"Techne", I've read, had a meaning of "craft". It referred to ceramics and weaving before, say, the antikythera device. If attic greek had the word "technologist", then a sword maker would be one

Time flies like an arrow

Fruit flies like a banana

I miss my E39 530 every time I drive. My next 90s Jag is also going to be a straight-six; the V12 is glorious but heavy.

I like that story. I fixed a microwave door latch with a beer-can shim and some decorative ribbon; we used it another 11 years.

Terminology question - I understood those to be "high-energy" surfaces, because the chains are strongly bound. Is it a typo, or am I wrong?

It is really called low energy, it refers to the low attractive force of the surface, liquids bead up and do not wetten, in epoxy that results in small contact area and a weak bond, on a high surface energy material it flows into all the crannies and has enormous contact area and a strong bond.

TFA does specifically call out the lower efficiency of eesm. I guess it was edited after you wrote your comment.

Efficiency schmischiency. I see your 3% and raise you the abolition of SUVs.

I see your motor-brush maintenance burden with my washer fluid, tyres, brakes, seals bearings bulbs filters etc etc. Then I raise you control modules that send your car to three garages and the scrapyard. Cars have wear items, you heard it here first.

> Is ... really so hard?

Anecdata: I implement most of my behaviours on a kilo of fatty meat and neurotransmitters. It's not a great stack; it has a massive attack surface. It's also orchestrated by an endocrine layer, which is precisely the wrong way round.

I didn't select this architecture, I was instantiated with it, and there isn't a nice migration path.

Zaibatsus - Meta, Condé Nast - outgun me and my biological peers by many orders of magnitude. They can attack vulns that should have been patched in the Precambrian, they have research departments, and they can A/B on millions. We're lambs to the slaughter.

Brain modules cannot be unloaded, so if you were compiled with `addictable=on` then you have no defence-in-depth against an entire class of attacks. If they get through the gate, they have a good chance at persistence.

Hth you understand the difficulties faced by bio-organism admins.

Did you populate the motherboard with the most it could handle, or the most you could assemble from a box of assorted sticks?

Otherwise, 110MB would hint at a fascinating engineering culture at the motherboard manufacturer.

If I remember right there were certain very early pentium 3 processor competitors from VIA and other non-intel, non-AMD sources (with much worse performance) that had integrated onboard SVGA video, where the video RAM was shared with the system DRAM. Meaning that depending how you configured the video in the BIOS, you could have something like a 128GB RAM server "minus" 16GB RAM withheld for video, with like 112GB usable by the OS.

But if this guy is talking about a pentium 75 MHz (socket 5 CPU) that's a totally different generation of stuff several generations before that.

Localised entirely within your chat window? You're an odd duck, marshray, but you impersonate a good FBI officer.

> Before WW2, France and England extracted (a LOT of) tax, without doing anything, from Germany

If you mean Versailles, there was a little kerfuffle leading up to that, called WWI.