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Comment The future is here... (Score 1) 46

...but it's still being measured in imperial units.

which is supposed to have a .05mm resolution

Supposed to have? Is there any reason to think that it might not? All of the other specs seem to have been taken on trust, so why has this one been singled out?

Perhaps the writer was suspicious of these new-fangled millimeters. What's that in 1/256s of a inch?

Comment Re:Stockdale Paradox (Score 1) 158

I never doubted [...] that I would get out

When Collins asked who didn't make it out of Vietnam, Stockdale replied:

Oh, that's easy, the optimists.

Sounds more like it was the lapsed optimists. What is Stockdale's first quote, if not optimistic?

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

How do you "confuse" those two things?

Not really sure what life lesson I'm supposed to take away from this - stay optimistic, just don't set a deadline for it so you're never actually disappointed? If you get sent to a POW camp, don't think "I'll be out by next week," think "I'll be out before I die," because then if you are, great, and if you aren't, you won't know about it?

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