Quite credible studies described by George Monbiot https://www.monbiot.com/2013/0... suggest that the crime wave in the larger cities were the consequence of developmental damage caused by lead in the air.
The repercussions of the consequential feeling of "breakdown of society" etc are still with us.

Why not use the money that would have to go into carbon removal to do it more efficiently, by buying up all the coal you can and dump it in the deep sea?
It's just insane that people are still burning coal for marginally profitable electricity production whist other people are struggling to capture a tiny portion of the CO2 (but not the other pollutants) at great expense.

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Taking Carbon out of the air takes a lot of energy and /or space, and then storing it safely out of harm's way is difficult. Fortunately, mother nature already figured this out. We call it "coal".
Unfortunately some idiots are digging it back up and burning it to produce a tiny fraction of the useful energy that it's going to take to recapture it, stabilise it, and then re-bury it.
Increasing planetary tree cover is nice, but is not a feasible offset for the millions of years of carbon sequestration that's being undone by burning coal.
Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple et al to invest the money in bumping off the idiots, or at least undercutting their electricity prices by investing in renewable technologies or capital equipment?

Interestingly, Facebook doesn't seem to make unfriends too easy to find - they consider the greasmonkey script to be "abusive or spammy" and won't allow me to forward it to somebody within the fb message service.

JPEG has two significant practical deficiencies which are not inherent in its lossy nature

• firstly it's 8-bit channel depth is not enough to allow any editing without noticeable degradation,

• and secondly, its compression characteristics tend to enhance photo grain and silicon array noise.

I guess that the reason that something better hasn't emerged is the combination of the patent thicket around wavelets, and all the shenanegans the digital camera manufacturers have been playing with raw formats.

The Rover gas-turbine car was almost ready for launch (in the mid-'60s). It was cleaner, quieter and potentially cheaper than cars with conventional reciprocating engine designs.
It did have two major disadvantages - unreliability due to brittleness of the heat exchanger, and
- the tendency to singe the paint off cars that approached too close to the exhaust.

I think the question was meant to be "most recent to fail".
I struggled for a while trying to understand the question as it was posed and failed.

the question, as posed is as meaningless as "the most recent not to fail"

I was told about 10 years ago that "70% of the world's digital data is stored under MVS" which surprised me a bit, even then.
After some thought when you consider that almost all commercial transactions (banks, telcos etc) whould have been running MVS then it may have been true.
SETI and CERN and other large scientific endeavours are small fry in comparison.

using 64-bit integers instead of floats is a common trick in embedded C for control and signal processing on low power processors. I have experience of four different embedded systems used in commercial products from three different companies I've worked with - three of the four used 64-bit integers for roundoff-sensitive calculations.
I was a bit surprised that Matlab can't handle this, but then I've seen the poor quality of the ostensibly production-ready code that comes out of their M2C converter - it was about ten times the code footprint and a fifth the speed of a minimally-optimised C version of the same algorithm.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone can justify paying for this, when R (and even Octave in this instance) is more capable. Where the target platform requires C or asm code, then doing development in Matlab is usually more trouble than it saves. The graphs are prettier, though.

These days paper, as is used in laser printers etc. is not made mostly from wood. It is mostly made from bulking agents like calcium carbonate, which have to be ground to typically 2 micron or finer, and then dried at huge energy cost.
The wood fibers are just there to keep all the bulk together, and are a small portion (sometimes as little as 10%) of the weight of a sheet of paper.

You may have noticed that this sort of paper leaves a lot of ash when burnt.

Fine sand is a killer - it gets everywhere.

I used to work on powder processing instrumentation and regularly had to take laptop computers onsite to calibrate instruments. We used to use Dells with external IP-54 keyboards and masking tape over all the unused ports. On a few occasions I had to take a normal keyboard they didn't last more than a few keystrokes (I'd guess 20 per key before they failed).

This was lactose, coal, silica, calcium carbonate, etc. When we started work with metal powder we invested in proper IP54 laptops - no fan, membrane keyboard and rubber plugs on all the ports. Heavy, underpowered (800MHz PIII) but they worked. We looked at some "ruggedised" efforts but without the IP rating they were really just slightly less prone to drop damage.

but does it run Linux?

The good bits of "Mozart's Requiem" were written by one of his students after he died in order to help pay his debts.

The only other half-decent stuff attributed to him are the 40th Symphony and the Magic Flute overture, also written in the three months whilst he was kicking the bucket. Makes me suspect that somebody else wrote them for him as well.