Clive Sinclair's company collapsed within five years of shipping their first computer. Perhaps not a good counter-example.

In what way? Once the model is loaded into VRAM, very little data has to travel over the bus. You're going to be limited by storage speeds loading the model anyway.

You're probably not going to get any external PCIe port other than thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is fast enough for most Mac use cases anyway. TB5 gets you 80 Gbps bidirectional, or 120/40 Gbps asymmetrical, and there aren't a lot of things in a desktop environment that would really benefit from more than 120 Gbps.

I'm confused, most stores like that already have digital price tags, and have for many years. Even Walmart has been using them already for a while now.

Hydro-Quebec is facing future capacity shortages due to past underinvestment in new infrastructure. They're facing losing a significant chunk of their installed capacity due to the Churchill Falls deal being at risk of falling apart. That deal would also have included a bunch of new construction, which may not happen any more. They're making big plans about future investments to increase capacity, but are still returning billions to the government in dividends instead of re-investing in capacity expansion.

Do we really have the capacity to export so much more power to the US?

They did not use a rasberry pi 4, they used an RP2350 microcontroller. If memory serves, there's basically static recompilation happening, where Linden writes SueprFX assembly, which is being translated to ARM assembly at compile time.

Then make it optional. Let me set the location name language versus the spoken language, either just as a global setting, or on a territory by territory basis. Anybody who lives in a city where the language spoken is different from the language they speak is affected (like an English-speaking person living in Montreal), but also any tourist who asks anybody for directions is going to hear street names that are completely different than Google Maps.

As an English-speaking Quebecker, I don't recognize many of the street names that Google says out loud, because some of them sound completely different than what I expect. I could set the whole language to French, but... French is not my native language, so why should I? I just want the street names to be pronounced correctly.

Using Google Maps (or any mapping app) in Montreal is a constant facepalm where it tries to read French names as if they were English words. There are tons of situations in the world where the native language of the driver is not the language of most street names. Is it too much to ask for it to know "I'm speaking in English but I should read all street signs in this territory in French"? There's lots of situations where you might have similar situations (tourists, expats, cities with multi-lingual populations), and using unrecognizable names for streets is a big pain.

NRA is not the only US 2A rights organization, it's not even the most effective. GOA for example defending Pretti's "right to bear arms while protesting", as did the SAF and many others

Odd, that's not what the NRA stated, nor what any media org reported them as saying. So where do you get that so-called "quote"?

Trump was the one who said "it was a bad idea to bring a gun", and here is the NRA's actual response to trump's suggestion: “The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be,”.

You are correct -- under federal law, it is legal to make your own firearm for personal use (PMF), though manufacturing firearms with the intent to resell for profit requires a federal license (FFL). A few states are trying to pass their own local restrictions on firearms manufacture. Some of these proposed bills, such as in the states of Colorado and Washington, also include CNC machine tool fabrication in their bans.

This specific bill proposed in California is focused solely on 3D printing

Most commercial printers, copiers, and print engines, but not "all"

So it was solved not by a law, and not by software that looks for anything resembling currency, but rather by placing a simple, easily software-detectable, pattern into all currency, and ensuring that anti-counterfeiting tools treat any currency lacking this pattern as fake money.

Okay, so now we just need to mandate the (mostly anonymous, decentralized) designers of printable gun CAD files to embed these special patterns into their open-source STEP and other CAD files, and then convince the open source printer and slicer software developers to include the detection code ...

The currency detection pattern (The "EURion Constellation") was added to the design of banknotes and certain other documents to enable detection. Good luck getting the printable gun STEP/STL/GCODE people to embed a special small easily-detected feature into their files!

Also worth noting that currency detection isn't a law, and isn't in every printer. The few companies making high-quality color printer/copier internals caved to political pressure and "voluntarily" added detection for a very simple pattern to their firmware. Adobe also embedded this in their (closed source) photoshop software.

Reliable detection of anything that might possibly be a gun or a part of a gun, in any possible 3d rotation, is not a trivial problem, an effective solution would pretty much first depend on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The HEV are already a substantial cost reduction over the diesels. It's not clear that the BEVs offer a sufficient cost savings over the HEVs to justify their extra cost. It's not a small extra cost, the cancelled 2023 deal for 1229 BEV from Nova Bus was at a cost of $2.1 billion, or about $1.7 million per bus.

I'm not sure it's just a cashflow issue, if the BEV don't have a lower TCO in the long run. The transit agency *is* partially funded from higher levels of government. They get funding from the fuel tax, funding from the city, funding from the regional transit authority, funding from the provincial government, and funding from the federal government. But all levels of government (and the transit authority itself) are running deficits, and there are competing priorities.

What's more important, buying BEV busses over HEV busses, or making more of the transit network accessible? Building elevators in 60 year old underground (sometimes quite deeply) metro stations without interrupting service isn't cheap or fast, and its taken them 18 years to install elevators in just 30 out of 68 stations, though they only really kicked into high gear ten years ago. But due to the funding shortfall, that work has been cancelled, except for the stations currently in progress (and the new stations being constructed as part of the blue line extension and new above-ground metro system, though the latter is a different transit authority).

The actual air temperature during that cold snap, we had days that had a high of -20. The point was just that Montreal, the second largest city in the country, experiences cold weather, and gets a lot of snow, and the electric busses are working fine here. The reason we didn't go whole-hog on them (despite there being a plan to do so) is because the transit authority simply couldn't afford the expense in the end, and chose hybrids, which offered only some of the benefits, but represented a cost reduction compared to diesel. It's not the only area where their financial difficulties are causing struggles. It's lead to labour disputes, reduced maintenance, service cuts, and accessibility work (elevators for subway stations) also got suspended indefinitely.