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There are a lot of companies dedicated to EVs. The larger companies are going to have to buy the smaller winners to be relevant. The issue is the dealer network laws are going to hurt the existing companies, I think.

NKLA (seems like a scam), NIO (seems really good), and with a huge amount of SPACs buying EV companies, they are going to have lots of room to grow. Also many of these companies have been operating for a decade trying to create a product like KNDI, PLUG and they are getting closer with their products. I didn't jump into TSLA early as it wasn't profitable, but now they are making money so it fits my investment principles.

Take a look and do some research here at the competitors to the traditional car dealers [1].

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sKMfBZNkHdvaVKmweuv3...
> Anyone who says that been kind is a weakness, just don't know what been kind really means.

Alright, what does being kind really mean?
Tesla's motor isn't what drives the range and efficiency; the battery assembly is their key differentiator. Tesla currently has the industry-leading thermal design; it's ability to cool batteries and prevent thermal-based degradation is far more efficient/effective than anything that competitors have yet been able to put on the market.

Supposedly GM's Ultium battery platform will equal or exceed Tesla's batteries, but that remains to be seen as the first Ultium-based cars don't come out until 2H 2021 and all we have to go on right now are press releases.

VW holds some patents and exclusive licenses on solid state batteries, and is planning to go all EV within the next few years, though the SSB autos aren't expected until 2025 at the earliest, assuming VW is able to commercialize the technology.
There is an implicit rule: Everyone talk about gross. Including the OP.

Salaries for developers are in the 60-80K EUR gross in DE[0]

The US median gross is <40K USD [1] and for software developers it is close to 100K USD (probably much higher is SV and major tech hubs, and much lower everywhere else) [2]

[0] https://teleport.org/cities/berlin/#salaries
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
[2] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...
A Fraud Operation Stole Millions from Online Bank Accounts
So it's a really good lesson in supply and demand, and how some parts of the economy relate to others, and how some things are externalized.

Two people with the exact same market value to a company will get paid differently because their 'supply' curve is simply different.

The 'non market' issue here is the personal choices that people make about where they live (family, history, aesthetics) and other dynamics that drive wages in any particular region.

Also, it may very well be in the calculation that someone in Colorado is actually worth less than someone at the HQ every day in the SV.

It's a little bit of a complicated and interesting dynamic.
I think what made it so addictive was the weird AI. They felt unpredictable and odd - sometimes they'd get stuck, sometimes they'd surprise you and go the "wrong" way and end up cutting you off... I never figured out the logic to those lil' characters!
When something goes against the Covid narrative... no matter how scientifically and statistically accurate.. the Covid restriction proponents call it click bait or claim it's spreading false information.

One is not allowed to rationally consider alternatives to the prevailing narrative that flattening the curve and Corona virus restrictions were effective and a good solution while putting millions into poverty was unfortunate but necessary.

Gotta crack some eggs to make an omelet the saying goes and these deaths are possibly the eggs that got cracked to support Corona restrictions.
The web was designed for progressive loading, so why does every page on CERN's website seem to have a custom interstitial loading indicator? This is one of those trends that should never have happened.
Occasionally "partisan nonsense" turns out to be absolutely true. Time will tell. I'd like to hear a rational explanation from Trump supporters as to why he's downplaying this, why it took so long to respond at all, and why he's diverting blame to China and attempting to split up the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. He's contradicting his own people. Who does that benefit?
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When reading the article I saw the screenshot — and it wasn’t nostalgia per se, more like a kind of excitement I had long forgotten. Such a weird experience!
Who gets to tell Iraq’s history?
Eritrea named for the Latin for Red Sea, is nowhere near West Africa last I checked
Is there any research on the cost economics of a small-town ISP? I wonder if the ecosystem is conducive for a small-town ISP to come up and operate the last-mile? Is there competitive pricing on the metro core and transit ISP bandwidths? Is there a settlement free peering exchange with major content providers? What are the long-term or minimum-commitment contracts one would have to sign-up to become a successful small-town ISP? How much capital is required? etc etc. I wonder why would they do these obviously bad pricing choices like charging for modem that's not even taken by the customer.
It's not as straightforward when you're trying to create a master image for your corporate machines, though. Several steps [1] are required to properly remove it from all users on the machine after it is silently auto-installed or auto-updated, and this requires trawling through the error log to find the root cause [2].

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-sg/troubleshoot/windows-client...

2: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/2c...
> If they were effective, why do graphs show seasonality predominates?

That doesn't follow. Growth prior to the initial lockdowns was expoenential with a doubling rate between 5-7 days. Had this been ineffective we'd have all been sick by now and maybe 50-100M people would be dead worldwide.

Clearly "lockdown" (which is a loaded term people tend to use for anything from stay at home orders to simple mask requirements) worked. The question is how well and to what extent the regimes were followed, and by which populations.
What are your thoughts on the upcoming battery tech from Tesla they announced during their "battery day" in September? Your comments don't seem to reflect what they've been working on and what's coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds
This is such a privileged take though.

Law enforcement...and basically a good portion of the population are at complete odds with eachother.

I'm good fam. We don't need China's report your neighbors bullshit.

Also, converting to Islam isn't an "extremist" thing. Thanks.
One of my problems with it is the horrible and overloaded terminology. "I'll call them losers, but I don't mean they're losers". Fine, find a better and less pejorative term, then.

People deserve dignity, even if they are (sometimes forced into) making economic choices you think suboptimal.
This looks really good! I just set up Open Streaming Platform [0], but I wish I had found this sooner, as setting that up was slightly annoying (nothing against the platform - it's been working great, I just don't need its full power and my server is a huge mess).

Next time I'm setting up a streaming server, I'll definitely be checking this out!

[0] https://openstreamingplatform.com/
As we are talking about comparing different CPU architectures it’s the external latency that’s important. Even then I have been looking at sub 25ns on AMD CPU memory benchmarks and I assume similar Intel numbers.
Foods You Can Eat on the Ketogenic Diet
Lode Runner is definitely one of my favorites of all time. But the favorite, which I genuinely believe is the best game of all time and I've been playing games over a four decade at this point, is Hollow Knight.
That's the same type of setup that is common for security cameras using PoE. It seems to work well. Depending on how resource intensive the video analysis is, you could have several cameras being analyzed by a single mini computer (Atom based $100). That might be slightly cheaper than a single Pi per camera.

Also, where are you finding those PoE switches?! I was looking for 8 port ones just a few months ago and they were about $50 for cheap ones and at least $80 for brand names.
Jack Ma Makes Ant Offer to Placate Chinese Regulators
> If you talk to a random person they are pretty dumb, and you find random people at busses.

No, that's not how randomness works. If you talk to sufficiently many random people, you will likely get a wide distribution of people.

Besides, talking to strangers is not a good measure, because people are often guarded around strangers. Especially on the bus, I thought people who tried to talk to me out of the blue were a bit strange and to be avoided.
TS seems like a great choice syntactically for WASM because it’s familiar to developers who are writing WASM, ie frontend programmers. Compared to rust WASM, this seems to be much better for on boarding.

However, because it’s not actually compiling to JavaScript like typescript is normally, this means there must be quirks and differences that must be understood to solve harder problems. Depending on how friendly the compiler is, this can be very painful or intuitive.

I’m guessing it’s infeasible to compile TS to WASM since they’re targeting very different outputs - a ahead of time, dynamic weakly typed scripting language can’t possibly be compatible with an ahead of time, strongly typed, binary output.

And if someone tells you it is, I suspect they’re doing a lot of magic that’s hiding problems that only become obvious after writing nontrivial programs.
I don’t think most people consider dreams to be a true internal dialog - at least a conscious one.
To answer the OP's, if you need advice, maybe try dev.to. There are a lot of smart people there and it seems to be gaining traction. Also check the project homepage for whatever you're wondering about. Most have discord, slack, Twitter, and even IRC where you can talk to SMEs so check the project pages. I feel like this is a good move, more bespoke solutions than generalized solutions like SO.

There are a lot of valid complaints and good suggestions about SO here but those are probably better taken to the SO meta stack where they can be turned into change.

I still find many relevant answers there. Maybe you're mistaking the irrelevance of whatever you're searching for as the relevance of SO. Having said that, "advice" lends itself to discussion and opinion. SO is quite plain about it not being a platform for discussion; it's for Q and A.
Thank you pidg -- I would be posting this if you had not. Such an important and unfortunate blunder.
I appreciate what you're saying, but on the other hand, I wouldn't want to live in a world where everyone lived as if they had only one year to live. Most institutions are already waaaay too focused on short term profits.
Covid-19 closes nearly 100 Apple Stores during holiday season peak
Is this true? My understanding was that in fine tuning, you’d only re train some of the layers. And even if you re train all the layers, the starting point for the layers is not random. If it really was all forgotten then fine tuning would not be orders of magnitude faster...
> Doom was released to the general public in 1997.

"Doom is still a licensed game and the only way to legally play it is by paying for and downloading the game”, source: https://www.lifewire.com/original-doom-free-download-812146
"Welcome to the grittier future" - Sierra's ghost

(I hadn't realized just how much modern users would freak out at * Quest-style hoops to jump through)
> Say your credit covers the first $100,000 of income. Congress still has an incentive to shift money away from people making less from that amount, since it won’t add tax revenue unless it pushes them over the threshold.

The proposal is for a fully refundable tax credit. If you make a sufficiently small amount of money the government pays you.
I really recommend the book "Make Your Own Neural Network" by Tariq Rashid for beginners. It uses Python and Numpy.

I was able to adapt the code for my own mouse-drawn-symbols recognizer for my AI class project.
What is it used for today?

There are millions of people who value writing, and writing tools. For example, if you ever make it to Japan, you'll see there are thousands of stores specializing in papers, pens, and other desk accessories that the SV bubble thinks are no longer useful.

My wife has a network of friends that she's met over the years from France to Hong Kong who all write to each other on actual paper. Either on antique typewriters (like my wife), or hand-written letters.

Recently I've learned that as more and more people are realizing that social media is a farce and are giving up on it, they're going back to the old ways of communicating that still work.

Because of that, you can't even buy a quality typewriter (not a Chinese replica) for under $500.
This reminds me of David Sirlin's ill-named 'Chess 2' - one notable mechanic from there is that players have stones that they can use to bid when a piece is captured, and if the defender wins the bid, then the capture fails.
> You make an informed decision about a company when you decide to join just like a VC would.

Firstly, almost no startup I've seen lets me look at the cap table or board minutes, much less finances. So you get a very limited view as an employee or potential employee.

Secondly, even suppose you had the same knowledge as a VC -- the VC is making a portfolio bet that 1 of their 20 companies will hit it big. You get one lottery ticket, not a portfolio, so the risk/reward is totally different.
I should resist to answer trolls, but then again, I can offer a presence to the audience.

Java has had AOT compilation since around 2000, in fact the free beer AOT compilation and JIT caches now available on OpenJDK originate from BEA J/Rockit.

Likewise in what concerns the free beer AOT and JIT cache on J9, it originates from WebSphere Real Time JVM.

As most FOSS people weren't willing to pay for them, so urban myths about Java compilation support models get cargo culted, while those of us that don't have any issues working for the man got to enjoy them.

Likewise .NET has had support for AOT compilation since the beggining with NGEN, then Windows 8 adopted the Bartok compiler from Singularity and Windows 8 .NET Native steems from Project N based on Midori learnings.

And then there are the older ones from CosmOS, Mono, IL2CPP and the upcoming CoreRT.

The success stories of Go are called Docker and Kubernetes, it hardly matters for anything else, while Java, .NET, alongside C++ and JavaScript, own the enterprise.

Even Google has decided to replace the Go written parts in Fuchsia with either C++ or Rust.
Same for me, learned Haskell a year ago.
I have to note that your options only feel more limited if you refuse to look back and acknowledge the "wrong" ways. Your job options were always numerous, you just filter out the unattractive ones, leaving them to the people who don't have that luxury :)
Not puritans per se but certainly people who push the puritan mindset, in order to profit from the hard work and sacrifice of others.
The push for full time employment for everyone, framed as a good thing, usually comes from people who do very little work themselves while profiting from it immensely.
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The shifting preferences in development that look like fashion are evident, even in those domains where there is lots of established software that is sticky, in greenfield development.

Definitely agree, greenfields projects are where you get an opportunity to suggest new technology.

What I find in eCommerce though is the people who make the decisions on this stuff move around from company to company like pollinating bees, and they always want what they had before, which is often WooCommerce. It's a matter of user interface and ecosystem. They don't care about the merits of the technology underneath, it's truly not a concern for them, what they want is to be able to load up the Yoast SEO plugin and check their copywriters work, or have their in house guy make popups with whatever popup maker they had last time.

I think that's why it's so hard to kill it off.
Just mention MBS on a WhatsApp chat to a Saudi journalist, they find you.
Do you feel the same way about the malfeasance that brought on the financial crisis?
> The main message I want to get across is I want people to adhere to public health measures and try to do their part, but locking people up is not the answer

The problem seems to be expecting the populace at large to follow the rules that come with public health measures. This physician is likely right but in a society where more people are concerned for the overall problem then their own desires (separate from actual needs).

In the US (where I live) something close to half the population sees this as a political issue and not a health one. This leads to selfish behavior of ignoring health directives as a form of resistance, or support of their “team”.

Lockdowns may be the only way to effect public health measures when the public won’t follow them voluntarily. Unfortunately it’s a poor substitute with significant side effects.
I worked (very briefly) at the Ruoholahti R&D branch of Nokia in 2011.

If anyone wants any information on how it felt on ground level I’d be happy to answer any questions.

I recently visited the building and it is no longer Nokia owned, quite sad as it was impressively beautiful inside. Now it’s segmented with lots of smaller companies taking chunks of the building. :(
Measuring Pull Request Merge Time with SQL
Netty-4.1.56.Final
I think proponents of meritocracy are naive.
I'd love to see a deep analysis of this, but I think a confluence of a few elements:

- fixed instruction width, small instruction set => simple decode

- instructions wide enough to load many constants into registers in immediate mode

- comparatively large register file (15 general + PC) compared to the 80386 (effectively 8 + PC, plus the segment registers) meant reduced need to fill/spill intermediate values, a tradeoff which gets better over time as the power consumption of bus doesn't benefit from Moore's law since it's off chip

- any-to-any register instructions saves space and time shuffling values within the CPU (again, a hassle on the x86 series)

- conditional execution bits were a nice pipelining assistance trick, not clear how widely used they were as they weren't included in Thumb

- not having the 8086's ridiculous segment system
True, users have to enable Google Drive backups, but they are tied to the user's phone number and

> WhatsApp backups no longer count against your Google Drive storage quota

So I imagine there is some kind of (paid?) agreement between FB and Google to keep them free.

I don't doubt that the content of the messages stays secret, but there is a lot of metadata that can be inferred by simply tying a phone number and the size of the backup (and deltas) to a user's email.
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It really breaks my heart in these comments when people say they'd encourage their daughters to engage in sex work if they chose it (or, on the opposite side of the coin, encourage their sons to hire prostitutes or explore their sexuality through isolated encounters with algorithmically suggested, endlessly-streaming high-def porn videos). These activities have serious consequences on one's future due to social stigma (for engaging in sex work) or one's social growth / personal development due to neuroanatomical changes (primarily men, but women as well I'd venture). Whereas my Irish Catholic ancestors avoided broaching the subject through religious damnation and even more extreme social stigma, it feels like the version of this non-conversation that is had under the guise of "free sexuality", i.e. "just explore your sexual urges on your own I'm sure you'll figure it out", is equally problematic. The pendulum has swung too far from overbearing guidance to absolutely none at all (and, in fact, encouragement). In the middle is where the conversations should be had. The conversation has to be based in reality, i.e. that actions have consequences (social stigma of sex work or the rewiring of one's brain to hypernormal stimuli during formative years), that everyone has a complex web of feelings, and that understanding how those feelings and emotions involving one's sex life is very important for long-term fulfillment.

As I think we both agree, the best decisions and interactions are made when all parties involved are made fully aware of the benefits and consequences of each course of action. Pretending that sexuality is an exception to this is unwise at best.

I understand that a lot of the most inspiring people in the world were the ones who had a vision of a better reality and brought it into being (Ghandi, MLK, both Roosevelt presidents, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, etc), but encouraging kids to take that path when it goes against social stigma and neuroscience in regards to human sexuality will almost certainly not result in their success.
Apparently PCS was very well received too, winning awards and having strong sales. Interesting that it has largely disappeared into the mists but Lode Runner is in the pantheon of great early video games.

It reminds me a little of Wizardry vs. Ultima. They were the first two huge RPG franchises, but Wizardry has mostly vanished from the collective consciousness and Ultima had far more staying power.
To me this reads like a generic argument to de-criminalise white collar crime and fraud.

Untill we have prosecution for executives, events like 2008 and boeing will keep coming.
A bit off the main topic, but I've always wondered when we'll develop some sort of anesthesia/hibernation hybrid where when a person catches a disease that makes life uncomfortable or miserable, they would be put in suspension, similar to hibernation or general anesthesia, and reamin in that state until he or she is cured. For example, going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, while unconscious, or even just dreaming, makes it way more appealing to me. I can think many, many other instances where this would be desirable.
I wouldn’t say it’s confusing—it’s wrong and suggests at the least sloppiness in terminology
I use PJON as communications protocol in my self build smart home controlling lights, door bells motions sensors. Fantastic work and fabulous support from the team.
I calculated with insurance ect. I'd have to earn double of what I earn in germany and it would be illegal to work as a full time contractor for just one company too.
I guess I “won” the lottery working for one of the companies going public but all of these names have been highly visibly for nearly the whole past decade and an option anyone could have considered over a big corporate job.