"We heard your feedback that our car's engine stops frequently, and we've now improved it to restart FASTER".

"We heard your feedback that our car's engine stops frequently, and we've now improved it so that we can replace the engine without destroying the stuff in the trunk"

I've been designing, building and selling embedded controllers for 25 years. I'd love to retire but my customers are still depending on me and I don't have enough business to hire and pay help. I attended a class for inspection, calibration and maintenance of airport weather stations a few years ago. Of the 12-15 people attending, there was only one person under 50 at the class.

I have a PDP 8/L in storage that I'd like to restore. I bought it around 1980 at at the time it would run a simple keyed-in program to rotate a bit in the AC. I'd like to get it going again and at least running FOCAL before I die.

A Cold War relic.

No mention of SEER or COP so no idea of efficiency. R-410a, the go-to modern refrigerant fluid has an extremely low environmental impact and is used to build reasonably priced heat pump systems with COP's (coefficient of performance) greater than 3.8.

We need to remove 2 billion tons of CO2 per year. At $100/ton, 200 billion dollars is "affordable"? How is that going to work?

Followed by an anouncement by Jordan Pederson that the helium shortage can best be solved by cleaning your room and not using prefered pronouns.

Real basic question. I'm going to assume trace amounts, which is mildly interesting but won't solve the helium shortage issue.

I pay for the premium version of Youtube only to find the majority of content I watch has embedded ads. As my wife said this morning, "Google is worse than Microsoft ever was".

If someone could have made the referenced article any more difficult to read?

I've been designing computer hardware for about 40 years. ANY hardware design that allows a program to damage or corrupt memory is just flat wrong.

Forced diversity hiring has resulted in lower standards and competence. Many good controllers with years of experience have quit or retired early because of this.

"The series uses photons — tiny particles that travel at the speed of light [...]" Or waves...

This. I've seen electricity go from $100/mo to $300/mo, fire insurance from $1500/yr to $6000+/yr, gas $3+/gal to $5+/gal, propane $1.50/gal to $3+/gal, etc, etc.

The Supreme Court operates with a rather rigid code of ethics. It's just not the same as yours.

The fact that you can't perceive the difference is a little disturbing.