Out of an abundance of caution, let's assume a new technology has unintentional consequences until proven otherwise. That's it. Be a "doomer" until we stop having fundamental questions about the performance of our AI systems. That you can trick an LLM into giving you restricted information should be a warning sign that we don't fully understand what we're doing in this industry.

Russia should get a little bump too if I'm reading this right. I mean assuming there is no macroeconomic blow back of 90%+ of the world population facing economic hardship.

Back in the old days they'd off the idiot son of the ruler to make room for a more reliable heir. The great thing about dynasties is the family running things has an interest in keeping their reputation. But you still end up fighting to settle grey areas of succession like with Lancaster and York in the War of the Roses.

What's the opposite of peace and prosperity? Because without reliable long-term leadership we're going to leave future generations worse off than the current generation.

These IRC clones like Discord and Slack are so incredibly broken. We've had the technology to chat online for decades, and the visually impaired have been using screen readers and braille with IRC since the beginning. With Discord and Slack, it is much more cumbersome to navigate with a screen reader. Since it is ultimately a web app. The ability to also do voice chat is nice, but for us old farts we don't really want to talk on what amounts to a chaotic party line.

I feel like both IRC and Jabber/XMPP missed an opportunity to offer some of the quality of life features that Slack and Discord have. The ability to start your own private zone inside the server, where you can customize the channels and welcome message is pretty huge. We used to do welcome messages with bots back in the day, and it was much more cumbersome. Do I need custom animated reaction "emoji" ? Not really, I don't need chocolate to survive either but I don't mind having either around.

While I'm glad you got the reference. I do know how termios works. You can change the key for this with an ioctl() to update the c_cc array and pick a different suspend character for the terminal driver (the suspend character causes the terminal driver to send a TSTP to the current terminal owner). This setup works roughly the same on most SysV style Unixes (not just Linux).

From the command-line, you could do something like:
    stty susp ^K

And this will make well-behaved interactive programs use the new suspend key. Some programs like Vim don't honor the terminal driver, and handle suspend themselves. So by default you will still use Ctrl-Z when in Vim, even if you configured your terminal differently. Which is an example of the millions of little cuts that has ruined Unix over the years. A fundamental misunderstanding by application writers in how the subsystems work, they end up making these islands of configuration that pretend they aren't operating in a shared environment. In Vim's defense, taking over your terminal is a work around for another problem. Leaving the stop/start/intr/eof characters (^Q and ^S and ^C and ^D) bound to the terminal driver is not ideal for full screen interactive applications. And other characters don't make sense outside of ICANON mode such as line editing kill(^U), word erase (^W), etc.

Not that Unix terminal I/O is some perfect system. Because for the life of me I don't understand why some Linux systems default to erase ^H and some to erase ^?, sometimes on the same distros but under different terminal apps. It's a super old problem, Unix couldn't pick a standard for what to do with a keyboards backspace for 50+ years and Linux continued the "tradition" for another 30+ years (despite mainly using IBM style keyboard layouts with a simple backspace and no rubout, erase, or other confusing electric typewrite modes).

I have the same question for Formula 409. What did the other 408 formulas do? Would it melt my face, get me high, I'm curious.

I thought Ctrl-Z was to suspend a process.

The battery technology used for these itself doesn't ignite or explode, unlike a cell phone's chemistry. For fires it's primarily the electrical risk, as I mentioned in my OP. And I already accept that risk with the high voltage DC for my solar array. The battery system I have uses inverters and the conduit around my home carries 240V AC and not DC. Unlike my older solar installation.

I had 20 days with partial or no power in 2022. And 13 in 2023. Without someone competent managing the centralized infrastructure there is little alternative.

Add on top that the changes in metering rules means I get pennies when I send my solar to the power company, but I pay dimes when I want to buy power back. From a cost perspective, storing energy for later is a no brainer.

I suspect having an ICE car in a garage is a bigger risk. And somehow we all manage instead of riding a centralized service like a bus or a train. Maybe we're collectively as pointless and as dumb as you imply.

I just got a battery installed. There is almost no fire risk. We're far more interested in the real risks like brush and electrical fires.

The government squashed the satellite dish thing, so you can fight that if you feel like slapping your HOA around in court a bit.

Chuck didn't even build the plane himself. So it doesn't count.

If someone wrote some code without test cases in a regular nightly build, that's not enterprise level. But Linus was nice enough to write some tests for FREE.

With taxes and withdrawing of subsidies the retail price for fuel may very well go up significantly. But that has nothing to do with EVs. That's the reverse of supply-side economics. (actually, I'm not convinced supply-side economics works in the forward direction. but it does seem to work in reverse)

Overall I think PHEV are the best compromise for people. They have flexibility and range because they can run gasoline, and save you money and reduce emissions because you can potentially charge them on a home solar system. And PHEVs are not any more expensive than EVs, and there are more models available on the lower end. For those of us that need a car to get from point A to point B, and aren't looking for a Tesla-like performance experience from an EV.

I think if city dwellers and commercial fleets switched to EVs, that you wouldn't really need to worry about it much right now. Demand for oil might go down a bit and make gas cheaper for you in the short term. But long term your fuel costs are going to get pretty serious. Hopefully BEVs are better by then.