Re:The OS is good, but the hardware pushes me away
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Thunderbolt is still way slower than PCIe x16 which video cards need to reliably be able to swap texture data into and out of main memory. You might be able to get away with it for some titles but I doubt you will be able to enjoy the AAA titles with gobs of high rez textures.
I actually don't see sigs. It wasn't abundantly clear what you were exactly saying in that sentence vs what the parent poster was asking. In reality freight is a business, if rail could enable people to make more money than they would have done so long ago. The whole "rail can move more" sounds more like wishful thinking than reality. If it were truth then you would see less O/O's running coast to coast. The problem lies in the fact that the freight business is so dynamic that trucks offer much greater flexibility than rail. Rail does have bulk on its side but LTL and even truckload carries cant use rail for a majority of their business.
"Not going to happen dude what you wish for can already be done by train."
Please stop with this "trains can replace trucks" nonsense. You obviously don't understand the transportation industry so please do some research. Local, regional, long haul, truckload, Less than load, parcel, small package, expedited, vocational, specialized haul, heavy haul, private, not for hire etc. etc. These are all various branches of the trucking industry and they either dont or cant overlap with the rail industry.
50 hours combined! So If I understand this correctly, between the two, they each spend about 25 hours on facebook per week. This would average out to just over 3.5 hours per day. Now I use facebook, sparingly, but I usually spend no more than 15-20 minutes when I check it. and that is about 4 or 5 times per week.
Agreed. I have always wanted a bathroom with central drain and the ability to quickly wash down the bathroom. Behind the toilet always gets grimey as well as the area just under and behind the seat hinge. It could also allow for a smaller bathroom with a shower head hanging from the ceiling. Just stand and shower right in the middle, no need for a stall. Hell wouldn't it be even better if you could sit on the bowl and shower at the same time? That would save some time in the morning. Bonus if the bathroom could double as a sauna.
There are a few women working the packer trucks (rear load garbage trucks) in the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY). I have seen them.
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You have a very good point. Someone posts a scary story. Story is posted and people go ape shit about loss of freedoms, discrimination, etc. But how do we know its true? I am not dismissing it but look at the frenzy of replies where everyone read a story and did not stop to think "is this true"? Same thing happens on facebook where people share scary or touching stories with little proof of their truth.
Goes to show you the power the Internet can have to sway public opinion. We live in an age where people have mostly abandoned critical thinking and take things for face value. And the internet allows such false stories to spread like wildfire across the globe. In the old days such stories were old wives tales and were local to villages or towns. Reminds me of a story someone shared on facebook about a secret meeting between record execs and prison execs to make gangsta rap more popular so blacks would emulate the music and fill the prisons up to make the prison companies more money. The kicker was the storyteller was a supposed attendee of the meeting but was so afraid for his life that he refused to name any names (including his own) or locations. No proof whatsoever and hundreds of comments were posted from people who believed the story and expressed outrage and anger. Its really sad.
Werner Enterprises , a trucking company, has the million miler club with 1, 2, 3 and 4 million mile clubs.They mark when a driver has driven 1 million or more accident free miles, in a semi. So your 300k is not much to brag about.
" It isn't just 'the government' doing the bad stuff, unless you ride your bike everywhere and have solar panels like me, you are part of the problem too."
Just shut the fuck up. Unless you live in a hut you fashioned out of materials you harvested by hand, hunt with spear or bow and arrow you hand made and farm your own food then you are also part of the problem. Stop acting like a childish, finger pointing pussy because you think you have environmental immunity. You don't.
My current car is a nice old Honda Civic EX with a 5 speed. Its way more fun to drive the manual BUT if you get stuck in traffic it becomes a boat anchor. MY advice is to keep the manual for a weekend driver and an auto for daily commutes.
Its laughable that anyone would would think a clone would be just as capable as the genetic "parent". Cloned Lennon (CL) could turn out to be a carpenter who hates the Beatles, or a PHD physicist who listens to Death Metal. There is no guarantee that he will be able to fill his genetic parents shoes as what makes a person is more than just genes. Where he grew up, his parents, peers, teachers, period music, life experiences are what shaped and made John Lennon *John Lennon*. Hell he could also be born with birth defects or genetic disorders that make him incapable of anything or die a young death. Its a total gamble.
Stress is the main theme of my post. Mostly because it reflects my life and many of my friends lives. I put on about 20 pounds over the past five years working an engineering job and I am getting weary. Deadlines, an asshole of a boss, coworkers with nepotism privileges and asshole coworkers make for an overall negative working environment. I can deal with the coworkers but when you sum it all up the stress it creates is more harmful than its worth. Pay is good but at the end of the day when you don't do much for yourself, what good is money? I even broke up with my last girlfriend because of this gig. Its time to quit and I am doing just that.
My story is echoed over and over again in this country (USA) and probably just about every other developed nation.
Here is what is making people fat: (tl/dr: Sugar, cheap & plentiful fatty foods, sedentary lifestyle, stress and distracting entertainment)
Sugar - Everything is pumped so full of sugar its almost unbearable. Soda, juices candies are big sources of sugar. And that was a result of cheaper high fructose corn syrup which is added to make the food item more appealing. Just think of how much sugar in in the 2 to 4 cups of coffee you drink per day when you order it with some sweetener or flavor. You can't even buy a supposedly healthy fruit juice without it being loaded with as much sugar as a soda. I drink fresh brewed iced tea, either green tea with a bit of honey added or regular black tea both with fresh lemon. Very refreshing, a thirst quencher and good for you. I cut out soda a few years back though I do enjoy a Coke every now and then as a treat.
Low quality food - Animal fats and carbs. Two things that our body can use for nutrition but eat in too large of quantities. Our brains are also wired to enjoy savory foods through evolution to ensure we ingest enough protein. But we are overexposed to such foods and are over indulging in them as as a result. Food is cheap and plentiful in developed nations and bad food is the cheapest food. We have restaurants serving up boatloads of fatty foods loaded with carbs. Fast food is notorious for this because most of them are burger joints serving up fatty meat on a carb bun and carb fries soaked in more fat. And to top it off its cheap and fast. when you're stressed out, running around all day, have a deadline, boss harping on you, it can become overwhelming and eating can help relieve stress. So you run to McBurgerdys and pick up a triple bypass bacon cheese burger with a side of fat fries and wash it down with a tub of sugar water. Its too easy to get a hold of this junk. I am guilty of this along with many many others. I try to cook but too often am I distracted by stress to deal with it.
Sedentary lifestyle - We have many jobs where a worker sits in a chair all day. Once they return home they are burnt out by stress (see below) and plop down on a couch in front of the TV. The only time they may have free time is on weekends providing they aren't burnt out from family or partying. Life is way too fast paced and full of stress and problems.
Stress - Work, trying to make ends meet family etc all contribute to mental stress which slows people down. You escape by watching TV, playing Video games, surfing the web or some other hobby. Some hobbies involve exercise but for a majority, it doesn't. rush rush rush! go go go! now now now! This is mentality killing us. Then throw in the shitty economy where the cost of living is outpacing many peoples income.
Entertainment - We are at a point where entertainment is on demand and interactive. People get lost for hours watching TV, playing video games or surfing the web. Its too easy to plop in front of the TV or computer and be immersed in an alternate world where we can escape the daily stress of our lives. The real world sucks but video games offer an alternate world where we play a hero or are at the top of the gaming food chain. BOOM headshot! Take that bitch! Feels good doesn't it? Better than typing up TPS reports, meeting deadlines, hunting down bugs etc. Fuck work. That is why you have people who lose jobs, spouses and even their lives. The virtual world is better than the real world. And TV is the same thing, we follow an immersive story or laugh at jokes and gags which take us away from our stressful lives. Before Radio, TV and video games many people drowned their stress in alcohol at local pubs. People are always looking to escape.
I am sure when your house is burning down and you are trapped, the last thing you want to worry about is your dong hitting the net. Even if it did how bad could it be?
Maybe this is perhaps a sign of severe depression rather than simply suicide. I read the article and depression wasn't mentioned until the end and only briefly. Happy people don't kill themselves.
I lived in New York city and owning a car is somewhat of a headache is you don't have a driveway. And many homes built in NYC have driveways so small you're lucky if a mini cooper can fit down the damn thing (built years ago before the majority of people had garages.) And there are plenty of homes and apartment buildings built without driveways and parking garages. Then add to that the rampant building of brick shit box homes which have three - two family homes built on a lot that previously held a one family home with yard and driveway. Parking is a total mess, a nightmare really.
I would prefer if the car market were turned into an on demand limo or taxi service. Newer apartment buildings should have a garage full of these cars so dwellers can pull out their phone and have a car waiting out front. No more insurance payments, worrying about needing AAA, oil changes or other maintenance problems. You pay per mile or by time and can be safely shuttled around. Many neighborhoods in big cities have plenty of shopping nearby and bigger shopping centers reachable by train or bus. But trains and busses cannot directly drive you anywhere. You have to transfer and more often than not you have some really grimey people riding them (I have had a bunch of problems riding the busses and trains during high school days, guns, muggings and pervs.) Bicycles are a good alternative for transport but with shitty drivers on the road and roads not suitable for bikes it can get hairy.
Most of the the big Unix vendors have either switched to Linux or offer Linux as an alternative (eg IBM). Apples OSX since Leopard has received official "Open Brand UNIX 03" certification. iOS is not mentioned and most likely is not certified as the certification is unnecessary. But iOS is still based on OSX which is Unix certified and before certification, Unix like. Open Solaris was the only truly open source Unix but Oracle put a stop to that. Now OpenIndiana and illumos have replaced them and I don't believe they can carry the Unix brand.
Unix like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, and to a lesser extent, BSD have replaced commercial Unix operating systems. They both provide two of the most critical parts of Unix: POSIX and X windows. From there many programs originally written for a major commercial Unix vendor be it IBM's AIX or SGI's IRIX can quickly be ported to Linux or BSD with minimal effort. Just look at what Linux can run on: * Embedded systems with tens of MHz and a few megs of ram to the worlds largest supercomputers with thousands of nodes. * Just about every every high powered ARM embedded electronics hobby board runs Linux such as the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone UDOO and others. * Linux is also pushing into hard real time markets previously dominated by QNX, LynxOS and VxWorks. National Instruments now has an ARM version of their CompactRIO running real-time Linux. Previously they used an embedded Power CPU from Freescale running VxWorks. * The Linux kernel is the foundation for Android which is dominating the smartphone and tablet market.
Hacker: I found a major exploit in your system. Here are the details. Facebook engineers: (to themselves) Shit, he may be right but we can't reproduce it and we don't want to get into trouble. Just sweep it under the rug. Hacker: I filed a major bug report and you didn't respond, here are more details in case you needed more help. Facebook engineers: (to themselves) Oh fuck. That is going to be a lot of work to fix. File this one under the rug again. I hope I get a better offer from Google or Apple before the shit hits the fan. Hacker: (hacks Zuckerberg's account) That will get their attention. Zuckerberg to FB engineers: WHAT THE FUCK! How did this happen! I want answers now or heads start rolling! FB engineers: Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit... contact that guy and see what he did ASAP! Oh god oh god oh god.......... Facebook/Zuckerberg: This is a major embarrassment but I still don't want to give that little bastard any credit for exposing our laziness. Reward denied.
I had my CC number stolen about four months ago. By the time I received the fraud alert email the thieves already spent $1200. Eight hundred something at an Apple store, two hundred something at a walgreens and another one hundred something from a CVS. The fraud alert was for a buck fifty parking garage charge which was their test to see if the card was valid. Bank thankfully took care of everything and issued me a new card.
Exactly, the idea being that a refrigerant like R134a (used in just about every auto air conditioner and other systems) has a high rate of heat rejection and absorption. R134 is compressed and liquified in the high pressure side of the system which causes it to rapidly dump its heat (the condenser coil or "hot coil".) From there it is allowed to bleed into the low pressure side through an expansion valve or orifice tube where it vaporizes and rapidly absorbs heat (the evaporator coil or "cold coil".) Liquid R134 by itself is a poor cooling fluid.
This will never be for everyone - some people can't use modal programs - and maybe it will never work in every context (Can it talk to my 20 year old Tektronix oscilloscope over GPIB?) but the video showed it can work."
You shouldn't have a problem with GPIB since that relies on calls to a GPIB lib for your host adapter and also knowing the GPIB command set for your scope. GPIB is ancient but well documented and well supported in most popular operating systems and programming languages.
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Thunderbolt is still way slower than PCIe x16 which video cards need to reliably be able to swap texture data into and out of main memory. You might be able to get away with it for some titles but I doubt you will be able to enjoy the AAA titles with gobs of high rez textures.
I actually don't see sigs. It wasn't abundantly clear what you were exactly saying in that sentence vs what the parent poster was asking. In reality freight is a business, if rail could enable people to make more money than they would have done so long ago. The whole "rail can move more" sounds more like wishful thinking than reality. If it were truth then you would see less O/O's running coast to coast. The problem lies in the fact that the freight business is so dynamic that trucks offer much greater flexibility than rail. Rail does have bulk on its side but LTL and even truckload carries cant use rail for a majority of their business.
"Not going to happen dude what you wish for can already be done by train."
Please stop with this "trains can replace trucks" nonsense. You obviously don't understand the transportation industry so please do some research. Local, regional, long haul, truckload, Less than load, parcel, small package, expedited, vocational, specialized haul, heavy haul, private, not for hire etc. etc. These are all various branches of the trucking industry and they either dont or cant overlap with the rail industry.
50 hours combined! So If I understand this correctly, between the two, they each spend about 25 hours on facebook per week. This would average out to just over 3.5 hours per day. Now I use facebook, sparingly, but I usually spend no more than 15-20 minutes when I check it. and that is about 4 or 5 times per week.
Agreed. I have always wanted a bathroom with central drain and the ability to quickly wash down the bathroom. Behind the toilet always gets grimey as well as the area just under and behind the seat hinge. It could also allow for a smaller bathroom with a shower head hanging from the ceiling. Just stand and shower right in the middle, no need for a stall. Hell wouldn't it be even better if you could sit on the bowl and shower at the same time? That would save some time in the morning. Bonus if the bathroom could double as a sauna.
What does being white have to do with anything? Seriously, I want to know.
There are a few women working the packer trucks (rear load garbage trucks) in the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY). I have seen them.
You have a very good point. Someone posts a scary story. Story is posted and people go ape shit about loss of freedoms, discrimination, etc. But how do we know its true? I am not dismissing it but look at the frenzy of replies where everyone read a story and did not stop to think "is this true"? Same thing happens on facebook where people share scary or touching stories with little proof of their truth.
Goes to show you the power the Internet can have to sway public opinion. We live in an age where people have mostly abandoned critical thinking and take things for face value. And the internet allows such false stories to spread like wildfire across the globe. In the old days such stories were old wives tales and were local to villages or towns. Reminds me of a story someone shared on facebook about a secret meeting between record execs and prison execs to make gangsta rap more popular so blacks would emulate the music and fill the prisons up to make the prison companies more money. The kicker was the storyteller was a supposed attendee of the meeting but was so afraid for his life that he refused to name any names (including his own) or locations. No proof whatsoever and hundreds of comments were posted from people who believed the story and expressed outrage and anger. Its really sad.
Werner Enterprises , a trucking company, has the million miler club with 1, 2, 3 and 4 million mile clubs.They mark when a driver has driven 1 million or more accident free miles, in a semi. So your 300k is not much to brag about.
" It isn't just 'the government' doing the bad stuff, unless you ride your bike everywhere and have solar panels like me, you are part of the problem too."
Just shut the fuck up. Unless you live in a hut you fashioned out of materials you harvested by hand, hunt with spear or bow and arrow you hand made and farm your own food then you are also part of the problem. Stop acting like a childish, finger pointing pussy because you think you have environmental immunity. You don't.
My current car is a nice old Honda Civic EX with a 5 speed. Its way more fun to drive the manual BUT if you get stuck in traffic it becomes a boat anchor. MY advice is to keep the manual for a weekend driver and an auto for daily commutes.
Its laughable that anyone would would think a clone would be just as capable as the genetic "parent". Cloned Lennon (CL) could turn out to be a carpenter who hates the Beatles, or a PHD physicist who listens to Death Metal. There is no guarantee that he will be able to fill his genetic parents shoes as what makes a person is more than just genes. Where he grew up, his parents, peers, teachers, period music, life experiences are what shaped and made John Lennon *John Lennon*. Hell he could also be born with birth defects or genetic disorders that make him incapable of anything or die a young death. Its a total gamble.
Easier said than done.
Stress is the main theme of my post. Mostly because it reflects my life and many of my friends lives. I put on about 20 pounds over the past five years working an engineering job and I am getting weary. Deadlines, an asshole of a boss, coworkers with nepotism privileges and asshole coworkers make for an overall negative working environment. I can deal with the coworkers but when you sum it all up the stress it creates is more harmful than its worth. Pay is good but at the end of the day when you don't do much for yourself, what good is money? I even broke up with my last girlfriend because of this gig. Its time to quit and I am doing just that.
My story is echoed over and over again in this country (USA) and probably just about every other developed nation.
Here is what is making people fat: (tl/dr: Sugar, cheap & plentiful fatty foods, sedentary lifestyle, stress and distracting entertainment)
Sugar - Everything is pumped so full of sugar its almost unbearable. Soda, juices candies are big sources of sugar. And that was a result of cheaper high fructose corn syrup which is added to make the food item more appealing. Just think of how much sugar in in the 2 to 4 cups of coffee you drink per day when you order it with some sweetener or flavor. You can't even buy a supposedly healthy fruit juice without it being loaded with as much sugar as a soda. I drink fresh brewed iced tea, either green tea with a bit of honey added or regular black tea both with fresh lemon. Very refreshing, a thirst quencher and good for you. I cut out soda a few years back though I do enjoy a Coke every now and then as a treat.
Low quality food - Animal fats and carbs. Two things that our body can use for nutrition but eat in too large of quantities. Our brains are also wired to enjoy savory foods through evolution to ensure we ingest enough protein. But we are overexposed to such foods and are over indulging in them as as a result. Food is cheap and plentiful in developed nations and bad food is the cheapest food. We have restaurants serving up boatloads of fatty foods loaded with carbs. Fast food is notorious for this because most of them are burger joints serving up fatty meat on a carb bun and carb fries soaked in more fat. And to top it off its cheap and fast. when you're stressed out, running around all day, have a deadline, boss harping on you, it can become overwhelming and eating can help relieve stress. So you run to McBurgerdys and pick up a triple bypass bacon cheese burger with a side of fat fries and wash it down with a tub of sugar water. Its too easy to get a hold of this junk. I am guilty of this along with many many others. I try to cook but too often am I distracted by stress to deal with it.
Sedentary lifestyle - We have many jobs where a worker sits in a chair all day. Once they return home they are burnt out by stress (see below) and plop down on a couch in front of the TV. The only time they may have free time is on weekends providing they aren't burnt out from family or partying. Life is way too fast paced and full of stress and problems.
Stress - Work, trying to make ends meet family etc all contribute to mental stress which slows people down. You escape by watching TV, playing Video games, surfing the web or some other hobby. Some hobbies involve exercise but for a majority, it doesn't. rush rush rush! go go go! now now now! This is mentality killing us. Then throw in the shitty economy where the cost of living is outpacing many peoples income.
Entertainment - We are at a point where entertainment is on demand and interactive. People get lost for hours watching TV, playing video games or surfing the web. Its too easy to plop in front of the TV or computer and be immersed in an alternate world where we can escape the daily stress of our lives. The real world sucks but video games offer an alternate world where we play a hero or are at the top of the gaming food chain. BOOM headshot! Take that bitch! Feels good doesn't it? Better than typing up TPS reports, meeting deadlines, hunting down bugs etc. Fuck work. That is why you have people who lose jobs, spouses and even their lives. The virtual world is better than the real world. And TV is the same thing, we follow an immersive story or laugh at jokes and gags which take us away from our stressful lives. Before Radio, TV and video games many people drowned their stress in alcohol at local pubs. People are always looking to escape.
I am sure when your house is burning down and you are trapped, the last thing you want to worry about is your dong hitting the net. Even if it did how bad could it be?
Do you have a website? You have an interesting idea, but no platform to support it nor inform the people of it.
Maybe this is perhaps a sign of severe depression rather than simply suicide. I read the article and depression wasn't mentioned until the end and only briefly. Happy people don't kill themselves.
I lived in New York city and owning a car is somewhat of a headache is you don't have a driveway. And many homes built in NYC have driveways so small you're lucky if a mini cooper can fit down the damn thing (built years ago before the majority of people had garages.) And there are plenty of homes and apartment buildings built without driveways and parking garages. Then add to that the rampant building of brick shit box homes which have three - two family homes built on a lot that previously held a one family home with yard and driveway. Parking is a total mess, a nightmare really.
I would prefer if the car market were turned into an on demand limo or taxi service. Newer apartment buildings should have a garage full of these cars so dwellers can pull out their phone and have a car waiting out front. No more insurance payments, worrying about needing AAA, oil changes or other maintenance problems. You pay per mile or by time and can be safely shuttled around. Many neighborhoods in big cities have plenty of shopping nearby and bigger shopping centers reachable by train or bus. But trains and busses cannot directly drive you anywhere. You have to transfer and more often than not you have some really grimey people riding them (I have had a bunch of problems riding the busses and trains during high school days, guns, muggings and pervs.) Bicycles are a good alternative for transport but with shitty drivers on the road and roads not suitable for bikes it can get hairy.
Its more of a docking station than just a keyboard. As another poster stated, it has HDMI, a battery and USB ports.
The Steady Decline of Commercial Unix - FTFY
Most of the the big Unix vendors have either switched to Linux or offer Linux as an alternative (eg IBM). Apples OSX since Leopard has received official "Open Brand UNIX 03" certification. iOS is not mentioned and most likely is not certified as the certification is unnecessary. But iOS is still based on OSX which is Unix certified and before certification, Unix like. Open Solaris was the only truly open source Unix but Oracle put a stop to that. Now OpenIndiana and illumos have replaced them and I don't believe they can carry the Unix brand.
Unix like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, and to a lesser extent, BSD have replaced commercial Unix operating systems. They both provide two of the most critical parts of Unix: POSIX and X windows. From there many programs originally written for a major commercial Unix vendor be it IBM's AIX or SGI's IRIX can quickly be ported to Linux or BSD with minimal effort. Just look at what Linux can run on:
* Embedded systems with tens of MHz and a few megs of ram to the worlds largest supercomputers with thousands of nodes.
* Just about every every high powered ARM embedded electronics hobby board runs Linux such as the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone UDOO and others.
* Linux is also pushing into hard real time markets previously dominated by QNX, LynxOS and VxWorks. National Instruments now has an ARM version of their CompactRIO running real-time Linux. Previously they used an embedded Power CPU from Freescale running VxWorks.
* The Linux kernel is the foundation for Android which is dominating the smartphone and tablet market.
Hacker: I found a major exploit in your system. Here are the details.
Facebook engineers: (to themselves) Shit, he may be right but we can't reproduce it and we don't want to get into trouble. Just sweep it under the rug.
Hacker: I filed a major bug report and you didn't respond, here are more details in case you needed more help.
Facebook engineers: (to themselves) Oh fuck. That is going to be a lot of work to fix. File this one under the rug again. I hope I get a better offer from Google or Apple before the shit hits the fan.
Hacker: (hacks Zuckerberg's account) That will get their attention.
Zuckerberg to FB engineers: WHAT THE FUCK! How did this happen! I want answers now or heads start rolling!
FB engineers: Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit... contact that guy and see what he did ASAP! Oh god oh god oh god..........
Facebook/Zuckerberg: This is a major embarrassment but I still don't want to give that little bastard any credit for exposing our laziness. Reward denied.
I had my CC number stolen about four months ago. By the time I received the fraud alert email the thieves already spent $1200. Eight hundred something at an Apple store, two hundred something at a walgreens and another one hundred something from a CVS. The fraud alert was for a buck fifty parking garage charge which was their test to see if the card was valid. Bank thankfully took care of everything and issued me a new card.
Exactly, the idea being that a refrigerant like R134a (used in just about every auto air conditioner and other systems) has a high rate of heat rejection and absorption. R134 is compressed and liquified in the high pressure side of the system which causes it to rapidly dump its heat (the condenser coil or "hot coil".) From there it is allowed to bleed into the low pressure side through an expansion valve or orifice tube where it vaporizes and rapidly absorbs heat (the evaporator coil or "cold coil".) Liquid R134 by itself is a poor cooling fluid.
This will never be for everyone - some people can't use modal programs - and maybe it will never work in every context (Can it talk to my 20 year old Tektronix oscilloscope over GPIB?) but the video showed it can work."
You shouldn't have a problem with GPIB since that relies on calls to a GPIB lib for your host adapter and also knowing the GPIB command set for your scope. GPIB is ancient but well documented and well supported in most popular operating systems and programming languages.