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Technological progress will solve any policy problem. If you make it so that wind, solar, and next generation nuclear power is cheaper than other alternatives and more desirable, the market will progressively switch. Most technological improvements did not wait for a policy to change to induce revolutions in their respective fields. Now everyone is investing in Energy, and there's hardly any need for policy when the market is already full steam in investment mode.

A fun anecdote from my youth near a US seaboard was that our elementary and middle school buildings were designed by the same person who designed a few prisons around the area.

When I bounced around cities later in life, I was surprised at how many of my peers said the same thing as a conversation piece.

Maybe they used the same governmental bidding process. "Needed: a building. One food preparation and eating area. Hallways suitable for lining up and proceeding in rows with many small rooms. One yard with sporting facilities."


In the math books, a gem is "Proofs from THE BOOK" [1].

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-57265-8


I’ve read a bit about how strict the space shuttle coders were. I wonder what they think about the code running this spacecraft.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-5.html

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature...


Your typical 'we should all follow the children' kind of article. Dumbest kind of reasoning I have ever heard in my life.

I use pocket. It is installed by default in Firefox (my default browser). From there I save the articles I want to read. And then i read them on my Kobo eReader (which syncs pocket saved articles automatically). The perfect combo to save my eyes a few "back-lit screen hours".

> The BCM2711 chip that we use on Raspberry Pi 4 can address up to 16GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM, so the real barrier to our offering a larger-memory variant was the lack of an 8GB LPDDR4 package. These didn’t exist (at least in a form that we could address) in 2019, but happily our partners at Micron stepped up earlier this year with a suitable part.

All other SBCs in this market segments have also been capped at 4GB - I'm hopeful about this leading to larger memory options from other vendors as well before long.

Great of RPi to keep pushing the envelope.


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