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Not really. It’s because the government of Taiwan poured a lot of money into these chip companies. Which is the smart thing to do.

Kelly Johnson of Lockheed (designer and PM for record breaking aircraft) had a very strong position on core competency. It had to be protected and advanced at all costs.

There was some truth to that. The 737 MAX is a hot aircraft (a light airframe with new powerful engines) that could quickly get away from you. Most US pilots come from the military…

I have no doubt the metaverse will be the future. Obviously it's hard for people to imagine the possibilities. It's also hard to explain it to people who lack imagination. I think …

Pull the Free42 app down from the Apple store and have an HP 42 calculator on your phone. The interface is an image of the 42.

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Most of us years ago pointed out the F-35 was heavy and not very aerodynamic. Meaning that the single engine would be burdened hauling that thing around. It's actually worse than w…

I think server hardware solved the big data issue. The stuff we have now can blitz through data in the blink of an eye. For national governments like our own, mainframes still have…

My own theory is that the era of Big Tech firms like Google, etc., is passing or at least evolving. Companies are gaining confidence that they have answers for their needs and don'…

I still run a 2017 MacBook Pro with the 2.9 GHz i7 (admittedly with a recent keyboard replacement.) I only do office productivity stuff on it. The heavy lifting is done on my Dell …

I have suffered from ADHD my entire adult working life. I am a developer and it’s been a real struggle. I could not utilize Adderall as I have high blood pressure and it hits your …

Does any of this really matter?

Many of us lay-people strongly suspect that there was some sort of catastrophe around 12,000 BC. The disappearance of the Clovis people, the disappearance of the North American meg…

Only me and the other guy seem to care. We all should care. Our government has no business collecting our transmitted information. This has to stop.

You would make a poor airline executive. These planes cost an enormous amount of money to develop. I notice you didn't mention the poor training of the now deceased pilots. Be brav…

Ok, but we still don't see any ET's. I personally think interstellar travel is impossible for biological lifeforms. Some suggest some form of AI robotic craft, but that may be impo…

No cloud for me. I like having my hardware in front of me. The soothing LED's and gentle swoosh of the cooling fans puts me at ease. I'll let the young turks bust their ass on thos…

Yeah, the dual shares is a sore point with me. The plebs get the non-voting instruments and the company insiders get the "controlling" shares. It doesn't sit right with me.

I thought Boom had a smaller plane in the works. Trying to design a big 4 engine plane sounds daunting to me. A smaller craft with two engines sounds somewhat easier. Something abl…

Many people no longer want to enrich the Pharaoh. They want more beer and wheat in return for building that damn pyramid. I mean what is the point of making someone like Bezo's eve…

I think Covid reset the employer to employee relationship. Prior to that, the employer could demand allegiance to the company, enforce a code of behavior and expect the employee to…

Not known to the public but China has invested quite a bit in AMD.

When reading the article, I was reminded of how things must have been working as a slave laborer in the underground Nordhausen rocket factory in 1944.

At this point, I don't think anybody trusts the big tech companies to act responsibly. They have long since been plugged into the government's data-gathering infrastructure. The so…

Are these really new particles? It appears to me these are quarks in different combinations. I ask because this hadron collider machine needs to show amazing results but this annou…