I got it on a Pixel 7, but I uninstalled it because I’m not trying to have Google spy on me for yet another reason.

He certainly reads at a very low level, and I’ve seen analysis of his speeches explaining how we know this. I don’t know if he’s always been that bad at reading or if this is a new thing in the last 10 years or so.

Yeah, they use synthetic ones for that.

You’re reading the graph backwards. The lab diamonds have been cheaper for a long time. De Beers made diamonds a fashion statement so long ago that a lot of their marketing tricks are assumed to be just general lore.

Let’s see if I still remember:

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
Indigo
Juno
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
P???
Q???
Romeo
S???
Tango
U???
Vector
W???
X-ray
Y??? Z???

Nah no worries. Not everyone can know everything.

COVID started under Trump and he tried to pretend like it wasn’t a big deal. Do you not remember him catching COVID while in office?

Edit: There’s an extremely long lag between elections and taking office in the US since the dates for both at the federal level were established in the late 1700s and we haven’t bothered to change it. Elections at the beginning of November, take office in January.

You can also learn to repair your clothes, which can be done well before they need it, extending the time for which they look great.

I, in fact, do not know how the sausage is cooked. It’s great!

Sorrrrrt of. It does reduce the spoiler effect, but ordinary Approval Voting does a better job. Note the chaos in competitive RCV elections. While these simulations are fairly simplistic, the concepts and lessons hold true when looking at real-world elections, more complicated simulations, and mathematical proofs.

We need like eight more parties. RCV won’t change hardly anything if we stick with single-winner elections. Gotta switch to some form of proportional representation, like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting.

Midwest.Social Gotta shill for the home team.

Sounds like you need a union.

Your employer is required to pay you minimum wage if tips don’t make up the difference. If people stop tipping entirely, it actually will impact your boss.

A lot of the efficiency gains in the last few years are from better chip design in the sense that they’re improving their on-chip algorithms and improving how to CPU decides to cut power to various components. The easy example is to look at how much more power efficient an ARM-based processor is compared to an equivalent x86-based processor. The fundamental set of processes designed into the chip are based on those instruction set standards (ARM vs x86) and that in and of itself contributes to power efficiency. I believe RISC-V is also supposed to be a more efficient instruction set.

Since the speed of the processor is limited by how far the electrons have to travel, miniaturization is really the key to single-core processor speed. There has still been some recent success in miniaturizing the chip’s physical components, but not much. The current generation of CPUs have to deal with errors caused by quantum tunneling, and the smaller you make them, the worse it gets. It’s been a while since I’ve learned about chip design, but I do know that we’ll have to make a fundamental chip “construction” change if we want faster single-core speeds. E.G. at one point, power was delivered to the chip components on the same plane as the chip itself, but that was running into density and power (thermal?) limits, so someone invented backside power delivery and chips kept on getting smaller. These days, the smallest features on a chip are maybe 4 dozen atoms wide.

I should also say, there’s not the same kind of pressure to get single-core speeds higher and higher like there used to be. These days, pretty much any chip can run fast enough to handle most users’ needs without issue. There’s only so many operations per second needed to run a web browser.

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The easiest switch is Approval Voting, which every tabulation machine in America can handle right now without any issue. Plus, it’s very easy to adapt to Sequential Proportional Approval Voting, and proportional representation is the thing that will actually break up the two party system.

We reached the physical limits of silicon transistors. Speed is determined by transistor size (to a first approximation) and we just can’t make them any smaller without running into problems we’re essentially unable to solve thanks to physics. The next time computers get faster will involve some sort of fundamental material or architecture change. We’ve actually made fundamental changes to chip design a couple of times already, but they were “hidden” by the smooth improvement in speed/power/efficiency that they slotted into at the time.

It really depends on the field. In some areas PhDs make less than bachelors.

And left their car parked in the photo.