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I was wondering that myself after seeing the 1.9s 0-60 time. My understanding was that anything under 2.5s was the domain of racing slicks and sticky compounds.
4 seats, but somehow I doubt it has more legspace than the average budget airliner.
> That seems reasonable for a box truck or similar. I'm skeptical about a semi though. I'm sure there are some use cases, just not convinced it's a significant percentage.

TL;DR: pickup and delivery trucks don't go very far each day and pull lighter loads. There are more pickup and delivery trucks than long-haul trucks.

Full version:

I worked for the largest LTL carrier in the country for almost a decade, in process improvement. I'm not a trucker by any means but I do feel like I have a pretty good grasp of the business processes in that industry.

There are two types of trailers typically used in the US: 53', which are generally used to move things directly from point A to point B, and 28' - "pups" - which are typically used to move things that have to go through intermediate steps. Correspondingly, the freight market is divided into "truckload"/"TL" and "less-than-truckload"/"LTL" carriers.

Truckload carriers often drop off 53' trailers at customer locations. Customers fill them up, and the carrier picks them up and takes them to their destination. They also use pups for this purpose, but 53' trailers are more efficient due to the larger capacity.

Less-than-truckload carriers pick up and deliver things that are usually on pallets. Drivers run a delivery route in the morning and a pickup route in the afternoon, pulling a single pup. They bring their pup back to the terminal where its unloaded and shipments are loaded according to their destination.

LTL carriers differ substantially from TL carriers because they have to handle customer shipments, moving them from trailer to trailer. The general flow here is Pickup -> Terminal -> Hub -> Terminal -> Delivery. Shipments going long distances may move through multiple hubs over several days, each of which may handle the shipments to more efficiently use trailer capacity.

The process improvement part of LTL that I worked in was trying to reduce loss and damages by reducing the number of times a shipment is touched. If a terminal in California has a pup full of shipments that are destined for a single terminal in North Carolina, then that trailer should never be opened until it gets to North Carolina. If half of it is destined for Utah and half for North Carolina, then the Utah stuff should be in the back, and when the trailer gets to Salt Lake City the Utah stuff should be unloaded, more North Carolina stuff put on to fill it, and it shouldn't be opened again from that point to destination.

Whew. That's a lot of background information. I wrote all of that to say - for LTL carriers, most P&D trucks don't travel long distances in a single day, and are usually pulling half the load of a long-haul truck. From an operations standpoint I see no reason why the Tesla truck wouldn't be suitable for that role.
Wouldn't it be ironic if an ad-blocking browser such as Brave gained popularity with most YouTubers because of Google's self-inflicting YouTube "ad-pocalypse"?

I think it would be sweet poetry.
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Yes, fully immersive VR. As in SF, using one sort of "trode net" or another. It predates cyberpunk. I vaguely remember a story from the 60s.
Do note though that engine braking is banned in many population areas because it is so damn loud!
This is what happens when you'd like to save the world (and earn the big money and fame) but you unfortunately took the path of a CS degree (or worse, just software/business school) and are incapable of solving real hard problems, so you bet on the unlikely success of an useless startup. People have been sharing visions and ideas of the future for at least one hundred years, such as infinite lifespans, telepathy, artificial food, searching for life throughout the galaxy, time travel, neural implants, artificial limbs and organs, and so on. Unfortunately, since all that has been done already, the only way a new startup can succeed is by inventing a (semi-)automatic baby bidet or having adwords for outdoors.

Call me cynical but I believe that 99.999% of the startups are huge waste of time (probably their only benefit is siphoning some money from the financial industry and redistributing it to the rest of society) and a vast proportion of software developers (maybe even the majority) would be much better suited working in a different scientific field where they could actually help do something useful for humanity.
I'm actually fairly sure this happens; there's a big underground market for selling exploits, and I'm sure the NSA and other international intelligence agencies are some of the major buyers.

The bug bounty programs are basically a counteroffer to those.
Yes: https://www.dji.com/newsroom/news/dji-to-offer-bug-bounty-re...
The amount of manual labor involved in Amish life, I suspect, deters type-2 diabetes a fair amount, as well as many chronic diseases.
As a special case, Go does allow foo(bar()) if foo takes two args. What it doesn't allow is foo(bar(), baz()) with errors.
>> It's pretty hard to replicate the entire build process that produced the original binary, even if they have the source code and everything else on hand.

I seem to recall Microsoft rebuilds everything from source daily (or weekly?). This is a common practice in companies with a large code base. "Nightly Builds" even come from Mozilla. The reason is simple - if you wait until it's time to release, you're gonna have problems. Even if a developer tests his changes locally, they need to be integrated in with everything else and retested.

If you're really serious about things you will have your tool chain under revision control. As a result you can reproduce binaries to the byte from source code, with the possible exception of embedded dates pulled in at compile time. This is actually a good fallback when someone finds a critical problem in old code - you start by finding the code and then verify by reproducing the affected binary from source. This is not technically hard, it requires discipline and best practices.
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Wing shouldn't matter all that much in this case. Grip is most important in the initial moments of acceleration on the drag strip where having a wing isn't quite as important. This car[1] runs in the 7s without a wing at all.

[1] http://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2017/09/149-test-tune-...
Adapteva's Parallela. I don't follow the semiconductor industry that closely, so perhaps very similar architectures are becoming more common, but as someone with a passing interest in HPC I was very excited about their crowd-sourced board for playing with parallel programming on an architecture built just for that, but it suffered from many problems typical of crowd-sourcing. It was delivered late with a lot of business problems leading up to it. I played with it a bit and haven't heard of it otherwise since.
Right. And electric motors are more efficient at higher RPMs. At high RPM, the voltage drop due to back-EMF (i.e. actual work) is higher but your voltage drop due to coil resistance is about the same, so you lose proportionally less energy in the form of coil resistance at higher rpm.
When talking about backups, DR, and institutional knowledge, I always use death in the example for the simple reason that it is final and there is absolutely no way to recover the lost individual. If they retire or otherwise move on, you can go visit and ask questions, pay them, or even threaten them for what you need, but death prevents that and is also much less predictable.
I was hoping this link might be to a version of TensorFlow that sheds the heavyweight java dependency for building. Sadly not; still bazel-infested.
That's because retirement or going to a different job means you can slowly take over and ask questions or even prevent it.
But the Chiron exist today.
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Silicon on insulator.

I was convinced the entire industry would rapidly adopt it and that it would quickly replace bulk CMOS.
Well, that does make sense that it's a daily story to you if you think that way. I just wish the people who do think this could understand how tiresome it is to see every story infused with a Trump angle. Like this Al Franken story for example, there are no posts about the topic that don't focus on the Trump accusations foremost. Why can't it be examined by itself?
I enjoy the best of both worlds: cool air --> warm lather --> cool rinse --> warm air.
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A stack of ten functions doesn't need to explicitly catch and re-raise the exception ten times to get it to where it can be handled.
Back when I was selling stuff on ebay, the first thing I learned was 'no photo : no sale'.

I really think you should provide a few screenshots of your app (and provide an installer).

IMO you're pushing the concept of an MVP too far ;-)
> Trucker culture currently... blows. They often eat bad food, subsist on caffeine and often other stimulants, work excruciatingly long hours, and often have or cause accidents due to those long hours. They're away from home and their families for weeks of a month. They sit in unergonomic conditions and often sleep in cramped quarters aboard their trucks. Truck drivers in India are often seen as very low class people because of this kind of living situation.

In the US, this depends entirely on the company culture. Where I worked, our road drivers were home every night. In the extreme minority of cases where there wasn't a service center close enough to drive to in <4 hours, we had drivers from each end meet in the middle, exchange trailers, and go back home.

Other carriers, especially those with mostly contractors and owner/operators, don't take this approach.
Victim of their own violations of the BRs, leading ultimately to the "distrusting" of their roots by the major browsers.
E-Ink is a technology that couldn't be developed well enough, it just never got there. I mean, I love my Kindle paperwhite, but without color and rapid (60hz+) refresh, it won't ever be quite good enough. It's a fascinating case of a technology path that fizzles out.
I thought databases needed O_DIRECT, which isn't implemented yet in ZoL.
I hate M$ monopoly in laptop market.
So i start looking for best linux laptop 4 years ago.
I use ubuntu-wiki-laptop [0] as my buying reference.
The choice was Dell Vostro 5470 non-os.
This is my main machine since then.
As a developer i can say this type are outstanding.

I start with ubuntu 14.04 + gnome-classic.
At the beginning the problem just the stereo and volume drivers,
solved with patch from launchpad.

Almost my work done in terminal (vim, mocp, bash, psql, mysql, etc).
Things that need gui just google-chrome + libreOffice suite.
Battery also work great and has no issues with OS,
Almost 5 hours average from full charge.

Thanks Dell, thanks canonical.
[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Laptops
The car in the image has some monster tires on it. Doesn't give you the compression (or whatever you use to describe the give in the tire) friction you get with serious drag tires, but with a good four wheel drive system?
I wanted to like Lytro but after trying it I realized I don't want to refocus later. Just don't care. I'm not saying some Pros wouldn't want that but for the masses my guess was "no, can't be bothered"

On the other hand, what I do expect to happen maybe is my mobile camera will advance to the point where it takes 1000 images in 1/1000th of a second so I can just wave it around then then post process any image at nearly any resolution any dof so I don't need lenses, don't even have to aim much. Unfortunately actually processing 1000 images in a short amount of time is 10-20yrs off?

I'm a little surprised at their pro video camera hasn't been more popular. It seems like the no need for a green screen feature would be useful for getting better lighting for effects scenes.
More broadly, it's kind of sad how little actually came of the "Maker Movement," at least in terms of startups. MakerBot sold for $400M and there are plenty of small 3-D printer companies targeted at hobbyists. Ponoko and Shapeways are solid if unspectacular. Arduino and Raspberry Pi are both solid projects, AdaFruit and Sparkfun are solid businesses. Make: Magazine is cool, but still a niche publication.

Of course, startups aren't the only measure of success. The net positive is hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of younger hackers who may go on to build the next hardware company based on lessons learned at a MakerFaire.
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I personally would hope that you take extra precaution with answers related to medicine/safety. Why would you trust google with something like this? If you ask Google "Can my dog eat X" and blindly trust the answer then it is your fault and not google's if your dog gets sick. Google isn't responsible for your dog, you are!
I suspect the very first thing that would happen is that someone would finally break ABI in the kernel and forever cement Linux in its place as the operating system most incompatible with itself.
> How much resistance do we have against a horde of robotic raptors carrying weapons?

Atlas would suck against self-flying grenade-dropping drones.
I tried using rtags before developing cquery, but found it did not perform well enough for Chrome when doing a huge number of semantic operations (I was hacking in support for code lens). I spent some time trying to figure out if it code be fixed but I believe it would have been too large of an architectural change.

- cquery interacts with an editor via the language server protocol, letting it work with any editor with relatively minimal work
- cquery handles larger repositories better (ie, indexing all of Chrome takes 20-30 minutes on a high-end workstation)
- cquery responds to semantic requests within 10ms or so

There are some other differences but those are related to the features implemented, ie, cquery supports code lens.

I'm not sure how code completion is in rtags, but I've spent a fair amount of time making it work as fast as possible in cquery. There is quite a bit of caching built on-top of the clang API which often makes it feel instantaneous.
What about the Intel compute stick and similar?
While I agree that Deep Learning would be terrible at building CRUD apps (I'd be happy if it was good at performing analysis on human written code), one question I have is "If AI is performing more tasks, can we reduce CRUD app requirements?"

For example, if an AI is performing the task, it could interface with a back-end API rather than a front-end GUI (cutting CRUD development time). Also, we may not need to track as many things, like the time someone begins and ends their workday.
> should we able to express ugly, unpleasant, or unfortunate truths in public as facts?

Truths, yes, but what Damore had was pseudoscientific guff.
Since in my experience WebGL is still not really stable on many devices (especially mobile), I think its time, combined with wasm, is about to come ...
Well here's my "exit event" car, should such a thing ever happen. :)
Maybe consider Flattr? From what I can tell it does basically the same thing: https://flattr.com/contributors
For responsive embeds I assume. Where the embedded ".inner" component scales it's height according to it's width.
Elon says that the truck will be charged by the end of the 30 minute DOT required break (14:06 into the livestream: https://livestream.tesla.com/).
And by lost control, you mean sold the company, yes!
Yes, this is just as misleading as NSA saying "we only intercept 1% of the world's traffic."

Yeah, because 99% of the traffic is not communications, and most of it is video content and torrents.
Huh? I'm not following. Do you just mean desktops?
I have a C++ project that is available in multiple languages (Python, Rust, Fortran, Julia and JS), and I decided not to use SWIG partly because of this issue. Instead, I manually maintain a clean C API with everything that I need, and manually wrap this API using whatever is available in other languages. It is a bit more work (and thus incentivize me not to break the API ^^), but allow me to mix and match various ownership semantics throughout the API.
Ah, yes, missed that. My point about the agreement stands though. The email on page 11 appears to state that they owe him $30,000, if he just provides some demographic info. They then send him a contract weeks later, and use the phrase "formalizing the terms ... [of] the reward payment" in order to try to make it look like this is all part of the process. But this the start of a new negotiation.

Edit: I'm getting downvotes on my comment above, and maybe it's because I missed the part where he said he consulted a lawyer, but I have a suspicion that it's because I suggested the threat of a lawsuit. I know we live (in the US) in a overly litigious society, but my point is that the company is (perhaps through disorganization or communication problems) trying to alter the terms of an existing agreement. This is what contract and tort law is for. Sometimes the threat of getting the courts involved can cause the other side to see more clearly what is going on.
"It then displays it in the Brave Payments list, enabling the user to donate back on a monthly" ... So this will block ads on Youtube, and the creators will be compensated on donations? Does someone have a case-study on content/Youtube creators potentially making a living of donations? This seems like a bad business model: make creative videos and expect people to donate so you can feed yourself.
Patching the binary manually means that now the source code and the binary are out of sync, and the changes will be lost if it is ever compiled from the source code again.
He/she/it hasn't heard of 1920x1200 :)
All those devices are 16:9 i think?
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Fair! That said, I do doubt those cars weigh close to the same. :)
Tesla tried a gearbox in the first Roadsters, and it didn't go so well.
Aside from the spelling issue (which is an issue in many languages), English is one of the simplest languages by far (among languages spoken by 100k+ people).
It's more like unsanitary or unsafe vehicles and dangerous drivers who are either unlicensed or violent.
Use a PEO, bam, done!
Does it have a willy bar? It's also gonna be pretty heavy with lots of torque when it hits off the line.
I touched on this before in my rambling. Google botched it, not the product itself as the initial offering of G+ was actually really really good. Far better than Facebook, a return to basics in a clean interface with Circles. Groups being a feature Facebook later added.

When Google launched G+ it was actually one of two new products the primary one being Google Accounts. Before that point you needed to use a Gmail account to sign up on any of Google's services and it made everything a big pain when you had more than one Gmail.

Now with a single Google Account you could sign in to Google's entire ecosystem, including all of your Gmail accounts at the same time. It also came with a free, ad-free, totally simple, you-don't-have-to-use-it social network called G+.

Google should have marketed this all honestly. Instead they started talking up G+, and hid Google Accounts underneath it. This was a huge mistake. The general public felt like they were being tricked, because they were, albeit far less nefarious reasons than was assumed. Nobody wanted to give their name, to sign up to G+, and therefore rejected both G+ and the Google Accounts system.

This compounded because Google really needed everyone to switch to the new account system. Otherwise they were doomed to continue supporting both Gmail authentication and Google Accounts authentication forever. So Google began pushing for people to create Google Accounts, as you would imagine. People then saw this as Google trying to force them to give their full name, trust was already gone.

Amazing to me people trusted Facebook over Google because at the time Google so far had a very good record protecting private information. Now that's all gone of course but at the time they had an incredible amount of good will which was seemingly not reciprocated and now Google is a slimy gross privacy succubus the same as Facebook is. Probably they just threw their hands up and said 'fuck it'.

Google tried to further reduce complexity in their myriad of different platforms. They now had two social networks G+ and Youtube. G+ was going to eventually absorb and replace Youtube, it would have been pretty elegant really. The first step was to have the Google Accounts system absorb Youtube accounts. People resisted this again because at this point good will was gone. Eventually Google gave up on everything.

Now G+ is a cesspool of tacked on features, advertising, just a bad smell entirely. It did have a lively base for a short while. Things really went downhill after the Youtube consolidation because G+ suddenly had what was notoriously one of the worst communities on the internet, Youtube comments.

Google has I believe still not successfully moved everyone over to Google Accounts. Youtube was never successfully merged into G+. G+ is pretty much dead at this point. Nothing went well at all and now Google has to support a million different things that all barely work.

Meanwhile Youtube hasn't seen a facelift in about a decade while Google figures out what it wants to do with it.
Not in isolation. But everything I’ve read about the implementation says many engineering hours were poured into it.
I haven't worked with GWT for about 5 years, but out of personal interest I want to a GWT conference in Florence, Italy a few weeks ago.

The open source movement is still ongoing, but there is apparently no help from Google any more.

Apparently Google do use GWT internally, but it's a fork and not the same as the open source version that we can all use. Apparently the reason is they integrate it with their own build tools (i.e. not Maven) that themselves are not open source.

At the conference they were talking about GWT 3 which is basically a re-write, open source, but it seemed to lack a lot of the features that made GWT good. I appreciate the time they're devoting to the project, and don't want to sound ungrateful, but I do not expect a useful GWT 3 any time soon.
Why prod is down
Is the "ad-free YouTube video experience" something that violates some Google user agreement? Just thinking that Brave is a high profile project and not a tool you download.
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Fyi this probably violates LinkedIn ToS
Don't underestimate the importance of these flagship cars. They serve a purpose. Why do you think Ford has the GT? They are a test bed for new technologies and increase brand prestige.
Reddit is swarming with Russian bots and they still have a whole network of white supremecy and various hate subs, operating both out in the open and ‘quarantined’.
Your "right leaning" is another person's hate speech. There's no onus on these privately owned web sites to be your definition (or mine) of "politically neutral." If you don't like them start your own platform or use a different one.
Interesting, my bank does that, and I use it a lot.
> This street-legal monster does 0-60 in 2.7 seconds and broke the track record at Germany’s famous Nurburgring
Clauses that he considered limiting to his freedom of speech seemed quite reasonable to me but then I remembered he's active in the drone jailbreaking scene so they do interfere with that.
Yeah this isn't going to fly with Youtube itself, they're not going to host ad-free videos so that a 3rd party can take their nontrivial portion of the ad revenue.

Schemes like this are nice, but don't forget who pays for hosting, serving and promoting the content.
I don't get it. 3D printing is massive, and is shaping our future. How did it not pan out?