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Never mind washing machine, how about a missile or a drone? Or a bomb.. "let there be light" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck

I worked at a place that evaluated bubble memory, but didn't use it (they had the bubble memory dev. boards). But they did use CCD memory. I remember it was prone to bit errors, wh…

What this doesn't include: not all people are equal. Do you want the CEO of your new office building to have to wait behind a bunch of plebeians? At least one car is going to have …

I think "solid-state" is a marketing term which means you need to use Fermi-Dirac statistics to model your device, vs. vacuum tubes where you can use Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. …

The server being their server that you eventually have to a pay a subscription to use? Hmm.. Also, interesting permission problems. Are you going to allow a remote server owned by …

So actually, this TV is for an AIR B&B I rent out. I guess technically I need to add their stupid EULA to my rental agreement.

The main point of selecting the country seems to be getting you to consent to the country specific EULA. There's also region-based content management, but it's secondary at this po…

I have a new LG TV, holy moly what a terrible user experience. Out of the box it requires you to create an LG account. PITA, but OK. Except I was supposed to set the location first…

>2008 I bought a 2017 Kia Forte S recently.. ($4000 for 137K miles) no touch screen, but many safety features that are not too bad like radar collision detection and blindspot warn…

When Boston ended rent control in the late 90s, all of the sudden the landlords invested in their goldmine buildings and generally improved the city. It sucks for those trying to r…

Suppose you want shelter. It used to be that you could buy a house for a reasonable price and move in. But now that's unaffordable, so instead your have to pay rent. In CPI thinkin…

No it's cooked. For high tech items, they assume that improved technology means you are getting more for your money even if the price goes up, so they discount it. It's true that y…

>There are no dark GPUs This might not be true. Someone was comparing Nvidia's production rate with known data center capacity, and they do not match. Their conclusion was that peo…

Also: Musk's shares have 10x voting power, he can not be overruled by anybody (he will retain ~80% of the votes). Also: SpaceX debt is $20 billion.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI

Yeah, it's how you pay dividends at capital gains rate instead of income rate. But also, Apple is kind of stagnant.. if they had something better to do with the money they wouldn't…

Not only that, the operating itself was configured by a process known as "sysgen". You relink the entire operating system with options set the way you wanted. It was generally a mi…

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHKygZ7OHY CP/M 1.0 was demoed to Intel in 1974, but they didn't buy it. iCOM FDOS was the first operating system that was available to people,…

My favorite cheap Casio is fx-115ES Plus 2nd Edition, $17 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... Includes GCD and LCM, some of the newer ones don't have th…

(JOE 4.7 was also recently released)