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> because of Physics, an automatic transmission will always be less efficient

You making that claim based on how automatic transmissions currently work, right? And not on every way they could work.

Purely from logic, your claim has to be false: Imagine a humanoid robot sitting in your driver's seat, driving your manual transmission car, its robot arm doing the shifting exactly as a human would. Your manual car has been turned into an automatic and it is not less efficient.

I suppose you could argue that the robot, being part of the car, has an energy requirement. I would then argue that we could shrink the humanoid robot down to the
size of chip with sensor inputs, and replace the robot arm and gear shift with a solenoid or whatever, thereby saving considerable energy.

By this thought experiment alone, I don't see how anyone can make a statement about automatics always being less efficient.
Yeah, american car engineering is mind blowing. I have a 2008 Lexus IS350 - 3.5 liters V6, naturally aspirated and it produces 306 bhp. Friend has 2008 Ford Mustang - 4 liters V6, and it makes 210 bhp. What the hell.
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Personally, I can see them going a slightly different path.

Two things caught my attention in apfs - 'space sharing', where two volumes can take the same extents on disk, rather than having non-overlapping bounds (in practice, if not implementation, this so far acts as if its one volume, where members are tagged with which filesystem they belong to) - and linked clones for copies.

It doesn't seem inconceivable to me that the 'recovery volume' holds a copy of the OS, and the installed OS is just linked clones to the recovery volume.

On the surface this is a lot like how we treat unixy hardlinks, but a) linked clones can diverge from each other on a block-by-block basis, rather than "you're a link or you're not". and b) because two filesystems can take the same physical location on disk, a linked clone _could_ (and this doesn't appear to be possible in the current developer previews) act as a hardlink across volumes.

I realise this seems like a lot of effort with little gain, but the 'how' seems to be all in place - and with SSDs setting us back a step to 256GB volumes at the entry tiers, the space-savings wouldn't be unwelcome.

.. or this could all be hand-wavy nonsense. But there does seem to be some interesting features in apfs, and I really an curious to see where they go with them - apple rarely do nuts'n'bolts changes this big unless they have a use-case waiting for them (like spotlight & the fs_usage API).
If you would tell me "this will just fix & improve init system" then that would a no-brainer. However I feel like the scope of the project has massively changed over time, so people (distros) who agreed with something a year or two ago could have a different opinion nowadays.
Still an issue - tried to buy shoes from Deichmann, they requested my login credentials. WTF.
Oh come on. The virus situation on Windows XP was appalling. The system was wide open. It's the primary reason I mainly switched to the Mac in 2006. Sane security was the one truly good thing that's come out of the post-XP era of MS operating systems.
Like the ui. The mobile app is nice. Works seamlessly on ubuntu with chrome extension. Have not seen a situation where I have ran out of cpu cycles. I have an i5. Its nice. I have faced one challenge though a few times, that is, it takes a little while to reconnect when u bring the laptop out of suspend. It connects eventually but u wait like for 15 seconds before u can start. It is not a deal breaker though :) good job. Keep going.
Yes, but even better there is the global constraint geost [1] which is specifically for this purpose in k-dimensions; see also [2] for a more detailed presentation.

Unfortunately, Gecode does not provide it (and you would have to express it in form of other, more lower level constraints which gets quickly complicated), and neither does Google's OR-tools which have a nice Python interface.

There is JaCoP which provides the geost global constraint and makes it available via the declarative MiniZinc problem description language so one needs not to use the Java API.

[1] http://sofdem.github.io/gccat/gccat/Cgeost.html
[2] https://www.sics.se/~matsc/docent20090209.pdf
[3] http://jacop.osolpro.com/
I think it's more due to Sun dropping the ball and Oracle not putting the same amount of resources behind Java as Microsoft puts behind .NET.
You're just a slave to business people, just a high-IQ one.
> staying reasonable and safe requires too much self control.

I wouldn't say manual transmission is the main problem here.

I'm able to not break law when driving, and apparently most people in Europe are, even though we are mostly driving manual.

I really hated driving automatics though, especially since my only experience with them was in the mountains of Taiwan and Japan. You just have so little control, and you feel the car struggle when you know it should just shift gears already, or shouldn't shift at all because you're going to slow down in 5 seconds.
Plus it was the first truly mainstream language to have async/await.
Sorry but this comment is not answering the question.
Just did a quick check on Mercedes' German website, tried to find some models that are still offered with manuals, and got this:

B160d - faster with automatic

B180 - faster with automatic

B200 - faster with automatic

C180 - slower with automatic

C200 - faster with automatic

C220d - faster with automatic

CLA180d - same

CLA180 - faster with automatic

CLA200 - faster with automatic

E200 - faster with automatic

I'm sorry, but you are wrong for at least one of the manufacturers you listed. I only found one Mercedes model where they reported a slower 0-100km/h time for the version with the automatic transmission.

I'm pretty sure the numbers for the other manufacturers are similar. Automatic transmissions have simply surpassed manuals. Yay, technology!
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Most automatic transmissions that people have are crap and are geared much differently. If you took the avg auto, I think youd agree on the sluggishness of getting in the power band on demand.

You might have 100% attention to the road in an auto because you're a good driver but I just saw a report on the number of deaths smartphones cause and it's crazy.
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Well, speaking of legs, automatic drivers don't use their left one at all...
500 combinations of what? Other platforms too have n languages and n frameworks and so on. We'll be fine.

I'm quite sure it will catch on with Apple, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft working on it.

I'm intrigued by the server side Swift frameworks coming out right now. If they could replace JS on the server and browser that could be interesting.
Well, good luck raising import taxes on Chinese goods now Mr Trump.

China will probably invent an "environmental tax" for import from US.
Being a long time vs & MS user myself, your suspicion is genuine. I too suspect the same.

I have been burnt too many times by MS. So now, the only ms products I use is skype & ms office.
Until you're in a position to having to drive one. Being helpless because of technology isn't one of the traits people should look forward to.
The fact that you use extra fuel when coasting isn't enough to make it less efficient, you'd have to be using less extra fuel than the extra fuel you would otherwise have to use to replace the benefit you extract from your potential energy by coasting.
Reminds me of those late 90s rumours and email threads. Remember the gangs that would drive around with their headlights off or brights on? If you flashed yours to let them know, they follow you and remove a finger as gang initiation...or kill you..or something..I don't know it changed every time. :-P

Ah everything old is new again!
I used to 100% drive manuals and it really was second-nature to think about changing gears - in fact the first few times I drove an automatic it was "interesting" as more than once I accidentally slammed the brakes on 100% with my left foot as my brain was on autopilot for where it was used to changing gears around the roads where I live.

The thought process/autopilot my brain was going through was something like "ok, get ready to change down a gear, full clutch please left leg <left leg presses a pedal down>... WHOA! WTF! WFT JUST HAPPENED?! DID I HIT SOMETHING?!" then the realisation that your left leg just stampted on the brake pedal not the clutch pedal :-)

I blame the super-wide brake pedals some automatics have! Luckily there were no one behind me, but it is quite an experience to get 100% brake application as a driver when you are NOT expecting it! I can only imagine that this experience will become more common with increasing automation/emergency braking in cars.

My daily-drive in the UK these days is a hybrid that is a CVT automatic. I actually really like driving it now around London as its just so so so so much easier and less stressful in traffic. I still keep a manual 2-seat rear-wheel drive car around for fun as I love the feeling of actually driving a car, but the ease of an auto just cannot be beaten. I am a total convert!
However, in real life, for real humans, over a longer period of time, the drivers with modern automatic transmissions will be more fuel efficient than drivers with similar cars and manual transmissions, because the automatic transmission is a reliable machine that will do the same thing, every time. It doesn't care if you had your morning coffee or not, if some asshole cut you off, or if you got distracted or bored or spaced out and forgot to change your gear to the right one.

I've experienced quite a few humans who, when driving an automatic, seem to select a speed and throttle position that keeps the transmission right at the top of a gear range, with the engine turning much faster than necessary, instead of going slightly faster and letting it upshift. I doubt that's fuel efficient at all.

Even with an automatic the driver has influence on which gear is used, and a driver who naturally doesn't need to know about gearing may unintentionally be telling the transmission, via other inputs such as throttle position and speed, to select too low a gear than what a manual driver would choose.
From Twitter's perspective, I'm figuring they see these people not as a political movement, but simply as a nest of trolls, who go around harassing people and inciting mobs and are thus poison to the network.
It's actually quite easy. You open up the project in Xcode, plug your telephone in and select it as the build-target. Then you click "run" and fix all the problems that come up. You need a Team (you AppleId will suffice), you need to change the bundle-name because the current name is of course owned by another team (the blink shell team). You can change it to something random like com.idontcare123.Blink. Click run again and the App will magically appear on your device.
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It's not required in Germany either. The data protection law allows to "lock" data instead of really deleting it from all devices. And IMO that's the only sane solution to deletion requests.

Otherwise, any kind of backups would be unlawful for a company.
Does anyone provide a service to set this scheme up easily? I'd pay $$$ if all of my 'cloud' content and accounts could be migrated to something like this. I just don't have the time to set it up or manage it.
You don't shift up/down in turns, but before and in the exit path out of them.
I really appreciate your comments. This stuff needs to be out there more.

I expect crosslinks and backhaul up/down will be multipath laser w adaptive optics, not RF. As you say the physics demands it.

At 1100 km altitude each satellite has vacuum line-of-site to any other satellite within 6000 km (ground track). By "skipping" satellites you gain extra bandwidth capacity and reduce latency. Easy to route around damage, with no single point of failure (unlike fiber in certain areas). Obviously this will all be optimized with network and timing analysis to hell and back, just like fiber.

LEO has advantages of lower distance traveled, dramatically lower attenuation, faster speed of light, fewer hops, no cable breaks to fix, and no actual cable to run (which the expensive part of fiber, after all). You just build the repeaters, and exploit the fact that the exosphere is really transparent.

Musk, a guy who knows his physics and math, predicts in that youtube video that they'll ultimately do "more than half" of all long distance traffic. He also acknowledges that they have to 'skate to where the puck will be' re: telecommunication technology or they'll end up dead like innumerable predecessors. It's an interesting watch.
Nissan Leaf doesn't have a CVT (despite that it might feel like one). It's an electric card that doesn't need to switch gears at all.
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> in a manual every time I had to do that I was left with a stalled car because I didn't press the clutch in time, while with an automatic I could move out of the way very quickly.

I can see it happening, and I've observed it with people who have learnt to drive on auto, but that's just a reflex problem due to inexperience.

If you're used to driving manual, just don't have to think about disengaging the clutch when braking hard, but you still do it, and you don't stall.

As for "pressing the throttle down and it drops as many gears as needed", in my experience it takes a noticeable amount of time until the car understands it has to drop gears. It's just not really rational to argue that an auto car gives you as much control as a manual.
I also drove a manual while commuting about 70 miles a day on the freeway.

I figured out that you can make manual driving as comfortable and carefree as automatic, but that type of driving typically wears on the clutch. For instance, you might just hold down the clutch in stop/go traffic if you don't know if you'll change gears or not. I was even pretty proficient at using my phone while driving with a manual but once again this involved a style of driving that wears out the clutch much quicker. The end result is you end up paying for a clutch replacement every 3-4 years which adds to the TCO of the car. After 7 years I'm switching back to an automatic and I don't think I'll miss my stick shift at all.
Really?

I've got a ThinkCenter M73 right next to me running a hypervisor for several Windows VM's. Even under load I don't hear a peep out of the thing.
I'm using https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ for an IDE in macOS. It's early access preview, but each build fixes a lot of bugs and is usable.
Wow, Ruby with Sequel is actually quite fast.

But what makes Sequel so special? We are seeing 5 to 20x the performance here.
It's similar in Netherland. Manual transmission is standard, and automatic slightly looked down upon. But hybrids have to be automatic, so even a hardened driver like my wife had to accept automatic transmission. I always sucked at working the clutch, so automatic is probably better for me anyway.
More expensive and a lot more unreliable too. I know of several people who have large repair bills for DSG boxes.
The only "automatic" part of that transmission is the clutch. The driver still has to select the gear, and I think that's what the whole discussion here about manual vs. automatic is focusing on.
Yeah, I have to agree with this.

I have a long-term client who is a smart guy but is basically a bit averse to learning new technology - he's good with Excel from a previous time in his life, but feels now like his skills are better used elsewhere (which is not an unreasonable position to be in, sometimes). We tried him with Pivotal Tracker, and he did make the effort to use it, somewhat, but it never meshed well with how he wanted to work and he kept doing odd things like creating additional empty tasks as "dividers", which was infuriating. Then we tried him with Jira - he never got anywhere with it; too much UI, too many tabs, too many things to fill in, and the hour-long walkthrough I tried to do was just too much listening.

Finally, entirely independently of me, he started using Trello. He got it immediately, with no assistance, and loves it - he even uses it for non-work things now.
Oh, I see, I was able to reproduce it in chrome - it is definitely a bug. I'll get it fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out!
In Estonia it was solved in a somewhat saner way: there is a unified framework with which customers can:
- click on a Pay with Internet bank link
- it directs you to your chosen bank's internet bank
- you log in
- the payment is already pre-filled and
- once it is done the seller gets a signed confirmation from the bank that the transaction has actually happened.
Key word here is "phones". 85% of phones is still less than half of all users seeing as mobile just surpassed desktop use sometime in 2015.
And no, producer rights are not affecting consumer rights since this is a free market. I don't care how many Russian search engines or vertical product marketeers go out of business. They are going out of business because they are not offering a good enough service and I don't want google or any other search engine to channel my experience in not good enough channels just to keep their business afloat. that is not free market. When I and a plenty like me like a service we keep using it no matter if Google promotes it or not. If google had the power you are fear-mongering about we would not have FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Maybe that's true for old fashioned cars, but with the move to hybrids and electrics, all of this becomes irrelevant.
You're free to sell the phone, you're just not isolated from the consequences of doing so. Google are fully within their rights (since they wrote their rights, in the agreement you clicked through) to terminate your account at their whim.
Stay away from German payment "inventions" like Sofort, direct debit by default, "cash is the king" bollocks. Many German retailers and "startups" entering Polish market are trying to introduce their (low) standards and this can deteriorate banking culture in Poland. The retail banking in Poland is working really good and is customer friendly - keep it this way.
> This really seems like it needs to be regulated in law

Absolutely not! That way you are slowly making people to lose any bits of the common sense they might still have. Perhaps losing data once or twice will make people look for alternatives.
Throwing in another regulation will just increase barrier of entry for companies offering emails and who knows what else some dumb politicians could come up with, maybe this will open the gate to even not being able to self host an email server.
The .NET CLR has advantages over the JVM, especially when comparing C# / F# -> Scala / Java. At a language level, the use of type erasure for generics (which is done at compile-time in Scala/Java) allows you to do things that the .NET CLR wouldn't allow you to do because Generics is part of IL. C# isn't becoming Scala but functional paradigms are coming through into languages as an evolution, rather than stagnating (this is great, in my opinion). These languages are a part of the .NET eco-system and are fantastic, I'm pleased with the path they're going down, albeit maybe they could improve certain syntax in C# 7.0 ;)
Theranos is a giant middle finger to everyone in the industry who acts honestly and really has the best interest of patients at heart.
Obviously, I meant Joel Spolky's definition of "nobody" - Please understand that I'm talking about large trends here, and therefore when I say things like "nobody" I really mean "fewer than 10,000,000 people," and so on and so forth.

Strictly speaking wrt this definition, if MPW had 10M users, it would be a runaway success. But nobody cared, even when it became free.
Racing divers would shift exactly like automatic because they need to tease the best possible acceleration out of a given engine configuration.

Day to day driving is wildly different from that, there are only very few situations where people come anywhere close to the maximum acceleration their car would offer. With manual transmission, you can attain submaximal acceleration by flooring the throttle in a low gear. This is much more fuel efficient than getting the same amount of acceleration with a throttled engine at higher rpm. Automatic transmissions make that more difficult or even impossible (depending on implementation).

Worst case: people are unhappy with the acceleration they can get at low rev, because the transmission only allows low rev at throttled state and they don't consider it socially acceptable to rev up. The engine would be capable of much more torque at the desired rpm, if only the throttle could be opened without the transmission shifting for higher rpm. Next time they will get a bigger engine that will be throttled even more. ICE inefficiency rises with high rpm and closed throttle (opening the throttle raises power output more than consumption). Ideal ICE efficiency is when the gear is selected so that torque at open throttle matches the power demand. Manual can come much closer to that than automatic. (Unfortunately, many people don't know that and drive manuals like automatic, e.g. never at really low rpm, never at really open throttle, because they think that opening the throttle would be wasteful)
How the hell does this make any sense?
the "too late" death bell has been ringing since antiquity.
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One of the problems is when this is done by companies instead of states. A company might remove your access for some, not obvious reasons. Just see current trending HN link http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444 where google suspended an account and with that the person could not use the google login anymore. Even for non-google pages. That is scary. A protocol like the EDUROAM system would be nice. In that case, credentials include a domain (usually a Uni name), and with that domain the home uni(bank) can be used as an authentication authority.
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That's true. But I'm not talking just about military use.

I'm talking about germline gene editing, beyond gene therapy.

It will have consequences that span multiple generations, and are self-replicating. It will completely change the fabric of society. We are going to be changing what we are as life forms, without really understanding life in the first place.

http://www.nature.com/news/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1....
I was referring to handwriting. :)
Ember is an excellent choice.
We use it in a real large scale project and really love the 'addon' way of managing modules. Its simple and comes straight out of the box. Our teams follow BEM for css and maintain 1:1 for a component/route and css file.
Did a quick check on Audi's German website:

https://www.audi.de/de/brand/de/neuwagen/a6/a6-limousine.htm...

The A6 2.0 TDI accelerates faster with an automatic transmission (8.2s vs. 8.4s), and is more fuel efficient (4.4l/km vs 4.5l/km)
...for some value of "works".
Arghh.. yes of course we do make use of lambda expressions in Java!
Did the terms say you can't resell the phone or that if you resell the phone Google will terminate your account? The latter is completely legal as far as I understand it.
I don't know what toolkit you are using, but when I want to place text with e.g. SDL_ttf, I can compute the width and height of a string knowing its font. IMO relying on a specific font is exactly like throwing magic numbers in a codebase. I can understand that it simplifies things, but it doesn't feel right.
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