I buy evaluation boards - eg LPC845BRK; nearest one at hand - just so I can swipe the various circuits I might need. They give you a nice PDF with the circuits laid out - often in logical blocks, like power, USB, SD card, etc - so you can just cut-and-paste their design.

No Giga-WIFI. More PCB space than a pack of cigarettes. Lame.

Kinda like a self-driving car that can't see what's in front of it, because it's missing sensors.

Do you know of any big companies, today, that do things intelligently and for the benefit of their consumers? I'd bet you that even in complying with the court's order, they'll try to finagle some way to fk the customer over.

You could put panels over highways, too, and provide some cover during inclement weather.

Trump will grant him a pardon, and he'll find a job in the administration. They'll put him to work sabotaging voting machines.

Thing is, Valgrus isn't wrong. Trump is rapidly turning the US into a shit hole nation, with the deep throated support of at least a third of the populace. Did you know we're fucking pirates of the high seas, now?

There's BlueBird bus. That's blue-bird.c o m. Apparently, bluebird.c o m is also active; looks like banking software.

I like you guys; you're almost like family. Ya know, your "weird cousing" types, but hey. I highly value your insight. So while I could probably look the answer up elsewhere, I'm looking to "family" to tell me truly, what does RISC-V have that would lead me away from ARM? I've been in a long, stable relationship with ARM; she's a charming gal. She's got all that uncle John needs. Why would I consider trashing all that for RISC-V hotness?

Are we talking speed? Speed per watt? Cost? It's kinda hard to beat Pico at ~$5. Development tools? Industry support? More cores per chip? What?

Hope springs eternal that "the next big thing" will keep people from recording stuff, and provide a one-way direct link to customers' wallets. Meanwhile, I just posted here, https://linux.slashdot.org/com..., and until Sony makes a camera that won't record a video on a TV screen, anyone can make a bootleg at any time, if they try hard enough.

On "IP rights": what's to stop me from renting a video, and then just pointing my 4K camera at it to record while playing? Assuming I have a tripod, and can get the ratio close enough, can't I make bootleg videos that way? Sure, it's more work, but it's probably less hassle than futzing with HDMI adapters, and such.

Seems like the general thinking is, "Fuck this place; we'll go to Mars when stuff gets bad." Like we can just be-bop on over and populate Mars whenever. We're not very smart.

Those restaurants deserved to fail, then. Pay people a decent wage, and they'll work for you. This is a fundamental axiom in business.

Way back in the dawn of CS - around late '80s - my compsci teacher was an EE that got roped into teaching an Intro to C class. How hard could it be? Ha. I'd already spent a year playing with Turbo C, copying programs from Dr. Dobb's - there's a blast from the past - so that when the prof occasionally slipped up while giving the lessons, I gently hopped in and said, "I think you mean $this," for whatever value of $this. He knew he wasn't an expert, so he welcomed the corrections.

Nah, son, you need to encourage your kids to go into orthodontics. I don't know what the coursework is like, but I know people dumber than me that managed, and after entering practice, their biggest problems were what to do with all of the money. Not even exaggerating. I worked for a small outfit of three doctors, and I remember them doing fuck all for actual work - the assistants did the majority with the docs doing some tweaks and final pass - and spending more time worrying about their race horses, and how to balance their business losses against their gains to minimize taxes. If I'd gone into orthodontics 20 years ago, I'd be sitting on piles of cash about now.