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Plus, Beagle is 100% open source. Want to mod and etch your own PCB? You can.

Companies that use millions of micros will grow tired of paying royalties for ARM & other IP. I'm putting my money on RISC-V. If Intel is smart, they will too and offer design customization and contract manufacturing of RISC-V.

Easy. Doing so is career suicide.

You must live in Iowa, where looking a cyclist at worst, warrants a fund because it is "accidental". We have a major bike ride across the state from West to East every year, called RAGBRAI along a different route. And seemingly every year, at least one cyclist is killed. Rarely is anyone charged with a crime. Tragic

From the article: "Schools of standard C produce graduates who are more ready for college. Schools of standard B produce graduates who appear more college ready." I just left a job teaching community college in Iowa, who is now boasting the nation's highest high school graduation rate. Having taught community college in a different state, I can honestly say that many, if not most, community college students I saw were just not ready for college. Doesn't matter what the graduation rate, or even GPA was. They were just not ready for the responsibility. Far too many could not even be bothered to read directions.

So, the linked article is an updated version of an earlier article in the EE times. In the comments section, a reader (ie) Frankly, I am astonished that a single point of failure (AOA) could make it through a FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis). For those who are unfamiliar, a FMEA is (basically) looking at each part of a system and saying "What happens if it breaks?". Having worked in commercial vehicle software development, I am astonished as well.

This is worth your 8 minutes of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ I love trains, but the economics of rail travel in the USA can't be overcome. Until robot trains.

One Iowan to another: you didn't ride a train in Minneapolis. You rode a streetcar (tram in British). And yes, only the southeast corner of Iowa is served at all by passenger rail. Would be nice if they extended the Hawkeye Express to CR, or better yet, Amtrak service from Davenport to IC to DSM. Alas, not enough $$$ to make it worth doing.

I do. At least sometimes. I use Zoom to do so. I sometimes record them as well. We have had a lot of weather cancellations this winter, so I have been doing this quite a bit. But, I am not required to, nor do I do it 100% of the time. FWIW, I teach Software Development at a community college.

"No word genders in Finnish, sorry!"

No direct word for "please" either, unless you want to count kiitos, which I understand as thank you.

Meanwhile, at community college, a place with NO admission standards except a high school diploma, enrollment numbers are down, down, down. How do I know? I teach at one. And I used to teach at a different one, WITH TENURE, but we didn't have enough students so they let me go. A Merry Christmas that was.

Really? This is a problem? How is a battery any different from any other auto part? Radiator, water pump, alternator, etc. Yours goes bad? You go to the auto parts store and get a new one with a "core" fee. You return your broken radiator, water pump, etc. and get your fee back and the re-manufacturer rebuilds yours for someone else to use. We don't NEED to have the same mileage as ICE vehicles. 80% of drivers are just fine on 100 miles a day. We don't NEED just ONE battery pack for all vehicles. Just get er dun, and get me my electric pickup!

There are 2 reasons a show are cancelled: #1, and the reason in the majority of cases: not enough people watch. It doesn't matter if you think the current season of The Simpsons is good, terrible, or whatever. It only matters that you watch. If few enough people watch, it WILL be cancelled. This is NOT public access or PBS. #2, the artist's discretion. Rare, but occasionally an artist decides to "go out on top". Jackie Gleason and "The Honeymooners" comes to mind. Seinfeld too. I'm sure there are others you will point out.

Point is, keep watching and they'll keep pumping out crap.

Pyret may very well be a great programming language. But it likely does not belong in a programming pedagogy at a higher ed institution. Why? Because time is limited. We already teach Intro to Programming in Python, which to us is a "throwaway" because they then go on to learn .NET (ie C#), Java, or "Web". I wish would could go deeper with just one language, but it is what the advisory committee has approved.

12 years of teaching full time Intro to Programming (and other courses) at community college has taught me this: No matter how good a student is at "computers" doesn't matter. On day 1, I ask them to raise their hand if they are at the college math level (there is no pre-req to Intro to Programming here). I then ask them to raise their other hand if they have NOT studied a foreign language. I then say that those of you with both hands raised will find this class very challenging. Perhaps the hardest class you will have had so far. People ask "What is programming like?" My answer: it is like solving word problems in a foreign language.

Great idea. Only problem is, I live in Iowa. Wind energy abounds. Adequate topography does not.