The only failure I have ever experienced with a manual transmission is a worn main bearing, which considering that it was at 200+ thousand miles, could be considered wear-out. Clutches are a replacement item, like a timing belt.

On the other hand, I have seen all kinds of automatic transmission failures, and most were essentially fatal because of repair cost.

I might believe that comparison with front wheel drive vehicles where the manual transmission is part of the trans-axle.

Also, a vehicle with a manual transmission can be push started.

Why are they not using closed loop cooling? Seems like a waste.

I have been using SATA SSDs and nVME SSDs for reliable Flash storage, but with Crucial leaving that market, maybe this is no longer a good option.

Companies like Swissbit and maybe Transcend make industrial or at least non-consumer grade Flash sticks.

The starter might be, but what about the pinion gear, ring gear, and starter solenoid?

How much more wear does it apply to the engine parts, like the bearings and lifters? Toyota has been having reliability problems with their bearings and lifters for years now.

I am sure the BMS is as reliable as everything else introduced for fuel economy, like wet belts, roller lifters, intake heaters, and low tension rings, which is to say not reliable at all and expensive to repair.

The NAT state requires 4KB per connection, so 256 connections per 1MB, hardly exorbitant. This is included in the "state" part of a stateful firewall.

Stateful firewalls are used because they are so much faster. Parts of the packet header are hashed to look up the routing information instead of evaluating the rules for every packet.

The software still exists to design something to work in 128MB. Buffers are not a problem because the router should not be buffering very much. State requirements are 4KB per connection, so 256 connections per 1MB.

The old m0n0wall did this with a stripped down FreeBSD, of which I forget the name, and would actually work in 64MB.

BSD allocates 4KB per connection for state tracking, which is pretty standard, so 256 connections per 1MB. For years I regularly ran 128MB BSD routers which were much more reliable than anything ISPs provided then or provide now. With 128MB, I never ran out of connections. 1GB would provide 256K connections. Even half of that is more than any reasonable bandwidth will support.

With what chipsets? On what motherboards?

Last time I evaluated Intel, it was a twisty maze of ECC passages.

The RAM was integrated into the CPU package to lower the power requirements of the memory bus. With an electrically short memory bus, series instead of parallel termination can be used. The newest DRAM specifications allow the use of half of the signalling voltage for exactly this configuration.

Speed was never a consideration because the memory bus was never long enough for that to matter. At about 125 picoseconds per inch, the RAM was never that far away.

Power density is irrelevant in a traction application when the size is determined by the energy density.

The extra weight could matter since it is already a problem with lithium batteries.

I suspect that is what is going on; the traffic is end-to-end encrypted, but the session keys are also made available to Whatsapp, probably by being encrypted with Whatsapp's public key. So there is practically no security despite being "end-to-end" encrypted. It is Clipper for a new generation.

I do not know that Intel/AMD, Microsoft, and the OEM hardware makers all license the same patents.

Under the doctrine [patent exhaustion doctrine], once an authorized sale of a patented article occurs, the patent holder's exclusive rights to control the use and sale of that article are said to be "exhausted," and the purchaser is free to use or resell that article without further restraint from patent law.

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My understanding is that the hardware does not implement HEVC/H.265, but instead implements primitives which can be used to accelerate it.

It points to turbine failure, including compressor failure. The engine is mounted to the wing structure using shear bolts so that if the turbine seizes, the torque breaks the engine free without destroying the wing structure, which appears to be exactly what happened.