I think you describe in the first part the difference between you and the others. You had the interest, and the aptitude. I'll bet you got an endorphin hit when you figured something out in your programming, and then a big one when something that took a lot of mental work finally did what you were trying to do.

Now things like Minecraft, or even writing AI prompts might get students with casual interest to have a little fun. But with the differing aptitudes plus interest, some will just be there for whatever academic need they have to fulfill. Because I've Sid for years that programmers minds work a little differently, and that we can't teach.

You are so correct. My experience, is that coding requires ability (aptitude) fueled by interest. And the coder's mind works a little bit differently than say, the person who wants to be an MBA.

As someone in the middle, I've watched people who will end up being really good programmers catch an endorphin buzz from solving programming problems. Others who spend their time hardly able to get past whatever incarnation of "Hello World" might be in use.

And it isn't that one group is smart and the other stupid. It's ability plus interest.

It is however, the reason why "Teach all kids to code" edicts aren't all that successful.

Dark matter is a placeholder. And it is unfortunately named, it doesn't have to be matter of any sort. Or it can be matter, but not "dark" for whatever definition of "dark" is

So what do you think? Is dark matter not possible to be everyday old not interesting matter, does it have to be something exotic and new?

So much this. I get modded down for daring to say it, but Europe has been content to sit back and stop innovating, and occasionally fining forcing others for strange reasons like the Apple iPhone connector.

Europe used to be a real leader in technological and science innovation, but no more. Can they be again? Well, they have the intellectual ability, but the mindset is going to have to change. I don't believe anyone has stopped them from having a manned space program.

Tell all of us about the difference between and explosion and deflagration, then come back and tell me the multiple levels of wrong I am, so wrong that you need to revert to Caps more for the "SO".

Take it up with an Astrophysicist, Scott Manley, and make certain you let him know he is "Wrong on SO many levels." Yes, he has explosion in the title, but he needs th clicks, and so many people have no idea what a deflagration is. He'll explain starting at 2:37 of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Time for a little education, homie. Explosion vs Deflagration. There is a difference. Let us start with deflagration. A deflagration is the propagation of a flame front at subsonic speeds. A deflagration can turn into an explosion if it is contained, but this was not contained - it came about as a ruptured vessel spewed its contents. Gasoline is a good example of deflagration. It is close to an explosion, but the flame front is not supersonic. In the neighborhood of 1 meter per second, but can be faster, but never supersonic.

On the other hand, an explosion is most often experiencing supersonic front speeds and the huge overpressure resulting from that Detonations that are moving at supersonic speeds. Rather impressive shock fronts. Stills show that the flame front is propagating at subsonic speeds. The wikipedia page I reference has some deflagrations - perhaps they look familiar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Consider being correct before you call others wrong. Otherwise, you just embarrass yourself.

When one falls into that weird category where some people call you far right, and others call you far left, that usually indicated a person who thinks about issues, and comes to a rational conclusion, rather than regurgitates what they are told they think. It speaks volumes about them, not who they accuse.

And those who follow their marching orders simply have to know that there is a twofold thing going on. Under the guise of sympathy for a tiny group of people, which is not a bad thing, they demand the destruction of normal life, where genetics confirms that there are males, and there are females. There is a small group of intersex people as well.

They demand that people believe absurdities. And as Voltaire accurately noted, "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” They aren't there quite yet, but their attempts to cancel out Seth Moulton is a starting point. Looking at his record, he holds pretty standard Democrat values (at least the values they once had) But his opinion that he didn't want biological men playing against women was a crime calling for the politics version of the death penalty.

His thoughtcrime? “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” ... “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

The irony is that the Democrats went out and proved him exactly right! Here's a sample of the New Democrat conform or be cast out rules https://www.wbur.org/news/2024...

As a person who has been involved in sports my whole life, I am firmly convinced that sports are a great thing for men and women. Sports are good at all levels and abilities. And despite the far left's mantra that men and women are identical in physical ability, they aren't. Men are stronger and faster (and as an Ice Hockey nerd, I can assure everyone that most men have a "beast mode" that most women do not) And women, when needs must, have a certain stamina that men do not have. I support off-road bicycle races these days, and the women lag behind in finish time, but unless injured, most all of them finish and not sag.

Sports are a wonderful thing for both men and women. I suspect this is just another thing that some on the far left want destroyed. It is very odd that the largely feminist holders of the Men should play on women's teams if they identify as a woman mantra are actively working to destroy women's ports, and doing it by enforcing the so called "tyranny of men".

Progressives, working very hard and diligently to get back to being non-progressive What to do? I have the solution, and is from a far left and feminist approved word. Change women's sports to "Menstruators sports".

We are fortunate that YouTube https://www.youtube.com/result... has become a repository saving the Warner Brothers genius cartoons. The whole idea that the weirdos have with being offended for other people that they actually know nothing about is terribly prejudicial about those they are being offended for. Working their way back to not being progressive again.

Side note: Youtube, under Cheryl Sandberg's rule, tried to enforce modern feminist mores. I even had an account suspended once, not for profanity or threats, but they tried to pull a moulton on me for having thoughtcrime. Since her leaving, YT has changed a lot. It isn't suspending men for sharing their stories or show banning them if they write about say, catching their wife cheating on them, or other things some groups might find offensive because thoughtcrime.

The reason? Possibly solipsism; the problem didn't affect them personally. Also some of the younger folks haven't lived through enough of these things to understand that it is not uncommon for Microsoft to do this sort of mass equipment killing quite often.

Perhaps not wanting to hear anything negative about their chosen OS - a lot of folks get a sort of Ford Versus Chevy mindset.

Finally, I'm pretty good at telling people things they don't want to hear, and there are a few who enjoy modding me down when they have the chance. Doesn't make me right all the time, but recounting experiences is usually truthful and it is hard to imagine lying about something like the regular trashing of equipment by Microsoft.

A lot of people think that just because a place might be generally open to the public, it does not make it a public place. Someone owns that gym, and it is their property. You record or even be there at their discretion. If they say don't record, then you record at risk of having your ass thrown out, and if you get belligerent about it, the police may have a chat with you.

In my present employ, I have that power. I don't exercise it often, and almost never about recording, but if someone decides they are going to record me, I will have the police escort them out posthaste.

Yes - Holy crap - your situation was definitely a lot worse - and more important than my struggles with the elimination of those drivers.

It is a game. Let's make it better than using one thing to refute me, after all, it would be pretty idiotic of me to say that absolutely 0 innovation happens within th borders of the EU.

Let's try this. Once upon a time, the countries that compose what is now the EU were leaders in innovation. And that is unquestionable. The literature is full of that fact. Many scientists and technologists were in pretty intense competition. Machinery, metallurgy, all manner of invention discovery and innovation going on.

Something happened, what was it? It is pretty obvious that that is not happening anywhere near the same rate as today.

Simply not having a car does not make a person carbon free. Now if they lived in a mud hut, walked everywhere they went, ate only raw food, made their own clothing - they'd be pretty darn close. Are you doing that?

I hope you aren't saying I'm making that argument. I'm all about cutting carbon. My point that probably got lost in this is that suing the major oil companies isn't going to be terribly productive.

Now yes, if we sued them and shut every oil company down, yes, that would really have a big impact on carbon emissions.

It would have quite the impact on the country that did that however.

Perhaps rather than the game that I'm playing is that the woman suing does not have clean hands, we might take another approach.

What will the positive outcome of this case be if she wins?

If this is an actionable case, every death that happens when it is really hot out will deserve a similar sentence.

If this is an actionable case, then what part did the oil companies play? What part did the coal companies play? Natural gas companies? Other countries? New companies, old companies. Planes, trains, and automobiles.

All that is guaranteed to be brought up at trial

There is plenty of blame to be spread around. Find the person with clean hands and let them throw the first stone.

Would we be clean if we never ever extracted oil or coal (why are people forgetting coal's part here?) from the ground?

Yes - we would be. Want to make that tradeoff? return to pre-industrial life? Or at least stop in 1824, when Joseph Fourier identified the greenhouse effect.

We are here. This is not good. We need to do something NOW! So since anyone not an idiot or a troll understands how we got here, what is the value of punishing only the oil companies by pecuniary extraction?

I tried all those - not certain why, but no worky. I'm not certain if windows itself is preventing it.

In Linux it is so easy. just enable the manufacturer and product number in terminal, and it goes out, grabs, and installs them. works for Prolific and FTDI, which replaced Prolific chips.

The interesting thing - at least to me - is absolutely ancient versions of USB-Serial adapters like the one that worked for my wife's Palm Pilot work just as well as the latest FTDI version - on Linux.

Can you find me a prolific chip driver? I can for Linux, haven't tried on MacOS, but a whole lot of devices I have are inoperative and will always be inoperative on Windows. Saddest one is a manufacturer that built a prolific chip into their SDR transceiver that Windows killed.

Note - there were counterfeit Prolific chips being put out by our friends in China. Apparently Microsoft decided that they should kill them all. On other OS' the counterfeit chips simply didn't work, so you knew you had a bad one.