There is open source support for older models, of which I have two. There were some great Roomba deals going on this winter. I was tempted but held off because if their servers go bye-bye, there is no open source support for newer iRobot models.

The US auto industry provides over 10 million good paying, middle class jobs. It is government's job to balance the needs of one group of citizens against the needs of others. They have clearly decided that those 10 million families who would be devastated by a wholesale collapse of the US auto industry are more important than US consumers getting access to cheaper (in price) Chinese cars.

I drive an EV and would LOVE to be able to buy one of those cool, inexpensive Chinese vehicles, but I also understand our government's position. I just wish, instead of an outright ban, they would (I can't believe I'm saying this) impose tariffs on Chinese vehicles to bring them up to price parity with comparable US models. That way the competition would be on features and quality and not on an artificially lower price tag.

This sounds like it is striving for a capitalist utopia: All the innovation and production, and none of those pesky workers to pay. Very on-brand for Trump and his buddies.

I'm trying to work and it seems like Atlassian is still having problems recovering. "Put it in the cloud!", they said. "It'll be more reliable!", they said.

You can get audio via HDMI or through one of the USB ports (with a dongle if you want 3.5mm analog)

I see Lenard, Sheldon, and Howard's invention is finally getting a real world test!

There are plenty of places to put solar panels that don't cover farm fields or forests. Floating panels on reservoirs and aqueducts generates power and help reduce evaporation. Putting them over parking lots lets people park in the shade. There are designs to put them in highway medians too, and of course there are residential and commercial roofs.

I've found just the opposite to be the case. I've run NVIDIA for years and had almost no driver issues, either on Windows or Linux. But my teenaged son had an AMD card for a while and had nothing but problems with the Windows driver in both compatibility and stability. We finally gave up and switched him to NVIDIA and traded in the AMD card. I would LOVE to support AMD and switch to their cards, but the driver issues keep me from pulling that trigger.

A sovereign "debt" fund.

If you are affiliated with almost any college in Ohio, you have free access to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, (journals.ohiolink.edu) with has every article from 11,000 journals going back several decades. I designed the system and the 100 TB full-text searchable database.

There are a lot of creative solar locations being developed like over aqueducts which reduces evaporation and takes no extra land. Over parking lots, produces shade for parked cars and uses no extra land. Even floating on parts of reservoirs which again reduces evaporation. So its not always a matter of wasting farm land. -- BP

I don't think anyone is claiming it will be the "end of the world". Life on Earth will surely survive. I don't think anyone thinks that AGW will turn our plant into Mars. The big question is, will human civilization survive?

We have used it a lot for camping, when you need to know, "how much time do I have to get this tent set up?" I have found that the "AccuWeather" app for Android is pretty good at giving the "Rain in X minutes" results too though.

Just remember that in 2020 adjusted dollars the Apollo command module cost was about $80 billion. The Space Shuttle orbiter cost was around $27 billion. The Orion program is expected to cost about $12-13 billion after its all said and done. So, while I completely agree that cost-plus is a crazy way to award contracts, and Lockeed is being incompetent on this project, to say that they are raking in truck-loads of amounts of money is a little hyperbolic. Space is expensive. The fact that SpaceX managed to develop Crew Dragon for $2 billion is nothing short of miraculous.

I won't argue with your other rants, but I know several people who have worked for Oracle for years and they are all very happy and loyal to the company. So it can't be all THAT bad to work for.