I've been on ./ long enough to know this isn't going to cut it for the ICE loyalists because they drive 800 miles, uphill, in -200 F weather before driving 800 miles, uphill in 700 F weather to get home. EVs are clearly not up to the job! /s

Yes, and sadly that's not the reality of an EV.

If you have access to electricity where you park your car, you can probably go EV. The mentality of "I need to stop and fill up" doesn't exist for an EV - because if you can charge at home, why don't you?

Even a plain jane level 1 charger will refill an EV between 30-50 miles overnight (10 hours). This is just a plain 110V outlet built into many garages. If your park outside, well, your house has outside plugs, same deal.

This will generally cover most commutes, and even ones with multiple stops for errands along the way. And if overnight it doesn't quite get charged all the way, well, likely it will get topped up the next day, or the weekend.

So even a level 2 charger might not need to be installed. Because unlike with a gas car, an EV you charge when you can. You don't fill up your gas car daily (if you do, then an EV likely isn't for you), but you can with an EV.

Also, 742 miles exceeds my comfortable bladder capacity by about 600 miles. Maybe I can push it 250 miles between stops, but that seat had better be comfortable because I'm going to need a long stretch. And a meal - 250 miles is about a 5 hour drive which may be doable between lunch and dinner but I think that's pushing it.

ECC may protect from a single bi flip, but may not protect if two bits on the same row are forced to flip during the same cycle.

Most ECCs are single bit-correcting, double bit detecting. So a 1 bit flip will be detected and corrected. Two flipped bits will be detected. (and if you wonder, 3 bits will result in an incorrect bit being corrected).

The problem with DDR5 RAM is internally, DDR5 chips have built in ECC. However that only protects the chip - it doesn't make the whole RAM module ECC. But there are ECC DDR5 RAM modules as well. And the problem is it's basically impossible to find because regular DDR5 RAM always mention "on chip ECC" so regular non-ECC DDR5 RAM modules pollute your search for ECC DDR5 RAM. Makes it harder to find.

Also vaccines are irrelevant since this is a bacterium.

Plague has a vaccine available. It's just not commonly given because so few cases of it actually occur every year that vaccinating everyone is pointless as it's relatively rare, easily treatable so why burden people with yet another shot for something they aren't likely to get. But it exists and can be given to hot spots of plague outbreaks.

Plague is also highly responsive to antibiotics which is why deaths are relatively rare as well - you get sick, you get diagnosed, you get antibiotics and you're cured. It's one of the diseases that we've cured to the point people are amazed it's still around.

The difference between knowing and not carrying. And the whole 'why'. Knowing how Trump has so often framed these actions, I suspect he sees the US global contribution as substantially out of proportion to that of the rest of the world. Regions severely impacted by AIDS are notably poorer and less able to fund their own programs. Whether we've spent more than we ought to have been expected to I do not know.

It's a "soft power" thing. Soft power is not Trump's strong suit - he's a very transactional guy. Soft power is something that you use to build goodwill - like when you provide aid to poor countries, you know what they see? They see a giant US flag on the box with aid. They get to know that flag and then when they get an education they learn that flag is the US flag and that there's this wonderful country called the United States. That's how you do propaganda these days - the US did not become the destination and the center of democracy and freedom without it.

Or when you're starving and that box of US grown wheat arrives to help you bake bread, that bag of individual serving is a powerful propaganda device because individuals read it. They may not understand it, but a few well placed photos certainly imprints on people.

The ROI isn't immediate, but it's something that's of powerful influence in the world.

What's with the need to glue on multiple face plates?

To customize the controller. You might not realize this but special edition controllers are a thing. With glued faceplates, you can make the core controller then glue on the decorative piece afterwards.

With this design, NIntendo is probably trying to after the Xbox Design Studio that lets you do basic customizations to your controller, but likely add the capability of adding your own design to the plastics that can be printed on using pad stamping or hydrodipping. Or the fancy events where a Switch 2 might be given away in gift bags, they could get Switch 2 Pro controllers customized with the event's name stamped on them.

If they can do pad stamping you can even do small runs relatively cheaply. Having faceplates means you get to hide the ugly screws, and the dirt-collecting holes they reside in and gives you the easy ability to do customization at the final assembly step.

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

The real reason isn't too far off - high income countries can afford healthcare. This leads to the population in general being much healthier and living longer, and the biggest reason, lower infant mortality.

In poorer countries, you need to have multiple kids - this is a requirement because most of your kids will be dead before they reach adulthood. So you need to have multiple kids to have a chance that one of them will reach adulthood.

And moms, when they aren't having to constantly pop out kids for survival get to do other things rather than incubate babies 24/7.

Richer countries also tend to have better human rights, where the woman gets to choose in the matter of kids. Granted, this can leave the men somewhat unfulfilled once the woman calls it quits, but that's a different problem.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

And the restrictions you're against aren't on the GPL code itself.

GPL only applies to the code being used, and Red Hat is providing code to you. To which you are legally allowed to get the source code per the GPL. And you are also legally allowed to distribute the source code and binaries.

Red Hat is not obligated to keep providing you new binaries through - their support agreement might say you lose access to future updates, but everything GPL you have is still yours to distribute per the GPL.

The GPL is a copyleft license. It requires copyright to work. You can choose to use the GPL or not - if you refuse the GPL, the code is provided to you under All Rights Reserved, i.e., default copyright. If you wish to use the code in your projects, you have to agree with the GPL to get those extra terms that let you create derivative works and such.

The GPL prohibits additional restrictions like saying you cannot distribute the binaries further. But you can do that with RHEL just fine - Red Hat/IBM cannot sue you for posting the SRPMS and binaries online on your filesharing site (as long as it's all GPL). They can prohibit you from obtaining future versions of RHEL but that's not a GPL issue at all, that's a business issue. They can also restrict you from posting non-GPL licensed stuff like their branding and such online, because that stuff is commercially licensed as well. But you're free to do with the GPL code what you will.

What do you say to the people who claim that we need gas because it is flexible and fast enough to cope with the high variability of renewables and we need nuclear because we're always going to need base load in quantities that are hard to get otherwise?

Europe has the kind of choice where everything comes with spam. Yes also a Europe citizen.

It's why people hate using Apple Subscriptions. Because Apple makes it too easy to subscribe and unsubscribe to services - you get a neat list of all your subscriptions, and you cancel by turning off that subscription. A dialog pops up to confirm, what the end date is (your subscription is active until it expires). But it's just one click, no muss, no fuss.

Of course, companies hated it because Apple kept a lot of user details private and kept them from doing "retentions". Lots of people used it even though it was a costlier option (since most companies added the Apple tax to the subscription fee if you used Apple). It was just so easy to cancel - you do it without talking to anyone or anyone trying to get you to resubscribe.

Apple made it too easy that companies hated it, so pretty much only Apple uses it.

Apparently it's leading to a renaissance in landlines. Kids will need to communicate, but they don't need a smartphone. So some parents simply get them a landline so they can make phone calls to their friends.

This works for younger kids to keep in touch, but who don't wander too far away from parents, so likely adolescents in elementary school. Instead of a smartphone, they get a landline.

Older kids like teens get old school flip or feature phones. This lets them talk to their friends, make and receive calls so parents can keep track of them, etc. They can get the smartphone once they turn 18.

Actually, Funai (the last maker of VCRs) greatly simplified the VHS tape mechanism over the 30 years they made it. The last machines they made in the 2000s are extremely simple mechanically and since Funai was the only maker of them, they are practically all identical.

So if you gather a few of the new old stock players still available you have a collection of players with spare parts. And they are very mechanically simple - sure there's some oddball shaped cogs and sprockets and gears that perform the complex operations in a simple way. but they beat what an 80s era VCR had in mechanical complexity.

The last VCRs often only had 3 motors - the one driving the rotary head, one driving the capstan roller and the takeup spools (and do the fast-forward/rewind). The final motor handles the tape insertion, loading and threading, and ejection of the tape. All of it done with precisely engineered injection molded gears designed for easy mass production.

An 80's era VCR has easily a half dozen motors more with dozens of switches, limit sensors, and other things. The gears and cogs are much simpler, but the mechanism and timings are so much more complicated and has to be coordinated by a processor.

And head cleaning is easily done with the lid off - you can easily clean the heads on the drum with a little isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip.

It's a magic of mass production that the final VCRs gave great performance and everything had been simplified to a single sided circuit board and a mechanism consisting of only a few gears and motors. The complexity of operation has been simplified to a plastic gear that choreographs the operation.

Cheating isn't irrational, it's a perfectly rational response, especially to things that are perceived as random - to reduce the risk.

Cheating in gambling games is rampant because it's rational to want to put the finger on the scale to tilt the balance in your favor, and not the house's.

Cheating in multiplayer games takes many forms - from cheating the matching algorithms so you can get cannon fodder for an opponent (this is especially if you are planning on "showing off" via streaming or other thing), so you appear better than you are to your audience who them rewards you with "chips" or other currency counterpart. Or you might cheat to get an edge by having intelligence not normally available, again making you look better.

Cheating might even help you win, providing you can avoid careful scrutiny. That's why election ballots are often counted in the presence of others and cameras to verify the vote - it's much harder to cheat when there's a lot of scrutiny that goes on.

Cheating to gain an advantage is a common rational reason to cheat, and many forms rely on sleight of hand to perform some action which might be missed by even a camera without careful observation.

The only time cheating isn't rational is to have fun. But a lot of time, fun can be hard to obtain. Even people who don't cheat, game developers often decry how people will optimize the fun out of your game.