Ditto. Reminds me of my years working for IBM 2000-2013 when I was eventually laid off as part of their strategy to get out of microelectronics manufacturing.

I feel like Apple TV (the app of that name running on the device of that name) does a decent job of aggregating streamed content. I can search for a show or a movie or whatever and it will tell me which streaming service(s) it's on, provide a link that takes me to said content on said streaming service, and/or offer to sell it or rent it to me.

[Full disclosure - I'm an MIT alum] I wonder if MIT is doing this to fight a perception problem? Since they are perceived as being very expensive, probably a large number of qualified candidates never apply because they assume they can't afford to attend if they're accepted.

I think you meant Apollo 13

Mythbusters covered this very topic in one of their earliest seasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

tl;dr - "Fecal coliforms were indeed found on all the test brushes, including the control ones, but none at a level high enough to be dangerous."

I feel like this is the a la carte future that everyone seemed to be clamoring for awhile ago. âoeBe care what you wish forâ¦â

Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

As did Adam Conover... https://www.trutv.com/shows/ad...

What does Netflix consider to be a "household"? Is it a group of people all accessing the internet from the same IP address? I have 2 children away at college whom I still consider part of my household. Will Netflix? What if I travel away from home and bring my iPad with me to watch Netflix while I'm away?

This sounds an awful lot like orphaned drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_drug#:~:text=An%20orphan%20drug%20is%20a,referred%20to%20as%20orphan%20diseases) TLDR - The technology exists to cure or treat a disease, but not enough people suffer from it to make it profitable for the drug companies, so it does not get made.

We've long passed the point where automation tools can place and route an entire chip all at once (flat). Out of necessity designs have to be carved up into separate hierarchical blocks that can be worked on separately. As far as I know, that type of partitioning is typically something done manually along logical design boundaries. Just a WAG here, but I would think that at least a component of this "AI" must be the ability for it to make "intelligent" choices about breaking up the design into hierarchical blocks that better reflect the physical, rather than the logical, connectedness of the design elements.

Seems to me you could borrow the format string from printf to describe numeric strings, and borrow the format string from the *NIX time command to describe date/time strings.

Didn't Opera try something like this with their browser?

Back in the late '90s I shared my office with a gigantic Apple color laser printer used mainly for printing out transparencies (this was in the days before video projectors became ubiquitous). I'm sure it was probably a very expensive printer. It took 4 toner cartridges (CMYK). On occasion I would swap out a toner cartridge when it ran out. Well, one time, I missed removing one of the zillions of pieces of tape that were on the new cartridge. Come the next print job, I heard a lot of grinding sounds. Turns out that one little piece of tape kept something on the cartridge from turning and a bunch of gears inside the printer got stripped, pretty much totally ruining the printer.

Great artists steal.