Step 1: take the magnetron out of a microwave oven

Step 2: …

He decided a presidential candidate was bad on handshake alone

Holy shit, that AI chat is too good.

Yep.

https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/LM555

2mA minimum, and that’s just q current. It’s gonna be much higher when you’re actually using it for a clock.

I’m sure the casio’s main power sink is the display. I bet the refresh rate could be reduced for better battery life.

Science has an unintuitive philosophical system, it is actually impossible (or just not feasible) to “disprove” a lot of things absolutely 100%.

Best you can do is prove something, or fail to prove something.

And it does make some sense, there’s uncertainty in measurements, there’s some probability and statistics involved.

Proving there are NOT aliens out there would require checking every inch of every planet for life, remains, or fossils.

Doesn’t chickenpox turn into shingles by infecting the nervous system?

Could long covid be related to that?

This is where “universal basic income” comes into play

It’s definitely an arms race. One other outcome is that it gets too expensive to be cost effective and slows down that way.

What did you not like about his process?

then we couldn’t export eggs to other countries

Why?

Counterpoint:

You can say anything in an authoritarian state, the consequences are that you’ll get disappeared in the night.

Machines that kill humans is a frightning concept