No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.

Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?

Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.

(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)

Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?

Notion is really only valuable as a memory/brain for Claude these days. It actually excels at that when used properly. I was also annoyed by their gmail/calendar inetgration though. It really wanted to take over the inbox and tag things how it wanted. I just didn't understand the point of it.

Micron started a new fab at their HQ in 2024 and it's barely halfway built. They have another one going up somewhere on the east coast also. They take years to build and many billions of dollars. They don't go up over night.

I worked at Micron for almost 9 years and have seen the fabs being built. Its not small feat.

Embrace stupidity, get tired of winning.

I've got the impression that blowing your nose hard would push mucus into the sinuses. But it's hard to avoid blowing altogether. If I'm badly blocked, I start with neti to get things flowing better. In fact I do Neti every morning anyway, but you can do it a few times a day if needed.

Clearly someone was boned to build an inference engine in 9 months. Training might take a while, but it'll be way more flexible than any GPU.

I recently watched a documentary on the British space program, and I recall someone saying something like "this project needs more engineers and fewer boffins". So "boffin" is specifically a scientist in an ivory tower, much like "egghead" in US slang.

I don't think Microsoft will let something as trivial as primality to get in the way of their quantum computing research. REAL men can roundhouse-kick any number into factors if they so desire.

"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (1995)

REAL men kept a web diary before the word "blog" was coined. OTOH, if "blog" means something where others can comment on posts, then to me Slashdot is the original "blog", again a couple of years before the word.

I see you registered here 3 minutes before me. I remember when this place was hosted in Robs dorm room.

The Digital Euro isn't just another payment network. It's money issued by the European Central Bank, and so private banks cannot inflate it via fractional reserve lending. This is one reason why private banks oppose it. To me, it sounds like a welcome step back from debt-based money.

Yes. There's no reason to force people who don't want one to buy one.

Just don't buy these crappy licenses. Retro-gaming is booming for a very good reason.

And, if you're looking for another reason not to buy -- the way hardware prices are going, retro emulators are probably all we'll be able to play soon because nobody will be able to afford the GPUs and RAM needed to play the next wave of new release games anyway.

Like it doesn't make any sense. What does "ownership" do?

All software is licensed.