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For that long and "bloody-minded" an eradication effort, in so small an area (100m long, 30m deep) - it seems like it'd have been far quicker and cheaper to (say) saturate the ground …

At least in my social set, "toddlers and adults are about the same - except the adults mostly have filters [between their feelings and their words/actions] and the toddlers mostly don't…

I would bet that TSMC's competitors are similarly investing in new fabs. But TSMC is feeling a greater need to publicize its investments.

Yes. But to judge by this list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... - the situations in India and Japan are very different. (The list shows only 4 …

One could very similarly argue that the US needs to have a great many things - most of them far, far simpler than a fab - on-shore. Unfortunately, the US seems uncaring. If not oblivious.

Given the obvious issues - neigh-zero upside, massive downside - with open reviews of such a book...why in the world did Amazon ever allow them???

> On the other hand, I have no idea how long I will be able to continue to make money from my bots as it continues to become more competitive. +10 to this bit (if I could). Very generic amateur a…

If you are a fairly-serious aerospace, history, or military equipment buff, then allow 2 days for the USAF Museum. It's very good, and it's huge.

Kinda similar is "scaling restriction" - how true it is that "you have the right to do X" means that "you have the right to do X, repeatedly, at scale, and/or automated&q…

How about this? - For those who want a nice, old-fashioned bank - which can be trusted to keep your money safe - we require that the brick-and-mortar banks offer "1960 Versions" of their a…

Is this only news "because Tesla"? User jcims mentioned Ford's having the same feature. Probably GM's do, too. For years, I've seen occasional news stories about car dealer…

My experience in MI* is that a fair number of stores can be rather sticky about returns - "we don't sell that brand", "did you buy it here?", "come back when the machine …

Closely monitoring former managers as they manufacture license plates seems perfectly reasonable to me. Though some might quibble over the "employee" part...

True. But very often mommy & daddy - who write the checks for college tuition - expect the college to change his (metaphorical) diapers. And never dish out serious consequences for their failure…

Drat. One of our clients at $Day_Job is a laboratory - subject to arbitrary (from their viewpoint) rules for certifications, etc. If the certifying agency says "round this value to 3 decimal pla…

This. If "work [...] as a freelancer" means that you are not their employee, and they need the legal fiction that you normally have other 'clients' who you freelance for... If …

My cynical opinion - it doesn't have the emotional "hooks" that Haiti (very close to the U.S., mostly Black, etc.) or Palestine (U.S. / European involvement via Israel) have. And …

Assume that you'll be in a group - some other members of which will be more optimistic than you.

Any particular sources? From a quick web search, it sounds like hydrogen has a very different energy density (Joules/cu. m., or BTU/cu. ft., or whatever), very different combustion and leak…

In a world which contains huge, systematic lab screw-ups (such as the FBI Crime Lab scandals), is there good reason to believe that 23andMe is particularly reliable and competent? Vs...one of our cli…

A perhaps-stupid question: Does the software involved attempt any real classification of objects in its field of vision? Or is it a neural network - where all sorts of "interesting" things…

Well...I see "keep the Earth at least (say) 80% as habitable as it currently is" as an "absolute must-do" engineering requirement. Praising progress already made, proclaiming fait…

We are talking about the behavior of a species which repeatedly hunts extremely valuable prey species to economic extinction, builds houses and raises children on the slopes of smoldering volcanoes, e…

My n=1 - A Dell system, "16GB max memory" (Dell) vs. "32GB max memory" (web sites of some leading 3rd-party memory manufacturers). The latter seem to be correct. Both Windows 10 …

What a sad culture-wars-meet-public-health mess. Idea - a non-profit, lead by a few high-profile celebrity hunters, which pays the cost of some "free upgrade to lead-free ammo" coupons that …

Yes - kinda like (horribly poisonous) chlorine gas is part of table salt.

The old "He who has the gold makes the rules" trick works even better when those without the gold only get to learn the rules when & where convenient to those with. Or they have to give…

If the issue is health & safety, and the dangerous failure mode is pretty rare - then how much time should be spent in validation, testing, etc. - to make sure the fix you rush out the door ASAP d…

I would not trust things like `ls -sf` to be thread-safe either. For shell scripts, a reasonable approach is to use a (correctly implemented) lock file at the start, then a bunch of `test` (aka `[`) b…