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>no nod towards personal responsibility

This argument always bother me when discussing things at macroscale, because it ignores that someone has to do that low wage job.

I was just talking to a co-worker about this yesterday in the midst of a discussion about our new (more expensive and no better) heath plan. His argument was that if people don't want to work the lower paying jobs (where healthcare costs are crushing), they should have worked harder/schooled more/played less/whatever to get to a better position. The obvious problem though is that we would not have a functioning company (or economy) if everyone "worked harder". The lower payed workers are the reason that high payed workers can exist at all.

So the idea of "work harder" is actually moot. At the extreme you end up with the whole population at the same level, and when everyone is rich, no one is rich. What are white collar workers if all the blue collar "worked harder" and became white collar? Useless, they are useless.

Now if I take some liberty, usually people pushing this "worked harder" rhetoric are acutely aware of what I said above, and push it as a means to maintain the status quo, because making it easier to jump from blue to white collar threatens their value.
Yet, https://www.redwoodmaterials.com wants to build their factories as close as EV ones'. Wonder why?
So that's exactly what I said. Bitcoin solves the issue of trust. I do not have to trust that someone really has the money they say do, because Bitcoin will refuse to allow them to spend such money.
What else would you have used as branding?
We run ansible-pull as the very last step of a CloudFormation build (instance or autoscaling group). So it's a local pull, not a push from somewhere else. Only done once, hence the immutability. To make changes you replace the instance.

Puppet (can) keep it's hooks into an already running instance and continue making changes to it.
NY (not NYC) cumulative cases is 2m and population is 19.4m, so about 10.3% of population [source: google coronavius stats].

> California 3.7M cumulative cases & 1,336 case/day current 7-day average vs. 39.5M population

Its 3.77M, so about 9.5% of population.

> Texas 2.9M cumulative case & 2,034 case/day current 7-day average vs. 29M population.

That's 10%.

> Florida 2.3M cumulative cases & 3,007 case/day 7-day average vs 21.5M population.

That's about 10.6%.

> FL and TX are worse on per capita cumulative cases, and much worse on current per capita new cases than California.

With the total cases being about the same so this does not support your conclusion that masks "drastically reduce spread".
So, I’m sort of curious to see what this price point does to the home battery market.

The new LG Chem RESU 16h (16 kWh) is available for preorder at $8,400 [1].

The base model truck has a 110 kWh suite of batteries and seemingly will start at $40k (unclear if that’s before or after the $7500 expected federal rebate).

Naively multiplying it out, the base model F-150 Lightning is a free vehicle attached to the equivalent of 6 of the 16 kWh batteries.

There are likely:

- integration issues (you can’t hook it up to 48V or 400V solar)

- battery life? (Though it’s a vehicle. You expect daily usage for years)

- something else?

tl;dr: if this is really 110 kWh of storage that can power your home, shouldn’t there be a secondary market of “just the batteries” for half that?

[1] https://sunwatts.com/16-kwh-lg-chem-lithium-ion-home-battery...
>How do you ride a bike for hundreds of kilometers?

In many parts of the world, you would take a train or other forms of public transport to travel distances too far to ride by bike. Those often have last-mile problems when the train doesn't go quite where you need it to, but given sufficient density at the source/destination bikes are an effective solution to the last-mile problem.

Of course, in the US, we typically have sprawl at the source/destination, unsafe infrastructure for bicycling, and often not-very-useful public transport, which does rather limit this option.
I’m about as “casual” of a user as possible and it’s still much less that I might theoretically need these things someday and more that I do need them, occasionally. For myself or for friends + family.
Contrary to common belief, the main job of VCs is not to fuel innovation, it is to protect the money of their clients from the potential disruption.

Angels, on the other hand, are more likely to have a wider range of internal motivations and less constraints.

Some of them might be open to real innovation instead of hedging against it.
Penalties in Japan and China are often worse despite no tradition of fire and brimstone. Feels like you’re just taking your own personal biases and stretching them to explain complex phenomena.
Has politics ever not been post-truth? To win a debate you just need to sway the audience. It has been known since ancient times that's not limited to presenting facts.
In that vein realtors are basically a scam.

A decent inspector can and will find things, but true it may be difficult to find one.

I think the solution is going to be an unpopular take--learn about the world and be able to do a lot of this stuff yourself.

I bought my house without a realtor and without an inspection. My house needed work for sure, but I got a great deal and learning experience in both the buying and repair/maintenance. I spend my evenings working on the house instead of watching tv and eating garbage. Three years later I have a few 100k in equity.

I do wish the world was full of trustworthy people and life was easy, but no number of bureaucratic requirements are going to make these problems go away. If you live in a world you don't understand, you will be taken advantage of.
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The original poster did: "Now do automatic weapons, straw purchases, felons getting guns, etc."

I wanted to talk about the merits and reasons for/against drug decriminalization, as well as alternative solutions.. You keep telling me that I'm missing the point, but maybe you're missing my point. I'm not interested in the discussion about the broader point of the process itself. Talking about parties and sides and gun control is not the discussion I engaged in. The fact that it's a controversial issue that elicits strong emotional responses from people is not germane to the discussion at hand.

The original poster said: "Maybe our political discourse wouldn't get quite to the level of talking about secession if we tried to understand one another's values a little better."

That's exactly what was happening! I wanted to take part in that. The last thing I would want to do in that discussion is bring in heated tangential topics that would serve to derail the conversation. That's not burying your head, that's staying on topic. There are significant emotional components about this and also as well about guns. Agreed. The original point stands.
Thank you! I know this isn't much, but I just bought a license based on this comment. I didn't know it was possible but Sublime 4 feels even faster!
Beyond the practical reasons re irregularly hauling something to the dump or picking something up for a Reno, two reasons we got a truck that don’t seem mentioned here are for (a) visibility on the road (it is just nicer IMO to be up high) and (b) my wife has long legs and often sits between our kids in the backseat on long drives and it has as much legroom as a Bentley.
There is a SFTP plugin that supports this to some extend but it's a serial file sync, not parallel like VSCode so it's painfully slow in comparison.
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How does that even work?

Do they actually check that the data is real?
I don’t think it’s a thing specific to conservatism, although I do think conservatives are more susceptible to this thinking for various reasons.
If you're tired, rest. Developing programs and websites are very taxing work, especially on your mental state. I suggest you do some outdoor activities, unwind and don't think about anything, enjoy.
> The base model truck has a 110 kWh suite of batteries and seemingly will start at $40k (unclear if that’s before or after the $7500 expected federal rebate).

During the live presentation, I believe it was indicated the sub $40k price tag is before the rebate.
> The section about layout starts with...This history lesson is not really relevant for newbies.

so folks know what we're talking about:

https://web.dev/learn/css/layout/#layout:-a-brief-history

It's four (pretty short) sentences that give a small amount of context pretty quickly and then links to another resource if you want to know more. I'd agree with you if it were a page or two's worth of history, but there's not much to find distracting here.

More importantly I think you're focusing on the newbies who are coming in with nothing but ignoring the newbies who are looking at existing code and a whole bunch of tutorials and stackoverflow answers out there written over the last two decades. Acknowledging that things have changed in CSS quite a lot in that time and pointing to where they can learn more means you don't distract the really new newbies much but you also don't confuse the other ones, leaving them with lots of questions ("but I read [this] about CSS...") and no idea where to look to reconcile some old advice ("use jquery for all styling!") with what they're learning now.

But it's also four sentences in the eighth chapter of a tutorial. It's not going to solve all confusion but it's also not a derailment.
what makes you think there light blue neighbor would have them?
If you haven't seen it yet, as an enjoyer may I recommend 2016 film Arrival. Could just as well be a dolphin in the tank.

"They're saying.. 'Thanks for the fish'.
So you got through 2 or 3 years of calculus at least a year of abstract algebra and probably 2 years of linear before you could understand what a Fourier transform was?

Color me skeptical
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I think the idea is that you plug the car after the mains switch, and you disconnect the mains from your utility when you use the car’s batteries as a source of current.

So it’s manual but it makes sense, you don’t want (yet) to send back energy to the network.

Maybe later on there’ll be a way for the energy network to broker power from plugger cars in the neighborhood.
I was wondering the same thing, and it appears it would be worth the effort, but getting enough high quality reviewers would be a problem.

Maybe the NCAA could organize competitive code reviewing leagues? I bet you would get e.g. a highly motivated Caltech team reviewing USC contributed patches, and vice versa.
i think they are different markets.

cyber truck is for affluent city people who probably never had or wanted a truck before but like the design.

f150 is more for normal people who actually just want a normal truck that’s electric
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From other reports I've seen claims of three days at "normal" power draw, up to ten days if you're deliberately conserving power.
This is a strange take on an economist whose book and NYT blog was titled "The Conscience of a Liberal“
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It's ridiculous that this is still an issue- cheap fiber optics have been around since the 80s. The blame rests on the ISPs for their monopolistic behavior.
What the uni guys did was correct. The Linux devs only able to review their codes because they are alerted. I am very sure there are plenty of bad faith commits that were accepted by Linux devs. For one, any governments with interest for backdoors with resources beyond the combine all Linux devs would have done it. Instead of appreciating what the uni did, they go beserk because their ego bruised. I am not surprised if within the next 5 years we going to hear more about this issue just that this time the parties involved are not that university.
> Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it

This is, sadly, very much untrue.

Climate change, and particularly the way our energy sources affect it, have become so partisan that I have seen people with strong right-wing leanings express the desire to burn the dirtiest coal they can, as dirty as they can possibly burn it, largely to "own the libs".
> One simple example - two jobs may have the same title (Senior Developer, or whatever) but have totally different expectations of communication skills, leadership skills, ability to handle pressure, etc and would pay very differently. So you (and everyone else) would be tempted to apply for the top-paying job but potentially not be qualified.

That's because software engineering suffers from tittle inflation (same way grade inflation works really).

Internally there are several "levels" of Senior Engineers at most companies. But what the levels map to is completely arbitrary. I've seen places where senior really means 20 years of industry experience and others where it's more like 5.
Yes, it will be heavier, and yes it will have more acceleration...

But newer vehicles also have AEB with pedestrian detection. If these vehicles displace older existing vehicles without those safety systems we will see fewer fatalities overall. Most kids and pedestrians are hit at low speed, not at 60+ mph due to the driver not paying attention or not being able to see the pedestrian. While AEB can’t save all pedestrians that would otherwise be hit, we know that these systems lead to big reductions in preventable accidents [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31381447/
Yes, 100%. A salesperson on commission does not care about the long-term maintenance costs of a decision of this nature. And I don't blame them, it's not something they should care about. A product owner? They may care if they're actually invested (stock options, co-ownership, etc) but they also may just leave after a few years after a better offer comes along or a buyout happens. A software engineer? It's the same as the product owner, they may care for some period but why not just leave when a better offer comes along.

I've pondered this issue as the "Peter Gibbons" problem. Why would anyone in the chain of software development care about the software itself? There's no incentive to consider the long-term cost impact of implementing a custom feature because you can always just find a new job if the product gets unwieldy.
There is a forcing function to in-person lectures; I can't tell you how many events I've basically skipped in the past year because I can catch up on the videos anytime--and, of course, I mostly don't. But, in principle, depending upon the size of the class there's a lot to be said for watching the lecture on video and using class time for discussion, project work, etc.
"boneheaded" is an insult, not an argument.

Why is the reverse OK, requiring foreign language but not other things? Space in the curriculum is competitive.

For most people, studying a foreign language in school for a couple of years is essentially useless. That's not how human language learning works. (For one, it's a fee years too late. For two, it's not immersive.)
It’s honestly a lot more practical than people seem to think. And if electric trucks hold their value anything like ICE trucks, getting one with a tax credit at about $40k for the base model is probably the best deal in a new vehicle you can find.
this is my biggest concern. my dad has a tesla, and you put your foot on that thing it feels like a jet on the runway. electric motors are allowing everyday, consumer level cars that can do 0-60 faster than a Ferrari, and silently as well. it leads to doing more aggressive turns and stuff like that which you can only pull off with maximum acceleration, which means scenarios like the left turn where you're whipping out like silent lightning to beat the oncoming cars, and some kid on a bike suddenly entering the road to your left where you're going, and in the opposite way in which you are looking (at the oncoming cars to the right) is toast.
> I think the attitude of “you don’t need a truck unless you’re a blue collar worker” is pretty elitist and ignorant, honestly.

A sedan with the rear seats folded down will likely hold as much as you can get in a Costco run.

Or two bikes you throw in there.

I know because mine does both of these things.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of current truck owners 1) don't own boats 2) rarely, if ever, haul furniture 3) use the space in the rear on a regular basis.

Against this we have the known statistics of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities due to the obstructions to visibility provided by the very high front grille and very high ride height (plus wide A-pillars, etc.)

So it's therefore not only a waste of gas but a public health hazard, and making that claim is not "elitist", it's merely "rational" and "empirical" (and allow me to add, "humane")

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/bigger-vehicles-are-directly-...

"Recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found the share of pedestrian deaths involving trucks, vans, and SUVs has increased from 22 to 44 percent since the mid-1980s. More SUVs and trucks in the fleet = more pedestrian injuries becoming deaths instead."

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411345/suvs-trucks-deadly-cyc...
> The UK system where each buyer comissions a survey is absurd.

In the US if a buyer does provide an inspection report to the seller and backs out, then the seller does at least have to disclose any issues found.
In my view, if you have made it through to module 8, you're not going to be put off at that point by a single paragraph explaining the historical context. If it was the introduction to the whole course, you might have a point.
"They" has been used as a singular since the 1300s. Example: "a person knocked on the door, but I missed them. Do you know what they wanted?"
The claims I saw in all of the regurgitated Press Releases seemed to indicate they are going to do 4 doors as standard on the Lightning, at least for now.

I'm not sure how much of that is streamlining production versus design (i.e. fitting all the batteries in place may more or less necessitate that specific body style)
There's no real danger of FORD, of all companies, doing something usable or well-designed here.
They said the same about twin turbos in their trucks, but they got used to it.
I'm wondering the same, it seems that the common denominator in any system that we can observe where entropy first stops increasing and begins to decrease is the addition of a mind.
Anyone speaking improvisationallly (not from a script) can be listened to at 1.5x at least. I get through a lot of tutorials at 2x.
> Many plugin API additions particularly to better support plugins like LSP

It is coming with LSP support so that will work as well.
This is my #1 feature I'd like to have.

If you decide to add it, please make it flexible enough to configure all options OpenSSH provides.
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I notice they make a huge deal about the towing capacity but realistically what is the range of this going to be hooked up to a 10,000lb / 5000kg trailer? Maybe if it's lucky a little over 100 miles? Maybe useful for some utility use cases but practically useless for the recreational vehicle market.
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I'm a potential customer on this. I'm in the market for a vehicle, need a pickup and towing (no really). My hesitance still is charge time on trips. If I'm taking my kids camping or something, I really don't want to add one or more hours to the trip. IMO for this sort of thing to really gain acceptance mainstream, we need 5 minute charge times and battery lifetimes on par with ICE engine lifetimes (300-500k miles).

I feel like the industry is getting really close, and this is a solid effort that puts Tesla on notice, but not _quite_ there in terms of mass acceptance.
I have a few friends that are engineers in the auto companies. Its kind of amazing how many negative impacts the CAFE standards had--not on purpose (hopefully), but through unintended consequences. Apparently the Nissan Leaf for example was strictly manufactured to generate credits/offset the environmental impact of the Nissan truck and van line that could not be adjusted to meet the CAFE standards.

My dad had a Ranger in 97 that was just about the perfect truck for day-to-day use. It fit 2 adults comfortably, had a tiny 4 cylinder engine, got great gas milage, and could be used to pull a small trailer. He was crushed when Ford got rid of the Ranger. And what they've released now is basically the size of the old F-150 from the 90s
Is a truck an unnecessarily tall vehicle or is replacing sedans with taller hatchbacks we pretend are SUVs an unnecessarily tall vehicle? Because one is tall for a reason and the other is tall purely due to consumer preference.
To some people machismo means strength, to others machismo means self-reliance. The 11 power outlets and the ability to power your house will really appeal to them.

If the world turns Mad Max, someone with an electric truck and a few solar panels won't have to worry about the gasoline gangs.
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Until somebody has another similar box so they reuse login-box a bunch in your application, then you realize that they actually need to be customized and have to tear it all apart.

Tailwind doesn't make you copy and paste, it moves the reuse of styles out of CSS which sucks at managing reuse into whatever HTML building system which likely has some concept of reusable views.
I agree with the rest, but I'm pretty skeptical of this claim:

> Switching our road transport to electric will probably save more children, and the adults they will become, from a lifetime of lung problems and premature death from pollution than better pedestrian safety features ever will.

Do you (or anyone) have order-of-magnitude estimates for either/both of these figures? I mean, electrification in general is great, but the F150 cannot take credit for all of it. I am interested in reduced pollution deaths/QALYs that can be attributed to F150 electrification specifically -- that's the topic of this article and thread.
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I have 200/5 with Xfinity which is mostly OK. But it's hardly POTS levels of reliability. Went out completely on me during a call yesterday and I had to fall back on my (marginal) cell phone service. I sometimes regret dropping my landline. I had more reliable phone service in the 1970s.
How does what work? Asking for previous salary? I've been asked to provide W2s to prove my salary prior to the law. You can probably fake W2s but I just think that's too much work for 99.9% of job applicants.
Our PHD quant spent his first 5 years at a prop shop, 7 years at CME, 5 at Trading Technologies before consulting. He said it took him his entire career to realize that the name of the game is risk management, not seeking alpha. Happy to pay his $500/hr for lessons learned. Worth his weight in gold.
What weird marketing. Is there really any overlap between a person who buys an F150 and one who is comfortable uttering the word "frunk"?