I was a computer science student at NC State in the late 1990s. I took his Discrete Math course (a big seminar) and did a graduate-level independent study led by both him and Thom Hodgson, an IE professor. As an alum, I always stopped by his office to visit with him and his students, and he could always find time to ask what I was working on and if I had time for lunch or a game of handball.

Don loved students and teaching, allowed his graduate students far more breadth to run the office and the courses than most professors, and was a pretty dang good handball player. His office had an old couch facing a chalkboard, and there always seemed to be undergrads, grad students, and/or professors working on something on that board. He allowed his undergrad students to work and rework and rework assignments; anyone who eventually did A-level work earned an A in his course. Between the chalkboard and the students re-working, there was always a buzz in the office that made you feel like you were part of something special.

We'll miss you old friend.

Perhaps you missed the part about the fact that she was shot to death. Of course the modern interpretation of the Second Amendment plays a role in the massive number of guns in America and, by extension, the ease with which people obtain them.

C'mon, man.

VB was terrible. Delphi was the godsend for Windows desktop development. Far better language, far better IDE, far better performance. True whether comparing it against VB or VC++. It's despicable what MS did to Borland via predatory monopolist actions and strategic poaching.

But you did blow past an important point -- you assumed a single breadwinner was paying the full $2k rent.

If you've got a spouse or partner, you might well could both be working. If you don't, you might could get a roommate.

I'm not arguing this makes you Monopoly moneybags man, or that every person will be able to cohabitate in some way with a second breadwinner, but it's quite common, and it gets each of the two people an additional $1000/month in their pockets, significant in your example.

Not quite. Two "half buses" still cost more than one bus with respect to both capital and maintenance costs. In addition, I would presume the capital costs of a self driving bus are higher than a human-driven bus of the same size, but am not certain of that assertion.

The upside is that more "half buses" means the bus comes more frequently, dramatically reducing your wait time (at the stop or inside because the bus isn't scheduled to arrive for x minutes).

Build (or buy!*) a Research 1 university and endow a treasure large enough so that tuition (inc. fees) is ~500 hours of federal minimum wage, in perpetuity.

It's not just those students who will benefit from a high-quality low-debt education. Every student will benefit when colleges and universities competing against those low-debt schools find ways to tighten up their own tuition and fees. The consequence is making college more affordable to millions of kids a year, and that's one hell of a multiplier.

* consider Rice or Carnegie Mellon, or Cooper Union for a smaller effort.

Power plant are typically described with a unit of power (MW, or GW). A 600 MW power plant can produce a peak output of 600 MW. Run it for an hour, and you've got 600 MWh of electric energy.

This plant is described as "60GW in size" and that it "will be powered by 60GW of behind the meter solar and wind power." Surely they're not using units the same way; no way it's powered by 60 full-size nuclear units worth of power.

Elsewhere in the writeup, we see "60 gigawatts of green hydrogen every year." I'm wondering if they mean 60 GWh of hydrogen per year. At 8760 hours per year, that maps back to a 7 MW power plant, about the output of a single modern wind turbine in good, windy conditions.

So, what gives? Just how much electricity will this facility consume in a year? How much hydrogen (in kgs, or in MWh-capability, or some appropriate unit) will this plant actually produce?

Biden apparently made no such promise. According to this article, Why Hasn't Joe Biden Forgiven All Your Student Loan Debt? Short Answer: He Never Promised To. If you have evidence to the contrary that he promised it rather than encouraged it, please provide that evidence.

Have some balls like Google's AI research division and just fire this person now before the cancer spreads.

Pronouns in bio? Naturally.

Yeah, and all the idiots are excited about MS cleaning house, but what they want cleaned (and what MS will do) is squash the last remaining boy's club culture, the remnant of the culture that cared about games being fun. The culture of soulless, money grubbing executives? Nah, that stays. Get rid of Kotick, who cares, MS will find someone worse.

What percent of the population is under 18, 18+ but a full time student, or retired? Not 61 percent, but a good chunk. After all, just about 40 percent of Americans are under 18 or over 65.

(With whatever culture changes this may require.)

Found the real motivation.

I don't think physical proximity to DC is a concern, but it is likely that taking advantage of these distributed hubs of tech expertise comes with the additional benefit of gaining the ear of more senators and representatives than if they restrict themselves to one enclave of CA.

Who are they? A collection of back-stabbing, amoral ladder climbers, mindless slogan-regurgitating wokesters, and operatives of ruthless corporations in no-holds-barred asymmetric warfare against user-focused Free Software in favor of business-friendly Open Source.

May not agree 100% with him, but he's an invaluable voice for Free Software, and the purge against him was utterly unethical--a mob of backstabbing climbers and their narcissistic cry-bully enablers. I'm waiting a month or so to make sure the FSF doesn't cave again, then joining at the $1000 level.