I wish someone would make a 5" to 7" clamshell "laptop" that runs a Linux command line and lasts forever on an internal lithium (or replaceable AA) battery.
I want the retro feel of mini laptops back when GUIs were only on $20k UNIX workstations.
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I want the retro feel of mini laptops back when GUIs were only on $20k UNIX workstations.
If you are looking for strangeness, the 1990's to early 2000's microcontrollers had I/O ports, but every single I/O port was different. None of them had a standard so that we could (for example) plug in a 10-pin header and connect the same peripheral to any of the I/O ports on a single microcontroller, much less any microcontroller they made in a family of microcontrollers.
Would an F15 EX with such a system be the ideal fighter for 2030?
Maybe buy Lego Mindstorms and Lego Technics for home and when the kid runs out of ideas, give them challenges like a line-following robot or a FLL course.
Then move to a FreeNove Ultimate Sarter Kit. I prefer the Arduino Uno based kits, but the ESP32 kits have their place as well.
For a few thousand dollars you might get some processing power.
But you will never be able to pay your electric bill.
If it works, and if it gets cheaper as the technology matures, it might let use remove derelict satellites before they break up into smaller pieces.
It is usually easier to remove a few thousand big pieces of trash than to remove millions of small pieces of trash.
If everyone on my street joined an anti-mr street gang, I would be concerned.
I can not walk my class through a datacenter, but I can show them a video then let them play with a partial rack of servers I got in a CraigsList deal.
I'm sure the US Navy got the same from somewhere.
Does anyone know the origin of the name "Dilbert? "
I know that million of white men died fighting against the Germans in WW2.
Why is it that 95% of what I hear from Jews is condemnation if white men for being NAZIs, when the majority of white men and the winning side fought against the Germans?
It seems like there should be a 60% gratitude to 40% condemnation split.
If the immigrants enrich the community, those who welcomed them get the enrichment.
If the immigrants bring crime and disease, those who welcomes them get the crime, disease, and decreased property values.
I love solutions that work whether my views are right or wrong.
May I steal that for part of my political platform?
I thought that was a thing only us old people knew about.
Batteries were the limitation.
De-duping similar uploads of the same version of the same book would cut petabyte down quite a bit.
The few fast food places that do not let me go without complaint get a complaint to corporate and they lose my business for a few months.
Maybe they would interfere with looking over your shoulder.
I love Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age," but can narrative-based learning work as the main way to instruct a student?
The problem may be Management-Class people who think it is unethical to pay above the bottom quartile in pay or to accept less than the top quartile in talent.
I believe the Management-Class is the cause of most of our problems.
I define Management-Class as people who yell at and fire people whose jobs they could never do.
Have you looked at RISC-V or x64? They are messes of instruction set extensions, most of which reuse the same opcodes.
We have terabytes of disk space and gigabytes of RAM. We can afford a few extra bits in the opcode.
In Texas, there are many variations on ID cards and Drivers Licenses. The style and color say a lot.
A state actor could build a database of ways to profile and exploit those chips and software.
Imagine hacking a drone and ordering it to return to home and drop its payload there.
We may see firewalls on drones soon, or watchdog timers that trigger a second microcontroller to take iver when the primary is hacked.
Metasploit already supports software defined radios (SDRs.)
I doubt they have all the apps I need.
I stopped looking that that point.
I teach my students to use AI ethically.
I teach them that ethical use of AI is when the AI helps you learn so that when the AI is not there you are more capable.
But if using the AI as a crutch so you do not have to learn things is unethical.
Then maybe the garbage sites would get down ranked in search engines.
Kanban and Scrum are both popular Agile frameworks used to manage and improve work processes, but they have distinct differences in their approaches and practices. Kanban, originating from the Toyota Production System, focuses on visualizing work, limiting work in progress (WIP), and improving flow. It uses a continuous flow model, meaning tasks are continuously added and moved through stages such as "To Do," "In Progress," and "Done." Kanban emphasizes flexibility, allowing teams to pull work as capacity permits rather than adhering to fixed iterations. Its core principles include visualizing the workflow, managing flow, making process policies explicit, implementing feedback loops, and evolving collaboratively.
On the other hand, Scrum is a structured framework that uses fixed-length iterations called sprints, typically lasting two to four weeks. It defines specific roles such as the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team, and ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. Scrum emphasizes delivering a potentially shippable product increment at the end of each sprint. It promotes regular inspection and adaptation through its iterative cycles, aiming for continuous improvement and fast delivery of valuable product features. While Scrum prescribes a clear set of roles, events, and artifacts, Kanban is more flexible, allowing for the integration of its practices with other existing processes without requiring significant changes to the workflow structure.