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So much more funding now. That will getting it working twenty years from now, just like it has been 'working twenty years from now' for the last fifty years.

The vacuum may pull the shutters against seals during the regen. So the shutters would move freely with the vacuum off, then seal tightly during the dry cycle. You would need filtration to protect the seals, but compliant seals assisted by vacuum draw would probably be okay.

Any dew point above about 70F/21C is going to be uncomfortable. Any dew point above about 75F/24C is can be dangerous.

Dew point determines how much body cooling you can achieve through sweating.

Follow the money. It is always about the money. I was at a corporate security conference where one of the speakers stated that organized crime groups hire the top mathematicians and computer scientists from the top universities every year. They provide them with laboratories that you wish your company could afford.

The ageism in the reply makes me bristle as well. A little past 65 here. Currently employed at my third startup gig in my thirty eight year embedded systems career. Ignorance spans all age levels.

Stabbity stabbity!

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Just saying.

True acts of random kindness are rare only because most people aren't in need of random help that often. There is a wide range of things that would fall under the umbrella of 'just being polite' that are more expected social behavior than actual kindness.

And you can be kind to people that aren't in dire straights or in need.

My wife and I donate cash to the local food bank. Cash is actually more useful to them than food donations. Occasionally they have particular drives, generally for laundry and cleaning supplies. Those we buy outright.

When I was young, and broke, an old guy bought my lunch one day when I was traveling. He left before I even got the bill, but the waitress told me he was a regular, and he left a simple note. And the note said something along the lines of "I was once young like you, and I know how scarce money can be when you are young. I hope that when you are older, that won't be a problem for you, and that you will pass along the favor"

Which I have done on a couple occasions, including the note, so they understood my motivation. I am hoping that when they get old, they'll pass it on.

This is one of those rare replies where I wish I could just dance away at the upvote. But I can't, so I'll leave this note instead. Thank you.

Having started my career at Bell Labs in 1984, the fact that you included AT&T X86 syntax cracked me up.

If you are still interested in learning more, ARM and PowerPC are also both interesting assembly targets.

Prior to Bell Labs (college) my assembly experience was 8085 bare metal (no OS) or Z80 under CP/M and MP/M. I wrote a couple console management applications for MP/M that had to dig into BIOS/BDOS routines. It was fun, and that was the thing that made my EE self realize that I wanted to work on software in embedded systems.

Amen. I posted similar in a shorter form. The ineffectual legislative branch has ceded power to both the Executive and the Judicial over the last fifty to sixty years. Until the legislative branch stands up, this won't be resolved.

If your representatives in Congress would get off their butts and actually legislate, the court's "view" on the topic would be moot.

The fact is, lazy hand wringing house and senate members have been dodging these issues (more than just abortion) and passing them off to the court system for fifty years, or more.

They get good pay, they get good benefits, they should do their stinking jobs!

This all ultimately falls to the ineffectual legislative branch.

Look up the Federalist Society. That is where the Koch brothers brought together all their like minded rich friends.

I see a lot of blah blah blah below, but none of it gets to the crux of the matter, and that is LibreOffice is klunky.

I used to have it installed, because I had installed it for my father-in-law and I was his tech support (he passed a couple years ago).

The API in Writer is a mess. Okay? I am sure I'll get some people sqawking for be saying that out loud, but I also know a bunch of you will be nodding in agreement.

And don't get me started on Calc.

Lets get another thing clear, I don't love Microsoft Word. I don't. But then, my original experience writing documentation was in nroff/troff using Writer's Workbench. Then later, TeX. But the truth is, through work, or school, a ton of people have become accustomed to be productive in Word.

And Excel is simply Superior to Calc in every way.

And yes, Microsoft is up to their old tricks, the bastards. We all know it. I mean, WSL2 was pretty good in Windows 10, but OMG WSL2 in Windows 11 competely rules. Native Linux USB support. Wow. That is some wicked bundling there. And then, if you have a family, Office 365, just for the fact that you can hand it out to a total of five other people, and you each get 1TB of cloud storage. For $99 per year. Again, wicked sneaky bundling. Six instances of 1TB cloud for $99? We only use five here, so $20 each, per year, for 1TB of cloud. Oh yeah, you get to use Office 365 if you want, as well.

So year, Microsoft pulls under handed market bundling.

But that doesn't excuse the fact that LibreOffice is Klunky. Now that I no longer have to support it, I don't miss it at all.

I read the entire mediocre post. I need to take a dump now. Luckily, my toilets both flush, so I can choose whichever is most convenient. Right now I wish I had a third one in the basement, but that would require a pump, which would likely fail.

That isn't a praise of GUIs, it is a damnation of OpenSSL

The exact opposite of *NIX philosophy. Don't do just one thing well, be Swiss Army knife, the largest one you have ever seen, with a lot of the blades poking part way out, so you may lacerate yourself at any moment.

We have those in NJ now. They are very cool. The printed ballot is presented to the voter, protected under glass, to verify that it is correct. It is then swallowed by the machine and the vote registered.

Very clear printed text. No hanging chads.

"You'd still want a paper trail" <<<<<<<<<<< this

Our new voting machines in our county are awesome, I hope they are used across the state (NJ).

You get a blank piece of paper that you insert into the machine. You vote electronically, and it prints your vote out in plain readable text on the paper, and presents it to you protected under a piece of glass (maybe pexiglass?) to validate your choices. If there is something wrong, you can reject it at this point. If you accept it, it records your vote electronically, and swallows the paper ballot as a record.

Nice clear printed text. No chads.

The historic problem of just 'drop it in the ocean' is that (so far) it almost always comes back to bite you. Hence the thousands of rusting barrels of DDT off the coast of California.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/ddt-was...

Did I say thousands? Wow.

Don't ever trust anyone that says "We'll just safely dispose of that in the deep ocean.".

I said the same just now, before I saw yours. I know it is going to get down voted, because I didn't append the '\s' tag, and it was a little to obscure. Cheers!

Imagine all the pathogens that are mutated for free.

Crypto feels a lot more like a pyramid scheme or MLM than typical VC

Just make it keyboard centic. I don't want to touch the mouse.

This made me laugh. Back in the late 1970s, there was suspicion that the Soviet Union a had completely tapped the AT&T phone network on the East coast. I cannot remember the author of the article, but they stated that every American having any telephone call with anyone on the East coast should toss in a number of different key words to overwhelm the ability of the USSR to gather any useful intelligence, because they would be overwhelmed by data. Then they gave a list of keywords. I wish I had saved it. So my brother and I, when we called each other, would toss in the occasional 'enriched uranium' 'satellite imagery' 'battalion' 'missile test' 'weapons research' and other nonsense into our conversation.

I don't know what I found funnier, the idea that some poor fool at a Soviet embassy had to listen to our conversation because a key word hit caused the recording to be saved, or the idea that the author even proposed that the idea would work.

That link was not happy about my pihole swallowing their ad links, so I could not read it.

I will say, however, that I don't use my personal phone to host any employer apps. It is my phone, not theirs. I pay the service fee.

So conversations I have on my phone are mine. My coworkers all operate the same way.

The only time the HR department has been a great help for me was in a layoff situation. I was part of a general 20% cut a few years ago, and the layoffs were staggered over six tranches spread over four months. Why the spread? To avoid reporting requirements that would trigger with that many people leaving at once.

I was slotted for the last release. At the end of the summer. Just before my kids would return to college / high school. The first release was in May. I could spend the whole summer thinking about what to do next, and beach days with my kids.

So I told management, I am out of here in May. They said 'no, and if you leave, you lose your vacation pay and severance'.

So I called HR, explained my thinking, and told them to get me out of there in May. Management was not happy, but HR took full responsibility for the moved date. And I got to spend a glorious late spring and early summer lazing about before reentering the work force.

They are hiring embedded systems engineers.

Rescinding outstanding offers. Ouch. Double ouch.

Back in 2000 I left a long term position because I was unhappy at work (there was a lot of turmoil) and filled out a few applications, In response I got two promising offers. The one I was leaning towards put the offer 'on hold'. Not rescinded completely, but no explanation, just 'on hold'.

I couldn't take the risk, and accepted the other offer, which was best in hind sight.

The 'on hold' was because the company had been bought one day before my start date, and the deal had to close first, because I would be hired into the new company. If they had told me that, I might have waited, but they could not, because it would have been insider info on the purchase.

Rescinding an offer is brutal. I don't think hiring organizations make that decision lightly, and they certainly shouldn't.

If I had turned down my other offer, and the delayed one had fallen through, that would have been career altering. It would have completely changed the arc of my life, likely not for the better.