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Or more likely, using this as a distraction from failing military operations that were claimed to have been "won" repeatedly for 2 months, continued raising energy prices while campaigning he would lower them, and the Epstein files. But sure, he's being altruistic on this campaign promise.

I mean, if you think about all the motherboard does, and how many layers the PCB has to support all the features such that for a vast majority of users, the only things you need besides the motherboard is a CPU, some RAM, storage (either in M.2 or SATA) and maybe a dGPU, it's wild that it is often the cheapest item in the PC.

Well to be fair processors, ram and modern storage are lithography required to make parts. Not sure how much lithography the chipset requires.

More like Carl's Jr.: Fuck you! We're eating.

I'm not familiar with Ruf beyond their inclusion in the Gran Turismo series, but are they actually distinct replicas of 911s, or are they purchased 911s (or sub-assemblies) that are have aftermarket parts swapped, like Shelby-editions of Ford vehicles? Because if its the latter, then it's still a Porsche 911, just with Ruf branded parts attached.

...implying that's a decision that IT makes of its own volition, and not because every other department has some one-off piece of software from 20 years ago that's no longer supported because the vendor is out of business but its still "Mission Critical".


There are a large number of IT departments that don't know how to manage anything else. (And a shocking number of windows-only ones that don't really know how to manage windows)


That's what I'd expect Big Toast to say!


Probably thought "Total Surveillance" was too on-the-nose when starting up.


>Why didn't you put two locks on your door? Clearly you deserved to get burgled if you only used one.

I can reasonably test that the bolt is in a locked position every time I close the door and turn handle on the lock. But a single remote sensor could have malfunctioned or simply be out of calibration a few degrees.

If the actual temperature at the airport is important to any set of users enough so that the difference between it being 18 or 22 deg C is relevant, one should expect that there be at least 3 sensors (much like clocks) and assuming variances between the 3 sensors are within tolerance an average of the 3 temperatures is taken.


> If the actual temperature at the airport is important to any set of users enough so that the difference between it being 18 or 22 deg C is relevant, one should expect that there be at least 3 sensors

Three sensors doesn't solve the problem. Manipulating becomes marginally more difficult with three sensors, but it's still very possible, and with enough monetary incentive it's still even likely that it happens again.

So why not 5 sensors? How about 10?

And what about more consequential issues like the toppling of governments or military blockades where true redundancy is impossible and people are actually harmed?

Is there not a point where you start to blame the incentives that are being chased?


Covid doesn't explain the drop from 2012 to 2020 though, as the tests were administered Fall of 2019 and therefore pre-Covid.


The decrease from 2012 to 2020 was much less and generally not statistically significant. Further 2012 was the all time high, you'd expect some regression to the mean.


> Further 2012 was the all time high

It's an all time high because it started declining after that. You'd expect some regression, but you don't expect it to fall back to 1980s levels.


That's how all time highs work, yes. And it didn't fall to 1980s levels, 2020 was tied for second highest all time in math and was 1 point behind second highest all time in reading.


It's been on Project Gutenburg for over 20 years: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13600

They only release books that are in the public domain.


> They only release books that are in the public domain.

Not necessarily. Project Gutenberg does provide some works still under US copyright, such as F. P. Walter’s 1999 translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2488



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