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"... just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs, ... "

Plug for "Girl's Last Tour" anime/manga.

For fun, look up "vampire taps" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap

See "canine transmissible venereal tumor" for an example of the adversary having bootstrapped itself into ... being a semi-independent life form?

This is the way I think about it: Happiness is an excellent experience, but a terrible goal.

The HP-65 was pretty swank.

No. Cormac McCarthy's Road, or William Gibson's Jackpot, is coming.

How often does this RF Seismograph show disturbances when no earthquake follows?

"Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', heads buried in the sand."

Everything happened earlier than you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

(looks around) Nods.

See the remarks about de-institutionalization and the insane.

Is this interesting primarily because of the noted correspondence with octonions?

Didn't iRobot own ASC at one point?

When I read this title I imagined a person getting out a chest of D&D dice. Change my mind.

I liked "Always Coming Home". And "The Lathe of Heaven" made a big impression when I was a kid.

some reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/12/27/memristors_an...

Wes Hayward is an awesome guy. His "Introduction to RF Design" may be of interest: https://www.alibris.com/Introduction-to-Radio-Frequency-Desi...

they tried a couple of times.

the newer ones are much better at avoiding lobster-trap situations. but you are correct.

The tutorial starts with a quote from a song by Rammstein.

"Der Mensch ist doch ein Augentier -- schöne Dinge wünsch ich mir."

Humans are just creatures of the eye -- Beautiful things are what I want

I think this presents an instance of a larger principle -- trying to do something, regardless of whether you excel at it or not, teaches things not learnable any other way.

It's said that no work of art is finished, only abandoned in frustration. Is this work of art ongoing, I wonder?

let's hope.

but what if microwaves don't heat solid ice at all, they heat the water that forms on the ice because the microwave is at room temperature? google "how to melt glass in a microwave".

Hey Randall! If you put a microwave in a sub-zero walk-in fridge, and after the device had reached equilibrium with ambient conditions, you connected the microwave to mains power, then put a chunk of ice in the microwave and turned it on at full power, would the ice ever melt?

It may be a major point of the article, but that doesn't mean it's correct, or that the remark about coyotes trying to be domesticated is necessarily wrong. Doesn't mean it's right, either, by the way.

well... one way, you have goons, the other way, you have livers.

The problem with mincome is the hedonic treadmill.

the folk receiving mincome will grow dissatisfied with their lot and militate for raises. negative feedback is unpleasant but necessary.

Someone mentioned The Art of Electronics, can't recommend this highly enough, it's accessible and teaches you what you need to know to glue modules together and even build some of your own. A classic.