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I don't believe them for a millisecond.

Thank you!

I worked on a small team that created a CPU in the late 1990s and we stacked DDR dies on top of the CPU die and ran vertical traces. It was cool to have the entire computer inside one package.

I had a C64 as well. My school had a programming class and we all shared a TRS80 (I think). I remember writing a program to find prime numbers and thinking about various optimizations. Mine was fastest, and I was proud. Then the boy that wrote directly in assembly ran his... That was the moment I decided to get good. :-)

Electric cars will not "save the environment".

Their purpose is to "save the US automotive industry".

The idea that billionaires and car manufacturers would be motivated by anything else is laughable.

Support public transportation.

I have no hearing in any of the frequencies BART trains emit. Burned away...

I do love this "Transit" app though.

For the express vs. local, sometimes it will ASK me what train I am on. When there are delays that cause trains to be closer together, it does this. I presume they are crowd-sourcing some data instead of trying to only use an algorithm.

I do love this "Transit" app though.

Their "intent" is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. Nothing else matters; not today, and not in the future.

That's a really good essay. My mind has been changed! Thank you!

I live in SF. I haven't owned a car in many years. I bicycle or take public transit when my destination is too far to walk. I still purchase auto insurance that costs me something like $15/month. It has been years since I've driven, but I do this because I might rent a car on holiday or might drive a friend's car on a roadtrip someday. If I ever needed to get a car again, a period without auto-insurance makes insurance VERY expensive. I did that when living abroad before. I never thought about it covering me as a cyclist or pedestrian. God willing, I'll never need it.

The last paragraphs of this article are brilliant...

> “It’s not going to cure cancer, it’s not going to bring world peace, two things that we desperately need right now,” she says.

“But I would argue that there is great value in understanding the world [and] how biodiversity works so that we can preserve it, which is an integral component of human health,” says Pringle.

She adds: “It’s not clear to me that the best way to repair the world isn’t sitting and watching lichens grow in a cemetery and telling the world about it.”

A thousand years ago, every village had their own timekeeping and it worked. Our village is now earth. What if we just abandoned daylight-savings time and timezones and just went with GMT (or anything else) for everywhere on earth?

There would be cultural effects as people in California now start work at 16:00, for example...

LOL!

You'd likely take an exception for a multi-bit error and the handler would likely just retry the read. Single-bit errors are often just corrected on the fly by ECC logic as you mention.