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Rockets ... looks like rockets, except in the case I correctly referred to. Thank you.

True but there are some recent developments in the area of making them rechargeable.

A text editor is what I use, the pattern is a comment line beginning with a # sign followed by the thing or things I'm noting, interspersed with comment lines if needed, followed b…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery "However, an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-io…

I recommend a $200 Lenovo. It's tough to beat the quality.

I was trying to imagine what advertising works on me...none. What does work is a family member, friend suggests something or even an article online that is genuine and not written …

"Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient" The fact we can ask that question and most people on the planet have at least a simple understanding of what it me…

Remote works great for me, it has for many years, no complaints.

Lived here for over 1.5 decades and do not see a "decades-long drying". Texas isn't perfect but water management is something it does right. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/t…

"My point isn't that inflation doesn't exist." My wife tells me different, so I'm going with her real world experience in the matter.

It isn't racist or classist bullshit. It was that people liked cars for the independence they provided. Today's live in their parent's basement generation can't comprehend the conc…

The semaphore tower method could maybe have supported mixed signals with one operator dedicated to receive/forward and the other operator dedicated to acknowledge with a detailed r…

That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.

I'd be for it except for the fact where Uranium mostly comes from. Like it or not, coal remains the energy reserve that potentially can keep the Us free.

Modern AI can barely drive a car under ideal conditions without crashing. The ocean is full of sounds. AI is decades away (still, and I've said this now for decades) from figuring …

I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns…

Agreed. ML (a component of AI) faces the same issue today as it always has, outliers, i.e. the real world.

The only languages worth their weight are Java and C.

Agreed on JSF productivity, also found the parent comment quite astounding in this regard.

I do Java as I've done for several decades. I tried C# years ago despite Microsoft. Java and the JVM are superior, technologically and morally to anything they can come up with.