It's hard to imagine any packet loss on a short point to point ethernet cable. If there's no complex crypto involved or differences in the pumps, maybe it would be feasible to update one pump, capture the packet sequence in a pcap file, and then replay that packet sequence to the next pump using a raspberry pi. I would have thought a suitable "expect" style script could be cooked up... play outbound packets and expect the next inbound packet.

again!

Maybe a chuck Norris body part, fingernail clipping, chest hair something like that to bring the asteroid to its knees. Or simply beam a chuck Norris TV show at it, make it just not want to come here.

Of the predominantly single purpose things, the toaster and the rice cooker are definitely worth the space they take in my kitchen. I can always move them to a cupboard when I don't need them. They don;t sit on the counter permanently.

lots of (non-chicken) things can make eggs

Assuming it is much faster than an equivalent system written in, say , C. I find it disappointing that hand crafted assembler should be so much faster than what compiler optimizations can achieve.

They are painstakingly rubbed into the fur of each bee individually.

What Edith Macefield needs is lots of balloons.

"/* ugly hack to... */" is a modest expression of pride describing concise, functional, readable and elegant C code in the same way as the term "//elegant approach to..." in C++ describes some borderline-insane misapplication of the STL with the incomprehensibility of perl and the verbosity of java.

Could it not also get more RAM and CPU when docked ?

The appeal of the cute fluffy penguin coupled with religious angst about the BSD daemon sealed the deal for Linux.

Roads could be better laid out to separate nose-to-tail convoys of self-driving trucks from other road users. It always seems to snarl up the whole highway when one truck takes 10 minutes to overtake another. If they could all move along with shared engine capacity that could probably be eliminated.

If they moved the lane barriers around they might create a single central lane that is used for self-driving trucks, have each section run one way for some period and reverse it for the next period. Have the sections end at convenient marshaling points for interconnection to other transport / big cities, intersecting highways etc. or to drop in drivers for local deliveries.

Leave the rest of the road for human drivers

Oh look SSN as ID again, what could possibly go wrong !

maybe it's a single windows machine riddled with some virus

Well the Germans re-unified, maybe a unification of the US and China wouldn't be so bad over the long term. So long as I don't have to learn to speak Chinese.