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I don't believe them for a millisecond.

Thank you!

I worked on a small team that created a CPU in the late 1990s and we stacked DDR dies on top of the CPU die and ran vertical traces. It was cool to have the entire computer inside …

I had a C64 as well. My school had a programming class and we all shared a TRS80 (I think). I remember writing a program to find prime numbers and thinking about various optimizati…

Electric cars will not "save the environment". Their purpose is to "save the US automotive industry". The idea that billionaires and car manufacturers would be motivated by anythin…

I have no hearing in any of the frequencies BART trains emit. Burned away... I do love this "Transit" app though.

"Leaves on the line." https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/looking-af...

For the express vs. local, sometimes it will ASK me what train I am on. When there are delays that cause trains to be closer together, it does this. I presume they are crowd-sourci…

Their "intent" is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. Nothing else matters; not today, and not in the future.

That's a really good essay. My mind has been changed! Thank you!

I live in SF. I haven't owned a car in many years. I bicycle or take public transit when my destination is too far to walk. I still purchase auto insurance that costs me something …

The last paragraphs of this article are brilliant... > “It’s not going to cure cancer, it’s not going to bring world peace, two things that we desperately need right now,” she says…

A thousand years ago, every village had their own timekeeping and it worked. Our village is now earth. What if we just abandoned daylight-savings time and timezones and just went w…

LOL!

You'd likely take an exception for a multi-bit error and the handler would likely just retry the read. Single-bit errors are often just corrected on the fly by ECC logic as you men…

Scala is the basis for Chisel HDL, which is widely used in the RISC-V design community.

Does `lxml` match `etree` in the table?

This is exactly my feeling. Cars have gotten so huge now, erasing the fuel savings and causing the deaths of so many pedestrians and cyclists. I would like to see the cost to regis…

_Waking_Life_ from Richard Linklater in 2001.

"Punctuated equilibrium."

-7% Year-over-year profit from automotive sales... Since learning more about Mr. Musk, registrations for his automobiles in California have fallen drastically: https://www.reuters.…

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R.I.P.

God forbid a bicyclist needs to traverse this hell ...

Great news! :-)