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Comment Re: Not much of a homecomputer (Score 1) 106

Nice article on Ken Shirriff's blog on the Beaglebone Black: http://www.righto.com/2016/08/pru-tips-understanding-beaglebones.html

These remind me a bit of the SPUs on the Playstation 2. Lots of real-time bang for the buck, although not necessarily helpful for n00bs who are just starting to get into the SoC scene.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 220

I really don't see why people hate the old "press 1 for x, 2 for y..." type decision tree. It's not that hard to navigate and you can easily map the decision tree to find what you want.

Because it replaced a human switchboard operator who was trained to route you instantly to the person you wanted to reach.

Comment Re: Seat belts? (Score 1) 345

First, imagine a car shaped like a rectangular prism -- i.e., a shoebox -- hitting a brick wall at 100 MPH.

Imagine that the brick wall is paper-thin and absolutely indestructible. You can't push it or crumble it or penetrate it or bulldoze it. If you hit it, you WILL stop in a distance equal to however far you are sitting from the front of your car.

Then, separately, imagine two such cars hitting each other head-on at 100 MPH each. A 200 MPH collision, right?

Now, imagine both of those cars hitting opposite sides of the same wall at the same time.

How are the dynamics any different if the wall isn't there at all?

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 261

Emoluments clause violations, for one thing. No room to debate that at all. The Repubs would have screamed bloody murder if Obama had rented golf carts to his own Secret Service detail.... but then, to be fair, Obama was black.

As for the Russia stuff, we'll just have to wait and see what develops. We've been fed a lot of confusing lies about meetings, people, and events that we're told were totally legit. There's plenty of smoke but no fire. It's hard to breathe, and the thermometer on the wall is pegged out at 130 degrees, but I'm sure it's just an A/C malfunction.

Then there's the interesting matter of $50,000 paid out of Cohen's bimbo management fund for "tech services" that no one including the bimbos in question seems to know much about. I guess there was enough cash left in the slush fund to upgrade all his office computers to Windows 10, huh. That must be it.

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