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I have no idea why people are downvoting it.

What you’re talking about, and what myself and the author are talking about, are clearly not the same thing.

Unless you’re Doctorow, I don’t think you can speak for the author, but you can certainly for yourself.

I looked at your post history and I don’t see anything I’d consider trolling, but your responses her are screaming that in this thread of conversation. I’m just going to chalk this up to us SERIOUSLY not communicating with one another for some unknown reason.

There’s no point in us conversing further on this. I’m making clear my point in multiple ways. You’re still not getting it so lets just end this here.

I hope your other conversation with others are more communicative that this one. Have a great day!

Once again, no one is talking about " fedramp" but the entire article goes into detail about the subject of government requirements for contractors that don’t exist. Maybe give it a look.

I’m talking about Fedramp as an example of a government compliance regime that “through government procurement laws, governments” DOES "require any company providing a product or service to the government to not interfere with interoperability.”

I’m confused how you’re spending so much effort in a conversation and you’re not able to connect basic concepts.

Article premise: “Wouldn’t it be great if X exists?”

Me: “X does exist for a specific area, its called Fedramp.”

Where is the difficulty you are encountering in understanding conversational flow?

Its the whole point of this point in this thread.

Weird that the article never even mentions it’s own subject… Or that its about a problem you claim doesn’t exist…

I don’t know how to help you if you’re not able to see the parent post which is quote in the article. It has this important line which we’re discussing in this thread.

“Through government procurement laws, governments could require any company providing a product or service to the government to not interfere with interoperability.”

I’m not going to copy/paste the entire line of posts where the conversation evolves. You’re welcome to read those to catch up to the conversation.

No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

Oh, honey…

Cool, then it should be easy for you to cite a company that got Fedramp work without being Fedramp certified. Should I wait for you to post your evidence or will you be a bit?

Yep, they turned it on by default. It looks like you have until Nov 27th to turn it off before they share your data.

There’s still Vivali which is Chromium based and still supporting V2 extension (like uBlock) until June 2025. Its not a full fix, but its a stay of execution. That said, I’m a FF primary user.

Donors would still have to meet the Fedramp compliance standards. So this supports Doctorow’s point.

I dunno what “Fedramp compliant” means?

Its the whole point of this point in this thread. A set of standards the company has to meet to be able to do government work.

Presumably Apple and Google aren’t bidding for these contracts, which are the ones with the power to change the industry.

Google is, so is Microsoft as is Amazon which is also the point of this post. They had to meet the security and interoperability standards to get the government work. No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn’t matter how much their donors pay, if they aren’t Fedramp compliant they can’t bid for the work.

I’m fine with my 8 layers during winter, tyvm.

Not all of us can live in the warm weather winter geographies like you do where you only need 8 layers. /s

Here’s a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video

This has me insanely curious as to where these are common and what are their emissions laws. Time for a trip down a rabbit hole.

I looked into getting one of these or converting my own car to be gasoline and methane about 15 or 20 years ago. Here’s what I learned during that time. I don’t know if any of this legal information is out-of-date now. During the really early days of bi-fuel cars, homebrew cars were very bad polluters because they’d skip the emmisions systems altogether. This changed when the law was put in place requiring catalytic converters on all cars that burned gasoline.

The challenge then with a bi-fuel car was you needed to build an emissions system that is compatible with two entire different fuels, with different combustion products. That is not a small challenge. This is fine for the gasoline side, however, there isn’t really a catalytic converter for methane because the exhaust gasses were actually cleaner than exhaust from a gasoline engine even after passing through the catalytic converter. So there was no market to create a cheap methane catalytic converter because it would have been nearly useless. The law didn’t care though and there was no exception for bi-fuel cars.

There WAS an exception in the law for methane only cars, which is why you could actually buy methane (CNG) cars from major manufacturers like the Honda Civic GX:

source

If you wanted to buy a used one of these, you can still find them and fill your CNG tank from your home’s natural gas line.

Autotrader link showing Honda Civic GX for sale

Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you’re limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long

One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you’ve lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don’t save the file.

You can’t type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don’t save the file.

I would see it being similar to having 2 gas tanks in a car where one is for a high octane fuel and the other for a low performance fuel like ethanol.

And these exist completely separate to EVs. They’re called bi-fuel vehichles.

“How Do Bi-fuel Propane Vehicles Work? Bi-fuel propane vehicles typically use a spark-ignited internal combustion engine. A bi-fuel propane vehicle can use either gasoline or propane in the same internal combustion engine. Both fuels are stored on board and the driver can switch between the fuels. The vehicle is equipped with fuel tanks, fuel injection systems, and fuel lines for both fuels” source

They aren’t common in the USA because of they way emissions laws were written which made it uneconomical in many cases for auto makers.

There isn’t the same challenge in EVs, especially where we’re talking the “fuel” is just electricity which is common to both chemistry batteries. I see no challenge for EVs.

My guess is he would use a wheelchair at home where the area is prepared to accommodate it. The exoskeleton is likely slower and harder to wear around the house, but can make him mobile in places where a wheelchair can’t go.

If you meant for a single car, that might be a bit lofty,

What difficulty do you see with this concept in a single car? This technically exists already as there are multiple charge controllers and BMS systems in EVs shipping today, they are just managing different modules of identical chemistries in the single car.

If you have solar panels on your house, and your car isn’t at home when that sun is shining, then that would be a good use of one of these for a residential application.

I see a future where an EV will have two batteries each with different chemistries. An example would be to have LFP for the “main” battery which can take a beating but is less dense, and an additional NMC battery which gets used far less frequently, but is available for the less frequent long distance needs. This could also mean that when the LFP is dead from use, it can be replaced independent of the NMC which will have had a fraction of the charge/discharge cycles.

As others have said, this is for grid-scale and not EVs, but still exceptional progress and very important for energy storage.

I would argue that grid-scale energy storage is even more important than EV needs today.