jhoward

Makes sense. It sure as shit didn't have any real intelligence.

Olympic athletes are on strict diets. They no longer have such dietary requirements once they've won.

Lucky living?

Seems presumptuous they use an 8 bit byte in middle earth. I'd expect more like 20 bits, but divided between men, elves, and dwarfs. Well, except one of those bits is the one true bit, having spooky control over the other bits. Clearly middle earth computation is quantum.

I use portainer behind tail scale. Easy management anywhere and no publicly available access.

I use Bitwig on Linux myself, but works in Windows and Mac too.

Yea, we've got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P

But seriously, I'm sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law's dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.

I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.

Same here! Still have my copy of 6502 software design that I used until it fell apart.

The east / west division in the cost of light bulbs.

Personally, I think this is a meaningless question. For me it's all about utility. I've found science to provide utility to me in helping understand and, more importantly, predict the world. I've not found the same in religion. I choose paths that provide utility.

There's a belt tensioner tool that can be rented from the auto parts store. This helps greatly to pull back the belt pulley to get a belt on. Had to do it once and having that tool made a big difference.

No. I have no use for that hypothesis.