Homes in the upper midwest are well-sealed and insulated. Bedrooms can hit 2,000 ppm with two adults sleeping in them.

The flamethrower was the first thing that gave me pause.

My moment was the Teslaquila.

Tres Comas

also his wielding of the chainsaw with that wimpy yelp

Unfortunately Sealab 2021 was more accurate in predicting the future.

I was joking with friends, that it appeared that people saw shows like Star Trek and Star Wars, and thought - hey, we can do that.

The problem is that politicians and governments saw shows like Idiocracy and Space Balls, and thought - hey, we can do that.

Star Wars is pretty dystopian in every era shown in the movies. Even at the height of the Galactic Republic large areas of the outer rim have people living in poverty and outright slavery. Coruscant appears nice, but a little below the surface criminal gangs are running the place with most of the planet's population never even seeing sunlight.

Plus the powerful elite tapped into the discontent that they'd created in order to further their own power, then crushed the useful idiots who rebelled against the oppression and doubled down with more oppression.

Star Trek convinced me that keyboards spit out sparks and smoke and throw you across the room if you type in illogic.

If only.

More pylons required.

I'd say Biodome and Idiocracy were far, far more accurate.

And Idiocracy is a hopeful movie -- it shows how an enlightened leader (Herbert Camacho) can actually help society move out of a collapse (that feels more and more likely to happen in real life).

Idiocracy got the timeline wrong so, Star Trek and co assumed we are much faster, Idiocracy assumed we are much slower.

Star Trek's DS9 episodes featuring Sanctuary Districts were set in 2024, and Star Trek's WWIII started around 2026. We're kinda on track.

Not really. Because at the end some annoyed pimp called Upgrayedd tunnels there through time. Presumably to pursue an upgrade for his revenue stream.

Fuck yeah!

Yeah, but if you're Not Sure, then it's really hard to convince other people as well though.

I hope the company is not buried with his passing.

I had an employer tie a forced arbitration clause to a stock option refresh.

There was as far as marketing. My family members stopped asking me about ads they saw on TV for IBM's quantum computers.

I've started to adopt a hedging strategy (i.e. short plays) with IBM marketing...seems like everything they touch dies (horrendously).

ETA..in case anyone is interested, the author of the article is a theoretical physicist, which lends more credibility to the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder

CA is the future. Transplants are just exporting it to your area.

Upvoted for truth

Sighed deeply for it too

Sad but true

Yep. You can see Reed-Hillview airport on the left and 680 on the right.

Is it possible that your "Structure of an inverter" image is mislabed? NMOS would be on the left and PMOS on the right. My thinking is the PMOS has the extra diffusion step to create the n-well for the channel under the gate.

It's quite possible that they are reversed; I'm sort of guessing. PMOS transistors are usually bigger, so I think it's the one on the left. The chip could have n-wells or p-wells, so it could go either way with the extra diffusion.