50 years of shutting down American manufacturing has ensured that strategy is no longer viable for us. The US is a tech and service economy, and there is no way to go back in time without racing to the bottom of the world economically.

A chip that I played with a long time ago can only be programmed through 32-bit register access (limitation of the ARM bus). The address space for I/O peripherals can run out quickly and it's a hassle to move or expand them later. So a lot of small values get tightly packed into the register map. Here's one used for filter coefficients for the display.

Horizontal scaling filter is a 6-tap filter with 4-bit positional phase.
* Coefficients 0 and 5 are 3-bit signed value ranging from -4 to 3.
* Coefficients 1 and 4 are 5-bit signed value ranging from -16 to 15.
* Coefficients 2 and 3 are 8-bit unsigned value ranging from 0 to 128.
* Coefficient 0 is the multiplier for the earliest pixel (P0) in the group of 6-pixel and
* Coefficient 5 is the multiplier for the latest pixel (P5) in the group. The output pixel positional phase is defined as centered in P2 if the positional phase is 0 or proportionally in between P2 and P3 if the positional phase is larger than 0.

(source: 29.10.2 DC_WINC_A_PALETTE_COLOR_EXT_0)

Great news for Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. They have a vibrant tech culture and it will suddenly get a new influx of labor that can bring about a lot of profit for many businesses.

Trump is playing a loser's strategy at globalization. Ultimately the stakes for him personally are low. But your average working class American is going to be hit hard when the money dries up for the fastest grown and fourth largest industry by revenue in the US, the information technology industry.

The system seems kind of ridiculous to me. I had a score of 850 back in June, and lost 24 points when I applied to get prequalified for a mortgage so I could put together an offer letter for a house.

Why? Because AI is the wave of the future. It's about capturing users and market share.

Do users actually want any of this? No. Because it's not a useful feature to any of us users.
But users are going to tolerate almost anything to have a free web browser.

I must be a defective American. I don't understand why so many people tolerate ads in their Smart TV, on their Kindle sleep screen, in their children's classrooms, and now on their rather costly appliances. I don't even like having ads on paid TV or streaming services. Or ads on my web browser (that's MY bandwidth you're streaming video w/ audio ads to)

It's a twisted idea that every activity in life has to be related to marketing and commercialized. Some kind of hyper-capitalism, where we double down on consumerism in order to continue feeding the machine, despite the diminishing benefits.

The so-called Leftists aren't the ones that literally states they were going to start a civil war if they can't have their way. Out of the mouths of both Vance and MTG only a few months ago, but part of the conversation on the Right for many years. https://www.vice.com/en/articl...

The vast majority of us in America wish to work our differences peacefully and move on with our lives. Most of us know that war is not romantic. It is costly in money and lives, and clearly won't make our streets safer.

A lone gunman shows up and murders a man that is unpopular with half of America. Rather than questioning guns, the victims politics, the university's security, or chalking it up to bad luck. You have extremist going on a crusade to blame half of America for a death they had nothing to do with.

Memory of a gold fish.

I'm into that drug from Robot Cop 2.

Having an expensive feature to show off then never using it does seem to check out for a certain kind of Apple user.

(Puts a sheet pan of halved peppers in the broiler.)

I'd been trying to quit my air addiction and switch to traditional water breathing, but now I'm finding out that water breathers like coral aren't going to survive a warmer planet.

Fingerprints all over your screen? Gross!

Actually I have two PC laptops with touchscreens. I disabled them when I moved to Linux because they are not useful to me and it's too easy to bump them when closing the lid. (and on Linux there was a bug where the touch screen was still active when using an external display - sending your mouse cursor screaming all over the desktop)

Municipal owned broadband options ought to be the priority for the state. Make sure everyone benefits, not just a tight-fisted handing of crumbs to the poor.