Start with Eisenhower. He was quite the religious man. Helped bake âoeIn God We Trustâ

That not withstanding his contribution to operation Overlord.

I wonder how Cerebras is handling all of this? Seriously... a single wafer-sized chip with 850,000 cores.

The bill isn't talking about bandwidth - it's talking about data usage.

For those of you playing at home...
Bandwidth has to do with the size of the pipe - soda straw, garden hose, fire hose, municipal water main.
Data usage (what the bill is about) is did you fill up a teacup, bathtub, swimming pool.

Yes, the two are related, but are orthogonal and to each other.

As others have pointed out, sustainable bandwidth over a given period of time is the limiting factor for data usage.

I would like to have the billing where the lower the bandwidth, the easier (cheaper) it is to get unlimited data usage. With the FCC's definition of 'high-speed internet' being, by law, unlimited. So, if he FCC says 100MBs is the minimum speed - 100MBs, and under, is unlimited data usage. All plans have a minimum of 1TB usage, and the FCC revisits these numbers, at a minimum, every three years.

PDP-11/94, while an awesome machine in and of itself, does not a mainframe make.

We did it with slide rulers and pencils because all we had were slide rulers and pencils. Agreed not everyone needs a PhD in astrophysics, but everyone should have a solid understanding of the maths that underpin their chosen field. Be it an biologist (statistics), carpenter (trig), etc.

The biggest issue with university math departments - and this article exemplifies this - is that they teach students theoretical math rather than applied math. They looked down their noses as this effort not being worthy of their involvement. Fire the f*ck*ers for not doing their job. Their job is to help prepare students with the tools needed for their chosen field. WTF does a biologist care about regurgitating the fundamental theorem of calculus for an exam when what they really need to know is how to estimate population growth/decline of large populations (insects, microbes, etc.) - things you can't count, but need to accurately estimate using calculus-based statistical methods.

Received a CS degree and math minor from a fairly well respected mid-size university. Calc I, II, III were required - and I've never touched them since. However, I use stats, discrete, combinatorics, number theory, graph theory on a daily basis.

And the Amiga was way more hackable than the MAC - published schematics, RKMs, etc.

I will, wholeheartedly, agree - that the Mac was the computer for people that didn't know they needed one. And in that respect, was brilliantly designed using the technology of the time.

I suggest folks here take a look at CuriousMarc out on YouTube - take a look at the Xerox Altar videos. There's a great demo video of the system's full capabilities. Yes, the system was big, clunky, etc. It was also a prototype. It was designed and built in the Mid '70's - out of TTL chips!. It is "the system" that Steve and Woz obtained licensing for to develop the Mac. If Xerox hadn't had the vision to develop the Altar, the Mac, Steve's legacy, and the world would be profoundly different today. Seriously, think of if IBM, Burroughs, Sperry, DEC, Group BULL, etc. had developed it as an actual product. Rather than Xerox wondering what to do with it.

Steve was a hustler, huckster, narcissist, hack, and marketing genius. Would the world have been better or worse with out him? Unknown. But it would definitely have been different.

> which look like millions of circles with differing diameters at the microscopic level.

wow... they learned to etch a detraction grating as a Fresnel lens. >thup thup thup ... sound of one hand clapping.

I seriously hope the USPTO doesn't grant a patent to a 200+ year old technology... but they will...

The way I think of it the six 'tastes' operate in kind of a six dimensional space. Think sliders on a mixing board, rather than the 3-space coordinate system used by L*a*b for color.
Similar to music, a dish may have all six simultaneously, and each harmonizes or is discordant against the others.

Accordingly, there are ways to 'trick' a taste. For example, bakers add some salt to sweet recipes as a little bit of salt will make the disk sweeter than the amount of sugar. It's not much around 1/4 t for a standard batch of cupcakes.

And let us not forget why we have taste - to find calories we need and avoid nasty things that could kill us. The it tastes good/bad stem from that perspective.

What? BA HA HA HA

Basically you're conceding control of the Gov't to business. Last time I checked businesses don't get a vote - and as such Citizens United should have gone the other way. Money does NOT equal speech.

By that logic: Intuit is right to screw everyone out of the $$ to efile their own taxes. I don't have to pay someone to efile my state taxes - the state (and not one of the more technically advanced ones, mind you) setup a really nice website where I enter in a bit of info, click a few buttons, double check my results and submit. All of 15 minutes.

Government is to serve the citizenry - it is not there to provide a hand-out*. If a business can do the work better, faster, cheaper, etc. including a profit? Great - let's hire them to do the work. If not, it's the Gov't fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers to do the work in-house.

* Note: There is a significant difference between a hand-out and hand-up. And, I agree, where that line is can be debated.

Ghawd - you jokers want to give away the lock-stock-and-barrel with no idea what you have, who your giving it to, or getting any sort of reasonable compensation in return.

...as an influencer in today's computer driven world up there with:

Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Robert Metcalfe, among others. It's not that he had the biggest, nor best - but what he did was lay a very solid foundation for others (e.g. Woz) to, quite literally, build upon.

My first computer was a Vic-20 w/ a Datasette.. then on to C=64, C=128, Amiga 2000 before switching to Intel in the early '90's. Man, I loved those old 8-bit machines. Very much like an old points-and-condenser ignition system. Maybe not the fastest 2-banger on the block, but it's all right there, very visible for inspection.

RIP Chuck - my hat's off with a moment of silence to you and your family.

It has the lowest information density, but awesome tolerance for printing with crappy technology (read: flexo).

That concept spawned dozens of different 1d symbologies (Code 39, Code 128, PostNet, etc.).

The trifecta - Samuel Morse --> Norman Woodland --> George Laurer should be enshrined in the "Hall of people that came up with really cool shit that became so ubiquitous that no one notices it anymore."

Beanies off, hand over pocket protectors, and slide rules set to ln (natural log) in honor of Mr. Laurer.

Damm... frick's scientists found my stash. Now where am I going to hide it so the dumb-ass humans don't go blowing it like Scarface?

No, the cause *is* the problem. The cause is too much human produced "stuff" that makes the Earth's atmosphere retain too much heat energy.

Costs of creating the zillion or so sun shields, of which only a small percentage (under 25%) that are doing any meaningful work at any given time, clogging up satellite orbits, and adding to tracking... you're sitting at close to L1 costs. You'd be better launching the zillion little sunshields to L1 than any NEO.

Yea, a neet SiFi idea - but a foolhardy, wasteful, costly boondoggle.

Read this quote with regards to someone's (a rather right-wing Republican) lamenting that he could / should have done more to help ensure law abiding folks are able to purchase/own, etc., and keeping them away from folks that really shouldn't have them. I think it's very appropriate in the realm of climate change.

There are two perfect times to plant a tree. 20-years ago. And now.

Basically - if you didn't do it 20 years ago, doing it now is still a good option.

What other language contains the beauty of both RPN style programming and the ability to draw a Bezier curve?

Great language... actually a lot more powerful print language than PDF (yes, I know PDF isn't a language you pedantic insensitive clod!)