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Not to mention Ping, Pang and Pong.

That was the starting point of my undergraduate independent seminar topic.

Back then the complexity was even more mind-boggling, as I had barely any appreciation of the object-oriented world, and the idea of pushing all that into the micro-architecture was really hard to get my mind around, let alone talking about it to a class full of fellow students.

There's the old gag about a letter received by the Post Office that it managed to deliver (at least, in the story):

It just said:

   Wood
   John
   Hants

and is supposed to be read as "John Underwood, Andover, Hants"

> "hp.com" "There is too much content, please try a different website".

Yup, I guess so.

> Other countries like Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan, etc don't allow money to influence politics like in the U.S.

Oh, they do. Money talks everywhere. It's just a little less obvious and in-your-face than in the U.S.

It really depends on how much has to be manually counted, and when the manual counting starts.

Most states in the US used to start validating and counting mail-in and early-voting ballots as they came in (keeping the running total confidential), and only release the numbers once the on-day polling was well under way.

But under severe pressure from the "stolen vote" crowd (primarily republicans), most states are now forbidden to start counting these until after polls close, so yeah, it will take days and days to count all the mail-in ballots.

Especially if (as is common these days) a large portion of the electorate votes by mail-in or early ballots.

This is not a big issue if the number of mail-in ballots cannot significantly affect the result - you could "call" the return early - but for close races, yeah, you have to wait until the end.

Especially because the mail-in and early-voting ballots tend to be distributed very differently from day-of-election (walk-in) ballots (demographics, political leanings, etc.)

While I mostly agree with that assertion (we do run with mitigations off in our small dedicated devices), there is an important caveat: this only applies if you're 100% positive that you control everything that runs on your box.

If you have _any_ sort of vulnerability in anything that runs on your box and talks to the outside world, that allows for execution of attacker-injected code (even running unprivileged), you're now vulnerable to these speculative execution attacks.

You have to decide how much of a risk you're willing to take in this regard.

Heck, in that case, our pit mix has been 'splooting' on hot days, whenever she is hot, and sees a cool, damp lawn. Ever since she was a pup. I guess it's a common thing.

I mean, it's not even that hard to put together a child-size dummy of ballistic gel (a la Mythbusters). Doesn't have to be a work of art, and it should be indistinguishable from the real thing (in terms of radar signature, etc).

Why not just have someone put one on a low cart and drag it along the road in front of your speeding Tesla, and beta-test it that way? Isn't Tesla doing that?

Musk has that quality that Steve Jobs had - the so-called RDF or "Reality Distortion Field". Proximity to Musk seems to scramble a lot of people's minds and thought processes.

Watching this battle is like looking at a Mussolini vs Franco battle. Who to support? Who to support?

Ha, ha. Way ahead of you there, OP. We've been paying $5 per gallon for our gas around the SF bay area for nearly a year now.