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We're talking about only selling EVs from 2030, but the state of EV chargers, especially in urban areas, is absolutely dire. And there doesn't seem to be enough recognition of that. Take for example the London borough of Haringey. There's 81 publicly accessible EV charging points, and they're making a song and dance about installing a further 37. https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/...

How many people live in Haringey? 270,000. Housing is predominantly flats and terraced housing. Even if there's only a car for every 4 people, that still means 67,500 EVs.

There needs to be a couple of orders of magnitude more EV chargers to be anywhere close to "ready" for the EV transition.
DVI was something special, though. The fun of DVI-A vs DVI-D vs DVI-I, then single vs double link.
Don’t get me wrong. I have the standard motivation to function in life.

It’s just the things you’d associate with great intelligence I don’t have motivation for. Like building a robot or doing research every day.

It’s not a problem at all, I’m just saying I have no use for more intelligence because I wouldn’t use it for anything.
What's wrong with the performance? I don't notice any performance issues in Windows terminal.
I think this is a concept vehicle, which is quite common in the "classic" automotive industry when ever they want to introduce new design style/language and/or tech.

Like this is the vision that will inspire the development.
This is pretty much exactly how it works in C# nowadays (though it’s opt-in).
Make stuff closer to where it's used again™
There are a lot of contradictory ideas out there, sometimes it is important to let children make mistakes, it is not easy as a parent to sometimes do nothing.
The TRPV1 and TRPV8 receptors are fascinating. Genetic variants in these receptors explain why we experience things differently.
https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/are-you-a-spicy-food-wimp/
>But you point out a real problem. There is so much reinvention by people who simply don't know what was done previously.

I've often wondered if and where the boundaries of human knowledge will run into this very problem. Mostly we rely on the concept of reductionism and hope that will generalize and scale but it rarely does. We often have different theories at different scales for different things we to want model and explain with science in general. If it's found that these ideas don't connect and we have to forever add more and more generalized nuggets of knowledge, models, etc for specific case, even if they are reductionist in nature, we may get to a point where there's just so much information the act of discovery of prior art may be more work than simply redoing the experiment against the ultimate judge (reality) and see if it flies.

I used to work with a handful of bioinformaticists in the era of the affordable sequencing boom and there was a lot of debate about what to do with all the sequence data. Do they archive it and pay the cost to manage, index, and make it searchable or does it make more sense to simply pay the couple thousand to rerun the experiment and assure yourself that no process flaws were introduced in a prior paper, that you eventually agree with the prior work, and so on. There's almost a little bit of built in reproducibility in this unintended act of duplicating prior work.

Software is especially bad because it's such a relatively new domain and is rarely done rigorously so people just run through cycles over and over again, assuming something people did before was wrong or that the environment changed and that approach was just inappropriate for it's time period. Plus, people in this industry seem to be driven to do innovative new work so they have no interest in looking backwards even if they should.
I don't notice anything. I am amazed at how little I notice, other than how much time I save by not cooking, eating, cleaning, and shopping for food. Maybe, just maybe, my energy level evens out, but is by no means enhanced. I barely lose any fat, half a pound over 3 days if lucky. The only way to make it noticeable is to walk for 8 hours straight on day 3, just because at that point the body HAS to burn fat.

Don't feel magically better. Don't feel hungry after the first 12 hours. Just feels the same. Hopefully, all the magical stories about autophagy, HGH, eth aren't COMPLETELY exaggerated.

I hate reading about fasting, meditation, cold showers, contrast baths, ketosis, etc because it's always made out to be this magical thing, and as far as I can tell, it's just not, and the "science" turns out to be made up eventually.
Counterpoint: I've reviewed multi-thousand line PRs (with dozens of commits) ... those took me days of 8 hour review, with multiple issues found. (To be fair, when I first skimmed it, it looked great to me, but a deeper dive found lots of things that could be improved.) These kinds of large PRs was how the gentleman I worked with did pairing and it worked out pretty well (surprisingly, don't try this at home).

I suspect this is the exception that proves the rule, not really an alternative rule.
Good point. In this case Katalin Karikó and Weismann are the frontrunners.
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> the fact is both wars were hugely popular when they started

That was the case in Afghanistan, but not in Iraq. There were significant protests against the planned invasion.
> The national grid is barely keeping up with current demand for electricity,

Citation needed... The national grid transports less power today than it did 40 years ago, despite a much bigger population.
What is stopping the cheap knockoffs from putting these logos on cables and devices that don't actually meet the specifications? A logo that says "certified" doesn't actually mean anything.
Games are typically much better at internationalization and accessibility than developer tooling though. For example this new windows console doesn't have either, but all big games gets translated to and handles text from languages all over the world.
So Putin had a child with a mistress and set her up financially. This seems pretty standard for anyone with significant wealth and/or power. I am pretty sure he is responsible for way worse atrocities than this. Further, haven't we known about the oligarchs of Russia for some time now? I don't think this is really exposing any new or unexpected behavior from Putin. This article reads more like a National Enquirer with extra details than some real expose. I almost don't really understand what the point of the article is. It certainly isn't anything that would lead the Russian people to lose faith in him. I guess you could say that it shows he doesn't follow the same rules that the Russian people are expected to follow, but I'm pretty sure they know that too.
New York was actually the first state in the US to start regulating PFAS and PFOA sites in 2016.

As of last year, maximum limits for public water went into effect. I believe testing has gone on for longer than that.

EDIT: linked fixed

https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/water/drinking/docs/...
By title? Possibly people upvote it in the hope that someone will publish an archive link.
It's very, very approximately the basis of Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, although that book (very minor spoiler) involves earth organisms planted on alien planets being evolved / uplifted by tailored genetic packages.
That looks like reductio ad absurdum argument. Returning professional dishwashers even not an option at this point due to depth of technology integration. Meanwhile autonomous driving is not yet here.

Anyway, as i see it, current situation is different to other similar historic ones. Maybe i'm wrong. But previously we had an abundance of low-skill jobs. Now all low-skill jobs are targets for automation.

I think that solutions like UBI are very detrimental to middle class. Since we see that higher class are very flexible in terms of tax-evasion. And i don't see how it can last for more than one generation of welfare people.
And India. Most businesses run their customer service off Whatsapp, including nation-wide telecom outfits.
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Asking kind of for fun, kinds of for serious :)
PFOS/PFAS are such a shit fest.

An unholy coalition politicians, gov't administration, scientists and corporate interest tried to cover up historical PFOS pollution around the 3M production site in Zwijndrecht (BE). They were caught red handed by a vigilant citizen journal when some politicians wanted to expedite some car-centric public construction works smack in the middle of the polluted area.

The ministers for environment and public works ordered their administrations to turn a blind eye, not to sample the wider area to assess the extent of the PFOS pollution, and under no circumstance communicate to the public about the pollution.

A renowned toxicologist was commissioned write down safety norms for the public works in the context of pre-existing PFOS pollution. He took a European reference norm that was already outdated at the time given new toxicological insights, messed up the arithmetic, and, lo and behold, came up with a threshold that was _just_ right for the works to start.

A special parliamentary commission was established to investigate, and so we had 3M testify in parliament on how they believe it is a harmless chemical etc.

At some point in 2010s 3M switched the production process over to use PFAS which they are dumping in the Scheldt river in absurd amounts to this day.

We got some reassuring corporate sop that they promise to reduce PFAS levels in wastewater discharges to 54 kg/year by 2024 (5.375 kg/year in 2021). For reference, Chemours (NL) had a permit for dumping just 2 kg/year in 2020, which sounds about right given our current understanding of the human toxicological effects of PFAS.
When analyzing the United States you have to remember that most of it is empty. Most of the time when you see a picture like this, it's because of the population distribution. These areas look clean because people don't live there. https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/maps/

Or alternatively, https://xkcd.com/1138/

Its also not clear how to gauge these dots. One dot may cover an enormous area or a small area. One might wonder if some instances are double counted. On the big picture level, it's reasonable down to the level of "where the people at"
The Nobel Peace prize has always had political motivations that have reduced it's credibility. Last year it was awarded to the "World Food Programme" and in 2001 it was awarded to the “United Nations”. It’s best view the peace prize separately.
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no logo can compensate the lack of usb-c hubs.
Telegram has image issues though, in Germany it's most widely known as a safe haven for drug dealers, Islamist terrorists and especially the far-right and anti-vaxx faction since its reluctance to intervene against problematic content and its non-compliance with the German anti-hatespeech law NetzDG.

As a result, there are discussions about fines which can reach up to 55 million € and even a complete ban (https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/telegram-droht-aerger...).
This stuff drives me insane.

Things like "BPA-free!" almost always translates to "We replaced it with something that's probably worse!"

At some point, we have to figure out a way to crack down on companies that knowingly just switch from one troublesome chemical to a lightly tweaked version of the same thing.
I share this opinion. I'm deep in the Apple camp but it never bothered me that they didn't jump on USB standards. They are a complete mess and if I plugged a shoddy cable into my device and fried it I would be super pissed at Apple for putting me in a position to make that mistake.

I don't charge my recent generation MacBook with anything other than the Apple charger for this exact reason.
French car makers where the first to sell electric cars

Tesla is lucky to be funded and backed by the US government

https://www.statista.com/statistics/965507/eu-leading-passen...
I think many do have subscriptions and support good journalism.

Otherwise archive.is is your friend.
> Windows is available for ARM, and it supports emulation of x86 apps just like Rosetta.

Not really. It is a long way behind Rosetta.

(Partially because Apple only built the M1 to be optimised for running Mac apps in emulation, partially because Apple had spent five years deprecating older software very aggressively so nobody expected those things to work, partially because it's genuinely hard, and partially because it's not very good.)
Sure, that might not be a Nobel prize worthy breakthrough, but it is still very much AI, and it is still very much "true" weather prediction. I just don't understand where the gatekeeping on both point is coming from.
Who are they and how did they censor?
What about the Tesla Roadster, Semi-Truck, Truck?

This fanboyism is starting to become too much...
It also downloads hundreds of thousands of tiny files over a high-latency connection.

At least initially, it didn't use the XBox CDN either.
See my comment above. The NHS are implanting devices / software created by an American company, and use the supplied telemetry systems to get medical data. I have no evidence that the data is also sent back to the US company, especially given that the NHS are paying for the bandwidth.
In the Netherlands there is buienradar.nl which also uses radar images to predict rain fall accurately. Already for more then 10 years. Before an algorithm was called ‘AI’ ;-)
The licensing concerns do play a factor. VMware also makes it difficult to run Mac OS VMs on Workstation for the same reason.

(Source: I recently left VMware)
K8s is regularly regarded as a very poor example of idiomatic Go code, along with the AWS client libs.

Searching our prod code, "naked" if-err-return-err showed up in about 5% of error handling cases, the rest did something more (attempted a fallback, added context, logged something, metric maybe, etc).
Close - You can know general proximity through other devices, but it won't triangulate. If you own the AirTag, you can find it more specifically based on signal strength, but with "other people's devices" you only get a general location.
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“True weather prediction” as in the actual computer forecast modes that have been around for decades. Taking atmospheric measurements and creating 3D predictions of weather conditions in the future, including wind speed, precip type and amount, and so on. The example here is just basic image extrapolation analytics, which as pointed out by many, is not new.
I really cannot fathom how one could forget fundamentals.

I can prove the average complexity of quicksort with simple math transformations of initial recurrence equation which I do not even have remembered but I'm sure I could derive. Last time I did this was maybe 8 years ago if not more.

Yet somehow an accomplished dev cannot spot accidentally quadratic behavior when coding in something that is not Haskell.

IMO, the average dev and average accomplished dev is no longer the kind that knows the fundamentals. Not that it's necessary in all cases but eventually everything will look an equivalent of a doctoral thesis when the average codes the spaghetti mess.

Recently I was reviewing code with map(find).sort(indexOf) (O(n^2 log n + n^2) behavior) when it could have been a simple dict; map(dict.get) (O(n)). This person has 10 years of coding experience. When looking at the resume, the dev is pretty accomplished, productive, and worthy of the salary. But I assume the knowledge of fundamentals was missing from the start.
I'd argue that they are fundamentally different. Option is "just another type". You interact with it using constructors, map/flatMap/get etc. You could implement Optional in Java 1.5 but can't implement nullable types in current Java.

Nullable types are a feature of the type system and require language support, but the benefit is that you don't touch typical programming patterns

val foo: T? = x()
if(foo == null) { return ... }
// foo is now T, optionality gone

v.s.

val foo: Option<T> = x()
// following must be wrapped and sprinkled in .map, .flatMap, .orElse

You can sort-of achieve the first with .isPresent() + .get(), but it clutters the scope, is more verbose, and is not really idiomatic.
> nobody's "panic buying"

Whilst I cannot find empirical evidence illustrating the amount of "panic buying", it does seem to be quite widely accepted (across the government, media, general public and oil and gas industry) that people are panic buying. Unless you have evidence to support your claim I'm inclined to believe all the sources I've read.
Romania as well. Just to give an example, I recently needed some documents printed (WFH = no printer...) and found a corner shop where I just shared the docs over whatsapp with them.
> So say there exists some form of higher-level individual that where we can be considered as components. Does its existence suddenly revoke our individual-ness? I don't see why that should be, why it has to be exclusive. The flatworm and the neoblasts can be individuals at the same time.

A far out way of considering it is in the context of greater humanity and the various pesky problems within it like anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, child deaths due to malnutrition, war, lack of genuine (non-illusory) empathy, etc.
That is not at all what those links indicate.
I misworded what I thought. I think they knew but have no clue why they went ahead with the mistake non the less.
https://archive.is/pdjiN
I, for one, naturally lost interest and stopped using it many years ago and deleted completey last year, along with Instagram and many other social platforms.
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At every step, you need to run code to advance. On that page (https://futurecoder.io/course/#AddingStrings) you first need to run `'hello' + 'world'` in the shell as instructed. The next step is an exercise: you have to output the same thing with a space in between words, so code such as `'hello' + ' ' + 'world'` is accepted. The 'Next' button only appears at the end of the page.

You're not the first person I've seen get confused about this, I'll need to find a way to make it clearer that the interface is waiting for you to run something.
I had to babysit a classroom of 8-10 year olds recently and asked how many used smartphones everyday. All of them raised their hand. What do you guys do on the phone? Games and Whatsapp. WTF are you guys doing on Whatsapp? Oh we chat with each other.
They're losing millions of users in the free world. Most of their gains are from places like South America and South Asia.
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I was wondering that myself. I love how he strings them along to the point they just start screaming at him. He doesn't say anything mean he just acts ignorant and obtuse like someone who's not computer illiterate and then some. :)
> The national grid is barely keeping up with current demand for electricity, I will be astounded if we manage to pull off anything nearing a reasonable solution to electrifying private vehicles.

That's simply untrue - National Grid don't forsee a problem. [1] Peak power usage in the UK was in 2005 - energy saving measures have been reducing it ever since. [2] The grid is today only delivering around 70% of the power it delivered in 2005.

Electric cars individually may have high peak charging loads, but if you calculate the total average power draw per car over a years driving, it's only about 200W. We may have to implement some level of demand management either in the cars or car chargers, but that's not particularly complicated - all the infrastructure already exists.

I do agree that the charging infrastructure is a long way off. Every street of terraced houses needs to be dug up and wired up with regular spaced charging points.

[1]: https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero-sto...
[2]: https://theconversation.com/britains-electricity-use-is-at-i...
I'm not sure what "more pv" means here, apologies.

I see your point, in your situation that's great, but I live in an Nth floor apartment in a London borough, I don't have an option for solar, nor for a wall socket to power an EV, nor do any of my neighbours. We're entirely at the mercy of Freeholders to consider putting EV charging in and _only_ charging us the price of a small motor vehicle for the privilege, if they'll do it at all.

I suspect a significant percentage of the population, who like myself live in large cities or suburbs are in a similar position.

Someone told me recently that a mandate is now in place for new-build to at least build infrastructure to support EV chargers in bays, even if they're not built ahead of time. Of course given the racket that is property development, they'll not put them in and charge you a pretty penny to add it after the fact.
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Would it not be easier if Go just provided a stack trace attached to the Error? How to cleanly do this in Go I don't know, I do however do this in embedded C++ and it works well. I agree without context, errors can be hard to track down when they come from functions that are called by many other functions.

I am not a fan of manually wrapping errors because it seems inferior to stack trace.

Also, I hate that Errors in Go are mostly just random strings, super hard at a high level to do anything intelligent.
Notoriously anti-FB publication keeps writing doomsday articles in hopes of them becoming true.

Technology users who don't make up core users self-assured that their noble refrainment reflects broader sentiment.