That's OK but the only reason many people buy American cars and trucks is to support American jobs.

When it's all robots might as well get a Tundra rather than a 1500. Or maybe BYD will come in with something soon.

We'll see how that goes.

The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread ... very inefficiency.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.

"We're almost always working for the worst possible people in the end, but we all need a paycheck."

Funny, that's exactly what I'd imagine the electricians and other trades who built the Death Star would've said.

Hard to feel sympathy for them when it exploded. They knew the risks.

Skipping the paywalled article I found these specs and was underwhelmed.

Sure it looks fine for playing mid games but my guess was something unique, unified RAM or a clever bus or something. It seems like a decently tuned Ryzen build. I do like the lower TDP on the CPU which should be doing less work.

A nice form factor for those who don't build their own.

Hopefully this is their entre into the PC world and v2 will have more innovations.

What's most cool is the generation of teenagers who will have default Arch/KDE instead of default Windows.

I see so many names in the commit logs, but some standouts include: Blum, Cook, Torvalds, Solodai, Tyragu, Stitt, Bergmann, Wysocki, Panda, de Mello, and no doubt some I missed who have a large number of commits fixing this problem.

Thank to all who undertook this Herculean chore!

Big-Brother-NIMBYism: "Spy on those other people*, not ME!"

* Who have less political bribing power

After the buses return to the depot, the transportation authority would archive the regular video footage on a local server for up to five years.

Why the hell five years?

The original guy got to keep using it. There was someone else hired for a brief time.

I remember the author's name but he really doesn't want to use it, so that's OK to respect. He's given me a lot to think about over the years. I remember when he wrote on his PBS site about unicast becoming cheaper than radio broadcast for TV, predicting that it would overtake by 2012 (IIRC). Youtube became huge around then. We were smart folks around the water cooler in the late 90's who could follow the math but had nagging skepticism. He wss right.

I think I have one of his science writing books under his real name about atomic energy somewhere. You can find it if necessary.

Nice to see Bob back on the Dot.

This way the headline sounds SCARY!

It is technically a recall by the NHTSA definition, even if the fix is just an OTA software update.

AeroPress is awesome. I have used one at a friends place. My french press is big enough to make 2 full mugs of coffee, which fits my morning routine.

To be clear: As a business owner in a state with at-will employment, I would absolutely terminate an employee who spoke out publicly against the interests of my company. If their beliefs are counter to the company's needs, there is no longer a good match.

Do not threaten. Do not pressure them to change their views. Do not try to prevent them from exercising their rights. Just part ways. They have the right to feel what they feel, and the right to participate in public discourse. I have the right to not employ people who disagree with what my company does. Don't make it more complicated than that. Don't try to find an excuse to avoid paying them what they are owed.

This depends on your position in the company. An executive is an officer of the company, and is considered to be speaking for the company unless explicitly stated otherwise. A line worker is generally not authorized to speak for the company, and should not be presumed to be doing so unless they explicitly state that they are. Someone in a public-facing role (such as customer service, human resources, legal, or public relations) may be speaking for the company, and should always clarify.

Many employees have non-disparagement clauses in their contracts that -explicitly- ban the employee from speech or action that harms the company's reputation. These clauses may be limited depending on the jurisdiction and circumstances.

There is a place for freeze dried industrial coffee products.

I keep Tasters Choice crystals in my camping gear and in my emergency survival pack. I also have a LifeStraw, a bottle, a metal cup and firestarting supplies. I can turn a puddle into clean water and either mix in coffee crystals and drink it, or make fire and have hot coffee... a luxury in a bad situation.

On a daily basis I prefer to take my time and make coffee in a french press, or espresso for a treat.

"These things"? You mean the government shouldn't be drafting regulations for government, which is what we're talking about here? Instead, private industry should be telling the government what to do?

It's not mutually exclusive. They fluff each other.