No they're talking about electrical charges, not the pH of the water (which is to say, its protonation). They can be related in some ways as a googled up article lays out here: https://atlas-scientific.com/b...

Then my wife mentioned that perhaps he's concerned about his own comings and goings being tracked...

He's more concerned with trying to explain away his diverting of $10 million obligated to pay for health insurance for poor kids that inexplicably went to two PACs then the Republican Party of Florida, all without anyone knowing who diverted the funds, including the people who were charged with managing the funds.

Time will tell if a competing product he's bought stock in gets installed instead but the distaste for this level of surveillance does seem to be bipartisan.

Sounds like you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole

Don't you mean put a cylinder in the square hole?

You can have the AI write comments and also write unit tests. That said the devs I work with mostly use it as Super Intellisense and likewise don't trust large pieces of code to anything in Prod. The biggest AI project was an experiment to let the users define the requirements (which they are very bad at) and having the devs intervene as little as possible and see if a usable tool came out the other side. That went about as well as you'd guess, I'd thought with as good as they are at taking meeting minutes that project manager and business analyst days were done but the users are still going to need a translation layer between them and the developers, whether they're AIs or humans.

Oh man, I checked just to see and the shellac flake I used to get at ShellacShack for 28.40 is 38.40 now which is a significant increase but not as high as the shellac primer... if you're using it for hobby stuff and don't need aerosol cans then I'd suggest you make your own from flake in Denatured Alcohol from the hardware store.

You are conflating two separate issues. If and probably when China does surpase the US economy, that won't mean individual Chinese citizens are better off than US citizens. It will simply mean the country as a whole is outcompeting the US, mostly because of its size.

And when it comes to engineering, the PPP salaries of US and Chinese engineers isn't that different. Chinese engineers make around $100k annually in comparable purchasing power, which is only about 25% less than a US engineer and about the same as a European engineer.

Where did you get this idea? Median Chinese income is ~$5k in nominal USD, but that only equates to ~$10k after factoring in purchasing power parity (PPP). That is still about 15% of the purchasing power of a US worker.

Your argument basically defends any propaganda as a good thing. And you seem to believe that emotion-based fear mongering can be successfully countered with rational fact based counter arguments. I strongly disagree will all of that.

Well, that character isn't on my keyboard. I don't even bother to double up my hyphens - I just use one as an em-dash. If it was a key, I'd use it. Until then, I'll just use the one hyphen and let Word or whatever deal with it.

Alt-0151 will get you the em dash. Or, type 2014 then hit Alt-X and Word will convert it for you.

Now be a good American and whine how that is too difficult.

Tariffs are a tax collected by business for the government. Since Trump is the one who gave the illegal order, he would be responsible, but since the Supreme Court has ruled a president is untouchable, nothing will be done.

Next up will be a "national emergency" to prevent or disallow the results of the general election.

Remember when Elon bought the place and ran most of them out on a rail?

Considering Elon WORKED for the government to spread propaganda, continues to censor certain posts and words, blocked publication of information about J.D. Vance prior to the election, and continues to let lies about the 2020 election proliferate, no, I don't remember.

Then you have the people that think upscaling an image 3x makes it more detailed and sharper.

It doesn't? You might want to tell these folks.

So, die of skin cancer instead of Alzheimer's?

Nope, there's now a vaccine for that.