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But then I wanted to go back in time and work with real hardware that glows in the dark (vacuum tubes).

So I left Intel Jones Farm in Hillsboro Oregon to retire to Bellingham Washington and volunteer full time at the Spark Museum, where they have antique radios and electroncis.

So, I pirouetted off.

Here is a video of myself pirouetting out of Intel! Dancing at Intel

A new manager came in who systematically replaced over half of the team with people from his last company. I went from having the best performance review on the team with one manager to somehow having the worst performance review on the team with the new manager.

It all worked out for the best though. I've been happily self employed since then. Teaching C++, speaking at conferences and running my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/l...

And dont forget this classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0

And that's important.

Because every sperm is sacred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Vulcan is a dead standard. Nobody uses it.

Bullshit. Vulkan is now available on over 40% of Android devices, which by itself makes it the second most widely distributed graphics API in the universe, second only to OpenGL ES, available on 100% of Android devices. Vulkan is supported by numerous PC titles. Most AAA game engines support Vulkan, the others have it on the way. Unity Engine supports Vulkan on Android, Linux and Windows. Likewise Unreal. ID tech 6 was the AAA engine to support Vulkan and is widely licensed. Steam's Source2 engine supports Vulkan. Nintendo Switch supports Vulkan (and OpenGL 4.5). Looks like not dead.

Here is an Android Vulkan demo of Unreal Engine from two years ago. That is 100% real time on a Galaxy S7. You can see why it got traction.

Nope.

This is of course only the after-use cleaning, the full cleaning cycle takes longer and is more complicated.

SW Freedom makes [mediocre OSS] better than [market leading proprietary product]

Thanks RMS, we've heard that a few times. Unfortunately in the real world users also care about features, performance, stability, usability and a host of other metrics. I liked your promotion video though.

This is the MagicLeap mixed reality game video that was released 3 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who here is saying that Tesla should get a free pass on this?

BTW; there's lots of people who tear down and build up Teslas. There's a great series over on Youtube from Ingineerix (who salvages wrecked / flooded Teslas), who's been going into how every system on the Model 3 works, down to the nitty-gritty details. One of my favourite things recently was the design of the rear wheel/motor assembly. To take it off involves only disconnecting 2 dampers, 2 brake lines, 3 electrical cables and 4 bolts. And you've entirely removed the rear wheels and motor. Unlike S and X, this car was clearly designed with keeping maintenance labour costs down as a high priority.

Another really interesting thing is in his most recent video, where he shows how much thicker the charge port-to-battery wiring is on Model 3 than Model S and Model X. Now, there's always the possibility they switched from copper to alumium or similar, but as it stands, it looks like they've designed it for much higher max charge powers. Which matches well their plans to introduce a new supercharger (V3) later this year. If it's 180kW per-vehicle, as the speculation has been, a five minute charge at low SoCs would allow for an hour of driving at moderately fast highway speeds (about an hour and a half at the sort of speed limits we have here!)

Who here is saying that Tesla should get a free pass on this?

BTW; there's lots of people who tear down and build up Teslas. There's a great series over on Youtube from Ingineerix (who salvages wrecked / flooded Teslas), who's been going into how every system on the Model 3 works, down to the nitty-gritty details. One of my favourite things recently was the design of the rear wheel/motor assembly. To take it off involves only disconnecting 2 dampers, 2 brake lines, 3 electrical cables and 4 bolts. And you've entirely removed the rear wheels and motor. Unlike S and X, this car was clearly designed with keeping maintenance labour costs down as a high priority.

Another really interesting thing is in his most recent video, where he shows how much thicker the charge port-to-battery wiring is on Model 3 than Model S and Model X. Now, there's always the possibility they switched from copper to alumium or similar, but as it stands, it looks like they've designed it for much higher max charge powers. Which matches well their plans to introduce a new supercharger (V3) later this year. If it's 180kW per-vehicle, as the speculation has been, a five minute charge at low SoCs would allow for an hour of driving at moderately fast highway speeds (about an hour and a half at the sort of speed limits we have here!)

No, the claim is it is more appropriate energy infrastructure for the 21st century, now that we've had the internet for decades and we can read.

Yes, I can read and I do have access to the internet. That does not exempt you from citing a source to back up your claims. I'm not going to try to chase down your claims for you, tell you I can't find it, and then you simply get smug and tell me I'm not looking hard enough. Cut the unsubstantiated claims and provide a link once in a while.

I think lead cooled reactors would be better.

Why? And cite a source.

Yeah, except in the technology your thinking of leaves a brand new waste stream and doesn't address the old one.

Bullshit. Citation needed.

So what. They don't take up multiple exclusion zones when they blow up (3600sqKm for Chernobyl) and they can be put in places where people aren't.

Nuclear power is still safer than any other energy source we have access to.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/...

No one has any plans to duplicate the RBMK reactor at Chernobyl, so bringing that up as a case against a future design does not follow. You can bring up solar power and I can point to Boy Scouts getting food poisoning from a "solar oven". You can bring up wind power and I can bring up Grandpa's windmill on the farm used to pump water. Ford's Pinto was not a safe vehicle but that has nothing to do with the decision on the purchase of a 2018 model year F-150.

If you want to criticize nuclear power then do so on designs that people are actually proposing to build. I can agree that these old nuclear reactors, built about the same time as those at Chernobyl, should be replaced. They cannot be replaced by wind and solar any time soon at current rates of development. That can only be done with new nuclear. Citation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In other words ban the things that make money in the state, and therefore pay the taxes, and when the money runs out to pay for blah blah blah

Wrong wrong wrong wrong.

The entire agricultural output of California is only 2% of the state's GDP. Meaning that entire sector could disappear and the state wouldn't even notice, economically speaking. But I'm not speaking of banning agriculture, only the most wasteful aspects of it.

And you noted the part that residential water use is less than 15% of the state's water supply, yes? That means these gluttons of industry are first and foremost hurting other industry. A greedy rancher or almond farmer means there's less water for crops that you have a hard time growing outside of California, especially during certain times of the year. You can grow tomatoes just fine in Wisconsin, but not in January.

Build some water reservoirs, desalination plants

You mean spend fantastic sums of money just so said cattle ranchers and almond farmers can go on living beyond the water supply's means. How about....no.

Where are you going to get the various rare earths and other metals needed to prevent embrittlement of the structures and housing of the nuclear plant?

The problem of the USA not producing the rare earth metals it needs domestically is due to existing policy on producing thorium and uranium. Rare earth metals exist in the ground in ores that also have high concentrations of thorium and uranium. Removing uranium and thorium from the ground, and concentrating them as a byproduct of extracting the rare earth metals is, in the eyes of the federal government, "producing weapons grade materials" and places such mines under considerable scrutiny and regulations on what is done with the tails of extraction. With any other mining the tails are simply placed back in the hole they came from and the government simply pretends it was never disturbed.

If we allow for more sane regulation on the mining of thorium then we'd be able to get a domestic supply of rare earth metals. The bonus to this is that mining for rare earth metals means producing nuclear fuel in the form of the uranium and thorium left over in the extraction process. It just falls out of the processing in a bin as the other metals are separated.

Any costing of nuclear power should include how supply will be guaranteed for the lifetime of the plant. Given that many of the elements are in high demand from other industrial sectors, that's not a simple task. Furthermore, the estimates are likely to be very rubbery when projected over 20+ years.

The solutions for the rare earth metal shortage, and it's cause from bad thorium policy, is covered well by Gordon McDowell in his videos. I suggest you take a look at a few of them.
https://www.youtube.com/user/g...

I don't know if this is a "simple task" but it's a failure of policy, not physics.

If wind and solar needs storage to provide power that is inexpensive, low carbon, and reliable, then we need storage that is inexpensive, reliable and low carbon. That means we need nuclear power, because fuel is storage and uranium is a low carbon fuel.

Here's a short (about 2 minutes) video explaining the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a longer (24 minute) video explaining the problem in more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We will see an expansion of the use of nuclear power because no president will allow the lights to go out in the country, and that applies to any country that has a president. The sooner we come to this realization and start building nuclear power the less stress this will have on the economy and the environment.

Whatever problems people have brought up against nuclear power they have always been problems of policy, not physics. We can change policy, we can't change the laws of physics.

If wind and solar needs storage to provide power that is inexpensive, low carbon, and reliable, then we need storage that is inexpensive, reliable and low carbon. That means we need nuclear power, because fuel is storage and uranium is a low carbon fuel.

Here's a short (about 2 minutes) video explaining the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a longer (24 minute) video explaining the problem in more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We will see an expansion of the use of nuclear power because no president will allow the lights to go out in the country, and that applies to any country that has a president. The sooner we come to this realization and start building nuclear power the less stress this will have on the economy and the environment.

Whatever problems people have brought up against nuclear power they have always been problems of policy, not physics. We can change policy, we can't change the laws of physics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Make a spreadsheet that has tables functionality. Excel is the only spreadsheet that has this feature, and it is extremely useful. Excel only runs on Windows.

So far, Cohl Furey has managed to do that for one set ("generation") of particles in the SM. Note that the math for a single generation is far easier than for multiple generations, so it remains to be seen if it can be extended to include the entire SM, but from a purely mathematical standpoint, it's kinda cool.

She has a series of 14 ~5 minute lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZyds_KFWM&list=PLNxhIPHaOTRZMO1VjJcs7_3dgyJ2qU1yZ/ where in the last one or two she seems to extract the properties/charges of all 3 generations of particles.

But maybe I misunderstood???

Agreed! Knowing WHY something was moderating is extremely handy. /. blows reddit out of the water. You know reddit has jumped the shark when redditards down-vote you just for asking a question! WTF? *facepalm*

It has gotten so bad that there are mini-banners "Please don't downvote comments based on opinion.", Gee, no shit, Sherlock.

Worse, some sub-reddits like /r/minecraft censor mentioning a server name. While I can understand the intent of trying to minimize spam/advertising, it ALSO has the shitty side effect that there goes ANY meaningful discussion on discussing the HISTORY of WHY a particular server is/was popular such as 2b2t, etc.

For example, I love seeing "epic" builds. But apparently mentioning that they are on 2b2t is "illegal" and thus you are down-voted by all the redditards for "violating" the rules. On /. a post like that might get marked "Informative" despite being off-topic.

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would love to see forums with combines the best of the two: the breadth of Reddit with the depth of Slashdot.

Does this exist?

Agreed! Knowing WHY something was moderating is extremely handy. /. blows reddit out of the water. You know reddit has jumped the shark when redditards down-vote you just for asking a question! WTF? *facepalm*

It has gotten so bad that there are mini-banners "Please don't downvote comments based on opinion.", Gee, no shit, Sherlock.

Worse, some sub-reddits like /r/minecraft censor mentioning a server name. While I can understand the intent of trying to minimize spam/advertising, it ALSO has the shitty side effect that there goes ANY meaningful discussion on discussing the HISTORY of WHY a particular server is/was popular such as 2b2t, etc.

For example, I love seeing "epic" builds. But apparently mentioning that they are on 2b2t is "illegal" and thus you are down-voted by all the redditards for "violating" the rules. On /. a post like that might get marked "Informative" despite being off-topic.

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would love to see forums with combines the best of the two: the breadth of Reddit with the depth of Slashdot.

Does this exist?

During the primaries all the left wing msm went easy on him and treated him with kid gloves. The moment he won the primaries the MSM barring Fox news completely flipped the script.

During the election CNN tripped over themselves to give Trump air time. The one that stands out was when they all, CNN included ignored a Hillary Clinton speech to show an empty podium while they were waiting for Trump. link

Trump was good for ratings. Unfortunately ratings is a shitty way to elect a president.

Most didn't take Trump seriously early on, since they though for sure he would implode at any time, but he never did. Cruz in particular seemed to be positioning himself to take Trump's voters when he did implode, though it was Cruz that actually eventually went on a rant. link While I also loath Cruz, that rant makes some really good points.

I suspect Trump will get a primary challenger if he doesn't get impeached before. I just don't know if the spineless republicans will choose a sane alternative. Trump will certainly seek to destroy all challengers, usually with lies, insults and schoolyard bullying, and of course never forget projection.

Sure current CNN and all the rest is going after Trump now, but then that is simply because he is truly awful in almost every way imaginable and sure when Trump calls CNN fake news and denigrates them, well it might, just might be providing some motivation for those at CNN to work just a bit harder. If world war 3 ever begins, it won't be due to some brilliant generals planning. No it will be because of people like Trump making too many mistakes, pushing bombast and bullshit too far until one mistake too many is made.

Most likely sooner or later we will crash the economy. Think about it. We have basically injected heroin into the bloodstream of America with all the insane tax cuts that are direct borrowing. We did this at a time the American economy was doing well. Then we start fucking up everything with tariffs left and right. Mix in a bit of random destruction of the environment and wrecking of the accomplishments in improving healthcare. Don't forget loss of any norms and decency. Let simmer and see what happens.

I'm guessing we will eventually see a crash, but this time we will be so broke. Furthermore we will have alienated many of our allies.

Will there be any country willing to help America when the crash occurs or will they look on us much like a normal person looks at a drug user thrashing outside in the cold while America squeezes some more drugs into its system? Of course at some point you have to cut the users off. If it starts looking like we can't pay back all our debt, well we will get cut off. The fact that we are led by a person who has welshed on his debt multiple times can't help matters.

Might want to check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In fact, Democrats often talked positively about Trump until he was a candidate for the Republicans. Black rap songs aspiring for him. A lot of black people are seeing the hypocrisy.

How do I break this to you. What you're telling me is you don't know what racism is. It's really offensive how people use it to describe someone simply because they don't agree with them. Usually over something very minor.

You complain about him pointing out black people get in trouble with the law, then bring in Hispanics which is an ethnicity and not a race. They're really just white guys for the most part. You can be black an Hispanic as well. The Census Bureau has a table on that and that's what was agreed to decades ago. Not subjective. As for the criminal problem - just look at the numbers. Black groups point it out. Trump had problems with people that happened to turn out to be black counting money. I'm sure there have been Jews that steal (Bernie Madhoff comes to mind), however I've worked with plenty of Jews and I've never had one steal a dime from me. I have plenty of black men & women steal from me doing business. OMG have they stolen from me if they get half a chance. That's fact, not racism. How much? I'd say well over 100K over the past 30 years. Well over 100K.

So I don't do business with black people anymore? Nope, in fact I own a bunch of houses and every one of them has a black family in it. In fact I recently helped get a black man out of jail. He was in for a violent related crime. I don't think he did it, which is why I helped him get out.

Sure you want to go into the immigrants? Especially the muslim bit. They have a history and they'll tell you that's how they take over countries. Come in, they don't assimilate, they take over. That's what they're doing in Europe with their enclaves and that's what they're doing here. Not that far from me in Virginia there's an enclave that I can't go to. Even though it's supposedly a public area. Little by little they take over areas, governments, put in Sharia law and then it's theirs. Resist and they kill you. In France there are a lot of no go zones. This is something Europeans fought for centuries to keep out and now they're welcoming them and even paying them to come. The stupidity of the young.

So let's talk about the Mexicans. Do you watch the fake news or the real news that'll tell you about how they have done DNA tests on these kids and can prove they are NOT related to the adults that brought them in? Child trafficking, sex slavery. They will claim they are their kids right up until the DNA test proves they aren't. Plenty of MS13, which is a big problem in PG County, right next to Washington DC. They murder a lot of people. In fact you have to murder someone to become a member. So why isn't it ok to talk about this? Sure there are people not like that, however there are a lot that are. We have laws about this. Why isn't it ok to enforce these laws? Why penalize the people that came in legally? Why are so many people duped by this.

I know about racism. I grew up with it. There was a city about 5 miles from mine that had a guard shack to prevent entry, Jews, Blacks were not welcome nor allowed in. I think the shack was removed in 1972. Black people couldn't buy in most neighbourhoods, only certain areas. Go south a little bit and they had separate bathrooms, separate water fountains for black people. As if they had a disease or something. Black people had a guide for how to travel. It was called the Green book. A black man could end up dead without it. No kidding. Black people couldn't get certain jobs. Can you imagine that? It's charging black people more to barrow money than the same situation white person. It's not showing a black man the same houses as the white woman. Same financials, she's white, he's black, shown different neighbourhoods. That's what racism is like. So who passed these laws, usually refe

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S2 has about 14 solar masses, but it passes relatively close to the galaxy's central black hole (about 4x the distance from our sun to Neptune). Its orbital period is just 16 years despite having a semi-major axis about 970x that of the Earth (about 32x bigger than Neptune's orbit). The Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics put together an animation of the previous decade of observations (1992-2013). You can see how it whips around the black hole at closest approach.

So in the 50s a mathematician named David Hestenes developed a new branch of math called Geometric Algebra (based upon Clifford Algebras) which could subsume all of the different algebras used by physicists (and many others too). Additionally, it can handle contravariance and covariance, any positive integer number of dimensions, and handle algebras over imaginary numbers. Quantum Loop Gravity uses Geometric Algebra for instance. The problem is that Geometric Algebra isn't taught yet except perhaps at a post-doc level to mathematicians. The first textbook covering GA for Computer Science was just published in 2017. There are hopes that reformulating physics in to GA will allow unifications that were either not possible or too difficult when each part of physics uses different types of algebras.

The problem with all of this? GA is really really really hard. There is even an extension to GA called Geometric Calculus that's even more difficult. Given how difficult most students find VA which is much easier than GA, I'm not sure when we can expect most physics to make new theories using GA instead of VA. But when we can climb that hill, we will likely be able to see new physics on the other side. There are also a great many CS applications of GA as well (which is what I do).

My take on TFA, is that this physicist is going down a wrong path because she was never taught GA. If she finds something, it will likely have to be converted into GA to unify it with other algebras used in other parts of physics. But I could be wrong, who knows but some of the greatest physicists in history have gone down this specific rabbit hole with nothing to show for it at the end. I wish her luck.

Now adaptive optics have improved the resolution so much that they are able to track stars at the center of the galaxy. This is through all the intervening dust and closer stars obstructing the view.

Here is a video showing the tracked motion of the stars orbiting our central black hole, including S2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gggKHvfGw

It's about 20 seconds worth, but uses data spanning the 90's and early 00's, gathered from telescopes using adaptive optics.

That data was the first time 20-ish years ago S2 was observed at the 17 light-hour distance from the black hole.
The latest data is the second observation of its orbit at this point, but now with many more telescopes and with much more sensitive instruments.

It's also worth noting that the testing of the theory of relativity done this time was simply not possible before.

In the 20-ish year time between observing this event, we have advanced from a simple optical observation in the infrared wavelength of a single 8 meter instrument, to the latest observation using four separate 8 meter instruments plus another two 10 meter telescopes that when combined can collect enough photons to determine the stars redshift!

I for one can't wait to see how far technology will be improved by the time S2 orbits again.

Literally in the same video: the MacBook Pro is the slowest i9 of a group of laptops seemingly because they chose to be very conservative on their fan spinning up and the thermal solution is simply no better than the other laptops. That sounds amazingly like a "by design". Either that or it's gross incompetence running at 67% the speed of the top laptop.

Now, admittedly three of the laptops are rather thin and they all run closer to the 2.9Ghz base clock; but that just seems to further double down the "by design" aspect of it. So now it's thermal throttling, just not below base clock. For a lot of people, that may well be acceptable. But to me it still demonstrates insufficient cooling.

PS - Seriously, they tout up to 4.8GHz* for the i9 model. So, either way they're wrong. You can see another video on throttling that does a fan override with relatively little effect. And then an update with the fix is underwhelming. The fix the bug that makes it go below base clock. Wooo..

* Yes, that's only on one core but as the other video shows as long as they're not being throttled cores can average up to 4.3GHz.

Literally in the same video: the MacBook Pro is the slowest i9 of a group of laptops seemingly because they chose to be very conservative on their fan spinning up and the thermal solution is simply no better than the other laptops. That sounds amazingly like a "by design". Either that or it's gross incompetence running at 67% the speed of the top laptop.

Now, admittedly three of the laptops are rather thin and they all run closer to the 2.9Ghz base clock; but that just seems to further double down the "by design" aspect of it. So now it's thermal throttling, just not below base clock. For a lot of people, that may well be acceptable. But to me it still demonstrates insufficient cooling.

PS - Seriously, they tout up to 4.8GHz* for the i9 model. So, either way they're wrong. You can see another video on throttling that does a fan override with relatively little effect. And then an update with the fix is underwhelming. The fix the bug that makes it go below base clock. Wooo..

* Yes, that's only on one core but as the other video shows as long as they're not being throttled cores can average up to 4.3GHz.

How do you mentally imagine 20 trillion of anything?

I imagine sand grains in Sahara.

Mueller hasn't found anything so much as probable suspicion that a crime was committed

People keep saying that like they know exactly what he has.

Again, we do know exactly what he has: nothing. Otherwise he wouldn't have to keep propping up his "investigation" with manufactured perjury charges, indictments that have nothing to do with Trump or Russia, or indictments of people who will never see the inside of a courtroom. Because if he had something, it would have been presented by now to show cause. The only other possibly is actually worse for Russiagaters: Mueller actually has real evidence that Russia engaged in hacking and colluded with Trump to steal the election, evidence that Mueller is sitting on, which means he's protecting a traitor in the Oval Office.

Heads Russiagaters lose, tails Russiagaters lose.

You can pretend whatever you'd like, but it's simply a fact that one or more of his indictments are in fact relating to Russian interference and communication by Russian government officials and/or agents with the Trump campaign. That's just a simple fact.

It's a fact that treating a federal indictment as proof of anything is a joke, as federal grand juries are under the complete control and direction of federal prosecutors. Mueller could get a grand jury to indict Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, or Jimmy Hoffa Sr. Notice how Mueller was caught completely by surprise, and completely unprepared for the lawyers that showed up to defend the Twitter troll company in court. Putin also called the FBI's bluff by offering to allow agents to question the named Russian officials in Russia if the FBI would show its evidence.

If you want to act like it's perfectly fine that Trump is there to support Russia and Putin against the interests of the US, great.

Trump has been vastly more confrontation with Russia than Obama ever was - and Obama had the highest number of troops sent to Eastern Europe since WWII and overthrew a country on Russia's doorstep. Trump has signed onto new sanctions, expelled a record number of Russian diplomats, is arming literal neo-Nazis in Ukraine, has artillery in range of St. Petersburg, and a Navy fleet deployed to the Black Sea. I swear you guys would still be calling Trump a "Putin puppet" if Trump had ICBM's in the air on their way to Moscow.

Not when the probe has no justification for being, and is a grotesque perversion of our entire justice system.

That's an interesting justification, I don't hear that from the party apparatus much.

Probable suspicion > probable cause > investigation > warrants > court hearings. That's how this shit is supposed to work. Not take the hairbrained theory from some butthurt Hillbots looking to swiftboat Hillary's Russia problems (Uranium One, Steele Dossier) onto her opponent and pretend that is probable cause that a crime occurred with Trump and Russia.

It sounds like they're trying to discredit the investigation completely on purely partisan grounds

It's all partisan. But Republicans have perfectly good points to make: if collusion with Russia is bad, why isn't Hillary under indictment for collusion with foreign intelligence agents to swing a general election (paying for Steele Dossier). Why is the FBI refusing to cooperate with congressional oversight. Why was Trump being spied on before the government's stated reasons for doing so.

as if the United States has not and is not currently being attacked by Russia, which it is.

But it's not. Russia is the same country it was in 2012, when the same Democrats and media endlessly braying today about Trump and Russia endlessly mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat. 2012, w

You're right. I declined to participate in your wild goose chase.

You mean you're going to play the stubborn jackass card when confronted with the massive plot holes in your storyline. As the AC said, you. simply. can. not. at the same time say that the Russian's waged a potent cyberattack on an election yet at the same time say having the FBI examine the target of said cyberattack is of no importance. It simply can't be done.

Not only does this stand out for people who have remedial bullshit detectors after Iraq, it should upset partisan who are true believers in Russiagate. Why, there could have been the old KGB telnet handle from Pootie Poot himself buried in some encrypted memory, if only the FBI had access to the hardware to analyze it....

Also Mueller has no connection to the DNC server -- dude left the FBI 3 years before that. Try to keep up.

And now you're just babbling incoherently. That Comey should have immediately subpoenaed the servers as soon as the DNC made the allegation does not change the fact that Mueller should have immediately subpoenaed them as soon as he was appointed.

It met the measure of your attacks against the indictment.

Continued delusions are noted.

Shouldn't Trump be calling Mueller's bluff? Oh wait, he can't -- Michael McFaul had diplomatic immunity and is no longer a government employee so Trump can't do jack to accept the deal (nevermind his own party crucifying him for even considering it).

McFaul is a non sequitur. As for calling Mueller's bluff, Trump could have told him to put up or STFU with evidence of collusion or be fired. But given how the media and Democrats started throwing around not just obstruction of justice charges but the "I" word for just discussing Mueller's termination, that would just be playing into their hands.

Viewed your link, didn't see any evidence that Mueller lied me into the Iraq war.

Is your partisan blindness fusion powered? Mueller is right there, on video, lying about WMD's. Doesn't get clearer than that.

Sorry, nothing I can share, my work has an internal video seminar put together by some of the developers some years ago.

This excellent blog on LaTeX hasn't been updated in many years, but the information is bite-sized tips relevant for typical office tasks.

There is a 6 part series on LaTeX designed for mathematics students that is helpful as well. It's not amazing or anything, but walks you through the basics and gives quite a bit of background to someone completely new.

Running something like TeXStudio helps too, it will prompt you as you type to help you fill in tags.

Oh and here

*Quad* SLI (4x GPUs) Titan XP with 12GB GDDR5X minimum required to do 4K at 144 FPS in Crysis 3, a *five year old* game.

For comparison:
A single Titan XP GPU has 3840 shader cores, 240 TMUs, 96 ROPs and 12GB of GDDR5X
A single GTX 1080 GPU has 2560 shader cores, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs and 8GB GDDR5X

In other words, you're fucking delusional.

The issue is not that 5G and satellite is being introduced, it's the drivel you posted about it being less maintenance and more reliable than fibre:

First of all, 5G depends on fibre. But in addition to possible fibre breaks, you also have to deal with the following:
Atmospheric conditions including, but not limited to, dust, rain, snow, hail.
Wildlife nesting/hoarding in antennas( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)
Traffic degradation not just in bandwidth but also latency-wise, as with all wireless.

And for satellite, it's even more susceptible to atmospheric conditions, and will have worse bandwidth and latency issues in practice.

Sure, an algorithm that trips with every GOP and no Dems isn't biased at all

It may surprise you to learn that less than 100% of GOP accounts are affected, and more than 0% of Democratic accounts are affected. I know it's comforting to think you live in a binary world, but you don't.

Although, if you'd like an example of the difference between conservative and liberal discourse, there's a pretty good example that's the latest in a long trend. It used to be that conservatives were reading and sharing obviously fake stories on obviously fake sites because fact checking is completely foreign to them, and those same fake news peddlers admitted that targeting liberal audiences did not work because it got called out immediately as fake. If you want proof that still happens, and maybe is the reason why conservatives tend to be blocked more than liberals (call it a deficiency in determining facts if you'd like), watch Sacha Baron Cohen's new show on Showtime. You'll notice that he has Bernie Sanders and Ted Koppel. He doesn't get far with either of them. Bernie Sanders asks him almost immediately if the motorized scooter means he is actually disabled, and Sacha says he is not disabled, just lazy, and Bernie figures out pretty quickly that this guy isn't serious. Ted Koppel straight up says this is a waste of time. Then look at some of the conservatives he's got. There's a string of current and former US congressmen and gun lobbyists filming an advertisement for a program that will arm kindergarteners with guns (what do Trent Lott, Larry Pratt, Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Joe Wilson, and Joe Walsh have in common? see for yourself). There's a Georgia lawmaker shouting the n-word and running around with his pants down, and the lovely residents of Kingman here in AZ can't figure out that the largest mosque in the world might not actually be planned for a town with a population of less than 30,000 (but they make sure you know they don't like black people). No one stops to ask who this person is, look up his name online to see if he actually exists, get details about the project, etc, they're all just so fired up over the prospect of the mosque that they completely dive in and start raging. Maybe differences like these between conservatives and liberals are why conservatives tend to end up on the losing end of bans and so-called "censorship." Maybe a little more critical thinking could help.

Not true at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seriously, Apple has a long history of arguing stuff is "by design" which rationally shouldn't be. It's an argument that's nearly unfalsifiable.

Except they didn't claim it was by design, they admitted it was a bug, and they already fixed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Frankly, whenever a political "discussion" (not so much in the classical sense of an exchange of ideas and debate, more akin to a Jerry Springer show) happens here on /., the only thing you can sensibly do is grab a bag of popcorn and watch both sides of the fence yell increasingly ridiculous bullshit at each other, and enjoy the growing amusement of how The Party managed to trick the population into going at each other's throat instead of addressing the problem.

The only thing that comes to my mind when it comes to US politics is this song.

Got to share that classic funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's likely illegal as well. News agencies are supposed to give both sides equal coverage, So purposely hiding search results for RNC candidates is likely breaking that. Whether Twitter and other social media outlets want to call themselves a news source, the fact is a lot of people are getting their "news" through these platforms so they should keep balanced.

Just more of social media being used to meddle with the election process.

Yeh, it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is what you're incorrectly referring to. The fact is, it's most likely because of the racist, bigoted, misogynistic bullshit that flows freely from republican politicians. Maybe, you should try electing people who aren't fucking worthless pieces of shit.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 'nuff said.

we should hold animal auditions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

An analogy from Dr. Strange (great flick, & in a way? Reflects MY life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization: The sorcerors (programmers) of antiquity called the use of this language 'spells' BUT if that 'offends' your 'modern sensibilities'? You can call it a program. The sourcecode that SHAPES REALITY - we harness energy drawn from OTHER DIMENSIONS OF THE MULTIVERSE (other sites) to cast spells, to conjure shields to make MAGIC!"

* I hope you have the sensitivity to understand...

(... & UNLIKE many here? @ least YOU SHOW INITIATIVE...)

APK

P.S.=> ... & I am a HUGE fan of that & RESPECT it (but NOT your choices of 'weapons' you're using (think it over))... apk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh but this is Hannity so these quote aren't real

C&C Server? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ya like when apple said it was not throttling iphones

Ya like when a YouTuber discovered that Apple's new laptop was throttling excessively and then Apple said they'd fix it in a patch and then a day later they did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It might be small but still delivers kick ass results even vs my A7s. GH5s available light ISO 12800. 1080 didn't use 4k yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Not as sharp as it should be since I was shooting wide open F1.8

Seems like we didn't have to wait for long for an answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Again, if you can prove that this software fix actually resolves the problem and doesn't merely mitigate it, then I'll retract the above.

... ?

Former head of the FBI for 12 years, appointed by the Trump DOJ, endorsed by Republicans [usatoday.com] back when this whole process started.

You say that like its supposed to mean something. It means nothing when the FBI has been a ratfucking outfit since its inception, and establishment Republicans (who tended to endorse Hillary if they weren't running themselves) hate Trump. And just as Flint still doesn't have clean water, Mueller still hasn't bothered to examine the DNC server, the alleged hacking of which he's now issuing indictments for. You simply cannot fit that square peg in a round hole.

Preach brother! You've disproven the indictment by timing and irrelevant hyperbole alone! All who disagree with you have less than a couple of functioning neurons!

Your attempt to substitute lazy hand waving and sarcasm for an actual response is noted.

Because the tale is that Putin offered to allow Mueller to observe interviews conducted by Russian officials in Russia

Yes, interrogate the accused Russians with other Russians present.

If the Special Counsel really wants to get to the bottom of this, Putin went on, he should team up with Russian law enforcement to catch these hypothetical meddlers.

Roh roh.

if the Russians could question "U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and 10 other 'U.S. officials and intelligence agents

That's how quid pro quos work - all the while calling out Mueller's bluff and pointing out how hypocritical the US is in "meddling" with other countries. Now, if you want to go on kicking the football for the same people that lied you into the Iraq war, now with even less evidence (and by less I mean zero), go ahead - but try not to drag the rest of the world into nuclear war while you're at it, mmmkay?