Ford built a Fiesta with a two-stroke engine that achieved 1.4l/100km (that’s 168 mpg!) in 1996! Not a drawing. Not a experimental model. No, a real driving prototype car. Looked just like a normal Fiesta.
I don't believe you. If anyone could make a 168 mpg car without some show-stopping problem with it, they'd be making it now. I think someone pulled that claim out of their ass, and it got copied without citation between editorials and blog comments for awhile.
Not if you have an "ASCII" file you are trying to read on Windows that has Unix newline conventions. Try opening a newlined file with notepad, for example.
As far as I can tell, the problem is entirely unique to notepad. Every other text editor I've ever tried handles files with Unix-style newlines correctly. Since it would be trivial to fix Notepad, I can only assume that Microsoft either doesn't care at all about Notepad, or is deliberately leaving the incompatibility in place to discourage use of Unix.
Capacity for delusion is only a problem because of scoundrels looking to make a dishonest dollar by exploiting said capacity.
That statement is entirely false. Self-deception, both on an individual and societal level, frequently leads to bad consequences, even without anyone trying to exploit it; and believing that all the blame for such consequences falls on scammers is absolving your responsibility to try to dispel delusions and see the truth.
And how do we differentiate between elites and retards? Remember that for years we were told that all the brightest mathematicians and physicists were now working on financial derivatives because only "rocket scientists" could understand them.
We differentiate between them by requiring them to have their research published and subjected to peer review. The financial sector preferred to keep secrets rather than publish and never had any peer review, so when they thought they had the brightest mathematicians and physicists, they were only fooling themselves.
Now, we have things that are designed specifically to try and hit the sweet spot between durability and cost
by that definition, my walmart deck lounger is the most precisely engineered piece of equipment in the history of mankind. Whenever I sit down, I feel like it's half a hamburger away from catastrophic failure. (that's one croissant in metric units)
And it *is* precisely engineered. There's always a tradeoff between cost and durability, and shopping at Walmart means strongly favoring low cost. It's as sturdy as possible for its price; the problem is that you didn't pay enough.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.