I'm just super impressed that he could generate any kind of video at all with his VIC-20.

Make sure that you thoroughly review and test the design of the cylinder head bolts.

The big question is not whether they've got bunch of real and potential orders right now. It's whether they're actually going to get paid for all those orders when all is said and done. (And a circular chain of IOUs doesn't count.)

"I think a lot of us hoped for a much more balanced and measured approach."

I think a lot of R voters in '24 had a short memory to even hope for anything either balanced or measured from this administration, particularly since it had no incentive to deliver either. Though to be fair, a lot of D leadership also had a short memory in '24, in that coronating a Presidential candidate did not fare well when the candidate was well-qualified, so trying it again with a less qualified candidate was a bit eye watering. There was plenty of blame to go around for that snafu, but all of it landed squarely in-house.

Anyway, hopefully the new congress hits the ground running, a la Trump in '25, focusing on exercising their authority over the purse and passing legislation to deliver results and constraining the executive. If they're too timid to do that, it will be yet another bloodbath in '28. Impeachment is a red herring -- Vance would be just as bad, or worse (since he's actually competent), and the opportunity costs of focusing on impeachment are just too high right now. Draft censures and file lawsuits to set the stage for later criminal prosecutions once this administration is out of office, but above all, exercise the considerable legislative authority vested in congress, and put more checks on the executive -- through amendments if necessary. The time is now.

I know you are but what am I?

I have been using ScreenFloat (and similar tooling) for decades; those are more useful than this because it works on every application and not just the browser.

It's quite possible I am missing something from their demo, but based on what they show: 1) it's just for Firefox; and, 2) it's really kind of a pain in the ass to use.

How much has your government money grown in that time?

A more pressing issue for the DoE is that Google is still using proscribed alternative terminology for SI.

Campuses are nice. They have tree-lined quadrangles, old ivy covered buildings, cozy pubs and stately houses. They're especially appealing in the current fall season, and they bring back fond memories.

This change will make data centers much more welcome in our communities. I have one other suggestion for the AI companies: They should put together a football team for each site. That would really bring about a festive atmosphere.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

If we build it, then it will frictionlessly tell us what to build.

This reminds me of a segment I saw about 15 or 20 years ago on a show called "How It's Made" that played on a channel like the Discovery Channel (before all cable became reality TV).

The segment was "How CRTs are Made". I was kind of surprised that CRTs were still being made, but I was especially surprised by the fact that they appeared to be American workers in the factory. They were doing everything pretty much by hand with no automation, and they were making some rather skinny looking CRTs. The show never elaborated on what the CRTs were for, but they sure didn't look like TVs.

I dug into it a bit after that using some clues I noticed in the show, and found out that these were cockpit displays for F15s or similar military aircraft. It's probably an item that you just don't go changing the specs on, and they understandably aren't going to farm out to TCL. I can't imagine how much each one cost, though. And I certainly wouldn't try to rack it up as a "win" for any of GWB's or Obama's trade policies.

Who's going to be able to scrounge up an extra 12KB of RAM in today's market?

It looks like if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

You keep using that word in the narrow terms of a computer programmer who just finished a training course where they drilled in the technical meanings of "authorization" vs "authentication".

However, a news article for the general public is not constrained by that context. The dictionary says that "authorization" in general is permission to do something. If you prompt an AI to do one thing with your bank account, then you didn't give it permission to do something else entirely, even if it got the logon credentials to do so. It wasn't authorized by you to do the other thing.

Here's another example: It's wartime and you got drafted. Usually you're not allowed to kill people, but the government handed you a gun and you're now authorized to kill enemy soldiers. That doesn't mean that you can just shoot your comrade next to you in the trench. And you certainly can't make the claim "But I was authorized to shoot Corporal Smith. You gave me a gun, after all!"