I thought they already did this? Wasn’t that their justification for killing integrated SMS?

Converting AC electricity into low voltage DC is fairly trivial. If you’re so inclined, you can build a rudimentary 12v psu yourself for pocket change.

Maintaining a consistent power output within a certain tolerance under load is where things get complex and costly.

The finer your tolerance and more robust your protection systems, the more expensive your components get and the more of them you need.

Assuming that there is good market competition and prices aren’t being jacked up for no reason, the difference between a $100 psu and a $500 psu is the difference between one with redundant protection systems, smooth and reliable power output, and a long life expectancy vs one that has far fewer of those things.

If you’re slapping a replacement psu into an old system that you’ve had for five years, and you don’t have a lot of investment in, then go cheap. If you’re building new and high end, then don’t cheap out on a component that could fry thousands of dollars worth of new equipment when things go wrong.

Don’t forget his most iconic roles; Jake the Muss, and Dr Ropata.

Outside of Unix based programs, probably not a lot.

In terms of their functionality most programs are standalone applications rather than tools where you modify the programming flow of the data.

Tangentially related, why would you fire someone just for fucking up? Everyone fucks up occasionally, an in my experience, the bigger the fuck up, the more diligent thay person will be in ensuring they don’t do it again.

Look again at why these people no longer have work available to them.

If advancements in technology mean that a machine can do the job more efficiently than a human, then the value of that labour still exists, we just need to legislate a redistribution of it now that human employment is no longer doing it directly.

Once we update our tax codes to ensure that the wealth of automation is shared equitably, the question then becomes “what do you want to do with your free time?”

Unless I’m missing something, you can do this fairly simply already. I have a post-install script I run on all of my machines which sets up all network shares and runs ‘apt install whole bunch of packages’ to get things into a ready-to-roll state.

If they do no push back, then they are just kicking the can down the road, at great expense to themselves. This is exactly the sort of pushback needed to get bambu to walk back their push towards a walled garden.

Fair, unfortunately it was a work machine that i needed operational again asap.

Luckily i image my machine monthly, so it was fairly straightforward to roll back.

Get a dog. Always happy to see you when you get home, will pester you relentlessly into moderate excercise, #1 wingman for meeting friends or significant others.

Dont commit to a course of study unless you are following your passion, or have a realistic plan to monetise the skills you get out of it.

Even if university is cheap/free in your region, the opportunity cost is steep. You will spend the next 3-5 years on subsistence wages, and come out the other end with very few practical skills beyond those of your specific area of study.

As cliché as it may sound, take a year off and bum around the world doing casual/seasonal labour while you figure out where you actually want to end up, because no-one else can define your future.

Generally yes. My exception was the time i accidentally nuked python in it’s entirety…

It’s a chicken and egg situation though. If you let them get away selling you broken games then they have no incentive no stop breaking them.

I am now firmly in camp “better run on linux if you want my money”.

English actualy did have terms for that, they just got a bit bastardised with “yea” and “nay” dropping out of common speech:

Will they not go? — Yes, they will.

Will they not go? — No, they will not.

Will they go? — Yea, they will.

Will they go? — Nay, they will not.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we may have the causality backwards here?

We know that frodo becomes invisible when wearing the ring, perhaps the reason we can never find the 10mm is that this was already done?

The problem with such systems is that every check introduced in the name of minimising fraud, is an extra hoop that someone needs to jump through to obtain legitimate benefits.

Unless you are also going to boost funding and have a well resourced, easily accesible team available to help people navigate the additional bureaucracy, you are going to do more harm to marginalised people in need than to fraudsters.

At the risk of sounding like stack overflow, do you need to print such large parts? As a general rule I try to make multiple small parts that are then attached together rather than going for single parts that are very big or complex.

If you mess up a couple of placements or tolerances, or your print fails, it’s much quicker to reprint just that portion.

Space bends due to gravity. Light continues in a straight line through the now non-linear space, thus appearing to bend.

A translation layer could be used, no? Check api version, translate any v1 specific calls into their v2 counterparts, then submit the v2 request?