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Oh, mostly the forest-y and nature-y states - Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California...I would've liked to see mo…

Interesting - you learn something new every day. I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incentive to protect their…

Yeah, I noticed these signs along the highways in Texas when I was driving around the US. And I chuckled at how they used the "Don't mess with Texas" phrase despite having much low…

KGB doesn't exist anymore - you might mean the FSB or GRU? Anyways, plenty of countries have security agencies whose main job is to violently protect the local kleptocrats these da…

Some applications that don't need a complex GUI use web browsers as a frontend because they are cross-platform and they come with a bunch of 'free' UI elements like buttons, text b…

Isn't the Earth sort of a people tank, though? It's pretty big, but there are only so many variations on "tree", "mountain", "valley", "cave", "swimmy thing", "flying thing", "walk…

If you're lucky, your language/library/etc might have a fairly active IRC channel or similar. Popular languages often have a myriad of channels dedicated to different subtopics. Th…

The S2 lacks Bluetooth though, doesn't it? The second core is meant to handle the network stack, leaving the first core to focus on program logic. With ESP8266s, it can be hard to …

Something like a 3D printer that could produce integrated circuit dies from blank wafers; "VLSI" means "Very Large-Scale Integration". But we're still a long way from that being fe…

I once made a single-transistor latch by accident. It acted as a single bit of memory and retained its value for weeks until I got bored with the project. I had been making magneti…

Cool - it's amazing how much easier FPGA development has gotten in recent years thanks to efforts like YoSys and these sorts of frontend projects. RISC-V has also been maturing ove…

I know that's what the courts say, I just think it's insane and indefensible. And that erodes my trust in our judicial system and my respect for our institutions. Or it would, if I…

It's incredible how far we've fallen; the border exception is particularly terrible. I was once driving along I-10, which is an 8-lane / 80mph interstate. CBP had blockaded the ent…

The computers would still stop working eventually; the universe as we know it also has a finite lifespan, and a machine will always require some amount of energy to function.

The idea of individual immortality seems at odds with how the universe works. But the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of matter and energy is appealing, because it …

I've never really liked Bill Gates the Microsoft owner, either. If you appreciate what the Gates foundation has done, consider that it's called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundatio…

In my experience interviewing candidates for a FAANG, people say that they weight "CQ" heavily behind closed doors, but it is mostly used as a way to enforce various -isms under th…

That defeats the purpose of this being a single United nation. Do you really think it would be healthy to artificially accelerate the rapid fracture of our collective unity? E plur…

It looks cool, but they trained their models on people reading printed sentences out loud. Would that actually translate to decoding the process of turning abstract thoughts into w…

Am I the only weirdo who prefers lead-free solders because they don't flow as much? They dry almost as soon as you take the heat off, which keeps parts from moving off their pads w…

Do you know of any good papers on analog computers? They sound like interesting tools, especially since there are some sorts of problems where small amounts of unpredictable error …

ESP8266s aren't very pleasant to work with, and in my experience it can be hard to accomplish much in program logic while keeping the WiFi stable. But the cottage industry around t…