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How far ahead are you thinking?

BEVs are likely to match pure ICEVs (I.e. not counting hybrids) in range in the not too distant future. Yeah you could theoretically put in a bigger fuel tank, or bring extra gasoline. But I mean a standard light vehicle that doesn't sacrifice storage space.

Meanwhile, if you get enough EVs on the road, you'll soon have charging stations everywhere. We already see it here in Norway. Almost every roadside McDonalds have rapid chargers. There are a couple of supermarket chains that have gotten pretty good at having chargers in many of their supermarkets.
>Biggest complaints about Surface Book:

>- Its battery management is horrible.

Microsoft didn't manage to implement suspend (ACPI S3). That's why.

In effect, closing the lid does nothing more than shuts of the backlight.
At the same time, some version numbers are meaningless (because Chrome), so I'm ambivalent about the change. Still, this should make it easier for mere mortals to understand.
It doesn't sound like you understand how stock markets work.

A limit order doesn't necessarily get filled immediately, or at all.

If there is a lot more volume in sell orders than buy orders on the book, it is a buyer's market and price will go down. Inversely if there is more buy order volume, it is a seller's market, and price will go up.

I don't know if shorts have affected the price of Tesla significantly. This is really fact-specific and I didn't do the research. But the principle is sound.
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How exactly is google working with governments to censor right wing media?
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Re: "let's subjectively evaluate language design based on my ideas of parsimony." -- I didn't claim that. I don't know where you got it. Note that "less code to do X" is often the claim made, and "code size" is probably the most objective metric available to compare techniques (but still imperfect). "Number of lines needing changes per change request X" is another. Other claim types such as "elegant" is often in the eye of the beholder. There is no universally accepted ruler (metric) for "elegant".

And I'm not against SOME parallelism support in app languages. It's just my experience that if you "need" to do it A LOT in applications, you are probably doing something wrong.

Re: "Like most things in this world, parallelism can be misused. This is hardly interesting and really doesn't need to be pointed out." -- Fads tend to greatly increase the % of misuse.

And lambdas and OOP do fight over similar territory, or at least can if the language has certain features. For example, Java coders may say, "I need lambdas here because OOP can't do what I need." But it turns out Java's OOP can't do what's needed, not something inherent in OOP.

Anyhow, English is often not sufficient by itself to clarify such debates; we'd need specific code samples and scenarios to explore.
I didn’t mean the world has moved to Rust. But other languages other than C. Java, Go, JS, Python, Ruby, etc..
> "The fact that they received a Nobel doesn't mean they were notable before they received the Nobel."

It does, pretty much by definition of a Nobel prize.
It also would hit home too hard, since print institutions like the Times have been a significant source of this monoculture within the highly literate Silicon Valley.
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I doubt it. This is already a solved problem. We have emission standards that makes those designs more or less pointless.
I can have a 'family first' policy about how I run my life, but that doesn't mean I might not be a good leader for other families to follow.
To play devils advocate: electric cars are a niche, Sure Tesla can sell out. The niche is large enough - for more players, but ultimately electric cars will top out at a small fraction of the total vehicle market.

Of course this is predicting the future. Nobody does that well. In a few years we will have facts, but that doesn't say much about the future beyond that.
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I wouldn't say it "doesn't work". I would say "Be extremely careful in renewing your domain on time". I do think what your registrar did is lousy, but when it came to domains, lousy is what I expect. There are plenty of stories out there like yours
Netflix or its users? And aren't those users paying for their internet service?
Thanks, I'm now out of tablet mode! But the fact that it took another person on the internet + a HowTo guide for someone who is a MSFT developer w/ 18+ years of experience using Windows to get me unstuck kind of makes my point...

I work in the Azure org, writing multi-platform dotnet core and C++.
I’ve set that working hours thing for updates only for POS windows to completely ignore it.
That ignores the conflict is between the one of the world's greatest military powers versus a civilian population, slowly being forced to self-dispossess with zero freedom of movement, makes the situation worse than bantustans. One side is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, and those conventions clearly make occupation and colonization of occupied land illegal. And this was the plan from the very beginning in the words of their own founders: Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall (1923). Why wouldn't you take them at their word? And how hasn't that colonial ideology, in retrospect, predicted exactly where Israel-Palestine is at today?
We're building some key tools to implement over the next week.

Need feedback on:
- UI/UX
- Features to be added
- Demand-side marketing

and basically anything else.

PS: We do plan to expand IF we nail down our first market
Alternately, Jigsaw won’t work against Google’s own censorship efforts, and exists to push countries that want to censor their citizens’ internet to use Google’s own censorship product.
The problem with this (and also Facebook) is that they control so much data, that they can monetize your information even if you don't use their services. Not as much as if you do. But still enough. You literally can't not make money for them without quitting the internet completely. And quitting using credit/debit cards. That's the dark part of all this. You can think you're walking away, but you're still living in the Truman Show.
Isn't this really just a first mover advantage though? After world war 2, the US was really the only country still in the position to advance rather than just rebuild. Combine that with the fact that we helped fund a lot of rebuilding with the USD.
The United States has really lucked out in a lot of ways
politicians at the Federal level excluded themselves from similar rules along with charities. if we can get them to not exclude themselves we might have a chance at blocking everything
You're asking in the wrong place. The people who are doing the really crazy stuff with Excel are not going to be HN readers.
Harj, I'm curious, what's involved in "launching a city" for Triplebyte? Why not accept candidates from anywhere? From an employer's perspective, I would love your service in Toronto.
We launched mid-June and have 5,000+ vendors and 6,500 users in general.
Good luck with that, especially with banning ultramodern, low emission, high performance diesel cars.

I was in Denmark last year to see what's going on over there and I observed the infrastructure very carefully: there is no widespread electric infrastructure for cars; it will be a gargantuan investment of epic proportions. Even if the infrastructure is put in, the current battery technology is only barely adequate for daily city driving. Everything else - forget it! So this is banking on future infrastructure improvement in batteries and recharging, and it's especially banking on invention of fast recharging. And it's assuming diesel engines and emissions will stand still, with no further improvements. Just wondering, Danes like to travel and they like to hitch a camping trailer to their cars and drive all over Europe; how will they be able to do that if their government bans sales of cars with internal combustion engines?

Whatever stuff that government is on, it's gotta be potent; I'd like some of whatever they're smoking.
It sells the lie "I am an ordinary person and this is how I live," just like airbrushed models sell the model "this is how a person is supposed to look." Don't get too hung up on the literal meaning of "realistic."
The enjoyable cars and the context where they are driven e.g. tracks, events, may not change that much.

The boring utilitarian combustion engines the large majority of humanity has ever experienced probably won't be missed, though. Boring cars were still boring a decade ago.
> So to me, retracting from the global economy, bashing allies, and complimenting authoritarian monsters would seem to indicate he's cool with "retreating" from that role.

Soft power is great when it works. Soft power leaves personal and bilateral relationships largely undisturbed and reinforces stability. The problem is this... it doesn't work when both sides do not share a strong incentive (or the same timeline) to reach a negotiated agreement. Hard power is required and not inherently bad when gridlock, urgency and incentives justify its use.
If dollars are immediately exchangeable for the fair value of your currency of choice, and it doesn't cost anything to change one currency to another, does it matter what currency the transaction happens in? (I know we don't live in this world)
No, but it is the one name that people remember, and saves much explanation. The Rolleicord, the Mamiya C series, and the YashicaMats, one of which is my TLR, were more consumer oriented.
As a car guy also - I've thought about this... also.

Best plan is pick a few "classics" be it 60s muscle cars or current muscle cars, and buy them before they hit scrap yards or are destroyed.

Not an easy thing to do of course - cost of car, storage, restoration if it's old, but they can be saved and kept as toys.

Restoring a 60s camaro has always been a dream of mine.
>> "...I just switched from a Surface Book to a Macbook Pro and the mac is a huge improvement, both from a hardware and OS perspective."

Can the MS hardware run Linux without me doing a bunch of work with drivers etc?
I switched from a Macbook Pro to a Surface Book a few years back. It was, and probably will remain, the worst technical decision I've made. The hardware, drivers, and dock were had death by 1000 cut type glitches. Additionally, I (and a few others who owned one) experienced out of warranty hardware failures. For me it was a defective latch/hinge. Other's had the screen peel off the front (yes I said peel off). I know they've since improved things, but I'm still not really impressed. I sold it and switched back to a Macbook Pro this past year and am not looking back.
Or, you know, accomplish what you want without burnout. Almost always possible, for a programmer at least.
On the other hand, the importance of USD gives the US the power to, for instance, unilaterally kill the JCPOA.
There's a number of fisheyes that produce circular images on rectangular film (obviously, not using the entirety of the film surface).
That is why I said should. You would need to be a lawyer to navigate the court system.

For the local police, you have to push them. They are as lazy as anyone else. They also see murder and speeding as more important crimes to focus on - you need to be annoying enough that they help. You may need to walk into court yourself to get the warrant with no police help - something you can do in theory, but in practice I don't know if anyone has ever done it.
Any output that I'm going to hook up to is going to have an HDMI connection, and I would bet strongly that that is going to be the case for at least a decade. And I've got dozens of perfectly good HDMI cables kicking around.

As far as power, my understanding is that generally only a subset of the USB-C ports on a device will be rated for full voltage charging. If there's a power cord with it's own port, then you can't screw that up. You can also supply more power than the USB-C standard is rated for, which is nice if you have a real workstation rather than a lil 13" ultrabook.

The ideal would be that any old port can do anything, but I'm not holding my breath on that being a reality.
Wait wait wait.

Not so fast.

i'm one of those programmers who read manuals and stack traces but I have to admit that I've seen my share of both manuals as well as stack traces that didn't make much sense.
> I still hear horror stories about BSOD, bloatware, and the surprise update you can't back out of that I'd want to return to far less.

Everyone's experience is going to be different because Windows doesn't benefit from the vertical integration that MacOS does.

Bloatware is 100% an OEM issue and so Microsoft's Surface line doesn't suffer since MS is the OEM. There is a "Signature Edition" of Windows that some OEMs will put on systems that's bloatware free however it's not widely deployed because OEMs actually receive money to preinstall bloatware. If you want the SE edition you'll end up paying more and have limited options.

I honestly can't remember the last time I got a BSOD on any of the Win7 based or Win10 based PCs or Servers I use. Again that's highly dependent on a number of factors like hardware, drivers, and even the cleanliness of the PC both on software and hardware fronts.

The surprise update you can't back out of is a conflation of a couple things and sort of true but also false. The update policy for Windows 10 has changed a lot since it's inception but the crux is that a lot of people are upset that updates are automatic and not easily/entirely disabled.

As of today Windows 10 will automatically install updates and will reboot itself when necessary. Reboots aren't random, you define active hours where a reboot will 100% not occur. Reboots will not occur without first showing a notification and giving you the opportunity to delay/postpone the reboot. A reboot can be delayed for up to 5 days and you can actually schedule a specific day/time for the reboot to occur. There is a setting to enable enhanced notifications around updates and scheduled reboots. You can pause updates for 35 days after which a forced update occurs.

It is complicated if you want it to be but the default settings work well. The only setting I change is to tell it to update other software on my system in addition to Windows. I've never had a PC reboot on me unexpectedly or disruptively, I have a CAD/CAM box that I RDC into and it's evident that it has rebooted itself but it's not disruptive to my workflow.

My only real gripe is that my Laptop will become a lap warmer that sounds like a vacuum randomly when updates are installed.
Not really. The article is about the “retreat” of the dollar and how America, in their view is abdicating its responsibility to “police” the world.

I think whats happening is some people who clamored for america to retreat from dominance now regret their devil’s bargain now that they found out the devil (in this case China) disagrees with their vision.
It matters if you don't want to comply with some request of the government issuing the currency.
Windows historically was incredibly developer friendly, assuming that by "developer" you mean "application developer" instead of "web developer". That's part of the reason their OS became and maintained its dominance.
I wrote the comment you responded to. I live in Denmark, and here is my take on this.

It's not as extreme that I'd call it "extremist state of affairs". Fewer cars are for the greater good. However, what pisses me the most is how it is really implemented. There is the famous 150% tax when you buy a car, and then there is a green tax every 6 months/quarter that is based on how efficient &a safe your car is. I'm all for the green tax. Heck, double or triple it, and make the SUV drivers pay. But, the 150% tax IMO is lop sided policy. It lead to too many small cars(VW Up, Seat equivalent, and the like) because that's what common people can afford. Another side effect is that people tend to keep shitty cars much longer than rational, because they cannot afford a better car - throwing away all the emission savings in the wind(pun intended).

I think the law is made by politicians just based on life in Copenhagen, where you can use the trains and bike wherever. Public transportation is A-class, and you don't particularly need a car for the most part.

The rest of Denmark, where I live, public transport is not as good, and car becomes a necessity if you go to work outside the city. We're the collateral damage of the narrow minded policies.

/rant.

Denmark, as everyone here says is an excellent place to live, and I have a bigger list of positives to list, and a tiny list including this car tax to complain about.
Communism at its finest. There’s no way electric cars will go over 10% usage anytime during the next 100 years.
Spain in the meanwhile has a huge potential. I don’t have source but currently about 35% of the cars are electric there, even though there are 0 incentives.

Edit: would the downvoters care to explain?
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True, but Chrome also de-emphasized the version number. I don't usually remember what version I'm on, and the only place most people might see it is when they manually check for a new version. Wi-Fi 6 is going to be used a lot in branding.
We weren't ready for the Chestnut Blight a century ago, Dutch Elm Disease, Japanese Beetles, Kudzu, etc. The Everglades are full of exotic snakes including Anaconda. Destructive, invasive species suck. There will be many more.
Delivering high voltage to recharge the amperage these batteries need is a whole different grid in remote areas to delivering 240v for light bulbs and fridges.

Separately Norway is one of the richest countries on the planet thanks to its offshore oil. Their sovereign fund dwarfs Saudi Arabia in comparison so maybe they currently can cannibalize that revenue to build a supergrid.

China is building an ultra high voltage direct current supergrid to accommodate future EV needs (using primarily coal as a power source). I don't see this happening anywhere else?

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171432...
MOOCs are great but a more experienced tutor is however needed for a nudge, fruitful exchange of ideas and testing progress. The subtle aspect of freeriding linked to not giving too much importance is maybe true for younger or wealthy people, but everything works like that in life as well: you only care and put the effort if you have an inner motivation.
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Why so many posts about this company? Is explicit spam now allowed?
Spending less on the military also wouldn't dent the healthcare problem the US has. The US has a $3.8 trillion healthcare system. Just covering the ~8% of the population without health insurance, would cost 50% of what the US spends on the military. The only good targets for slashing the military budget by eg $200b, is infrastructure (we could build national high-speed rail with it) or deficit reduction. You can only broaden healthcare coverage through massive cost reductions (minimum 1/3 cost slashing), or epic tax increases on the top ~60% income bracket (which is how everyone else pays for universal coverage, but this would be a huge cost break to corporations who currently largely foot that bill).

Imagine if Canada had to actually spend real money on defense to keep Russia from going after its northern most territory (Russia has begun getting aggressive there). They're spending 1.3% of GDP on their military, with no ability to actually secure their own territory if Russia decides to start claiming some of their land in the Arctic region. Who are they going to look to as Russia gets more aggressive? The US of course, nobody else can do anything about it.
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Up to a point. I'm Danish, and I should certainly like the state to gtf out of whole sectors of what it's currently busybodying around with. I have worked in the public sector here ('been employed by' is a more accurate term) - I've seen the waste and the iron law of bureaucracy at full mindless throttle.
But you're right in the sense that I'm in a small minority here, and that most people have not a clue in the world what I'm even talking about.
Ya'll sure spend a lot on Reddit ads, even my wife sees them, and she's not your target audience. Is this effective? honestly curious.
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I thought it was a 0/10. The ones with the felt surface required tearing apart the entire unit in a totally non-repairable way.

The laptops have actual bodies and you should be able to take them apart. I'd wait until Dave2D does a review as he almost always includes opening the laptop.
there is a website for this:

https://prism-break.org/en/

^wow how quickly people forgot about NSA spying, snowden etc.
Is someone honestly referring to a laptop that literally cannot be repaired as "the best hardware"?

It's not even possible to replace the battery in the Surface Laptop.

>According to iFixit, the Surface Laptop isn’t repairable at all. In fact, it got a 0 out of 10 for repairability and was labeled a “glue-filled monstrosity.”

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/251046-ifixit-labels-s...
I think all the bastardized carbon accounting, market based solutions are on average quite bad.

I'm curious, do you think the whole idea of a market-based solution is bad, or do you just think that actual real-world implementations have been lacking so far?

I mean, it seems to me that if you tax emissions strongly and uniformly enough, then at some point it has to have an impact. I think existing schemes have just been pretty weak.

I agree that carbon taxes can potentially hit poor and middle class folks unfairly hard, but this can easily be solved via carbon dividend type schemes.
Can’t believe containers made it this far. It’s neckbeard tech with no benefit.
No. The US legal system, a free press, a long-standing calvinist work ethic, its asset base and continued financial infrastructure investment are much more than luck. These things have proven impossible to reproduce - in aggregate - anywhere else.
Yes, Dark Matter is a statement about the premise that something appears to be operating gravitationally while have no (or perhaps so little that we don't recognize it) interaction with other matter; however, it is not without reason.

The primary focus on matter as the candidate is that if you don't believe that some form of matter is responsible, you begin having to explain how a lot of our Laws are incorrect. Dark Matter is really a problem that we have a notion how our Laws should work at the cosmic scale, yet they don't. And yet, we don't see any obvious reason why they shouldn't give how thoroughly we've tests these Laws.

For instance, if you say that our equations for gravity is off, why is it completely consistent for everything in our solar system? Why is consistent down to the most precise test for gravitational frame pulling? It seems to be only different when you talk about very large masses creating gravity on objects tugged at very long distances. Why does it just cut over to different behavior?

If you say that gravity is emergent, then how do you explain the standard model's place for the graviton? Granted, it's not testable (gravity is so weak it's beyond direct testing), but it seems to be fit right in to a spin-2 tensor where we would expect a gravity-like particle to be. Why would you expect that to not be true?

That said, Dark Matter matter candidates are getting weeded out pretty quickly, these days. No new types of particles are being discovered, and Dark Matter observatories are largely coming up empty. But, that's science: got an idea? Test it and let the results speak.

As an aside, I think one thing to remember is: just because science doesn't know the answer to something, it often knows what can't be the right answer. Look into the theory's and their criticisms.