That's a cool idea, I'm going to try it from now on. I have to go now though, I have a meeting at 00:11.

ok, that's you being too brittle. Set the requirement, and accept anything that fills them. You're just wrong.

I know I do, but I mean more specifically, do enough people seek out OSS to keep it around? I go looking for OSS solutions both to save money of course but also to be able to have the code so that I can update it if it breaks later. I have successfully done this several times despite not being much of a programmer, getting hints by googling compiler errors.

You should play GTA V to find out. It does have a black guy in it, but it also has two white guys including a meth head.

The drawbacks of sodium include making a restart much harder and also every time it's been tried there's been show-stopper corrosion which they thought they had solved in their design already. That doesn't guarantee that it will happen again, but...

The management system won't support the new version of Windows...

Insert meme of Zapp Branigan saying CYANOTIC! here

Yeah but instead of making the drones drop safety triangles, you have them be the triangles. Carry four so that you have a spare. Ideally you also make them able to pick up one which has failed while sitting. Drones are cheap.

In some cases it's one thing, in some cases it's the other, in some it's even both — someone is looting a company and the people they're replacing are crucial. They can claim they were suckered in by AI companies' promises.

You might say it was PS3, because Cell, but most early titles mostly ran on the PPE and used the SPEs only for graphics, which is a lot like today's systems. The PS2's architecture was super interesting, being made out of multiple weird MIPS cores glued together with an ordinary one, and in weird ways. That generation is also obviously notable for being where the writing went up on the wall for highly custom consoles, with the PC-based Xbox. Even though Microsoft themselves built a fairly interesting console in the following generation — tri-core PPC is weird, even if in other ways it was not very extraordinary — since then everyone but Nintendo has built just crippled AIO PCs.

It doesn't matter where they are stopped, within 10 minutes of a stop that lasts that long they must be placed 10 feet aft, (assuming you're on the right side as you're facing) 100 feet aft, and 100 feet afore. That means they're walking 10 feet aft and placing one, 90 more feet aft and placing another, 200 feet forwards so they're placing one 100 feet ahead, and then 100 feet back to their rig. I am admittedly not great at math, but this seems to me to add up to 300 feet, unless you've got two humans in the truck willing and able to place warning devices. In that case, each person only has to walk 200 feet, and I won't be so petty as to count both of their steps since nobody has to walk the full distance.

With that out of the way, let's have a more interesting discussion. There's no reason why a vehicle cannot have self-deploying reflective warning triangles based on radio controlled vehicles. It should be doable with vehicles wholesaling around $100. I think it would be most prudent to use tracked vehicles. It would probably cost more for something to pick them up off the ground again than for all three. And come to think of it, better to have four just in case. Alternately, how about a flare mortar? Wink wink for the many humor impaired out there.

Do you write 1 million as 000,000,1 too? Try most significant to least significant: Y-M-D.

It's got to be cheaper to pay some schlub who needs work to sit in a cab and doomscroll all day in case the truck breaks down than to pay someone who took the time and effort to get a CDL.

Weapons detections systems send automated alerts. The specific form depends on the system. But no system is dialing up unanticipating randos on the phone and going, "Hello, police? I've got an emergency here!"

And unless the system had facial ID, and the police knew the "suspect", what they had to go on was the picture from the security camera, so they were already looking at the supposed "gun" in the picture and still saw fit to act like this.

That's fine, they don't need to use prepared statements if they don't want to, but they do need to explain what method they use to prevent SQL injection attacks. There are other methods. If they don't have a coherent answer, they need to use prepared statements because that works.