You don't need a CD drive to boot an OS. A humble USB stick does the trick. And nearly every computer made in the last 10 years has a USB port and the ability to boot from it
What kind of apocalyptic event that wipes out all computer manufacturing capability would let USB drives (and compatible computers) survive? And how would you power that thing?
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I don't know, I can feel everyone who has tried and failed to prevent calamity from inside an organization cringe recalling that they had nothing to show for it except lost years and burn out.
As for GP's options, normally I would think B (standing your ground and throwing them a small bone while waiting to get fired) is the most rational option outside of sheer self-preservation. Since its a federal job if you don't know the law it may get little dicey if you go the C route.
My guess from out of leftfield: there is immense pressure and unseen threats being thrown about by admin goons similar to what they did in the attorney general's office in the Southern District of New York, namely: If you don't resign we will fire everyone underneath you. That's what would easily explain this behavior.
There's also malicious compliance... doing EXACTLY what is asked no matter how damaging or stupid. It's the 'let it all burn down' option but I have found it drives change very quickly... CYA, though.
That's not true; he changes his mind all the time, particularly as media coverage changes. It's just not necessarily something you can persuade him to do without catering to his ego.
"We saw it in business with Trump," one adviser said. "He would have these meetings and everyone would agree, and then we would just pray that when he left the office and got on the elevator that the doorman wouldn't share his opinion, because there would be a 50/50 chance [Trump] would suddenly side with the doorman."
It seems unlikely that there's any practical chemical batteries with 0 fire risk.
But I do think there should be home energy storage that doesn't involve chemical batteries. Where are all the pumped hydro, flywheels, and compressed air storage for consumer use?
There’s no perfectly safe energy storage. The danger comes from the concentration of energy. Water can cause flooding or you can drown in it. Flywheels can disintegrate into shrapnel. It’s always risk management.
Consider a similar tasks that are practiced by thousands of professionals daily: Live translation, flying a plane while talking to ATC, playing music while talking. Some people find these things nearly impossible, but with enough practice it's definitely possible.
It beats figuring out which of the 5 typical buttons are up/down/left/right, in my opinion. It's only the build quality that seems to be the issue, not the concept
In truth it actually does have an ergonomics issue. Since the button position is orthogonal to the screen and mounted upside down, the left and right directions are evident but up and down directions are ambiguous.
It turns out you 'pull' the thing toward you for 'down' and 'push' it away from you for 'up'. Did you guess right?
> It turns out you 'pull' the thing toward you for 'down' and 'push' it away from you for 'up'. Did you guess right?
The only thing dumber than that is that DJI remotes use the same braindead scheme to control camera tilt: pushing the wheel moves the camera up and pulling on it - moves it down. Anyone who piloted anything would, of course, agree that it's insane (you push the stick to go down and pull on it to go up). I had to open mine up and swap the wires because DJI in their infinite wisdom didn't make that configurable in their app.
Oh my god, I've had this exact problem. So many "cinematic" drone videos ruined by me tilting the wrong way...
I spent ages searching for that option in the app, but never thought of physically swapping the wires in the controller. You've just given me a new project.
It's so stupid that DJI doesn't make that configurable.
It's already profitable, or at least net-zero, it's just not politically correct. Here in Minneapolis (more generally: Hennepin county) we industrially incinerate our trash. The site lists many benefits: https://www.hennepin.us/your-government/facilities/hennepin-...
