>Do you just mean that we must assume something to get the ball rolling

They're called "axioms"

On my phone keyboard (android) "×" is a long-press on "w"

That's correct, the Romans had March as the first month of the year, so leap day was the last day of the year and September, October, November and December were the 7th (sept), 8th (oct), ninth (nov) and 10th (dec) months.

June and July used to be Quintilis and Sextilis.

I think Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed to July and August, in honor of Julius and Augustus, respectively.

Not one mention of the material's dialectric constant

I'd expect the loss coefficient (tan d) to be terrible. Cellulosics hold onto water quite well. You will not have a good time pushing anything high-speed through this kind of board.

I would say the only practical application would be disposable things like PCBs in single-use vape pens. (Which are pretty environmentally offensive on other levels anyway.)

> Not one mention of the material's dialectric constant

They weren't able to measure it because it kept changing. /s

You can isolate your ethernet over coax from your neighbor with a MoCA POE "point of entry" filter which blocks the frequencies used by MoCA.

You can buy them online for around $10 and they install without tools,

Besides neighbors, you may also need a POE filter if you have certain types of cable modem.

cable companies require poe filters. if they find that there is some "noise" leaking from your house, they may put a big filter of their own outside, that can degrade speed of modem

Smurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.

>> It could never be made today.

> Why not?

M. Emmett Walsh, Carl Reiner, Maurice Evans and Jackie Mason are all dead, for one reason.

Not that big an issue in this age of AI generated deepfake videos.

Word. 28 years of FPGA and ASIC design here, in VHDL, Verliog and SystemVerliog. Coming from VHDL, verilog had some painful limitations (no struct/record type) but SV fixed those, and supports some surprisingly powerful metaprogramming.

But even when using plain verilog the language was never the limiting factor on the design process.

It gets done inside silicon chips because the (relative) costs of going off the chip and back on again are huge, and the parasitic inductance of the on/off chip path can make a an off-chip capacitor effectively useless.

Not really - it incentivizes having the same total number of SW developers for many years, but they don't actually have to be the same people.

If you work at $CORP for 1 year (or 1 minute), $CORP gets to deduct the 1/5th of what they paid you for all 5 years, whether you still work there or not.