Putin would pet Russia fall before he cries "uncle"
The only way to end the war is when Putin himself ceases to be in power, unfortunetly he still retains enough popular support to remain in power without even having to force the issue. (Which he would if he faced mass protests)

Or it's not a shortcoming at all. Since the representation difference is correctly encoded.

My main complaint is that English doesn't get letters for British versus American D and T sounds in words. Given how Brits pronounce "students", I'm not convinced we're using the same alphabet.

Sorry what, I'm too engrossed in my smartphone right now to listen. ;-)

I will admit this is a dead end, but I think we'll be traveling quite a ways down this dead end before it all falls apart.

Robots should be able to quickly overtake and hunt down humans as silently as possible.

Excess calories may or may not be stored as fat. The threshold differs for fat cells in individuals, depending on factors such as the hormones present and receptivity to those hormones.

If you eliminate excess calories, then you don't face the storage question. But in practice it is difficult to operate in caloric debt consistently. And you wouldn't want to starve yourself for long if it impedes performing regular physical activity.

Maybe, but dual antagonists like GIP and GLP-1 combos, have been very effective for my family in treating diabetes. The diabetes for them has generally more issues with low blood sugar causing dizziness, fatigue, nausea than of high blood sugar, but there's definitely a yoyo throughout the day which stresses a lot of organs and also causes issues with sleep and a lack of a feeling of well-being. The GIP does most of the heavy lifting with their recovery, but the GLP-1 has some benefits as well in low does (the GIP tends to make GLP-1 more effective at lower doses).

Step 1 was always to build up a huge user base. But we often struggled how to turn that into profit. We tried selling market research data, and that mostly works. But now we can feed all user data into AI and turn that into ad copy. Soon we won't need marketing departments at all, it will just be a single person babysitting agents until they eat through the month's token quota. What a time to be alive!

The good old Han Unification issue. Which is not so much of an issue if you have the appropriate font installed, which meta-data can help select.

It's an arbitrary contest, I suppose people can make up any rules for it they like.
Under my rules, Americans get a nod for ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8, etc.

Yet I shipped two in-house ARM designs that licensed the architecture and not the main implementation. We did license some modules that you generally need to make a working ARM.

That said, RISC-V International gives you a spec, and isn't selling you an implementation. Where as ARM Holdings plc does both, with most vendors opting to license a design and adapt it to their needs. But Nvidia, Qualcomm, Apple, and of course DEC have shipped custom or partially custom ARM chips.

Architecturally RISC-V is quite MIPS-like, but organized better for adding extensions. The aarch64 instruction set is a little more MIPS like and less ARM-like than its 32-bit counterpart. (XZR/WZR being kind of like $zero, and the removal of shift operations that leaves behind a big ARM heritage).

The interesting part for ASIC and embedded processors is that RISC-V has a reasonable system for vendor extensions. Allowing one to add some custom instructions or to implement an extension on a lower end core that helps it compete with a higher end configuration. The vendor instructions are always a bit of a compromise and make the tooling difficult. Thankfully it occurs less often, as there are quite a few standardized configurations now. (I maintain a small rv32 emulator that can do a few configurations, it can do accurate single-precision floating point, but it has to fake the double-precision stuff with the host's hardware. good enough to run a typical program but not good enough to get golden CRCs for simulation)

RISC V is free but comes from U.C. Berkeley.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Isn't that about 7 hours by car? I've done San Jose to Seattle which was about 14 hours for me, I did it in one go only stopping for gas and one meal. So I believe you someone could do the round trip in a day, although that doesn't leave you a whole lot of time. But if you're picking up something, like a piano or some difficult to find item for a collection or hobby, then quite possible to pull off.

San Francisco to LA is about a 5 hour drive, similar distance (perhaps 80%?) of a London to Edinburgh. But it also only takes about 5.5 hours because you can make it onto some fast highways for a larger portion of it. It's a long trip, but a lot of people around here do that for the holidays (either Christmas of Thanksgiving).
There are two (or more) fast charging spots along I-5, so quite possible to do an SF to LA trip in an EV. Ideally if you can get through about 380 miles stopping at only one charger during lunch, that ends up being the most convenient.

That said, I don't own an EV. I work on them for my job, but it doesn't fit my needs. Which is a cheap vehicle that won't burst into flames when rodents eat all the wiring. I'm sort of in a situation where my cars are disposable. You can slow the rodents down, but deer mice and wood rats are pretty much in charge in the forest where I live.

I live in California, and commute about 70 miles round trip 2 days a week (used to be 6 days a week). The size of the entire US does not matter much for my driving habits because I would not drive to New York, I really am going to mainly travel around my local area. Which is typical in nearly all civilizations, and not uniquely British nor is the US an exception to this.

BEVs making headway in US metropolitan areas before it gains traction in rural areas was always expected. And many of the statistics around US adoption of BEV do compare urban numbers in the US to other highly urbanized nations (not that the UK is highly urbanized). Even just looking at major US cities the adoption rate is lower than Asia or Europe. BEV adoption rate has plateaued in the US, it's slowly replacing ICE but if this were a competition (and it's not) the US would not be winning.

I'm tired too. For different reasons.

Typical milquetoast Brits. $6+ a gallon diesel is what a real man craves. America is a land of freedom, strength, and empty petrol tanks.