It doesn't have to be a structural issue if the fact that the underbody is all one piece keeps you from easily accessing the car's internals.

> Tesla is closing in on an innovation that would allow it to die cast nearly all the complex underbody of an EV in one piece That's going to be a bitch to work on after your Tesla's been in an accident.

The people who claim the EU forced Apple to do this seem to be deliberately ignoring the fact that Apple has been migrating to USB-C for a few years now - and that Apple still sells gear that uses the Lightning connector even now...

I was thinking the same thing, but TB5 for an iphone seems like massive overkill.

I mean, I was under the impression that using human waste as fertilizer was how you spread disease...

To be blunt, who else is going to fund them? Governments probably should, but they always have far too many demands for financing.

> Caucasian males average 5' 9" in height, which is taller than those of Indian (5' 8"), Asian (5' 7") and Hispanic descent (5' 7"). I wonder how much of that is cultural/nutritional? I seem to remember that back in the 90s the Japanese had gotten much, much taller than their grandparents were and it was attributed to improvements in nutrition.

The thing is - nerds don't dominate tech anymore. The era when us misanthropes went into tech because it was a haven for the asocial is long over.

It's weird how important a person's height can be to themselves and to the people around them. When I was young I was 5 feet and 11.5 inches. And I was annoyed that I wasn't 6 feet tall. (And, yeah, I usually told people I was 6 feet tall.) Anyway, I'm in my late 50's now and, due to some back problems, I lost 2 full inches in height. When I realized it I was both really upset and shocked by how upset I was. And now, today, after the fusion surgery that lets me stand up straight again, the first thing my wife said to me as I came out of the hospital room was "you're tall again!" while she laughed and cried and hugged me...

The article suggests using the geothermal heat as heat, rather than electricity would be much more efficient... but moving industrial facilities (or homes) close enough to those old wells might be a real challenge in a lot of places and the sites themselves might be seriously polluted from extracting the oil.

So, given that the SSD controller is built into the same chip that houses the CPU, I would guess that that second port isn't even connected unless you have the M1 Ultra - because the Ultra is two M1 Max chips bonded together and, therefore, probably has two SSD controllers.

You can't take a NAND from one SSD and put it into another without completely resetting the SSD controller - which is discussed in the thread I linked to. The guy claiming the chips are "locked" just didn't reset the Mac properly.

The 64GB of NAND is built into the A13 SOC and it was cheaper to just use the A13 as-is than it was to redo the fab to create a version with less storage...