Comment Re:How to make an e-Ink display (Score 2) 35
That's not how this works. There are a few ways to send an image to the bare display, but HDMI isn't one of them. If you actually look up the item list from TFS you will see that.
You didn't expect them to actually explain how you could manufacture an e-ink panel starting with sand and some chemicals in your kitchen, did you?
Comment Re:Based on animal studies ? (Score 1) 78
FWIW, people for the most part evolved without cooking their food. We've been evolving since long before the dinosaurs.
OTOH, they didn't actually decide that "burnt food kills you", they decided that it increased some risks. I've never seen any evidence that this was wrong.
Comment Re:Rax the Tucking Fich! (Score 1) 167
Slippery slope fallacy, zzzzz. Plenty of stable nations are socialist-leaning.
Comment Tip: drink lots of water (Score 4, Interesting) 78
It's good for your system and forces you to move every 90 minutes or so. Just not before long meetings.
Comment Re: Rax the Tucking Fich! (Score 1) 167
Canada and Northern Europe are doing just fine. Better mental heath than USA by far.
Comment Re:"Yay" (Score 1) 167
> This isn't even a bubble.
I'm suggesting the "AI everywhere" is a bubble, space-server-farms is only an extension of it.
Comment Re: Rax the Tucking Fich! (Score 1) 167
> you might prefer Cuba, North Korea or (as of recently) Russia.
Argument-by-extreme-example. They are not even democracies. I'm not suggestion ending democratic rule.
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 214
But it's not just the multi-billionaires. It's the many more multi-millionaires that produce nothing but wedge themselves into every transaction.
Look at any product that can be bought from an American company or direct from China. That HUGE price difference is how much the American company is skimming off the top.
Comment Re:Names don't work for a global society. (Score 1) 30
I think it was actually a reference to Revelations, though IIRC, that was supposed to be a mark both on the forehead and on the wrist.
Comment Re:"That trick never works." (Score 3) 30
YOU might think of it as a boycott, but I think of it as "self-protection". I avoid Musk's products for self protection...that I also hope it harms him at least a trifle is a minor additional bonus...and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.
Comment Re:Context??? (Score 1) 29
What the fuck is a Oneplus or Oppo?
Let's figure it out together:
test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:5:14: error: expected expression before ';' token
5 | int x = 1+;
Apparently, Oneplus is a syntax error.
Comment Robbing Peter to pay Paul? (Score 1) 29
Though sending PROMISE to the moon would leave Perseverance and Curiosity -- both of which remain active on Mars -- without an Earth-based testbed, Isaacman thinks it would be worth it. "We've had years now of experience operating the two rovers on the surface of Mars,...
But the older that Perseverance and Curiosity get the more engineering baby-sitting they will need. Repurposing the test rover risks shortening their life. Judging the need based on the first half of Mars missions is insufficient. Past 50 people need a doctor much more often. Rovers are similar.
Comment Re:Ribosomes are awesome (Score 1) 59
Francis Crick calculated how long it would take for life to evolve from scratch, and concluded it would take longer than the earth has existed. In response, he developed the hypothesis of panspermia
Any such calculation is likely to be off either direction by a factor of about 10 such that the age of the Earth and age of the universe is not different enough to distinguish. And we don't know all the pathways to biogenesis such that estimating the early stages is a fuzzy art.
Panspermia is certainly a realistic possibility, as some microbes have incredible survival abilities.
Note that my early description didn't mention that the chemicals the intermediate-step proto-cells would consume and produce may be partial or full fuel for the subsequent stage(s), perhaps after being altered by the environment a bit. Having to rely on the environment to "adjust" the food supply may be why separate sub-microbes are necessary.
Comment Rax the Tucking Fich! (Score 2) 167
More evidence we need to tax the rich, they have way too much money and are chasing really stupid shit. After you have 20 yachts then #21 doesn't have the same ego kick, so you look for pie-in-sky investments.