. Why? Because he has unbelievably big huevos o' steel...
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  886. I'll bet the military arms workers there are producing under the threat that they will be sent to the front if they don't work faster...
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  887. Just stop generating CO2. The earth is more than capable of clearing the existing CO2, no charge.
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  888. ICs are virtually a space shot for civilization. Its both amazing that we can create such high tech objects, as well as amazing that simple biology can create machines that are orders of magnitude more complex, run at a fraction of the power, and can be created for the cost of a beer.
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  889. The weight of a pressure tank is a killer for aviation applications.
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  890. rrrrrright!
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  891. Deglobalization and tariffs, something both Biden and Trump agreed on. Biden kept the tariffs from the Trump administration, something the press just ignores. And it has helped... what? Its just make things more expensive in the USA. The reversal of the massive trade between USA and China has been affected more by downturns in the economy more than any tariff, and yet tariffs persist. And Biden is for producing more in the USA of everything except, curiously, oil, which must be imported. Its just another example of how government policy just screws things up.
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  892. And thus I offend the disciples of the religion of AI. And thus it is -- As the video says, the Google software is light on details. Much of AI, with some digging, is found to be conventional algorithms dressed up as AI. I have had a 50+ year career, and over and over again we have faced these "AI is around the corner" waves. Is it different this time? Certainly. The pay for AI experts has gone from nothing to a very high level. Formerly it was only academics. I'll apply "Franco's law" here: the "breakthroughs in AI could have been done by more conventional means, and if you look closely enough, probably are. Flame on!
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  893. there still is a basically unlimited supply of oil for plastics, especially if we stop burning it, and learn to effectively recycle it.
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  894. I charge up in 0 minutes. I come home, plug in, and forget about it. Last time I checked, you can't gas up a car at home.
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  895. I think it is worth mentioning jere that when John says "crashing", he means aborting the program, not literally crashing.
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  896. Yea I saw the other documentary on the water system: "Die hard".
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  897. What about rotary (safe type) padlocks?
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  898. As a fixed wing pilot, it seems that helis are already complex enough, and the Osprey added to that dramatically. Putting that kind of load on the pilot in this day and age is not necessary. The flight operations better worked out by computer and controlled by the pilot using simple up/down, yaw left/yaw right, forward and backward stick movements, then let the computer translate that to flight directions.
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  899. Neat animation. It just needs a bunch of little people with signs protesting around the plants.
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  900. We owe a great debt to Romney. He groveled before the democrats so obviously that it was clear to all republicans that the way we approach politics had to change. That incredible low point could go nowhere but up. Romney cared so much that people thought bad things about him. The other turning point, in my mind, was Newt Gingrich's turning around in the debate and attacking the moderators. Everyone was shocked... he went after the moderators! I think trump learned a lot from that. This is Matt at his best. I miss Matt from WMAL.
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  901. A large percentage of the rise in employment touted by the president is in the employ of government. Its basically a jobs program. It also increases the debt and increases inflation because the government is printing money to pay salaries for workers it does not really need.
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  902. Every time I have put work into giving reasonable estimates, I get pushback from management that it is too long. From my experience, management expects, without explicitly saying so or even realizing it, that debugging code will take essentially zero time. The reality is that it takes 80-90 percent of the time, its just that a lot of that time is hidden in fixes after the product ships. In my current project, which is open source, I stopped work to put in debuggability improvements into the code. After that, it is taking 1/3 the time to fix bugs in the code, probably saving the 2 weeks I put into the improvements several times over. There is NO WAY I would have been allowed to do that in a commercial project.
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  903.  @HealthyDev  🙂
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  904. I have met many programmers who claim their code is readable without comments. I have never met a programmer whose code is readable without comments.
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  905. PS before running off about how dangerous these toys can be, have a google on things like nailgun accidents, a real eye opener. When I was a kid you could get real chemistry sets. Now they have been dumbed down to the point of being completely useless. Ah well.
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  906. 100 rejection letters. Feh. Amateur.
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  907.  @jenniferburchill3658  probably nearing 1000.
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  908. Damm, that got you a subscribe...
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  909. The problem with Italy and Greece and perhaps Spain was they saw integration with the EU as free money, and used it to shore up their finances that were overburdened with too large a government sector. You can hardly blame them for this. This was, in fact, the candy dangled by the EU to get them to join. Then the financial crisis came, and to the PIGS shock, they found out that they would actually have to pay back those loans. The fact is that if the PIGSs were not in the EU, it would be doing much better now. I am not saying that should happen. Germany, of all the EU states, should understand well what is going on. Just as Germany absorbed its eastern side, the EU formed itself by passing out money, in the belief it would pay off in the long run. I still believe it will, but then I am not paying for it.
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  910. @Theuwaenig Is that Metric or Imperial length bananas....
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  911. "A/C systems are more economical than D/C".... welllll in old tech that was true. Transformers were easy to make, power came out of the generator in A/C, and the most common use of the power in the early 1900s was motors that ran on A/C. Now fast forward to today. Your power plug shrank. What happened? Well, copper is expensive, so anything that shrinks that is cool. Plus, power is lost in the transformer, which was what was in that heavy brick that used to power your laptop. In addition, generally you use D/C power in most of your house now. All the electronics, those LED lightbulbs, etc. Yep, all D/C. Electronics came to the rescue. Turns out if you use high power, high (er) frequency (than A/C at 60/50 hz) you can do the same power conversion with way way (way) less copper or even no copper at all. Plus, it is way easier to perform high power conversion now, even at high voltages. Thus things are changing, rapidly. There is a good chance that many or even most lighting systems will go DC as distributed on DC feeder lines. This is already true in some large offices and industrial concerns. This is because a lot of the power used in LED lighting is used in the conversion from A/C to D/C. Want to prove this to yourself? Go find a screw in LED lamp in your house. Feel the glass where the light comes out. Now feel the base (don't touch the metal). The base is hotter isn't it? That is where the A/C to D/C converter is.
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  912. Dip sh*ts. wrong country.
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  913. Korolev, the guy who launched Sputnik, died when the doctor performing surgery on him showed up drunk. Sad.
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  914. "you have unpaid taxes. Disabling your car until these are paid".
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  915. Besides the white LED, blue LEDs enabled Bluray and the high definition revolution. It was a big, big, big (big) deal.
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  916. Kit Vitae: Its fairly cheap to retrofit if there is already a a dam lower that is fed from an upper dam. The cost is for the pumps and piping that moves the water back uphill. The most common situation, for example in California is high dams like lake Shasta which feeds lowland reservoirs that don't generate power because the water has nowhere to "fall". However, that is not always necessary. Because the water is pumped uphill, it creates a possibility for new reservoirs where none made sense before. A dam can be created in hills that have no natural rainfall, and filled from water that is being transported along a pipeline. Then, the water is essentially just being stored for later use, as well as storing power. This has an added bonus in that it gives a new way to store water. For example, again in California, a lot of the rainfall goes out to sea because we don't have the capacity to store it.
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  917. Kit Vitae: We will agree to disagree here. This implies a level of trust in government that I don't have. By the way, its already being done in southern California: https://www.nap.edu/read/4780/chapter/8
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  918. "looking at the viewers of this video, %50 had tower computers, and the other computer types added up to %50"...amazing.
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  919. The "pile on effect" is countries using the fact that others are occupied with a war elsewhere to solve grievances and gain territory. Its what caused the world wars and its dangerous AF.
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  920. Its a good overview. Just a couple of comments: 1. The very act of having the shorts buy back stock at a higher price makes the stock move upward as well, increasing the damage for shorts who don't sell. This produces panic to sell. Its balanced by the belief that the stock will peak and head back down, meaning some short will hold on to the stock. 2. Robinhood's trading stop didn't really work. Other brokers still traded the stock. 3. Stocks aren't just up to whim for value. Eventually, a stock price will return to fundamentals. The company either can or cannot actually produce a profit. Certainly people can get tulipmania, but eventually it crashes and there is a reckoning. In fact, betting that a bubble in a stock is happening and betting against it can be quite profitable.
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  921. In california, at least, there is lots of land in the foothills that is not used (not populated, not forested). Further, the windmills don't impact farmland (since you can farm under them), and the fields are so big that they are far from houses. This seems like pure scare tactics to me. Go look at all the land in California that has seas of oil pumps as far as the eye can see.
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  922. Actually, the key takeaway is that western civilization is trying to kill itself on the same level as the Romans did with lead. We put TONS of sugar in our food and the result is type II diabetes is rocketing out of sight.
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  923. The democratic monopoly in CA is destroying the prosperity of the state.
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  924. This is what happened in Venezuela. The government turned a blind eye to crime, and gangs started taking over private businesses. Its backdoor communism. "no sympathy for those rich business owners".
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  925. "inspired". Lovin' it.
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  926. Uh oh, another one communique is com - yoon - e - kay. Its French.
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  927. We need to talk to the real experts on dam building: The beavers.
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  928. "the PRC wants to wait until the ROC wants reunification", NO, emperor Xi wants to wait until the USA is preoccupied and attack Taiwan and take it by force. And Xi is getting closer to that goal every day. Just look at what happened to Hong Kong. China now has "conventional ballistic" capabilities which are ICBMs repurposed with non-nuclear warheads and are designed to take out any ship that could aid Taiwan (USA carriers have automated Phalinx systems that can take out conventional cruise missiles). Xi wants his legacy to include taking on the children of Chang Kai-Shek and reunification by force. In the process whinny the poo will bring the world to the brink of WWIII.
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  929. These aren't even cleverly hidden gotha questions... Its completely obvious this is a hostile interviewer. Not like NBC had a lot of credibility to lose.
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  930. The last time I developed film I used highly advanced Walgreen technology. Geez, no wonder we dropped film tech like a hot rock.
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  931. "percentage of men who take the paternity test".... tends to bias the result.
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  932. Because Russia/USSR has been the greatest recruiting organization for NATO there is. They have most of Europe and are marching into the edge of the old USSR. Ukraine will be NATO after they get off their knees and climb up the GDP ladder again. No not next week, but in 30-50 years.
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  933. Comments: 1. Most of the Harris ranch chargers you mention are not up yet. I was just there, they are taped off. 2. Opening up the chargers to other cars is not good move for Tesla owners. It means more charger congestion, and also one reason Tesla chargers work so well is the payments system, just plug and go. Other cars would have to have the user swipe a card or other means, which means that the use of chargers slows down while other cars than Tesla fumble with the payment system. 3. Actually the biggest power grid provider is already there as the so called vtg or vehicle to grid pushed by Emotorwerks and other charger makers. The idea was that cars plugged into these chargers would be able to give power back to the grid, making it immediately the largest total battery capacity on the grid. In practice the idea has not taken off.
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  934. Exabyte was founded to record digital data on videotape for backup in 1985. They went fairly rapidly to 8mm video cartridges, as opposed to full size VHS, in 1987 (dates according to Wikipedia). The 8mm format had been introduced in 1984. DAT tapes were a similar if slightly smaller format, and indeed Exabyte bought my company, R-Byte, which made a DAT tape drive, in 1992. None of that occurred in a vacuum. QIC tape drives were introduced by 3m in 1972 (again Wikipedia), and although they didn't store Exabyte level densities, they were from 20mb to 400mb in later versions. So video tape as data storage had a competitor. Tape storage, going back into the open reel computer days, was generally used as computer backup on bigger machines and didn't come to PCs until the QIC days. Writable CDs were supposed to take over as a backup medium, but what actually happened is disc drives became so cheap for unit of storage that it made more sense to just purchase more drives and use them as backup, hence NAS or network attached storage and data vaults. Now, companies are just as likely to ship backup data to cloud companies.
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  935. In other news, the San Francisco zoo shut down because there is no longer a difference between the animals inside and outside of the zoo.
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  936. hydrogen, hydrogen. First of all, hydrogen is not a fuel. It is simply a way to transfer energy. Second, by the time you solve all the issues with practical use of it in aircraft, pressurized vessels, the resulting weight of such vessels, insulating them, not being able to put them in wings, etc, etc., it does not look so attractive anymore. By the time the technology advances, electric batteries for aircraft use are going to be just as far along, if not farther. I suspect decarbonisasion of aircraft is going to proceed by dividing short haul from long haul aircraft, electrifing the former, then using a solution like plant derived fuel for the latter. The airline industry has been trained to think only in terms of long haul. If I want to go from my house, in San Jose, CA, to my kids house in Eugene, Oregon, a search on the airline sites gives a path through Denver. So I would need to travel half the length of the USA, then back again, just to reach another destination on the same coast. If you take out the hub and spoke model and stop treating people like cattle being shipped to market, and get people from their ACTUAL hometowns to their ACTUAL destinations (not to and from a HUB AIRPORT), you can do it with less travel time, less energy, slower aircraft, and make customers happy. There WAS an airline providing service from here to Eugene. Directly. From Alaska airlines. It used turboprop aircraft, and perhaps took twice as long as a jet would, but certainly less time than a tour of Denver would (and waiting for a connecting flight there). And that turboprop aircraft is possible to replace with a pure electric aircraft, including batteries in the wings. The airline industry is like a shoe company that only sells size 6 shoes and works by hammering the shoes onto your feet until they fit (and then you limp out of there).
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  937. If that is really Lenin...
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  938. You said BSD was more permissive than Linux.... hehe.
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  939. 1:49 Why is the ships bridge bouncing up and down? I must have missed this feature on ships.
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  940. It wasn't a law, it was an observation.
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  941. Simplified: We are stupid.
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  942. PSH is very scalable. The greens are against it. Same problem as always. More reservoirs, more opposition. Near me is the San Luis reservoir in California. It has no real natural inflows, it is fed by pumping water up into it from the aqueduct, and then letting it flow back downhill to generate power. Its a big battery, and it is also useful to store water. California desperately needs both facilities. We generate a lot of excess power from wind that is wasted, and much of the water that flows from the mountains here is simply dumped into the ocean. So why don't they build more San Luis reservoirs? Because in California, there is a large group of "green" lobbyists who are against it. A simple measure that would allow the biggest reservoir in the state, Shasta dam, to increase its height and thus its capacity (an existing reservoir!) ran into critical opposition. What do the greens want? They want Shasta gone, and all the rest of the reservoirs gone as well. ie., restore the land to natural state. Not enough water for people? Stop development so people move away. Etc. The greens SAY they are for carbon free power, but then do everything they can to prevent it from practical implementation.
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  943. Vasectomies are reversible, are much less destructive than tube ties, and can be applied after you bagged your limit. They also cut down on arguments. Its a good solution.
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  944. Putting people on the federal payroll and expecting them to be for lean and efficient government is like hiring overweight people at the cheesecake factory and expecting them to back diet plans.
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  945. This boots 64 bit linux, or 32? or both? I need a 32 bit development system for an embedded target.
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  946.  @youtwobe3507  The A76 will support 32 bit mode, but that does not mean they made a 32 bit Debian for the SBC. 32 bit mode is more important for ARM than x86 processors. ARM is embedded everywhere, x86 not so much. And the standard embedded system is 32 bits, and probably will be for decades.
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  947. And those 5 jews are *nervous*.
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  948. So they divorced color temperature from brightness.... that's a good thing. What you want is a color adjustable bulb.
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  949. TIme to put Greta Thundberg and Matt Ridley in the same room and watch sparks fly...
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  950. Puck Futin!
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  951. The people who like these are the same ones who claim you can make the room cooler by turning off the lights. Enough said.
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  952. We had the electric version for about a year. Ended up transferring the lease to someone else. Just ran into too many practical problems with the car. We were constantly having to trade for another car with more seats and space.
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  953. Seems like Boeing has learned a lot from the UK space and aviation programs.
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  954. Don't publish the name of the shooter. Some responsible reporters have already started to do that. Have them cremated so that there is no gravestone. Stop going into endless deep dives into the lives of the shooters, the victims are the ones that should get the attention. However, there is a lot more we can do in terms of shooter psychology. Most of these shootings are anti-social teenagers. A kid who likes to wear black and reads "mein kampf" needs help, not new age "let them be" nonsense. Finally, allow teachers to carry concealed. Everywhere. This has been totally misconstrued as "making teachers carry" or "encouraging shootouts". It is none of that. It is simply about creating doubt in the minds of shooters that they will be able to complete their plans. The most successful times a shooting has been stopped is the shooter getting shot in the back. Concealed carry is not about being a hero, its about stopping threats any way possible.
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  955. Starlink!
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  956. California is an island, geographically and politically. I'm currently sitting in Kauai, which does not appear to care about waste of either water or power. The water surplus is obvious on Kauai if you are trying to stay dry here. The power surplus is largely due to solar power, which the power company made obvious by rejecting new requests from homeowners to connect their solar panels to the power grid due to overloading from the existing power surplus. So why isn't California the beneficiary of the same principles? For water they have turned down all efforts to modernize the water system and collect the water falling on the state, even though it is far in excess of the needs of California, even with the incredible waste of it by well connected agricultural interests. For power, California leads the nation in both power company solar sites and individual houses with solar, but manages to be on a upward spiral of prices for it even though solar is now cheaper than most power sources. The issue is our socialist government, which generated a huge surplus under Governor brown by dramatically increasing taxes and fees for everything under the sun. You pay fees here for sitting down at a restaurant vs. take out, you pay fees to buy computer monitors, and the purpose of that fee was to dispose of the lead in computer monitors. What lead you say? Yes, Virgina, computer monitors used to have lead in them. The commuter lanes put in to ease traffic are now being sold to the highest bidder. The list goes on and on. So California had a surplus from all of those fees and taxes. Where is it? Its in bureaucratic waste, government workers retirement and salaries, etc. It doesn't matter how much money the government takes in, it will spend that and more. CA has already instituted universal heath care via "Covered California" and will institute universal basic income when it thinks they can get away with it, despite the fact that any reasonable payments of UBI will still leave people homeless.
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  957. Underground lava tubes. Both on the moon and Mars.
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  958. And this is how you get ahead in England...
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  959.  @sulljason  " It's kind of like 75% on the kid" congratulations, that is the stupidest thing I have read on the internet this year. Its the 6 year old's fault. Do the world a favor and NEVER have kids.
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  960. You are becoming a new version of "the secret life of machines".
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  961. This is stupid. The major part of internet traffic is encrypted now.
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  962. The specifics is that Petro didn't like the look of the Colombians arriving in shackles. There were people who had committed murder among them, and so it was obvious why they were in shackles. Thus Petro changed to taking the Colombians back on Colombian aircraft. I got the most valuable export of Colombia at my house. Namely my wife. And she DOES NOT LIKE petro, and cannot wait for him to leave office.
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  963. There is no conflict in going back in time. Do a simple thought exercise. Travel to the future. You are doing that right now. Pick a target, say, an hour from now. You can choose several different futures. You could get in your car, go somewhere, rob a bank, shoot yourself, etc. Any number of different futures. Since there are N different futures you can pick from, it stands to reason there are N paths to get from any past to your present NOW. If you travel to the past, manage to find that past (out of all the possible pasts), that have a hitler ready to take on the world, and kill him, then you would not be coming back to this future again but a different one. The difference is if you believe there is ONLY one past and ONE future. Since you already believe that there are N different futures, your belief that there is only ONE possible past is not a reasonable belief.
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  964. Congratulations on pronouncing Kiev properly. I am really irritated that the American newscasters can't seem to get it right!
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  965. I have had many times when I couldn't get the environment setup for whatever reason. You don't go play games. You find a nice coworker who will let you view their setup while you are trying to get yours to work. Oh, and Tom is a genius.
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  966.  @michaellau5329  Didn't follow that at all. Two chips in a package with X and Y heat generation somehow is not X+Y? New math?
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  967. I it would probably help not to have a recent track record of killing off mass numbers of our own kind.
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  968. Socialism is not an economic model.
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  969. Typical socialist government nonsense. Santa Cruz did something like this in Nor Cal, they wanted to force people to use mass transit to get to the beach because the traffic though town was overwhelming. So they made the main routine to the beach one way - to the beach only. The result should have been predictable: long lines of traffic going FROM the beach snaking though the residential neighborhood. The residents were standing outside watching it in disbelief. It lasted I think one summer before the idiot socialist city government removed the one way restriction.
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  970. The future is we will all be buying things from vending machines.
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  971. Very well done, thanks.
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  972. Socialist.
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  973. The fact that Turkey is not in the EU says it all. The EU will baulk at accepting a dictatorship as an EU member state. Also, if Turkey were an EU state, the EU would have two countries, Greece and Turkey, in a cold state of war with each other.
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  974. The import of flat memory model for the 80386 was that it got rid of the segmented model for programs larger than 64kb. In that amazingly stupid model, it was necessary even to custom design C programs just to run on the 8086-80286 CPUs, in the form of segmented declaration and management. This prevented, for example, a port of Unix onto the 8086-80286 CPUs. If they hadn't done that (introduced flat model), other CPUs would have taken over from Intel's CPU line, since microprocessors were taking over from Minicomputers and workstations. Intel initially embraced the segmented model as it prevented customers from easily migrating to other CPUs, since the programs would have to be redesigned, but with the rise of workstations based on RISC and 68k cpus, it became clear that it would prevent a lot of programs from being ported TO the 80x86 family just as it would prevent porting FROM the 80x86 family. It worked! 80x86 CPUs eventually killed off the workstation (and later server) market just based on cost. And this is long before the age of ARM.
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  975. Public financing of higher education is NOT like funding the military or other public good. The people who go on to college are, in general, more well off than others. Public financing would not change that, since most of the cost of college is in lost income. You can't hold a meaningful full time job and go to college at the same time. Thus, this is, as Milton Freedman said, a case of lower income people funding richer people.
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  976. My god, my doctor didn't even give me a reasonable description of the action of Lantus as is in this video. This was very valuable. I know as a type II I should feel guilty about using insulin, but after trying different drugs for years with a gradual loss of control over the condition, but with Lantus its finally under positive control. Ozempic, my former drug, was a bear for side effects and was getting impossible to find due to TikTok (thanks). I am glad not to use it now.
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  977. Agreed to go back to sticks and stones.... pretty sure this was a Startrek episode.
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  978. The biggest advantage of the US military is: capitalism and freedom.
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  979. Russia doesn't need ICBMs to hit Kiev. That is a threat to the EU/US. If the US wants to play Putin's little game we could replay some MIRV tests, or better yet start matching Russia one for one with mobile launcher deployments to Poland.
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  980. Which headsets feature voice recognition?
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  981. Yes, I used to buy 5 year old cars because I could not afford a new one. There is a reason car warranties expire at around the 3-5 year mark. Those cars typically self destruct within another 2-5 years, and you get a dead loss on the car. There is a reason people get rid of cars. Besides being of an age that the car is starting to show problems, you are also much more likely to get a car that has shown repair issues not revealed by the owner, who is under no legal obligation to show the repair record. The standard practice with many owners is if the car needs repair, do the repair then sell it, since it would be a dead loss otherwise. After I changed to purchasing new cars later in life when I could afford it, I have had virtually zero maintenance problems on my cars. Some of that is cars are getting more reliable. However, much of it is because I perform regular maintenance on my cars without fail. I KNOW where the car has been and I know of any issues with the car since it came from the factory.
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  982. The plants on earth are capable of pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and restoring balance IF we stop dumping it back in. The plants were the ones that created the atmosphere in the first place, and deposited the carbon removed from the atmosphere below ground, storing both carbon and power. All of that originally came from the sun, and we can get it from the sun as well, though wind and direct sunlight. The only other power source on earth is nuclear, which we can extract from geothermal sources (yes, francine, that power came from nuclear sources inside the earth) or directly from fission or fusion. In my opinion it is most cost effective, in the long run, is extraction via direct solar, indirect via offshore wind, and indirect via geothermal. Any use of carbon based energy from the ground is not renewable, and will eventually kill us. We CAN form a balanced and sustainable energy economy.
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  983. Emperor Xi knows all about power. His first business venture was selling dried cow dung for cooking fuel...
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  984. I disagree with the premise. Wind and solar are far cheaper, and the problem of intermittency will get solved with large scale batteries. In the meantime, peaker plants running on natural gas are cheap, and can be throttled or shut down and restarted. Nuclear plants are none of that.
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  985. I tip 15% Always, the same. If there is no 15% option, they get to wait so I can pull out a calculator and figure out what it is. If I am at the register, and the tip is for the cashier to do their %&&* JOB, then its simple. No tip. Does the bill say that a tip was already included? Then you got your tip. The newpapers have articles saying that those "mandatory tips" don't get passed on to the wait staff. Too bad. Take it up with your ripoff employer and leave me out of it.
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  986. Lets make America safe for socialism!
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  987. Wow! Windows sucks on an ARM, too!
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  988. So did whites attend Negro League baseball games?
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  989. Export power to yourself. Install a battery. The sun shines when you are at work, then you come home and use power after the sun goes down. Having no battery is fundamentally out of whack.
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  990.  @jamesowens7176  I'd agree but several large companies tried for decades to create technology that either fed fuel cells directly from methane or "cracked" methane into hydrogen and carbon, then ran the engine off the hydrogen. Its he same issue they have gone around and around. You have to do something with the carbon you separate even if it does work, and you can avoid it all by just burning the methane directly in any case.
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  991.  @climeaware4814  And NG is the lesser of those fuels. So you prefer chasing imaginary fuels to real solutions. This is how Germany ended up burning coal.
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  992.  @climeaware4814  NG makes the ideal backup for solar and wind when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. There are compact NG power generation plants that can be turned on in a moments notice. The other sources of backup like nuclear and pumped hydrostorage both have been targeted by the greens. This is not rational.
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  993. The government owning everything and then letting you use it on occasion is just the honest description of how socialism actually works.
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  994. Naw, Mao made Stalin look like an amateur at killing people, with at least 30 million.
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  995. Yea I noticed that. However, the Russians took Mariupol to enable that very supply route, and taking it back would effectively end that, since Russia would not be able to move on the roads there anymore. The bad news of course is that Mariupol is not going to be a city anytime soon no matter who holds it.
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  996. My favorite is when the allies bombed Saddam Hussein's airfields, they would repair the runways, then paint fake holes in the same runways. Meaning you already bombed here, and it was not repaired.
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  997. Now do how Idaho managed to push potatoes into every food in the world. Or how corn goes into everything including your car.
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  998. And the Russians say: when you feel mush, push.
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  999. I call what is discussed here "traverse refactoring", that is, rearranging the code or adding routines to the code to support an upcoming feature, but that does not completely implement it. I break this down into two types: 1. Refactoring the code to make it easier to support an upcoming feature. 2. Adding routines/classes needed by the new feature. Both of these don't break the code, and thus can be committed to mainline without affecting it. And perhaps equally important, these improvements can be removed if they don't work out. The reason I call this traverse refactoring is from mountain climbing. If you are climbing up the face of a rock and realize it is going to be too difficult, you move sideways or "traverse" the rock face to find a position where continuing upwards is easier. A few comments on other items described in the video: Feature branching is an invitation to rebase hell. I have never been on a project with a significant amount of people (>3) where the code was not falling behind rapidly. This means rebasing, either frequently or all bunched up just before the merge. Having "flags in the code"... this makes my head hurt. Two flags means 4 combinations. Three means 8, 4 means 16 combinations, etc. IE., you rapidly lose control of the codebase. Further, most of the code in a feature does not affect other code, meaning that you are only including it in tests (and in compiles if you are #ifdefing!) if the flag is on. Yes this method is common. No I am not a fan.
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  1000.  @ContinuousDelivery  There are a few parallels. Belaying is the idea of letting a climber go up above the current, secured position to plant the next piton in the rock, while another climber stands by to catch the climber by rope if he falls, directly Analogous to committing and developing and testing new code. Naw, I did some free climbing, but never rope climbing. You hang out with rope climbers and they all talk about friends they lost climbing. Pass!
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  1001. Why stop at 2?
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  1002. "sudo su". Why? Because I mod the sudoers file to let me sudo without a password, so it is a su without a password.
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  1003. That was one idea of bitcoin, that there would be a system of payments outside the control of government, indeed, of any government. I know hackers who believe that they are the new wave of resistance against government control.
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  1004. 120,000 wafers at what, about 300-500 yield per wafer is about 60 million chips. These guys print money.
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  1005. Wait till our little budding socialists find out that UBI won't pay for all those toys in the real world...
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  1006. Mmmm... the twilight zone ride at Disneyland is also an indoor drop (being both up and down).
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  1007. As long as AMLO is in office, nothing will change. Colombia solved their cartel issues with a simple dictum: you can surrender, or get shot. AMLO wants to hug them instead.
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  1008. I have a Tesla model 3. We have 250kWh chargers here locally now, which means a full/%80 charge in 30 minutes flat. I have a Tesla wall charger at home. Now, how many times a year do I use the fast charger? 25 times? 30 times? How about usually less than 3 times a year. Less during Covid, for obvious reasons. Even on long trips, usually I "pump up" the charge before leaving (to %100), then even on long trips I only have to charge one time on the road. How long do I spend waiting for a charger while on those long trips? Usually 0 minutes, 0 seconds. Why? Because we have to eat. And finding a charger with a restaurant next to it is a no-brainer. So how long have I actually waited to charge my car since buying it in 2018? about 0 minutes, 0 seconds. This issue of charging time is way overblown by people WHO DON'T OWN EVS. If you actually own one, and have reasonably used it, the answer is: charging time is a total non-issue.
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  1009. If an experiment proves reality does not exist, isn't the experiment, by definition, invalid?
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  1010. How about go back to glass jars and get rid of plastic water bottles? That's like %90 right there. Sorry if I want water, I go drink some. I have no urge to open a new bottle, half of which nobody drinks anyways, after it gets room temperature.
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  1011. This is not socialism, this is re attributing public works to socialism. The difference is simple. Try taking these bits of "socialisim" home with you, go out and take a park bench home, or a stop sign, etc. Money for public works goes into public works. Money that is redistributed from you to people who don't feel like working hard is theirs to keep. Its really simple. The people trying to conflate these values think you are stupid enough to believe it. With the state of today's schools they may be right.
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  1012. The issue I have had with tech lead is that people view it as a stepping stone to group manager. Thus sometimes it gets given to people who are just power climbing, and don't really know what they are doing.
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  1013. No Vaxx people have choosen to get sick. Stupidity is its own punishment.
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  1014. I read quora on occasion, but it is mostly just annoying. The dates on the material it sends you (without asking) is very old. It also pushes questions "to be answered" to you that have been already answered many times. Finally, it pushes questions to you that are unbelievably stupid and look completely made up to generate traffic (what is gcc used for? how do you run gcc). I'm a programmer. There are way better Q&A sites than quora.
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  1015. Small additions: the Atlantic and Pacific are at two different levels at Panama, so the "sea level" canal was never going to work, since "sea level" was relative. Also, the USA had long experience with building locks to compensate for different water levels with the Erie canal connecting the great lakes, which differed in level. Finally, the Panama lock system is powered by the huge and constant rainfall there. The same thing that was killing the French era workers, water everywhere, was what made the lock system work in the long run.
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  1016. You are not SERIOUSLY going to sell this canard. Nobody is going to buy an expensive EV car and tether it to their house. People have to go to work. Give it up.
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  1017. Then pass the infrastructure bill, libs. How simple is that.
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  1018.  @Deepinjersey1  They, didn't. The libs lined up against the bill. The sane people carried the vote.
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  1019. So this time the luddies want to push socialism to enable them to stay stupid. NOT BUYING IT. Put down the joint and pick up a BOOK losers.
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  1020.  @III-jk4dz  Ummmm... wow. Didn't read about that in the history books. I like the "during the war, allies repeatedly bombed Switzerland". That'll teach you to make those stupid watches...
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  1021. Back to 1985...
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  1022. The California government needs to go into productive partnership with logging interests, instead of just beating up on them to gain "green" votes. I'm not holding my breath.
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  1023. "it would be good if government just got out of education" Which is never happened before, and never will.
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  1024. Suggestion: don't just interview people from Venezuela about what happened and why they got out. Ask them if they voted for Chavez. Ask them if they still think socialism is a good idea and would vote for it. You might be surprised at the answer.
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  1025. A tie in with IEEE Spectrum and the final approach to 1m subs. I watched your channel grow You truly made it. Congratulations.
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  1026. Te hatch ah pi .... tehachapi.
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  1027.  @Gryph01  There was a good story like that which was written up in the Wall st. journal. In Los Angeles, we used to say wouldn't it be a good idea to send the gang bangers off to war, they would make good soldiers. Well, there was a case where a gang member got shipped off to Afghanistan to fight. Turns out he would get up in the middle of the night, slip out of the base, and go on a rampage of raping and killing the locals. He went up on charges. The moral of that story being perhaps that even if Russia invaded Chicago, the bad folks there may or may not stop killing each other long enough to fight the invaders.
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  1028. Ask JP about dating, get advice about dealing with psychopaths... Interesting.
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  1029. What would happen? You would spread fallout everywhere.
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  1030. The wolfman will lose to the embedded Peronists. Argentina is a lesson in what the democrats will ultimately do to the USA if they stay in power.
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  1031. Hint from my last build: if you get individual USB connectors for components that need a USB hookup, like the Corsair AIO and their power supply, they give you a connector for the MB that is only half occupied, so you are not using both channels of the USB. I got a Corsair power supply an AIO with separate connectors. I took the pins from out of one of the connectors, and put then into the other connector (the unoccupied holes). Be sure to match colors. The result is a dual plug that feeds both of these channels.
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  1032. The REAL reason people would want to hack meters is to get free power. The power company has monitors for how much power is fed to parts of the city. If the tally of all the meters in that part don't match the total power, they will start looking for you.
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  1033. I asked for a refund for NY in April that I placed last year.They eventually refunded, but not until after treating me like dirt. I'm not risking my money with them again. Ever. As for the host I canceled on, I have ZERO sympathy. I never heard from them. I was more than happy to shift the booking until later in the year, which I thought was quite reasonable. I would have been essentially floating a loan to keep them out of problems. But they kept on insisting on collecting the full cancellation fee.
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  1034. Linux crashes too.
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  1035. After we solve the folding problem, we need to move to the spindle and mutilate problems...
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  1036.  @SpectatorAlius  What is the difference between bending and folding???
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  1037. Three points (why Model 3 beats Bolt): 1. Styling. 2. Tech. 3. Charging infrastructure. I have both cars. That's the basics.
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  1038. I like your channel, its good information. However, the presentation comes off as a bit unprofessional. I think your working from a script vs. ad-libbing (as it appears you do) would be a big improvement.
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  1039. This video is making me hungry...
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  1040. In the far far future the car will be found by future space travelers who will steal the wheels and cut up the upholstery...
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  1041.  @mrmotofy  Not PG&E.
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  1042. Lets see: 1. I don't like auto formatters. I have actually pulled down the source for GNU indent and modified it for site requirements, and then automated it for commits. However that was a company that had lost control of their source, with many programmers with odd styles who had left the company and left the source in very bad state. I personally am very picky about my code formatting, and the last thing I want to see is an auto formatter redo everything. 2. I love your point about finishing work. I should add that most of the time this is not a programmer issue, but a management issue. You want to get something working to show management/clients, and despite many warnings about the code needing improvement, management wants you to move on to the next project. 3. Building time into a project for documentation, debug and test: I think that needs to be accounted for. Nobody seems to build time in for debugging, even though that is %50 or more of the work. Scheduling for management with hand waving about needing extra time is a recipe for managers cutting down your schedule. One story that touched on what you said is I had a fairly intensive parser to process design files. I have done compilers before, and have a very well defined set of procedures I use to Lex the file before processing it. I handed it off to another programmer to add a feature, and he was taking a serious amount of time to do it. I didn't want to micromanage, and he was not my employee in any case, so I just made the standard inquiries about how much time it was taking. When he was done and handed over the work, he had rewritten all of the parsing front end using scanf() statements, an effort far in excess of the actual feature work required. Asked why he said "I didn't understand what you did".
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  1043.  @bud_kleric2771  I don't have a problem. I was born in this state. You guys came here from other states to scoop up some gold (good paying jobs), then you voted for idiot democrats who are ruining MY STATE. Get STUFFED. Can't buy a house? Too sad, too bad. LEAVE.
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  1044. The kids today are voting for socialist candidates and exposing socialism in general, so its hard to be sympathetic.
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  1045. Type security made a major comeback in the 90's. Mostly due to Java. Rust is the latest invocation of that.
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  1046. "when is the last human"... depends on if we can talk the robot overlords into sparing us.
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  1047. "why has antifa become a bogeyman" perhaps because they show up in masks and beat people up????
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  1048. You have Colombia as red. Its not, its brown.
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  1049. Dude... seek help.
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  1050. Its called a "backronym".
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  1051. Meh The signal for turning in the USA driving slow(er) and hugging the side of the lane whose direction you are going to turn.
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  1052. Near 10,000 comments. Half the people complaining here in the comments are going to go vote for Democrats. And that's the issue. Democrats didn't used to be socialists. If you stop voting for them until they clean up their act, the democrat party will go back to what it was, and fast.
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  1053. Fine. Joe Biden may not be a radical. But he has the lifetime of a warm banana, and his brain left town already. We need to ask what Kamala Harris's america will look like. And I am scared.
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  1054. Josh is getting better at this.
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  1055. The answers are "no" to all, but Dave Rubin is, in fact, scary.
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  1056. Ooooohhhhh, thanks. I haven't seen Triclor for years, they outlawed it in California. Now I know where to find it. I used to be able to buy it by the gallon can in electronics store. Great electronics cleaner.
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  1057. This is classic compressive spalling. To such a compressive shock, a glass ball can be very hard. Recall that glass is actually a liquid, abet a very slowly moving one (there are examples of Roman glass vases that have slowly collapsed under a load). Thus for microseconds, the ball is, essentially, bulletproof. However, the impact sets up powerful shockwaves in the glass. It compresses, and then rebounds. That rebound contains enough force to break the glass off the surface in sheets (spalling), because the glass is more able to resist the force compressing it than the counterwave expanding outwards. The waves can go anywhere in the glass, including to the opposite side. The shape of the glass probably focused the waves to the opposite side. I have observed a similar effect when hitting bottles with a lead pellet gun. The pellet is deformed in the shape of the bottle, and this matches what I saw, abet in very rapid succession. The lead pellet hits the bottle, is completely stopped, and drops off the bottle. However, the shock waves criscross the bottle, and it shatters from the force of the shockwaves. I observed that because I saw a short period of time between the time the pellet hit the bottle, and the time the bottle shattered.
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  1058. Yes, I am on Ukraine's side, but I don't think threatening Sevastopol was a good idea, and I suspect any deal to end the war should include a lease on it again, probably permanently.
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  1059. And unmentioned here is that the party wanting to impeach or remove has spent the last 4 years picking up every rock they could find and throwing it at the president. It goes to the SERIOUSNESS of the complainers, and the complaint itself.
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  1060. What people keep forgetting with regards to electric aircraft is that in gas powered aircraft the weight of the fuel goes to zero as you fly. With batteries, the landing weight is the same as the takeoff weight.
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  1061. Good video. Only missing the groups of Indian protesters...
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  1062. If Yahoo had bought Google, it would not have been Google.
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  1063. I agree with most of what you said, but in our area, and probably most areas of the USA, the temperature, even on 90 degree days, drops into the 60s. It makes no sense to run air conditioning when the outside is that cold. You get the same effect, including storing cold air in the house, simply by drawing the cold air outside into the house. For that I have a "whole house fan" that actually goes one better. It both draws cold air into the house at night, and expels hot air from the attic at the same time. The result is that the house is considerably cooler by morning, and then you shut the windows to keep it that way. In this way, I usually manage to keep the house in the 70s until about 3pm even on 90 degree days. But then I turn the A/C on.
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  1064. Socialism is a religion. It does not like competition.
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  1065. What about Greenland???
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  1066. Sounds like it just transfers the wear/dust to the pads.
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  1067. Very impressive. PS ball screws don't have appreciable backlash. I could see this being used to make a plastic sheet vacuum die.
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  1068. Electric water heaters are the least efficient, followed by gas water heaters, then on demand heaters. Good luck finding an electric on demand heater of any size. The vast majority of them are small under sink units. The most efficient are heat pump water heaters, but then you are back to storing the energy in a big tank. The least cost heaters are solar, but not that much better, because you have to pay to operate the circulation pump. The energy storage capability of a tank of water is impressive. I worked in a building that had air conditioning from this principle in The San Fernando valley outside of LA. It gets over 100 degrees F every day all summer. The air conditioning worked by storing water in the basement, and sending it to a roof array every night to radiate off the heat in the water to the sky. Then the water was used to cool the building by day.
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  1069. Its obvious what happened to Simon. He is in north Korea plotting to take control of the country.
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  1070. There is one small issue with the text of this video. Electric motors may have substantially lower failure rates and maintenance costs than piston aircraft, turbine and jet engines are also significantly more reliable and low maintenance than piston engines as well.
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  1071. Gee, AMD and Intel fighting, imagine that.
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  1072.  @AlfaPro1337  I think you might find that AMD believes that to be the other way around.
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  1073. How great is that that you are also a Pat Metheny fan...
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  1074. Finally you can stop whining about your f$%^&*(ing Model 3!!!
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  1075. I have followed Elon since I first heard of twitter.
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  1076. You do realize that Russia has managed to mismanage their economy into borderline third world status right?
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  1077. Sounds like the answer is yes.
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  1078. There used to be private beaches when I was a kid (I'm 65). One such owner in LA had the city come out and rip out the fences with tractors after they refused to remove them.
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  1079. That road/airport thing is right out of WWII. The Germans used to hide planes in the forest and take off on roads because of allied raids.
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  1080. I've pretty much stopped watching Hollywerird unless something really outstanding comes out. Politically Correct Wars was the last straw. I didn't particularly want to see one of my favorite movies ripped apart. So how does that jive with "Yellowstone"? Men who are strong are also inherently evil?
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  1081. If they can make a liquid hydrogen tank work for a combustion car, they they can make it work for a fuel cell car. Then no bang bang engine. I suspect that it means any car crash means something close to a small nuclear weapon.
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  1082. There is actual non-trump material on this show???
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  1083. Ok, you are not the REAL Rick Beato....
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  1084. I don't think it needs to be that complex to explain how banks can create money. Everytime you or the bank writes a check its making a promise to turn it into cash, and the presumption is that everyone won't try to take the money out at once. To me this makes more sense, because the key is that you are going to take that check and put it into another bank, not actually cash it out (or expect gold from it). Thus money becomes an accounting problem between the banks, and banks honoring each others checks mean they effectively print their own money.
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  1085. There are two types of people in the world. Those who classify people into two types, and those who don't.
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  1086. Elon has predicted they would go full autonomous several times before, with different times. I don't know why this time is different.
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  1087. Ok, its time to dispense with this. The Chinese creating fake US ships with a clear outline had no military value. It was designed to be seen from space and tick off the Americans.
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  1088. The order of amendments is also pretty key here. The first amendment, right of free speech, is pretty important. That the founders then turned to the right to bear arms right after that indicates their idea of importance. Its also because those were the very key rights the crown tried to take from the colonies.
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  1089. He said the "highest number of poor people". Also, it is easy to be homeless when housing is near $1m for a house.
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  1090. Russia has nuclear weapons that can hit any point on earth. The days when mountains matter to Russian security are well over.
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  1091. Good job Johnny!
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  1092. This video is already obsolete. The Tesla model 3 can take on about 200 miles in 20 minutes, and charging on the road only takes about 30 minutes to get to %80 charge. The M3 is also lighter, and should deliver better track performance. The situation in the video, running down to the last five miles and then charging a Tesla on a slow charger, is frankly ridiculous. I really hope nobody considering an EV takes this poorly done video seriously.
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  1093. Pop quiz: What nation was the first to recognize Israel as an independent nation? The USA? Buzzzz, wrong. Try again.
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  1094. Oh, Iran is quite aware of their nuclear arms. Oh, you thought they were for Gaza?
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  1095. If you rode that, and didn't realize that you were in an elevator, might I suggest becoming a lawyer or a politician, some job where critical thinking is not needed.
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  1096. There was a variation of the satellite receiver thing a while back. They used to have dealer installed radios that if you remove them, they disable themselves permanently, rendering the radio useless. Mine was stolen. The thieves don't bother to check.
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  1097. This sounds more like the working plan for Vox. Anyone else see this?
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  1098. "I don't like spaces in my code" so you writelikethiswitheverythingruntogether? Characters are not expensive.
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  1099. "the value of human labor will go down" WRONG. As more of the low paying jobs get replaced, the jobs humans can uniquely do will go up in value. The idea that the net amount of jobs will reduce has been predicted many times since the industrial age, and it has never come true.
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  1100. Time to go back on your meds, dude.
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  1101. An optic on a machine gun makes about as much sense as an optic on a jackhammer...
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  1102. "DRAM faces scaling limits" I would think this could mean that static memory would lap dynamic memory, since static memory cells only need transistors, not capacitors. This would be a good thing, since statics are faster and don't need refresh cycles. This already happened in random logic applications like CPUs, where they moved to static logic and dumped dynamic logic like domino logic, which had minimum clocking requirements. I like to think of IC tech like trains racing on multiple tracks. For example CMOS logic took a back seat to NMOS tech for many years, until NMOS hit the speed/power wall, then suddenly everyone switched to CMOS.
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  1103. Yes, politics is inevitable. Russia and China have politics, its just that in Russia politics is deadly, and in China it can ruin your life. Sounds like Peterson is itching to get into politics. "I can tame the beast!" said many a Knight before ending up as another chew toy for the dragon.
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  1104. The drip drip drip of the puns here turned into a flood. We are drowning in them.
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  1105. The "apartment dwellers cannot charge" thing is a canard. Most apartments have assigned spots, and I have never lived in an apartment building that didn't have covered parking and a light above it, meaning that it has electrical runs to the space. In Canada and other cold weather places, you have to have a plug at each space for the simple reason that if you don't plug you car's engine heater in at night, your car will be dead in the morning. Cars can be charged from 110v, but 220v is obviously better. Although apartment owners will moan about the costs, running 220v drops to each space isn't going to break them. I'm amazed sometimes about how really useful a 220v/30 amp L2 charger really is. I have two long range cars, a Bolt at 238 miles and a Tesla M3 at 320 miles, and typically they charge up in 4 hours on a 6.6kW L2 charger, because I don't run them all the way to zero, nor is that a good idea. Both of my cars need charging perhaps once or twice a week even with my 40 mile round trip commute. Its not even necessary to purchase a $400 charger. My Tesla comes with a 220v charger free with the car, and its a reasonable cost with the Bolt. With that and a 220v outlet, you are there for at least a 3.3kW charge. I will say that 130kW supercharging is amazing on the road (Tesla). I typically think about charging when the miles left goes to 2 digits (<100), and I see the 100kW+ charge for only about 20 minutes. But that charger takes the Tesla from less than 100 to over 200 miles in that 20 minutes, which is rocket fast compared to other cars, and makes highway travel amazing.
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  1106. China followed the Singapore model of economics, a dictatorship that was organized around capitalism. The west assumed that this would in turn lead to political liberalization. It hasn't worked that way so far, and China regressed into a Mao style dictatorship yet again. Now it is seeming more likely that the west will embrace French style socialism than China will embrace liberal politics.
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  1107. Scribbling on greenbar... that takes me back.
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  1108. The 486... AKA the "doom" accelerator...
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  1109. At the risk of being politically incorrect, the west's ability to make the rocks come alive and attack enemies in the middle east is like something right out of the Koran.
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  1110. Short but brutally honest history of religion: The Jewish faith came up with the idea that there could only be one god. This idea was quite attractive, but the jews also believed that their religion could only be entered by birthright, and discouraged intermarriage between faiths (as many religions did). The result of the envy was several religions that were blatant copies of Judaism, including both Christianity and Islam. So why would Islamists hate a religion they largely agreed with? The sunnis and shias are simply two different branches of the relatives of Mohammed. Now they are trying to kill each other all over the middle east. And that is two sects of the same religion. Another uncomfortable fact. America is Israel's friend and protector right? During WWII America turned back a ship with newish refugees, the St. Louis, and Roosevelt was documented to be against Jewish immigration to the USA. The USA pushed the formation of Israel in part because they didn't want the jews fleeing the holocaust to end up in America.
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  1111. Yea, if we recognize 1000 year old claims to land, then everyone in the world will have to move. This is not the strongest Israeli argument, and it is the worst excuse for the settlements in the West bank/Judea. The area was a territory of the Ottomans, originally taken by force, and it included modern day Jordan. The correct answer is that a lot of territory got redistributed in the middle east, that there was never a state of Palestine, the Palestinians aren't demanding Jordan "back", and more than half of the Israelis were evicted themselves by force from the middle east. The traditional answer in the past, and that carried out in Jordan, was mass evictions and executions of the native peoples. Obviously the better solution is to come to an agreement. I believe this will happen when the Palestinians lose all other supporting countries that encourage violence over coming to an arrangement. I think Hamas also believes this, which is why they launched an attack on the eve of an accord with Saudi Arabia. That leaves Iran, which has many enemies, but none more powerful than its own people, who will prevail in the end.
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  1112. Great. Escalation.
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  1113. No. The people who would have been customers for the mini are now electric car owners. I looked at the mini way back when, and they kept having a rumor about an electric mini. Well now they have announced it, and I ... don't care. I already don't use gas, so I don't need to also drive a really small car. The mini electric is too late and too bad.
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  1114. Be a shame to let facts get in the way of a really juicy theory...
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  1115. Strikes or slowdowns are more effective They can shoot protesters, but they can't hold a gun on everyone to make them work.
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  1116. You could do the same with Compuserve, which dominated online before the internet. Lots of dead company bodies line the internet.
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  1117. don't buy from people stupider than you...
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  1118. Go away...
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  1119. In this day and age, where the heck did you find tractor fed greenbar????
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  1120. The book, despite claims to the contrary, was about Stalinisim. The "simplification of language", was an unfortunate misunderstanding of Esperanto. This started as a European idea of coming up with purposely designed simplified language. It got associated with communism when Russia and China adopted it.
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  1121. "expressed properly" its up to you to select how much precision you want. Learn how to format your numbers. The base 10 to base 2 thing is a canard Its you screwing up, not the computer.
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  1122. I don't have any problem with liberalism as long as it stays away from socialism... I don' t have any problem with conservatism as long as it stays away from religious dogma... Darn!!!
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  1123. I'm sure the dems will find a way to win.
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  1124. Ah, the $10,000 life lesson. "yes, you don't have to fill out any paperwork if you buy with all cash".... he he. Whats the old joke? I asked the salesman how much the car cost, and he said "how much do you have". Would you believe that was the exact cost of the car???
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  1125. Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.
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  1126. I can't understand why Verizon's business model of overcharging stupid people is not working.
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  1127. In electrical theory they talk about moving holes around as the other side of moving electrons around, so sure, you can talk about moving cold around as the opposite of moving heat around.
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  1128. "ukraine will attack the reactor"... sure, because why wouldn't Ukraine attack the reactor in their own country and irradiate their homeland for the next couple hundred years?
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  1129.  @sleepyjoe9386  Assuming this is not just a stupid reply on your part (I think it is): 1. Ukraine does not believe it to be Russian territory, so why would they delberately irradiate that? 2. Its right across the river from land occupied by Ukraine, DUHHHH.
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  1130. God made millimeter waves to allow cellphone direct to satellite connections.
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  1131.  @peterfireflylund  No, that was 1976 Pascal. It had I/O.
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  1132. In addition, salt as a preservative used to be very common. And people ate that food.
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  1133. Which is funnier: the fact that Australia went to war against their wildlife, or that that LOST that war?
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  1134.  @jnx4803  Is that true? I think the main advantage to Warthogs is they ground-hug. I don't think AA nor S-400s are good against that.
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  1135. Theocracies are fundamentally the opposite of democracy. The import of what is happening now is the defacto creation of Kurdistan.
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  1136. Net result: people rebottling supermarket honey as "natural" for the local farmer's market.
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  1137. You are doing a lot of bailouts in the middle of the function. Its a function with one entry and many exits. The way to avoid deep nesting is by breaking the function into smaller functions, not this horrid multi-exit code misdesign. Sorry.
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  1138. I never bought a computer. I made all of them. But I had to repair friends and relations Compaq and other computers. In those days, the makers went out of their way to make proprietary cases, motherboards and DRAMs. It was sad to see, and it, it my opinion, contained the seeds of their demise and the rise of the Asian computer dominance. I could get an off the shelf case, motherboard and other components and make a PC cheaper than Compaq and other makers pre-built machines. IBM gave us standard motherboard sizes. Companies like Compaq, despite creating the IBM clone market, choose to step on that.
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  1139.  @milkcultleader2706  Hard to argue with that. I didn't know about Kerzgesagt's backing. But then I never took them seriously anyways. Its a bunch of facts played to cheap cartoons. There are way better channels.
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  1140. Right. The Syrian government won the civil war. Besides that, Iran was attacked by Iraq and won. Jordan arguably also won their civil war. Kuwait won against Iraq, but I suspect nobody would credit them for that, since the USA did it all. A little farther afield, Afghanistan has taken on two of the three major powers in the world and won, USA and Russia.
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  1141. I admit to have this happen in the past, but not for a long time. I contract now. If for whatever reason they don't want me around anymore, the contract just gets terminated. Then I get another one. I'm 65 now. I'm not sure why I would want permanent employment anymore.
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  1142. When they start talking about pixels saving power by borrowing it from another dimension, I will know I have been on this planet too long.
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  1143. Plugshare is your friend. Usually if they are broken, it will be posted there.
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  1144. Gaza residents voted for Hamas to be the government. This is state on state war. PS Al Jazeera: Israel does not OCCUPY Gaza. They are independent, they have their own government.
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  1145. The high tech description of how a motor works: "the electricity makes it go all spiny".
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  1146. I think you need to be careful here. I worked for a charger company. There are two main elements of the Tesla plug that are desirable. The first is that it is a better engineering design. The second, and perhaps more important element is that Tesla is a plug and go standard. Ie, you roll up, plug in, and get charged to charge (pun intended) automatically. No screen, no card swipe, etc. The first part is not going to change with other makers adopting the plug. However, that second part could have happened at ANY TIME for the J1772 plug. Its true the J1772 plug was and is braindamaged in that it didn't have a digital communications port built in to the connector, and thus was inherntly incapable of "plug to charge" automatic debt payment. However, that got fixed with PLC or "power line communication" a means of high bandwidth communication with the car. The problem is that Tesla does and will own that automatic payment network. I expect the other car makers to sign on to that network *for a while*. However, for rthe NACS standard to go forward, eventually other networks besides Tesla will have to start up. This happens naturally as, say, chargepoint adapts the NACS standard. The point is, the networks f**ked up the current payment system, even though J1772 is well capable of an automatic payment system, and they *will f**k up the NACS system as well if they are not held accountable.
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  1147. I'm gonna bet that FLIR cost more than the fridge.
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  1148. We are reaching peak stupidity.
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  1149. The cat and ls utilities are from the time Jesus used Unix, so staying consistent with their (very old) options and formats was a thing. The --help was because the multiletter options came later, and didn't conflict with the original options. ls has -h, but it isn't help. Cat does not have -h. Why not just "modernize" the ls and cat commands? yea, possible for cat. You don't want to change ls options, its been around forever and probably built into a lot of programs. The --help standard makes sense, its a more modern option format, and Linux/GNU has been trying to normalize the options, starting with more readable multicharacter options. Since the single character options would make Unix/Linux old timers scream if you removed them, that's not an "option" he he. Command line mode is for programmers. Programmers bathe in obscurity and seem to really enjoy it. Its about job security and a general feeling of superiority. Whaddya gonna do?
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  1150. The battery sits essentially in a sleeve. You'ed expect most of the thermal expansion to be in the length of the battery, since it is much longer than it is wide. Opening it at one end, the top, would allow for expansion. The filament would then flex slightly to keep contact.
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  1151. The utopian idea is that everything will be free, and nobody would hoard because they knew they could always get more. But people are not stupid, and know full well that supplies will end soon, and so hoard as much as they can. Its obvious with food, but in the Soviet Union, it rapidly went to every possible item because people realized they could trade for other things. Thus when anything was offered "for free" the people knew to grab it. The result was obvious: go back to money so that the supply was self limiting. The genius of the soviet system after the reintroduction of money is that the state was the only approved buyer of any goods. Thus they were able to set all prices and control the economy.
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  1152. It is true the car is underrated. Its also true that the display crashes.
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  1153. As someone else said, this is also a sales boost for Tesla, since other EV owners will be charging surrounded by Teslas.
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  1154. I asked about ground source here in California. The answer was something like "a huge permitting process, followed by chunks of cash, and an act of god", ie., no ways no hows.
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  1155. I don't get the sound track. It sounds like ground level (kid yelling) as well as it sounds like it loops.
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  1156. Q. Why is ITER located near CERN? A. All those particles CERN has taken apart are piling up. ITER will fuse them back together again.
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  1157. Mexicans cross over and shop because the border guards to yell at them and accuse them of being drug dealers every time they cross, unlike the A-hole US border agents who harass US citizens simply for visiting Mexico for the day. Our border agents on the USA side are among the most obnoxious jerks I have ever met.
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  1158. I'll "think" you now. You are clearly an idiot. What I "did" to "piss them off" was to show up and be white. The agent automatically assumed that some little white boy crossing over into Tijuana was looking for drugs or prostitutes.
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  1159. I used a "tiling manager" in the form of the Brief editor on DOS, which effectively was a multiple window tiling manager driven by keys. I still miss that, so might be persuaded into trying a tiling window manager. However, my ideal would be a regular floating window manager that would do tiling via keys.
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  1160. Whatever happens in Ukraine, Putin has turbocharged NATO, exactly the opposite of what he said he wanted to achieve. The "new europe", which includes the new Warsaw pact nations, its growing to dwarf Russia economically and militarily.
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  1161. A cynic says: countersue for damages to the mailbox.
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  1162. Why blur out the shoplifters? Let everyone see who they are.
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  1163. You are missing the point: mining lithium in third world countries pollutes poor countries that we don't care about!
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  1164. My hiring manager story is I interviewed for a company and met in person with the hiring manager. He was brutal and dismissed me while reading off my resume as inadequate for the job. I was about 19 years old at the time. I got a call about a week later from a headhunter who said "how about job X at this company". Same company. I told him about being sent home by the hiring manager. He said "don't worry about it, this is direct to the manager of the group". I said ok. I went in, the group manager met with me, liked me and wanted me to meet with the hiring manager. Uh oh. I went into his office, and sure enough, same guy. I waited for him to recognize me. It didn't happen. He was talking about when can I start, etc. Keep in mind I was 19 at the time. I then said something like "you don't even remember me do you", and told him where he could stuff the job and walked out. Truth is in my older age self, I would never have gone back there. It was a pyrrhic victory .
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  1165. Oh, I feel the need to go fork it...
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  1166. "With a 68 percent lie rate according to politicalfact" http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/29/politifact-slants-truth-ratings-republicans/
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  1167. Never been asked that by a partner. If you have a sex relationship, and head off to dinner the next night, its kinda QED that it isn't true.
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  1168. The Malaysian crash and similar incidents have ushered in a new age in aircraft operations. Satellites now scan the earth's surface looking for their transponder emissions, even over the oceans. We will know exactly where an airliner crashed into the ocean.
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  1169. The original theory was that English words were easier to read than special characters. Not necessarily easier to type (hence C is often referred to as a "write only language"). This principle was carried to ridiculousness with Cobol.
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  1170. I got rid of all of my florescent a while back. At that time, nobody took in the longer bulbs for recycling. I hope it is better now.
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  1171. Russia could shut down youtube, or any part of it. The sad part is they probably will get the equipment to do so from the USA. I have worked for companies with that capability.
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  1172. Putin stated the price, but nobody believed him. And that is Ukraine swears off joining NATO.
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  1173. How many countries that went to the moon use metric? Ya....
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  1174. PS the other reason for having frame rates match the power line frequency was that early TVs had pretty bad power supplies, so some "bleed though" of the line frequency would cause a variation of the intensity on the screen. With the frame rate matching the power line frequency, the light and dark of the power line waveforms bleeding through were static, not moving continuously. Thus you would not notice them as much.
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  1175. I switched to permanent bags in California. It lasted until Covid, when they recommended you STOP reusing bags. I used paper again for a while, but they rip easily. I'm back to plastic again.
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  1176. The government CAUSES inflation by printing money, then rebalances the money supply on the backs of citizens.
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  1177. "The last war for the PRC was vietnam" yea, and they got their a$$es kicked.
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  1178. "rocket surgery" ?????
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  1179. Please tell me you don't live near me...
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  1180. The underlying purpose of the Macao bridge is so the PLA can go retake control of Macao if required. Thus it does not matter to China how many cars use the bridge.
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  1181. Starlink failed to demonstrate the right political connections...
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  1182. There is something wrong with the math here. You say DC lines have a cost to convert AC to DC and back. But solar power is inherently DC. The video makes it sound like AC-DC and DC-AC converters are needed at each end of the transmission cable, but the reality is the difference between converting DC to AC at the solar plant vs. DC to AC at the European end of the cable. IE., simply move the conversion to the European end of the cable and pick up DC efficiencies for no net cost differences. I suspect what is really meant here is the conversion by boosting the voltages of the lines up and down to the high voltages needed by the transmission line, but the explanation given does not make that much sense.
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  1183.  @seneca983  And I pointed that out in my post. The point was the video was too simplistic in what it describes as the difference between costs of HVDC and HVAC feeds. Also, I seriously wonder if transformers are still a thing in HV stepping. Transformer use in small electronics is virtually gone. Your wall warts shrank to 1/4 of their former size by use of switching power supplies. This is done by high frequencies and use of capacitors instead of transformers, which are expensive and heavy because of the copper windings. PS switchers are why you can't get good AM reception anymore. All of the wall warts in your house are polluting the killohertz bands...
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  1184.  @seneca983  Kinda amazes me how people won't do even basic lookups before opening their mouths on internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Capacitor-commutated_converters_(CCC)
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  1185. Time to stop throwing taxpayer money at EVs. The press is partially responsible for the slowdown in EVs, playing up every EV fire, cold weather charging issue, and publishing worst case estimates of charging. Did you know that you will be searching for an EV charger every day and that it will take 8 hours to get a charge? The bottom line is that the governments around the world need to back off and realize they can't force feed EVs to the public. The advantages of EVs will win out over time.
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  1186. Getting jingy with your brother's widow... that kind of stuff doesn't happen with people in power anymore does it???
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  1187. I grew up driving stick, and was happy to switch to an automatic. I went back to stick with a Mazda Miata, because (at that time) an auto was a rare special order option on the car. I enjoyed shifting the car, and I think I got more performance out of it than an automatic, mostly because you could delay shifting up and get to higher revs. That was my last stick car. Now I own all electrics, for which shifting makes no sense. I won't miss manual cars.
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  1188. The lottery is a tax on people who can't do math. Our office had a group lottery buy, and I decided to kick in just to be "part of the group". This was to "get in on" a really big jackpot at that time. The yield was, of course, less than what was put in. I was curious, and I checked the results against what state of California said was the odds of winning. They matched almost exactly. The group held a vote to put the money left over into another lottery buy. Which, big surprise, reduced the pot to basically zero. Stupid people doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
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  1189. What is more expensive than a strong military? Not having one.
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  1190. Not if Bydone wins. He will occupy a bed at the local hospital.
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  1191. "all of the sudden all these middle eastern countries recognized Israel"... you mean after Trump arranged it, then Biden proceeded to f***k up.
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  1192. I agree we are far overdue to use public key authentication. However, just because some or even most people don't properly manage passwords does not make them useless. Some of us are capable of managing passwords.
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  1193. If "single stream" didn't work, then go back to what works. I didn't mind doing it. I don't see the issue.
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  1194. I don't agree with government forcing people to buy EVs, its not their job. However, switching over to EVs will happen. Just look for the government to push back their schedules another 5 to 10 years.
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  1195. Putin's favorite channel...
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  1196. Yea, I can't wait for the source code to Altair Basic...
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  1197. This is just history on repeat. I'm sure lots of Germans told themselves that the Jews were simply being relocated to nice camps outside of the city where they would lead happy and productive lives, and after all they had plenty of chances to leave Germany didn't they? There were even films of Jews happy and productive in the camps.
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  1198. No worries. Jerry Brown's twin has been elected to continue the great train...
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  1199. Checks at the border to save California from invasive Republicans...
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  1200. Does not matter how good a Windows laptop is. At the end of the day, it has Windows on it.
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  1201. I put my opensource contributions in my resume at the top. Nothing. I questioned employers about it, including the ones who hired me. They said they never looked at it. Complete waste of time. I had one employer ask about my contributions to the Linux kernel, and when I said I had, he wanted me to show upstream pushes with my name on them. I told him that those contributions bore the company name I worked for, not MINE. Again, complete waste of time. So I am supposed to get the people I write code for to agree to put my name on everything. Ok. Still thinking about that, don't work on kernel drivers at the moment, so moot point. I guess the point here is if you are that much of a social climber that you run about trying to get credit for everything, consider a career in management, not programming. Another issue is that I program for FUN on my own time, on projects that are valuable to ME. Even if employers look at my code, they are not going to see an open source "I did an embedded program for an ARM bluetooth chip", IE, I don't have work examples online and it would bore me to make one. Even if I did it would be an artificial example that didn't really get implemented anywhere. I had exactly ONE example program like that, a disk drive diagnostic, an extensive one. I have programmed one of these several times, and I figured that if I did it on my own time, I could carry it from job to job instead of rewriting it every time. I put that up as a work example. I highly suspect that even if employers look at it, they go "ewwww, disk drives", and don't bother to look at it.
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  1202. And now we are rerunning the cultural revolution in the USA, complete with youth gangs tearing down monuments, a rewriting of history, etc. The first thing you learn from history is that nobody learns from history.
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  1203. Its called a "con man".
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  1204. "floating glass causes it to be level", well, the reference here is the Earth. Its not in fact level but highly curved. We only consider it flat because the curve is so slight at the small distances we are interested in.
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  1205. Milwaukee sent most of their homeless to Portland.
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  1206. So to sum up, this is an article on how to write fake articles in western media that ends with the author lamenting that westerners don't trust them. Hard to make this stuff up.
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  1207. So galaxies are black hole stars that exploded, then the debris formed the stars circling around the resulting supermassive black hole.
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  1208. Simply look at the majority of Latin American countries. What do they have in common? 50% or more of the jobs are in government. If you look at the high paying jobs, they are in government or government paid jobs. Socialism, in practice, means the government just takes over practically everything.
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  1209. The socialists will never run out of naive people to vote for them. They are making more every day.
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  1210. Key-Ev, not keeevvvv
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  1211. You could live install a USB copy as well. It would be faster, and many computers no longer have DVD drives.
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  1212. Fusion is not 30 years away. It is regularly producing grant money every day.
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  1213. Protectionism. Pure and simple.
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  1214.  @1pcfred  Didn't really read what I wrote, did you?
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  1215. I suspect if Japan had not surrendered, we would all have paid the price. America would not have wanted to invade, and had a new toy. We would have leveled the island. Nuclear proliferation would have been much greater, and it might have led to a nuclear WWIII.
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  1216. I like your videos, but this shows the basic fallacy of the left's obsession with climate change. I see plenty of people yelling about it, but then if you ask, you find they have done nothing personally about it. They don't own electric cars, they don't have solar (despite having a house). Its just way easier to blame corporations isn't it? Getting an electric car is a major step to eliminating the direct burning of the dirtiest fossil fuels, namely gas and diesel. I have had electric cars (2) since 2013, and all of the excuses I hear about why people don't want one are basically nonsense repeated from biased press. No you don't have to spend hours waiting at a charger, yes you can use them for long distance travel, etc. Even if you live in one of the very few states that still rely on coal power generation, it is more efficient and has less emissions than gasoline cars, and coal power is being phased out in general across the USA anyways.
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  1217.  @pat9353  1. Its about %10 to %20 percent more than a gas car. It is not "ridiculously more expensive". Also, purchase cost does not consider year to year maintence costs, which are essentially zero for electric cars. For a gas car its close to a $1000 or more per year. Finally, the savings in gas costs are a huge savings. With all of the savings factored in, electric cars are in fact much cheaper than gas cars, if you DO THE MATH. 2. So? In California we are near %30 solar, and the remaining fossil fuels are natural gas for the most part. An electric car will get cleaner as the grid cleans up. Gas cars will never get cleaner.
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  1218. Photography this way was fun, but I don't miss it.
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  1219. I think this is the ultimate argument for a lunar base station. Building a large telescope on the moon would allow essentially unlimited size and weight, with the majority of the properties of space (no atmosphere). Obviously that would involve a large base on the moon with manufacturing capabilities, including glass from the native rocks.
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  1220. Hey, it's not fair to compare China to California. One is run by a single party state with corrupt officials that pass taxpayer money out to friends. The other is..... oh never mind.
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  1221. Its simple. Inkjet printers self destruct if you don't use them frequently enough. In fact, they are about the only product commonly sold that self destructs.
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  1222. These jobs are going away with AI.
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  1223. I'll admit I accepted just one counter offer. One month later we found out that the CEO was embezzling and the company was sinking like a rock. Mistake.
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  1224. Hand Gaza over to the PLO with the understanding that they won't be allowed to succeed. Don't offer a corridor from the west bank to Gaza... build it whether they want it or not. The PLO dosen't wage war against Israel (anymore). Let it be their problem.
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  1225. Couple of comments: 1. The west passed China technologically, but a lot of the basic technology came from China originally. Gunpowder, rockets, mining, quite a few things. 2. "stakeholder economics". Anyone can become a "stakeholder" in companies by purchasing their stock. And in fact, for tech companies especially, companies encourage employees to purchase stock and give stock awards. Beyond that it is up to you. You can purchase Chevron stock, and you can even (with only one share!) come to stockholder meetings and advocate for what you want. They literally have to listen, and you can (and many have) get the other "stakeholders", ie., stockholders to rally behind you and do things like vote the management out. Beyond that you are talking about giving control to people who haven't done a thing to earn it. Are you a stakeholder because you buy Chevron gasoline? The idea of "stakeholder" economics as it is proposed really comes down to more government regulation of companies, that is, government flexing their power to force companies to give "stakes" to people who had nothing to do with the success of the company. 3. The USA has been declining in emissions while China is growing and yet we want to put regulations on the USA but let China go their own way? 4. Companies in the USA are responsive to both their shareholders and to the public. They respond to pressure. That does not happen in China, where companies are only beholden to the government.
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  1226. Funny. Good job.
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  1227. The government can't provide for anyone. All they can do is take money from one group and give it to others after taking their cut. It is really tiring when everyone talks about "free money". The government does not have any. They just have yours -- if they take it by force.
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  1228. If you pay %90 taxes on "all income more than 1 million dollars", then you just don't make more that that. If you made a million a year, you would not work more to get %10 of your previous earnings. You would say the hell with it and take more vacations.
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  1229. "The best thing about a Mac is it is Unix based"", and they have managed to drain pretty much all the advantages out of being Unix based. It uses different software from the GUI up, its a struggle to get Unix compatible software loaded on it, the list goes on and on. My rule is if you like Windows, use Windows, if you like Mac, use mac, and if you like Unix/Linux, use Linux or a BSD. Trying to emulate another OS on your device is a losing proposition. I use Linux on my main machine. I use Windows on my laptop because Linux sucks that battery down like a tick on steroids, and my wife uses a Linux on main computer and a Mac laptop. Never heard her complain, mainly because she only cares about the web. If I need to develop on say, and android device with IDE, I use Linux. I see plenty of developers trying to force a Mac to do that, its a complete waste of energy. If I have an IDE that works on windows, I'll try it on Linux, but if it dosen't work, I give it up. That's why all my machines dual boot at least.
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  1230. As a test for ChatGPT, I fed it a coding test given to me by facebook. It gave a correct answer that worked. But it was also very apparent that any employer who gave such coding challenges could, if they tried ChatGPT, immediately recognize a ChatGPT generated program. The style and content of it was very unique.
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  1231. I agree that I like the warmer lights in my house, but I don't care if they use blueish light on the roads.
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  1232. Why make the whole USA like California? So then you can't escape.
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  1233. Back when the press was something more than a mouthpiece for one party.
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  1234. Silicone valley???
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  1235. Wow. Lots and lots of misinformation here. 1. If you look at the 220v power in the USA with an oscilliscope, you get 220v at 60 hertz. Yes, it is delivered by 180 opposing phases, but it makes no difference at all for what you see at the plug. 2. Tapping two phases of a 3 phase transformer DOES NOT give you 220v/60h power! The two phases are not 180 out of phase nor do you get 220v of power! I have actually seen idiots try this with a Tesla car charger. You need a center tapped transformer to give 220v/60h power. No way a three phase transformer can do that.
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  1236. Do you happen to live in SA?
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  1237. The story goes that the chairman of Sony saw little drink umbrellas that came from Japan, and Japanese goods were considered "junk", and went home to fix that. We are making the same mistake in the USA with respect to China. The days of China producing low end copies are over.
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  1238. But I don't wanna make my own compositor...
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  1239. Women don't need pockets. That's why they have men.
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  1240. Nanoscopic. No such word. Cut it out.
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  1241. Gonna cross the big half million I see. I've been watching since less than 100k. Congratulations.
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  1242. The next horizon for HVDC is north Africa. Instead of laying solar in cold regions, the power simply needs to cross the med into France and get distributed from there. This is the German solution, and for most of Europe for that matter. USA to Europe? No. Connecting the regions of the USA makes more sense. HVDC can act as superhighways for power in USA grids. Also, nearshoring is a factor. Turns out laying cables in the ocean can be cheaper than over land.
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  1243. Any competent programmer can design a program that, given the proper radar inputs, can do the math for multiple bodies in motion or stopped and decide if there will be a collision. Then its about applying the brakes and possibly avoidance. AI is fine, but you need more primitive software levels to say, "no, that results in a collision, the car is going to stop". Your brain works the same way. You have primitive reactions that can work faster than you can think.
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  1244. I think you just blew the Wall Street Journal article on the airlines in quarantine out of the water. Good job.
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  1245. Say, you're an idiot ("it is pointing to something that is null that it thinks is valid").
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  1246. My ford ranger has 200 miles of range. There are/were many cars with that range, and nobody complained that was too little. If you ask people to name their desired range and then take the answer as 300 miles, you might as well ask them if they would also like the car to be able to time travel. Of course they are going to name an unreasonable figure. Range anxiety is something non-EV owners have... before they buy an EV. After you actually GET an EV, and realize that it is not a problem, it goes away. The press feeds this fear with completely made up nonsense about it taking hours to charge, and making it sound like you have to go wait somewhere for hours every other day, instead of charging at home.
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  1247. The video says it all. The Russian convoy crossing the border was greeted by a sign selling kitchen appliances, not Ukrainian troops. Guard it or loose it.
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  1248. Stop saying "energy density". With aircraft, its all about the weight. There was never a problem finding space on an aircraft, the wings, where gas is stored, are for the most part empty on light aircraft. The problem is batteries are: 1. Far to heavy. 2. The weight does not change. Unlike gas power, they don't get lighter as you fly. Gas does, in fact it goes to 0.
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  1249. No one expects the inquisition!
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  1250. I'm surprised they didn't try a steerable one.
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  1251. In Italy off center buildings are a big tourist draw. They could sell tickets. People could drop things like bowling balls and feathers off it.
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  1252. So the answer to having two standards, CCS and Tesla, IS TO INTRODUCE YET ANOTHER STANDARD??? Good going. PS CCS is already capable of 150kw, 300kw and beyond.
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  1253. Yes comcast will give you a great deal on internet with xfinity cable built in. Then when the introductory rate ends, they will jack the price up to low earth orbit and hope you don't make a fuss about it.
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  1254. Isn't this kinda dated now that the Saudis and Iran have reached an accord?
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  1255. It is travel for the super-rich. Besides being a very high cost type of aircraft (helicopters), it takes a highly skilled pilot with few passengers per vehicle. Its hard to see how EVTOLs are going to change that.
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  1256. Yea, lets shut down Trump and have Biden avoid all tough interviews. That is not how democracy is supposed to work.
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  1257. It will go great with your Betamax...
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  1258. Not so fast with that "California is not a third world country" stuff. 1. No reliable power. 2. No reliable water. 3. Run by a one party state. 4. Streets full of homeless. What else do you need to qualify as part of the third world?
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  1259. What?
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  1260. Calling the Israels Nazis is like calling the survivors of the Holocaust Nazis. Oh wait, no, its not like that, it is exactly that.
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  1261. Rich, you rock.
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  1262. Intel likes to take over cities. Look at Hillsboro and Chandler.
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  1263. The problem in Europe is that the amperage is woefully under supplied. This is a problem now that they are trying to put in car chargers.
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  1264. Now its "America last"...
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  1265. "sadly, we won't know the true extent of what happened" unless, perhaps, THEY FILMED IT. HAMAS FILMED THIER OWN WORK. Why people gloss over this is beyond me. Hamas filmed a woman being loaded into a car who had obviously been violently sodomized. Nobody admits on TV what anyone can see for themselves. And you probably will never see her alive again.
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  1266. The Jones act never made sense. It was a giveaway to shipping unions.
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  1267. So has nobody noticed? Elons company purchases so far have been disasters. Solarcity, Twitter. The companies that were successful were the ones he built from scratch.
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  1268. Single mode fibre is not "smaller", but rather the actual core used to carry light is smaller, so getting the connector and the fibre end to align is more difficult.
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  1269. Like the "dude, what do you want".
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  1270. Maybe what is going on now can remind Turkey/Erdogan that Russia consumes its "friends" in the long run.
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  1271.  @kaan4040  Ukraine and Russia are like cousins where one has raped the other. The offended party will bi**h about how awful it is, but at the end of the day they are family. As for NATO and Turkey, if push comes to shove and Turkey has to send troops to NATO to hold the line against Russia, I suspect that Turkey will resign from NATO rather than risk getting kicked out for not honoring article 5. Not, of course, talking about any particular situation here (BALTICS!)... ahem.
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  1272. What do I think? I think you guys are getting lazy and just repeating the same video clips over and over.
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  1273. Mexico is in a virtual civil war. In the last fight between the cartels and the military, the cartel was using an anti-aircraft gun. And the USA responded to this by opening up the border. Now the cartels are gaining ground north of the border. Things aren't going to get better south of the border. They are getting worse, and importing the violence to the USA.
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  1274. I worked on a system writen in TCL (no, not kidding). They gave me the job to rewrite the core functionality in C#, which I did. The reason they wanted it rewritten was that the TCL code was incomprehensible and generally unserviceable. The smarter programmers simply stayed away from it. After coding the C# example, they decided/realized that the old TCL code needed to live on for a while. You can guess what happened next. I got put on TCL maintenance duty. There was exactly one programmer still working on it. I was in his office constantly looking for explanations of the code since it was all uncommitted and undocumented. After a while the truth came to me. Let's call the TCL programmer Tom (no reason). I wouldn't say Tom was considered a genius, but he was the only person who knew how the code worked. Several others had tried and failed to break into the inscrutable source code. I realized that: 1. The code was a jobs program for Tom. 2. Since they hired me to try to end Tom's reign, Tom hated my guts and had absolutely no incentive to help me. Surprise, the story ended shortly thereafter.
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  1275. Democracy SHOULD go on after doomsday. Too bad our government has little to do with it.
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  1276. This seems like it could have been the inspiration for George Orwell's depiction of the parade of enemy troops through the city center in "1984".
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  1277. Hardly a need. There is enough rain falling on the country to power all of it with hydropower. You are talking about Guatapé, which is a gigantic hydropower dam there.
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  1278. Not bad for a technology named for a Norse king with poor dental hygiene!
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  1279. So high efficiency jets are becoming hybrids of a jet and a ducted turboprop.
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  1280.  @crowdedveins9210  UPS got my kid's boyfriend killed by cost cutting medical care. He got an infection at a cut rate medical facility and died from it. He was there for back problems from heavy lifting on the job. So... not a fan. (true story). I think his parents attempted legal proceedings against UPS, but I wouldn't know. They were going after US as well (he died here in my house), so we had ample reason to not communicate with them.
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  1281. I recently switched back to a mechanical keyboard. The feel of it is much better and I can type better with it. Professional tools for professionals. You also didn't discuss N-key rollover, which requires a diode on each key. This also makes a big difference in typing quality.
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  1282. My phone key works for a couple days then quits until I turn the power off and back on (and yes I tried airplane mode, blue tooth off/on, all the standard workarounds). I have been using the cards, but the other day the idiot car wash attendant left it on the center console door, then opened it, probably by nudging it. The card slipped into the inside of the console. Tesla said they would have to open up the entire console to find it. I am getting a new card tomorrow.
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  1283. Lithography, literally "stone printing", which is rather funny if you think about it.
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  1284. So if Ukrainian ships are close offshore to NATO countries, does that mean they would protect them from Russian attack?
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  1285. I don't believe the 1200 physicists questionnaire part. Namely that there are 1200 physicists in the world.
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  1286. I want to thank Portland for cleaning out the rest of America!
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  1287.  @CrasusC  You can always tell when internet posters don't have solid arguments, because they resort to petty insults. Those are both examples of defenders, the UK defending its homeland, and The germans defending theirs. The point, which you ignored, is if China is actively bombing Taiwan, targeting Beijing or Shanghai with conventional missiles, even if it has no material effect on the war, would involve the Chinese population more intimately in the war and bring it home. I don't believe the general population of China is in fact for a war with Taiwan. They regard Taiwan as fellow chinese, and believe that Taiwan should give up and submit to China peacefully. I don't think reciprocating with Chinese bombings would change that. More likely it would break the idea that the "war is over there", free of costs.
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  1288. Wow, serious details, thanks.
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  1289. How STUPID do you have to be to fall for this.
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  1290. Well, what can I say Johnny. You should be backing Trump, since Trump ALSO believes that we should not be so involved in the middle east (he has said so multiple times) and in fact has been working to disengage the USA out of the region. But then, of course, you liberals would rather die in the streets than to ever admit Trump was right about anything. Look at what is happening now. Trump is solving the middle east peace problem in Israel/Palistine and it's driving the libs batty. Good luck with that.
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  1291. I was trying to reduce my dietary sugar, and was reading the labels on cans of vegetables. Canned PEAS have sugar added. PEAS. Why do peas need sugar?
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  1292.  @emilyau8023  Exactly. Beware of indeed old posts. I had an employer write me back "we removed that job listing a month ago". Indeed keeps old jobs to inflate their post count.
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  1293. New York used to be the center of both electronics, and then computers. Now look at it. New York is not poor, but outside of books, NY deals mainly in finance. I.e, after the manufacturing industries left, it largely became a place for rich people to manage their money. This is going to be similar to the end of California as well. The main difference is CA has a lot of places for the rich to develop real estate.
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  1294. Ummm... why would anyone WANT to invade Canada???
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  1295. Be a damm shame if a stray rocket hit that ammo dump in Transnistria, eh?
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  1296. Because ovens heat more evenly. Radiation and air heating are key. A skillet heats from the bottom.
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  1297. Here's hoping you fix your "indoor snowing" problem.
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  1298. Ammonia.
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  1299. Yea that "pattern LED failure" thing is annoying. Our city, San Jose, replaced most of the lights, and now most of them are failing with that weird "some leds are failing" thing. PS since the proper reaction to a light out is to come to a full stop, look every way and go only when there is no oncoming traffic, and be terrified of idiots, these accidents are voluntary and deserved. PSPS I LOVE countdown lights. They tell me if it is worth it to nail it and take the intersection at 100MPH before the light turns!
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  1300. WRONG. All of the right angle plugs you buy are designed for the ground on the bottom. The USA electrical manufacturers should be working on insulating the first part of the hot lead so that we are not killing children instead of this nonsense.
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  1301. maybe the point of the video is if the airlines would talk to us like adults instead of 5 year olds, we would listen better.
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  1302. Big shock, Harris is a progressive.
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  1303. Agree everything, but that EVs don't tire wear. My Tesla M3 eats tires because of the weight of the vehicle. I also think that we are finally seeing the lie of the S curve. It is not happening. Its going to be a long slog to full EV adoption. As far as charging, my experience the other day was illustrative. I forgot to charge my TM3, and was getting low charge alerts as a result. Here in Silicon valley there is no lack of charging spots, and I got off the freeway and turned left into a shopping center with about 20 Tesla chargers. The left turn was an intersection with 4 gas stations, one on each corner. Each one of those could have 20 charging spots if they used all the land, and at 20 minutes for quick charge that would about cover the need considering that a normal gas station has about 16 possible refueling locations (4 islands, two cars per side). The gas stations are always saying they make most of their money as conivence stores in any case, and having people stay longer you would think would be an added perk of serving EVs. Most gas stations could add chargers just by converting their parking spaces at 5 to 10 spaces, which are usually unoccupied because only the gas station employees are there all day. As it is, EVs are passing gas stations, going to the back to charge at dark shopping center parking lots and trekking to CVS pharmacies. Its like they are sleeping though their own funeral.
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  1304. One small note: GBAS, better known to pilots as LAAS, has gone absolutely nowhere with the FAA.
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  1305. If your apps are not braindamaged why do you need to scale? The app should be able to display at a reasonable size for the display, IE, not come up in a postage stamp on a 4k display. This applies to the gnome apps as well. Buying a 4k monitor then scaling it down so that it has the same resolution as a HD monitor is like throwing the money you paid for the monitor and graphics card in the trash can. And yes, I know of where I speak. My apps find the monitor size in DPI and adjusts accordingly.
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  1306.  @boembab9056  If you scale the screen, you are letting the OS/Presentation system draw things bigger for you. If you do it in the application, the application is doing the "scaling", QED. So lets dive into that. In an ideal world, the presentation system is taking all of your calls, lines, drawings, pictures, and scaling them intelligently. In that same world, the Easter bunny is flying out of your butt. All the system can really do is interpolate pixels. Lets take a hypothetical for all of you hypothetical people. They come out with a 4m display, meaning 4 megapixels, not 4 kilopixels. You scale %100, meaning "no scaling". All of the stupid apps look like little dots on the screen because they are compressed to shit. Now we scale some 1000 times to get it all back. If the scaler does not consider what was drawn, but just pixels, its going to look terrible as scaled, just as if you blow up a photo on screen far in excess of its resolution. Now the apps that are NOT stupid, but actually drew themselves correctly, are going to look fine, perhaps just that much smoother because they took advantage of the extra resolution. Now lets go one more. I know this is boring, drink coffee, pay attention. Drawing characters at small point sizes is a problem right? People worked out all kinds of systems like "hints" to try and make fonts look good at small point sizes like 5-8 points. But you bought that 4k monitor and that 4k card, and THEN you bought a fast CPU to push all of that data around. Guess what? That 5 point problem you had is gone. Just gone. There is sufficient resolution to display fonts on screen down to the point where you can barely see them. Now ask yourself. How does a scaling algorithm do that unless it DRAWS the characters at that resolution? Keep in mind that programmers spent decades on true type formats and computed character drawing to match mathematical curves to pixels. Is an interpolated scaler going to do that? No, no it is not. Peace out.
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  1307.  @boembab9056  Look I know you are a smart guy, but think about what you are saying. If the application knew how to take care of its own scaling, the OS does not need to do anything, no scaling at all. The typical flow is: 1. If the application has never come up before (default), it takes the measure of the screen, then presents itself according to a rule of thumb, say 1/4 the size of the screen. 2. Size the fonts according to the onscreen DPI. Ie, it you have 12 point type, then choose an onscreen font accordingly. Points are 1/72 of an inch, so 12 point type is 0.16 of an inch in height ON SCREEN. 3. Set other dimensions accordingly. I personally use the point size to dimension everything else on screen, and I have found that works well. 4. If the application has executed previously, then just use the last window size. That is a reasonable expectation for the user. Do that, and no scaling is required. The app knows what to do. If you think about it, what scaling REALLY does is accommodate stupid applications that don't understand how to scale themselves properly. I follow all of the rules above in my applications. I'll readily admit that I had to do some work to get to 4k displays. Mostly it was because I used standard (and it turns out arbitrary) measures to size items in the apps display. Also when moving to 4k, I implemented a standard pair of keys to let the user adjust the size of the apps display (ctl-+ and ctl--, same as Chrome and most other apps). This is the correct solution. Rescaling all applications because SOME programmers don't know what they are doing is not the right solution, and, indeed, it actually punishes the applications that did the right thing by messing with their scaling instead of letting them do it themselves.
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  1308. "Maduro believes" he does not believe anything of the kind. %51 is a clearly made up figure. Maduro and the rest of the government knows quite well the opposition won.
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  1309. Amazing how many people here think more socialism is the answer.
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  1310. Can you name your fish and get photos of their development?
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  1311. Can I get a beer bottle opener built into my hand? Its a lot of trouble to go find one...
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  1312. The problem: EVs and new age energy solutions effectively export pollution to other countries! Me: Ok.
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  1313. However you come down on the mask thing, even from the very start you could read information to the effect that the cloth masks don't work. How many times did we get told that only N95 masks work, and further, that you would have to CHANGE the masks EVERY DAY for them to be effective. For about the first 6 months getting a supply of that many N95 masks was impossible for the average citizen, and in any case, the CDC was advising us NOT to purchase those masks because the hospitals needed them. And yet even today, people wear their cloth masks like it is some kind of talisman to ward off evil spirits. Its just beyond silly.
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  1314. Its the oldest law of people: You do bad, you probably won't be seen the next morning, and nobody saw nuthin'. Quite effective.
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  1315. Most of the "problems" with EV are non-issues played up by the press. However, as a family with two Teslas, I don't believe it is right for the government to regulate a change to EVs, and subsidies are a case of taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Get out of market manipulation and let people figure it out for themselves.
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  1316. The whole west coast looks like this now, LA, SF, Portland, Seattle. All Democrat run, all socalist, all trashbins.
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  1317. The answer is: internet/web voting. https is already more secure than voting machines, encrypted and secure. We can give voters one time certificates that can only be used once, can be verified by additional data provided by the user, etc. At the end of the day a voter would have to actually give away their right to place that vote, which is an individual decision. Such a system would be more secure, save huge amounts of money, eliminate fraud, and increase voter turnout due to not having to attend in person.
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  1318. Tried to stick a dime in my cell phone... didn't work. No wonder that isn't used anymore.
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  1319. We'll see. There can be a strong temptation to "derate" the fab, have it produce lower resolution chips. The bottom line is the Arizona fab is insurance against invasion by China, which everyone appears to think is imminent. Is China appropriating US technology? Well, just wait. China will get high tech by taking over a (ahem) country. I'd say that is a first, but WWII saw that with Germany. What is the Chinese saying? "May you live in interesting times".
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  1320. 5, The government raids the gas tax funds for other reasons that building roads.
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  1321. Intel believing that their CPUs could efficiently run AI tasks is the second time they made that error. The first time was Intel believing that the graphics built into the CPU would be more effective. Turns out having the graphics in a separate chip with its own memory was far more efficient, even if it necessitated moving data back and forth between CPU and graphics memory. Its part of the reason they lost that business to Nvidia.
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  1322. isn't it nice to have a thermonuclear reactor parked out there at a convenient distance?
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  1323. Less chips, less power.
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  1324. And we accomplished.... what?..... exactly? In Afghanistan?
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  1325. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the military's "diversity tsar" is not, nor welcome to be, a white person.
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  1326. Python is slow. So its a no go. Javascript is built on callbacks so no. Annoying.
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  1327. So what would be the REAL GDP of Mexico if you included illegal activities?
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  1328. You are basing this on public support of Putin in Russia, but that support is inaccurately measured. The clearest way would be popular vote, but Putin has been able to fix that by arranging who can be on the ballot. The appropriate page from history is the "secret vote" against Stalin, where the communist party held an anonymous vote against Stalin. Indeed, he was unable to know the exact members who voted against him, and so had them all successively killed off in time.
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  1329. You picked the worst European plug which is the British 240v plug. The EU plug, which is round, is not only smaller, but is designed so that small children cannot touch the active terminals, unlike the British and American plugs.
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  1330. Lets give them a completely fair and unbiased trial.... then hang em'.
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  1331. %100 software simulation is a dream of mine. It allows you to run tests frequently, and typically faster than the hardware can allow This gives you the ability to not only perform (say) hourly builds but also run complete tests on those builds. Most companies resist pure software simulation, or discard such simulation after the "real" hardware arrives. But in modern systems, networks of hardware are essentially a set of CPUs running in parallel, such as the Tesla car example. Thus most of the behavior is in programs for the different CPUs, and there is little difference between a simulation and a hardware platform. Because many companies simulate the full platform simulation in order to develop software before the hardware is finished, this leads to the (to me) bizarre effect of companies discarding the full simulation on completion of hardware development.
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  1332.  @ContinuousDelivery  Actually physical simulations can be more accurate than the "real thing". Say what? Its basic quantum mechanics. There are limits to observability of physical devices. The act of taking a measurement affects the result. The example you picked, aircraft, is an interesting example. NASA some time back decommissioned a lot of their wind tunnel resources. Why? Because the simulation results for aircraft deliver better and easier results than actual wind tunnels. Simulators can deliver results for things like hypersonic missiles and spacecraft that cannot be achieved by wind tunnels. My field is integrated circuits, and there too, simulation exceeds "real" results. Its very difficult to measure what is happening in integrated circuits, since the application of probes affects the measurements. Virtually all designs, including analog, are done with simulation The actual "physical" result using manufactured ICs is done mainly to verify the result and correct process errors.
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  1333. Another company that made a dumb bet on hydrogen. It DOES NOT WORK, FOLKS. It just moves pollution down the street. Electrolysis is like cold fusion. It was impractical yesterday, is still today, and will be tomorrow. Wake up.
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  1334. Whats funny to me is that when he was discussing how to get the case off, my first thought was "put it on a lathe", but my second thought was "no, that would be stupid, it would ignite the engine". And yet, that's exactly what the man did...
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  1335. There was a moment in the introduction of Windows NT at a microsoft convention in San Fransisco. The presenter was having an issue with making the graphical interface work, and eventually brought up a command line to fix it. The crowd started laughing.
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  1336. I'd be interested to know how you got the multitrack version of this song.
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  1337. If you try to prevent politicians from profiting from their work, you will just drive it deeper from view. I think the real issue is our leaders serve for too long. We were never meant to have a permanent politician class. Even Washington went home to his farm. Spend too long in Washington, you learn the tricks. Our representatives are supposed to go to Washington and effect the will of the people. Originally that meant leaving the farm, holding congress, then going home. Power breeds corruption.
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  1338. Has to be a sign that a physicist occupies the office if the blackboard (whiteboard) is bigger than the office.
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  1339. Even without the chemical problem, why would you do this to your house? Its like putting your house in cement.
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  1340. Lithium ferro-phosphates - wasn't she a Charlies angel?
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  1341. Boeing is becoming the backup source for space launches. Boeing got fat off NASAs budget as a big science project. ULA is already loosing big money on the whole thing. I expect they will eventually decide to dump it and concentrate on commercial and military aircraft projects.
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  1342. Its odd to me how people describe flooding the world over as a "problem". Its a natural event, and it benefits mankind greatly by fertilizing the land around the river. This was true of Iraq, the Nile delta, and many other places. And in Iraq and many other places, damming the river and stopping the floods had a price of making the land less suitable for agriculture, which had to be made up for by irrigation. There is a price to messing with the natural order of things. I'm fine with that. But describing seasonal flooding as a "disaster" is just blind to the benefits of natural processes, the same ones that made the land attractive in the first place, and made civilization bloom there.
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  1343. Damm that was satisfying...
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  1344. Yea, could be.
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  1345. No problem. Marry an ATM.
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  1346. Let 'em do it. Risc-V is the future anyways. ARM can't renegotiate old contracts, so this only applies to new designs.
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  1347. I think it became a 51 year old bug while I was watching this video...
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  1348. Maybe Israel figures this will flush out Sinwar.
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  1349. I know what the value of my life if I NEVER go outside. Basically zero or close to it.
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  1350. The name for the power line communications addition to J1772 is ISO 15118 aka "home plug". It was not originally designed for cars. It basically gives your car an Ethernet connection via the plug. It could theoretically cover all communications, plus give you video entertainment while you charge your car.
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  1351. The "japan is taking over the world" period was stupid, and so is its repeat, the "China is taking over the world" craze. I assume nobody remembers the "USA is taking over the world" phase. Relax. Breath, Everyone's living standard is rising.
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  1352. Puck Futin.
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  1353. Baton rouge stands for "red stick". I'm just sayin'.
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  1354. All anyone I know who remembers skype is that it didn't work real well. Its brand is now toxic. Hard to recover from that.
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  1355. Java is run through a JIT or Just in time compiler. It is rarely or never run through an interpreter. It would be true to say that most scripters run by interpretation, but there are levels. Bash is a script that is directly interpreted, Python compiles to intermediate form (.pyc files). Typically the higher level of abstractions the language deals with the less advantage there is to full machine code compilation. A language that deals with strings is not going to get as much advantage from compilation, because it spends most of its time in string handling routines.
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  1356. I have lost my healthcare due to Obamacare. I am currently unemployed, but my yearly income makes me ineligible for subsidies. My wife has a healthcare plan for her employer, but it specifically forbids dual coverage, and she was on my plan. I had independent coverage as a contractor a few years back at about $250/mo, it doubled to $500 under Obamacare, and now is $1140 for both of us. The minimum I can find is $800 for both of us using the highest deductible and the worst plan. The result is I can't afford health care for our family until I get a job. The idea that Obamacare helps uninsured people get insurance is a big lie. Its pushing plenty of people OUT of the insurance market.
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  1357. Ok, so if they are not "literal ships", what are they? Imaginary?
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  1358. Notgonna happen. The voters of California are not going to vote to split itself, and determining the vote of only a part of California is not straightforward. A lot of California is not represented. North California, the central valley, San Diego, all don't agree with Sacramento values. California is certainly too big. Splitting it down the middle, and not along political lines, could only improve our government.
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  1359. Microsoft made 3d APIs about as well as Hitler made elderly care centers.
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  1360. So the only way you got to airlines generating %25 of worldwide emissions is if all other sources are reduced. Somehow I think we can live with that. Also, electric aircraft can replace a huge number of short haul flights, and this will be an important factor in the future. Finally, electric batteries CAN be placed in the wings, and so have the same weight and space advantages.
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  1361. I had to work on a windows driver once where the top level called lower level routines all with void pointer parameters. The original programmer believed that since the lower level didn't specify any types for its parameters, the driver was more portable. Ugghhh.
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  1362. I would have expected the window that the shrapnel went through to be inline with the engine, since the blades are thrown by centrifugal force. Anyone know why that might not have occurred?
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  1363. Fine, and I am using AI to generate small programs now. Then I rework them. There is not much difference between that and finding an existing short program on the internet and reworking that for my needs, and cynical me says that the AI probably just distilled many internet example programs to form its solution in any case. If it takes the same amount of time for me to write with as without AI, my replacement is not here yet.
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  1364. Brexit. Brexit.
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  1365. It seems like you are saying the feedback is build and test of code. Playing devil's advocate, a branch can also be frequently tested and built. If you post CLs several times a day, you aren't going to get meaningful reviews. Are reviews better than tests? I would say yes, they are the difference between code degradation and improvement or at least maintaining code quality. I do admit that most big company reviews are not worth much. Its a game between programmers to basically catch clerical errors so that you can prove you actually did the review. But in defense of programmers, most reviews have little to do with code quality in terms of APIs and modularity.
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  1366. How about WWI explained with gummy bears?
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  1367. Farming Samon is more eFISHent.
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  1368. You have to read between the lines here. Head start is not an education program, its government daycare. So that the parents can work. Its got nothing to do with advancing the children.
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  1369. And Spain has the most beach like .. ever.... Except for that unsightly wart on the west side.
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  1370. So all of this would not have been possible without ships. Yet I don't hear people blaming ships for slavery. But slavery was the fault of capitalism?
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  1371. A delay in the start of WWII might have had a good chance that the outcome would be decided by nuclear weapons, since by any stretch that work would have been further along. I don't think the winner of that would have been clear, but it certainly would have increased the risk that WWII would have ended with a significant nuclear exchange. It probably saved the world that things went the way they did. Certainly conventional technologies would have advanced, for example WWII might have taken place with radar and jet aircraft in place. However, the realization that nuclear weapons were a real possibility might have set off a nuclear arms race between at least the USA/UK and Germany, and possibly the USSR as well. At that point the world's safety would have relied on the development of MAD doctrine between players who were not as ready for it as post WWII players. From this point of view, the many dead of WWII could well have been to save the world from extinction.
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  1372. Its no kidding. The kids today didn't grow up with parents who experienced the war or depression, didn't pay attention during history class, and get their news from tiktok. Its actually scary. I have kids who are not talking to me because I told them they needed to stop backing Hamas and believing their propaganda. The trendy thing now is to say the Israelis are "occupiers" and "colonialists".
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  1373. NASA has always used contractors. Boeing, Rockedyne, in fact a huge number of different vendors. How is this significantly different? Design? The LEM on Apollo was Grumman. Command module? North American Aviation. The Saturn V engines? Rockedyne. And down the list. It was too big a job at the time for one company. Now we have single large companies that can perform more of the task, which naturally follows with the advancing technology. And NASAs final goal should be passing the baton to private industry in any case.
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  1374. So you are saying fuel cells have a future for heavy trucking. I have a gas truck for towing, but drive an electric car from day to day, including for long trips. After this explanation of yours, this sounds like the right idea.
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  1375. I bought a Jayco 10 years ago. It had obvious quality issues like too long screws that were hanging out in mid-air inside cabinets. But nothing I could not fix. However, 3 years ago a large section of the floor caved in. The RV dealer I bought it from quoted me more than the worth of it just to get STARTED on a fix. I took it home, tore down that section myself, and found the issue. The maker had cracked the toilet fitting to the black tank when installing it, and it had been leaking out of there for years, resulting in the wood floor rotting out and failing. I never expected a Jayco travel trailer to be the top notch quality, but what I got was disposable quality. Do yourself a favor and buy better quality RVs and not the cheap ones.
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  1376. Nice they are using bullpups. This design has been getting so much bad press (oh! A concealable rifle!).
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  1377. You need to study how people react with touchscreens both when they are driving it for the first time AND after they have had time to get used to the system. You learn to deal with it. You learn to glance at the screen out of the corner of your eye, and you learn how to glace/push, that is, quickly glance at the screen and push a screen button. If it requires multiple pushes, you learn to break that into steps that you can perform quickly with a glance/push, then back to the road. Finally, if it is you complex, you forget it or pull over. The power of the single display on a Tesla is that they can fit more in in multiple screens, and they download changes to the interface where you are. I had a Bolt before, and software changes meant going into the dealer and leaving the car. They never explained why. It had a cellular connection. It could have done it "off the air".
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  1378. Don't ask that of the Palestinians. Don't ask that of the Israelis. Ask it of the Arabs living in Israel. They would just look at you confused. Since they already do live in peace with the jews.
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  1379. I ditched LG in general after I found out they could not repair their own high priced appliances. What I look for in phones now is price. I am not going to pay $1000 for a phone. Its a non-starter.
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  1380.  @heyyou274  1. Because it conflates all program data into one place. This makes it more difficult to find and separate out. And there is little corresponding benefit to it. 2. Because if the registry gets destroyed, the system is dead. And windows used to destroy its own registry a lot. Admittedly it has got better at this. 3. Removing an application got way more difficult with the registry. Many or even most applications don't clean their registry entries when removed, and in fact some call this a "feature", because it supposedly maintains settings. This can cause interesting things like applications that have persistent problems because the registry entries don't go away, and have to be manually removed. As a developer, I am a big advocate of "one tree, one application" methodology. That is, an application is contained in one tree under one directory entry, without change on installation. This means it is installed by simply copying the tree to disc, and can be removed by simply removing that tree. It does not use a complex installer process (such as flatpack or other). It does not spread itself all over the operating system. And all of its configuration files are contained in that tree. Eclipse is one such application, as are all of my applications. Do I use the registry? In cases I am forced to. For example the path is in the registry, and I have to alter it. There are other examples. But I prefer to keep as much data outside the registry as possible.
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  1381. Its not about Covid. Its about social engineering. Covid is an excuse. This is shafting landlords.
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  1382. No.
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  1383. Junta is pronounced like who-n-ta.
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  1384. No, Johnny, companies raising prices does not cause inflation. Their raising prices is a REACTION to inflation, the loss of value of the dollar. And that is caused by the government printing money, which nowadays (and for a long time now) has been done by their spending money that they don't have. Corporations can't print money. Banks can't. People can't. Government CAN.
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  1385. "only 600 million people in China can be considered middle class"... ummm....like twice the number of people in the USA?
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  1386. Its pronounced "du sow", dassault.
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  1387. I think I would notice if there were fusion going on in my pocket...
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  1388. Yea, snarky. However, what it indicates in general for Latin America is that lawyers have not overrun the place like in the USA. Here the city would fix that hole in the sidewalk immediately for fear of a lawsuit. In Bogota, they would just laugh at you if you fell in the hole.
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  1389. Biggest problem here is two NATO countries attacking each other. How does NATO "one for all" agreement figure on that?
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  1390. Thanks for that. In this age of all digital, its worth looking back at what a fantastic gift Edison gave us so long ago.
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  1391. Good news: You can go to space. Bad news: Only in incinerated form (ash).
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  1392. Gore needs more money. Go see his movie.
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  1393. Denmark has it coming...
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  1394. Davos is a meeting of socialists. Preaching to the wrong audience.
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  1395. That book scanner is ridiculous. The right way is to cut off the spine so you get just pages, then put it through an automatic feed scanner like most copiers have.
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  1396.  @potential900  There are few books that rate that treatment (the Torah?) Books can be rebound after scanning, and after scanning the book can be recreated from the digital copy as required.
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  1397. You are certainly the only one I know who is crazy enough to recreate mechanical television. The old mech TVs would have been termed low resolution slow scan today, because it had to be transmitted over a sound channel, as in radio channel, since high frequency radio had not taken off in that era. I suspect mechanical TV was quite valuable as a demonstration device before CRT based TV arrived. The basic principles were tested, and then the CRT and broadband, high frequency channels made real TV possible.
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  1398. Thanks for finally explaining why the Webb telescope needs a sunshade even though it is in the lagrange shadow. ISS was a good deal in its day. I agree we are better off building a moon base now, which is permanent. To be really cost effective, I believe we should start missions on the moon for the two most important resources there: water and underground tubes/caverns. Water will be a key resource for oxygen, fuel and of course water for habitation. The underground tubes, if found, will change everything, since we would be able to block them off and flood with atmosphere, dramatically both decreasing the cost of habitation, as well as dramatically increasing the volume available. They would also be proof from solar radiation events, something nearly impossible to achieve with above ground structures. A moon base could change everything. Low cost of materials to orbit, the potential of finding materials on the moon, or even towing asteroids there and dropping them on the moon to mine iron and other materials, the ability to set up observatories on the moon, the list goes on and on.
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  1399. Has it occurred to you that Xi's "share the wealth" program is playing to the public? The government does not need a share the wealth program, they are sharing everyone's wealth quite nicely, thank you. The share the wealth stuff is pure populism: We (the government) got ours, we'll help you get yours from the greedy capitalists. And the rhetoric is empty. Why would the government share the capitalist wealth? They understand (at long last) they need to let the economy work so they can collect taxes and bribes. Why let the general population in on the game?
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  1400. "the rich are hording money"... yea, if you believe that wealth is fixed, and that rich people have to "steal" money from others to have it themselves. If you believe that, you are a democrat.
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  1401. I literally went to war with people spreading misinformation on a subject for which I am one of the few remaining experts. I succeeded, but I would have had to continue the fight... forever. The last straw was I noticed that the same misinformation was being spread on the same pages in other languages. It just isn't worth it. Take all Whackipedia information with a grain of salt.
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  1402. We have gotten really good at altering edible chemicals to extend their shelf life. The problem is, your body incorporates those chemicals into itself. So you are eating things that are going to be like cement, and stay with you much longer. And that's not good.
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  1403. How about we get smart and extend AUKUS to any Asian country that wants to join. Imagine a new, NATO like wall against China.
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  1404. California should not vote to leave the union. They should be thrown out.
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  1405. Say the word: Socialism.
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  1406. Hint: a lot of dishwashers fail because the electronics are in the door, and this consists of one or more control boards with lots of connectors. Those connectors are usually cheap, tinned connectors, not gold plated. As a result of that and the wet environment (humidity) in the door, the connections go intermittent. These can be fixed temporarily by removing and reseating the connectors. A more permanent fix is to find aluminium electrical connector gel at home depot or similar store, then apply to the connections and reinsert. The gel is designed to reduce corrosion and is non-conductive.
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  1407. I never went to sleep.
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  1408. Technology that I am glad does not exist: A direct brain interface. I am glad I don't have to make decisions about whether to plant a brain interface in my head by surgery. I'll be long gone before we get there.
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  1409. My wife was a teacher in Norcal. One of the male teachers was sexually abusing her, inappropriate touching, etc. I offered to disappear him one night in the parking lot, she declined. She complained to staff. Turned out he had a list of similar complaints about him. Years later she interviewed with another school in the same district, and found out he was working there. The new school had no idea about the complaints against him. The first school got rid of the problem teacher by shuffling him off to another school. Its a crazy system, you can't fire anyone.
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  1410. Petro was following the Venezuela plan of getting elected by a bare majority, then taking over the government quickly before he could be turned from office. Petro's effort to take over congress failed. He is pissing off everyone, and his family has engaged in corruption. Look for him to be a one termer.
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  1411. Authur C. Clarke said it way back when: Escaping earths gravity gets you to the solar system...
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  1412. The message is: use more salt!
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  1413. Oh and you should go see the waterfront airport that is the home airport in Microsoft flight simulator. Whats that? Its no longer there? The mayor showed up in the middle of the night and plowed it under? Ah, yes, Chicago that toddlin' town...
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  1414. knock-on ef·fect noun a secondary, indirect, or cumulative effect. "a decline in butterflies would have a knock-on effect on other British species"
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  1415. Coca-cola does, in fact, have ingredients from cocaine. There is one company authorized in the USA to make pharmaceutical cocaine, and they send a truck with the ingredient(s) that coke uses in its recipe. It is not the additive drug.
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  1416. The most important thing, to me, is that Linux runs everywhere. Its on ARMs, PCs, RISC-V. Its on Raspberry PIs, virtually every SBC made, etc. Some of that is because the source is open, which yes, of course that makes a difference.
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  1417. I wouldn't care if they charged 1 cent per year to sign applications. Paying to develop freeware for a computer/OS is immoral. I don't honestly believe this, I think there is a way around it. But if it were true, I would stop releasing anything for the Mac OS.
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  1418. Voyager will go faster after it meets the alien probe and merges with it.
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  1419. Med a yeeen, Medellin. Stop mispronouncing my adopted city. Or and there is no R at the end of America.
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  1420. Senile Biden does not speak for me. We are united in cause with Ukraine.
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  1421. We aren't restricting free speech. However, it costs $200 for you to give your opinion...
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  1422. My 2 cents: The CPUs are water cooled now. Its ridiculous that graphics cards are not also so cooled. In fact, the graphics cards simply dump their heat into the chassis, then expect the fans in the case to move it out from there. Its high time to water cool these cards, then you save on the expense and width of the cooling fans and heatsinks on the cards. Its also silly to have to take the card apart and modify it for water cooling.
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  1423. It works for France. Germany choose NG, which is fine if they had some. Instead the plan is to become Putin's sockpuppet. For the USA, the states are now led by California, which as chosen a mix of wind, solar and battery storage, Its a combination that does not work (a feature that never seemed to stop the Democrats), but (like renewables) shows every sign that it will work shortly. California and France are similar in size and population. It will be interesting to compare them going forward.
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  1424. There is in fact an entire modern industry build around building tiny, mobile houses. They are called RECREATIONAL VEHICLES. Morons.
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  1425. Ohh, a left-over core of a nuclear bomb. Let's play with it.
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  1426. The US dollar is the common currency. None of the banks south of the border are capable of running a sound currency. The US can barely do it. So they need and external currency.
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  1427. We would be better off starting a permanent project like a lagrange station or a moon station, and making it more of a structure for private enterprise to use, instead of no doubt valuable projects like seeing if flies can f**k in space.
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  1428. Johnny, I think this is your best work yet. I see congratulations are coming on your 1 millionth subscriber, well done.
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  1429. The threat that upper income people will leave has always been there. Look at New York. The truth is most of them earn enough that they just don't have to care. Who will pay the head tax? Amazon employees will pay in less income. Socialist policies usually hit lower incomes first.
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  1430. Brodie, the Lewis Black of Linux...
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  1431. Sorry, the math does not work. A Tesla can go typically 300 miles on a charge. So you say that is equal to 3 gallons of gas. Now lets take a fairly efficient car, say 50 miles per gallon. So 300/50 = 6 gallons equivalent, not 3. I think what you are not taking into account is that event if a gallon of gas has the "equivalent energy" 33.7 kWh, an electric car uses energy much more efficiently.
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  1432. To me the most interesting part is the history of this, unmention in the video. First, the existance of bluetoon (and wifi) in the microwave spectrum was no accident. The federal government allocated the microwave band as a sort of "toxic wasteland" that microwave ovens could use and not interfere with other electronics. They considered the frequencies there to be unusable, and so when digital communications were able to operate in the band, it was like "go for it". And indeed, spread spectrum was able to use the band without issue. Second, spread spectrum was invented by Hedy Lamarr, a beautiful young actress who dabbled in technology in her spare time. The original idea was to use a player piano to do the frequency hopping, and the purpose of it was originally to send secret messages over radio during WWII.
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  1433. Stopped watching at about 5:00. On and on about the 15 minute city. WTF are you going on about. Modern EVs have 250-300 mile range, or 4-5 hours range at 60 miles per hour. It takes longer to charge an EV than to gas up, but home charging reduces that to zero, as it you plug in and then go about your life. Apartment living impacts that, but its a simple change, and in Canada they already plug their cars in at apartment buildings. If they didn't the car would freeze up and not start. As per typical with these "diss the EV" videos, its based on lack of knowledge about EVs.
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  1434. Notice: Nobody said I would like to be "elected" president...
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  1435. I did the 8 pin power connector, the power supply went "click" and shut down. Not good. Went back to PCI-E connectors, that worked fine. What IDIOT made these connectors in the same machine with the same connectors.
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  1436. Must... not..... look.... directly.... at.... shirt....
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  1437. You are in the sudoers file was an authorized user.
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  1438. The Hippocratic oath, that all doctors take, is clearly against cutting off healthy body parts.
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  1439. Hint: the national electrical code was written by the national fire protection association. Their concern is the wiring causing fires.
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  1440. All theories are approximations of reality. If they don't explain everything, this does not make them bad theories.
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  1441. Zelensky is awesome. Full stop.
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  1442. Its ok, it all worked out in the end. Wait...
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  1443. I await the story of the arrival of warmbeerious.
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  1444. North Korea is rich, and can get anything they want on the world economy. Oh, that is if you are talking about members of the government. Its like a walled garden that nobody outside of the government can access. With most of the people on the outside of the wall, it would seem simple that those people could just erase the wall and take over, and in fact it is simple, and could happen. That is why the government must continually terrorize the people outside the wall to keep them quiet.
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  1445. Yea like when the press is taking a ride 🙂
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  1446. The number one hacker entry is the use of C and unprotected languages. We a seeing a pushback against that, but its peeing in the ocean.
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  1447. "As you drive through the occupied north"... I suspect you lost some Turkish friends there. Really great video by the way. The Congo is another story where the two major divisions of people lived in peace before external forces interceded. The Tutsis and the Hutus war with each other to this day.
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  1448. I know for a fact this is wrong, because the Marx brothers never advocated socialism. They just made really funny films.
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  1449. A meltdown medley.
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  1450. Model 3 is 37,500 for off the lot purchase. The video skipped that. With federal tax break, that's 30,000.
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  1451. Jay is like a linus whose brain lived...
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  1452.  @fix0the0spade  This is another made up fiction by the press. I have a 6 year old Tesla with no appreciable battery degradation, I know of cars that are more than 10 years old, and Tesla themselves have said the car will last beyond 10 years. You are free to believe what you want, but all you are doing is echoing anti-EV nonsense that is popular right now.
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  1453.  @divyanshbhutra5071  Give me a break. I worked for Enel (Italian power company) we made chargers for the Euro market. Je parle francais, yo hablo espanol. Y tu? The EU will end up ahead of the US because they don't block BYD and others from the union. "you don't understand the world outside the USA" is just another way of saying you can't defend your arguments logically, so you stoop to the ugly American insult, a cheap shot. BYE!
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  1454.  @kdaltex  Always true, and its a different subject because of that.
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  1455. Somewhat clean, somewhat safe, and somewhat unlimited. Yea.
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  1456. Seems like a lot of what you are talking about is the same idea as land reform from prior ages. The idea that you were born without, that the ruling class had the privileges (land), and that you were born owing something to others. The difference is now you are born white or male or both, and you need to pay a debt for oppressing others. The result is the same: pushback against the ideas that you owe anything to anyone. You didn't participate in oppressing blacks, women, etc, and don't feel like paying that "debt".
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  1457. The biography of Korolev said the surgeon who operated on him when he died showed up drunk, not uncommon in the USSR.
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  1458. Why is it Wonder bread? Cause you wonder if it is bread.
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  1459. I don't care if it can or cannot detect children. Why would the car drive into an object? Any object?
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  1460. There are two issues I have with Agile. The first is that it is a group of methods wrapped into one "method". Second, it rewards lack of documentation. It tells programmers what they want to hear: documentation is useless, don't bother. As a result, documentation, already bad for software, is getting far worse.
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  1461. I'm sure by now TSMC has arranged to blow up the EUV machine(s) that drive the highest tech chip manufacture.
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  1462. that was your best one...
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  1463. This is one of the rare connector applications where, even though they had microprocessors on each side of the connection, it was still done without any digital communications. This causes massive issues going forward. Chargers are unable to get any advanced information from the car, such as state of charge (percentage of charge on the battery), things like payment information, etc., without adding YET ANOTHER communications layer ontop of the analog one. IE., it was a massive foul up. And it is one reason Tesla quickly overtook J1772 as a better charging system.
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  1464. Why..... Does..... ANYONE..... Listen..... To..... PAUL KRUGMAN???
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  1465. I'm a refugee from Los Angeles, and about to be a refugee from California. I'm escaping persecution by crime and taxes.
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  1466. The real mystery of the first investigations of light was that Einstein both provided the foundations of quantum theory with the photoelectric effect and one of its biggest skeptics.
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  1467. This video is a collection of misfacts about EVs.
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  1468. So we are going to trade desalinization for more carbon in the air, making global warming worse, and around and around it goes.
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  1469. I like that your "Unix and linux system administration" is serving to raise your monitor height.
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  1470. Not sure if I feel smarter or stupider after watching this...
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  1471. Stalled motors make me run for the off switch.
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  1472. A little disappointing in that you never mentioned why betamax was inherently superior to VHS technically, the a-b head azimuth method, which allowed tighter track spacing on the tape. This was sheer genius on Sony's part.
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  1473.  @uploadJ  Sure. The first simulator I did was a standard switch level simulator. These are good, but don't consider many physical attributes such as the resistance of the switch other than being able to produce "weak" states, so that transistors with greater power can take over a node. The RC simulator gives a simulation between switch level and SPICE, and gives actual switching curves, a real picture of strong vs. weak switches, and yet gives reasonable speed.
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  1474.  @uploadJ  Yea, the view of an IC as a series of capacitors discharging through resistors by switches is obviously limited. However, its nice to see curves coming out of such a simple simulation. I had hopes for implementing the algorithm in hardware, and still do. Like getting a large net that executes reasonably fast, but is actually analog based. The impetus for all that was that our regular switch based simulator at Zilog could not handle resets, so that was done by node sets. I was interested in seeing if I could make a simulator that didn't need that kludge, mainly because I had just solved a serious reset bug in one of our chips! I was able to do that, mainly by introducing weak states into the simulation (this was the digital only simulator). I think that is standard now. They just killed my old chip, the Z80. Ah well. Crappy instruction set really. I made a compiler for it, but I can't believe I did that now.
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  1475. If the highest IQ person in the world works as a bouncer, might I suggest that IQ does not measure actual intelligence? Just a thought.
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  1476. I'd listen to your podcasts on Spotify.
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  1477. We stole it fair and square...
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  1478. A terrible ad for EVs. Socialist big government state backs EVs. Last time I checked, socialists didn't make electric cars. They are made by dirty, greedy capitalists. EVs have lots of advantages and don't need to be forced down our throats.
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  1479. I recommend you don't lecture people smarter than you.
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  1480. Is it wrong that this makes me hot?
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  1481. For most of the USA the answer is complex. For California, the answer turns out to be simple! Its because they are STUPID!
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  1482. Interesting how you got more pushback on this question than many others. Its the central question of Israel, isn't it? If Israel were a normal state, with normal immigration, the jews feel it would be overrun by Arabs and thus taken over. I think that is true, but I don't think its a bad thing if it takes, say, 100 years. The key is that by the time immigration made the jews a minority, the people living their would be Israeli, and have no interest in tearing up their own state. Ask the Jordanians how integration with the Palestinians is going. I guess I have a unique perspective on it, because my mother married a Jewish man as her second husband.
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  1483. If you have problems with Zelle, get out of Zelle completely. I'd also like to know how many of these claims involved people giving out their bank account access to strangers. This is likely to be the most common way to lose money. If you get access to someone else's bank account, its not that easy to get money out of their account. Zelle makes that easy.
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  1484. Congradulations on 1 million. Quite a milestone. Do you get a special trophy or something from YouTube?
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  1485.  @Weaseldog2001  Well, yes, and no. Now we are in to test theory. If a test problem needs to be fixed by better cleanup and the end of the test, does that not imply that the initialization of the next test is a problem? It is clearly not able to bring the system to a stable state before the test. We had a test unit "farm" at Arista, the idea was that there was a large pool of hardware test units, and the software could take a test run request, grab an available unit, run the tests, and release again. The biggest issue with it was that machines regularly went "offline", meaning they were stuck in an indeterminate state and could no longer be used. This was even after cycling power for the unit and rebooting. The problem was solved by taking some pretty heroic steps to restart the machine, as I recall even rewriting the firmware for the machine.
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  1486. Ya, them first two amendments are troublemakers.
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  1487. This is "broken windows" in reverse. You don't enforce the little laws, get ready for social breakdown.
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  1488. You are right. The probe was a real accomplishment. Do you think its possible we will see a mercury lander one day?
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  1489. I don't care if they PAY YOU to install Windows. Its a crappy slow system with frequent infections that goes to sleep without asking while trying to install updates to itself. I can get a FREE system with all the source code available, that does anything windows can do, and has none of the problems. And I am using it now while typing this. Its called Linux.
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  1490. He says "I am legally responsible for what happens to this car" as he takes his eyes completely off the road.
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  1491. Liked the idea that "Barbie is the anti-fight club".
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  1492. The result is: get a good stud finder and use it. I can't believe how much people rely exclusively on drywall anchors.
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  1493. Coulda run a brief ad during Biden's "senior moment" there...
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  1494. DeepSeek is open source. It can't be sold or stopped for that matter.
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  1495. Going to be a party when you cross 100k!
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  1496. I don't know why everyone seems to be attracted to the idea of building above the surface on both the moon and mars. It is expensive to ship building materials to those places. You can make local material (cement, etc), but at that point you are digging in any case. To me, it makes sense to just start digging. By putting tunnels and caverns under ground, you can fill them with an atmosphere, and they are automatically proof against solar radiation events. The surface of the moon and mars are hostile environments, and there is little to gain by building there. A view?
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  1497. You can never have too much computer power. If your desktop does not double as a space heater, you don't have enough.
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  1498. NATO cannot enforce a no-fly zone, but the UN could. What is Russia going to do, go to war with the whole world?
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  1499. Solar works in the daytime. Wind power works in the nighttime. A 12 year old could solve that problem. Hydropower works by sending water DOWNHILL. Energy can be stored by sending it back UPHILL. A 12 year old could see the solution there. We can send power hugely long distances via the grid. There are places that have more sun, and places that have more wind. You could even send power from the lit side of the world to the dark side. A 12 year old could see what to do there. We need more 12 year olds.
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  1500. Yea but the Smelt are safe...
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  1501. Alec, you covered a lot of the uses of reflectors.One more: They add glass beads to movie screens to add so called "gain" to them. It means that the screen reflects the light back to the projector, and makes it so people sitting near the projector get a brighter picture. It has the disadvantage of making the picture dimmer if you are NOT near the projector, so it is not a universal good. The gain can be adjusted by the amount of beads on the screen.
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  1502. The USA has a powerful enemy lurking and waiting to conquer it. They can see it in the mirror.
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  1503. There is nothing wrong with Boeing that competition cannot fix. Boeing drank from the mother's milk of government money and grew fat.
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  1504. Exactly right. This is a cultural revolution, just like in China, including shouting people down and violence.
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  1505. Water, power, and the middle finger to China's neighbors. That's a win-win-win for emperor Xi.
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  1506. Both Xi and Putin are proponents of the "52 pickup" theory, namely that if you are at a disadvantage, throwing the game board over will get you an advantage when things are reassembled.
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  1507. The USA's biggest strength is its free and open economic system. If we don't appreciate that, we will lose it.
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  1508. Actually, that is/was a limitation of Turbo Pascal, not Pascal. And they fixed it later.
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  1509. I have never done a straight in that was not an IFR or IFR practice approach. In fact, my standard entry is overhead 2000' and then a descending turn for the 45, unless I know the airport well, in which case direct to the 45.
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  1510. "we have no life"... heyyyyy....
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  1511. "The pilot must have at least 100 short takeoff and landing missions, with a year of them in Nepal"..... Umm, that also sounds like a Nepal pilots union job protection program as well... The runway is 1729 feet, paved and marked. The most challenging thing about it is the altitude, at 9333 feet. There are several airports in California worse than that, and many unpaved. In Alaska that would qualify as an easy airport. I suspect the major factor here is attempting to bring large, fast aircraft into the airport. See for example Catalina Island airport off the coast at Los Angeles. Although 3000, the approach at one end is a sheer cliff where more that a few pilots have tried to drill into the mountain.
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  1512. The problem for me is that any search on the efficacy of cloth masks will show that they don't work. Only N95 masks that are fitted properly work. And yet people walk around like this is some kind of talisman that will ward off evil. It has no basis in science.
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  1513. Edison's revenge.
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  1514. I don't understand what "shot term" means either.
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  1515. From "animal house": "you messed up... you trusted us". Just ignore what the government says.
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  1516. In California, we have power that is just slightly less reliable than Pakistan. Thus, backup 4000kw generator, and I did the "PG&E" fix to the gas heater, which is to remove its connection to the wall power and replace with a regular 100v cord so it can plug in. I also got a 110v countertop range to replace the 240v electric range. Thus the only thing I can't backup is the clothes dryer (240v).
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  1517. I went to BLM web site, didn't see any marxist statements. Can anyone cite a place where they support marxisim?
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  1518. "suicide is the biggest cause of death by guns" and outlawing guns would just cause people to use another method of suicide.
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  1519.  @ellek8689  If companies are that petty, why would you want to work for them?
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  1520. Nice overview, well researched. Hoping you get to 200k soon.
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  1521. Good lord. First of all, print your maps in the proper aspect ratio! It hurts to see you print in portrait when the map is obviously LANDSCAPE! Second, for a map guy who probably has a fair amount of cash, you can certainly afford a better printer than A size. A C size printer would be better, and D and E size printers are available for engineering use. Again, LANDSCAPE! You spend like half the video waving this crappy A sheet map with the map printed in portrait when it should obviously be printed in landscape. There should be a law...
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  1522. Don't skip the cam operated machines, that is the intermediate machine between manual and NC/CNC machines. I had a friend who bought up several of the cam operated machines, virtually for free because they were being discarded as obsolete. He lined them up in his shop then used a CNC machine to make cams for them and then put them into production.
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  1523. @Ivan Schlotzky Well, two points on that. First, why would he have felt the need to take a backpack of stuff and go out to the reserve just to off himself, and second, it does not look like we will ever know: he is not intact enough to determine accurate cause of death.
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  1524. I like the lighting thing. Unless they are not LED.
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  1525.  @UndecidedMF  Yep, ok.
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  1526. Substitude "Russia" for "Romans" and you basically have modern times.
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  1527. PS as in the show "devs" the proof of many worlds is the "reverse Schrodinger experiment". You are in a box, and a button on the wall gives 50/50 chance that poison will be released and kill you. You can press the button, again and again, and nothing will happen. The reason is because to an external viewer, half the time you die, but none of those yous will realize that, so the you that lives only sees the button as not functioning.
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  1528. Cars don't TALK. That's the problem.
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  1529. While I have every sympathy for Israel, and I know the Arab side manufactures facts, the explanation of Deir Yassin as "stuff happens" is kinda weak.
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  1530. Yea, turns out you can't rely on the good graces of your enemy. Who knew?
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  1531. Orange you glad you saw this video?
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  1532. Look at how "Omaha steaks" are shipped. If some cheesy late night TV meat sellers can do it, so can Pfizer. PS. one solution not considered here is "box in box", that is, a dry ice box will last 10 days in room temperature, but if you put that box in a common refrigerator, voila!, you have extended deep freeze storage. Another thing we can do now that we could not do before is cheaply "chip" the box with a small computer that can both RFID with readers and provide a temperature tracking that can tell if the box ever exceeded the correct temperature.
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  1533. Being trans is not a fad, but saying you are is. I have seen it personally. The real fad is the same one since ancient times: Lets see what I can say that will shock mom and dad and make me sound cool in front of my friends.
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  1534. The computer industry has known about the ability to crack into systems since the 1960s. Since the mainframe and minicomputer era, the security of systems has actually declined, and there is no debate about that. The IBM 360 and the VAX had tighter security than Windows, Linux or Mac. Thus its hard for me to take seriously a threat based on the laziness of operating system designers of today. It can be fixed. If it isn't, bad on you (operating systems makers).
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  1535. Dude if you are going to do kids games, do Braun Lektron.
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  1536.  @UltraBlitzer755  Google is your friend.
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  1537. Tl;DR
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  1538. The city could stop this kind of crime tomorrow. There are cameras everywhere in the city now. Make it illegal to cover your face, then go after the criminals based on video footage. The criminals are using covid 19 as a free pass to wear masks.
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  1539. Yea, clear the Russians from Ukraine territorial waters and blow up that damm bridge to Crimea. That would turn things around.
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  1540. This is complete horse pituti. The top two system has simply cemented California as being a single party state. I didn't have any vote at all for l lieutenant governor, and almost didn't have a choice for governor. The parties have a RIGHT to hold a party specific election before the general election. Having the state run the primary is a courtesy. This system has taken away the ability for parties to elect their candidate.
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  1541. "There is no radar over the north Atlantic" This is finally changing. The iridium satellite network received an upgrade to be able to input transponder extended mode S data, which includes GPS data from airplanes. This means that virtually all "dark" spots in the world are now covered with what is sometimes called "active radar", that is, aircraft that self report their position instead of waiting to be swept by radar. This system was partially advanced by the idea that it would make Malaysian airline type accidents less likely (aircraft disappearing over ocean regions). However, it has long term consequences on aircraft spacing in over ocean routes. You can put flights closer together if you know exactly where they are.
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  1542. I went into tech at age 18. Now I am 66. I have now experienced age discrimination from both ends of the spectrum.
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  1543. We do need a law to help the elderly, in all communities and of all colors. Its called the "law against shoplifting". And its already there in most communities, ENFORCE IT. Here in the rich community of Silicon Valley shoplifting is legal thanks to California and Gavin Gruesome. Our local Walgreens is limiting their hours and putting in bullet proof glass because the thieves are breaking the front windows when nobody is there. The home depot is locking everything of value up because shoplifters are coming in and loading up shopping carts and leaving.
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  1544. I have ZERO sympathy for Venezuelans. They voted for Chavez and socialism. They went running away with the idea that they were going to take money from the "rich" and pass it out. Now Venezuela is a shining example of what not to do for the rest of Latin America. I am far more concerned about the attraction of socialism in the USA. It is UNBELIEVABLE that now the new generation runs around talking about that we are going to have socialism here. These are people with jobs. Now you have entrepreneurs saying that universal income is a great idea (aka socialism lite). The socialist example is not Venezuela. Its France, which has been paving the way for how to create a "socialist democracy". I know a lot of French expats. They left France for better jobs and opportunities in the USA, but still extol the virtues of the socialist paradise of France. Ok, I am old and I won't live to see what happens to the next generation that votes their own freedoms out of existence. But someone please tell me how I can avoid the conclusion that people NEED suffering just to aspire for something better. It seems every time in history civilizations have it good, they throw it away for chaos just out of sheer boredom and basic laziness.
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  1545. "Stanfurd"??? Sorry I just had to.
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  1546. I'm very impressed that the presenter can write backwards.
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  1547. I still need a mini-itx format risc-v. It needs to be in PC form, use a standard power supply, case, etc. They dropped the ball on the "unmatched" board. We'll see what happens.
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  1548. From what I have seen, if Ukraine can take out the bridge to Crimea with a few missiles, it would change the war.
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  1549. Very cool. Now do a Cessna 172.
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  1550. PS that black and white photo I believe was of Beria, Stalin's leader of the KGB and mass murderer (Stalin in the background).
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  1551. Its not a serious mod unless the Dremel sings its song...
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  1552. I disagree chargers are an issue. The press has made this the boogyman, but its made up. Most charging is done at home. I do know people who don't have home chargers, and they are able to get charging via work chargers or just stopping at a fast charger. The press keeps quoting the times to charge from zero, which is nonsense. Most charging does not start from a dead or nearly dead battery. With 250kw range fast charger, 15 to 20 minutes gets you several days of average driving time, about the same as a car. Also, quoting "350 miles of range" for a gas car is ridiculous. The have only been getting that kind of range for the last 10 years or so, and that only with a hybrid. My gas car does 200 miles range, and that is an average car. If that was inadequate, why is is suddenly unacceptable when people were fine with that kind of range before? The nonsense about "you have to have 500 miles of range" before EVs are practical is just that. Nonsense. Giving EVs that kind of range will require you carry a very heavy battery around, adding to the cost and reducing the net efficiency of the car due to dragging all that weight. 100 miles of range would satisfy most peoples use cases, and 200 miles is certainly sufficient, and that is the range of most new EVs.
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  1553. An excellent counterpoint to that innuendo filled infomercial put on by Netflix. Too bad a fraction of the viewers will be here as will view the Netflix special. I think a good modern summary of the situation is: We had a chance in the 1960s-1970s to go to clean energy and blew it with the same superstition and hysteria as killed the Concord. The reality is we doubled down on fossil fueled power plants. We could have had reasonable clean power by now, along the lines of France. This was a loss for everyone. But nobody will know or care because politics won.
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  1554. "I see what you did there".
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  1555. The underlying pretext is that Ukraine might retaliate for a Russian nuke this way. Ukraine does not have a Nuke, but it has plenty of radioactive material.
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  1556. Really sad...
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  1557. So I have a "mostly electric" house with electric range and dryer. I installed two (count em', two) car chargers, a regular j1772 and a Tesla, which went onto the second subpanel. Now I can use any amount of the house appliances, and I can charge both of my EV cars at once. We are also installing a heat pump this year.
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  1558. Britain learned its lesson from Brexit. In fact, everyone learned their lesson from Brexit 🙂
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  1559. It "secures" Apple's repair revenue...
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  1560. What is Z? Zee target for which we aim zee weapons....
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  1561. PS Von Neuman didn't invent sh*t. He took credit for the stored computer architecture because he collected notes from the group that came up with it and published them.
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  1562. I tip everyone 15 percent, using a calculator. The fact it has the tip down to the cent makes it clear that I tipped the standard amount. I they give me one of those screen tippers that does not have 15 percent, then I hit "custom", and pull out my cell phone tip calculator, and the heck with people standing behind me or the frown of the employee. If the bill shows they included the tip already, then I don't tip at all. This new thing about forcing you to tip by not giving you an option to tip lower than about %20 can get stuffed.
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  1563. Small nit: Jack kilby and Robert Noyce were determined to be co-inventors of the IC patent. Although it is true that Kilby was first to announce, the lack of interconnect was considered crucial to the invention.
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  1564. You kids probably don't remember, but there used to be a cartoon featuring porky pig or Daffy duck, I don't recall, at the front line of a shell assembly factory at a station marked "test" where the character was hitting the shell with a hammer, then writing "dud" on it with a marker. I think this was WWII humor.
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  1565. Why isn't there a video of her now? It was too difficult to cover up the bruises... That thing with "november" is funny, its like having the hostage show a current newspaper to prove they are still alive.
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  1566. Newsomstan.
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  1567. Chlorination solved the Polio problem as well. Polio is caused by fecal matter in pools. Mass use of chlorine put an end to it, and probably did more to stop it than the vaccine did.
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  1568. A few comments: 1. I suspect they are showing the walls are hollow and will be filled with insulation later. 2. The external pattern of lines formed by the printing process is interesting, but not necessary. They could finish with standard gunnite and give a flat textured surface. 3. Obviously the interior walls are cement. 4. The strength of the building needs to be proved.
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  1569. Europe went through their raw food has bacteria crisis. The difference is that in America, we responded by heating and refrigerating everything to make it safe. The Europeans believed instead, that if your food is loaded with bacteria, it was prepared improperly., and so cleaned up the food at its source. Thus for example, Europe does not refrigerate their eggs.
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  1570. I couldn't watch it. An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, soon a land of toothless blind people. There is no logic to hate, no logic to war.
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  1571. The problem with rich, nice places to live is that they attract liberals.
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  1572. You should have worn a mask for this video.
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  1573. Weak leaders invite war. NATO was both advancing on Moscow at the same time they were progressively growing weaker and more complacent. It was an accident waiting to happen.
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  1574. The key would be to control your tooling down to the mask level (the layout). IE., separating the pure software/data phase from the physical implementation phase. Masks can be compared to the generated layout, and even a fabbed chip can be compared to its layout without reverse engineering it. It is of course true that many of the EDA phases get "thrown over the wall", that is, a Verilog design can be send to a vendor to be laid out. However, the security there is up to the client. If the chip needs high security, the client can bring the tooling in-house to be more secure.
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  1575. We pronounced it "TEA-CO", TECO. Editor ran on the PDP-11. Also its, "Ebb-cid-dick" EBCDIC.
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  1576. "though as the American GOP continues it's assualt on public education in America" yes, we are falling behind in cross-dressing soldiers. Get real dude.
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  1577. You don't dump fuel on an aircraft to protect the passengers. You dump fuel because large airliners are designed to take off with greater weights than they can land with, and they use this to take off with full fuel, knowing that the fuel will be used up, enough to satisfy the landing weight requirement, before landing.
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  1578. I heard somewhere that ice 9 will destroy the planet...
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  1579. Two short factoids: 1. IBM thought X ray lithography was the way to go and failed (ultrashort wavelengths). They may have just been to early. 2. How do they even know the next generation chips are even possible? Test chips can be created (slowly) by using scanning electron beams. Electrons have a really short wavelength. There is no mask used, each step on the chip is done by scanning it. Hence it is slow, but works for lab use.
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  1580. This is a good overview. The basic underlying trick of color TV, or why they could stuff 3 colors into a black and white signal, was that still images (or slowly moving images) in TV don't really take the full bandwidth of a TV channel, but rather occupy a series of harmonics, or peaks in the signal spectrum at regular intervals. The color signal is fitted into the spaces between those peaks. What happens if the picture is moving? The color actually degrades quite a bit, which you can see if you hit stop during those times. The color becomes blotchy. They are taking advantage of the fact that you can't perceive color very well in any case in a fast moving image. The TV engineers effectively used signal compression, in analog, before digital TV made that standard. The system was pure genius at that time, but of course we are stuck with the re-recorded artifacts of old video to this day.
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  1581. I think most open source projects are already mob programming.
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  1582. Yea, he is rocky mountain higher. Of course the multiverse folks believe he just branched off into another universe.
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  1583. Plugshare is your friend. I escaped this mess by getting a Tesla, but before that I had a Bolt. Plugshare will tell you if the charger is alive before you get there.
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  1584. After the grand canyon crash (two airliners) the USA moved towards dramatically increasing radar coverage for the USA. However, this system is primarily designed for commercial aircraft, not light private aircraft, since it prefers high altitude aircraft and lower aircraft can be obscured from radar by mountains. The separation of military aircraft mentioned does not impact commercial aircraft much, since as you mentioned they are on IFR flight plans and in contact with controllers always. There also have been incidents, like the one in this video, where military aircraft have collided with civilian aircraft because they are capable "stealth mode" and avoiding detection by radar. The Florida crash comes to mind. This is basically an inter-agency issue. The military does not always feel the need to inform the FAA of its operations. ADS-B mode is supposed to solve many of the issues. It Broadcasts GPS position from each aircraft and can be used by receiving aircraft to construct a "virtual radar" picture of aircraft around it. It is required in high traffic areas after 2020. The FAA has actually proposed turning off high maintenance radar facilities after ADS-B becomes common.
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  1585. The paintings were a hunting guide. The handprints were "likes".
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  1586. Why shouldn't the dems fight for control of the schools? Its taken decades to turn schools into liberal brainwashing centers to manufacture good socialists. This is going after dem power base.
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  1587. I had an LG washer that went bad after 3 years, right after the warrantee expired. After the "factory authorized" repairman came out 3 times and was unable to fix it, LG offered me half the price of the machine to go away. To this day, my rule is "do not buy LG". It was a good machine, the highest tech they had, front load, steam wash, top of the line. I suspect the basic problem is that LG does not properly train their techs in how to fix their machines, and the factory does not offer proper support for them. My brother had a "monitor top" refrigerator in his dorm room at college. These are refrigerators sold in the 1930's. Still operating. The first question I asked was "why was it still there?". I would have thought someone would have replaced it by now. The answer was: it was too heavy to move. In those days they built stuff like a safe. That was why they lasted.
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  1588. Been eating sourdough for 50 years. Nothing new to me.
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  1589. @christopherbasham1551 You didn't really read what I wrote.
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  1590. I saw this movie. "stepford wives". Ok, before your time.
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  1591. Respect borders.
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  1592. So ship Ukraine a laser shoot down capability from Israel. We seem to be returning to the first days of the war, with everyone predicting Ukraine will fail soon. Is it any more true today?
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  1593. The best organ donors are head injuries that ended up on a ventilator. That's why it is such a tragedy that we have helmet laws for motorcycles, cutting off a large supply.
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  1594. Thanks. This makes one thing very clear: decommissioning diablo is stupid from any point of view.
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  1595. Not bad. To this I would add: 1. Debugging. This would actually be #1 in my book. Most programmers are lost when debugging hard bugs, especially system errors at the assembly level. 2. Documentation. Yes, I know everyone thinks this is not a required skill, but someone has to write documentation somewhere, and when the developers can't and/or won't, it shows.
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  1596. The reason we don't have self drive is simple. The car maker would assume ALL of the liability that is currently spread out among all of the drivers in the world. It may be technologically possible, but it won't be legally possible for some time. If you want to see how badly lawyers can mess up things, see what they did to light aircraft, which was virtually brought to a standstill by lawyers in the USA.
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  1597. If you don't know that Georgia is a country, you probably are not going to be interested in this channel!
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  1598. NATO has been overrelying on the USA for years. Time to get unstaggered and get on the ball in Europe. You guys are the front line after Ukraine.
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  1599. The answer is: all societies that have existed eventually fall. And they usually fall by their own hand, often with the government getting to powerful and choking their own citizens.
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  1600. And then Psyche 16 happens. Sh**, meet fan. Fan, meet sh**.
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  1601. You got the government you voted for.
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  1602. They are recalling the "faceplant" wheel. Funny. So I can get $100 off a new one by killing an old lady? Coooollllll.....
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  1603. Irony is a British guy telling Americans (in Americurrrrr) how to pronounce state names.
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  1604. I used MS-DOS for years and don't appreciate you calling me old...
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  1605. Must...... Press...... The..... Button......
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  1606. PS. the name "airfield" comes from the fact that airports started as just a field. The original idea was you took off or landed against the wind, whatever the direction it pointed.
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  1607. Ive had liberal friends come flat out and tell me that it doesn't matter what Trump did, just what he said.
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  1608. C# is a great language. However, moving off windows is like cutting off its head.
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  1609. The bonus illusion is your hair...
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  1610.  @familyandfriends3519  Interesting comment. Had nothing to do with what I said, but interesting comment.
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  1611.  @triadwarfare  Sure, read what I said.
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  1612. what's the problem. They sell black tape at any hardware store. Be proactive.
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  1613. Baton Rouge = Red Stick (club)... I'm just say'n.
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  1614. cart-a-hena - Cartagena. Hint: g is pronounced like h in Spanish.
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  1615. Gee what a bummer, Fox news is #1. That thing with news outlets having their lips sewn to the democratic parties a$$ is not working is it?
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  1616. Petro is a socialist moron, and he is gone in 2 years. Colombia elected this ex-revolutionary in attempts to make peace in the country. It backfired. Petro has only generated scandals.
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  1617.  @echonozz8929  Two reasons: 1. Turns out Panama is not flat. The canal would have to be level. A lot more digging would have to be done to get down to sea level. 2. The Pacific and the Atlantic ocean are not at the same level. You would have a constant flow in one direction. The suez canal didn't have either of these factors going against it, so it worked. The French tried the same thing in Panama and stopped.
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  1618. The moral is: if you are going to make stuff up, go BIG. By the time you are found out, you will be to entrenched to get rid of.
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  1619. There was another, similar invention that appeared in popular science, which used a filter in front of a standard black and white TV to convert it to color. The difference was it used a film that continually moved in front of the tv to accomplish the same thing as a color wheel, ie., it was a mechanical system.
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  1620. I don't know. Germany's power issues could be solved by a DC cable into north Africa, as I suspect a lot of EU power will be going that way. N. Africa has lots of sun and cheap land, and power transport via undersea cable is doable.
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  1621.  @mmayes9466  And what was the last thing John Denver said? "Farrrrrr ooooouuuuutttt!" Sorry.
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  1622. Text editor = Double linked list.
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  1623. As Trump predicted.
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  1624. The only thing the TV industry saw in the coming of the streaming age was how to stop it from happening. So they got rolled over. If Netflix is a monopoly, it won't last, things will settle out. But sympathy for the existing TV providers? Sorry, no. I'll tell you a quick story. In the year 2000, I was working on the latest terrabit class switches for Cisco. I did some quick calculations about how many TV channels could be passed by such a switch. The answer is 50,000 TV channels at 20megabits, enough for high def TV. It occurred to me right then and there that conventional TV was doomed, and would be subsumed by the internet.
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  1625. Some great vids in this. Fun facts from the R101: The smoking room was pressurized to keep any stray hydrogen from entering and possibly igniting from cigarettes. As a result, at least one survivor was from the smoking room, since the fire that engulfed the R101 didn't reach the smoking room. Smoking saved his life. Another interesting fact was the (very few) survivors reported that they could not breathe after exiting the burning R101. The hydrogen had removed the oxygen from around the craft by combining with it, resulting in a local lack of oxygen. The famous quote from the book "slide rule" was a Zeppelin engineer came to see the R101 works and told the Brits: "you have copied all of our engineering... including our mistakes". I rode a Zeppelin around San Francisco several years back (yep, made by Zeppelin Co, yep a true dirigible). Very enjoyable flight. The windows were open all the way and you could stick your hand out and feel the slipstream. Sadly, the airship was disassembled and shipped back to Germany during the 2008 "great recession". The Zeppelin I flew is shown in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcVDltrZe4 I didn't find any good videos of the interior of the airship. Perhaps sometime I will load my video of it, which does show that.
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  1626. We send our politicians to Washington to do good. And they do very well indeed.
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  1627. Any real modern spy is going to use spread spectrum. You aren't going to be able to receive transmissions like that without very specialized equipment.
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  1628. Notice that the democrats, who talk about corporate greed all the time, are mainly enacting policies that hurt the smallest businesses, restaurants, landlords, beauty parlors, etc.
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  1629. Congratulations on passing the big 1m.
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  1630. Wall Street Journal said that the "rich pay only 8%" was calculated as if their unrealized gains were income. So both the problem and the cure are made up statistics.
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  1631. Finally an honest overview of FSD. The reality is that %99 automated is in ways worse than %80. You would be lulled into a false sense of security before your accident. People keep saying that all FSD has to do is be better than current drivers, and that is just not true. It has to be better than the wall of liability suits that would be directed at the maker. Rolling out FSD takes the liability of accidents away from individual drivers and piles them on to the company that made the car.
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  1632. You pull money out of a 401k for the reason of divorce. Its a communal asset. Its either do that or front the money.
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  1633. When I was a kid we had a lot of reporting like this, in the 50's/60's. Now it seems to be only Stossel. What changed?
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  1634. I feel that driving on the left side of the road is correct. I resent the term "right side of the road", since that implies only one side of the road is "correct". Sadly, the "sideist" police gave me a ticket for driving on my preferred side of the road.
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  1635. This is step one, the government will claim it needs to guarantee all deposits to prevent banking collapse. Then step two is to claim the banks are being irresponsible with the money, and need more regulation. Thus we have an effective government takeover of the banking system.
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  1636. We (yes I make chargers for a living) actually put a lot of advanced electronics into these chargers. For example, we actually test the ground by putting some current into it to see if it will actually serve as a safety ground. One answer to "why are these chargers expensive" is, imagine you are standing in a puddle beside your car in the pouring rain and plugging it in to charge. Anybody for a discount charger in this case???
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  1637. Seems like this all ends with silicon cubes instead of silicon chips. There is already a lot of 3dness in tons of interconnect layers and 3d transistors. When they start bonding different circuit layers together then we start emulating the human brain.
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  1638. It apparently is a requirement to entry of the Democratic party that you flunked economics 101.
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  1639. To me the prime example is a compiler, one of which I happen to be working on at the moment. If your compiler does not work, you are seriously scr*wed. Everyone knows this. Thus compilers simply work, and are reliable most of the time. If they are not they die quickly, since nobody uses them. Thus the question becomes, compilers are a large and complex codebase. If we can get those right, why can't other programs be proven correct as well? The answer is that compiler developers simply take it as a given that the testing code for the compiler will be %50 of the total work to develop the compiler as the other half, developing the main compiler code. So this means that for most programs, its not worth it to spend that kind of effort to prove the program is accurate no? There in lies the paradox. A typical program takes %50 of the total development time or more in debugging. Even very optimistic programmers will admit to that. By that same logic, saying you want to write the program, then do the work to debug it into shape means you prefer to fix the program AFTER the fact than BEFORE the fact, which is the net argument against TDD. In a word, you can pay now, or pay later.
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  1640. And so operating systems innovation has basically come to a halt. We have windows, Linux/bsd and scads of Linux /bsd derivations. Attempts to come up with something new have floundered (beos, etc), and both the OS leaders are based on decades old technology and are simply getting bigger with software bloat. I don't believe any technology lasts forever, and the OS market is due for innovation as well.
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  1641. More specifically Loudoun county is made up of people getting rich off government paychecks, while the rest of Virgina is an example of the result of government policies.
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  1642. I don't know why the Hindenberg's solution to carrying varying loads does not get more traction in the press. The Hindenberg was a hybrid. It had the ability to heat it's internal gas, and thus could get lift both from the gas it carried as well is the same effect as a hot air balloon. This effect is not fast enough to, say, pick up huge loads, but it did solve the problem of needing to vent gas to stabilize its weight due to passengers and other loads, along with a water ballast system.
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  1643. Your channel is excellent. I would just ignore the critics. Arguing with people on the internet just justifies them.
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  1644.  @BrodieRobertson  Yes, I knew that was coming. Petit-ami is itself a toolkit. It is x11 and windows. I might port it to wayland, but I want to determine 1. If x/wayland breaks it, and 2. If it would be more efficient going native to wayland, otherwise not really worth it. Regards, love your channel.
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  1645. The answer is you will buy everything from vending machines. This is the future.
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  1646. "can't put and LED lamp in an oven" Yes, with properly rated components you could.
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  1647.  @aeghohloechu5022  Well, I think personally it is a mistake to try to track all of the drivers in Linux. This is what? Half the kernel, and they could leave it to the hardware manufacturer's to do. Yes, I know the idea is to force the hardware makers to reveal their code, but that's not the only way to do that, and the kernel would be far more manageable without the drivers all embedded. Put it this way. BSD does not have this requirement, and the system still works.
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  1648.  @vk3fbab  I was never for user space drivers, but I am not for kernel space drivers either. The x86 processors were designed with (IIRC) 4 privilege levels, but of course Intel famously f**ked it up, so more commonly its a binary kernel/user space. In any case, the permission model is dated in any case. The modern model is to wrap each driver in hardware access defined by page protection. This is conflated with "user space drivers" but it need not be. All of that is driven by a design error in interrupt handing by Intel, but of course now we are off topic[1]. Besides the rolling of all drivers into kernel space, a sickness that Windows shares, there is the fact that Linux depends on named linkages, essentially making driver installation driven by a run time linker. This in turn is driven by Linux/Linus's preference for keeping driver models fluid. Why establish a vector model if we aren't going to also keep the driver model stable? In any case, I would not preach for the so called "user space driver" model. I have seen that implemented by so many corporations in a messed up manner that I am not talking about it anymore (polling instead of interrupts, to mention the biggest issue). [1] could have an endless thread on that, but note that changing the paging tree root register has nothing to do with the permission level.
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  1649. I've always assumed the light was directly connected to the camera's enable logic, thanks for the heads up.
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  1650. Clearly we need to launch a copy of "Mein Kampf" into space immediately to give aliens context...
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  1651. It explains why the family has to keep killing off higher ups. If the family looses control, the new leader would have to kill off everyone in kims family.
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  1652. Go Elon!
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  1653. "Make this fantasy work" could it be more obvious that this guy made up his mind long before his testimony.
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  1654. The government can ask around and find out what the best ventilator is, then go to that company and pay them a reasonable amount to license the design. Then that design can be given to the manufacturers like Ford and GM who are tasked to do the work and produce that verbatim. This means, by the way, the design is already approved.
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  1655. Good video. The one thing missing is that cancers that kill you were the ones that have been evolving to get around the body's defenses for many years and finally "win".
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  1656. PS you picked one of the biggest, ugliest chargers on the market. There are many chargers way smaller than that.
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  1657. Numbers: USA dead of Spanish flu, 1918: 675,000 USA population, 1918: 103 million. USA dead of Covid, 2022: 1 million USA population, 2022: 329 million So? There were NO vaccines in 1918 for the flu. Why isn't anyone talking about these figures?
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  1658. Not sure I am going to take opinions from someone what does not even know who the world's biggest military. Hint: Its USA. China is #2. Bonus fact: "China has little to no battle experience", humm, if kicking Chan Ki Shek out of China does not qualify, perhaps a small war called the Korean war? Where we fought the Chinese to liberate Korea? Is Korea, all of Korea, liberated? Sounds like you need to crack a history book or two.
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  1659. pin - o - shay. Pinochet. Suggestion: for any name like this a simple search "how do you pronouce xxx" will yield the result you want. PS there is still no R at the end of America!!! Dang brits.
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  1660. The purpose of humans is to make more oil for the sea organisms that feed off of it.
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  1661. Record scratch.... what's a record?
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  1662. Did they bother to verify that the children were orphans, or did they just get abducted off the streets?
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  1663. I used a wireless charger for a week or so. It beeps when the charge level is complete. If you leave it on the charger, and it is on, then it discharges a bit and the charger kicks on again. And after a short charge to bring the phone back up to %100, it... beeps. And it does this again. And again. And again. In fact ALL NIGHT. Since I charge the phone on the dresser next to me while I sleep, this is a problem. The charger lives in a bottom drawer now, gathering dust. Obviously the person who designed the thing NEVER ACTUALLY USED IT THEMSELVES.
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  1664.  @dik56  Well, from my sailing days I say put hazard buoys around that sucker.
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  1665. As long as I don't end up shellacked in a carnival in Washington state (true story). Naw, seriously, cremation, cheapest option, dump the ashes in the ocean.
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  1666. They came out with a CHADEMO connector, which is what you are thinking of.
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  1667.  @AlohaBiatch  It could have deserved a mention. However, I think Johnny's main point was how they backed it up with word prediction.
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  1668.  @AlohaBiatch  Ok, didn't know that. Perhaps Johnny will read this, but it must be a lot of work to go through 3000 comments.
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  1669. Automated headlights, automated parking brakes, and automatic stopping for what is clearly and unambiguously a car headed for your front end, would go a long way toward reducing the accident rates in the USA, and for little cost and effort.
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  1670. Actually, garage fires are more than possible, its the leading cause of house fires. People store things like gasoline in garages, and there are lots of ignition sources like gas water heaters and space heaters. Many or most building codes require a wall that extends all the way to the roof between the garage and the house that can withstand a fire for 20 minutes or more.
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  1671. The press has pushed a massive disinformation campaign against EVs, and this is the result. Now we are entering into a period when China is supplying the world outside of the USA with cheap EVs that are barred from the USA. What is the current? The NY times asserts EVs pollute more than ICE. People generally believe that EVs need an hour every one or two days at an external charger. And on and on.
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  1672.  @makisekurisu4674  No.
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  1673. Its not that black and white. We have a farmer in the family that has his own bees, kept permanently on the farm.
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  1674. So what happened to by mongi? Did they kill them off? Did they get a bigger predator to kill them off? Did they start singing "I don't know why I swallowed that fly...". Seriously the biggest pest on Kauai is.... those dammed chickens. They are friggin' everywhere. They should open up a Coronel Sander's on every single corner.
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  1675. They haven't cancelled it.
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  1676. Why not just put in floor to ceiling turnstyles. Those are impossible to climb over. I have seen them used on subways in Europe.
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  1677. 67. Working at a startup in Silicon Valley.
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  1678. The issue to me is that marriage was declared "obsolete" in the 60's, but most women realized that it had equal or greater value for women as for men. So the result was to devalue it while retaining it, meaning that women were more willing to exit marriage. Now the problem is the opposite: men don't see the value in marriage, especially knowing the women are all to willing to quit the marriage, and men will suffer more damage than women in terms of child support and alimony. You reap what you sow.
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  1679. A vox video where you don't sound like socialist a** clowns. Cool.
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  1680. Bitch bitch bitch... has anyone looked at what the regression testing for glibc is like?
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  1681. Brian Krzanich left Intel, or rather was thrown out, because his tool was in another employee, not because of Intel tech issues.
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  1682. Metformin would indeed extend your life, but the people who take it, diabetics, tend to have low lifespan expectancys. So its a push.
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  1683. Germany has lots of oil and gas, yes, on their own land. But it requires fracking. But of course, the Greens in Germany are like "fracking... bad bad bad". And nuclear: "bad bad bad". And so Germany is had had had.
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  1684. There is no ethics problem. The car should never be programmed to cause harm to a person. It is not reliant that doing that would save other people. Cars are not people, and computers and AI is nowhere near the state where they can make such tradeoffs. All that matters, and all that should matter, is that the car's programming is NEVER to hit anyone or anything. Think about it. Its hard to trust your computer to keep your documents safe. Do YOU want it to make life or death decisions?
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  1685. Well, it makes the woke people feel better. They need to feel better. They seem to be angry all the time.
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  1686. Its probably also the coordinates entered on at least 2 countries missiles.
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  1687. Socialisim means never having to grow up. You just change parents... to the government. Yeahhhh!
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  1688. Xi ==is== the eye of Mordor.
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  1689. I don't think they factored in the revenue from precooked birds produced at the site.
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  1690. It indicates the HDD makers have given up trying to compete on performance, instead ceding that ground to SSDs.
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  1691. Better living through chemistry.
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  1692. How does this compare to a gulfstream jet? I can't afford either one...
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  1693. Its a good video. So has Tesla fixed your paint issues?
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  1694. The USA could provide EU with all the gas it needs, if we didn't have Biden up our A**. And the only reason we would need to is because the libs won't let Europe frack like the USA. We could even build a pipeline across the Atlantic if we wanted to.
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  1695. Sure, but the problem is that anyone can get into the SSD business, and your SDD chip supplier is your god.
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  1696. This is advice Taiwan should be taking.
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  1697. This ends when Russia wants to develop its own airlines more. Then it would be forced to join the exchange of transit rights just like all other countries.
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  1698. Jeff Bezos "negative image"???? Maybe in the minds of leftist lunatics. Normal people admire Jeff.
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  1699. Most of the government's suggestions about eating are nonsense. Formerly they wanted you to eat breads and carbs, which causes type II diabetes. The want you to stop any use of salt, which has no proof. They want you to stop eating any fat, but want to replace it with sugar, which again leads to type II diabetes. Bottom line: government does not understand nutrition or economics.
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  1700. I don't understand why people quote Krugman for economics. He is usually wrong and politically motivated.
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  1701. Actually, a serious proposal. Orbit a sheet. Like a thin, mylar sheet, perhaps a mile square/round, 90 degrees to its orbit. Calculate the orbit so that it does not cross the path of any active satellites during its lifetime. It would get impacted by debris, large and small, that presumably would puncture it easily. However, these hits would, even though the mylar is thin, a lot of energy would be generated, which means the orbital path of the debris would be altered, presumably slowed. And thus make them deorbit much faster than if left alone. The sheet could be deployed by one of those pizza box size satellites, then after a year or so, the same satellite, attached to the sheet say by a corner, fires and deorbits both itself and the sheet. The satellite does not have to do anything but drag itself back into the atmosphere, where it burns up (just like the debris it targets). If you make the sheet circular, the satellite can be attached in the middle and deploy the sheet just by spinning and then release the sheet, which deploys from centrifugal force. Then the small satellite stays attached at the center until the time comes to deorbit the sheet.
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  1702. Rules of thumb: If you vote, your vote represents about 2 people, since only about half the population votes. If you write your representative, you represent about 6 people, since only about that many bother to contact their representative. If you don't vote, you voted to give your vote to someone else.
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  1703.  @doujinflip  Its because the greatest power in the universe is laziness. Promise people the government will take money from others and given it to them and they will vote anyone into office. That worked great in Venezuela, transforming one of the richest countries in South America into a country that eats their pets. It's working now in the USA, where a truly astonishing number of young people who flunked history now think socialism is cool. In 50 years the USA will be France, and who knows after that.
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  1704. You and I have the same scope. Love that Rigol 4 ch.
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  1705. Again, SOME Leafs saw a degradation of %25. I drove a 2013 Leaf through a 3 year lease to 2016, and saw no degradation whatsoever.
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  1706. I want my own satellite that zaps people I don't like with a laser...
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  1707. Sorry, this is kinda pointless. The next horizon for SSDs is faster interfaces, like four lane NVMe, like M.2 cards. What good is 16tb if its slower than .5 tb?
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  1708. "Life is so different than it was 100 years ago" - Ummmm yea........
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  1709. Literally decades ago, computer scientists were saying that graphics cards could be used for general calculations. Smart people could have used that simple proclamation to predict what happened with Nvidia now. Thus it is not about investing in a sector whose players may not may not succeed, but investing intelligently as opposed to just throwing money at poorly understood technologies.
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  1710. Going after Assange is not about punishing him. Its about making an example of him and demonstrating that the US government can reach around the world and grab or kill anyone it wants to. Just like Bin laden. Just like Putin does. Its really not a pretty characteristic of a democratic government.
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  1711. The issue I have with IDEs is they are made to difficult to customize. I don't like templates or automatic formatting, it feels too much like I am fighting with another person for control of the editor. Yet in Eclipse, for example, its a huge job to turn these features OFF, and there are some aspects of autoformatting that simply cannot be turned off at all (the subject of many a stackoverflow post). The other issue is that IDEs don't understand you may be looking for an IDE as an alternative to an editor, since it is difficult to, well, just edit a file. Often the IDE requires that you register files in a project. Give me an IDE that I can edit a system file with (for example) and that is a generally useful tool. What's wrong with "ide file"? Programs that work in familiar ways as a base encourage use. Otherwise it is like "our IDE is so great, you have to take a course to use it". Finally, the major advantage of vi/vim is that you can use it ANYWHERE, including a ssh connection without the hassle of an Xwindows connection. What's wrong with giving a text only option for an IDE that can be used the same way?
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  1712. CentOS is a dead project, and I don't care about the other forks, so as far as I am concerned, "don't let the screen door hit you in the a**". I believe none of this applies to Fedora, which I am typing on.
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  1713. Taiwan is a threat to Xi because it is independent and free thinking Han Chinese, just as Hong Cong was. Thus it has to be stamped out. If not, it remains an example of what the Chinese people could be.
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  1714. Ain't friggin touchn' that.
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  1715. You dissed the on-keyboard interface for special functions, but you didn't try the bluetooth interface, where it could have all worked out.
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  1716. I have had ZERO accidents in my 44 years of driving. Therefore it is completely false to say that autonomous cars are safer than me.
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  1717. A. Luck has nothing to do with it. B. You might want to rethink that arrogant part, PAL.
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  1718. We use one, it's called a Keurig! I use it for tea as well. Hint: don't put the Keurig capsule in the machine and out comes hot water! Amazing. PS we vote you get a 240/Euro outlet so you can demo European appliances as well.
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  1719. Pete did good, this guy was playing gotcha. Fail.
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  1720. Dude, iron in your food is good for you.
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  1721. I suspect the guy from Wendover had better never use an air ambulance after this...
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  1722. You are talking about getting away from the built it yourself computer market. I don't buy prebuilt computers unless I am forced to (Mac). No upgradability, no ability to configure as I like. No standard components. Pass. If the computer makers ignore the home builders, they will be sorry. But I suspect there is no danger of it. Are ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte all going to go out of business? Are you going to have the GPU/graphics choice shoved down your throat? No, its not going to happen. The homebuilders are not going to put up with it. This is not the first time this was predicted. I remember when everyone was saying that homebuilt computers were done several decades ago. It didn't happen, and instead homebuilt took off and became bigger than ever.
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  1723. Yea, so its our fault (USA) that the peninsula is divided. If we had just left them alone things would be fine. No, if we had not come to Korea ALL of Korea would be the same hell hole as N. korea. And it was not Koreans vs. Koreans before the USA arrived, it was USSR and China vs. Korea. And NO, USSR and USA were not friends at the end of WWII.
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  1724. If microsoft invented a chip that executed their software 1000 times as fast, they would rapidly change their software to be 2000 times slower and still crash.
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  1725. I don't see the issue here. If it is valuable, it can be forked before the original author damaged the repo, then development or maintenance gets done by other parties. A fork becomes more important than the original repo.
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  1726. Yea that free speech stuff is soooo overrated...
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  1727. So if it is this easy to explain money, why don't the politicians get it?
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  1728.  @Todd.T  Yea, I think that should have read 1000's of feet. I looked it up, the max distance is 62 miles.
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  1729.  @hashim64  Well, having fibre on the planet's surface is always going to be faster than bouncing up into space and back, at least until they perfect neutrino communication (straight line through the planet). Then again, Elon claims that the faster speed though open space vs. glass makes LEOs reasonable. We live in interesting times.
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  1730. Umm... kinda glossed over the fact that when the US lease on the canal zone ended, we sorta kinda invaded Panama and kidnapped its leader, Manuel Noriega.
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  1731. So when do the black people in Chicago or Detroit take up arms against the drug gangs?
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  1732. ie, right after the midterm election.
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  1733. The USA is sleeping here. The first step besides arming Taiwan, which we are already doing, is to ship them rifles, yes, those nasty black rifles like the AR-15. Taiwan needs to arm and train all of its citizens and have then take the rifle home. This would make it clear to China that they would face a multi-year insurgency even if they take over Taiwan. Second, we need to wake Japan up and get them to break out of being pacifists. An armed and militant Japan would be China's biggest nightmare.
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  1734. James was/is a leftist (yes, read the memo, he says so). Nobody at Google on the right would have dared to put out that memo. James put it out because he believed, like all leftists, that his "side" (the left) is inherently fair and would listen to or at least tolerate that memo. Its shocking to leftists when they find out there is only a sheet of paper or two of difference between their stand and facisim.
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  1735. Ummmm.... you are aware that "pax" is Latin for "peace"???
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  1736. So this video was introduced 3 days ago, and everyone is dead now. Including me, who for some reason is still typing. I see someone went to the Nancy Pelosi school of math.
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  1737. From this, I gather that robotaxis are coming whether we like it or not. The reasons are simple: there is a lot of money to be had from them, and the bar to their use is not zero injuries as you might assume. The robotaxi companies only have to prove that their use results in the same or less injuries than manual driving, and (for a bonus!) the statistics for that are fuzzy at best. When the self driving "enthusiasts" tell me that self driving is safer than I am, my answer is simple. I have a zero accident record. So in my case it isn't true, unless there is an accident statistic less than zero.
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  1738. Laser! No seriously, at those altitudes, 60,000 feet and more, there is little atmosphere to interfere with the beam.
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  1739. See my later reply. You can have pointers to pointers in original Pascal. He got it wrong.
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  1740. God you crash a few planes, nobody lets you forget it...
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  1741. So is the electrolytic process removing just the rust, or is it stripping the top layer of all the metal?
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  1742. So in response to "Tesla should join the existing standards" IE., j1772, no, sorry there is NOT in fact one standard outside of Tesla. For DC high power charging there are two in common use, CCS and Chademo, which with Tesla makes THREE different DC fast charge standards. And Tesla is the ONLY standard that integrated all forms of charging, slow, medium and fast, on a single connector. Thus, the better standard does not have to adapt to the crappy standard (the betamax/VHS is another story). And Tesla fast charging (at 100kW and better) is already higher level than the vast majority of DC fast chargers at 50kW. Should there be a single standard? Of course. But there is plenty of precedence that introducing standards on early, fast moving technology does not end well. Look at all of the iterations standard wall plugs went through, from light socket adapters, to blade plugs, to the modern three prong grounded (and in the USA it is still quite unsafe!). And keep in mind that I make my living off J1772 chargers and I am saying this!
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  1743. Fame is a drug.
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  1744. Ok, then why don't you want Jordan "back"?
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  1745. Its an essential element in 1950's scifi horror movies... usually ending with something coming out of the ground or water and eating a city.
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  1746. I'm still morning for the "land-o-lakes" maiden, now missing from the package...
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  1747. So Russia knows how to jam GPS, why haven't they done that?
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  1748. Interesting, by this same logic, you would have to postulate that there are viruses that don't make you sick, or even have observable effects, since the ideal virus would not corrupt its host.
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  1749. It was designed to blow up the deal with Saudia Arabia. And it is going to work. The two main takeaways from it are that Hamas pulled off a very effective attack that nobody thought they could, and that there is no way Israel can allow Hamas to govern "Hamastan" anymore.
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  1750. When can I get some?
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  1751. The "bolt 5" rule says no. As in if there is only %5 left to fix, heck with it, bolt and go work on something more interesting. Its a corollary of the rule "%90 of the work is getting the last %5 of a project to work".
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  1752. If you grew up in the 1950's you know what cobalt is, its what's in the nuclear bomb that created the thing that is going to destroy the planet...
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  1753. Gonna be hard to work with Denmark now.
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  1754. So driving jobs disappear, and so we need full on socialisim? Farming jobs disappeared. The answer is: get off your butt, retrain, and get a real job. And stop whining. Sorry, not a high tech solution.
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  1755. You know, there was no TV back then, sooo, not a lot to do. So you just made do.
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  1756. Microhdmi: Use a pigtail connector, ie., don't plug directly to the laptop. I use USB-C laptops, which are a lot more reliable.
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  1757. That first sentence is a run on sentence...
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  1758. Get one of those doors that swing both ways?
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  1759. Let's nail this one into the ground. GFCI was invented in 1961, so unless Japan didn't have electricity before then, you have admitted that Japanese power was dangerous in all respects before they installed GFCIs. Also, you have admitted that GFCIs can give you a short shock before tripping. Not dangerous? Tell that to someone with a shorted pacemaker. Finally, although Japan apparently could not copy America's properly designed grounding system, apparently the DID copy the two prong plug system, one of the most dangerous in the world, since children can touch the live prongs if it is not all the way inserted. In short, your video title is incorrect, since Japanese outlets are STILL more dangerous than properly grounded USA plugs with GFCI.
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  1760. Mars will eventually have small life forms. With all of the people traipsing across it, eventually some form of microbial life will escape and evolve to fit the environment.
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  1761. "As many as 55,000 on a single site", beware. The majority of these sites keep the women and their pictures forever, long after the lady is no longer interested in listing on the site, so that they can inflate their numbers.
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  1762. Just need the Hover (tm) space vacuum.
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  1763. Do cancer patients resent chemotherapy?
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  1764. A. Don't drink tea at a restaurant. B. Time for us to work closer with Russia. We did it before. Russia counters China, so it is in our interest to keep them strong.
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  1765. Bite me and good luck finding a job after they invent the automatic burger flipper at Mcdonalds...
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  1766. You are suppressed and regularly abused by your husband. You just don't know it. Hang around with liberals and they will cure your happiness problem.
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  1767. In our area, the water shortage is so bad we are being told to give up our lawns. But if the city were to establish a piping system for recycled water, this problem would be eliminated. They do it for industrial users and golf courses. But not us.
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  1768. Yeltsin self embalmed quite a bit...
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  1769. Ya now cover video CDs.
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  1770. It all changes with the first solid gold asteroid...
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  1771. Hopefully Biden does not confuse the nuclear button with the toilet flush.
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  1772.  @AxMi-24  ok. But I don't see that as either/or. Look if you're a thinking person this is not a simple thing. I try to recycle everything with a triangle on it, but they don't (in California) want to do just dump dirty plastics into the recycle bin. So over to the sink it goes. So fine, I recycle plastics, but I am wasting water, a no-no in California. We need to try different solutions. A lot of plastics are already RFIDed, and we don't have any solutions to the mixed plastics problem". So lets try the solution about reducing the different kinds of plastics. Lets try marking plastics. I don't use disposable water bottles, but here in California, everyone and their dog uses them, even people who call themselves "green". IE., lets try stuff out and not just shoot down other peoples solutions.
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  1773. To paraphrase Doritos: You fight the Russians... we'll make more.
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  1774. I used to fast at least once or twice a year and used it for weight control. It was mainly because I found that it was easier to fast for a week or so, take of any excess weight suddenly than to go on a long diet. However, I am type II diabetic now. I'd be interested to hear how that affects fasting. I know from prior experience that you have to cut back or cease meds when dieting or else you just get "sugar crashes", that is, low dips in blood sugar/light headedness, which makes you have to eat something to fix it.
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  1775. Wendover is near 3m subs, and probably is required viewing at airline boardrooms. I'm guessing he is doing ok.
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  1776. Que marks, or for fans of "fight club", cigarette burns.
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  1777. I used Xquartz to port Petit-Ami over to the Mac. Its not perfect, but it works. I'd prefer to use the native Mac API in the long run, and so in fact would GTK+. They mention this on their web site... Oh, did you know GTK+ used to or still runs on XQuartz?. It was a way to port apps to the Mac arranged in less than a week.
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  1778. Jeez the animation here is just incredible.
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  1779. Don't know what you are talking about. presper eckert and john mauchly came up with the stored program architecture. Von Neumann took notes on it, then published them under his own name, then refused to correct the record when confronted with the fact he took credit for something he did not invent. It is a sad part of computer history that need to be corrected. You can start by not spreading this misinformation.
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  1780. Don't worry. We can program robotaxies to honk at other cars.
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  1781. We'll see. This is a new kind of product, a "permanent nitch" product. Most people are not going to buy or use it. Wearing in public is a no-go, , and most aren't going to like something that blocks their vision no matter how well it does transparency. From there it is a copy of an existing product, its way out of people's price range. I suspect the most interesting thing about 3d goggles is that (unlike google glass) they are never going to go away, but just keep growing. I suspect Apple's price reflects that realization. 3d googles have a long road to get better. They are far to heavy, far too expensive, and right now, software limited. As for Tim Cook, copying others products does not make him an innovator. Apple has a problem. You can't just go hire an innovator.
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  1782. Another flying Putin staffer...
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  1783. 2 thousand views in only 4 minutes... amazing.
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  1784. The man.... with no name....
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  1785. I don't know why prices are up, but I have it on good authority that it is not Biden's fault.
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  1786. Flag a ship as Russian and drive it under the bridge... full of explosives.
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  1787. I would love to see Dewalt vs. Roybi as well. Dewalt comes at a premium. Worth it?
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  1788. Turns out the answer is 42.
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  1789. I vote for Brodie...
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  1790. Matt that was it exactly. That baited hook about rallies was so obvious and so scripted that if they had driven a billboard across the USA with "Kamala is going to bait you about rallies" it could not have been more predetermined. They probably drilled Kamala on that for hours. And yet Trump could not resist jumping on it, and it threw him off. Its Trumps biggest weakness and everyone knows it.
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  1791. The middle east was ruled by a sofa???
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  1792. My diabetes thanks you.
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  1793. All of these analyses ignore one basic fact: Tesla is just a better overall car. Its about 5 to 10 years ahead of other EVs, in terms of cockpit automation, performance, charging rate and charging infrastructure, and downloadable updates. What are the USA car ads full of right now? Auto park and auto lane keeping, features Tesla has had for years. In fact it seems like other car makers don't even GET Tesla. I have a bolt and a tesla, and the bolt, a very advanced car by USA standards, does not touch the Tesla for automation. The display is klunky and can't decide if screen touches or buttons and knobs is the interface. The display CRASHES, going to software quality issues. The range is just ok, and gets ruined by the fact that charging stations are at 1/5 the speed of Tesla stations (250kw vs 50 kw). Plus the charging network consists of having a stack of different charging network cards, and putting up with broken charging stations.
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  1794. Add: 1. Reverse mortgages. 2. Medicare advantage plans. 3. Home title protection. 4. Ink jet printers (most of the cost is cartridges, and they self destruct if you don't use them regularly). I got a lot out of high school, but it was because I took three hours of vocational classes daily, electronics, automotive, metal shop and print shop. I did that because I knew well that I was never going to be able to swing college and because the other classes like math and English bored me. I was warned several times that I would not graduate, and indeed I didn't, but got a GED later after work at an electronics job.The math requirement was covered by a test -- turns out I didn't need a class to be good at it, and the English class I took at night school, mostly because I ditched English class since it put me to sleep. True story, I kinda liked math but kept flunking it, so I would take it over again. One day I decided that I wasn't really bad at math and could pass the test if I actually studied for a change. I got an A+ on that test and was kicked out of the class for cheating :-). I don't miss high school. Ok, final joke. I married an English teacher. Ya, funny I know. Thus I almost spent more time at high school helping her with her teaching than I spent actually GOING to high school, which I ditched a lot. This was during the 2000s. I noticed that the high schools were selling off shop equipment and scaling back their vocational schools. Metal shop and auto shop are dirty jobs don'tcha know. Is it any wonder the guy working on your car is from Vietnam?
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  1795. I found a percolator for use in camping, because it only needs a burner. Loaded with good quality ground coffee, its wonderful.
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  1796. There were Olympics in China? And now the gold medal in the "minority rape and torture" event is:
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  1797. Jeeez, you could substitute "Ukraine" for "finland" here and get about the same story.
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  1798. I lived in an apartment where the management provided a trash can next to the mailboxes. It was great. One day the trash can disappeared. I was soon to find out why. There was a shelf under the mailboxes. It was full of (surprise) junk mail. And I added to it. Then I noticed I was seeing a lot, a lot a lot of junk mail. I examined it, then put it in the shelf. Next day, same junk mail was back in my mailbox. Only I and the mailman had a key to that. The message was clear: The mailman was saying: This is my JOB. You WILL take the junk mail. Honestly, I have not cared much for mailmen (or women) after that.
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  1799. You were NOT wearing a mask during this video. I have called the LA authorities...
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  1800. A bit overly simplistic. CP/M had serious technical shortcomings at the time of the introduction of the IBM-PC. CP/M had been around for several years by then on the 8080, then Z80 CPU (time did not begin with the IBM-PC). Much of this was due to the fact that CP/M, and the applications it ran, had to be stuffed into very little memory, 64kb (a tiny fraction of today's computers). CP/M did get translated into the 8086/88, but was still seriously behind technically. It required each application to keep its own file information, had no concept of where the end of a file was, and had limited support for applications greater than 64kb even on the 640kb IBM-PC. QDOS was a clean sheet compatible of CP/M, but didn't rip off Gary's code. Regardless, Microsoft rapidly improved the system far beyond its original implementation, with all of the limitations of CP/M addressed. Digital research actually did come back with GEM, a graphical environment that ran lighter and faster than Windows, and that is another story. The marketplace beat Gary. Nothing more.
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  1801. Small nit: ETZ would not be the only way to detect our planet. There are also gravitational effects on the sun, like wobble. An advanced society might be able to detect that much better than we can.
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  1802. Thanks! Fixed it.
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  1803. Small nit: the "Chechen terrorist" bombings that brought Putin to power and started the Chechen war were most likely a FSB concoction, and not only has the Russian government stonewalled investigations, but the people asserting it was an FSB operation had a tendency to die mysteriously. It was propaganda that brought Putin to power. And he continues to use it, and based the Ukrainian war on it. Putin is not "the strong man Russia needed", he is a sick manipulator that Stalin would have loved.
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  1804. "A nuclear war cannot be won" actually, it can, and we (the USA) did win one... against Japan. They weren't similarly armed, but that doesn't count.
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  1805. My respect for you just went up %100. I am sooo tired of the "self documenting" code nonsense. This usually consists of writing code with reallllllyyyyfffreeekinglongnames. These are just annoying to search on and type, and they usually do little or nothing to actually tell you what the code is doing. Basically its just another excuse for being to lazy to properly document your code. I use doxygen currently to document the code, with good headers on each function, what it's parameters are, etc. Each function should have English text saying what it does, and each file should have a header comment as well, not just a copyright statement. If your file is a module, it deserves a header comment as to why its a module and what it does. If your file is NOT a module, then it should be.
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  1806. "hi your 421 is ready to fly" "Lo siento yo no intiendo! Numero incorrecto... adios!"
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  1807. So is Greg going to reciprocate?
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  1808. I have an OKI LED printer. Its discontinued now, but mine still works. It is color, prints on very large stock, and will practically print on a brick, it takes very thick paper known as "cover paper" because it is used to make covers of books. As you say, it is one pass, and so prints at a much better speed than a laser printer.
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  1809. Racism now is being used for political purposes. Since it is useful, it won't be allowed to go away.
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  1810. yeaaaaa, ha ha, Obummer had absolutely nothing to do with it, and in fact tried to suppress it. Nice try to rewrite history.
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  1811. Has anyone seen the bridge? Where is that confounded bridge? - Led Zeppelin.
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  1812. Basically it means any probes to other planets need to be autonomous.
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  1813. HDDs are an inferior form of storage compared to SSDs (how nice that the world can be described with TLAs). Thus HDDs are going to live or die based on being a form of backup. We saw this same dynamic happen before. Tape drives and optical drives, as a backup media, died out because arrays of HDDs were cheaper. HDDs certainly have a price advantage over SSDs, but that price advantage is eroding as SSDs become cheaper in relative terms. A quick dive in Amazon shows the price advantage at about 5 to 1, HDDs over SSDs, in the same format (SATA). M.2, the rising defacto standard for SSDs (M.2 modules have a significant speed advantage over SATA, which never accounted for the great difference in speed between HDDs and SSDs), have a price premium, but that is eroding rapidly, for the simple reason that there is no fundamental reason for such an advantage of M.2 over SATA. On the contrary, M.2 has less material than SATA and so holds the long term price advantage. SATA drives need a metal case. The upshot is that HDDs hold a clear advantage, and reason for existence, at the 10 to 1 price level. At 5 to 1 we see that the sales curve for HDDs is trending down. When the price advantage falls below 2 to 1, its time to get out of the pool. The HDD industry will die.
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  1814.  @Chad.Commenter  Cite.
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  1815.  @Intelwinsbigly  Yea we (OCZ) did that and sold drives like that. They didn't sell. Good for repetitive storage accesses, terrible for true random access. I worked on the second generation SSD drives for enterprise. We implemented PCIe connected drives, long before NVMe was a twinkle in Intel's eye. Just the fact that the SATA bottle neck (6g) was REMOVED caused our SSDs to blow every hard drive (enterprise level!) clean out of the water on all performance scores. Those 4 lane PCIe M.2 drives will clean any hard drive's clock, and that is half the bandwidth we used. Can you get TB for cheap with hard drives? Certainly. I can sell you several 6 packs of beer for the price of a good bottle of wine. Would I use hard drives for backup? Heck yea, and I do. A good NAS such as I have at home for cheap is very cool . However, again, I use M.2s (Samsung) with Samsung SATA 2.5's in a 4 x quickchanger/hotplug chassis to boot alternative OSes.
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  1816. Seems like the bottom line is that losing 180lbs of equipment doesn't make that much difference. It may even be an expendable 180 lbs depending on your point of view.
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  1817. The famous quote supposedly when Hitler threatened Switzerland with invasion: Hitler: We will attack with a force twice as big as your army! Switzerland: Then we will have to shoot twice...
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  1818. Companies that have practices that you think need changes to solve programmer shortages, like hiring checklist programmers, unwilling to train, having age limits, etc, these companies aren't stupid. Thus I think it is reasonable to assume the "programmer shortage" is overblown. The Wall St. Journal has run some good articles on why the "open programmer positions" is a mostly fictional statistic, like positions advertised with no intention to fill, positions that were already assigned to a green card worker but required to advertise by the conditions of HB1 visas, and on and on. Any shortage should produce higher wages, and indeed, programmers are generally paid well. However the feeling with employers is that most software jobs can be divided up and given to new hires who are cheaper than one or two highly experienced programmers. I have been in the industry for 40 years, and have lived through several "programmer shortage" waves. The biggest ones, like in the early 1990's, caused a wave of programmer graduates who mostly ended up taking jobs outside of the industry based on my own personal experience. I don't think this has really changed. Here in silicon valley I take Ubers and have many times found out that the driver was a programmer who could not find a job.
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  1819. Small nit: the difference engine could not be programmed.
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  1820. It's baaaaaaakkkkkkkk!
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  1821. They make right angle pcie risers. I found one on amazon for $9.
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  1822. It was stated "wings helped insects evade predators" ok, were these other insects? Seems like insects were flying long before other life forms hit land.
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  1823. We've been doing this in Silicon Valley for decades. Nothing new.
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  1824. Jim was a true story teller with his songs. I can remember listening to his songs for the first time on the radio, and you just had to stop and listen, and follow the story. Why did so many great players die on small aircraft? The pilot for Jim's airplane was ATP, the graduate degree for pilots. Its more about using light aircraft for quick jumps at all hours between gigs.
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  1825. I don't let anyone else fly my airplane, period. Especially flight schools. I learned to fly with flight schools, I am amazed that anyone would leaseback an aircraft they care about. Overspeeding the engine, not paying attention to rapid cooldown, hard landings, dropping coffee, the list goes on and on. Would you rent out one of your kids?
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  1826. Not completely accurate. Yellow was also produced, so it wasn't just red and green. Also to be mentioned: It wasn't just lighting. The blue LED enabled high definition optical disks and made HDTV DVDs possible. This was due to the shorter wavelength of blue light. It enabled finer pitch tracks in the DVD.
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  1827. "the tesla whisperer..."
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  1828. Deforrest takes a lot of heat for not being a scientist, but he set off a revolution that exists to this day. He was one man working alone, and expanded on an effect that Edison discovered... then promptly ignored. The AT&T group was a well backed group of scientists. Deforrest's memory deserves better.
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  1829.  @MrWATCHthisWAY  "The Transistor company was located in Silicone Valley in Palo Alto" Silicon valley. Silicone valley is further south, in Hollywood.
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  1830. Its ok, neither does your president.
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  1831. modern electronics makes things simpler and easier. You can be a luddite, or you can embrace it. I took 4 shop classes per day in high school, so much so they told me I wouldn't graduate. I didn't care because I knew a poor kid couldn't swing college, so my future was blue collar, and indeed, I didn't graduate. Fast forward to today. They started ripping "dirty" shop classes out of high schools, and doling out government money "so everyone would go to college". That's why some guy from Vietnam repairs your car. Now people write bitchy videos complaining about how cars are too advanced. They are easier to repair than ever. You just have to know how, and not be stuck in the last century. There is a big push to reduce the amount of wiring in a car. It makes sense. You only really need to route the can bus or whatever bus around the car, not individual wires to every light and sensor. Nobody can repair the car? Bullcookies. CAN bus is easy to hack. Tesla keeps their car wiring a secret, but even they will have to open it up eventually, and in the meantime there are lots of hackers taking the car apart. Electrics are far simpler and don't break down as easily.
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  1832. Everytime a bell rings... Amazon gets $10.
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  1833. That's it, time to invade Canada!
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  1834. I have believed for a long time that RFID could solve recycling problems. An RFID tag molded into plastic containers could carry information about the chemical contents of the plastic. The biggest problem with plastics recycling now is that, even though plastics can be easily remelted and recycled, mixing different plastics makes that impossible. So plastics are ground up and mixed together and only go to degraded uses like plastic bags and plastic lumber. RFIDs could allow collection by type, and even return to the maker, as whole bottles or other packages, instead of being ground up. Additionally, the RFID would identify the product on retail shelves and boxes.
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  1835. I worked for a Radio shack repair center. This was back when sh** shack got companies to make stuff just for them. It was just amazingly cheap junk. Usually electronic components screwed to a piece of plywood with a plastic case hiding everything. They made it clear that the work was so cheap that if you weren't turning work around in less than about 15 minutes it was not worth it to the company. I lasted about 3 months.
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  1836. A good overview, but I would add that vr/ar sidesteps most of these issues. You get AR by having a camera on the outside and the computer just mixes the outside view into the vr projection. This means you are focusing only on the inside of the vr headset.
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  1837. Yes, it is easy to simply quote astronomical combination possibilities. However, these kinds of problems yield to common sense. Like exploring chess move trees, there are clearly paths that don't make sense, like paths after checkmate or loss of major pieces or important positions. Also, nature gives us a huge clue in terms of (for want of a better word) I'll call "progression". Proteins must hold together even while they are being formed. This sharply limits the possible paths to build a protein.
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  1838. Because firefighters or police would need to stop what they are doing and manage driverless cars. The answer is geofencing or having the robotaxies recognize caution tape.
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  1839. We know how the Titanic sank. Go find Malaysian airlines 370 with this stuff.
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  1840. 1. Reverse the rule that senators are popularly elected. They were representatives of the states in the original constitution. The states should have a right to representation at the federal level. The senators are accountable to the people indirectly though state's governments. 2. The parliament model is superior to the presidential model. The presidency has become a "king of the hill", and each of our binary parties considers themselves to have "won" if they get the presidency. The prime minister model was not designed, it evolved, and the prime minister is both more accountable to the people and to the house. he/she can be turned out on a dime, and that's how it should be. Parliaments generate fights, coalitions, compromises, etc. That's how government should work, not having one person step in and resolve it all. If we had a parliament, we would have more than 2 parties, as other countries do. The current structure of government encourages the model of two parties having all the power.
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  1841. I didn't go to college because I couldn't afford it even if they gave it out free. I could certainly have taken night jobs and barely got by, but instead I took a regular full time job and got on with my life. There are not a lot of computer programming night jobs. To this day it stuns me to hear that somehow I was "lazy" for not attending college. Because I had to complete with college graduates I had to work twice as hard and yet made less money.
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  1842. In my experience, both the slacker and the "super programmer" are myths. The super programmers I have run into, legends in their companies, write code that is unreadable and unmaintainable. Its a consequence of management that holds speed of coding above anything else. The only real "slackers" I have run into are people who don't really want to be programmers and are working their way into management.
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  1843. How's that working for you Dennis?
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  1844. We spray the hell out of our plants to get rid of insects. Last time I checked, bees qualify as an insect. Doesn't seem like a mystery.
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  1845. I disagree. Imagine if the cotton gin had not been invented. The huge amount of manual labor in cotton making would have kept the pressure for maintaining slavery on. It wasn't just the fact of the manual labor. Having it done by slaves allowed the consumers of cotton, including the "enlightened north" to ignore the problems created by its production, since it was done by "that other race".
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  1846. All it takes to beat them is an Arm... and a leg.... :0
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  1847. Unfortunate encounter with a hedge trimmer, eh?
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  1848. What changed? Trumps no longer in office.
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  1849. Oh, gee, wouldn't want to make the Russians mad...
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  1850. It would be a net advance to bring gold back in quantities that would make it common. The electronics industry could use a lot more of it, and it would be a major advance for humanity to stop treating it as a store of wealth.
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  1851. And the CCC has exactly what to do with space launches? I actually know the answer. The CCC is an unelected bureaucracy that does lots of things like block real estate development, and thus raise housing costs here in CA, which gets closer to being a dictatorship every day.
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  1852. Not to excuse the silicon manufacturers, but Silicon Valley, AKA San Jose, has had a number of contaminations over time. The first was mercury, which they used to mine in the hills above San Jose. It was used during the gold rush to process gold bearing ore. The hills are still quite contaminated with the stuff, and fishing is prohibited, leading to an odd abundance of fish there. Nothing saves your life like being a toxic fish. More recently, it was discovered that the company making rockets, UTC, in the hills, had left large waste ponds of the makings of rocket fuel, and those waste ponds were leaking into the ground water for many years. This leads to thyroid disease. I can't really complain. Starting in electronics at the tender age of 16, I have inhaled tons of triclor, solder fumes and rubbed up against a lot of lead. We used to carry it around in bars, and melt it in pots and soldering machines. But as you can see, it has had no effect on me. But then, as you can see, it has had no effect on me...
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  1853. Who is more responsible? The ones who got the slaves, or the ones who paid them for the slaves?
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  1854. Beats me why Trump would interview with this critter. She has demonstrated she is incapable of honest and impartial interviews before. He WON the election. No need to do these kinds of interviews again.
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  1855. I bought that exact Kidde dual detector alarm because my understanding was it would only go off if BOTH detectors went off. It said as much on the box. I did it because I was tired of false alarms, and my new beautiful wife confuses the smoke alarm with a cooking timer.
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  1856. The engineering answer for this is from telephone and electric lines (yes, really). They curve down between poles/towers, right? The early installers of such lines found out rapidly that if you apply a lot of tension on them and attempt to flatten them out, they break. That curve is part of the strength of the line. Suspension bridges are also like that,but in reverse: They curve up to the middle. That helps to distribute the weight of the load. It actually turns out that flat lines are the least strong surfaces. Cars have curves not just for styling, but those curves actually make the sheet metal stronger. A square, as in a house, is one of the least strong designs, which is why houses are not actually just square. The roof is a series of triangles, and in fact that is where much of the strength of a house lies.
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  1857. Oh you kids...
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  1858. You should take apart that cassette walkman. Forgotten today, but sony came out with one that was barely larger than a cassette tape. In fact, I was able to put it into the same box as I carried my tapes in. That thing was a mechanical miracle.
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  1859. Naw, the gators need more crunchy MAGA burgers...
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  1860. Sounds like a Linux distro to me...
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  1861. An artificial island build on earth dumped onto the sea floor is NOT FLOATING!!! Go lookup the definition of floating.
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  1862. Love that hotel. I stayed there one night, and I don't even remember why, since I live in SJ. The funny story about that is the Embassy suites is a "checkpoint" for arrival for light aircraft to San Jose airport. It helped that the hotel was painted blazing pink. You call out "I am abeam the Embassy suites" to the SJC controller.
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  1863. I would say using C would be the biggest issue. Do they really use C???? Also, that don't use the heap rule. So you are exchanging heap use for lots of static array overflows, usually out in space. Great idea.
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  1864.  @jonassattler4489  Yea, its an unfortunate fact that I am aware of. I am a pilot as well as a programmer. The use of C is a shockingly bad choice for life critical applications such as avionics. I disagree there are no alternatives. Java, which has been around for decades, is a fully protected language, and Pascal has been around for 50 years now. Fully protected. Allocators are well debugged. The bugs that occur happen not because of the allocator (which is usually only a page or so of code) but because of incorrect use. Regardless, again, there are languages outside of that running segment violation of a language C that properly check allocations. I use C in most of my work, have to make a living. You code in what your employer uses. But again, C is a terrible choice, and yes, there are alternatives. I have lots of issues with NASA use of COTS (Customer off the shelf). When the mars probe locked up because of a priority inversion, my first reaction was "they use a priority based RTOS???". Priority based OSes have known issues that (to me) stem from use of an oversimplified model of tasking. Demand based systems (well covered in the literature) are better and actually properly model the way tasking works. I'll put is succinctly: NASA chose their languages by popularity, not by fitness of purpose. The military went through the same thing, and they chose ADA because it had protection (long before JAVA and the protected language fad). Its simple. The military didn't want run nuclear missiles on C code. They kinda got out their on their own limb with ADA, but they made it work. ADA is still in use.
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  1865. We pay $35 per kilowatt hour. PG&E needs the money to pay their lawyers for burning down so many houses.
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  1866. "We had the opportunity to fix our water infrastructure years ago and we voted it down" Sorry, NO, we did vote for it, and the CA government spent it on other things, like the teachers unions to buy their votes. Go back and read the history.
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  1867. "you have c++ for real work"... that says it all.
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  1868. One person is too many. post no bills. Hey, I have a million of these...
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  1869. Certainly the participation in religion has declined (as it has in Europe), and perhaps that is a bad thing. But it is not up to the state to support religion. As an atheist and conservative myself, I am not "anti religion", and in fact I think it is idiotic that many atheists define themselves as such. I have attended many church services with my wife, and I generally agree that they are a force for good and agree with their teachings. But as an atheist, I believe I can use my brain to decide what is right and what is wrong without being told I must just accept that "because it comes from god". And I certainly don't want government to participate in that, especially since government increasingly seems to believe they ARE god. I like Prager U. But I have seem enough of your videos to understand that you view me and my being an atheist as "part of the problem". I am NOT the problem. Reserve your fire for the socialists and we will get along fine.
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  1870. Veni, vidi, vici.
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  1871. The majority of people on earth, %70 according to sources, live in dictatorships.
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  1872. War.... is not humane.
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  1873. This is not LIKE the Black Mirror episode. This IS that Black Mirror episode, brought to life. China is becoming the modern gulag.
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  1874. I don't see the Russians staying. They will leave or be routed.
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  1875. That was an awesome overview of the ASML system, thank you. On to 200k.
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  1876. Nice, but not sure why that's better than live program debugging, ie., gdb ./inventory then crash while in gdb. Simpler and the info is the same.
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  1877. I suspect in the long run people will view mainframes and even minis the way we view engines. History books show stationary engines where the work was transmitted via belts, but no existing examples exist, and its just a series of odd photographs with no similarity to the modern world.
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  1878. The war over color TV standards got repeated with the advent of HDTV. The FCC had already signed off on an analog, backwards compatible system when a small silicon company called general instrument showed that by using a digital carrier based system with mpeg, the amount of bandwidth needed by the (very wasteful) analog TV system could be reduced significantly, while at the same time dramatically increasing the reception reliability. GI had already done this for digital cable systems, so over the air systems had fallen behind. The FCC did another about face, and the broadcasters suddenly did as well. Cynics said that the true underlying cause was the broadcasters realization that the very same digital technology that could give an HDTV signal in the same 6mhz channel as analog TV could very well be used to compress existing TV into 1mhz or less, and result in broadcasters losing up to 5/6ths of their very valuable spectrum real estate if the FCC (and the public) woke up to this fact. Thus HDTV was born, and the broadcasters used the technology to split up into multiple channels anyway... but under their control. The true result of all of the nonsense is that mpeg-2, and later mpeg-4, took over TV broadcasting by storm, rendering the actual method used to broadcast TV increasingly irrelevant. The broadcasters kept their spectrum allocations, but the number of over the air users decreases daily. And the FCC increasingly puts pressure on broadcasters to give up that real estate to other uses.
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  1879. There is no doubt that the almond growers have been getting preferential treatment. If you want to stop that, stop voting for the one party state of the democrats, because that is where the money has been going. At the same time, its a bit rich to call them "stealing the water and selling it back to Californians". California law from a long time ago gives water rights to landowners, and they are within their rights to sell it back to anyone they choose. Don't like the law? Change it. But don't count on the paid for single party state to do that.
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  1880. If you can't agree, then you assemble in a room and hammer out a compromise. Its called democracy. Its not designed to be pretty.
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  1881. Let em'.
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  1882. I have a neighbor who used mortgage forgiveness to abandon his house and now it is broken into and is being used by transients for who knows what. This is not in a bad neighborhood. This is a 1 million minimum per house silicon valley neighborhood. Thanks government.
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  1883. This is why they invented carpet bombing...
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  1884. There is no reason you cannot equip a house in the USA with some or all European plugs, either on new construction or old retrofits. The 220v is there, and 60h vs 50h is a non-issue for the vast majority of appliances. The issue is finding a UL approved outlet, but since European plugs are actually safer than USA plugs, that should be a non-issue as well (but of course isn't).
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  1885. "oh, my god, now the Henderson's have the bomb" -- The far side.
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  1886.  @happygimp0  Not much danger of that. In the PC world, everything is open. Apple tried that with their hardware (maybe they will again eh), but its like waving a red cape in front of a bull, everyone rises to the challenge to break it. Linux can run on a MAC.
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  1887. Fine. Tell us how you are going to eat with a mask on. Public dining indoors is done until a vaccine is found. Even before then, reasonable outdoor dining is possible (spaced out tables). For the rest, its simple. We don't need the hand of government. Just put a "face mask only" sign in every store.
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