It does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.

Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.

Maybe quarters also go (perhaps with half-dollars becoming more common, which, alongside dimes and dollars, would give the same first-three-steps scale as penny/nickel/dime, just shifted a decimal place.)

The current half dollar is a rejected monster. Nickels should be too.

Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.

Yes, and reduce the size of new_half_dollar to current_quarter; new_quarter to current_nickel; dime remains same size. Nix nickels and pennies. Dollars become smaller than current_half_dollar, but larger than current_quarter.

If you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.

I agree — tangentally Gresham's Law [0]

>"Bad money drives out good."

Perhaps reduce denominations to bespoke sizes — but just make them smaller [2].

[0] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law>

[2] I am among the few people who actively uses half dollar coins — they're simply too bulky for most people (I'm a fatguy so I've got enough pocketspace).

Odd the other comment(tree) is collapsed? I liked the article and the pictures of the palm trees(plants) are cool.

I still need to go see them! Here's hoping I don't procrastinate it too much.

It would be a major break through alone if they came up with a useful and lasting metric to track what "double" is: "Genesis Mission has the goal of doubling the productivity and impact of U.S. research and development by pairing scientists with intelligent systems that reason, simulate, and experiment at extraordinary speed."

I had to search around and feel like a dork not knowing this. I have my data backed up, but I keep the SSDs because it's nice to have the OS running like it was... I guess I need to be cloning the drives to ISOs and storing on spinning rust.

I learned this when both my old laptops would no longer boot after extended off power time (couple years). They were both stored in a working state and later both had SSDs that were totally dead.

Were the SSDs toasted, or were you able to reinstall to them?

D.E.A.D.

Had to replace them.

I could be wrong, but I believe the general consensus is along the lines of "SSDs for in-use data, it's quicker and wants to be powered on often. HDDs for long-term storage, as they don't degrade when not in use nearly as fast as SSDs do.

I'd imagine HDDs also don't like not spinning for years(as mechanical elements generally like to be used from time to time). But at least platters itself are intact

I've been going through stack of external USB drives with laptop disks in them. They're all failing in some form or another. I'm going to have to migrate it all to a NAS with server-class drives I guess

At the very least, you can usually still get the data off of them. Most SSDs I've encountered with defects failed catastrophically, rendering the data completely inaccessible.

or you could power them on 1-2x /year.

Power them on and run something to exercise the read function over every bit. Thats why a ZFS filesystem integrity check/scrub is the useful model.

I'm unsure if dd if=/the/disk of=/dev/null does the read function.

why would it not? it's a low level tool to do exactly that. you could "of" it to somewhere else if you're worried it's not. I like to | hexdump -C, on an xterm set to a green font on a black background for a real matrix movie kind of feel.

Is the next step really is space based data centers?

No

Sounds like SEO. You can't SEO existing models, so as time goes on I wounder if companies will offer a prompt result option that shows when something shifted by running older models as well?

Why? He said he was going to enclose. Is this a fumes thing?

It’s not just safety. It’s also the costs. You have to print them in climate controlled environment which can get expensive. Print them looking “fine” is not the same as printing them to specification of these materials. And you print ABS/PC/Nylon for functional needs.

Great answers exist, but will be ephemeral. In other words this is a journey. Pick what your into now and ask the question. What's a good gun for sub $1000? What's a good computer for sub $1000? What's a good sewing machine for sub $1000?

This is wild read and worth a pool upgrade. He now has about 20/40 or 20/30 vision in that eye, but needs to wear (normal I think) sun glasses.

From 2012. 13 years ago. It's interesting to note if we are talking just the desktop almost nothing has changed from 2012.

Which means it’s time to update the current value!

In 2025 it would be $7,245.62.

I’ve kept thinking about this, so I decided to run it in reverse. An iPhone 16 would be would be about $340 in 1991 money. That’s only 70% more than the cell phone in the catalog, or only _42%_ of the camcorder! The camcorder alone would be almost $1900 today. You could get a folding phone for that. Or three iPhones 16Es.