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The Neo is competition for the Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf segment, only 6-7 years too late and without the learnings from several iterations. Whether they will be able to hit their announced price targets, remains to be seen. But in 2020 they will have fierce competition in every segment, from Tesla to Hyundai and BYD. Perhaps they’ll succeed in the home market, but worldwide - probably not.
Yeah: from careful observation Space Invaders seems to move one alien every frame, hence the fewer aliens the faster it gets. I started playing around building my own version, but it's never got beyond the prototype phase: https://arcade.ly/games/space-invaders. I'd love to be able to use lack of time as an excuse but it's really lack of motivation.
If this had been filmed in Britain, I guarantee you that the person filming it would have given a sarcastic cheer when the parcel finally landed on the balcony. We're a strange little island.
One picture in the article shows that the sled has lifted the car by the wheels. The video posted above shows this more clearly, all four wheels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3hmbYLQedc

I guess that much tighter parking is the goal, to make this pay, but it's not clear how far they can go here -- it looks like every car can be accessed without moving others, needing clear aisles.

Also, the column spacing in many buildings is designed around parking-bay sizes, which will limit how much you can save in any existing building. And it would be one hell of a 50-year bet to design a new building only for this system.
I would guess, when originally suggested, it was $current_year + 2 decades.
Good luck paying cleaners then. They provide a lot of value (keep the office 1+ month without cleaning)
The answer to the nuclear waste "problem" is that it doesn't matter.

If we took all of our nuclear waste, and put it directly into our food supply, this would be a better situation than what we are in now.

This is because of just how horrible coal is. Coal kills millions of people. Would taking our nuclear waste and feeding it to children cause millions of deaths? I think that's unlikely. Which means that it isn't as bad as coal.

Opposing alternatives is the same exact thing as supporting the status quo. Unless the alternative also kills millions of people, then it is better than what we have now.
> He argues that technologies have inherent political traits.

What are the traits of money and billionaires?
They use whatever the current dispatcher is. The default dispatcher is the one that uses a thread pool, because that's the only thing you can do in the absence of an event loop. But the functions themselves are compiled the same, into a state machine with callbacks. That compiled code knows nothing about threads (or event loops, for that matter). It just uses the dispatcher to schedule continuations.
> Economy style seats don't have a lot going on

Actually they do. The drive to make thinner and lighter seats means lots of exotic materials can go into them. If the seats include in-flight entertainment devices, that'll increase the cost too. Plus the seats still have to be certified to the same stringent safety standards as the first-class seats.

Of course the claim was that a row of economy seats costs about what one first-class seat does. I think that's believable.
I am not sure why you need the dictator. The AI would presumably be perfectly fine to control everything. It can easily wrest control from the dictator and have all the drones etc. at its disposal.

You don’t even need to go that far. Just require everyone to get a chip implanted so you can enforce punishments, and place cheap recording devices everywhere. You can easily figure out who’s saying what to whom, search everything, figure out the gist and predict every meeting before it happens. You don’t even need the chip - just make it so that a person can’t buy food, and boom. Easy social control. And inescapable because people who don’t comply are ostracized by friends otherwise the friends don’t eat either. You get the algorithm right and you can break resistance same way FBI broke Mafiosos’ “code of honor”.
> The only way to reduce per capita energy consumption is to ban people from doing things, or tax them until the poor can't afford it any more.

Per capita energy consumption has been dropping in Europe, but also in North America over the past few years. Not aware of any bans or unaffordability issues there:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

And the US EIA absolutely claims energy efficiency is part of the reason:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32212
I've never gotten this hate for Mr. Soros

Das Magazin published a German article about that a couple weeks back https://www.dasmagazin.ch/2019/01/12/die-finkelstein-formel Buzzfeed published an English translation: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-so...
Engines are typically bought from the engine manufacturer. The bigger ones cost tens of millions of dollars each.
I think they meant wrapping it so that it runs in a background thread, e.g. with Task.Run.
Cheating is ingrained into the culture. Two examples: if you visit an ancient building, it will have been rebuilt identically 7-8 times on the same spot (but still be considered the same building). When you were an apprentice craftsman in China, your goal was to make work indistinguishable from the master, at which point you would graduate and start making your own furniture/whatever it was.
Why is it not fun to drive? I know a lifelong BMW driver and he pines for the days when they made sporting saloons like the E28 and E39 instead of today's bloated barges.

His last one, an E46, had steer-by-wire! That's the antonym of a driver's car.
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There is no fairness in this, just a measure of distance from some perceived “ideal” by The Party.

Anyone outside of that ideal, as determined by The Party in its discretion, is by design simply robbed of influence and, if they persist, resources up to and inclhding food and water. Anyone who helps them loses the same. And finally, any breakaway groups have so few resources they can be easily hunted down and re-educated.
"Who watches the watchmen?" The traditional method relies on a vast network of humans, any one of whom could betray you. Acceptance of bribes is common in dictatorships, and if your control system is powerful enough to suppress troublemakers it's also powerful enough to replace you. AI can avoid this dependence on humans.
> Never mind the problems of async code in a dynamic language.

Such as?
A past project:

"Burn Money was a simple, free app that performed one function very well. You make an in-app purchase between $1 and $100 in real money, then watch as that amount in U.S. currency goes up in flames on your screen. The app recorded a video of the virtual conflagration that you could post on social media, and emailed you a “certificate” confirming you spent up to $100 for absolutely nothing."
But the choice looked (worded?) like it was required for the feature you're using.
Isn't it far better to split these jobs out to different threads?

A rendered frame is just a view on some data. As soon as you couple state updating to rendering you're bound to encounter issues. This is what leads to games like ARMA who's FPS in multiplayer depends heavily on the performance server, which is insane.
I personally don't hate him, rather dislike him. I don't think he wants democracy and that's my problem with him. (And I have, from the distance, seen some decision-making in the NGOs, which alerted me of this problem.)

I think my critique is very similar to Anand Giridharadas http://www.anand.ly/winners-take-all/ and I believe many people who hate him intuitively feel the same way (although perhaps do not understand why).
I was referring to the quoted price and asking whether that price point includes engines and/or avionics.
Interestingly, 'passion' comes from a Latin root meaning 'to suffer" or "to endure".
Yeah, it's about 5x for 2017: 26K vs 126K

https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h...
Probably not - these are just high pressure careers that require a lot of work, way over the usual 40 hrs per week. There is a small number of people with highly conscientious personalities who are willing to give up a lot of their personal life to be successful - those people are just wired to work a lot and they thrive in these highly competitive fields. Everyone else who gets in the field has to somehow keep up but their personality and goals don't match the career they've chosen. And so they end up hating life to a certain extent.
That you are deliberately picking a fringe party like DKP and not even mentioning Die Linke to which Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung belongs a bit odd to say the least.

As a German, I can assure you, when someone (outside of universities or leftist circles) talks here about the „Communist party“ no one thinks DKP or MLPD or whatever. They think die Linke.

Lest not for the fact that it is the direct descendant of Eastern Germany‘s communist ruling party.
Uranium vs fossil fuel exploitation is also a density & economics issue. Since the energy density of uranium is several orders of magnitude higher than for any fossil fuel, one can afford to be much more pedantic about uranium mining without wrecking the economics.
Like the Eloi in the Time Machine? Yes. It is already happening, in those areas where the technology does a better job, such as directions. The vast majority of city dwellers are already fools when it comes to growing crops, hunting, sewing or whatever.

If the computer is right 99.9% of the time, why bother thinking for yourself? First you stop figuring out the steps to do X, then why do X at all?

If computers get far far better at humor and charisma (don’t laugh, people laughed when they thought AI wouldn’t win at Starcraft or Chess) then why do you need human companions?

If robots get better at sexual feedback and stimulation, humans would prefer them to other humans.

People would use robots for everything, may live out fantasies and occasionally socialize with other humans.
If you don't like Facebook don't use it, it's that simple. Social networks need a critical mass of people to run, even a naive user would stop using Facebook when most of his friends aren't there.

Facebook isn't the first social network and it isn't the last. It gained the most momentum, sure, but it will eventually fall. The trend is already downward. Anything other than just moving on not using Facebook is half measure. If you're still using Facebook by now, either you are naive or misinformed.
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I don't mean to be unfair to China - they're taking the issue seriously and doing some excellent work in developing PV and battery production capacity, but there are some real concerns about their broader approach. The primary issue is new coal power plants, which China is building at an alarming rate despite substantial overcapacity at present. The rising domestic demand for electricity combined with the huge increase in coal generation capacity is a potential timebomb in China's energy mix.

https://www.chinadialogue.net/blog/10761-China-is-building-c...
Yes, but Xi entered Tsinghua as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student and his admission arrangement seemed to be designed for him. Even Premier Li Keqiang has a much stronger academic background than President Xi.
Historically, Java has better JIT compilers. One of the reasons is that Java started as a bytecode interpreter, and JIT was later bolted on for hot paths - this makes it possible to have JIT run for longer (since you can interpret bytecode in the meantime). .NET was JIT-only from the get go though, and its JIT compiler has to be "fast enough" that cold calls aren't atrociously slow, which restricts optimizations.

On the other hand, C# has features like structs, non-virtual methods (by default at that), and reified generics, that make for faster code without any JIT magic.

And, depending on the exact code being tested, one or the other factor can easily dominate.
I have found cycling to be a good daily exercise. It becomes my commute so it takes no time out of my day also there is no way to give up. I can stop at any time at a gym but if I stop on my bike I still have to get back home.

I have a pretty brutal uphill way back home but I feel great after which makes me do it again the next day.
There are rumours that B&O did this with one of the boxes for their TVs. Supposedly it spiked when the box missing a slide in the Copenhagen sorting facility a feel 4 meter, hitting a concrete floor.
Yes if you can, but interleaving writing state (game update) and reading state (redraw) can get messy. As long as you figure that out you're usually good to go. So for games that are fast enough already, there's no need for introducing potentially subtle threading bugs.
Exactly. IMHO abstractions on the problem-domain are good. But then there are these kind of meta-level abstractions, like factories, proxies etc., which are usually just making matters complicated.
You can take a look at Strattic: https://www.strattic.com - static publishing for WordPress websites.
There were plenty of gaps really. Async'ification is still ongoing, but I don't think we'll ever see it in classic .NET - Core is where it's at these days.
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In the early days of Apple when they first started shipping computers to Japan they were getting transported in refrigerated trucks. The transport company saw the logo and just assumed it was fruit.

I’ve lost the source for this, I believe it was in the book “Apple Confidential 2.0”
Just programmers that can't program. Guys with years of experience tucked under their belt who struggle with simple things. I have pair programmed before with a guy to whom it wasn't obvious when to use a foreach loop, and who didn't parse test failure output for hints as to what went wrong. Everything was just a mystery. We'd make a change, test would fail and tell us exactly why (lo and behold, it was the thing we had just changed) and he was unable to find the thing which was broken. It was painful to have to state the obvious (what ought to be obvious to a professional developer) all day long.
co2meter_server writes measurements to "logs/co2.csv" in the current working directory every 30 seconds or so. As long as there is no measurement, you'll get this error from the web app trying to access the file. Just wait a minute and refresh the page.
> The project will likely be a massive failure IMO

That sucks man. I know that feeling.
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I never got into a place the 10 minutes a day would really help me accomplish anything. I do know it is possible, one day I would like to replicate something like [1], splitting a work-weeks worth of work into several months of pomodoro a day.

It kinda worked when I was attempting to write a blog, but even then I never really figured out how to make the routine stick and often it took me half of the designated time to even start writing.

This time-to-start was even worse when programming.

Well, one day!

[1] https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/
Are you sure about "steer-by-wire"? The only instance of that I've heard of on a production car is a recent Infiniti.

Perhaps you are thinking of electrically assisted power steering, which is not steer-by-wire - it has a physical steering column like most cars.

But then again, doesn't the E46 have hydraulic assist, not electric?
Maybe one such example is the effect of "democratization of information distribution". Combine this with standard analytics (and in future AI) and you have machinery that can deliver highly targeted messages, each crafted to have maximum effect on the opinions of a specific recipient.

In the centralized Internet (think Facebook, Twitter, Google) this is something that we can to some extent understand and maybe control. In a proper decentralized world, this won't be possible. Privacy features will also protect the identities of trolls.

In the past, the content distributed was limited by the imagination of people. In future, no such limitation exists. You will have AI (think generative adversarial networks) learning to create fake content tailored for specific persons.
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In Germany, solar output is much lower in winter months than in summer months. Unfortunately, energy consumption is higher in winter (and will likely increase as most homes are currently heated with fossil fuels and need to switch to electricity).
In summer, there are days when renewables create over 100% of the consumed energy. But just a few days ago, they were at 7%. Without the use of fossil fuels, or a way to store energy produced in summer for consumption in winter, renewables can't come even close to the energy levels needed even for today's demand. And, as fossil fuels are replaced by electricity, it is expected that future demand will double or triple.
I've heard so many creepy Facebook stories by now.

I know a psychologist who is well aware of privacy, which created a pseudonym account only to avoid her patients, which had the whole thing blown in her face when she installed Facebook app which then immediately suggested those patients she tried to avoid just because she had their phone, and those patients could briefly see her as a suggestion too. Nothing could help at this point, it didn't even need her permission for the phone contacts, just her phone number was enough for Facebook because it had already gotten the contacts of her patients which contained her number.

Just think about how ridiculous this is for a moment: anyone, including that shady taxi driver you ordered, or the plumber, or whatever, can suddenly get you as friend option in Facebook because you happened to call each other the other day and you're living in the same city. It gets super creepy really fast.
But why not redistribute money, and let people choose what to spend it on, rather than having a separate system to distribute each individual resource?
Nice series of strawman and ad-hominem.
> Looking at this another way: you need >20x more memory to achieve the same level of performance as native code in C#.

It's more like, you need 10x more memory with 100x more productivity than C/C++.

If you don't care about productivity, however, you can actually write C# as you'd write C, and with a very similar perf profile. You can put everything into structs to avoid heap allocations, for example. You could use stackalloc, which basically gives you fixed-size non-bounds-checked stack-allocated arrays, exactly as in C. You can have pointers that GC knows nothing about, and you can even do arithmetic on them like in C. You can even have type punning unions. And then you can put an API on top of all that which makes it usable with async/await - and write the rest of your code in high-level C#.
Every company is required by GAAP to estimate and accrue legal liability they encounter in the course of doing business. You've managed to turn actually following the law into a conspiracy to violate it.
France and Germany have had very different energy strategies for ages.

Germany still has significant domestic coal reserves.

France pretty much ran out of coal decades ago and therefore invested heavily in nuclear technology and access to uranium ore (mostly in Africa), they are #2 in uranium consumption worldwide.
Any chance you guys run it against the SQLalchemy test suite?
Pulsar data itself is likely not under copyright, but a graph of it can be under copyright protection if enough creative effort is involved. However that graph contains very little creative decision, so it would be a hard case to win if the publisher claimed ownership.
I think a physical paper map is superior to a "smart" phone.

I have been asked by a helpless 20yo who was tapping on his phone searching for a train station. I dragged him over to the gasp subway map that was literally 5 meters away. He followed reluctantly, and I found the station in 10 seconds.

(Note that I also had not heard of that particular station before.)
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Handlers are already ignoring the caution signs, though, just not for (at least) one product, TVs.
Open societies are threats to closed societies, and vice versa. An open world is stable; a world of closed societies is also fairly stable internally, although much more likely to go to war with each other.

The idea of "the end of history" was that Open had won, and it was just a question of mopping up the remaining closed societies. It turns out that maybe the open societies weren't as open as they thought.
I thought one of the advantage with Bill Gates solution is that their reactor uses those Nuclear Waste as fuel rather than creating more out of it.
People talk about English defamation law, but they may not realise that there are reasonably recent (2013) changes.

The claimant has to show actual or probable serious harm; there has to be geographical relevance to bring the case in the UK; and there are stronger defences. (Truth, honest opinion, public interest, or priviledged publication (eg, scientific journal)).

These changes came around to protect freedom of speech a bit more than the old act did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013

I'd be interested to know if Trump could have brought a case in the US if a US paper had written the same things?
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Again, your „data“ consists solely of political aligned think-tanks.

Agora Energiewende is by no means a neutral organisation, with even proponents of green energy repeatedly criticizing agora for deliberately “making false assumptions out of unambiguous datasets”. [1]

[1] “Aus zum Teil eindeutigem Datenmaterial werden falsche und zudem nicht im Einklang mit bisherigen politischen Aussagen und Zusicherungen stehende Schlüsse gezogen.” https://senertec-center-nrw-sued.de/File/MR%207b_Stellungnah...
> The AI would presumably be perfectly fine to control everything. It can easily wrest control from the dictator and have all the drones etc. at its disposal.

It can, but AIs generally don't get the will to do this built into them. The idea that they evolve this will naturally is antropomorphizing.
That century was not a quiet one, either. It was a very important time for Scotland, and a bloody one at that.

Haven’t read through it yet but I wonder how far north she went
Similarly I visit mental health hospitals and facebook recommends patients of those hospitals to me as new friends.

It's really fucking creepy.
I believe it does:
"Retaliatory action isn't seen as an inconvenience against the customer, it's a middle finger to corporate. You treat us like shit and we're going to make you feel it too, proxied through customer complaints about broken or missing items"

As a customer, if my box arrives smashed I am angry.
If my box arrives smashed with a "Fragile" sign printed on it, I feel insulted.
I guess in the second case the complaint is going to be worse and the reputation of the shipping company damaged even more ("They can't even deliver a 'fragile' parcel properly")
The transcript of the speech.

https://www.georgesoros.com/2019/01/24/remarks-delivered-at-...
It is not AI. It is the chinese communist party.

Otherwise might as well have a paper called “The Internet Threat ...” or “The pen and paper threat ...”

The America fought Soviet Union. But ok with a communist party in china, with their all in and everywhere in the society (and copy things on top of contributions) ... it might be too interwoven and too big to ...

Good luck.
Most of the ee's I knew went into banking, because money (I assume) .
Here in Norway, and even more in Sweden, I think Volvo would feature pretty heavily in the list.