Interesting, that this form-factor was popularized by DIY builders. First one was dutch-built, sponsored by Red Bull after prototyping stage, to film Verstappen's full F1 lap (so semi-DIY, so to say), but then record was taken back and forth between two DIY builders — Ben Biggs in Australia and Luke Maximo and his father
Latest record by Ben Biggs was 626kph (389mph).
Latest record by Luke Maximo was 655kph (408mph).
Are you sure? I'm paying 48% as income tax, and then 21% as VAT and some additional taxes on gasoline, electricity, LPG, car, motorcycle, house and water. Additionally I'm forced to buy health insurance and cannot pay for medicine out of my pocket, insurance is only way to go.
If I invest my money (buy ETF, for example) I need to pay tax on imputed income over my open positions on the stock market (no matter, goes actions/ETFs/options up or down, I pay for open positions, not for my income from these positions).
If I have more than 57K€ in the bank (with 0.5% interest when official inflation rate is about 4% and real one is more like 10-12%) I need to pay tax on that money (not for the interest earned, but for sum on the account!).
Looks like it is not Ok to receive salary if it is a notch above poverty level, too.
Oh, and now I need to pay duties (on top of VAT) on each purchase in non-EU internet shop, no matter how cheap it is, and there is minimal duty 4€ per item. So, buying something small but unique on AliExpress is very costly too. And it is not protection of local brands — because almost nothing is produced here, especially for DIY hobbies (my case, but I'm sure everybody can name other group of goods which has good selection over aboard).
I've get free samples of some technical fabrics from USA (could you buy then in EU, by meter and as privet persond and not a business? Nope) and payed 14€ to the state: like 2€ VAT on FedEx shipping costs (goods are FREE!) and 12€ fix to process this transaction. And, no, it is not FedEx fee, it is local custom fee, it it the same for official national post service. Nicccccce.
It is how Russia become what it is: we all be said «If you don't like new law/regulation, go to your beloved USA, you are not a patriot and must be punished».
I'm sorry, but Germany is democratic country, and citizen of the country can choose by definition.
Leave your motherland because your government is crazy in one way or another? It is nonsense.
In reality, sometimes people need to do it (because it becomes too dangerous to stay), but it should not be this way. In any country.
You always could find deep niche where any high-level technology is not suitable.
I don't think you will program such device in C, rather in assembly, right? When you have like memory for 500 commands, it is easier to go directly to assembler, anyway, with such hardware as a target you don't need portability, this code is 100% hardware-dependable, at it is perfectly Ok.
BTW, which uC your have in mind when you talk about single-digit nA draw (in running state? in deep sleep?), because old 8-bit architectures typically are designed for older node processes and not as energy effective as new one, and draw in sleep doesn't depend much on RAM or FLASH size or architecture, it is more design philosophy.
Anyway, PIC16LF (20nA in deep sleep) or 8051 clone (50nA in deep sleep) or STM8 (~0.30 uA in halt) or ATtinys (100nA in deep sleep), which are covered by "768 bytes of flash and 64 bytes of RAM" description are comparable with EFM32 ARM32-M0+ (20nA in deep sleep), same with uA/Mhz, but ARM32-M0+ will do much more work for each Mhz, so it will be more efficient in the end (faster does all work and go to sleep again).
> Because the last time I looked it appeared to need some godawful slow bytecode interpreter that took up thousands of kilobytes of RAM.
Did you looked at java 1.2 at 1998 last time? Because after that there is compiler which produce some very efficient profile-guide-optimized code and do tricks like de-virtualization which is not possible with static compiler with support of multiple compilation units (like C++).
Really, there was time in history when HotSpot-compiled JVM bytecode was faster than everything that gcc could produce for comparable tasks. Yes, now this gap is reversed again, as both gcc and clang become much more clever, but still gap is not very wide now.
> Their slicer is open source but it downloads a plugin once you launch it if you choose to which is closed sourced that interacts with their APIs.
It is very dubious way to subvert GPL, even GPL2, not to mention [A]GPL3.
It was discussed many times that you cannot have close-sourced plugin for GPL host program, as loading plugin is linkage and it is covered by full GPL (only LGPL has linkage exclusion).
This extension piggyback SQLite native transactions. For example, queueing data will be rolled back if transaction is rolled back due to some constrains violations.
It is possible to achieve with external IPC, but require a lot of very careful programming.
I wish Thunderbird fix their plain text editor (it is at level of old Notepad, and chrome for it looks ugly, and line wrapping is a mess, especially with in-line quotation), add ability to store Folder properties (including Identity used for this folder, retention period and such) as IMAP properties and not locally to have same settings on different devices.
And, yes, proper support for Sieve, including per-folder Sieve. Sieve is a pain after they changed something and 3rd party Sieve plugin died (become Electorn Application).
Now Thunderbird has so many rough edges (I named only my top-3, but I'm sure anybody can add others!), but still one and only usable cross-platform e-mail client.
Oh, yes, development pace is unbearable slow: after killing "Manually sort folders" plugin it takes more than year (!) to add this as "core" feature with huge help from aforementioned plugun's author. Very slow process of review, integrating, releasing which takes MONTHS to integrate ready feature. It should be very discouraging for contributors.
Thunderbird now provide like 10% of features of old and almost forgotten (but still alive) windows-only client "The Bat!" from end of 1990s, beginning of 2000s and was written by team of like 5 people.
I've tried smartphone with e-Ink (mostly for motorcycle and hiking navigation, not as daily driver) and know this problem — it is impossible to share this experience via screenshots or screen recordings :)