The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered “bank tokens” as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.
The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.
Try RiscOS for a glimpse of a world most of us missed.
I’d also suspect there are things that may not be “learnable” – if you don’t have great spatial perception or colour vision, that might not really be a skill than can be practiced.
Copaganda drama with pop-up analysis from real legal experts. Includes corny Blind Date style graphics and bell that goes off every time Constitutional rights are violated.
Shark Tank, but the panel is four minimum wage workers and the guests are VCs who have to justify their current wealth.
A McLaughlin Group style panel discussion but one guest each week is an intentional novelty (reads ChatGPT responses verbatim, foreigner with know knowledge of local politics making it up on the fly, Marjorie Taylor Greene)
South Sesame Street, from the writers of The Wire.
I wonder if there’s a gacha aspect to it too, the way it says “pulled firat try”
You used to at least specifically choose the soulless gumball-eyed character you wanted
Four ears is a problem. It’s so hard to get four-channel headphones.
I read an interesting book recently- “Paved Paradise”- that basically blamed a lot of urban planning problems on there being too high mandates for parking:
The Very Busy Tactical.
I suspect it could be seen as a proper noun.
If Acme and FooCorp create a bridge between their private network spaces, it’s an internet (common noun) but not the Internet (proper noun, referring to the one with Goatse).
Let’s find an English teacher. And yell at them for forcing us to read the same terrible novel in both 10th and 12th grades. Maybe after that, return to this subject.
I just want to throw money at JLCPCB with some clear idea of how much money I need to throw.
I’d say it’s a bad thing because it’s the wrong threat model as a default.
More home users are in scenarios like “I spilled a can of Diet Sprite into my laptop, can someone yank the SSD and recover my cat pictures” than “Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat”. Encryption makes the first scenario a lot harder to easily recover from, and people with explicit high security needs should opt into it or have organization-managed configs.
Does the USA make a $25 aftermarket PS2-style controller to steer it with?
It will even be covered in orange stains like when Kyle ate Cheetos before borrowing it.
There is the technical argument that PoS was more energy efficient than running data centres full of ASICs or sometimes GPUs solely to produce proof-of-work.
It’s still different flavours of Let’s Prentend We’re Finance Except Without Grownup Boring Rules, but if we can avoid burning gigawatts and puffing the cost of GPUs, there’s a case for it.
Even the Grinch didn’t go on TV to tell peoole he was stealing Christmas.
I thought the appeal of fentanyl was that it was so cheap to produce that you didn’t need to cut it with other drugs.
To be honest, I’m amazed it took til Biden before we saw more pressure on TSMC as a flashpoint.
Even if we’re on nominal good terms because they’re a capitalist democracy, nobody likes single points of failure (earthquakes and industrial disasters happen even without geopolitical tensions)
But we’ve handled it miserably-- throw some money at Intel who can’t innovate out of their gilded cage anymore, and try to get a few TSMC facilities stateside-- when we should have been trying to completely diversify the supply chains with new players and new geographies.
In fact, it’s amazing that we lost the concept of second sourcing. That ensured no one vendor held you hostage. Like 8 different firms made 8088s, on up to the 486, but after that it dried up fast. You saw a few IBM badged Cyrix 6x86s, but who else sells a pin-compatible Ryzen?
I hope once China gets far enough up on the tech curve, they see distributing fab tech as a BRI programme. No reason your next bag of 74LS04s, or the 30-cent MCU in your thermostat, can’t be made on a 28nm fab in Burkina Faso.
The Global Foundries split was probably a way to get AMD out of the hyper-capital-intensive fab business. And without a tier-1 customer, Global had less reason to pursue smaller nodes.
Intel has that national-champion thing to keep it afloat. I can imagine there are defence contracts that will never go to a “TSMC Arizona Division” and they’ll pay whatever it takes to keep that going.
FWIW, Tucson is like a 500km drive from the Grand Canyon. It would be more than just a day trip.
Once an egg sac hatched at our communal postbox and it was magical, all these tiny yellow spot sprite things bumbling around and setting off. Put a good narrator on and people would have watched for hours.
Read the headline as “flips off car” and was pleased to see they hit a new milestone in mimicking human drivers.