Regarding why she is still there under Biden, read the Wikipedia page on how they are appointed. It's a bipartisan, staggered term structure. Financial reg agencies tend to be that way. As for why Obama first nominated her when he needed to fill a Republican seat, I don't know, but she wasn't confirmed at that time.

Cincinnati is CVG not CIN.

GAU "Größter Anzunehmender Unfall" (worst possible accident, German)
https://acronyms.thefreedictio...

I wonder if James Cameron uses machine learning in his software. This would be a good use case for it, as opposed to writing poetry or anything intelligent. Or deciding humanity's fate! (War Games came out almost the same year as Terminator.)

TFA says theaters "slow to upgrade," but seems unlikely this would only affect Japan. And why isn't the software smart enough about capabilities to degrade?

As for the film, I seem to be almost the only one who doesn't find the CGI of walking and moving natural. I did see one comment that it's motion capture badly interpolated from planes. I would be super interested to hear from a dance critic, rather than a CGI critic.

The plot, well his plots have always been emotionally simple. The storytelling was usually page-turner compelling though, maybe he's lost that. I saw Term 1 in the theater and just sat there, and watched it again. Didn't like Term 2. Did like the TV show with Summer Glau. Even liking Term 1, the time travel to copulate thing was just shy of ridic. The LA 1980s dance floor and headphone sex was pretty and wry. Jump to Titanic and teenagers are streaming out of the theater in floods of tears as I sat watching the credits.

Many people recommend Dances with Wolves. The New World (2005, Malick) is another challenging take on the subject, if imperfect. Absolutely beautifully crafted. It was somewhat ignored, I think people found the lead actor too emo.

The only technical downside of lasers is that many old ones, HP LaserJet4 or whatever, can't print full-page graphics. The entire page has to reside in memory, and there's not enough.

Most people and small offices should have B&W laser and send out color.

Instant film printers are popular some places, Canon and Fuji make them, some built into inexpensive cameras. No ink at all, just a Polaroid-type paper cartridge. Selfy stuff at the low-end, maybe better at the higher end.

I read it for the articles.

* appreciate

CL uses some traditional design principles: notice it's divided into three columns, and the center column is subdivided into three columns.

I appreciated its commitment to lack of ornamentation and density of information, but fine design can be pleasing too. The worst of both worlds is probably something like Amazon or the backend Wordpress Dashboard. Wikipedia is slightly better than average.

The reigning monarchs of javascript overload were, for more than a decade, newspaper sites. Often the js bandwidth was greater than the image loads, due to multiple ad networks. (I'm no longer on dialup so not so sensitive to it, not checking the network traffic.) It's ironic, since printed newspapers evolved to follow pretty strict design standards. In mathematical science publishing, you start to appreciate the traditions of typography: every kern has to be right or it looks wrong. But newspapers learned to do completely without bold or italics. Many have degraded in design now, excluding the top few.

Another advantage of CL design is that it is unique and distinctive, at this point.

As long as it can handle unicode, it's fit to purpose (hint). And the editor works well (contra Reddit).

Perhaps people feel like the Fecers are less anonymous so safer to do business with. Or just shinier. Or it's convenient for people who spent most of their online time in FB.

Didn't CL cut down on whatever community topics are hard to moderate? Quick look, seems they're still there.

CL is a good place to see some hard facts on the job market, as opposed to the wishful view engendered by more curated sites.

*as opposed to

(Solar of course is pure physics. The cells are reversed diodes, light-absorbing and opposed to light-emitting, all based on semi-stable electron shells - err, clouds - which make no sense without the quantum integer nature of reality at that scale.)

(Turbines are amazing machines, one of the places where physics meets engineering in a proven fashion. We all know it from flying, but I visited an old style coal-fired power plant. The entire floor for the steam generator was occupied by a turbine about 60 feet long, alone on a gigantic empty floor. The old style metal switches and transformers crammed onto the floor below were denser than any action-movie-in-an-industrial-plant. And the boiler next door was 15 stories high, attached to a 1/4-mile duct to two smoke stacks. And it was one of the smaller plants on the Ohio River. Nuke plants are at an even greater scale, with something like 25% of the power produced going to cooling. The total cost calculations on solar manufacturing might not match up against that scale, though they make tasty soundbites for the anti-solar crowd - I don't know. The true delusion is that we can air condition our way out of this. We need breezy houses and apartments with trees and smaller families, and a new FDR New Deal with bright line regulation of the private sector and public investment on the scale of Europe or Asia's railways, but instead our delusions multiply.)

Probably the best comment here. But I'll follow up with a probably ridiculous one. I would like one of these on my roof (pumped storage with turbine): https://www.sciencedirect.com/...