The video was about hooking analog gauges into the analog outputs available on an Intel dev board. By that logic, they would be digital outputs just the same.

If you need rate of change, why not actually display rate of change?

The amusing thing, often times these distributors don't even own their own warehouses. They have them built and outfitted to their specs, then sell them to and lease them back from an investment firm.

No one who's qualified should ever compete in these, because they're not for people who are qualified. They're for engineering students to get some hands on practical experience, and maybe come up with some novel ideas along the way.

I admit, I did not read that far down. The first few paragraphs mention the GSK program to develop one, but was only speaking in generalities about vaccines.

There is no vaccine. The article is merely expecting that vaccines will be ready for testing several months, and is questioning how the testing of those vaccines should take place when available.

No. The article is about how to do testing of a hypothetical vaccine that has not yet been developed.

No. Current solar absorption (accounting for albedo) is on the order of 50PW. By comparison, current peak world wide energy production is a paltry few TW. We're several orders of magnitude away from the point where our civilization's thermal output becomes a concern.

What vaccine? There is no vaccine? All we have is antiviral drugs that are effectively antibody supplements. In previous outbreaks, people have been cured by receiving blood (and antibodies) from someone who has already successfully fought off the infection. The drugs are basically just an artificially manufactured form of that. You don't run large volume production of an experimental drug for a virus that only has small outbreaks every few years.

When is it more important to do math in your head, when you're comparing several different cars for purchase, or when you're deciding whether you can make it to the next gas station or should stop at this one?

This latest outbreak has already infected more than in the entire history of the virus prior to it. There hasn't been a great deal of effort, because there simply hasn't been a great deal of need. It takes time for labs to spool up against an outbreak, and the fact that new treatments are coming down the pipeline right around the same time the virus starts spreading to other countries is purely coincidence.

The trouble is that init is something that absolutely cannot fail, and the more dependencies you bring into it, the greater the likelihood you are going to have bugs and failures. It's a system in which increased capability is not necessarily a good thing.

Presumably there was some stipulation in the contract that GT Advanced would need to meet certain mechanical and volume requirements by a certain date. When they failed, contingencies in the contract included repayment of at least part of that seed money.

That's circular logic. You only have to worry about educating two generations out if you've already decided your project is going to take 50 years.

Well they were also threatening to break their modules off the ISS entirely, and use them as the core for their own new space station.