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History channel video about it. Shares some other details and first hand accounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc

This seems true to me. Correlation doesn't imply causation, but I've had my fair share of bizarre dreams where two completely separate concepts try to wedge themselves together in interlocking dream logic. No examples to speak of directly, as even holding them together after awakening is almost impossible.

Oh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been looking all over for the Fine Structure website since reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!

The Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and make for some great reading.

http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub

Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge about itself and anything you know about it, including yourself.

Wow, so this is very close to what we did in school. Us being the 'hackers'. By chance was this in Ohio?

And thus the reason why there's such as thing as a runaway diesel engine.

There is some truth to that, but not never. A flush will dislodge any metal shavings and crud from the moving parts. The filter should catch these, but the filters themselves can get clogged, and then bye-bye transmission.

Flushing can really be bad if you've never done a routine flush on a schedule. You don't want to go 150,000 miles before your first one. You would need a garage with a forced flush system to move it all out, and then probably flush again soon after to make sure all the gunk is out.

Transmission oil breaks down with heat and wear like any other, and will eventually contain sludge and dirt.

Simon Reynolds's book Energy Flash is a pretty good read on the history of early techno / rave culture up to about the 90s (if I remember corectly, it's been awhile). A lot of history regarding Detroit techno and the roots of the genre.

https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Flash-Journey-Through-Culture/...

Full text of the bill here [1]. It does indeed state that after 4 years after the bill is enacted, "shall issue a final rule to establish performance standards for driver monitoring systems and require those systems to be installed on all new passenger motor vehicles." This is after a 2 year research study by the Sec. of Transportation.

So basically yeah, it would require it in ALL cars, not just driving assisted ones. The privacy implications are not good. Not to slippery-slope the argument, but who wants a camera facing inwards mandated by the government?

I personally have a dashcam, but that's to protect my interests against someone running into me, fraud, or just plain old bad luck.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4123/BILLS-116s4123is.pd...

Same with my old school Chromecast audio, it needs to be rebooted constantly as it too somehow stops connecting to wifi. I used to use it with a toslink cable and got really good sound out of it using a DLNA server from my storage.

Now I just use my TV (as a monitor) optical out since it is connected via ethernet. I can still use DLNA on it as well to play my music.

I guess the first and foremost for an ELI5 is WTF is BEAM VM?

The "BEAM VM ELI5" page doesn't explain what it is specifically, and how it's not a Hypervisor VM, but as a bytecode interpreter in Erlang. When I see 'VM' I think first of a hypervisor virtual machine.

Maybe I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, but I'd like to think an ELI5 would at least bring in the basics.

http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/eli5-vm.html

Teams completely borked because of this. My employer hugely depends on this as we all WFH, and basically has stopped all communication outside of email (thank god we are on-prem).

The real game changer will be self-assembling displays sprayed on a surface. Imagine a spray can where you could put a display anywhere with wireless connectivity.

It would be nice it if wasn't perpetually on backorder though.

The fact that one high-caliber bullet can shut down a multi-billion dollar transport system is all that needs to be said.

It's a silly idea and is best made on the Moon or Mars where atmospheric pressure is already low enough to not cause catastrophic failure.

Indeed, but not always the implementation. Microsoft's ReFS has had several patches due to issues involving memory usage and general performance.

So I'm thinking Deduplication on drive will be the big thing here. Think XFS or ReFS block cloning but without server side processing.

Luxury: I'm out.

I don't need luxury, I just need a reliable and precise steering wheel, shifter, and pedal controllers. Everything else is just dressing. I can supply the PC and monitors.

This doesn't even look like it has motion on the seat. For luxury I expect to move a bit.

Besides processors, AMD knows how to design a good hype train.

Wow, the skin I made is in there: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/20b66bbd0313e399e8981ead0b0bd2...

I haven't seen this in what feels like forever. I use Foobar200 now.

I made this using Dreamweaver when it was still popular and useful. It had really nice slicing features for graphics at the time.

You could also probably add power/reset functionality by hacking something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Wireless-Compu...

Or possibly just wiring up a transistor to the power button pin (not sure if it sources or sinks) between motherboard and the Pi, and just hold it high until it boots.

I experience this frequently. Right on the edge of loosing consciousness, I sometimes hear what reminds me of an old wooden screen-door slamming into a doorframe. If you know the sound it's unmistakable. It is preceeded by a woosh, like when your blood-pressure suddenly increases.

It usually jolts me awake for a brief moment. I rarely see flashes of light but it sometimes happens.

It would have been doubly funny if they instead used B. taurus excrement. Specifically male.

Also a little disappointed it wasn't Chiroptera guano, because that'd be crazy.

Just use what William Gibson does and call it "Vat grown"

"Jesus," Molly said, her own plate empty, "gimme that. You know what this costs?" She took his plate. 'They gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it. This isn't vat stuff." She forked a mouthful up and chewed. - Neuromancer

Classic clip from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

After a cursory glance, is it me or is floating point being used? I thought this was something you wanted to avoid because of precision errors.

ie 0.2 * 0.1

Germany also has much higher standards for driver education, stiffer fines for infractions, and a safety first approach towards operating heavy machinery. In the US, you can get a license by answering 25 questions, driving around a block, and doing some sort of parallel parking exercise. They pretty much hand them out regardless of actual driving ability.

One thing that would reduce the number of crashes in the US is making tailgating and passing lane camping a heavy infraction. To drive safely is to anticipate conditions and expectations.

I would also support 10 year renewal testing before age 65, as bad habits quickly become routine. Shorter intervals thereafter.

Consumer locks only keep the honest out.

Loaded it up and I can confirm it still works in FL Studio 32b and 64b versions. I really like the music box preset, very melodious with certain parameters.

I was the same. I switched to uMatrix and found it to be more intuitive and fine-grained.