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Gates are about 30-50 nm wide, even though they're called '3nm' for marketing reasons.

At the first conference on microprocessors, someone said "We're not going to have one in every doorknob." A few years later their hotel had electronic locks. Now we've got cpus in friggin' charger cables.

Other dead man's switch projects -- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Newly discovered, unnamed bacteriophage viruses that infect Bacteroides fragilis. The virus does not infect human cells.

In 1700s terminology, the process of regulating (training) the militia has to take place after first gathering the 'irregular' militia, whose members bring their own weapons. This was established even in colonial times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator_Movement_in_North_Ca... You'll recall the Baker Street Irregulars, and Paul Revere's "You know the rest, in the books you have read, how the British Regulars fired and fled." The 2A's 'Arms' also covers non-gunpowder weapons. The right of the People to keep arms comes prior to issues related to their use.

For the first eight months of Tesla's existence it was an empty paper shell with no money, no employees, and no office. Musk funded them, led the board, and laid out the strategic plan.

A typical stellar-mass black hole of 3.3 solar masses has a radius of 10 km, 10,000 meters. At 100 meters outside the event horizon there is a 10:1 time dilation. At 1 meter outside there is a 100:1 time dilation. At 1 cm outside there is a 1000:1 time dilation.

But because you're traveling at almost the speed of light while you're falling in, it only takes you a few microseconds to fall past these points and get to the event horizon. If there was a mirror 1 mm outside the event horizon, a photon could start from 1000 km away, fall in, hit the mirror, and climb back out in 1/100th of a second, even allowing for time dilation. The spaceship will only spend a very tiny fraction of a second in the high time dilation area, even as seen from outside.

That's an urban legend. In real life physics, the traveler is being pulled forward by the black hole's gravity, faster and faster, and as it covers the last few miles it's traveling very close to light speed and crosses the last few miles in a tiny fraction of a second. The time dilation is not enough to cancel the increased speed. There's no wall of molasses. An object falling in goes faster, not slower. Objects falling into the black hole do not actually hover just short of the event horizon, despite appearances.

UJ on tvtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/UnicornJelly -- The detailed alternate physics is quite a piece of work.

Named after the Honolulu airport bus, the Wiki-Wiki Shuttle, from the Hawaiian Pidgin word for 'quick'.

Also written up at https://www.newscientist.com/article/2515482-rna-strand-that...

Perhaps if you clarified the situation where the agent is owned by and controls the finances of an incorporated entity, which can be vouched for by trustees.

There was a common line: "It would have taken a thousand mathematicians a century to make a mistake like this."

♫♫ "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS FOO" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc

??? On some devices it turns white after a few seconds and the 'info' button is invisible.

trivia: The US had plenty of gasoline during the war, but they had to ration gasoline because they were short of rubber for tires. So it goes.

and the beat goes on... https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=%22Rugged+Indoorsman%2...

Tbere are two types of people: people who divide people into categories and people who don't. https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/cartoon-of-da...

US Prohibition was from 1920 to 1933. The Revenue Act of 1913 already put income tax into effect before that. And early 1900s import tariffs added up to more than the alcohol tax. But yes, we collected a lot from whiskey in the 1800s.

It has always been the case that large companies who can afford to throw a 50-person team at a project, can out-develop a guy sitting at home in his bunny slippers.

Smokey Stover, the 1935 "Where there's foo, there's fire" guy, was a TV cartoon in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover#Animation Influenced by german furchtbar/foobar/fubar, MIT used fu() and bar() in the late '30s.

Related: the stage0/stage1 series of hex-to-c compiler bootstrapping tools https://github.com/oriansj/stage0?tab=readme-ov-file and OTCC https://bellard.org/otcc/

An sf classic, with a bit in the middle involving AI generation of scholarly tomes. (1965)

(1958) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Brave_New_Worl...

Herding cats is an honorable profession. [EDS herding cats video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ

Spread the word: "The guinea worm is on its last legs."

There are also people who need to convert Microsoft Reader .LIT files but are unable to find the right utility.

sudo apt-get install clit

Back in the days of Octal notation, there were computers with a 12 bit word size that used sixbit characters (early DEC PDP-8, PDP-5, early CDC machines). 'Byte' was sometimes used for 6- and 9-bit halfword values.

In 1965, Clarke, Asimov, and other science writers were at NASA watching the first images appear. "Craters. Duh, it's right next to the asteroid belt, of course it has craters. Not that any of us thought of it beforehand..."

"My eyes are dim, I cannot see. I have not brought my E6-B" -- submarines used a similar "Is/Was" circular slide rule for torpedoes. https://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Is-Was