Hey! This sonic screwdriver actually works with wood!

Might be worth noting that Bitcoin is usually mined with dedicated custom hardware, while Ether (and others) are behind the huge demand for GPUs in the last few years. So Ether switching to Stake should reduce the demand for GPUs, even more than the recent price dips have done.

They need to read up on copyright’s “First Sale Doctrine”. I’m sure there’s a textbook somewhere that covers it.

Can you imagine the connectors needed today if they never figured out that serial can be faster? Now all the major interconnects, (USB, SATA, HDMI, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, PCIe, M.2) are serial, so they don’t have to worry about timing across different wires that might be a different length or impedance.

resolutions between 16 and 33 feet (5 and 10 feet)

But hacked accounts are also standard fare in 2022. It would be disconcerting if somebody was suddenly using your account to place orders, as it would probably be charged to your card.

“The Little Prince”

As a layman, I love seeing the images and animations that show the actual molecule shapes in a cell.

Even when the colors are changed, it’s still all real. These photos are not intended for the public as their primary purpose. They are processed in a way to show details that are interesting and useful to the scientists. By selecting specific wavelengths, we can actually “see” hydrogen or oxygen in a cloud. We can…

But RJ45 is still the form factor for the very latest versions of Ethernet. We’re not doing 10Mb anymore.

This is a review of the last 20 years, not the last 35. (jk) But while we’re at it, don’t forget 25 pin serial, 36 pin Centronics, and 50 pin SCSI.

Starlink just published a paper on what it is doing for the version 2 satellites to drastically reduce brightness, especially during the twilight portion of the orbit when it was most likely to impact observations.

I think Ned went out with the Groundhog Day movie. Nobody wants to name a kid after the life insurance salesman.

I kinda guessed cameras would become part of the phones, but I had no idea their image quality would rival full size DSLR cameras like they do now. Still no idea how they manage that with a 3 mm lens. There’s still a few things a good dedicated camera is better at, but it’s less and less each year.

I would think bribery and favors would be a problem for an appointed position, too.

the likes of which have been designed to protect against a hypothetical (for now) threat that hasn’t been invented yet: quantum computers.

That movie gave me nightmares when I was a kid. (Saw it randomly on TV some time in the 80's.)

It’s an Air Force plane. They can turn off the transponder and ADS-B if they really wanted to, or felt threatened. But in public airspace, it’s polite to tell other planes where you are so TCAS and ATC can help other planes avoid you.

Most bollards are fixed. He’s talking about bollards that raise and lower on command.

Felony forgery in court documents might be enough for that to stick.