That page uses the older versions of "SWaP-C2 Optimized[1]" meme, I would guess it might have not been updated in 3-5 years.

1: Stands for "Size, Weight, and Power [and] Cost [and] Cooling Optimized", defense industry equivalent of self awarded gold medal stickers on product packaging, apparently

like apt? or ftp.example.com?

also: what's download? in embedded sphere, flashing a firmware is often reffered to as download. That's an industry standard term.

That turns jokes into contracts that nobody wants. Bad idea.

I don't make such "jokes". Idiots do.

And when the idiots do, the proposed system locks the fire door for them. That's just dangerous. We'd want them with bunch of confusing options and better illuminated de-escalation paths.

Reuse tools to do what? Touch type on a mechanical keyboard?

What makes human hands especially suitable for e.g. assembling a phone or installing a door handle onto a car?

> Touch type on a mechanical keyboard

yes. do you think it's safe to just plug usb into some hole and type? the safest option for a robot is typing with fingers

I think we're all misunderstanding SpaceX. I think it's more of an engine factory disguised as a general space company that managed to borrow the dad's card.

The only thing SpaceX truly has an edge is its engines.

They have perfected the engine for a ship like a giant Mars class rockets. And that engine has been in full scale series production for years, while the actual Starship keeps blowing up. The reason they developed their hoverslam landing technology, also, was because they wanted their precious engines back.

It's as if they handed groups of gamers a credit card and they went onto plunder stocks of RTX cards from 20 miles around with some Roombas bought on reward points. It's just inches below the threshold for typical BS detector if it weren't specifically tuned for the relevant topics.

All makes sense if everything was an elaborate ploy to get someone to pay for specifically the engines.

> The central promise—that distributed digital fabrication would bring manufacturing back to America, that every city would have micro-factories, that 3D printing would decentralize production—simply didn’t materialize. What happened instead follows a pattern that Joel Spolsky described years ago in his essay on commoditizing your complement: cheap 3D printers and Arduinos made prototyping nearly free, which was genuinely useful. But the deep, compounding knowledge of how to actually manufacture things at scale continued to accumulate in industrial bases like Shenzhen. Prototyping got democratized. The cheap tools commodified one layer of the stack and made the layer beneath it more valuable by comparison.

> You can watch something structurally similar happening with vibe coding right now. People are rapidly prototyping tools that threaten to displace entire SaaS business models. But the value generated by all that rapid iteration and prototyping flows upward. It accumulates at the model layer, in the training data, in the infrastructure. The vibe coders themselves risk becoming interchangeable, each one spinning up impressive demos without accumulating durable value of their own. The pattern rhymes: cheap tools democratize one layer, and the layer beneath captures the surplus.

dot dot dot.

So, EU and US tend to actually implement such bans, but the rest of those countries in a list like that..

People appreciated cheap YMTC 232-layers when that happened where I live.

As much as I find H2 fuel cell technology - which is a type of a gas based electric battery with no moving parts - fascinating, I can't help but wonder if we would be better off just running hybrids on e-fuels.

e-fuels are just low quality gasoline, IIUC, made by (waves hands) ethical means from thin air using electricity. They still generate NOx gases, but ICEs just take them as is, and they're much more energy dense compared to long range batteries.

The only real problem is that there don't seem to be many green and scalable means to produce them, but if we could, I think it can be an overall better alternative to seemingly unworkable hydrogen based EVs and/or unrecyclable battery based EVs.

Which batteries are unrecyclable?

you sort of answered your own question here

psa: you can "uninstall" the bad sloppad and disable "App Execution Alias" for notepad.exe to get the better notepad back. just fyi

Just uninstalling the new "Windows Notepad" application is sufficient. No registry changes necessary. I've put a command line in another comment.

I saw somewhere - it's not like "I know a friend" but literally read somewhere - IMEI is just configurable with standard cracked virus-loaded copies of QXDM :p

But realistically, none of that matters. You'll be the only one in 10 miles with this SIM that always uses an never-before-seen IMEI that connects to the exact same set of domains. That's some mall ninja stuff.

Carriers don't just log IMEI/IMSI, as well as last hop cell towers and your precise location, they need those information to route packets back to the phone. You can't establish TLS with bogus IP addresses. That's why people like Stallman or unnamed friend of a friend ex-CIA guys on Internet says cell technologies are evil mass surveillance tools.

>You'll be the only one in 10 miles with this SIM that always uses an never-before-seen IMEI that connects to the exact same set of domains.

Always-on Mullvad solves that nicely.

And that's the "exact same set of domains" I'm talking about.