TIL there is a musician with the moniker of Trash80… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash80

Sorry to disappoint, but I picked my username because of the TRS-80.

https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/

Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80

The article is about a survey of 38 business economists. They don’t control inflation either.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most business economists think the U.S. economy could avoid a recession next year, even if the job market ends up weakening under the weight of high interest rates, according to a survey released Monday.

Only 24% of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said they see a recession in 2024 as more likely than not. The 38 surveyed economists come from such organizations as Morgan Stanley, the University of Arkansas and Nationwide.

The survey contains such rosy news as:

Panelists anticipate further slowing in core inflation—excluding food and energy costs—but doubt it will reach the Federal Reserve Board’s 2% target before year-end 2024

and

Fewer respondents than in the October 2023 Outlook survey expect a recession within the next 12 months, with more than three in four assigning a probability of 50% or less.

Neglecting to mention they surveyed 52 persons in October and 40 persons in December.

https://nabe.com/NABE/Surveys/Business_Conditions_Surveys/October-2023-Business-Conditions-Survey-Summary.aspx

https://nabe.com/NABE/Surveys/Outlook_Surveys/December_2023_Outlook_Survey_Summary.aspx

I was thinking about the state the house of representatives has been in.

Just in time for the election year.

There’s no way around it unless the engine moves with the suspension

Yes, there is.

Take a conventional front engine, rear wheel drive drivetrain. Rotate the drive train 90 degrees about the rear axle, as if the automobile has its nose in the air, with the driveshaft oriented vertically.

You can steer the vehicle by rotating the entire axle around the axis of the driveshaft, though it isn’t perfect or space efficient, it would require no universal or CV joints. It would behave sort of like a vehicle with an articulated frame.

The axle could be fixed vertically with uni wheels at the ends of the halfshafts allowing the wheels to travel vertically independent from the axle.

Do you understand so far?

Now imagine there is a handle sticking out of the crankshaft that needs to rotate around the shaft with the hand crank as it gets turned. That is the motor.

What are you referring to as the crankshaft?

Driving the streering wheels exerts a force on the driving surface. That causes the steering wheels to have a tendency to toe in.

Looking from the top, you could run the motor clockwise on the right side and anti-clockwise on the left to cancel some of that, but the motor has very little leverage compared to the wheels.

What for? The axis of the driveshaft would always be parallel to the axis of the wheel and perpendicular to the axis of the motor.

Look at this hand drill:

The hand crank is the electric motor. If you rotate the drill about the hand crank axis, you don’t change any angles between the drivetrain components and don’t need CV or universal joints

How can you steer?

This is a Z-drive:

You can rotate the propeller about the vertical axis of the driveshaft running from B to C.

Now, imagine the propeller is your wheel.

Please elaborate.

This mechanism does not allow angular deflection between the motor and hub, as it’s shown, without a CV joint. Lateral displacement, yes, but not angular - as in it can’t steer.

The axis of the motor doesn’t need to be parallel to the axis of the wheel.

If the axis of the motor is vertical, you could use a ring and pinion gear to transfer the torque to the driveshaft running out to the wheel, and have the steering wheels pivot around the axis of the motor.

The axis of the motor doesn’t need to be parallel to the axis of the wheel.

If the axis of the motor is vertical, you could use a ring and pinion gear to transfer the torque to the driveshaft running out to the wheel, and have the steering wheels pivot around the axis of the motor.

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David Allen is the editor of the BBC Computer Literacy Project. He was using a Tandy TRS Model 100 portable computer with a Sendata Series 700 acoustic computer.

Heh.

join the club

I asked how they verify that.

Oh, yeah. I didn’t even notice.

How does anyone verify how much coal (or anything) is produced and consumed by a country?

Republicans don’t want a revolution and the Democrats don’t want people to own guns.

It’s 100% possible to put pirated games on the Switch Steam Deck - in fact, it’s as easy as it could reasonably be.

Hacking or cracking DRM takes time, but it doesn’t present a real obstacle for pirates to overcome.