I agree. The ads were an import part of reading those magazines. They were relevant and at least somewhat informative. Also, they gave you a way to buy the products you needed. Back then you couldn't just get on Amazon, Alibaba, or Ebay and buy anything. You had to search for a source.

I found that the ads in those magazines were also informative. not unbiased, but a good introduction to new products.

I don't suppose you have Ford F350s in your area? You could put that Ranger in the glove box.

Don't see them very often, thankfully. We're not the US yet - there is still hope!

That tautological is not a mistake. Surviving to reproduce is the definition of fitness from an evolutionary standpoint.

AFAIK - Synapsida were originally termed mammal-like reptiles before the Amniota group was applied.

I used to do a lot with AutoLisp in AutoCAD back when it ran in DOS. Did a lot of dynamic creation and manipulation of the models with it. It was useful and a lot of fun (aside from parenthesis nesting).

I use a scheme variant in an optics simulation product.

It's actually very pleasing to work with. I wish there was more stuff like this. Lispy programming languages and CAD seems like a natural fit.

That said, python is preferable for most people.

I did that back in the 90s too. A modern IDE like set of features for lisp would've been awesome. Notepad on NT4 didn't cut it :)

yea, this was in DOS days.

On one project I was using autolisp in AutoCAD, Then another language in an external database, and some pascal work to tie them together. I had to segregate my work to separate days to keep from getting my syntax all screwed up.

It’s a movie, not a book. The audio book is 16 hours runtime. The movie is 2 hours. Some things were always going to be left out. The details of the science stuff was one of them. It works better in a book narrative where the process is told than a movie where it’s visual and you have to show.

The Martian book has more of the science process than PHM book does to begin with.

The movie hit all of the primary points but never got into the details. If you read the book you can fill in the details. I imagine that a lot of people watching the movie didn’t know why some things were happening. Maybe some will be interested enough to read the book or the audiobook. If not, they had a good experience in the movie anyway.

It’s still a really good movie.

What bugs me about the editing in the movie is they gave only a couple of seconds of screen time for key plot elements like the nitrogen resistance breeding and how/why this would cause issues for Rocky. It made the last 20% of the movie less coherent for anyone who hasn’t read the book.

That kind of thing is more standard procedure for evolution than an exception. Since evolution doesn't plan but just makes use of what it has with slide variations, changes play out along paths that are easier rather than optimal. That's how you get a thumb on the panda evolved from a projection on the wrist.

Noted, but I think I'll pass. Doesn't seem to be much benefit if you have to train yourself to discern a difference just so you can stream massive files.

Of course this does matter to some people and I say "have fun".

Trump administration also cancelled funds for charging network buildouts, has fought solar and wind energy construction, put in high and erratic tariffs on key technologies related to EV construction. There is also a concerted effort by this administration to push the narrative that EVs are a failed folly and there are well funded astroturf campaigns pushing the same message. Americans are told daily that EVs are unreliable, the batteries die quickly, and you can never find a charger. Meanwhile car makers are cancelling plans to bring out EVs. It makes for a harsh climate for EVs in the US. EVs are still selling but its an uphill climb and the numbers show it.

The flip side is the economic reality of capitalism bieng built on growth, which is absolutly impossible for cars burning fuel. Electrics are cheaper to buy and maintain outside of the western markets, where the bulk of the worlds population lives, and much of the west, is going electric, realy realy quicky. The current fuel crunch is almost certainly causing the significant surplus of chinese electrics to bieng snapped up all over south east aisia ,africa, and south america.Just weeks ago there were sneering articles about overproduction, and unsold electric cars piling up in China, which now looks like precient planning.