Patel may have bigger problems soon. Apparently the Iranians have hacked his personal email. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/2... Maybe some juicy salacious stuff will come out.

I recall writing software to read/write stream format. I wrote a library of routines that would read/write a full record (like everything in a polygon, path, text etc) so that it was easy to process a thing. Back then it was very proprietary and I was pretty lucky to get a copy of the spec. Plex'es and properties were the magic they used to convert pcells. I ended up writing a ton of useful programs for processing stream. text modification programs, hierarchy listings (fancy tree commands) layer changers, layer filters, cell name changers...

If I remember correctly, and its been decades, the CALMA system's used the DG's for the brains and then some customer graphics for the clam shells. Those CALMA's were part of the heritage of the evolution of the chip biz. CALMA developed stream format if I remember correctly and it is still used today for many purposes, although much bigger files. I've seen 130GB. I do remember taping out on CALMA's and waiting like an hour to write the real 9 track tape and it was way short of 130G.

Oxygen free copper has been a thing for quite awhile. I've known about it for at least 20 years. Here is one definition, "Copper is widely used where high electrical or thermal conductivity is required. Pure copper is defined as having a minimum copper content of 99.3%. Copper with oxygen content below 10 ppm is called ‘oxygen-free.’

If you get mod points, then yes someone with those points could downvote a post. And in so doing, depending on how you have set your filter for what you see, the post could disappear. I usually set mine at 0, so I see most stuff, but stuff that gets mod'ed to -1, I won't see. Many set the thresholds higher.

Not sure if you are asking can /. remove a comment or can /. adjust which comments a specific user sees. As to the first, yes /. can remove a comment. The flag symbol is there to report a comment which someone considers a problem, and /. can remove it.

It still could be made in china, but passed thru Vietnam to escape tariff.

Iran isn't as dumb as the US trump supporters. A quote,

"The deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament ruled out negotiations with Trump. Fars quoted Ali Nikzad as saying Iran would not negotiate “with someone who is a liar and in whom there is no sign of honor, humanity, or conscience.” from https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

Correct, wind is at 40GW nameplate and solar is 37. Power storage is also ramping up and now just shy of 17. Although never figured out if it is 17GWh or max output of 17GW. I do regularly see around 8GW in/out of the grid via power storage lately. I do think they have been throttling wind/solar some this spring. Too much and nowhere to put it. I'll see the projection line for the day and w/s under performing by 5-8GW if fossils would have to drop below around 15GW. I think the way it is setup they need some fossil gen to set the frequency and then the renewables all follow the curve set by the fossils. Looks like the baseline is around 15GW of fossil to make that happen. Come summer, that will stop. Load will consume all the w/s plus 15GW+ of fossils.

This seems to be the thing no one is paying much attention to. Massive increase in oil trades immediately before trump made the false announcement that we were negotiating with Iran for a cease fire yesterday. Absolutely massive. And we know why, Iran also made an announcement I think an hour or 2 after trump's saying completely false. But mission accomplished for trump, market's moved massively for a few hours and profits collected. A few hundred mil if I remember right.

Nope I hear the woman seeking men show was cancelled this season. Turns out she was abusive and liked to throw chairs at her boyfriend while her child was nearby. Quite the catch she was going to be.

Well your argument is weak if it is principled in CCP doesn't care about me. Trump doesn't care about me, gm doesn't, ford doesn't, toyota doesn't. It is capitalism, care is not part of the equation, profit is.

The second part is also a fail, that China is heavily subsidizing. I don't think they are. Razor thin margins yes, cut throat competition (ironic eh, real capitalism in China) yes, with too many brands and not enough sales. Their latest thing is actually boosting the price to the EU to satisfy the EU's they are just too inexpensive problem. The automakers should be afraid, very afraid. They are sourcing many of their components from China and assembling the car from sub-assemblies made in China and tacking on a huge profit margin.

As to good product the Xiaomi SU7 has gotten rave reviews. Most like it better than the 150 grand porsche, and its around 65. I'd be very interested in one at that price. A guy living in China traded his porsche for one, he preferred it to his porsche, called it a better car in every respect.

One could take a slightly different view. Training is teaching. And I don't know about today, but back in the day of books, they were expensive. My college book costs were hundreds per semester. There was no fair use. There was buy the book for class. Even high school grade school books cost and either parents or the school district pays. Knowledge costs money, even digital books cost money. So slurping every book ever known to humanity for teaching should cost money, and if my college text books are any sample, a great deal of money. And even as an adult, those O'Reilly books on X, Tcl, Python, ... were not free either. Actually quite a bit more expensive than any paperback fiction book I've purchased.

States rights was important back before Roe V Wade was overturned. Now it is federal rule all the way, have to forbid the states that allow abortions to continue. And certainly as you say, donnie the diktator wants absolute control, and is doing quite well at getting it. I expect short lived though, well another 9 months. Iran is blowing up and I expect it is a long long long way from over. 5+ buck average gas price in rural areas with big SUV's are going to feel that pain and take their own revenge. donnie could get convicted at his next impeachment.

I see this here too. I walk my dog daily and almost all adults, even those with dogs that should be paying attention, are glued to their phone. I think the biggest loss that cell phones have made is people do not spend those moments alone in thought, they spend it watching cat videos. Humans seem to have lost the ability to entertain themselves without external stimulus.