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Small cleaning robots have existed for long enough. For floor sweeping they are more efficient than any 2-legged form.

Not folding the laundry, though.

likely at some point the gold bars would be ferried as well if the 1s and 0s fail to balance anytime soon(ish)

gold has quite the inherent value - no oxygen reaction (all electronics) and partly jewelry.

if the gold has cheaper would be used quite alot due to being the only metal not oxidizing (the other one being platinum which is even rarer and comes from the same ore source)

> “not looking like it was made with injection molding”

Aside machining POM, what else is there. Injection molding tend to be great.

Solid wood is cool in a way of being cool. It's dimensionally unstable to a point is not permitted for cabinetry in some countries. Also it's expensive and it takes a lot of time for a tree to grow to be turned into furniture.

In that regard plywood (or glulam) is still wood that can be laminated and stained/oiled, if one insist on wood.

>would be very expensive

very doesn't even begin to make it justice.

>However, everything goes to hell once you try to take it apart.

You are not supposed to do that, and if you do - use PVA and epoxy, +metal insert and machine bolts to reassemble

The activation, door knob can be trivially implemented with just piezo-crystal pulse and some radio (433MHz). No battery required, either.

I have got a cheap candy-land made doorbell that's operated via piezo crystal switch (non-battery, non-power-line) and 433MHz freq. It has some melodies and volume built-in,

The design is simple and easy to hack (and build something else). There are rather cheap light switches that operate on the same principle and can be used.

even finds network printers on its own

the standard for user agents behavior tends to be described in certain RFCs

It took around 15kJ to access the site... that's a proper waste and somewhat sad, even though I understand.

in the EU there is no need for any visa (within member states) and essentially it's a desired feature of the EU.

Another point is that speaking the local language in a richer country of the EU is less likely than speaking English (with English being official only in Ireland and Malta), so it's harder to settle - esp. with kids and school.

reddit is trivial, but why hackner news as well?

The object header overhead was always present and expensive in massive arrays - the classic example would be the Point class that has two "double x, y". Realistically the value classes make sense most (only) if they are placed in arrays. In order to use tons of points you'd end up having two arrays, double[] x, double[] y... or go even with direct buffers.

Personally, I don't care about the tiny optimizations possible in cases of just using few of them, e.g. Integer, as int[] is an option, and even writing custom maps where the keys are placed the said array ain't difficult.

As for performance, often times I had to PrintAssembly (the article mentions that at the bottom) to ensure the compiler did its bests, e.g. optimizing away boundary checks, inlining calls, etc.

a rather poor idea - esp. the frame part, mouse movement is not related to the display frame (rate). The latter can be rather high, e.g. 240Hz which is 8ms. Having a set delay and be in the boundaries (and not leaving it) is a significantly easier solution and easier to test too.

Overall the delay in tooltips (and configurable) has been a feature since the 90s (could set the delay in millis in some UI frameworks)

I have not been in a place in Europe where the tips would be rejected. However, universally they are not the norm or expected.

Also about the $10 - they would need to gather quite a few more dollar notes and spend time finding a cash exchange bureau. Else the note is just a memento of a weird American.

In some EU countries the tips have to be counted as salary and income (+social) tax paid, or even they have to be declared as revenue to the restaurant along with the VAT (19-25%) going straight to the state. Of course, when paid in cash - that rarely happens. The point is that the provision exists in the law (so the tips are not unheard of)

A massive price difference would be the drinks (also the most of the profit) - realistically opening a bottle of expensive wine vs the bog standard cabernet serves as no proxy to anything.

Likely certain single malts vs jim beam.

I don't know of any PC motherboard to be 20-layers. "Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero" is like 650 euro and it's "merely" 8 layers. Edit: "MSI MEG X870E Godlike" is 1200 euro or so and 10 layers.

TV, unfortunately, are the worst offenders in most cases as they cannot be reliably opened.

Things that are on the not hard scale to fix - cleaning robots, inkjet printers (with fill-in ink), laptops (incl. board repairs as long as they are not a BGA), desktop pc, mowing robots, mowers (all 2 and 4 stroke variants), most battery tools (drills, sanders, saws, etc.). Overall stuff that can opened reliably, even if that requires specialized tools like bearing pullers or impact wrenches.

Things that are hard - anything that uses glue as the prime assembly fastening choice, e.g. TVs and monitors (or just plastic clips). Cheap plastics (ABS) bodies are annoying as well. Fridges, no way to refill or fix the compressor. Serialized components that need specialized tools/software after being replaced.

In that regard that would be my complaint - ease of disassembly and clearly marked parts, exploded views, schematics. Spare parts. Personally, I'd spend half a night to repair 30-40euro device w/o any documentation, just b/c I can -- but that shall not be the norm.

>demanding that they support hardware indefinitely is unreasonable.

nobody demands that - it's more of the fact the hardware is locked and serialized, e.g. it won't accept a blue tooth module unless it's unlocked with proprietary software.

The hardware manufacturers spend quite the effort, so the devices are not open and require designated tools for minor fixes. I can imagine it not wanting to perform a warranty repair but that's the end of it.

The intellectual property is not some god given right unlike air and water. There is little need not to support a decade old hardware and effectively turning the said hardware to a door stop, or a landfill.

Btw, it's difficult to believe the post is a good faith argument.

the main issue is that's an ipad and it's locked. In contrast - a 15y+ laptop can be used (after few upgrades - i5-560M, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD, AC-8260) to do office work: it runs the latest Firefox and Open Office + googledocs and friends without too much trouble.

Geography as in softwood forests, instead of the iconic maple leaf. In no way Canada would be importing 30%+ of its construction timber from the US. Canada is a major softwood timber exporter.

Given "Donald" reference is beyond obvious, same if you know anything about trade, geography or housing issues.

brand new account and all that...

requiring a full blown VM (with a different OS) to implement a driver (normally that would work in ring-0 along with the original OS) is not pedantry.

for instance the 'windows' part is also entirely nonsensical as the printer works on a default mint installation w/o any issues. The "obscure" part is weird as you can just buy the printer online as well.

The examples don't hold in most jurisdictions (except for the stock market and if short sells are allowed).

All of the three categories are defined as gambling in pretty much all jurisdictions across the globe. However, they are classified as different types, e.g. roulette is closer to slots than poker is. Then poker can be "cash tables" vs "tournament". The main classifier difference is "game of chance" vs "game of skill", yet there are lots of nuances.

most likely - they read large chunks and decode them

I can't say it's 'deep' in any way, e.g. what type of queue is that? Another part - utmost importance to keep async threads fully busy - that doesn't address what kind of disk subsystem is and how it deals with random reads.