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  • Discussion around the cultural impact of the sitcom "Friends," with varying opinions on its characters and humor.
  • References to the founding of Turkey and its implications for secularism, with some light-hearted commentary on food choices.
  • Comments on Neil DeGrasse Tyson's approach to teaching critical thinking, with mixed reactions to his style and audience engagement.
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Bystander said:
First(?) SS body; beat Elon.
Ford has played with the idea as far back as 1936:
https://silodrome.com/stainless-steel-allegheny-ludlum-fords/ said:
This series of three stainless steel cars was built by Ford and stainless steel producer Allegheny Ludlum Inc. starting in 1936, in order to showcase the benefits of stainless steel.

[...]

The first stainless steel Ford was the 1936 Ford Tudor Deluxe Touring Sedan, just six of them were made and the first was used by the New York Allegheny Ludlum sales office as a technology demonstrator of stainless steel’s durability.

[..,]

The second stainless steel model was the 1960 Ford Thunderbird, just two of these were built, the body, bumpers, and grille are all made from type 302 stainless steel.

[...]

The final cars built as part of this series were three stainless steel 1967 Lincoln Continentals.

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Rive said:
Never been so overwhelmed with work since I lost my job.
hope you get fixed up
 
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Borg said:
If Doc Brown hadn't built a time machine out of one, would anyone today know what a DeLorean was?
Probably not. I bumped into the real thing in Inverness of all places last year at a music festival. The owner dressed up as Doc, the kids loved it, I managed to get an image too.

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pinball1970 said:
hope you get fixed up
Not much, so far

I've encountered something I've decided to call 'The Legend of Superman'.

Recruiters these days are apparently looking for professionals who can do the whole thing: system design, circuits (analog and digital, high speed and RF, with simulation), FPGA design, layout, manufacturing, testing, programming (C and Python both), embedded OS, system level integration.

Wherever I've worked so far most of these were handled by specialists since these neighboring domains all requiring wide scope of knowledge in themselves - I'm yet to see somebody being professional in all of them in the same time... Must be some legendary guy...
 
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Rive said:
Recruiters these days are apparently looking for professionals who can do the whole thing: system design, circuits (analog and digital, high speed and RF, with simulation), FPGA design, layout, manufacturing, testing, programming (C and Python both), embedded OS, system level integration.
I don't think there would be one person who would be worth their salt in all of those domains; that is why we want AGI.
 
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I made an application to Ultraviolet Company. But my dog had to help me fill it up since I couldn't see it.
 

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