Oh, also I have a pair of Coofandy 'business' drawstring pants. They're absolutely fucking comfortable and fit well.

"Yutianhome"

See there is the trick, find companies out there that actually TRY to be human sounding instead of just random grouping of letters and numbers. This is usually the first sign that you're more likely to encounter legit yet cheap product. Vevor is... eh kinda easy to remember and their product listing prices look more like what an actual manufacturer would be charging to retailers buying their stock.

It's a snowman, of course it has water...

True, but the internet assures those few are a force multiplier that enables the masses to bypass guardrails, just like radar detectors were created by those few fuckers and used by the masses to evade punishment for violating speed laws.

Exactly. No matter how much we learn, we still waste money on other things...

Exactly. A local school has a bunch of high tech solutions designed to restrict student access to various sites, I teacher I know caught one of her students printing out porn downloaded on a school issued device to a school printer; and he wasn't exactly a tech genius, nor even a genius a he got caught when he went to pick up the printouts. Companies can put all sorts of protections in place and many kids will simply find a work around; you could require a government issued photo id, no id equals no access, and facial recognition each time you sign on. Even so, someone would find way to circumvent and as soon as they did it's be plastered all over the web.

Actually, the people who forget that seem to be in the business of marketing and press releases. QC has been the apocalypse that would turn the world on it's head breaking crypto left and right in the next 2 years for at least 10 years now. It still can't do prime factorization better or faster than a sixth grader with a pencil and paper. And the sixth grader won't charge as much.

Perhaps it will be useful one day, but not today. It may well take 100 years. Remember about 3 years ago when the size of quantum computers was going to double overnight? And how it went radio silent shortly after? The problem with QC isn't that it will never get here at all, it's the damned hype machine that promised it would be here now.

It's the same hype machine that told us we would be using crypto currency for all of our everyday transactions by now. The same hype machine that claims AI will replace everyone next year.

Countries set themselves up as tax havens to encourage countries to locate there; to the point is one of their largest industries.

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?

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.

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.

It doesn't require nearly as many people working nearly as hard as we have now to provide for everyone.

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.

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).

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

In my ay, we had to rely on bribes and neopotism to get into goood schools, no fancey technology to help us.