So Mungo was a blade runner too? “Mungo! Never kill a customer!”

If you have issues with HDCP, then get an HDMI splitter (stripper). They run about $10; but check the reviews to make sure it's a cheap model; not a fully compliant one. If you don't have HDMI, then you may also need an HDMI->component converter, which runs about $20. Then you'll need to spend $30 on cable management for the ridiculous rats-nest you'll have just made. I eventually gave up on this setup for my ancient (but decent) HD plasma set, and spent $400 on a 4k screen of similar picture quality, but with fewer headaches....

about 800,000,000 millionths of a dollar (I'm guessing).

Here you go. According to the link, Zn is about 75ppm and Li 20ppm in the Earth's crust.

The guy had an article about himself in the New Yorker. What have you done with your life?

I feel like I need an interconnect discussion on the relative merits of Thunderbolt and Lightning.

Hmmm. Either your town is full of clown cars (good for the environment) or the buses are mostly empty (bad). B-)

Bully: Is that a $35 set of headphones you're wearing?
Victim: Yes... [quiver]
Bully: I'll give you $42 for them, or you can just walk away without telling anyone! [Grrr!]
Victim: Erm, okay.

Senior hardware engineer:
Digikey lists 30 discrete blinking LEDs.

https://www.digikey.com/produc...

Cloud is an okay term: it means the same as "client server architecture", except no one knows where the servers are.

There are already more than 10k Alexa skills [1]. I'd prefer an AI that cuts it down to the 5 you need.

On the learning curve, I still haven't discovered how to get the local time your Alexa unit is in. In the end I made my skill get the time from a local web server, since the concept of time zones is still alien to Amazon. I'd describe the API as childishly bureaucratic.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...

I watched Passengers over the weekend. For all the bad reviews, I enjoyed it: sort of Space Odyssey meets WALL-E, with a touch of over-dramatic romance.

The "dying IRL" part is modestly plausible, as described by the movie. See for example the nocebo effect (and an entertaining IRL experiment here [Red].)

I only use DEs that have wobbly windows (e.g., KDE). Don't ask me why... maybe I feel subliminal guilt when I under-use my GPU?

Your head receives less than 10^-12W at 850MHz from the sun [1]. Your phone delivers probably 0.5W. So if you scaled the sun to match microwave radiation levels, then no, you'd be fried in a millisecond. B-)

[1] http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/prog... fig.1 at 1MHz bandwidth.