RPi is an excellent machine, but the GPIO cannot handle realtime apps. What it really needs is a realtime I/O controller. Maybe something like an XMOS controller and an FPGA.

This is exactly what I do with with an Olimex PIC32 T-795H. It breaks the PIC32 IO out to breadboard compatible pins, and comes with an open source version of MMBASIC installed. It is easy to upgrade it to one of the later closed versions of MMBASIC that is more VB-like, and has better performance. Performance is not too bad, it processes about 1 BASIC token per microsecond. MMBASIC even supports treating the unused portion (192K) of FLASH as a file system, and can do autostart to a BASIC app, and it supports app chaining. You can literally plug this thing into a breadboard, plug it into a usb port, open a VT100 terminal and start writing code. On a Mac, you can use screen, but you'll need to modify the function key mappings to get the VT100 function keys the MMBASIC editor supports to work correctly. 32 bit 80MHz BASIC machine that is ready to rock.

Watch The Mill videos.... It is all spelled out.

You cannot win the Ops/W/$ race by spending resources on O-O-O. You have to be smart about the whole chain. FUs are cheap. Handling optimal cases is expensive in the current regimes. So change the rules. Suddenly difficult problems get easier... Intel and AMD and other incumbents are scared shitless of changing their aging ISAs, and Programming Models. And with good reason... they would be forcing every customer to recompile on version 0.1 releases of new compilers, and working with new hardware spins....

Does anyone now still program on 6800, 6502, or Z-80 for commodity level hardware? No! Because those machines are done. They were invented by people who had no concept of where things were going. Even Intel/AMD are pretty much clueless. They fear changing because it has huge costs. So instead they keep flogging an ISA that is so decrepit that it farts zombies!

Funny you should mention that. Lots of mainframe families were doing that decades ago. APP-LOADER: "Oh! Hey! This is a new code module, I don't have a local copy of the binary I need for this. It appears to also include a generic machine code block for my family of processor cores. No cached binary for me, it was built on a different serial numbered machine.... hold on a sec while I post-compile-schedule the instructions to my local object language and re-link it..... There ya go! This will run like oiled snot on me now! Oh! And I have automagically replaced the old incompatible object-binary with the new binary I just built! Have a nice day!"

I'd like nice toys like that on the desktop. Closest we get now from any vendor or OS zealot(s) is.... "Can I re-link this for you? It may run faster."

6502 didn't have a HCF instruction but it did have a key 6800 feature that later RISC machines lack. Almost all operations have an implied target. The A register, or in the 6800 the A/B register. The Mill seems to be making a better use of the implied target concept by putting all resultants on The Belt, thus reducing the classic register juggling that happens in complex code threads on all RISC machines. I think that this architecture has some legs. I hope they get some silicon taped out, and get LLVM hammered into shape to deal with a machine that doesn't expcicitly have globally named registers, or state for that matter.

USB 3.0 and 3.1 can supply 5V@2A or 12V@3A or 20V@ 5 Amps.
I think with 100W available melting a little plastic should be no problem.

So if they can legally access the data stored on the Irish servers, they must produce that information.

This is really simple:

One cannot refuse a court ordered demand for documents just because those documents are stored in safe deposit box in Switzerland. If the person in possesion of the deposit box key is before a US court, they must produce the documents stored in that Swiss bank, as ordered, come hell or high water.
(IANAL) but this is just common sense. Is M$ Legal really this stupid?

You clearly have never driven a vehicle set up for racing on a track for any length of time. It requires top notch driving skills, mental endurance, and a very large commitment to physical training. Race cars (any format) beat the shit out of the driver, even if they don't have a collision. The steering has almost no power assist, and the rate at which the pedals are used is orders of magnitude more often than driving the commute. Add to that the lateral Gs that keep trying to rip hands off the steering wheel, push legs/feet away from pedals, and push the drivers head out of the region that they can see their mirrors accurately. While it is true the racing harness keeps the torso pretty well strapped to the seat, it takes a lot of strength and endurance to keep out of oxygen debt when the toro is bring pounded around in that seat.

It is even more profound for motorcycle racing.

Golf is a game (like chess, not a sport, like baseball) you play while walking around in a clear-cut that has been reseeded with grass.

Now get off of my lawn with your damn crooked sticks, dimpled balls, and silly looking shoes.

bzzzt

Terra is the latin name for Earth... thus terrain.
Luna is the latin name for Moon...
Therefore 'Lunain' would be the contextually correct word.

Thanks for playing though.

Over the years I have made mistakes on my taxes (before the last 5 years where the process of assessing data has become a WWW process) I have never once had the IRS 'screw' me on a mistake. If they said I owed them money... a careful review of the facts showed I was in err. And in other cases I was wrong in in their favor and they corrected the err, and even telling me what err I made.

On the other hand....

When I owed them money and could not pay, they were more vicious than the worst debt collector I can imagine. At one point I told an IRS agent who contacted me by phone. I was encouraged to take out a loan. When I refused I was threatened with fines, and prosecution. My response was thus: "You will not get paid until I get paid. You know damned well I have no assets you can legally seize. I will not take out a loan as you have insisted. If you persist in your threats, or garnish my meager wages, I will stop working. What will you do then? Prosecute me? I will go to prison. That will cost YOU far more money that what I owe. It is your move sir!" (and yes I did in fact have have such a discussion with an IRS agent over the phone, though the exact words may have been slightly different -- this is from long term memory. Note: this was before the IRS was ordered to take a kinder, gentler touch to tax collection.)

Ever since that phone call I got quarterly statements reminding me of the balance due. In following years when I was due a refund they informed me that it was applied to prior tax years, until it was all paid off. I think they set the 'Not a Sheep' flag on my SSN and have treated me accordingly ever since.

I take my tax liability seriously. 'Render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar.' If I can't pay it now I know they will find a to make it work. They just needed to understand that I was not going to bend over for them.

This is not legal advice. If you have assets the IRS can legally seize, you bet your ass they will seize them. At that time in my life I had nothing. All they could do is garnish my wages and threaten me with prosecution, and verbally abuse me.

One of my clients has both a Tesla and a ICE vehicle. After one trip he made, with me present, he was muttering under his breath.... should have taken the Tesla..... just wasted gas for no reason. It is way more cost effective to charge a Tesla than to put gas in an ICE vehicle.

SAAB was never able to build a cabin that didn't feel like a war plane. Their cars were tough though.... but repair parts? forgedaboudit.

Even for as heavy as it is.... I can tell you from personal experience the Tesla kicks the shit out of any muscle car I have been in where the driver put the hammer down.

Each of the US car makers (except Tesla... yet) sell many times the number of cars Mercedes does. The only reason I can see that the CEO of Dalmer-Benz piped up is because he feels threatened by the buzz Tesla has created. He decided to take it upon himself to get Mercedes into the news cycle. I cannot even remember the last time I saw Mercedes in the news. No I don't watch broadcast news.... or commercials when I can help it. Well Steve-o.... you just got Mercedes on my radar... good job... now... fuck off. I cannot afford your cars or a Tesla for that matter. I have not ever driven a Mercedes, nor do I think it likely that I ever will.

I have had a few occasions(all of these recently) to drive a Tesla(it is like driving an iPhone), and a '71 Rolls-Royce (it is like driving a really comfy sofa), a recent Porsche 944(I have driven go-carts that had a better ride, but damn it tracks like it is on rails), and a recent Caddy(well appointed, powerful, nice ride,but FFS the dash is busier than a F-16 cockpit) You know what? I like the Tesla. I have some issues with some of the exterior design choices they made... practical issues... areas where water and dirt collect that are hard to clean... rookie mistakes. Nothing major though.