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I don't know if this article is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but Amodei is clearly the patronymic form of Amedeo or Amadeus (Lover of God).

If the rest of his etymological analyses are on par, they can't be taken seriously.

Unless the author wanted to demostrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

Can one even do UEFI firmware projects without at least keeping Microsoft in the loop?

As far as I remmeber, they control the issuance of keys for bootloaders. Or is this project supposed to do away with that?

I read somewhere that designing a new plane would be a financially challenging proposition, with a comparatively small return far down the road.

Plus, it would be a new type and airlines would end up with hybrid fleets, increasing logistics costs (spare parts stocks, retraining of mechanics, pilots who couldn't readily switch between new and old planes and probably more).

In short, not a compelling proposition for anyone involved.

As the child of Italian immigrants to Argentina, Francis was quite fluent in Italian.

Actually he was more fluent in the Piedmontese dialect. His Italian was somewhat wobbly at the time of his election.

UK, Italy and Japan are building a 6th gen fighter right now

They are starting to /design/ it now. Tempest is supposed to enter service in 10 years' time, which I will believe when I see it.

A problem arises when Schuko and Type L are used promiscuously in multi-standard sockets, since the former has slightly thicker prongs and it tends to loosen the contacts inside.

But then I suppose Europlug suffers from the same problem when used in CEE 7 type sockets.

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Could this possibly be a distraction from other internal problems?

I've been mulling over an idea for some time: set up an answering machine on freepbx with an IVR that requires the caller to push a button before it's forwarded to a (ringing) phone, otherwise sayonara.

That should cut off most robocallers, shouldn't it?