The M.2 slot is a direct link to the PCIe bus (and thus, direct memory access). In many use cases it would be unwise to have it exposed to passersby. It would also react poorly to high voltage.

We went through this pain already with USB bus, I'd wager PCIe direct access would be worse.

As someone who is familiar with (but didn't work directly on) military laser systems, the devil is in the details

The energy put into the target depends on the surface area (SA) being illuminated times the power per unit area. It also depends on the ability of that material to absorb energy at the wavelength(s) it is being hit

Fiber optic cables are fairly small SA and tend to be made out of materials that are really good at not absorbing light. Lasers would need a really, really long time to put enough energy in to make something happen if at all.

The other thing you need for any weapon system is target acquisition and tracking. For laser systems this is very important as you want to keep heating the same bit of the target (shaky aim is bad). Drones are hard to target via electromagnetic or sonic means. Since lasers systems require more precise targeting you are playing to your weaknesses here.

It would be easier (though not easy) to target the drone vs. the FO line unless you knew where the FO line was coming from on the ground (in which case you would just call counterbattery fire on the source and not worry about the stuff in this post).

IIRC, NVidia has required not upgrading drivers for older cards, and having multiple drivers on a system has not worked (at least on Linux).

If it is purely a library issue, great. If it touches the driver in a PhysX specific way (now or future hardware releases) it may make a big mess.

I am unsure how the author was able to run a 980GTX (requires v470 or earlier I think) and a 5000 series (assuming current release nv drivers) together in the same machine / OS.

ICE's (particularly turbines) don't have great torque at 1:1 ratio either. The solution was a transmission.

IIRC, electric motors are heavy due to the high density materials they use (incl copper). I don't know if the savings in copper / rare earth would make up for the addition of a transmission, but transmissions are probably easier to incorporate in a design than removing rare earths that have few source companies.

If it was a closed source target it would be hard to evaluate by multiple groups and no guarantees that issues found could be recycled back into the code (or even acknowledged by the author). Open source allows competitors to compare code-bases directly to make sure they are all using the same configuration / version, and ensures the taxpayer funding goes into something that can verifyably benefit everyone.

Why the assumption of doom-and-gloom?

When I received my first iPhone, the News app was useful and had readable articles

Nowadays, any new article mildly interesting that's not the top headline or the two underneath requires News+.

I personally have found myself using it much less as a result...

That will make Taiawn warm and cozy... Oh, sorry, The Republic of China You know, the actual 5th seat on the UN Security Council

"To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says" could mean that PFAS will no longer appear on the packaging labeling even if they are in the food.

The other issue is pure market forces are not great for farming from a US govermnet policy PoV

-If people cannot afford food, Bad Things Happen (I cite all famines in history as a reference)
-The US uses USAID as it's version of Belt and Road. This requires overproduction to generate surplus for aid. The tit-for-tat deals for aid should end up benefiting the whole of the US (including economic stability), but individual farmers are too far removed to make earnings back on it. Without the aid, food overproduction would tank value and drive farmers out of business (supply then drops, prices go up, and see bullet point above). This (at least in my head) is why US Govt can justify supporting farmers.

How it actually works, why we pay farmers to not grow food, and where the feedback loop controls are (if any), are the real topics for debate.

Amazing how that corresponds to interest rate hikes (and some of the tech sector layoffs in CA).

Short version, I don't think the other variable are tightly controlled enough to call this solely EV market saturation...

If you mean the truly average joe, then you definition of "regular people" have no idea what systemd is.

So why even bother posting?

If that was true, then why are regular people posting these stories? Doesn't sound like it's hidden away to me.

If it's not "hidden away" as it should be, that means the software isn't doing it's job. If not, it should be able to be changed out. Except you can't change it out without an entire distribution swap. Which, I believe, is the major problem with systemd--it requires a major restructuring of your operating system configuration to replace it.

If anyone has switched from systemd to something without systemd without a reformat, I would love to hear what it took. I believe this might be possible under Gentoo and possibly from Arch to Artix by a very savvy user.

Buy a used tower workstation from HP or Dell from Ebay, put Linux and Octave on it. You can ssh in from crosh->shell on the Chromebook and have a lot more horsepower (and memory). Unless your colleague has a lot of MathWorks toolboxes and cross-compiled MEX files Octave can do the vast majority of what Matlab can.

I used to have a PCI-Passthrough Win10 disk, however it went away once Proton could play GTA5 and a host of other titles using BattlEye.

Epic Games (boo) and A+ new release games are the big obstacle, however the game landscape is much better than it was 4 years ago.

I'll do you one better. Set the deduction equal to the poverty limit and remove other deductions. No one below the poverty line pays taxes (including summer student jobs), no one cheats to avoid being slightly more than poverty (because 95-99% of income is deductible). The more you make, the smaller a percentage of total income the poverty amount will be.

If you want to donate, do it because it's the right thing, not for taxes
If you want to own a home, no tax cuts
If you want kids, you gotta pay for those too***

Everyone can debate what the appropriate income tax percentage can be on whatever is left.

*** This is sticky. How to treat kids equally with all the background factors of nature / nurture / locality is a much bigger problem and needs it's own solution first.

I believe you are trying to have you cake and eat it, too

I agree EV's are not heavier than large trucks, but those large trucks are more likely to get the 10-15mpg vs. the 25 mpg of a car, so they pay more in taxes that way.

The responder is saying the EV weights as much (and damages the highways like) as a full size truck, but is taxed at the rate of the 25mpg car.