Until EV‘s can handle being parked overnight and -30F or colder without being on a charger, they are not very useful up here in the “great white north. It is not unusual to literally set a fire under your oil pan to warm up your car to the point where it’s possible to start it without killing it. How do you warm up a deeply cold battery electric? The original Tesla‘s actually made a point of voiding your battery warranty if parked overnight at 20 below. The ironically called”ICE” vehicles work fine, under those conditions. Now add in the rapid depreciation due to salt and sand, potholes, rust , and other issues make it totally impractical where I live. Not to mention, dealing with frozen public charge points. How safe is it to unplug your vehicle when it’s buried under a foot of snow but still plugged in? Until these and other cold weather issues get dealt with ice is the only solution much less one that works when a lot of people up here do drive beaters in the winter that are 15-30 years old, rusty and falling apart

Around me at McDonald’s every soft drink fountain says “use a new cup every single time to cut down on Covid transmission”, don’t bring your own don’t reuse your cup from 10 minutes ago. Covid and removing plastics are at dramatically opposite sides of the equation.

They need to work on Amazon shipping and clamshell packaging at Walmart. I don’t know anyone who likes that outside of antitheft people.

A decade or more ago at the consumer electronic show I saw saw a Hz example set up that had the same feed going to four screens. One of eachrunning at 120 Hz vs 240hz vs 360hz and 480hz. It was a sample of a soccer game following a player as the grass scrolled by on screen. At 120 Hz all you could see was a green blur. At 240 Hz you could tell there was some grass going by and make out the occasional blurred grass blade. At 360 Hz the grass looked much better and was out able to make our individual grass blades. You kind of had to catch it at the corner of your eye and focus on the grass not the player and it was difficult to make out, but there WAS a difference. 480 made no difference to me as it looked identical to the 360. There was a distinct difference between the first three on a side-by-side comparison. Side-by-side I think is the only way to really tell the difference and it takes a special feed just to make out the differences. For me at least, my frequency level of transparency is somewhere between 360 and 480.

Up here in Duluth, MN, USA we have extreme snow and ice for 4-7 months. How the hell do you get a 4 Wheel Drive Truck (need the high ground clearance) that is self driving when you have poor visibility, blowing snow, and NO visible lane and side markings? My work requires me to be able to drive in this crap, and I feel fine and safe when driving in my 1995 Chevy 4x4 Truck. No payments but the 11 mpg sucks. Not worth getting a 2nd vehicle. For winter a lot of other people garage their good car, and switch to a 4x4 or SUV 10-20 year old rust bucket for the winter. You drive SLOW and don't worry about minor rear-ends and sliding into each other. No sensors to fix in a minor rear end, just another scuff mark or dent in your bumper. Do you break the country into sections where self drive is ok or not ok? Time of year? the weather is unpredictable and being on the wrong side of the self driving line means your self-driver can't manage the conditions or you buy a suv/truck and don't have self drive. Human driving in bad conditions is not a solved problem, and the lawyers will keep any self driving car off the road until it is BETTER then human drivers.

The OTHER tenants locks are hackable, do you know how to hack? Does your land lord know you know how to hack? Kinda a fun project if EVERYONE's house lock, unlocks every midnight EVERY midnight.... No I don't KNOW why it is happening.... (99.999 it's me but there is always the chance it's not...)

Not sure I'd trust the onboard nicks due to Intel management security holes. The primary Intel NIC is now worthless.

45mph not mpg!

What are the future plans for people who live in an apartment/condo/mobile home/rental homes for charging? I couldn't put a charger in my old condo the electrical wiring wasn't set up for chargers, and there doesn't seem to be an reason for rentals landlords to put one in. Any solutions?

Sorry no, there is OSx and OSx Server, although it has been neutered in the most recent release.

About 15 years ago I HAD to have Lasik. My prescription was so heavy at 7.75+1.75 on my worse eye and 7.25+1( I think?) on my good eye, that my work in autocad was suffering. Working in the Civil engineering field, I had a black background with Blue for water lines, brown for sewer, white for street center lines & property lines, etc on screen. My glasses were so thick that a white line would break up into its RGB components. A vertical line would appear to me as three too close water/power/sewer lines! I had the older physical blade type lasik. Now my vision is 20/35 but I have a LARGE number of halos, star bursts and slight double vision from headlines on cars, the stars, the moon, ect. I don't regret it as I live in Las Vegas, and there is way too much light pollution to make it viable to star gaze. I don't plan on having it touched up as I am a HEAVY reader and when I get older I want the monovision option open to me, and I will go back to glasses for the 40-60's age in my life. My doc said that due to the thickness of my corneas, I can only get 2 vision fixes until it is too thin to work on.

That a copy of someone is a new person, is more of a belief then truth. I think that a accurate copy of my mental state, is me. Yes the copy would diverge, but at first either of me could die, and yet I would survive. (Notice that such a foreign concept has grammar issues?) See Wil McCarthy's Queendom of Sol Series about a human grade fax/matter printer. Backup's, multiple instantiations, form changing, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

I know you said above you would avoid back scatter x-rays, but what about the cumulative dose from back scatter, AND the luggage scanners. It seems like there is a push from management at the TSA not to track the dosage the employees receive. Do there regular TSA agents feel this is OK or do they want some from of tracking? Have you done some checking on the dosage based on machine type and manufacturers documentation?

My ftdi on my arduino does have intermittent upload errors when used inside of VMware. I can live with it as it does a crc check. If your H/W S/W doesn't error check you might want to avoid that combination.

I prefer Solidworks over Autocad.
Solidworks - A Windows application with a 3D solid design for a final product.

Autocad - A DOS application converted to Windows, with a 2d design, and 3d as a added on much later in development.

I have 7 years experience in Autocad, and I found it somewhat easy to transfer to SW. Solidworks usually will output a good STL for use on my companies Connex 350 Resin Multi-Material 3d Printer. but be warned, all CAD programs have their issues.

Both taking classes on how to use the software, and having a copy to "play with" are critical to figuring how best to use the software. Community College classes qualify you for the %90 percent or so student discount. Also in my job my designs are propitiatory, so I can can't post them online, but if you if you can post it, there are many people who will help you though the design challenges.

Screw threads are particularity tricky as SW treats them as a cosmetic feature, and you have to make them by hand. The book "Machinery's Handbook" is a good resource.
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Unlike many here, I do plan on buying it, but it will be SHELFWARE. The price is too good to pass up as insurance. I can see them saying only Win8 can be upgraded to Win9. I have NO intention of running it however.