"I get the impression these kinds of batteries don't scale down well"

Go look at the picture in TFA and note that it is literally 8 individual packs tall and 4 packs wide in a box.

1/8 of this thing could sit in your garage and power your house for a few days flat.

"We quickly mitigated an attempt to exploit a known issue"

If the issue was known why didn't you mitigate it BEFOREHAND so this would not become an issue?

Trillion-dollar company and can't even be bothered to do basic fixes on known problems before rolling something out. What the fuck.

"My boss believes: "if it is not written down, then it is not done""

If you are an ISO 9001 certified establishment, that's literally the belief of the certification body.

"Look at Gmail. Never been mass hacked"

Nah they just allow relay attacks, which is far worse.

"It's a starter wage intended for highschool and college students and others who are getting their first jobs in fast food places and grocery stores etc."

LIAR.

https://www.lowellsun.com/2017...

"Geographically and financially advantageous is how one would describe Houston accurately"

I'm a Texan and you're so full of shit your eyes went brown.

Houston has one of the worst geographical advantages - see the Los Angeles style smog.

Also, once you leave Houston there's nothing for fucking miles. Good luck getting Bobby Joe Atkins from Wichita Falls down there.

You fucking moron. Leave the shuttle in DC where it fucking belongs.

Then you could've posted a direct link instead of posting the front page of some shit substack that looks like memes, you stupid fuck.

Go figure a MAGA can't DIRECTLY LINK to information.

Our newer class-D amplifiers are absolutely tiny and throwing insane amounts of power. 220W per channel and 350W for the sub on mine. Needs a 36V 30A power supply to operate.

And yet you post a link with literally two fucking memes as readable content if you don't have an account.

Get fucking real.

It's a shame IMAX isn't that advanced.

I've got 800w sound system in something the size of an NES cartridge. I run three of those for surround sound off my computer.

If only sound codecs allowed for vertical positioning of audio. I'd add a fourth amp and roll 8.1 out the corners of the room.

"led to no changes to the law"

I thought the DMCA was the result of that whole debacle.

"TI already produces huge amounts of ICs in Texas"

The QC in Texas must be absolute ass. One customer of mine uses a 10-pin LED driver IC from TI on the BOM. The piece of shit blows itself out fresh off the reel one out of every roughly 20 times. You aren't even pulling a full fucking amp at 48V and this thing rockets off the board, taking traces and pads with it.

No, there isn't a short. On the boards where the pads and traces survive, replacing the IC (usually) fixes the issue.

"Then you do this "battery swap" and get a *used* battery pack that's been god knows where. "

This is what ISO documentation standards are for.

"How many of you made a working drone at 17?"

We were making fly by wire RC planes as pre-teens in the 80s.

If it can do the 4 basic operations of arithmetic without using much of any power, you could have a simple solar calculator that pretty much never ever needs batteries and can run in some of the lowest light conditions possible if you just gave it a few caps to charge.