kylegordon

"harmonize UK and US law on political speech"

I can't think of anything worse. This is just the extreme right wing pushing the Overton Window even further

The team sat Electric Classic Cars are doing that, you can soon buy a skateboard chassis and drivetrain from them, and bolt whatever body you want to it.

Their recent videos showcase what they're doing in that area https://www.youtube.com/@ElectricClassicCars/videos

That is disingenuous.

It is a downside to the proliferation of poorly secured devices. Your nebulous statement could be applied to anything.

> Safe to ignore anything they have to say.

And that of anyone who quotes them too

And that's just DCC. You can also add in I2C, MQTT, Canbus, Ethernet, BiDiB, Modbus, etc the list goes on

Have a gander at https://www.jmri.org/help/en/html/hardware/index.shtml#netwo... for a good list of protocols

With such sweeping statements, it clearly matters to you. However, time matters to me. Others are entitled to have different priorities from you.

My Luba 2 has saved me 3 weeks of manual mowing over the past year and my lawn has never looked better. Frequently complemented by others.

It's just a lawn and a lawnmower. I'm not playing keeping up with the jones, hoa bullshit or whatever other nonsense Americans invent. It's just a Scottish garden for the wildlife to roam in.

Between Amsterdam and Paris you are within the Schengen zone.

UK to Europe will have border control, passports, etc.

My first observation of this calm oasis was watching a Dell Compellent boot around 2010. I was somewhat happy to see a familiar boot process on the display!

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UK analogue strowger exchanges did not permit the called party to clear down the line - that was the job of the calling party. A legacy function of being 'patched through'.

"Called Subscriber Held", a feature that was carried into early digital exchanges because people expected it to work in the manner you describe, even though afaik it was designed for the other purpose of keeping the line open whilst operators patched it through, trunk lines picked up the tone, etc.

My grandpa was a something like chief engineer for the West Coast of Scotland phone network. I have so many questions I wish I could ask him these days.

This is patently horseshit.

I know mechanics, they have been on EV training courses. The dealerships clearly have trained mechanics working on the EVs they've been selling for years.

I live in the countryside, I see plenty of EVs. Range anxiety is only for people doing long distance 200+ mile journeys every day, as those that commute in the suburbs day to day have the common (and financial) sense to charge at home and leave every morning with a 'full tank'

Judging from your prose, admittedly, I suspect you are North American and as such have a distinctly different worldview from mine.

You remembered it well. Nasqueron Dwellers in The Algebraist

Only if you count generic providers like Gmail or Yahoo.

There are millions using @faculty.university.ac.uk style addresses, or employer addresses, club addresses, etc

If I choose to I could be using my local car club email address.

It's all evident in the domain name.

Outright wrong.

"Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue"

Exceptions can and have been made, and the responsibility of hosting it then moves to the EBU to select a location

It's not all in the same building though

It's a real shame.

I've been fiddling away with OWL and OpenDrop for a few months now, trying to get it working on a Raspberry Pi Zero.

The goal was a digital picture frame that accepts Bluetooth and AirDrop pictures. The bluetooth part works fine... but it's the Airdrop part that's dead in the water at the moment.

You are conflating automation with remote control.

Replacing a lightswitch with an app that requires human interaction is indeed ridiculous.

Replacing a lightswitch with a motion sensor has been a staple feature of commercial buildings for decades.

Similar for heating control, occupancy detection, adaptive lighting, energy management, etc. Replacing a physical entity without adding any value to it is pointless, hence the 'automation' part of the phrase

HV systems for trains are made safe by separation.

HV systems for close quarters use are made safe by technology.

The HV plug for your car could easily be wet as well, but it's made safe by having a signal wire and intelligence before it powers up or down.

For busses, Alstom have already got a ground based charging system, built upon their years of ground based power for trams.

https://www.alstom.com/our-solutions/infrastructure/srs-inno...

> I also heard about one idea to have chargers at every street light, as they already have an input from the grid in them.

This is already being done in London, and probably other areas.

https://www.ubitricity.com/charge-points/#lamppost

How to Opt Out (of voluntarily Facial Recognition) at the Airport

If I recall rightly Concorde pilots often took control from autoland and landed it slightly off the center line.

This was to avoid upsetting the passengers and to ensure the champagne didn't get shaken too much.

250W pushes my 220lbs fat ass along pretty swiftly

edit: I wonder if we're experiencing the difference between 250W continuous rated motors, which is what the legislation covers, and 250W peak rated motors, which is what a lot of people end up incorrectly obtaining.

yup, and 250W continuous

And the great bit is that if you are ignorant of these laws and get caught on an electric bike doing higher speeds then you get a penalty as if you are riding a motorbike without insurance or a license - aka penalty points on your regular driving license, plus all the other court shenanigans.

It's the second line of the article...

"A great number of these records were destroyed and a sizeable portion sent to Britain to be kept secret. "

Not all have been destroyed.

It's an analogy, not a shoe review.

Depends if you want crash-worthiness, but there's always Jaunt :-) https://jauntmotors.com/purchase

> I know how to drive and maintain vehicles

Do others? You are but one in the massive herd

Disclaimer: My daily is from 1981

Given that they primarily fly over water for safety and how quickly he can remove his hands from the arm mounted units, I think it would be remiss of them not to have considered a quick release mechanism for the rest of the suit.

I believe it's being targeted at rapid medical response.

In the same way paramedics arrive on a motorbike or in a car, prior to the ambulance and subsequent patient transport.