> Tesla's website says there will be three trims: Performance, Thrust, and Rocket. The Performance requires a $50,000 deposit. The Thrust, the one needed to hit the supposed sub-1-second 0-60 time, costs $250,000. The Rocket â" the one that can fly â" is a single-seat version of the car and is "Invite Only".

The Roadster is a "Halo Car" for the Tesla Brand and the Rocket Trim level is a Halo Trim of the Halo Car.

The purpose of the Rocket and the lower two trims of the Roadster are meant cast the entire brand as aspirational - that's what a Halo Car does, and nearly all the Automakers have brought out a Halo Car at various times, models like the Dodge Viper, The Ford GT, the Lexus LFA, the Ferrari F40 and so on. Expensive, Rare, often with major downsides, but they make people dream of owning one, and wind up on posters on bedroom walls.

There are all sorts of issues, regulatory and otherwise, with the Rocket Trim that get in the way of letting them out on regular roads (or even near them), and I am not sure that version ever will be. But it's not the first - right now brands like Ferrari and McClaren have special models which are not street legal, and considered "for track use only". And that's ok, because there are a number of people who are fine with that and do manage to get those cars out on the track.

I suspect there will be similar restrictions and limited areas where the Rocket version can be "driven" err.. "Flown", but there are going to be people who can not only afford it but want the unique thrill and novel experience it will provide. The Thrust Trim will likely be restricted to track use due to the rocket boost, leaving the Performance version the one you might actually encounter on the highway or more likely see parked in front some expensive restaurant. And when people see it, some will point and say "look, there's the car that can fly!"

For internal stuff I just use a wildcard letsencrypt certificate and use a script on the certificate renewal VM to propagate it to all internal services.

Fortunately I don't need to filter my water, tap water quality in my country is one of the best in the world (so much so that Kikkoman built their European soy sauce factory here in the Netherlands specifically because of the high water quality). I only filter water for my espresso machine to prevent scale buildup. Never tried boiling water for tea on my induction top, smallest size is 12cm (4.7") and the power setting delivers 3680W so it should be very quick, but still not as quick as just having instant boiling water on tap.

Instead of a mug, you could try a small induction compatible kettle or just get a cheap electric kettle. You can easily find a >3000W kettle for less than €50.

In my kitchen I have a tap that provides both hot and boiling water, to do this there's a 7 liter insulated vat of water kept at boiling temperatures at all times. Because it's well insulated it uses surprisingly little energy to keep it at temperature, about 10W (and between solar panels and battery storage, power usage isn't that much of an issue to begin with).

When you ask for normal hot water, it will mix the boiling water with cold water to provide instant hot water. You can also hook up a regular hot water line from your heater, that will make it switch to the regular hot water line once hot water arrives, but for regular kitchen use that's not even necessary so you can also run it without connecting it to hot water.

The boiling water tap is amazing. You can make tea directly from the tap. Want to cook some pasta, simply fill a pot with already boiling water, no need to wait. Also small stuff like adding some water to a simmering sauce that's getting too thick without it going off the boil. Quickly blanching some vegetables for stir-fry by simply putting them in a sieve and holding it under the tap. It seems like an unnecessary luxury but it's surprisingly useful.

According to Wiki itâ(TM)s the spin-off of IBMâ(TM)s infrastructure services devision.

If they were forgeable they wouldn’t have gotten caught now would they?

Yes, a properly implemented passport is effectively unforgeable. Unless you can get your hands on the government’s private signing key or find a way to break RSA or ECDSA, in which case we have bigger issues.

This is already the case for your passport. The same goes for the vast majority of countries. I the EU all ID cards must also implement this.

I’m surprised it isn’t already. In the EU all ID cards must have a ICAO 9303 compliant chip. The US passport already does, so I would have expected the ID card to implement it as well.

It’s strange that the US is at the cutting-edge for some technology and decades behind in others (banking, basic government administration).

I think it still applies, as this will be about an AI which, by its own failings, will end up being removed or turned off. Yay for fewer overlords!

Literally every door in the building I work in has this, RFID doorknobs on every single door.

They are probably confusing ‘nobody noticed’ with ‘nobody cared’.

Are Android tablet apps even a thing or is it just a bunch of stretched out phone apps?

What lord of the ringish content? There is nothing on TV+ that would fit this description.

Sure you can, but do you actually do that?

In my experience those games you loved back then disappoint on replaying them. Our memories of those games are better than the actual games. In my opinion itâ(TM)s better to let them stay memories. It saves you from playing a disappointing game and ruining a good memory.