Theres heaps of stuff that is under-developed or mssing, but they prefer to rewrite working code in Rust, because ideology.

We are witnessing the death of Linux here, no less, replacing a working kernal with an still undefined language that everyone will have forgotten in 5 years.

The IBM 503, the last valve computer, that Cobol and Fortran, the first languages were developed on, had 20 bit words.

So an 80 column card could fit 4 words across. Thats why teletypes and terminals had 80 coulmns of text - so they were the same size as punch cards.

Fortran only used 72 columns, so the last 8 were unused.

It seems weird, but on early computers bytes were not based on multiples of 8 or 4 (like 8 but, 16 bit, 32 bit etc). Some computers had 15, 10, 7, 25, even 50 bit words.

Bic lighters are made in France. 25% is peanuts to them, they get much higher tariffs in south america.

Everything is a turbo now which is “more efficient” but there is no way they will last as long as the naturally aspirated V6 or V8s that would go for 400-500k miles.

You do know that turbocharged engines don’t rev as much don’t you ? They last longer.

A 1.8L NA Atsra put out 92 kW at 6000 rpm. The 1.6L turbo version put out 134kW at 2800 rpm.