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So, I drive a Leaf (with DC fast charge) and a Volt (the latter every day). Tesla is STILL ahead dramatically. Model 3 is the most efficient electric car you can buy in spite of having a long range. The other electric cars have large buffers in part because their chemistry is not as mature. The charging network is still vastly different in availability, speed, and especially price (Electrify America is often much more expensive than gas), although thankfully it has improved a lot.

Most other electric cars are made as a kind of electrified conventional vehicle still. Tesla is the only one that isn't. Rivian is coming, which will change that. They GET electric vehicles the way Tesla does, and I think that will change things.

Porsche DOES seem to "get" electric (I like they're going for 800 Volts), but Taycan is still incredibly limited in availability, and their efficiency is so low that the effective charge rate is actually lower (plus network isn't built out).

Tesla is still years ahead of everyone. Model S still doesn't have effective competition (Taycan isn't it due to price, availability, efficiency).

I hope this changes. Rivian has a chance of making a mark. Taycan is a Porsche, so is going to be limited to Porsche's. GM has squandered their good entrance of the Chevy Volt (and to a lesser degree the Bolt) by not supporting electrification. I think if we had a much better incentive system and if we had updated and enforced the Gas Guzzler Tax on SUVs and trucks, we'd have more than just Tesla.

What's really amazing to me is how much Toyota has squandered the enormous advantage in electrification they had when the Prius first came out. Literally 15 years ahead of Model S, they had a half-electrified, modern, mass-produced electric car... they could've easily upgraded it a bit and swapped in a full lithium battery, but they didn't and haven't since it came out in 1997. 23 years ago!!! Toyota is to electric cars what Nokia was to smartphones.
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It seems like to me I would be better off if chrome OS was actually part of Android. The experience of switching to a desktop could be as simple as plugging in your phone into a keyboard screen shell with a battery USB ports.

Why spend 800 bucks on your phone and laptop.

Third parties have tried to implement such systems with minimal success but I wonder what it would look like with Google backing it.
The Layoff page for Fry's (https://www.thelayoff.com/frys-electronics) is full of reports of empty stores, no restocking deliveries for months and empty parking lots and has been for a while now.
Exactly. They could just as well say no rock climbing or mountain biking on personal time for the same reason (presumably health insurance cost is what's behind this move) though obviously that would be harder to enforce. Companies having a financial incentive to care about what you do when you're not on the clock is just another reason that we shouldn't have coupled healthcare to employment.

Not granting smoking breaks or prohibiting employees from smelling like smoke is one thing but disallowing it entirely is too much intrusion into employee's lives.
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TCP congestion window scaling is not negligible, especially not in high-latency environments. The initcwnd is usually 14,6kb(10x MSS of 1460 byte in common DSL setups), meaning a server can only send those 14,6 kb until the connection is stalled and an ACK is received (=1x roundtrip). Google realized this and tried to get a kernel patch into Linux where the browser (or any userspace program) can manipulate the initcwnd. The patch got rejected, and thats basically why they came up with QUIC: To be able to build on UDP and implement congestion control and other stuff TCP usually does (ordering, checksumming etc) in userspace.
Just making sure. Waiting a few days to see a GP isn't that weird.

If it's emergent (like a severe allergic reaction), there's the ER.

If it isn't emergent but needs resolving sooner (like an ear infection), there are Urgent Care clinics everywhere. I've also had the experience that my GPs' assistants can find time in their schedules if my problem is one that (1) they can resolve and (2) does need a quicker resolution.
That's fair. My experience on the subject is admittedly pretty ancient. When I was doing it, back in the early 2000s, IB was how everyone I knew did it.
I agree. I was just joking. I've been enjoying biking more the past year especially. There's some really great bikes these days.
Dude, Google is putting the Cloud on life support in 2023. It won't last this decade.
I refuse to work for a company that wants my pee.

In an interview some time back, the interviewer mentioned drug testing. I replied, "Do I get a bottle of the HR manager's urine in return?" They were a bit flustered. "How do I know my superiors aren't stoned?"

I let him twist a bit and then took my leave.

Absent real public safety or other liability concerns, control freaks like this can pound sand.
>perspective of a very active Battlefield 1 and 5 player, the current use of cheats is pretty much an epidemic right now

Is it?

I'm playing a lot of both too and hacking seems largely in control. Some games have them sure but it's not common enough to be disruptive

Then again I spent a fair bit of time on unofficial cod4 servers so my idea of widespread hax is different lol
I'll never understand why people still buy EA products. They're easily among the most anti-consumer of all companies. Between their Origin client, microtransactions in AAA games, yearly releases with no appreciable changes and now shit like this I could never buy a product from them.
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Adding support for a Graphics API isn't that difficult. What is difficult is adding support for all your internal tooling. This can be anything from existing scripts, build processes to the tooling itself.

It simply isn't worth it when the percentage of players that are using Desktop Linux to play PC games is ~1% of the player base.
Sim City is 2000 is isometric, it doesn't have perspective. You just need to overlay 2d bitmaps of the prerendered tiles and assets on top, drawn back to front, bottom to top.
Marital status is not a protected class under federal law, but almost all states have adopted it as such under state law.
Not DFW area (KofP), but it does feel a bit more like a warehouse to me rather than the exciting tech candy store I remember as a kid. Even the Apple section is depleted and meh feeling.

Last time I went there was nothing particularly awe-inspiring as far as setup computers. Just a bunch of Dell and Lenovo's with normal looking monitors. Would have been nice to see at least one souped-up uber PC with all kinds of obnoxious leds quad SLI, and 4 8k monitors, or something.

Granted it's still an extremely useful store, and I really wish I had one in the area I live in now.
i own Chevy Bolt and it contains what all you need + range is 260miles
Doesn't he tie the loop the wrong way in both cases? The (regular) shoe lace knot should be like the reefer knot, not the granny knot.

I've had less problems with simple shoe lace knot after I made sure the loops are correct.
So what’s stopping us from being able to convert energy to mass with a particle accelerator? Shouldn’t it be possible to get a particle of equivalent mass-energy to the energy concentrated by an accelerator? So like amp up an electron to 106 MeV and get a muon-on-demand?
Stop paying attention to the AAA industry that's making the compost you accurately describe. Indie is where all the innovation is any more, and has been for a good few years now.
This is the way my friend. Hold tight.
While this rings true, consider we can pursue this conclusion for just about any instance where depression is reported. We can say: why aren't you drastically shaking things up? Why are you not making changes of extreme consequence that will completely change your life in unpredictable ways? Change frightens people, but some have more to lose than others. A few years before I met my SO, I had broken up with a partner of over 3 years and changed jobs, then subsequently fell into sleeplessness and depression for a year. Change isn't necessarily free, though probably worth it if it's under serious consideration.

In my observation the perpetually depressed are often (no, not always, but very often) home bodies who barely leave their domicile and spend ample amounts of time on social media, staying up late mindlessly scrolling through their phones. There are simple but perhaps difficult changes to be made here.
Haha, yep, because this account retweets gavanw and not the other way around. But the links are cleverly "hidden" in my profile. :)
Or even just willing to not interfere with Linux users - I think Vulkan software generally works pretty well through Wine.
Thank you for your kind words.

I didn’t mean to come across as ‘complaing’ about downvotes, just as I didn’t mean to offend anybody with my comment (which admittedly was rather generic and probably not a specific response to the posted article, rather something I’d been meaning to get off my chest for a while).

I just hope I didn’t come across as dismissive, because that wasn’t my intention.
That their anti-cheat software is able to detect this is a good thing. So many games are ruined by cheaters and bots. In this case, I don't think the intent was to ban Linux players; rather their anti-cheat software detects any sort of virtualization of video or input devices, because that could facilitate cheating software. It likely can't tell the difference between harmless virtualization and the injection of cheating software.

I sympathize with Linux gamers, as I wish I could game from Linux. I'm typing this from Windows right now, and the only reason I ever run Windows is to play games. I don't like dual booting—and Linux runs so amazingly-well in Hyper-V—that I'm fine having Windows as my primary OS (at home, anyway).

That EA's software can't tell the difference is annoying. Their PR response and lack of clarity is annoying. If, for technical reasons, they can't secure the Linux-emulated version, they should make it clear that Linux isn't supported, and offer refunds to the (surely tiny number of) people who bought it for Linux play. If the number of Linux users is large enough, they should create a proper Linux port themselves.

In summary, I sympathize with their goals regarding cheat prevention. It's not like someone at EA said "I hate Linux, let's accuse them of cheating and ban their accounts!" This is a technical problem and a minor PR failure. A reasoned response is atypical from gamers who feel slighted, though, so I don't expect one.
You are saying CO2 but it looks like CO concentration is being shown.
Servers would have more admins if players could run their own servers.
I was using multi-protocol clients such as Trillian/Miranda/Pidgin for most of the 00's. It did not matter much what client/protocol somebody was using, in all likelyhood it was supported by such multi-protocol clients.

At some point, reverse engineering/implementing protocols must have lost the interest of that part of the community.
EA liquidated Westwood and I'm still salty about it.
This is a terrible argument it is not a one to one comparison.

If you are shunted in the rear on the way to work in your car you might have a inconvenient morning and an insurance claim. If the same thing happens on your bike you could quite literally die from a head injury.

I skated for a long time and didn't wear a helmet because of comfort/looks. I've become a bit more wise since and won't share the road with cars without my helmet when I'm cycling
This is a no nicotine policy, not a no smoking policy. It bans vaping, gum, patches, and lozenges. It bans employees from using them even if they are never used at work. The employee simply has to test positive for nicotine.
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Here’s what immutable data structures look like in Rust: https://docs.rs/im/14.1.0/im/
Interesting. And friendly..
Astronomical valuations, and aggressive stock buy-backs makes this largely artificial. So when it comes, it really comes.
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"It must be our great task, gentlemen, to keep the monkeys away from the typewriters."

-- H. L. Mencken
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Yes, but just because it could be worse doesn't mean it's not bad.
Some solution are a blackbox to the game development team (and run as a post process during the game link or as a separate executable monitoring the game and system).

There is a huge and lucrative economy around cheat development that encourages a fair amount of paranoia from game developers.
Doesn’t surprise me. Back in 2006 I was playing counterstrike through wine and i got banned. VAC bans are permanent so that account was gone, despite appeals. I learned my lesson, now I don’t run multiplayer games through wine.
> - EU: 24 languages, made up of multiple countries many of which have multiple official or minority languages.

I'd argue that lack of a common language is one of the main factors in the UK leaving the EU. People here (in the UK) don't realise how similar they are to other Europeans, because they can't understand them or their media.

This problem is less pronounced for the rest of the EU, because they tend to be better at teaching/learning other languages there.
The game client would be unmodified, with it running on an API layer that maps windows system calls to to their Linux equivalents. Their ant-cheat software finds this "suspicious" and boots the players.
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Users fixate on low-fi even if you tell them it's a prototype. Talk about a blocking bug.
I see two possibilities, depending on what you want.

1) Dust — anything in the range 1mm to 1nm, depending on what properties you want it to have. Give it a small electric charge and accelerate it conventionally, perhaps in a vacuum with a plasma window at one end.

2) A relativistic beam of something that quickly decays in a way that doesn’t emit much EM radiation. (Would muons fit this description? I don’t know, I’m relying on what Wikipedia says).
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what major life activities does it substantially inhibit?

Apparently, holding a job.
Ask HN: How do you fund side projects?
I have a number of side projects that I am working on and some cost hosting fees. I try to leverage "free" hosting on AWS, GCP, Heroku as much as possible to keep things cheap. I also used to do side work building sites for people to help finance projects.

I was curious if there were any tips to finance projects you are working on?
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Many of the common tools used for cheating in FPS games create an in-game overlay used to provide the cheater with a UI for the cheat and to render hidden information (e.g. wallhacks) in the game world. This is often done by hooking the graphics API used by the game, and that hook is usually performed by replacing the pointers to the functions of the graphics API with pointers to the cheat's own functions. Since DXVK provides its own graphics API functions in a similar way, it can look similar to a cheat in the eyes of poorly-written anti-cheat software.
Given there shady business practices in the past, it's no surprise the company has been ran into the ground and abandoned. Good riddance.
I'm not sure if I would want my person brand to be a reputation for "almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content." Do people really consider that self-marketing?
That one was more about the way they handle garbage, with daily pickup and having to carry trash out to the trucks.

I was talking about the design of public trash bins.
I have the Ryobi 40V lawnmower, chainsaw, and pole saw. (they're great!)

For really hard woods I get about 30-45 min out of the chain saw per battery. I use it for chopping up fallen trees (I live in a heavily-wooded area) so haven't done firewood exactly. I have 2 batteries and I get tired before I run down the second one.

Its kinda fun how it goes from dead silent to ripping through a tree. Although the bar length is probably too short for your needs. Plus a cord is a lot of wood (to me).

I figured anything that needs a more powerful chainsaw is best left to a professional anyway, so the battery-powered saw acts like a built-in buffer on hurting myself.
knot theory is abstract- I care more about the material sciences aspect.
I've actually been playing a lot on the more private servers (TSC and Salty noobs on the east coast) which have some active admins, but we still get cheaters once in a while and it does cause some frustration for a couple of maps before someone jumps in and kicks them. But if I jump on any of the [DICE] servers I always run into one or two after a couple maps. This is all anecdotal obviously (but I'm talking about situations where the whole server is complaining in chat, and actively spectating them, not being a sore loser). It's an epidemic enough to where you get people like jackfrags making videos on it. I would agree though that BFV seems to have the hacking under more control recently, but BF1 is still largely chaotic.
Dang, they are known are liquor cycles where I am from... on account of people with DUI charges being able to use them still.

Agreed on the second point.
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I manage and work on a small team of 4 people. Myself and one other are remote, I am at a 13 hour time difference from all of them(!) The hardest part for me is knowing what's going on during their normal workday. Something can come up that de-rails their whole day and I'm not there to be their buffer or to help prioritize. So I guess the hardest part for me, isn't my employees, it's the other employees in the company that distract them or take up their time.
Fry's is a very strange store. The store here caries both expensive, ancient products as well as reasonably-priced, current gear. It's also the only place I know of to get certain parts and electronics components.

The customer service is definitely atrocious though. It took 40 minutes to find someone who could unlock the RAM I needed from a cage (and this was after I had to get a printed PO from someone on the "sales" floor).
Virtually all of my electronics tools and supplies came from the Tempe store. Since I've moved back east it's a serious challenge finding stores with even a fraction of the inventory the Tempe store had so I end up ordering stuff off Amazon or Ali Express. I the RTP ares has a good electronics store, I haven't found it yet.
Fair enough, though I'm not convinced that's much of an advantage.

Personally, most of the mail I receive from USPS is garbage. And my mailbox is located at the end of the block, clustered for the whole neighborhood. Due to both those facts, I rarely check the mail - it's often overflowing by the time I bother.

The mail I receive at my door (non-USPS) is 99% not junk. I don't have to go out of my way to retrieve it. And it's more likely to be dry (because the screen door never gets overfull of mail like the postbox).

Just an anecdote, not meant as anything more.
Thanks for taking the time to answer!

Which resources would you recommend for someone who's learning about building a pgoramming language?
Anti-cheat software is an absolute shit show of cat-and-mouse tactics. It’s often difficult to distinguish anti-cheat software from rootkits or spyware. They’re invasive and user hostile, and they frequently cause collateral damage that is swept under the rug and that support tacitly refuses to acknowledge.

This has happened on multiple occasions with Blizzard:

- https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blizzard...

- https://m.slashdot.org/story/75350

Of course, although Blizzards initial response was to claim that the users cheated and were lying, they did eventually fix the problem the first time (although IIRC they never reversed all of the bans for the very first WoW Wine ban wave.) Now they have a bit more experience with the issue so it seems it is getting more attention.

However with EA I don’t really have utmost confidence they will pay any attention to this, so I’d guess it’s time to get loud if you want any hope of this being fixed.
Well actually, they are allowed in the automotive world, re: Tesla.

They won't necessarily lower the standard for some applications if the alternative is just regular people at the wheel.
- You still won't be able to talk to your fridge
I thought you would mention the drone strikes on foreign high officials (not terrorists). It seems like a story that should be getting a lot more airtime.
>sometimes even months without getting banned

Thats intentional.

Companies let detected hacks slide silently and then do waves of mass bans to prevent hackers working out what exactly triggered the ban.

That cat and mouse game has moved well beyond a simple "omg why can't ea ban this obv hack"
It's probably similar to Bungie banning people playing on Linux. They count Proton/Wine as an emulator, and playing the game through an emulator is a bannable offense. The store page mentions nothing about this though, so people would try to play on Linux, get banned, and not even be able to play on Windows any more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dcu7pb/bungie_will_p...
There's been a lot of talk about the benefits of browsers showing URLs in a stylized way that makes it more obvious to the user what is the domain and what is not the domain.

I should have realized this earlier but: it's also important to have anything that displays clickable URLs (like a messaging app) to also style the URL to help it be more obvious what domain is being linked to.

The problem of better stylized URLs is so much bigger than browser URL bars that show where you are right now; it's also everywhere that displays clickable URLs.
Not sure if Tesla will sell something for less than 35k (yes, you can get the basic Model 3 for this price, I have it) but you have options from other manufacturers which can be very appealing if you get a good lease deal.