Well, this particular discussion is about a (not yet enacted) law concerning DST in the United States, and none of the states are in the topics except Hawaii, which does not use DST.

The sun does not reach its zenith at 12:00.

If you defined noon as the time of the sun reaching its zenith, days would no longer be the same length. Days in northern hemisphere winter would be slightly longer than 24 hours, and days in northern hemisphere summer would be shorter, due to the difference between sidereal time and solar time.

When the daylight hours are short in winter, you have to pick some time in which it's darkness. If it's light during the morning commute, it will be dark during the evening commute.

This depends on how far north you are, of course.

"Permanent Daylight Savings Time" is a misnomer.

What it actually is, is that the standard time in every location in the US is shifted one time zone to the west, and the clocks stay on standard time all year.

Unless I'm misreading the map, on the East coast, the EST time zone is pretty much centered on where it should be, with New York very slightly east and Washington DC very slightly west of center. The main problem with EST is that it extends west to the city limits of Chicago, while it should change to CST around Toledo.

If anything, most of the population in the US is slightly to the western edge of the time zones, not the east.

Maybe this will be a lesson to manufacturing as a whole that putting industrial control logic into the cloud has always been a retarded idea. Even if you have perfect security, your competition can still shut down your production by hiring a DDoS.

Secretarial jobs were already cataclysmically wiped out by the word processing/computer revolution. It's hard to remember anymore how ubiquitous secretaries were to businesses.

However, turns out that this previous revolution didn't reduce the workforce, because the number of IT support personnel required increased directly as the number of secretaries decreased.

That doesn't mean they get paid 40 hours of wages for doing 20 hours of work. It just means much greater scheduling flexibility.

In this case, OP was correct. The FTC action against John Deere was filed during the Biden administration when Lina Khan was FTC chair.
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and says the things a thinking self says
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I will refer you back to my original comment for details.

I think Wolfenstein 3D was really the groundbreaking tech. It introduced the entire 2.5D fast-paced shooter FPS. Doom was just a big refinement and flushing-out of those concepts that Wolf 3D introduced and proved.

Really, from a technological standpoint, I argue that Quake was the biggest leap, most ambitious and largest technological breakthroughs id software (IE John Carmack) achieved. It is a full 3D game engine, with advanced internal scripting and tons of other capabilities, that is a quantum leap above the 2.5D rendering of Doom. Truly it set the stage for all modern FPS games. The rendering pipelines and so on were entirely different from anything in Doom so it was a total creation of itself, and not an incremental improvement (like Doom was to Wolf 3D).

I ported both Wolf3D and Quake (and Quake 2) to Pocket PC back in the day, so I was intimately familiar with the code, especially the software rendering pipelines.

I was addressing your comment about heat rejection, a subject on which I have some amount of expertise. If you have objections to the proposed space data systems other than your comment about radiators, go start a new thread.

No, the approach would be to launch massive solar panels that can be seen with the naked eye from the ground.

The solar panels would do double duty as radiators.