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This is the same approach as "add one more lane" to a congested highway. You know it's not gonna work.

Just get a saucer.

What's a mater?

No really, I don't know what it is. Is it like a local dialect for tomato?

Where is this coming from, did I miss something? Last I checked, Nvidia was raking in absurd profits...

Of course, parents fill out a form, like a testament really, where they get to choose which kid gets which dinnerware set and who gets which mental illness.

Very impressionable fellow, it's just rude to be pointing out people (or otherwise) like that.

I meant the machine itself! The print out is your typical systemd boot, though they're usually covered by a distro splash but it can be disabled.

He doesn't 1) install, 2) approves any bowl, 3) or should he. He can refuse to make bidet seats any time, but prefers wașiki seats instead.

He directly provides releases for Windows x64/ARM64, Linux x86_64/ARM32/ARM64 (in AppImage format), and macOS. He also explicitly forbids modifications, and since he considers "pre-configured settings" to be modifications, and this is basically barring any other distribution.

So while ultimately you're right in that he doesn't install it himself, he provides a super-simple "do it yourself" kit for people who live in apartments, while making anyone else who lives in a house have to assemble it from a million separate pieces themselves.

Note that I'm sympathetic, and I don't know what the solution here is, but hopefully everyone figures it out...

My take on a better analogy:

The bidet maker is pissed because people complain to him that their bidet is leaking or has cracks. He's annoyed at a distribution/installation company because they fumbled, so he'll handle installation himself but only to the houses he approves.

Oh, and the bidets are free and nobody gets paid a cent.

Yep, this sounds like the main issue.

The helicopter route has since been closed, but NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said she doesn’t believe “anyone did the math until the NTSB did the math” to determine how close planes and helicopters were getting until after the crash.

There are technical aspects, like how the Black Hawks report incorrect altitudes while flying fast over the river, but this strikes me as the largest cause: nobody valued the controllers pleas sufficiently to do proper management of heli routes around the airspace.

And by nobody, that's probably the FAA who had the responsibility of doing it.

I pay a lot more for a large coffee at a brand store (Starbucks, Costa,...) than I do for a pint at my local bar.

Alcohol is fairly inexpensive here. People need to live, somehow.

I've never seen one of these, but I assume it performs other functions - surely monitoring sensors, probably reporting that data, maybe allowing triggering maintenance functions, etc.

That said, processing and storage is so cheap on this scale that it's probably better (and cheaper) to go with a tried and true, widely supported system, than it is to optimize with custom hardware/firmware.

I agree with you, it is multifactorial.

An additional aspect, IMO, is that Europeans in general are much better educated when it comes to driving rules and driving in general. Rigorous theoretical and practical exams, expensive mandatory classes, and actual enforcement that, not rarely, will take away a driver's license for serious/repeated offenses. This causes people to approach driving as a privilege, not some god given right.

Anecdote time - I actually have a couple of American neighbors, they're a couple in their late 60s/early 70s, probably. It pains me to see their gorgeous BMW X5 gaining new dents almost single time they go out with it... :(