TremendousJudge

>Globalization is breaking down quickly Is it? I don't know if there's a concrete way of measuring "amount of globalization", but I'd guess that right now we're probab…

Weren't transistors specifically invented to improve telephone networks?

https://xkcd.com/989/

This was normal everywhere not so long ago

What I've read is that no established manufacturer was interested in developing a non-military supersonic engine, probably because they don't expect to recoup the costs.

I've been reading about them for years. Rolls-Royce was going to make the engine (the most important and innovative part of the plane), they dropped out in 2022, and then they said they are going…

>The only ideology that Boeing makes look bad is the Soviet system! Boeing is 100% a product of the American system. All the acquisitions, mergers, lobbying and loss of engineering culture in favor…

Chances they'll make this available in any place where it's not required by law? zero? Or have they mentioned it at some point?

Does he say what to do when they die, quit, or retire?

You'd be surprised.

Which is why Apple Corps and Apple Computer had several legal battles over the years, especially once Apple (the computer company) started selling music

> is on pace to replace a pretty large proportion of fossil fuels Is it? According to ourwoldindata[0], fossil fuel usage is growing worldwide. ie more fossil fuels are being burned now than eve…

That's not the point the author is trying to make. What he's saying is, whether you like it or not, it's cheap enough that somebody will do it, either a desperate government or an ind…

https://grugbrain.dev/ has the following to say about microservices: "grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too s…

Is there "financial success" to be made in programming languages? Usually companies use them to promote their own product environments, which is how they make money, but not through the lang…

This is exciting, it's very unusual for new texts to be added to our collection of ancient literature.

I don't understand it either. Buying fresh from a local store and freezing is also easy. But I can never find a product of that quality that already comes frozen.

reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/504/

How did his friend fare, with no degree but two years of experience?

Big difference is that the character of the President is very competent and does everything right as the situtation develops. He is the only character with common sense, alongside the British officer.…

Agree. I didn't download patches because I knew from experience (Win8 start menu patching) that it was asking for trouble down the road.

>This may have been fixed in recent versions where they finally added the ability to change the taskbar grouping in the settings, but I haven't felt the need to test it. THANK YOU. I never hea…

A percolator works differently from a moka pot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9avjD9ugXc a moka pot only has the water go through the grounds once, while the percolator has the cof…

I learned C that way (algorithms class was in C), even had a little printout table of the different syntaxs for the same instructions (here's how you write a for, if, record, declare a variable, …

I learned Pascal and MODULA-2 in college, in my first two programming semesters. MODULA-2 was removed shortly afterwards but Pascal is still used in the introductory programming course. I'm very …

You are blaming the users for taking "unlimited" literally, while it was the company who said the plan was "unlimited" in the first place. Nobody forced them to market it that way.…

GPs argument is the opposite of this: it's not about the scammers, but about the legit brands. The same way Pepsi doesn't want to get their ads shown over somebody discussing STDs or somethi…

Well the strategy relies on the games being really good in the first place, so that many people wouldn't take that option.

I don't agree with GP's original point (also afaik US minimum wage hasn't increased), but the way inflation is measured is with a basket of common goods that serve as proxy for "co…