The systemd version takes a similar approach - only handling the 99.9% use case of running a local command as a different user based on some basic rules and only really providing a userspace implementation without suid.
IIRC that use case is about 15% of OG sudo's code but most distros carry around all the features. I dunno, maybe it can be compiled without those but I don't see that in distros I've used.
Corporatism is a distinct concept from Capitalism. That's the one you're describing. There's been a psyop by Socialists to describe corporatism as capitalism so they get more of a merger of business and State (fascism).
Corporations are creations of a government in which governments get a cut and politicians get bribes in exchange for protection from justice for the corporate actors' crimes.
If you read Adam Smith he described this as Mercantilism in his time and recommended free market capitalism as its antidote with an emphasis on the accumulation of capital and investment into more competitive production.
Von Mises fleshed this out more a couple centuries later (followed by Hayek and Rothbard). The definitive work is
Notably corporations in the early USA were limited to public works projects and had time-limited grants (e.g. for building a bridge or later the railroads).
JD Rockefeller bribed Congress during Reconstruction to make corporations permanent, so he wouldn't lose his charter for Standard Oil. He later wrote the Sherman Anti-trust Act to hurt his competition.
Today we have immortal psychopathic corporations with a legal mandate to be depraved and with legal personhood. The Dulles brothers created the CIA to fight wars and conduct assassinations on behalf of the corporations. cf. United Fruit or the Pepsi War.
After the Revolution remember to forbid corporations. The Gini Coefficient is too damn high.
I can't afford to spend that much money on a car I would only realistically be able to drive 4 months out of the year and then have to store somewhere the rest of the time.
I don't know where you live but I'm in Canada, but admittedly in a city. I daily-drove the Hellcat through six winters. And a lesser Hemi Charger for ten before that. It's no fun but with winter tires it's do-able if you're a cautious driver. The 5N is a totally different beast. Winter handling is excellent. It's possible that you live somewhere with harsher winters than I've got but to a certain degree contact patch is contact patch is contact patch. I generally don't find "oh, I can't own a Honda Civic or Chrysler Pacifica or any other 'normal' car because I could only drive it four months a year." Those normal cars mysterious sell just fine.
As for afford, this is the zinger. The 5N cost the same as the Hellcat did, only six years later and without employee pricing. So as the EV vs ICE goalposts shift out into the distance, I'd like to reiterate: 5N handles way better in the same conditions that a Hellcat can drive in and is cheaper when inflation is taken into consideration.
I once bought a car and put $7000 into it or so and for that price it was fun and worth the trouble. But I didn't have the time for it after I had kids. After that I just needed a vehicle that would stay out of the shop and be stable on the road in a snow storm.
So hey, there's a good topic. EVs have less to go wrong. Less to maintain. And if you're stuck in a snow storm, you can pull over and just run the climate control for literal days. Idling an ICE for a long time isn't great and fuel will run out way sooner. The Ioniq in particular has a very large interior. It's actually wider and taller than then Hellcat was, just a little less long. So... if modding is no longer what we're talking about, hey, you know these cars are great, right? I hope that's getting through.
Indeed, Loonsong announced they have server CPUs that are comparable to Intel ones from a few years ago now. Chinese designed GPUs are catching up rapidly too.
No. According to the Chinese they are catching up. Until someone actually tests these chips, I would be skeptical. Both AMD and Intel have been caught exaggerating performance of their CPUs at times.
It's probably already too late, the decision was made and the Chinese government isn't going to pull back from pushing for high end CPUs and chip fabrication now.
There is still execution and implementation that remains to be seen. Remember when China announced they had 7nm chips to rival TSMC and Samsung? It was proof that China had surpassed the West some said. That is until people look at the details. First of which is that TSMC is now on 3nm. Second, it was done using older DUV not the new EUV.
But by using DUV, China was able to do what TSMC could not do according to some. That is not the situation. TSMC could have done 7nm with DUV if they wanted; however, it would have been costly as it would have taken longer, required more steps, and the yields would have been much lower. Also the transition to 5nm and 3nm would been even harder. It was easier to use EUV than DUV. China does not have that option as they have only and handful of EUV machines that are no longer serviced.
But not by as much as people are claiming. It's heavier by between about 5 and 25%. The morons driving wankpanzers make far more difference.
25% is not a small amount. If you were missing 25% of groceries/pay check/whatever, you would consider it meaningful. The fact of the matter remains that Tesla is heavier than a Camry by a meaningful amount.
Hot dog on a bun with glyphosate, chips with BHT, ketchup with HFCS, pickles with Polysorbate 80, and a large Coke.
Hot dog caused Diabetes! Q.E.D.
This is why every civilization for thousands of years have made sausages. To make everybody fat and insulin dependent!
TRUST THE EXPERTS.
But what are your options when it doesn't go fast enough? With the charger there would be superchargers, turbos, nitrous, intakes, EFI or carb tuning, etc etc. There are so many options available to you that there are countless shows built around it. What can a person realistically do with an EV in their garage?
Let's go with the theory that a 3 second car is enough for me and that spending literally tens of thousands of dollars pursuing another tenth of a second on a car like the Hellcat isn't my cup of tea. I was involved with the Hemi community for a long time and while I didn't personally participate in the money-pit game on the Hellcat, I did on the previous one (up from about 350hp base to 420hp after mods so only a couple grand worth) and man, I'm well aware how quickly those bills can add up.
If you're at the track, competing against yourself... sure... there's (much) less to do on an EV. But kind of like the Hellcat was already supercharged and had reinforced drive shafts and transmission and so on, with a race-car EV you should think of yourself as already having done the majority of mods. Unless you have a thing for doing the wrenching yourself, you're already near the end-point of diminishing returns.
You mention you have the N version? That's the one with simulated engine noise and gear movements - how are you finding it? Fun? Or are you finding you're not using those bits?
Yes, this is the model that has those. I knew going in that I didn't care. They're really mostly just gimmicks for "car people" to gush about in YouTube reviews. I've turned them on for joke value once or twice, but never use them for real driving. Basically the "I will never drive an automatic transmission because I want to feel in control of the car" folks enjoy them. But I'm just a normal guy on normal streets.
Curious - I like the idea of the N, it's not a car for me but I can very easily see its appeal as a useful vehicle that still adds a bit of a fun factor.
Oh, it's stupid fun. Highway on ramps are a hoot. More so than the Hellcat because frankly... I can stomp on the Go pedal and hot 100kph in 3 seconds without making any sound, so there's less worry I might draw... unwanted... attention.
Most days though it's just a normal, well-behaved car. It's funny, because most drives I'm actually playing "the EV video game", which is actually watching the efficiency metrics and trying to make the numbers go up. So driving sensibly. But again, those on-ramps... are stupid fun.
right? RIGHT?
i should be dead already
The model Y bills itself as an SUV. The Model 3 is, like the Camry, a saloon/sedan car.
lightest Model 3 curb weight: 1760 kg (3880 lbs). The OP is still factually wrong. The lightest Model 3 still outweighs a Camry even if Camry is fully fueled.
Just to add some insight:
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”
So clueless.
The fact is that the trade imbalance is the largest single factor that makes the US dollar the world currency -- and also helps to keep the federal debt cheap. All of those countries that have a trade surplus with us send us lots of goods and in exchange they get lots of dollars. What do they do with them? They buy US-denominated securities, including treasury bonds. So many people and organizations around the world holding large reserves of US-denominated securities is what makes the dollar the world's default currency.
To the extent that he succeeds at "correcting" the trade imbalance, he'll undermine the dollar's status. And trying to bully countries into sticking with the dollar by threatening action that will make the dollar worth less to them is just... clueless. And that's assuming his actions to explode the debt while escalating financing costs doesn't result in enormous devaluation of the dollar, which would make it worthless rather than just worth less.
On balance I think I'm mostly glad that Trump is a moron, because if he weren't he would be really dangerous. On the other hand, if he had either a brain or the humility to listen to people who do, he might understand that he's trying to destroy what he's trying to control, and that winning that sort of game is losing. Probably not, though. He's amoral enough to be okay with ruling over a relative wasteland, because he and his will be better off.
After an Iranian missile hit, at least, the parking lot of Microsoft Israel, several reports came out saying that they were helping the IDF with genocide operations in Gaza.
I don't know if it's true but those are the real reports.
The timing and 'quiet' character suggests Pakistan might have told them to get the hell out.
"Developing story" as they say.
Norway is relatively small.
Which should work against EV's with a smaller power grid and lower population density for chargers.
Norway has a relatively large fiscal surplus from natural resource exports they partly spend on EVs.
US has also given tax subsidies to EV's for decades. Hasn't given them dominant market share.
Norway has a relatively high percentage of citizens with private parking.
It's relatively trivial to put chargers on streets like parking meters running off the existing grid.
Norway being relatively cold doesn't mean much.
It certainly does when cold is a well known battery killer.
The issue wasn't the climate, it was the tax policy that made EV ownership popular in Norway.
US has also had tax policies favoring EV's for decades. That hasn't given them dominant marketshare like Norway.
While the technology is there to call the EV a "mature technology" the manufacturing isn't nearly on the same level of ICEVs.
Doesn't change the fact the tech is there and ready for mass scaling.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce
