That's a pretty bad case of BDS you seem to have there. You should see a doctor about that. You know you have a problem when you start every sentence with "But Biden..."

"The bribe has to be big enough, or you just have to stroke his ego properly.."

The bribe has to be big enough, AND you just have to stroke his ego properly.

Nothing provokes rage from Trump like saying anything negative about him.

The M4 lacks a some important security instructions that are in X86 chips. So I have to use my old Intel Mac to compile certain code. The M4 can't do it.

Actually, *this* is capitalism. Deere tried to assert control over their machines in a way farmers didn't like. So somebody else is providing machines that don't include that control, and people who like that feature are buying his instead. Capitalism in its purest form.

Did...you just imply that Israel wants to conquer the Ukraine?

Wow. Just...wow.

And if he's trying to "pare" it, a small, sharp knife would probably work better.

I was just reading this comment on another social site:

"Any statement that starts with "No one would be stupid enough to..." is false."

Amazon: "That makes absolutely no sense. That would lose us money, not make us money."

You are heading down the right path.

A book that made things more clear for me is "Non uniform random variate generation" by Luc Devroye (https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~mascagni/Devroye.pdf).

The generation of different distributions can be done algorithmically, but the algorithms get to the core of the processes making the noise. E.G. 1/f noise can be made from summing many exponential decaying functions. Electrons falling in holes in silicon - same thing. So we have 1/f noise in silicon. The type of process determines the type of noise whether quantum electron events or rain or insects chirping.

While noise does emerge from quantum things, it also can emerge from higher level processes.

Claims of perfect randomness from quantum physicists are always wrong.

1) The claims rely on some detector being 50/50 (they never are), always detecting individual events (they often see multiple or none) .
2) Randomness amplification is a subfield of entropy extraction and it cannot give you full entropy (aka perfect randomness).

I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.

Tatooine 90210.

I would pay good money for Hope Classic. Han shot first, dammit!

Home assistant is your friend. There are multiple way of integrating control methods. Someone will write a home assistant integration for the Flipper one sooner or later.

I remember a time when any stupid idea that you could put ".com" on would get shit tons of investor money. The only thing it produced mostly was bankruptcies and the opportunity for small companies to buy needed equipment for pennies on the dollar. This AI craziness strikes me the same way. AI can be useful but it'll never be the "be all things", they rarely to live up to the hype. I've seen it too many times, the dotcom boom-bust, nano-technology, Ruby on rails; anyway COBOL had a good run.