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With Linux, in the worst case, you can probably find a dev who's willing to take your money to maintain a feature. Might not even be that much money, depending. Windows? Not a chance.

this seems like an intentional way to make sure that people can’t make things without paying the oligarchs. I think the fact that we are getting close to being able to make 90s level tech in garages is scaring the tech bros.

Nah, I suspect it's a way for the politicians to look like they're doing something about gun violence without, y'know, actually doing anything about gun violence. Or just generally to distract from what they're doing on other issues. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" stuff.

Well, we did put all available engineering capacity into improving ICE vehicles for around a century. I'm sure the next century will see considerable improvement in EVs, if humanity survives that long.

If I recall correctly, that's consistent with the other scrolls from that library that have been deciphered by different methods, so at least some of the text is likely to be correct.

After a quick skim of the article, it isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but the author 1. only worked with a single Intel CPU (no AMD devices at all) and 2. could do with a wider knowledge of niche distros.

A religion is just a cult that's bamboozled a certain number of people in positions of power into going along with it.

Since the article clearly states that even Canada—where we drive the same vehicles and have some similar infrastructure issues—isn't showing the same uptick, the most likely reasons are legal/regulatory or cultural rather than physical. In other words, there's more going on here than just oversized SUVs with bad collision outcomes for pedestrians (although they certainly don't help).

We may also be separated by a common llanguage—"lecturer" isn't a word that's much used in Canada. I've only encountered it as a Briticism.

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Where I come from, that's read as "x to the [power of] minus one". "x minus one" is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.

(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you'd used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)

Thing is, it just takes one person with a spine to completely upend things if you try to do it that way. Too risky.

They obviously need to design cleaning robots and rat-catching robots and repair robots to support the delivery robots. I mean, we could have an entire robot ecology here, living unnoticed under the city streets.

Anyone else remember the export crypto nonsense with early web browsers? This is going to work about as well.