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An even more appropriate quote: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” Richard Feynman (context: the investigation of the Challenger disaster)
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This reminded me of this (slightly modified) quote:
"In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a [truck ]or an [rocket] they had to make four."
George Orwell, 1984
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I believe Hennessy and Patterson were quite influential both in pioneering RISC architectures and propagating the ideas in their book(s): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P... Berkeley RISC-> SPARC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L.... MIPS
ARM was influenced by these processors.
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typo? "[Nn]ow that backward compatibility was something people expected by default" twice.
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In Portugal it was weird Eastern European films when what we wanted was to watch Tex Avery cartoons. pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_G...
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Hope Sandoval melting hearts:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4m5...
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They play an important part in Jules Verne's short story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Bra...
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The way it might make sense is if they have made small scale tests and the $60 million was for making large scale tests and they are assuming those would have been successful. Another news article explicitly mentions a trial:
www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/h...
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I don't know the current unemployment statistics in the UE, but I think that, for instance, Germany's industrial production is slightly lower than some years ago, so there should be spare capacity. Obviously you can't produce shells in a car factory (without reconfiguration).
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Well, the stimulus effect of military spending has been know since at least Keynes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...
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This comic is from 2009: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...
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This accident was covered in "Mayday" Series 14 Episode 3, "Vanishing Act". The passenger was interviewed. www.imdb.com/title/tt3572...
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A rare counterexample: In this accident a passenger noticed that after take-off the airplane was not heading in the usual direction but didn't try to alert the flight crew because the pilot surely knew what he was doing. They ran out of fuel and crashed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_F...
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Minor typo? "If Starmer is talking about social care, then what would he have done when acute shortages emerged and the previous government allowed substantial immigration for social care jobs. " - should end with a question mark ?
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"There’s no longer even any bad sense in it. They cut down trees and let ’em lie, they burn houses and build no more." The Scouring of the Shire, Tolkien.
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Someone posted "you can change the policy, but you can't unsay the words".
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Well, Suzanne Vega 's latest album has a song, Galway www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGyY... about a romance that didn't happen.
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"In every other way, however, the proposals made in a British sitcom had been turned into a reality, during the course of a couple of decades or so, by the British Government."
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In the book "A Very Courageous Decision" about the "Yes (Prime)Minister" TV series, it is remarked that the "radical plan" "to eliminate smoking" which, at the time (1986) seemed so unrealistic, was largely implemented by 2015 (only the increase in tax was a bit smaller).
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An on Colbert:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg2M...
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And its making-of:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EKQ...
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According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_... even as Dorpmüller was dying, he was appointed by the British and the Americans to help reconstruct the German railways. "until two days before his death" "he led official discussions".
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Typos? "and excuse the UK government seems determined not to make"->"an excuse"
"if they succeeded in this parliamentary approval" ->
"if they succeeded in this, parliamentary approval"
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Well, exactly. It was decided circa 1945 that borders should no longer be changed by force, since the consequences are so awful. E.G. my city last changed hands ~961 years ago and I would prefer that it would not change again.
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Slightly more sophisticated, I used a close-up lens:
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Minor typo: "in 2022/3 and 2223/4" -> "in 2022/3 and 2023/4"
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Lotus uses glue in the chassis of the Elise/Exige models
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQX...
and Car SOS has demonstrated how strong it can be when used right:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpQ...
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Deadletter - Fit for work www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUK-... Lyrics: genius.com/Deadletter-f...
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Rosa Mota has done 10K in 39:40 (19:58 + 19:42) at 65. But she is a marathon Olympic champion (Seoul, 1988) runningmagazine.ca/sections/run...
And beat that with 10K in 35:37 at 66: pt.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Russia is a common enemy. Turkey is in NATO because, after WW2, Stalin wanted to control the Dardanelles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_...
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BTW, related to the characterization of populism: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."-H. L. Mencken
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Typo? "These for pillars" -> "These four pillars"
"and as fascists to the extent" - missing some verb?
Krugman has written Trump is an atypical populist, since populists usually give something material (eg. subsidies or jobs) to their base .
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@theweatherstation.bsky.social has a new album out, "Humanhood". I also really like "Men I Trust" (@menitrust.bsky.social, but they haven't posted yet).
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If, on your next holiday you want some light reading :) , this is explained in chapter 6 of @astrokatie.com book: bsky.app/profile/astr...
TL/DR: it is _very_ unlikely and if it were to happen we can't do anything about it and it would be painless and instantaneous, so no point in worrying.
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There is a footnote [3] but it is not mentioned in the text. This also seems to be a typo: "2222/3". I don't know if it was intended to be "2022[3]" or "2022/3".
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Also girl in red - i wanna be your girlfriend (Glastonbury 2022) m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9RT...
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Check DEADLETTER, preferably live: Mere Mortal m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6F...