You can think it's idiosyncratic, but I can assure you (both as an Asian and as someone who knows quite a few Asians) that many (maybe the majority of) Asians whose views on race-based treatment/preferences have changed were driven by the eventual recognition that they exist in the racial in-between. They get almost none of the "privilege" that white people do while getting none of the "protections" that other minorities do. And, at the same time, they are often penalized for being Asian.
It's not surprising or idiosyncratic that an Asian's viewpoint on race has evolved as they've spent more time being exposed to America's racial hypocrisy and experienced more and more of this in-betweenness.
> How did IBM convince Motorola to modify the 68000 and Intel to modify the 8087? Did IBMers do this work, or Intel and Motorola?
IBM had Nick Treddenick, the lead designer of the 68K do the work. His book "Microprocessor Logic Design" covers the development of the "Micro/370" in great detail, including flow charted microcode that looks remarkably similar to the flowcharts in Ken's article (though apparently Treddenick used flowcharts for the 68K microcode prior to moving to IBM. Regrettably I haven't actually read through my copy yet, so I can't give any further details.
Ken, if you see this I highly recommend tracking down a copy to read, I think it's right up your alley.
The first Turkish software export was measured in Meters :)
The story goes, a Turkish company sells a software to a British client for a few hundreds thousands GBP and has to go though the bureaucracy for the accounting purposes.
Turns out, the clerk in the customs doesn't understand how software works and says he cannot certify the export of a few hundred grands worth of goods delivered by press of a button(the delivery was done through 28kbps modem connection). They bring him a disk but this is not good enough, there is no way this piece is worth that much he says and rejects the application.
They end up putting the software on a tape and declare that they've sold 2000 meters of fine Turkish software to the Brits. The clerk likes that, so the first software export from Turkey ends up being measured in Meters!
[0] The sources are in Turkish but the guy who was involved in this is Ali Akurgal.
It isn't really though. A cascading failure can knock out an entire grid. The Northeast blackout is an example.
A line goes out.
while (there some lines are still live):
The current redistributes itself among neighboring lines.
Neighboring lines trip
end
BlackStart()
BlackStart() is fun. Having your plants and grid down is like having a dead battery (plants use ~30% of the electricity they gen on themselves) and no one to give you a jump.
Usually the hydroelectric plants are started first. Arg. is lucky, they have a lot of those. Otherwise you need to fire up diesel generators (which hopefully have been maintained).
You give power to the grid first so you can start another plant.
Then you feed hospitals and continue firing the thermal plants.
Throughout all of this you have to keep phase stability (no grid, no phase reference). I'd assume this would limit renewable's use-fullness for re-start (a thousand 5Mw turbines out of phase are best left idling)
As a last step you turn on your nuclear plants (Arg. has a few). These are last because of nuclear poisons that accumulate from decaying wastes that weren't burned while the reactor was off.
It's not surprising or idiosyncratic that an Asian's viewpoint on race has evolved as they've spent more time being exposed to America's racial hypocrisy and experienced more and more of this in-betweenness.