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When I see trucks, the ones that most need to be replaced are the local ones - the ones with the 53' trailer delivering Corona to the corner Circle K. They get terrible mileage doing start/stops every block in the city, they pollute where the pollution is already greatest, and their fully-loaded acceleration away from a light is pitiful. Using an ET (Electric Truck?) for these kinds of deliveries would be great - they accelerate smoothly and quickly, they regenerate when braking so range should be great, and they don't pollute locally. When a truck finishes deliveries, it goes back to the depot - where a charger can be waiting for it.

If Tesla had focused on this market first, rather than the long-haul market, life would have been easier. You don't have to site Megachargers around the country - you only have to site them at the Pepsi distribution center. You don't have to have 500 miles of range.

Oh, well, Musk has proven himself to be a lot smarter than me a lot of times, so I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

(a/k/a Innovation Subscribers Don't Need)

It still amazes me that, as late as the 1990's, and well after 56kbit modems were prolific, ISDN was being offered up by the ILECs as "broadband," at metered rates that made Ma Bell's long distance charges look like spare change.

Happily, it wasn't too long before ISDN was put out of everyone's misery when DSL showed up. And now, finally, after fifty years of pissing about, fiber is finally being pulled to the premises.

If you really need ongoing ISDN support, you can pull the source code from an old Git commit and update it. But I feel quite comfortable in opining: ISDN support will not be missed.

I've certainly never formatted removable media in NTFS. That sounds like a way to make your life more difficult than necessary.

Because programmers are prissy little ******* who want things exactly their way (remember, I are one too), and Linux is based on a 50 year old concept of how an operating system should be. So, there's tons of improvements and changes that can be made to the Unix baseline to bring the system up to 2020's expectations. But anytime you give 100 passionate people open source that needs lots of changes, you end up with 110 different sets of changes. Plus, you have completely disparate sets of users (Developers, Home users, Internet operations, Datacenters, etc) who have orthogonal use cases, so there is a constant tension between changes that are good for one group vs. changes that are good for another.

Microsoft can have one person in charge of the direction of Windows, balancing the needs (for better or worse) and delivering a product that's mediocre but consistent for all users. Linux has two dozen or more major distributions, and the winner is chosen by a convoluted process involving people dying or getting married or burning out or changing jobs as much as the size of the userbase for each distribution. You have profit-seeking companies like Canonical or RedHat pushing their own agendas, distributing their own wares, you have purist Linux aficionados who push bare-bones, roll-your-own distributions, and you have consumer-friendly distributions like Mint or Zorin trying to grind off some of the more prickly aspects of Linux. And this is all before we talk about the BSD Unixes.

And that's why there are so many derivatives and fracturing.
https://xkcd.com/927/

Well, if the chips operate well above 100C, you circulate water to them and let them generate steam. Then you use the steam to generate electricity, condense the resulting gas back to water, and circulate it back through. You could certainly power the circulation pumps, and perhaps a small portion of the electricity used by the chips. You'd probably also end up with significant low-grade heat that you could use in industrial processes or for district heating in the winter.

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...My installation of minidlna still works fine, is Free Software, and doesn't phone home or exfiltrate my metadata.

When they learn that you support Planned Parenthood, or are a member of or the Sunni branch of Islam, or (in the present environment) the Democratic party, or are a member of AARP, they learn a lot about you that IMHO shouldn't be associated with your work search. Is that so hard to understand?

Given that the Roberts Court is one of the most corporate-friendly in history, this decision comes as something of a surprise.

Nonetheless, it appears to be largely concordant with the so-called "Betamax case" from the early 1980's which established the principle of significant non-infringing uses as a defense and, despite passage of the DMCA, still largely informs the contours of contributory infringement.

So you think there's a commercial market for missiles that fail in flight 90% of the time? You believe that they would engineer missiles with a GPS that couldn't handle the speed? You don't think that China, who boasts their own GPS-like network of satellites and builds their own receivers, can't build a receiver that works at Mach 5? You don't think that they're capable of building a dead-reckoning system that can land within 50m of target in the face of GPS jamming? You don't think that the country that's likely to land on the moon in the next 5-10 years can build a rocket body that can manage to stay in one piece?

If they're gonna sell them, they're gonna have test results showing that they work as expected in a benign environment. Whether it's 99.9% success, 99%, or 90%, there'll be real numbers based on real test launches. The people that they're selling to ain't gonna buy a 10% success rate missile, but they might buy a 90% success rate missile if the price is low enough, and everybody would be happy with a 99% success rate missile. And remember that their initial customer is likely to be mainland China, who has ways of dealing with disappointing suppliers.

Well, any refractory ceramic would probably work fine. The difference between an "aerospace grade" refractory ceramic and a "commercial grade" refractory ceramic is probably a 1% difference in missile failure rate at a 100x increase in cost.

Let's do the math:
Using aerospace grade parts, you launch 100 missles, 90% of them get intercepted before reaching your target, so you get 10 strikes.
Using commercial grade parts, you launch 100 missles, 10 of them fail during launch/flight, 90% of the remainder get intercepted, so you get 9 strikes. But, because the missles are 10% of the cost of the aerospace parts, you're able to launch 10x as many, so you get 90 strikes.

Where this leads is terrifying.