It’s “But Her Emails”, not “But His Emails”. See?

It’s even dumber, because it’s not about the budget, it’s about the allocation of funds to certain departments and the authorization to spend that money, which comes after the budget. Some other countries separate budgets and appropriations like this, but those other countries put in those safeguards you mention, because they want government agencies to function even if the politicians are having a snit.

In the US, thanks to “small-government” Republicans, we make it extremely difficult to spend any money without explicit authorization. And since we also have no concept of a no-confidence vote, politicians can basically hold government funding hostage if they want. The politicians that are doing this right now know they won’t have to face another election until next November at the earliest. (Senators serve six year terms, and it’s telling that all of the Democrats who voted for cloture on this bill are either retiring or not up for election next year…)

My quick take is that all that stuff mattered when people had to go out to find other people: to parties, bars, concerts, and other public places. They had to actively attract people to initiate a conversation. Now all those third places are dying, and most couples meet online, which means they have done all the superficial selection stuff already, which changes the game.

Plot twist: this is just corporate shilling, too, trying to convince us it’s only 15%…

He learned he was only immortal for a limited time

Checking it over just defeats the purpose of AI slop. The whole point of using AI is you want to put in as little effort as possible.

Is there like a programming language of some sort where a compiler converts syntax into circuitry layouts?

You are looking for something like System Verilog (Or VHDL).

Both these languages let you describe hardware. They can both go down to the circuit and transistor level, but people won’t write that by hand. Rather, they will write code that is a description of digital hardware (flip-flops and the logic between them), and then let tools synthesize their description down to individual logic cells and simple functions. Often, chip fab houses have “standard cell libraries” that implement the most common logical functions, and the tools stich them together based on the higher level description.

Then there is all the verification that needs to be done, not just verification that the design is doing what it needs to do at all times, but that every individual chip is made correctly. Defects do happen, and you want to find them as early as possible in the process. Chip companies spend considerable effort on verification.

Lots and lots of expensive tools and specialized knowledge! A good middle ground are FPGAs. These are special chips with lots of generic logic building blocks, and ways to programmatically make connections between them. You can write the same VHDL or Verilog for FPGAs, butt the tools map the logic to the FPGA vendor’s chip directly, and “programs” the chip to implement the logic. These still require tools and specialized knowledge, but much cheaper than a fully custom chip.

One of the trippy things to understand about digital logic when coming from a software background is that it is massively parallel. All the logic is ticking on each clock edge, all the time. While there may be an order to how an HDL file is written, the individual blocks in it are all operating at the same time once the design is actually running in silicon. So when you write it, you need to keep all this parallelism in mind

It depends on how big your arms are. I bet you can run around with a pistol but not with heavy guns…

There are two ways to interpret the question.

If you go with “will the internetworking between independent diverse networks ever go offline”, the answer to that is most definitely “no”. With so many independent entities involved, and so many redundant connections, data will find a way to be routed to where it needs to go. Perhaps a coordinated attack on undersea cables might disconnect continents from each other.

But if you go with “can the commercial Internet that companies use to sell stuff ever go offline”, I think we’ve seen that the answer to that is “yes”. As more and more commerce moves “to the cloud” I think people are ignorant about how concentrates computing in a few distinct geographical areas and companies. Yes, I am aware that those companies are very good at 24/7 operation and site reliability. Until they fire so many people that they aren’t reliable anymore.

Probably not the very first use of the term, but it’s how I came to learn about it

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Percussive maintenance

Those are rookie numbers

It’s always the ones you expect the most

Take up knitting. I’m serious.

“Modernizing” being euphemism for planting lots of listening devices for his friends in Russia paying customers.

Shoot, they missed a chance to call it the “Federal Action Reporting Template”. Then we would be reading about how Letitia James "rolled out a ‘FART’. "

Your phones don’t have letters on the buttons?

Long ago, before cell phones blew up how many numbers people used, American seven digit numbers were often referred to as a combination of letters and numbers. Below was a guide I how to translate the first three letters to a single word for numbers in Chicago

“Eight Sleep confirmed there’s no offline mode yet, but they’re working on it.”

There’s an offline mode after all. Unplug it!

I will be the contrarian in the room and say that you shouldn’t really do anything different – unless you know that you are going to need that money in the next year or two.

Let’s take the S&P 500. Yes, we know there is an AI bubble, and the same 7 tech companies are knee deep in it. But it turns out that bubbles make money, until they don’t. In fact, a good chunk of the growth in the S&P over the past two years has been in those 7 companies.. If you had made this bet 2 years ago, you would be a big loser now.

So what do you do? Don’t panic sell. You can’t time the market. Sell when you need the money for something else. Sell when you have a purpose. But don’t be too upset when the bubble finally bursts, and it all dives 25% (or more!) . That was never real money anyway.

Introverts probably had it much better back then. You couldn’t physically take your work home with you. Your news came once a day, to the front porch, and was not constantly bombarded at your eyeballs. When you were home, you only interacted with your immediate family, unless you had someone physically over to visit. Or if someone called in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.