It's an algorithm that does not view confidently feeding the user false information as a type of failure.

It's a case where doing nothing would have been better than this.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. ... How about a nice game of chess?

Too many old people (my age) still vote for that sort of campaign to work.

ideally you'd want to print aluminum oxide but I'd take some tough glass instead.
and if you make your chips outside of the crazy design, you are then stuck having to assemble a possibly impossible jigsaw puzzle.

No, I think in the far future there would be no point in doing traditional photolithography for a low performance consume device that's sub-100 TOPS could be a lower density chip-on-glass or flexi-chip design and much thinner than your typical substrate and packaging.

This is all supposition and armchair futurism on my part. I'm offering entertainment more than a serious solution.

I consider a free country to be one where the people govern. The absence of regulation is not a step towards freedom. But the removal of authority of a more representative government of the people is a step away from freedom.

This should be about state's rights. The modern interpretation of the commerce clause has gutted the Constitution. And instead of everyone living in a state were they have some potential representation of their regional demographic, we have a nation where only the ones that can afford to support 9 figure campaign budgets get a voice.

The hope of those that pull the strings of our government is that young men saddled with debt will fight our wars.

I had a 186 in my palm top. But building a fully IBM PC compatible with a 186 was impossible as the integrated hardware was different. You could run modified versions of MS-DOS on it and get the vast majority of programs working, just not 100% of them.

There are moving parts in all the cameras, you know, for being abot to focus.

There's throwing away working code, and there is hording old bits even though nobody is even testing them before making changes. Don't be a hoarder. And feel free to hand any important 486 code to any other GPL kernel project. Or switch to NetBSD for your 486 needs.

What is even better than being able to brag to your friends is to be able to complain to your friends and family. So this is the gift that keeps on giving.

To be fair, when Clinton and Yeltsin were running things, we thought the Cold War was finally over. We could focus on a new decade of globalization (a more palatable name for imperialism).

We had 20-30 to readdress the errors of the past adminstations but recall two things:
1. The media did not bring it up to the American people again
2. The legislature and political parties in the US did not make an issue of it.

Perhaps we pulled the wool over our own eyes. But it is useless to blame on leader or another for doing something we could have undone or improved over these decades.

Someone has to be on board to get shit done. It is how America has worked long before we were even our own country.

Until we can 3d print metal, glass, and silicon in situ. Then you just print it instead of assembling it, and possible within reach of an ambitious middle schooler when the printer technology is off-the-shelf. (So maybe when I'm 80)

Authoritarianism is available in many flavors throughout the world.

The best flavor is whichever one is most compatible with a nation's culture. And by compatible, I mean keeps them pacified. Here in the good old USA, we tend to go for an approach where the majority of people are certain they live in a free country and that nobody is trying to take everything away from them. (except for those rotten immigrants)