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Comment Re:Exactly. (Score 1) 71

Three? That neutral prong is a fake foisted by the libs. We should go back to old fashioned two prong plugs without polarization. If it was good enough for Grandpa Joe, it's good enough for me.

Good news for you then: the Telsa/NACS charger doesn't have a neutral, on neither the charging connector side (what plugs in to the car), nor the wall charger side (what plugs in to your wall -- in this case likely to a NEMA 6-50 receptacle).

Musk stands with Grandpa Joe on this.

*NACS and CCS have grounding pins though, anathema to grandpa, which may be what you meant when you said neutral. Neither you nor Joe really want to fuck around with up to 250kW of juice without a ground.

Comment Re:if only ... (Score 2) 177

as explained by the author of the original Make, Stuart Feldman:

I used tabs because I was trying to use Lex (still in first version) and had trouble with some other patterns. ...
So I gave up on being smart and just used a fixed pattern (^\t) to indicate rules.
Within a few weeks of writing Make, I already had a dozen friends who were using it.
So even though I knew that "tab in column 1" was a bad idea, I didn't want to disrupt my user base. So instead I wrought havoc on tens of millions.

I have used that example in software engineering lectures.

https://beebo.org/haycorn/2015...

Comment Re:BioLite (Score 2) 126

Because it weighs 7oz as opposed to 33oz, is a fraction of the size, and has the same power output (2W at 5V, continuous). True, the BioLite is also a stove and this isn't, but there are many high efficiency light weight stoves that should work with FlameStower, or apparently an open campfire if you're in a place where that is permitted.

If you're car camping or day hiking you may not think saving over a pound in pack weight is important, but then again you probably don't need a USB recharger either. For multi-day back country hiking lots of people pay attention to this level of weight difference (not just the ultra-light types).

I have no connection to the FlameStower people, other than considering getting one.

Comment Re:Python is readable (Score 1) 187

The reason for newline-tab being syntactically significant in makefiles is because by the time make's author, Stuart Feldman, realized the problems with this choice there were already about a dozen users of make and he didn't want to break any of their makefiles with an incompatible change. See _The Art of Unix Programming_ by Eric S. Raymond.

The lesson is the time to fix a bad design decision is as soon as possible, because it's not going to get any easier later; unless or until your program becomes irrelevant, at which point there's little reason to fix it at all.

Media

Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System 80

DeviceGuru writes "Many of us have griped for years about Roku's retro one-dimensional user interface. Finally, in conjunction with the release of the new Roku 3 model, the Linux-based media streaming player is getting a two-dimensional facelift, making it quicker and easier to access favorite channels and find new ones. Current Roku users, who will now begin suffering from UI-envy, will be glad to learn that Roku plans to push out a firmware update next month to many earlier models, including the Roku LT, Roku HD (model 2500R), Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, and Roku Streaming Stick. A short demo of the new 2D Roku menu system is available in this YouTube video."

Comment Treaties supercede state laws (Score 1) 817

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

-- US Constitution, Article VI

Why does the Texas AG not know this?

Comment Re:I'll die happy (Score 1) 251

Congratulations on having spotted a statistical trend armed with whopping total of 2 data points.

I learned in college that a mathematician requires 2 points to determine a straight line, an engineer prefers at least 3, a statistician 4 or more, but a sociologist only needs 1.

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