That was tried before 1972. The frequent adjustments of the length of the second became cumbersome to track, so the in 1972 the switch was made to the current system of constant length seconds with leap seconds to keep UTC tracking the rotation of the Earth..

That's very interesting.

To support negative leap seconds you can insert one second of black on normal days, two seconds of black on days with a positive leap second, and no seconds of black on days with a negative leap second.

That won't work because the rotation rate of the Earth is not uniform. No matter what you pick for the length of the second, the Earth will not always turn in 86,400 seconds.

My 2018 Nissan Leaf gets 5 km/kWh in the winter, 8 in the summer. Unlike the cybercab it is driven manually and has room for four in addition to its turnk space.

We are witnessing the birth of Skynet.

Was your previous car a hybrid?

In the year 2000 I bought a Honda Insight, an early hybrid. I was surprised to find that it had start-stop: when I stopped at a traffic control signal it shut off the motor, then started it up instantly when I pressed the accelerator. A few times the driver of the car in the adjacent lane looked startled when the sound of my motor stopped.

The Insight had wonderful fuel economy. I once got 73.5 miles per gallon on a 109.4-mile stratch of Interstate 90.

I used that car as my daily driver until 2018, when I traded it in on a Nissan Leaf, an electric car, which I drive today,.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

It is hard to draw this line in a way that does not open the door for the rich and powerful to suppress speech they don't like. If I do line-wrapping on your text, but leave the individual words unchanged, is that an alteration? What if I add a footnote that exposes a lie?

Remember that a rich person does not have to win a lawsuit--he can drag out the proceedings to the point that you are unable to continue defending yourself. Even if you are eventually exonerated, the process is punlshment enough to deter others from doing what you did. Section 230 provides an early out in such cases.

While that is true, I come close to being able to express my ideas on the internet without getting permission from a corporation. My web site is on a computer in my home. I depend on my internet service provider, but unless they monitor my web site directly or break TLS 1.3 they don't know what I am saying. I depend on a company to host my A DNS record, but they also host my MX DNS record, which is needed for e-mail. I don't use a content delivery service: when you access my web site the information is send to you directly from my home.

Of course, my greatest protection, which almost everybody shares, is that nobody who is rich and powerful cares what I say.

Marie Antoinette says: Tell them to use EMACS.:

Roosevelt spoke these words in Kansas City on May 7, 1918, no doubt in part to justify his extreme criticisms of President Woodrow Wilson, whom he excoriated for moral flabbiness, for high sounding words unmatched by action, and for not preparing the people of the United States for entry into World War I.

I hope you checked the answer. AI can give excellent-looking but totally false results.

When I was at DEC code reviewing was not limited to the senior software engineers--we all did it, both as reveiwers and reviewees. I enjoyed the process, probably because it let me demonstrate my skills to my peers.