Look I get it, you've got fantasies of mental competence, but every time you reply to one of my comments lately you prove you're nowhere near.

Does it even take a technical background? Just a little paying attention and a willingness to look things up if you lack personal familiarity goes a long way. There's maps of power connections, you can download free GIS data that shows where the transmission lines are and load it up in free software... (I use QGIS)

Your desire to avoid it explains why you clicked into the story and posted a comment.

Wait, what?

Slashdot is owned by a corporation on which an algorithm runs. And it is functionally the same as the algorithm behind every social media network: If people engage with it, deliver more of it.

Guess what you did by engaging with the content you say you don't want to see?

The world as we experience it, due to the influence of our societies, is designed to benefit the wealthy, maximize their profit, and keep them in power. To that end, it's also designed to reward those who help them achieve their goals, and punish or indeed eliminate everyone else.

Speaking as the voice of privilege to tell us all how to fit in will surely help!

It's not a sin to be neurotypical, but GP never asserted otherwise. Neurotypical people do often act like it's a sin to not be one of them, though, as do many aneurotypical people who are lying to themselves about whether or not they are.

Society depends on both kinds of people, but as it was in fact willfully designed, it doesn't need many geniuses (who are generally atypical in multiple regards) and does need a lot of people who will show up for their wage slave jobs to crank out more bullshit widgets we don't need in such profuse quantity if we would build them to last instead of to maximize profit.

You mean Bosch? Otherwise you can't say "the" company, because all of the German automakers cheated, but they all did it with assistance from Bosch, who makes the PCMs for all of their vehicles. (And most of the sensors and actuators, too.)

They are called grids, but they are a hybrid of a grid and a tree structure, and many cities (or even entire counties) are fed by only a single connection. Virtually no neighborhoods are multiply connected. At the interstate level it's fairly gridlike, but the closer you get to a house, the less like a grid it becomes.

Your "proper electric grid" is no substitute for a real grid. It's predominantly tree-structured, with generation far from the point of consumption. What would actually be as robust as possible would be a system which could break itself into small pieces and allow local generation and storage systems to provide power to as many users as possible in scenarios where there is damage to the network. The place for centralization is in standards for that equipment to follow so that they can cooperate to deliver that without presenting a threat to linemen who are trying to restore connections to the so-called "grid".

That's an anti-gaslighting feature.

OTOH the moderation system is trash. It should either work more like reddit's (higher max scores) or who voted how should be public.

Yes, you have missed winecfg.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.winehq.org%2Fwine...

There are more textbooks than necessary. There are many on the same subject.

This is caused by IP law, you cannot just improve the existing book.

Therefore textbooks should be Open Source, so that the existing book can be improved.

People will still need to be paid to work on them to make necessary improvements, but copyright should just literally not cover teaching materials. There are already fair use exceptions for education, so this would not even be a big stretch.

You're responding to a bot.

With that said, the look on musk's face during his Nazi salute was not love.

Also, he lies constantly, and we all know this because the lies are public, and then you expect us to trust what he said. You appear to be that stupid, but the rest of us are not.

I guess I would be more excited if I hadn't abandoned Windows on my own personal devices (still have to use it via RDP at work). I think the Wine project has done an incredible thing, I just don't have any particular use for it anymore.

Could a "data haven" (as described in the excellent book Cryptonomicon) actually be built in the real world?

AMD CPUs have a processor inside of the processor as well, in everything after the FX line. You certainly shouldn't trust Intel, but who can you trust?

Beta had superior quality but for years it had inferior time per tape, so even on a purely technical basis it was a mixed bag.