Have you tried typing on a touch screen without autocorrect? The D is right next to the F. With every tap you're hitting several 'keys'. The software has to guess if you meant D, F, G, maybe V, C, R or T. The software is pretty stupid, even more so than you might realize if you only ever use English. It also learns from your input, so if it has 'corrected' your word to duck a few times and you've sent it, it learns that that was probably what you wanted. It will even offer a duck emoji. Not everything is a conspiracy against your digital rights.

About the time it started getting called "Java EE" instead of "J2EE" they started stripping out most of the requirements for redundant default configurations. Some of the complexity is gratuitous, sure, but a lot is because it attempts to let developers handle more complex situations or scaling requirements (horizontal and/or vertical). I used to scoff years ago at some of the layers and knobs, until I found myself needing to use them, then I thought "these guys were smart to think of this in advance".

There are worse things than having a codebase -- already somewhat sanity-checked by the compiler, mind you -- that you can drop into an application server along with a small configuration file, and it can just plug into your preferred vendor, your preferred database, your system/user/network configuration.

I've played with a lot of frameworks and written others. Regardless of hype or abstract quality (and by the way I used to really detest Java as a language; now it's down to a mild dislike as they've improved it and things like Lombok have come along) it turns out I can just sit down and get work done with it and to some extent it helps my projects be "the right way" out of the box for later growth, and I have to respect that.

Thats one of the most moronic statements I have ever seen.

Aside from the whole "its already subsidized" thing, people bought those cards because they were cheaper, not because they were at some magical "correct" price point.

You tube videos? And analysation on block level?

Won't the fact that the video codec has a direct timeline (with predictive frames, etc) override the rsults?

When was the last time you have seen somebody use a soldering iron with has mask and gloves? In contrast to europe, american solder is still lead based.

They would be too bright, and too expensive. Those 5mm LEDs (outdated crap) have LED dies of a less than 1/20th of a mm^2 inside.

High-end power LEDs that put out the equivalent of a 100W incan bulb are 2-4mm^2.

A disk the size of a traffic light would be able to draw 10000s of Amps, and be bright enough to illuminate a stadium (if you could drain the waste-heat away). Driving it with lower currents would be a collosal waste of dies.

So the wavers are cut into conveniently sized pices that have reasonable power draw and thermal conductivity and then later are put together according to the requirements.

Not just the production way is low-tech, this type of LED is depricated for everything but the cheapest crap available.

Modern LEDs are basically all SMD, the high power ones typically mounted on a solid metal core PCB. And those are acutally manufactured in a more modern type of way.

There isn't that much to gain from economy of scale, as those types of cells are already produced in 100s of millions per year. So we are realistically looking at something like halfing the price at most, not cutting it down by an order of magnitude or something.

I don't quite agree with the parts of your post that I quoted.

- Control of Java was probably one of the main reasons for Oracle to buy Sun
- Java makes Oracle a lot of money through licensing and support contracts. You may not be paying for it, but large corporations are.
- The Ask toolbar thing started with Sun, not with Oracle. It actually started with the Google toolbar, but when Google started to push Android (killing Java ME), the relationship soured, and Sun started to promote a competing toolbar instead.

I don't see how you could interpret my post that way. It is my counter argument to DST abolitionists who tell me just to adjust my own schedule.

I like DST, it's a practical solution to that automatically adjusts everyone's schedule at the same time.

I've never had an employer tell me what time to be at the office and what time to leave, as long as I make the hours they're paying me for, and my workday at least largely overlaps with that of my colleagues - otherwise, what's even the point of going to the office?

If anything, it's useful that not everyone starts at the same time. This way there are team members available at the office for about 12 hours a day, without anyone having to work insane hours. Some start around 7 am, others around 10.

The single thing that makes my hours so inflexible these days is school for the kids. They have to be dropped off and picked up at a specific time, so starting early is no longer an option. 9 to 6 it is. Before the kids started school, I was more of a 7.30 to 4.30 guy.

What matters, in the end, is the amount of energy a battery can store.

With Lithium Sulfur cells, the voltage is a little more than half as high as for Lithium Ion batteries, so the initial advantage is not as large as it might seem from the mAh numbers.

I'm convinced you'll observe the same if you try to teach a class Chinese, yet in China, everyone manages to learn it just fine. Start early and practice every day works for almost any skill.