They can certainly write code, but the code they write will be "their code", and I will at best be reviewing it for them. It won't be "my code" because I didn't write it.

Your inability to frame it correctly is the problem.

The story is bullshit. Can't expect journalists to do their job anymore.

Why did they take the job in the first place? This isn't new behavior.

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

It's not as important as you might think. If the concern is humanity being able to survive the loss of Earth's biosphere, then the enabling technology to accomplish that is recreating an independently sustainable human-compatible biosphere elsewhere -- which is not something that Starship, on its own, will be able to do within the next 20 years, even if it could place human beings on Mars. So if the Giant Space Asteroid comes for us, we'll be just as doomed with Starship as without it -- the Mars colonists would starve to death a few months after the Earth resupply ships stopped arriving.

FSF has spent years trying to convince people that they are open source.

Open source has existed before them, or their license has existed, and it'll exist long after.

Assuming all goes well, I agree. OTOH, returning old equipment back into service after it had been written off is a little risky, don't you think?

It's interesting to me that you're so sensitive about something that virtually nobody should be sensitive about. A little too close to home? Hmm.

It's perfectly possible to build a machine that will incapacitate a human at close range; all of the world's militaries have been doing it for years.

It's also possible to deliberately dial down the machine's combat effectiveness to the point where a fight against a human might not be a foregone conclusion.

OTOH, having done the latter, what have we learned? That we can design and build a robot that we nerfed just enough that it usually loses in hand-to-hand combat?

When you're done, maybe you should review the mental health of several members of FSF. It's eye opening.

FSF doesn't represent my interests in any serious way, I believe in open source, but FSF are pathological.

Let me k ow your success rate for removing ram chips with a soldering iron or heat gun and replacing them.

I've done it. Have you?

We could tell you were one of them when you were bother by the sociopath comparisons.

It's interesting, sociopaths, like narcissists are often the first to identify as such when someone uses the terms; they instantly rail about the usage. Every Fucking Time.

Upgrading the ram on a Rpi isn't for the feint of heart, if you can upgrade the ram and cannot reset the firmware you should hand it your geek card. If you can't upgrade the ram, don't worry about it. Seriously.

This is a whole lot of hand wringing over a nothing burger.

As they say, what's remarkable isn't that the dog plays a good game of poker; it's that the dog is able to play poker at all.