The "new administration" #47 has made it clear they will make protest illegal, so there you go.

I guess if you are tuned into the outrage then you haven't actually used your critical thinking skills in some time. It's all written plainly in the documents that are being introduced by our recently-installed dictatorship. People pretending any different have had their brains swapped for potatoes, or are in the streets protesting as a somewhat academic exercise (good for those people, to remember in future what freedom was like).

The word you meant to use was "prescient" not "ironic"

Never mind you about Salesforce, just taking on all the flavor-of-the-month open source ERP/CRM service providers is going to be a mess. If you're already looking for Salesforce then you are not listening for anything else, anyhow. Typical open source ERP/CRM service providers are not sustainable models of business... it is more akin to multi-level marketing schemes.

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Check out this lovely throwback how it was (and largely still is almost 20 years later): https://opensource.org/blog/wi... "THESE LICENSES ARE NOT OPEN SOURCE LICENSES."

Time to market for this first-of-its-kind Laptop mainboard (and architecture) swap was wicked quick. The result is a product you could hand someone with IKEA Furniture type of instructions and they can install it themselves. No heat gun or adhesives faffe necessary; it's all there plain to see and it does not need to be better than anything else on the market to make the point that this invites more competition and innovation.

RISC-V happens to be a convenient vehicle for this innovation since people who would spend their time and take risks to bring something ridiculous like this as a first-to-market are aligned with that new technology and the market advantages of embracing it.

Highly honorable mention to Bunnie Huang who brought an open hardware laptop to market but was sandbagged in that effort by vendors that would not sell their products or give access to systems level documentation. At that, the best you can get is some crusty old ARM chips with outdated (ARM generation of) architecture.

This is about developing the ground that 5-years-from-now the consumer electronics landscape will-have-had-been standing on as its foundation. Meanwhile this is as visible as it gets - you can't see the flood of use of RISC-V in consumer electronics that already has occurred and likely surrounds your daily existence. It's enormous already.

A company that is selling unauthorized Nintendo Intellectual Property... hmm...

How long before Cease & Desist from Nintendo? Place your bets in the reply!

Worth a mention is the legendary Fred Dibnah probably the last steeplejack of his kind, and perhaps the best documented fellow doing such works as repair and teardown of coal-fired power plant chimneys. On the topic of coal power in its final days you may find it interesting and educational to seek out videos produced with Fred.

Obligatory Wikipedia reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Matrix open standard protocol then? https://matrix.org/

"Barnes said birds just going for a sit pose no threat."

Barnes aren't real.

Why was parent down-voted? It's the truth. What information does the ARRL have that is not public anyways, that would be damaging in any way if it was released on "leaks" website? All of our information as licensed amateur radio operators is already public record in the FCC Universal License Service.

I do volunteer as an ARRL-accredited examiner on the third Saturday every couple of months. I've never been convinced to be a member of ARRL but remain open to it if they can provide value for money. Reading this news about paying off criminals just makes it unlikely I would ever give any of my time or money to ARRL and that is "big sad" as we don't have many organizations to represent amateur radio use in N. America

Pedestrians are "tuned-out" anyways with earplugs that blast music into their skulls, not in theory, but by observation and experience having ridden an electric motorcycle for years myself. No amount of noise (zero or an air horn) is enough to get pedestrians out of their technology-induced bubble trance.

Safety systems built into many EV's are not exclusive to electric vehicles but they sure are cheaper for manufacturers to implement on an EV platform... so we will see more of those on EVs. It's not vehicle drivers trying to kill pedestrians, it's everyone overwhelmed with technology they are not able to process anyways; a problem with the design of our infrastructure that pedestrians (bending towards N.America region here what I have experienced) are mixed with heavy equipment in operation and in sharing paths with. It's not specific to the mode of propulsion.

FWIW I had a bicycle bell on my EV motorcycle and it worked exactly zero times to get the attention of pedestrians that walked directly into me while I was waiting at a crosswalk. Multiple occasions of pedestrians holding their phone in front of their face and earbuds in and walking into a stationary motorcyclist. I admit to my incredible rage and sadness in those moments that our society (USA) has not done enough to mitigate this societal harm.

I do know of some hearing and vision impaired persons that are at risk and have unwanted interactions with fuel oil combustion ("loud" noisy) vehicles for comparison either because it is not possible to hear the vehicle engine or the vehicle engine emits a type of vibrational noise that is difficult to locate and differentiate... so there's some gap in this logic that heavy machinery are death traps for pedestrians that can't hear them. Besides all that there is the tire noise which if you have your hearing sense and are paying attention is very obvious in a quiet environment with all EVs (no other noises but the birds and animals) - from experience, again, having gone on several events with EV motorcycle enthusiasts. The wild animals are not bothered at all... but the one bear I encountered was a bit startled when I approached from downwind and when it chuffed a warning my first thought of the vibration was something had broken on my EV motorbike... and then panic as I realized the bike was fine and I had startled a bear!

It is regrettable, but have hope that people exist younger than us with opportunities for a better education and can understand without much trouble how this is a logical fallacy. Next...?

Is USA a large country? Have gone coast-to-coast around it 4-5 times. Yes, you need at least a middle-class $35k Tesla built after 2018 to do it comfortably; and more recently it might be possible with any of the suitably equipped EVs from all manufacturers that have been allowed to use the Tesla Supercharger network. The electric motorcycle over a decade ago was just barely able to go coast-to-coast and it involved picking certain routes and phoning ahead to RV parks that had a 50A electrical hookup, for which you had to plan in advance and be a good communicator to negotiate what is an unfamiliar concept as something more familiar to people that aren't used to the novelty factor or doing things that aren't yet normalized.

Your information is outdated by at least a decade.

Yes, it can be very annoying if your housing situation does not allow for convenient electricity access to vehicle parking locations. This is where housing developments and employers have an opportunity to attract younger, thinking workers; an opportunity for town and city centers to serve this need of the tax-paying population. The cost of installing vehicle charging access is not significant compared to any other expense for a typical business, housing development, or township.

In an off-grid home-owner scenario the 100mi round trip daily commute is simple and supported by 10kW of PV solar and 30kWh of home battery storage if you also charge on weekends; less if you work a night shift or have workplace charging point access and more if not and you want to do something else on the weekend. Besides this you could opt to visit a charging station at any time during the week. Businesses that want your money are able to install charging points to attract customers; so you can find that grocery store or post office near a town center that has charging and spend your money there. Also if you own a home or otherwise have access to any form of grid electricity at your residence then this really is a non-issue you get home take 10 seconds to connect the electrical plug and walk away, where it will be ready and the interior is at your desired temperature automatically for the morning commute.

This is very difficult for people who are traumatized by the psychological conditioning of petrol fueling norms. I get that, it's like any traumatic experience you are going to normalize it internally and reject suggestions that your current reality is not the best possible choice you could be making in a situation where you are "making the best of a bad situation". This is why people get so triggered about fuel oil pricing, it's very reasonable that people take this personally when it's just some uncomfortable situation. The upside with EV ownership is that you have a voice and agency to directly improve your own situation; Who among us decides to install a petrol fueling station in their town hall parking lot or housing development? By comparison it's nothing more than a few 60A electrical circuits and some concrete work to install an EV charging point. Having buried tanks of volatile toxic explosive liquids anywhere near residential zoning has become okay? It is truly insane we have allowed this to happen.

I've also made a 200mi round trip daily commute in a 27mpg reasonably fuel efficient compact Subaru and the math didn't work even at $1.67/gallon because I was so tired I could not drive safely after a 10-hour shift, and there was no time in the day to sleep. The EV car I drive now has avoided collisions and reminded me to get the off the roadway when I fell asleep at the wheel. When off the roadway the HVAC kept the interior comfortable and I got some sleep without concern of whether combustion fumes from my vehicle would leak into the cabin and kill me. Those safety features are just easier to implement for manufacturers on an EV platform but I'm all for these safety features in any vehicle platform preventing me killing you and preventing you from killing me and my family+friends. If your daily round-trip commute is more than 150mi or so then I suggest if it is at-all possible to make a change and get something closer to home, or a situation where you can get some rest while being transported to-and-fro; chauffeur, train or bus route, or going 130mph+ on a short distance aeroplane charter.

Yes, It doesn't take much effort to look at the Prius' construction and understand it was going to be a hot seller for Toyota but it was very much a case of selling a more profitable small engine from a manufacturer that wanted to sell more of those small engines and make a higher profit.

The battery system of the Prius is throw-away and it was designed to be like this. You can just ignore Prius because it's not even remotely interesting in the scope of Battery Electric Vehicles, another boring fuel oil vehicle with some trendy gimmick thrown into it that does nothing interesting. Most of them sold and being driven never had a source of electricity that was not fuel-oil combustion derived. As a campaign to confuse and manipulate public opinion the Prius has been wildly successful for Toyota.

The example of a Prius is also obsolete by 20+ years. The legitimate conspiracy is that the Prius never needed to happen, we could have been 20+ years ahead with battery technology and privately owned vehicle electrification by now. Your "alternative facts" informed by gross misinformation campaigns from fuel oil producers is a testament to how effective this has been.

On the topic of affordability we're still behind about 10-years on battery technology (or an opportunity cost of about 14-15 lifetimes given how trashed the ecosphere is because of this disaster of decision making in the last 70-odd years). All said, battery technology improves at a rate of about 8% every 3 years, and that has held true for the last 10-years with no sign of improving or slowing down. We missed the opportunity and the misinformation campaign continues to retard this progress when it could be 10% or 12% every two years. Bravo, well done fuel oil producers! Successfully manipulating public opinion on the scale of 200+ years and making the Earth an uncomfortable hellscape in 50 years is a very impressive maneuver.

So yeah, battery tech is going to be expensive and you (as in you-all) repeating this nonsense keeps it that way. We need to stop being the reason for things to continue being horrible. It's not appropriate to behave in this way, and I'm not telling you to change your mind or what car you drive, just don't throw poop on the walls on everything around you because you were too lazy to think critically about it and then pretend like that's acceptable.

The expression is "What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"

First blush is that cannot be good. Farming for energy fuels leads to bad land use and economic practices, generally and over a long time. I don't know enough about ethanol production other than the disastrous USA subsidized GMO corn farming industry for ethanol production though to understand if you are making some kind of point about electric vehicles or it is something else.

I really should not have to write all this because it's nothing new, but still people keep saying things that parrot the misinformation campaign and choose to be lazy and repeat it word-for-word. During the early years it was exciting to show off EV ownership at meet-ups and to participate in advocacy, but it's been two decades and people are still fucking dumb as shit and repeat every lie they are being told. I've lost my patience for it. I'm not going to convince anyone, you need to do that yourself. Buy/borrow an EV and live with it for a year as a second vehicle, and tell me if your experience was exactly as the fuel oil producers' campaign of misinformation messaging has been stated. It's really not my job but I am annoyed at people repeating lazy un-thinking things that are harmful for future generations.

> "Hey, guys, could we maybe dial it back a touch? My evil-meter is pegging red right now. We should at least get back to orange."

Thank Ryan Reynolds that Disney is not new to pegging anymore.

Product names internally often would be what it was known by at the local office where the person who developed it happened to be, or something you would say at lunch to not talk shop in public but refer to it anyways. Likely this is something that was already mature and dog-food within the company 12-14 years prior. From what I remember it was astounding how people outside Google had little to know idea whatsoever what was being developed. Public information was stale by at least 5-10 years.

"What is your one purpose in life?" To explode, of course.

This (my AI versus your AI) is already where we are now, the olds just don't understand it yet.

I'm certain that ordering your protection detail to place whoopee cushions on the chairs of all political rivals constitutes an official act. "Sir, do you know why we're here? SIT DOWN. Listen, do you know why we're here, ... now?"