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Comment Re:How to make an e-Ink display (Score 2) 36

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: 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 IEEE is horribly under-informed (Score 1) 168

The company I work with can easily ramp up satellite production to the scale required. It's one of the reasons I got hired, my extensive manufacturing experience in electronics and solar and power systems pairs perfectly with the requirements.

Perhaps the IEEE should spend some actual time with the companies that already have some of this hardware in orbit, with more going up soon.

Comment History rhymes once again (Score 4, Interesting) 94

Years ago, when I worked for Generous Electric, some brilliant CFO decided the way to cut costs was to offer early retirement with a generous package to get rid of expensive engineers. All the senior engineers I worked with spent their days justifying why they should get a package, and ultimately they did. Six month Slater tehy were rehired when GE discovered they were the only ones that really understood how to fix the systems when they broke, since they had years of experience doing just that. The upshot was they kept all their retirement package benefits plus got those of a full time employee.

Comment Re:They are only cheating themselves (Score 1) 52

who said I know the material I just have trouble adding and subtracting...

At which point you should be slapped and your engineering creds revoked. Because that's where you break out your HP (calculator) and do all the addition and subtraction (using RPN, you are in engineering, right?) on it.

As I said, I'm an aeronautical engineer. Close is good enough, 6 is close enough to 4 for large values of 4, and in case, it'll still fly... If it doesn't just add bigger engines. As I told my accounting prof, I'll just hire an accountant (and I did).

Everyone should be comfortable with a basic HP-12C. Fancy people have an HP 48, 49, 50, and even an HP Prime.

Mine is an HP45. Later got an 41CV. RPN means never having family borrow your toys...

Comment Re:They are only cheating themselves (Score 1) 52

I would have loved to hear "tests are pretty useless" 40 years ago -- I was terrified of tests, and scraped through university.

I got 10% on one mid-term, which earned me an interview with the VP Academic of the university, who was also the prof. He grilled me on the material (thermodynamics), and I did just fine. He said, "You seem to know the material -- do you just not do well on tests?", and I said, Nope, never have. His answer: "Huh."

I had to continue to write exams, and continued to do poorly. I would have been thrilled to have a one-on-one session instead of an exam.

Yea. A number of my engineering profs offered an oral exam vs a test if you wanted it. Later in grad school, they didn't and one class (accounting) I did poorly on tests (I'm an engineer, close is good enough for airplanes) and would go over tehste with my prof, who said I know the material I just have trouble adding and subtracting...

Comment Re:We need them, but (Score 1) 242

Honestly there is so much room around Comanche Nuclear (it has a massive man made reservoir instead of using river water) they could easily expand it to 4 or 6 units without much issue.

One reason Vogtle added two was the original site analysis called for four units so they didn’t have to get a site approved. I suspect, ifvthey do build these plants, most if not all will be built on existing sites that were licensed for more units than they built.

Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 1) 72

I'll say the obvious: because we all know that ChatGPT is used constantly for cheating. I'm no fan of this paid cheater, but 3 years of prison for that is stupid. Tax evasion? Sure. Scam? Fuck no. Sounds like the university be bad at Englishing.

I'm guessing the three years wasn't for the cheating but the money laundering and unauthorized computr access, the cheating was just a by product of those crimes.

Comment Re:Gotto work on that math (Score 1) 73

> Cook likened the memory shortages to a hundred-year flood. "I've never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years," he said.

100 or 40, which one is it Tim?

Both. The hundred year flood is a rare event and he hasn’t seen it. Just because it is a hundred year flood doesn’t mean it happens every hundred years.

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