spauldo

The example you've given is likely not a problem with reading comprehension but obliviousness. I read and understand things very well (I have to read and correct engineering drawings and schematics and implement them), but I simply don't notice a lot of what goes on around me.

My suggestion for that is any job that doesn't require safety, physical team labor, or security.

Have you tried burping and jumping up and down?

It's can't in the sense of "I can't eat another bite." Yes, until your stomach bursts and you die, you can eat another bite, but everyone understands what you mean.

I can't watch YouTube with ads. The "without forcing myself" is implied.

It's also horribly inconsistent, poorly designed, and mostly a money grab. So it fits.

I hate that logo. I glanced at the subject and thought the X Window System was standardizing remote audio over the X protocol.

It's difficult to eliminate the use of electricity, although generally you'd have them on a battery backup.

Internet is required to contact the fire department or other emergency center (these panels tend to do more than just fire). Used to be just phone lines using a touch tone code, but phone lines are going away. They're pushing hard for cloud solutions now for security panels - I imagine fire will go that way soon enough.

I don't see it as irrational. You're thinking about it the wrong way round.

Manufacturers buy chips from proven sources, where the chip can be traced back to the fab that made it. The entire system of trust is built on the assumption that the chip designers and fabs are trustworthy and that the shady stuff happens elsewhere in the supply chain.

When the designers can't be trusted, it breaks everything. Up until now it hasn't been a problem except in extremely sensitive areas like military equipment - only governments can force a company to risk everything by compromising their own products. But take the risk away - make it cheap enough to design new microcontrollers - and what's to stop a chip designer from taking money from (for example) the Russian mafia? IoT is huge, everywhere, and Risc-V is ideally suited for it.

I don't think it's so much "security by obscurity" as it's an issue of a much lower bar for chip production. Intentional back doors or malware represent a huge risk for a product line, so manufacturers won't put them in without someone like the NSA leaning on them. It's a simple risk/benefit calculation.

But the risk is much lower if you can snag a processor design off the 'net, make your modifications, send it off to a fab and sell it under a fly-by-night operation. If it's ever discovered, you take the money and run.

I see this sort of thing all the time.

There's a disconnect between the time scales for industrial equipment and the time scales for IT and telecommunications. A PLC running a factory might last 30 years, but the software to program and troubleshoot it won't run on modern operating systems or computers. The company doesn't want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade it when there's nothing wrong with it.

Same with telecommunications - POTS worked for a century, and over the last decade we've seen it largely disappear, which makes fire alarm panels everywhere inoperative. We recently ran into an issue where a fire marshall refused to allow anything but POTS and all of the non-end-of-life hardware only supported IP.

Best: washing girlfriend with soap and water.

In older stick frame homes, it's not just practical but essential. They were built to breathe, unlike modern designs. That means that even if you're keeping the entire house warm you could still experience burst pipes.

Light pens were the extravagant thing on most microcomputers of that time. It's easy to see in hindsight why they never caught on, but at the time they were the pointing device of choice.

IIRC mice were basically only on Macs and some high end workstations in the early 80s.