NASA needs Pu-238. Nuclear warheads use Pu-239.

There is no infrastructure to produce it at scale. There are tons of reactors that use uranium dioxide, so there is a pretty robust supply chain for it.

I think what I especially dislike about the current assessment that these "markets" are not gambling is that in cases such as this it ends up placing an onus on the federal government to enforce fairness. This is extremely difficult, since it would be complicated to establish and track every necessary disclosure. I'd rather this sort of thing be litigated as a civil case, so government employees aren't having to take the initiative to research every incidental and stupid bet made on each platform. While I admit that the difference between stock trading and prediction markets is not as cut and dry as one would like, I think there's enough of a difference to justify considering Polymarket a form of gambling.

Haha, yeah. But it fits the narrrative, so they ran with it.

They must be switching some browser protections off, as well. My understanding is that JavaScript timing loops have some very minor entropy injected to prevent things like this from happening.

No, they'll buy licenses for QNX or VxWorks. Or switch to BSD. A lot of car stereos run on QNX/Qt.

It's all a small price to pay for Eat Your Veggies.

You're thinking of Ocean's 11. Different film.

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Have you heard of Ocean's Eleven? He directed Ocean's Eleven. And a few dozen other films, one of which you're probably seen, unless you don't like going to movies.

Duke 3D's soundtrack was not exclusively the work of Bobby Prince; Lee Jackson, Apogee's go-to music guy, also did some of the tracks, including the title theme, Grabbag.

Prince used not only his MIDI skills but also his experience as a lawyer to ensure his 'inspired' derivatives were as close as legally possible to the originals. The relationship between individual tracks is often very clear and sometimes even hinted in the metadata of the source files.

I'm guessing it's a lot of legacy apps. My friend worked with PowerBuilder heavily in the 1990s doing a lot of custom work for niche vertical markets, like municipal water utility billing applications and industrial monitoring systems. I think a lot of that stuff is still floating around, and, similar to mainframe applications, organizations don't want to pay to overhaul the whole thing in Java/Rust/Python/whatever is fashionable at the moment.

The cars are cheap for two reasons. 1. Absolutely everything is subsidized - from the labor to the steel to the rubber gaskets 2. There is no support infrastructure set up - no service centers, no parts distribution warehouses, no support network at all If the US government subsidized the crap out of US car makers, and they didn't have to support their vehicles at all, they'd be cheap, too.

My friend has a fancy hearing aid, and it has a setting where it focuses in on the voice of the person he is looking at. I think it's even called party mode. It cancels most noises except for the closest person his head is aimed at. He can tweak the sensitivity to the point he can clearly hear people talking from several tables away at a noisy restaurant, if he looks directly at the speaker.

They spent a lot of time and money making sure CUDA worked right. For a while AMD's compute API wasn't backwards *or* forwards compatible. You had to do some rewriting and a recompile every time a new API was released.

Intel has gone through three completely different, and mostly incompatible, hardware stacks. Remember Phi? Altera? Now it's AVX for some compute tasks, and Xe for other tasks.

My very first PC build was a 486 built out of pulled parts from the computer lab where I worked. My first real DIY build was a K62-300 with a Matrox G200 video card. Ran every bit as good as my friend's P2 at half the price.