They’re working on defunding the library already.

Also, “problems” that are things capitalism created for itself, and then sells you a solution. Such as services that scrub old subscriptions that you don’t use, or companies that get you out of timeshares.

Might not need anything except economies of scale. But getting that is the problem.

Tablet sized eink displays found a niche that couldn’t quite be displaced by smartphones and regular tablets. That let them have a market for getting costs down.

There would need to be a similarly wide use case to get the price down on larger eink displays.

CGA has some complexities. I haven’t gone over everything, but I think the pictures are correct.

Check the wiki section on color palettes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

And as another poster said, VGA conversion is a problem all its own. See the 8-bit Guy’s video: https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc

The Free Market (holy be thy name) gives you the choice between $1/bottle for milk with chalk and bleach, or $10/bottle for one with less chalk and bleach. If you want one without chalk and bleach, you’ll need to find your own cow.

Also, the cows all have birth defects and need uranium-powered antibiotics to stay alive.

Now, let us open our song books to number 34: “Praise Hayek and His Perfect Mustache”.

Be glad you don’t have VR. Those porn vids get big.

Instructions unclear, setup personal Project Gutenberg mirror.

(Started months ago, actually. Their main archive server isn’t very fast.)

When it comes to attacks on the Internet, doing simple things to get rid of the stupid bots means kicking 90% of attacks out. No, it won’t work against a determined foe, but it does something useful.

Same goes for setting SSH to a random port. Logs are so much cleaner after doing that.

That, and Hegseth seems to be spending all his time being paranoid about leaks when he’s the biggest leaker. Between that and day drinking, he doesn’t have much time in his schedule to actually advance fascism.

Large corporations are allergic to capital expenditures. That is, they don’t like investing in new things to make the business run. They want their previous investment to run as long as possible. On occasion, the workers will arrange big projects to be covered as “maintenance” rather than capital expenditures.

Oil companies have invested in oil pumps and refineries. They could invest in all sorts of other things, but that’s less money in the hands of shareholders. That’s all there is to it. Money spent on new investments isn’t making them richer right now.

Outer ear. Blockages aren’t an issue for the outer ear.

Inner ear is off limits. Can still be useful for the outer ear. For most people, cleaning the outer ear will let the inner ear take care of itself.

Some brain cells cobbled together from stem cells that have his DNA. None of the life experiences that made his music. You could likely get similar results with the same technique using the DNA of any random person on the street.

There’s some servers using SSDs as a direct extension of RAM. It doesn’t currently have the write endurance or the latency to fully replace RAM. This solves one of those.

Imagine, though, if we could unify RAM and mass storage. That’s a major assumption in the memory heirarchy that goes away.

If you don’t have an especially long commute, good chance you’re between 12k to 15k per year. That’s a typical yearly amount, and leases are usually set around there.

13k in six months is about twice the average.

Implication is that there are things about as bad as asbestos that should be banned, but aren’t.

On the contrary, this is pretty close to what we have right now. Companies don’t like to spend much on R&D once they’re out of the startup phase. A good chunk of that startup phase R&D was actually taking place at a university with public funds. This is especially true of pharmaceuticals. So the answer to the question of “when does it get handed off to private industry?” is to just look at what’s happening already.

The exception is big monopolies. AT&T’s Bell Labs is a legendary R&D department. IBM, Microsoft, and Google all likewise have significant pure R&D going on, and even engineers who don’t like those companies salivate at the opportunity to work in that capacity for them.

But then you’ve got big monopolies on your hands, and that’s a whole other problem.

In the manufacturing space, people are questioning if patents help them at all. There is no stopping China from copying your design and selling it on Aliexpress. In fact, since you’re almost certainly getting your product manufactured in China in the first place, there is no stopping the very manufacturing plant you’re using from producing extras and undercutting you.

Consider this old EEVblog vid about bringing a product to market, and the #1 tip is “don’t bother with a patent”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BL1O0xCcY

Patents have evolved to be useful to patent trolls. That’s it.

That’s not what Dorsey and Musk are after, though. They want to kill copyright law because it’s inconvenient for AI training data.

Along those lines, consider the decision for why the Model S charge port is where it is, according to Tesla’s former chief engineer:

https://electrek.co/2025/01/31/teslas-charge-port-location-is-due-to-elon-musks-garage-layout-says-lucid-ceo/

tl;dr: you don’t want it directly in the front-center (like the Nissan Leaf) because a minor fender bender will ruin it. Front-driver’s side is a good choice that a lot of other manufactures are going to. Elon didn’t want that, because it didn’t line up with his Bel Air garage. So they stuck it in back, but due to the way Tesla Superchargers are laid out, it now means Tesla drivers have to back into the parking space.

We have the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter, who someone gave the title of Secretary of Education. You may ask why the the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter is Secretary of Education. As in, that is a question that may be asked.