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People will wail and cry and scream about their freedom being taken from them...
Because it is in fact taking away their freedom
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I don't think one can even fund assembler docs for a chip so old, rare, and obscure as first SH-1,2,3 families.
I don’t know anything about these, but found it interesting that people have ported Linux to these chips as they’ve come off patent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH#J_Core
The one I talk about has a kilobyte of ROM, and is an original SuperH from early nineties.
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> they get paid a referral fee for you opening a loan Which is added in to the finance charges or amount borrowed. Ever wonder why the salesmen always want to negotiate a "payment" amount instead of a purchase price? > No they'd just have sold to someone willing to pay their price. And I'd have just gone to another dealer willing to work with me on my terms. > There's a car supply shortage True, and that causes highe…
> Ever wonder why the salesmen always want to negotiate a "payment" amount instead of a purchase price? Well that's the point - say you want agree a purchase price for the car before you talk about how you'll pay. Do that and get an actual number from them. Then... Offer to pay the agreed price cash and ask for a discount based on this - you won't get one because there's no benefit to the dealer in taking cash it's j…
There are always offers which are available to cash buyers/real loan buyers, but not 0% financing buyers. The reason for this is simple; 0% financing is a hack to get people to buy more expensive cars, and you'll discover that on the lower margin cars that option mysteriously vanishes.
I just went through this myself and helped two friends out, it's true for Ford, Honda, VW, Audi, and Chevy at least in the US.
* If you happen to be one of the few people who actually wants to buy a high-margin car (usually Halo cars like Corvettes) then sure, get the 0% financing. Just realize that you're being fleeced, although if you're buying a Vette you probably already knew that and value isn't top-of-mind
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> I had to stop reading when the dog washing company blamed needing to respin a new board on a chip being out of stock due to this ... > if you aren't buying enough chips to build all the boards you want to build of a revision Friendly advice: If you are going to be a consultant to industry, don't post comments like this. As someone who has been manufacturing tech products for over thirty years, my first reaction to…
>It too me years to even be able to talk about this episode of my life to anyone. It was horrible. I am glad you found the courage to share a bleak chapter in your life, and for being unflinchingly honest. I hope it was cathartic ─ your lived experience will serve as an extremely valuable lesson for those of us, who might encounter such circumstances.
Yes, it is cathartic to some extent. And yet I don't really enjoy talking about it. It still hurts.
U.S. tech giant Intel has offered to help but it reportedly wants 8 billion euros in public subsidies toward building a semiconductor factory in Europe. wow.... my immediate reaction is "then it should be a public foundry, if payed for by the public"... but maybe im missing some detail/nuance...
> "then it should be a public foundry, if payed for by the public" It sounds to me like Intel is willing to set up a fab in Europe, and they've stated their asking price. Why does this immediately result in people saying that it should be a public foundry just because it would ultimately be paid for by the public?
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> I had to stop reading when the dog washing company blamed needing to respin a new board on a chip being out of stock due to this ... > if you aren't buying enough chips to build all the boards you want to build of a revision Friendly advice: If you are going to be a consultant to industry, don't post comments like this. As someone who has been manufacturing tech products for over thirty years, my first reaction to…
thanks for the very interesting story. i never went beyond the prototyping stage for the products i designed. i always thought that small scale production would be an easy next step. i understand how wrong i could have been thinking it was "easy".
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They are actually useful vehicles in rural places.
This thread is filled with ignorant city boys who have never done any useful farm work. I cannot imagine how excrutiating it would be for my wife to have to pay a bunch of stupid taxes and follow a bunch of fascist new laws in order to grow her 100sq ft garden every year which, even so small, STILL requires truckloads of compost and mulch since we are just in the process of building our soil. And that's just for the…
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Where are they? Look at these explicitly 'small trucks': https://www.motortrend.com/news/best-small-trucks/ What am I supposed to search for, small small trucks? Trucks that are actually small? Looking for cheap trucks still delivers large vehicles, just with fewer features: https://www.motortrend.com/news/cheapest-pickup-trucks-frill... I even searched 'smallest trucks' and...guess what. The Honda Ridgeline seems li…
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36125131/2022-hyundai-san... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgaElsORHSQ
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Trucks are vehicles. How can they be political? I know plenty of people from all kinds of backgrounds owning a truck.
"Rolling coal" (modifying a diesel engine to run rich and increase soot in the exhaust, a.k.a. incompletely combusted fuel) has become a statement in many places of the U.S. that you are opposed to the EPA, clean air rules, regulation, and in general the perceived nanny state. My friend is a Tesla owner in Georgia and has been deliberately blasted by these guys at stoplights a few times. They tried, anyway—hard to do…
This is just one example of many things that are dividing the society into factions.
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True. In Florida, 1/3 of trucks are raised so there occupants have to literally climb in. These are commonly adorn with "Trump" and "Don't tread on me" bumper stickers and even massive flags (because you know, big truck means big flag...) I once drove one to move something (the cab/bed being five feet off the ground wasn't as helpful as you'd think \s). The experience was somewhat surreal, like driving in an air traf…
Mudding doesn’t mean drinking and driving with guns. It means tearing up the wet muddy ground with your vehicle. Spinning your tires, getting stuck, getting unstuck - just goofing off off-road. I personally don’t see the appeal of it but have friends that enjoy it. They don’t drink and drive (with or without guns).