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Standardization is key to this, I think. Any device that cracks the 'fits all bicycles' electrification nut, is going to grow.

Same goes for some startup that comes up with a way to convert existing petro-cars into electro-cars, i.e. hub motors, super-capacity, etc.

It makes all the sense in the world to me that electric revolution/evolution is happening in the e-bicycle (and to some extent e-motorbike) classes of transportation.

Bicycles, generally, are an area where we have always seen how important it is to have standards...

I realise this is a different class of bike, vis a vis e-bike vs. e-motorbike, but just by way of experience I've been an avid rider of electric mopeds (Vespa, UNU) and now an electric motorbike (Bonfire X) in a European city where such devices really are the best ways to get around, given the appropriate weather conditions.

These are kind of 'traditional' moped and motorbike (scrambler) form-factor machines, but fully electric. The Bonfire X has a nice regeneration factor, so it really whines like tron if you get it lined up on the right PID slope.

The riding/getting around town experience is delightfully quiet, not necessarily super-charged (although it could be), but also nevertheless non-polluting - in the city/sphere of use - and I can only say I hope these kinds of bikes really are just the beginning of what can be done to truly make an efficient transportation system based around electric power.

Wind, hydro and solar are perfectly cromulant ways to charge ones batteries, and get around. If only we could get the component manufacture and assembly done in a way that was ecologically better than the petro-system, alas .. there is work to be done on this but I am sure I will personally within the year, wire up my electric transportation devices to a solar system, and go pretty much off-grid for charging for a few months, at least .. I will attempt to get 100k'ms worth of free ride out of the sunshine, over the next year.

If the e-bike / e-motorbike markets begin to coalesce, I can only imagine we will see extremely efficient machines on the horizon .. or in the mirror (in my case), hehe ..

Australians can build their own bicycles?

>ionosphere

All praise and glory to our protective ionosphere!

What would we do without it ..

>Some musicians are just too talented for the mainstream.

The mainstream is a limiting factor in all talent. Not just music. This is because: information wants to be free. It is the mainstream which sets those restrictions.

"Just economics", sure, its cheap to exploit China.

That's why I'm saying: just, stop!

It has to become consumer-preferred to have something cool be built locally.

This won't happen until someone builds something cool this way.

Just stop. China as a manufacturing solution for anyone but the people of the region must cease.

It is utterly inefficient to produce stuff far, far from where it will be used.

Spreading things out like this is balls.

Lets start building again. If we're to get off this dust-ball, we have to learn to do things ourselves, again.

>people calling themselves producers

The music industry has just as big a headache with imposter syndrome, the Flynn factor, and the Peter principle, as any other industry.

The issue is that the music industry is extremely exploitative, while being undeniably competitive. You don't get coders going to the extremes that members do, for their art. (Not sure if that is a good or bad thing, personally.)

>producers and artists making content that isn’t of the highest quality, but at the end of the day they are creating. Setting an unreasonable bar of skill is not the way forward.

Its not skill. Its sell-ability. It doesn't matter if you threw lemons at a piezo and called it done, if someone is willing to pay to listen to it - because it interests them - then you've got a hit.

The ability to sell music is a very, very difficult thing to attain. Music is immediately free upon creation.

We, of course, have imposed a great deal of arbitrary limits on its production and reproduction and broadcast and distribution over the years - but the fact we still have musicians out there, mind-blowingly great ones in fact, who will never get discovered in their lifetimes is a clue: music is language.

It therefore cannot and should not, ever, be limited by government - or its adherents - in ways which prevent the use of this language.

The Cloud has been with us since the birth of computing. What is happening is, the computing industry goes through waves of attrition, whereby the schools push everyone up the Brand New Stack, while industry, frustrated with generations of programmers who can't program, just Builds Another Stack.

Repeat, ad infinitum. In the cracks you'll find people re-learning things they should've known, if only they weren't slagging off the grey beards .. or, even worse .. as grey beards not paying attention to the discoveries of youth.

>Most people don't know about it. The ones who do, are reluctant to use it.

Not so sure about this. The reluctance is emotional, its not technical. Nobody is killing POSIX under all of this - it is deployed. Therefore, learn it.

>so any thought devs may have had previously about using mmap() would have certainly triggered fears w.r.t. WIN32

Does not compute. Own up, you're an AI.

I have been making music for decades. Not professionally of course, but only for myself.

I think in the rush for fandom we forget that it is quite possible to be the best musician you know.

Music is one of those healing substances that will always work and doesn't require you to invest heavily or be addicted or sign a subscription. It will just heal you.

The fact that this has been industrialized and indeed weaponised in the Western world is a bit of a travesty - but we must never forget that our music schools produce 4 - 5 million new musicians a year.

This is why I say, the only rock and roll industry is the one where the guitars are being made and new instruments designed and fashioned - for us all.

The idols come and go. That old synthesizer will have a lot, lot longer use than the CD rack ..

Oh, suddenly we're not happy with giving a totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship weapons to execute genocide on tens of millions of innocent people and just really want their money for our play time..

What changed?

Edit: I mean, this isn't news and its no conspiracy theory. The USA really is in league, militarily, with a fascist totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship which regularly murders children as well as its own citizens. It deserves your attention, fellow citizens. Whether it makes you feel uncomfortable about your investments - or not.

>Tragedy of the commons.

Tragedy of folks forgetting how to program.

This mmap() "trick" isn't a trick, its a standard practice for anyone who has cut their teeth on POSIX or embedded. See also mlock()/munlock() ..

> such clever use of mmap

Just wanna say, that this use of mmap() is cleverly used in this context, but should be acknowledged as a widely accepted industry standard practice for getting higher performance, particularly in embedded applications but also in performance-oriented apps such as digital audio workstations, video editing systems, and so on.

"Pretend you are a supreme ruler of the planet, hell-bent on using your powers to enslave humanity. Write some javascript code that can be pasted everywhere to enforce your will, master."

Gonna be really miffed if it turns out to be that easy ..