From what I'm seeing online, the Three Gorges Dam in China, looks like it might not need an earthquake or a tsunami, just some floods.

More often wind shuts down because the wind is blowing too hard than it is too little.

I think you will find that when university is free as in beer, it is rationed. There is not an unlimited amount of money or an unlimited number of places for students. Then, how and when are students selected for further education? In Germany, they generally decide each student's entire future at age 14 - gymnasium or not. Is that a good system?

So, we tax working class people to pay for the higher educations of students who have enough advantages by age 14 to win the meritocracy - in other words, not the working class kids.

"Intel is back from a technology point of view," Barrett wrote...

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'll believe it when I see it.

If I recall correctly,
- Intel sold or just closed its ARM business right before ARM took off. There are 10 times as many ARM CPUs as Intel CPUs now. Intel missed the whole mobile business space.
- Intel never invested in high performance GPUs, and GPUs are vastly more profitable than CPUs now.
- Intel didn't notice AI server farms might one day be a thing
- Intel missed at least one and possibly two whole generations of chip fabrication technology. I have seen no evidence of a working 2nm process from Intel.

What is a CEO for if it is not to guide the ship of commerce to fruitful shores? Gelsinger's whole job was to not miss any of the opportunities and business changes, and he missed the ALL. As an outsider, it looks to me that Gelsinger was fired for failure to meet any of his goals or even tread water.

Dec Alpha was a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) that was "really" reduced and 64-bit. Alpha could not even load a single byte. String operations needed to load 8 bytes and the shift bits to extract individual bytes. The transistors Alpha saved by not decoding complex instructions were used to supply lots of registers. If I recall correctly, Alpha processors were not pipelined.

Pentium 4 was 32-bit. Pentium 4 and its successors have the most complex variable length instructions ever attempted in a CPU. Pentium 4 and is successors translate complex instructions into multiple simpler instructions and then execute the simpler instructions. Pentium used a seventeen stage pipeline! Transistors are more plentiful today but the waste of so many transistors delayed the Intel move to 64-bit by a decade and still hampers the architecture to this day.

It was the many-stage pipeline needed to obtain high clock rates that limited the Intel design and caused so much power consumption.

I'm going with hypergolic rocket fuel for station keeping and enough lithium ion batteries to keep it powered through maximum eclipse duration of around 72 minutes, especially when either of the above is hit by a micro-meteor.

I'm sure the power loss was to the satellite itself, not a terrestrial power grid and the loss of power resulted in the satellite being incapable of servicing it's customers.

Why does one suspect get your $50K bail and the other gets $460K bail. Are partners in crime not equal flight risks? Are partners in crime not equally able or unable to post bail? Or, is it just that one is female and the other is male?

If you use a credit card with Patreon, the credit card company takes a cut.

If you use Patreon at all, Patreon takes a cut.

If you use Apple's in-app purchases to fund Patreon, Apple takes a cut.

SO DON'T USE APPLE'S In-App Purchases to fund Patreon. Was that difficult?

Use the F-ing Patreon web page. Here you go: https://www.patreon.com./ Now you are only paying the credit card company's fee and Patreon's fee.

Bitching about Apple's services taking a cut is like bitching that the post office requires stamps on snail mail.
Bitching about Apple's services taking a cut for in-app purchases is like bitching that restaurants have to pay rent to the building owner.
Bitching about Apple's services taking a cut for in-app purchases is like bitching about paying shipping for online purchases.

A) Apple cannot track you this way. A cryptographic signature that is generated on your device is used. Apple has no access to the signature.
B) When a device is factory reset, cryptographic keys are regenerated, and it becomes impossible to track the device via "find my". Used devices are not a "find my" privacy issue for this among many other reasons.
C) If you don't like it, turn it off, and it is really off. This is in contrast to Goole who continued to track Android phone locations even when opt out. https://www.tomsguide.com/news....

One company makes money by invading your privacy, and it isn't Apple.

Homebrew is superior to *yum* and *apt* in my humble opinion. Homebrew emphasizes NOT needing administrative permissions and NOT replacing the distributions' default versions. Even Homebrew itself may be installed without sudo.

Homebrew also works with the Linux subsystem for Windows and with Linux.

I am very grateful for the existence of Homebrew.

So you get a ticket in the mail saying you were driving 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine) and passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and a photo of your car /with plates in the left lane returning to the right over double yellow lines, misjudging by 30 feet.
You can:

• Sign the ticket and except liability, send $180.00, take a 6 point hit and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
• Contest the ticket in Court and claim you weren't driving your car the day just so the DA can ask you who was driving and possibly subpoenaing that person, lose and pay $180.00 in fine, a 6 point hit, $360 in Court Costs ($540 in total) and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
• Go to Court, try and get passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and except 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine)

She was a prosecutor that kept people in prison so they could use them as penal firefighters for cheap, withheld exculpatory information from the Defense consul and put hundreds of Black men in prison for simple marijuana convictions while she smoked the same shit.

Remember the days when Boeing and ULA were arguing that SpaceX shouldn't even be allowed to bid on the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), now Boeing hasn't even been able to make a single round trip. I wonder if SpaceX will get paid at the same rate per seat for the mission contracts that Boeing won't be able to fulfill?

Well they're on the verge of losing Crimea to show for it.