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Comment That last paragraph is likely unrelated (Score 3, Interesting) 108

In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

This almost certainly has more to do with the recent closure of numerous court cases which were brought by various states against the Trump administration after Trump arbitrarily blocked the disbursement of allocated funds that Congress had previously approved for the purchase of those chargers. Unsuprisingly, Trump has lost just about all of those cases since his behavior is clearly unconstitutional.

I think that, despite the undeniable pain and suffering Trump has caused, we should thank our lucky stars that he's prioritized toady-ism over subject matter competence when filling roles during Trump 2. As bad as it's been, it could've been much worse. And it seems increasingly likely he's going to lose both the House AND the Senate this fall.

Comment Re:amazing for its time (Score 1) 145

I was used to doing something before shutting down on DOS though, because my first PCs had ST-506 interface disks and those usually didn't park themselves. You had to send them a command to ask them to do it,

I have a vague memory of needing to do something similar with an old HP size-of-a-portable-dishwasher disk drive from my very first job. Couldn't tell you what it was, though.

Comment Re:amazing for its time (Score 1) 145

Funnily enough, (somewhat later than your story) I recall my teammates and I spending literally months convincing our still-in-love-with-tapes boss that instead of expanding our tape library, we could get better utility and save money by deploying a couple backup servers (one onsite, one elsewhere) with nice big RAIDs.

Comment Re:Not Exacty Hometown Hero's are They? (Score 2) 110

Since when did Trump want to help the US job market? This is just another grift either for him directly or for one of his billionaire handlers - they can claim they're "on-shoring" manufacturing without having to pay for US workers (and, I imagine, without meeting US safety and environmental requirements).

It's also unclear exactly what this is supposed to accomplish with regards to the "critical minerals" mentioned. From the summary, at least, it seems likely the administration doesn't have a plan in that regard either - they're simply hoping some company will figure out a way to accomplish it, and that having this space out of the mainland US somehow aids that effort.

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