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One of our vendors is a contract electronic manufacturer (circuit board stuffer) that has a wave soldering machine running MS-DOS on a PC that's built into the control cabinet. It uses the parallel port to communicate with Opto22 industrial i/o modules, which then is wired to all the temp sensors, relays, etc. It just keeps working.

s/better/less bad/

> I am not your QA department

The article is a lovely cathartic rant against agile software development methodologies applied in the wrong place in the wrong way, whether or not the software(s) in question used such methods. On of the worst assumptions, I believe, is that the end-user is willing and able to function as testing/QA without detriment to the product and company.

> [distributes] AND [facilitates the download of]

Grouping braces and capitalization mine. So distributing also required. However it's still overly broad, vague, and ambiguous.

Supply management does have its problems, but given the involvement of imperfect humans nothing will be without problems. Canadian pork, beef, and vegetable farmers that I personally know also complain that they can't enact supply management for their sector. They also envy the appearance of high profits, an easy life, and government subsidies & bailouts (yes, Canadian dairy farmers still receive those) for those in a supply managed sector.

At the end of the day, consumers get stable and somewhat realistic prices and supply, while farmers also get stable income.

My experience supports nearly all of this. In 2022 I decided to keep my 2019 F-150 gasser instead of getting a Lightning because the Lightning was ridiculously expensive, even though Covid kept the value of my truck close to what I paid for it. I also didn't want all the Lightning's luxury features that tend to fail and highly depreciate over time. We do >12hr drives for work & family through remote BC and I was still willing to try the EV for such trips but didn't see the payback. In hindsight it was a good choice given the actual range experienced by Lightning owners.

> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy > for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy.

.24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one second, so a 100W human takes ~9 seconds for that output.

Why are the Arxiv and Nature versions so different, even the text?

They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.