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Where are you getting that he doesn't like code review tools? Keep in mind that he isn't expected to run them, he's expecting the submitters to run them, which is why he gets testy when he finds obvious errors in submitted patches.

Troll estate sales. I bought one last year for $10. It's a spare, as I have a half dozen, including one with an integrated mouse stick, a narrow version without a keypad, and the monster honkin' version meant to be used with the weirdo PC-based 3270 client. I think it weighs 10 pounds.

What does this have to do with "disposable computers?" For context, I'm still using a slim iMac to run some old Firewire audio gear. It works fine.

The windows equivalent would be Microsoft telling people to stop using some janky encryption overlay on top of FAT32, and switch to native NTFS encryption.

Honestly I thought they shut that thing down years ago. I stopped using it when it was completely taken over by bots and became impossible to find good paying jobs, but for a while I made some nice beer money on the side from it.

github burn /dev/cdrom0 https://github.com/Octocontrab...

I can go over to my friend's house for free. Our neighbors come over to our patio for free, too. Sometimes we make pies. If you want to get really technical, though:

Nominal cost for a nice pie on the patio:
Tub of raspberries on sale (in season) at Costco: $6
Sugar, flour, salt: I'd estimate $1, but I'll be generous and say $2
Coffee - 2lbs bag from Costco usually costs around $16 and makes about 15 big pots of coffee, so $1
So that's, rounding up, $10 to entertain about 8 people, or about $1.25 a person. I'd say that's doable for most people, it just takes some time.

Engineering car safety is notoriously hard. Almost every design choice is a compromise of one thing or another

Crumple zones make cars a lot safer without adding significant weight and reducing fuel economy. It means, though, that even minor collisions can total a vehicle, or cost multiple thousands of dollars to fix.

The most dangerous accident for a car is a rollover. One of the reasons is the roof can cave in and hit your head, injuring or killing you. One way to fix this is to reinforce the roof, which adds weight high on the chassis, and makes rollover accidents more likely, increasing the likelihood of other injuries from rollovers.

Lastly, you have legal pressures complicating everything. If you go ahead and reinforce the roof, you'll be sued for increasing the likelihood of rollovers. If you reduce reinforcement and the roof caves in, you'll be sued for that.

It still is, for successful companies, and when it's not, you go work for Sony or Dreamworks :)

This is the underlying problem. The CEOs don't trust their own company. When the studio was churning out hits in the 1990s, the should have thrown everything they had at the studio team. Instead they cut the budgets and strangled wages, so half the people went to work for Dreamworks and Sony. Same thing happened with Pixar. Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, etc...) wanted to direct a live-action movie. Disney eventually nixed the project, so he left for a few years.

If you trust the people working for you, you pay them well and fund their projects. If you don't trust them, you keep buying other companies hoping to fill in the creative void.

This is factory zero, a low volume plant that makes a few electric trucks and SUVs. Even with the layoffs, it has around 2,500 employees, which is a lot compared to some other plants. The Orion general assembly plant only has a thousand, as does Bowling Green.

Did it on my home LAN. It's not too hard on a Synology router. The only thing allowed through is a sprinkler controller's web interface facing inwards. The Synology also has a halfway decent IDS that looks for weird outgoing traffic.

charging works fine.

The restrictions are about the same as NYC and for the same reasons. DC is covered by the flight paths for two extremely busy airports, along with all the random military aircraft flying around DC in particular. Our main airport is next to a small suburban town, and you can't fly a drone there, either.

Also, just talking about the US, there's UL, ANSI and NSF. Some of their self-imposed regulations become building codes, NIST and OSHA standards.