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simply pressing ALT+F4 didn't do it? (of course you had to click the desktop first)

That still worked yes! But I don't think most people knew about this. You just gave me flashbacks to those days working at the local college, we would do this to restart all the machines in a classroom, we had them all on Deepfreeze so it would purge anything students downloaded / installed. We had other remote ways of doing it, but it was fun doing the shortcut too from time to time.

It did. To some extent it seems like it was a telemetry mistake that some of the easier mouse controls (an actual button for start rather than gesture; a missing obvious power button; not having a simple mouse button to get to the Charms; etc). Windows users opted into Windows telemetry all must have seemed to be keyboard-heavy (probably because only certain types of power users, such as myself, were opting in to telemetry). All of the keyboard shortcuts still worked. Some new keyboard shortcuts were added. Windows 8 was extremely useful from a keyboard shortcut viewpoint. (The Charms made a lot more sense from the keyboard.)

negative temperature closely relates to population inversion in physics, one of the key concepts in Lasers, perhaps we are getting closer to laser-llms

if the PVC is brittle it almost certainly lost its plasticizer, could be that the alkaline eroded it

Unplasticised PVC, commonly used for rigid pipe, is normally brittle and will shatter, which is why it's not allowed for pneumatic systems. It doesn't crumble easily, however.

in my country this is considered theft and it is punishable by law considered you don't have a contract with the provider

It’s just a technology that can be used for both civilian and military applications, not only by private entities.

if you don't have a contract with the utility you almost certainly violate the law, at least in Europe, but then again I don't know what the US regulation is

> Power utilities are the perfect first customer.

Sounds like having contracts with the power companies is their #1 goal.


if so, all is fine. but if there are other entities using it they need a contract with the utility

That might be why the first customers are utilities themselves.

I hope so, and that there are no other people using them, exploiting this ability

I guess it's because of the already available packages

no TV

Nor Internet

that reminds me of an old joke: how doe the postal services make their profit? I don't get it. - Ah, that's easy. How much wieght may letters have? - 20g - And how much weight do the average letters have? - About 6g. - See? That's their profit

I really don't get it.

It's technically a 300% margin because they are charging you for 20g but only shipping 6g.

fast multiplying for example


Also how to make good estimates, and how to work with units.

One example, the formula to get the speed of a thing after h meters of free fall must deliver an outcome of m/s. We also know the gravitational acceleration g is given in m/s^2. Then, height h in m must somehow be part of the formula. We can get rid of the squaresecond in the denominator by drawing the square root. But then we also need the height in meters. Also it is clear that both more height as well as a higher acceleration must lead to higher speed. Therefore, the speed must be proportional to sqrt(h x g). In fact it is v = 1/2 sqrt(h x g) but we can derive the important part only from knowing how to calculate with units.


I guess they are using it in pulsed mode, continuous mode would be a little bit much power


how about jshell? it comes with every java distribution


Shameless plug for jshelled (jshell for gradle projects) https://github.com/gravitation1/jshelled


yes I thought this was going to be about jshell too.

jshell is amazing, I don't think enough people know about it!


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