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571.
by shrubble 2y ago
Yes, that is correct; it's worded somewhat clumsily in the parent quote.
572.
by shrubble 2y ago
When there is a split among Federal courts then the SCOTUS does often step in. The SCOTUS decision was that the interpretation of the First Circuit was wrong. FWIW it says "the Congress shall have power..." not unelected bureaucr
573.
by shrubble 2y ago
If I understand the origin of the case, a Federal agency decided that fishing boats had to bear the costs, some $700/day, of a mandatory monitor (usually a person with marine biology and stats knowledge, I think) that travels on the bo
574.
by shrubble 2y ago
The traditional problem that analog computers faced were that voltages could vary from run to run and thus give different results, to the point that analog computer manufacturers made their own power supplies and capacitors to extremely hig
575.
by shrubble 2y ago
The theft is legendary and there are no auditing controls on the money given to Ukraine. To the point that even African nations are complaining about the influx of arms flowing into their countries as arms meant for Ukraine are sold off. h
576.
by shrubble 2y ago
Chevron has only been around since 1984. What was done previously?
577.
by shrubble 2y ago
Are you familiar with the term "regulatory capture"?
578.
by shrubble 2y ago
There are tax advantages as I understand it if the truck is over a certain weight. This skews preferences towards a larger truck, since small trucks don't weigh enough.
579.
by shrubble 2y ago
The Joe editor has "jstar" where if you invoke the editor as this command it loads the Wordstar keymapping and looks/operates with the WordStar keybindings and screen interface. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io&#
580.
by shrubble 2y ago
The Toshiba luggables T3100 / T5x00 with gas plasma display are still around; as are the Compaq luggables as well.
581.
by shrubble 2y ago
"Mac shipments are estimated to have grown from 1.7M in the first quarter of 2023 to 2.1M in the same quarter this year" note that it is an increase of 22% of Macs being sold, and not a total market share of 22%; instead Mac are
582.
by shrubble 2y ago
The Poco Legend album cover art is exceptional.
583.
by shrubble 2y ago
If it was donated by someone, shouldn't they give it back to the person who donated it? How does it get sold for cash?
584.
by shrubble 2y ago
Also left, now at telecom Lumen (merger of Level3 and CenturyLink) https://news.lumen.com/ryan-asdourian : "Ryan also led Business Development and Marketing for the Microsoft Surface business group in the United States
585.
by shrubble 2y ago
Didn't they also outsource a large part to an India-focused outsourcer as well?
586.
by shrubble 2y ago
CDK is the company that got cyberattacked; DMS = dealer management system.
587.
by shrubble 2y ago
But there have to be 20 people inside the bus (approximately 50% utilization) for that effect to be seen. Do you see that many on the bus at non peak times?
588.
by shrubble 2y ago
Buses are much slower to accelerate, and unlike most cars, you can't see what is ahead of the car in front of you. When you get a chance, follow behind one during a non-congestion period and count the cars that pass you in the other la
589.
by shrubble 2y ago
It's been tried in the past, and the disarmed populace is often killed by their own government or invaded and displaced via demographic changes that the compromised/paid off government leaders allow.
590.
by shrubble 2y ago
In order for a bus to actually be an efficient mass transit option, it has to be used. Buses on regular roads create a "shadow" that affects other vehicles behind it and reduces 2 lanes in one direction to an efficiency of much le
591.
by shrubble 2y ago
The glass has to be thicker, thus more weight, to withstand implosion from the vacuum it is holding.
592.
by shrubble 2y ago
Mitch Bradley was the author of a great deal of that Forth; his CForth is on GitHub : https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth (It might be easier than finding an old Sun machine)
593.
by shrubble 2y ago
I think a 486 is the minimum; it was pretty snappy on the 486DX2/66 I had.
594.
by shrubble 2y ago
Reminds me of this, an earlier expert-system method for CPU design, which was not used in subsequent designs for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000#SID_Scalar_and_Vector...
595.
by shrubble 2y ago
Your own link mentions it is used in multiple European countries since the 1960s, so its use therefore pre-dates the AfD.
596.
by shrubble 2y ago
After the TCL programming language was introduced, Richard M. Stallman, in posting his opinion, kicked off a legendary flame war on Usenet. Glenn Vanderburg, also a participant, collated together most of those posts...
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The Tcl War (vs. Guile Scheme)(vanderburg.org)
2 points by shrubble 2y ago|2 comments
598.
by shrubble 2y ago
I am assuming (hope I am right!) that the RISC-V board doesn't have the equivalent of the IME on it and thus will be open-source "librebootable" from the start, with no binary blobs.
599.
by shrubble 2y ago
Are the recent shifts in electoral preferences the reason for the push? As a backhanded way to surveil those politicians and citizens with the "wrong views" on remigration, etc.?
600.
by shrubble 2y ago
So Westinghouse sold the Chinese 4x AP1000, knowing full well that the Chinese would learn, document and then copy/clone the designs all over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000 Which is exactly what happened; w

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