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If average Jane, who is not a raving Tesla fan, wants to spend circa $140K on an EV, and she has to choose between the Mercedes EQS 580 and the Tesla Model X, which one would you say is the no-brainer (better value for money)?

https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/eqs/sedan
https://www.tesla.com/modelx

That is the future of Tesla. Increasing competition by better products offered by manufacturers with far more experience in manufacturing vehicles, and far superior dealership, service, and parts networks.
> They will need ultimately to make more profits than those companies combined, but the number of cars is not that important

That climbs pretty linearly with car sales. There's only so much margin you can make with a vehicle in any market. Apple manages to have higher profit at lower sales because selling a phone for $1000 that cost $200 is possible since millions of people can afford $1000.

Selling a $100k car that cost $20k is a much bigger margin than maybe Toyota has, but there are very few people who can afford $100k cars. Eventually you need volume. Apple itself has huge volume, they are outsold by around 20-30% against Samsung, not by 5000%.
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People keep using the DMV as an example of government inefficiency, but my state has made it run so painlessly I don't think I've spent more than 15 minutes in an office over the last 5 years. I think government can be efficient if you put technocrats in charge of implementation rather than elected officials who are subject to the electoral whims of the uninformed masses.

The problem with the above is it weakens democratic institutions by removing the exercise of power from the people the population select to lead.

Inefficiency to me can not possibly be more clearly demonstrated than by ape pictures losing hundreds of thousands of dollars for their purchasers. But we also have examples like Uber spending cash on hand to drive competitors under without having a plan to maintain their own services without heavy subsidy.
>> without brakes

That is key. Brakes are largely unregulated on bicycles, at beyond laws saying that they need to have them. Standards for braking power and/or stopping distance would be fought tooth and nail. All those ultra-efficient bikes on slim tires wouldn't be possible if someone set minimum stopping distances.
Fun and simple, nice. I'd love to see the raw values presented using something like dat.gui, as well as basic play/pause/step controls.

https://github.com/dataarts/dat.gui

You can see how it's used in this codepen:

https://codepen.io/russellbeattie/pen/kGxaqM
As someone that makes decent tech money, but not enough to afford or make use of a dedicated financial advisor-- I found Uprise to be super helpful. I received a personalized game-plan for how to manage all my various types of investments (stock-options, crypto, mortgage, 401k, etc). The advice mostly laid out the risks and did not feel overly prescriptive.

In my ideal world the service would take the next step of automatically re-arranging my finances based on the recommendations with my consent. Example: if the recommendation is to reduce exposure to crypto, then once I sign-off on it, the money is rebalanced and put into an IRA.

Overall love the direction of the product and excited to see how this product evolves!
I've been mulling over the colonial era privileges that people expect to be able to have. But with a greater population, especially a wealthier population, the old timey vacation that everyone imagines just isn't possible. This disparity is part of the loss felt by those with privilege.
Chicago style is really incredible.
If you use cmake it can do exactly this for you automatically : just pass -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=1
You mention Slack, but they had losses of $140M/year prior to IPO:

Slack says it may not turn profitable; IPO filing reveals $139 million in losses, Microsoft primary competitor

The Slack IPO filing shows annual revenue of $400.5 million, up 60% from the prior year, with a net loss of $138.9 million, for the 12-month period that ended Jan. 31. Slack's actual fiscal year-end date has yet to be determined.
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No worries, but I'm not sure what notion you're trying to craft with that stat. Toyota had far more revenue and profit. Operating income was lower... so what? Tells me Toyota has been spending money to carve a huge chunk out of the EV sector. Maybe they are late. Maybe Tesla will show that it's current valuation holds. I doubt it.
Ty! This has been an important pillar for us since day 1. We believe a lot in the open source ethos, its transparency, and its collaborativeness.
I think the issue is that there are a lack of companies that are competing for talent.

Basically the job market consists of Apple, Lab126 and perhaps Logitech in the US. The rest of the job market is either in Asia or in niche industrial markets or early stage robotics companies.

That said - I do think having an embedded background - particularly embedded Linux - can actually improve your systems level knowledge - since you have to get into Linux drivers, the networking stack, package managers, etc.
I find React perfectly fine for writing SPAs, as long as what is being written is actually suited to being an SPA. Otherwise I find it as dreadful as any time you use a hammer to pound a screw in place.
Might I suggest: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term%20of%20art
Eventually didn't get the offer because they said I didn't pass leadership interview. Apparently I was interviewing at one level above I thought I was interviewing (the recruiter messed up).

That sounds very encouraging. Need to tell all my friends to invest hours and hours of their time in this company's careful and considered hiring process.
Ok, then you start pedaling, but since they specifically say it provides constant resistance, it's safe to say that they are not emulating road feel.
Yeah, like pizza that doesn't come from Italy. And has pineapple on it.
I've always loved how immigration becomes something that is bad and should be stopped when it's done by whites.
For hydrogen production, water is for all practical purposes an unlimited source.

To get a sense for that it's cute to use a unit of volume of 1 cubic kilometer.

The world consumes about 36 billion barrels of oil per year, which comes to about 5.7 cubic kilometers. As a very strange coincidence, we consume about 3800 billion cubic meters of natural gas; if we were to liquefy it, it would come to virtually the same volume like the oil, more precisely 5.9 cubic kilometers.

All in all, let's say we consume about 10 cubic kilometers of fossil fuels in liquid form.

Water contains about the same amount of hydrogen per unit volume as oil or LNG.

So, let's say (in an absurd extreme) that all of the world's crude oil and natural gas use goes towards hydrogen production, and we need to replace that with water, and for some reason that water is gone after 1 use (it's not), then we need to use 10 cubic kilometers of water per year.

The world oceans have about 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of water.
So do you have examples of cheerleading or what?
RFID - why not? NFC payment cards can’t be cloned, they use crypto.
This at least massively reduces anti-counterfeiters’ caseload.
Norwegian oil fund denounces ‘corporate greed’ over executive pay
The break fee is not an option, it's a penalty. Twitter can sue him to force the deal to go through unless it's off for a specific reason.
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Seriously this. A run if the mill big mac is better than most Portuguese food.
The market is having issues now not because of inflation being kept low but because people panic when everything isn't going smoothly. The supply chain and WW3 have investors scared, and now they're panicking and leaving the markets and taking their profits with them. Others panick and get what cash they can. Some will buy low and it'll level off soon probably. I think this is more of a pull back than a recession. Generally the economy is in good shape it's just the speculators are bailing from the market.
I have some balanced armature earbuds, and they are sensitive enough to pick up noise from poor digital grounding even in the 3.5mm jacks in a lot of phones. Additionally, they are often too loud even on the lowest digital volume setting. 8 years ago I actually made an inline attenuator, which solved the problem on my phone at the time.

My current phone is a pixel 6. I got a USB-C adapter with a DAC built into it, and it actually sounds pretty good. The volume levels are reasonable, and there's no noticable noise other than perhaps an unnoticeable hiss.

Years ago, I had a desktop case front IO panel with a really bad ground loop. I ended up cutting the molded over plastic open and cutting the PCB traces between the audio ports and the USB ports, and the problem went away.
Because he signed the agreement.

The lawyers came up with the terms and contingencies. Once signed, you're expected to hold up your end of the deal. I'm sure the lawyers have experience with court-cases / whatnot and have the precise court-cases which led to this style of agreement... but that doesn't matter anymore.

Musk agreed to it, so it must be upheld in that manner.
Most hiring managers wouldn't make it to the end of the phrase "constrain the possibility space"
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Because if he didn't think the government would approve the deal, he shouldn't have made the offer in the first place. By making the offer he is creating a massive amount of distraction and uncertainty for the company-to-be-acquired, and if in the end the deal is voided because the government blocks it, then the company-to-be-acquired need to be compensated for all the wasted time and effort that went into a failed deal.

This is very common in large acquisitions and mergers. Remember, Must didn't have to include the $1B walk-away fee. But if he didn't, then the board may have been much less likely to accept the offer.
Most media about tech layoffs is alarmist BS
They originally claimed they completely redesigned it and announced they were therefore going to drop the PowerVR architecture license - that was the reason for the stock price crash and Imagination Technologies sale in 2017.

Then they have since scrubbed the internet of all such claims and to this day pay for an architecture license. I think it's similar to an ARM architecture license - where it's a license for any derived technology and patents rather than actually being given the RTL for powervr-designed cores.

I worked at PowerVR during that time (I have Opinions, but will try to keep them to myself), and my understanding was that Apple hadn't actually taken new PowerVR RTL for a number of years and had significant internal redesigns of large units (e.g. the shader ISA was rather different from the PowerVR designs of the time), but presumably they still use enough of the derived tech and ideas that paying the architecture license is necessary. This transfer was only one way - we never saw anything internal about Apple's designs, so reverse engineering efforts like this are still interesting.

And as someone who worked on the PowerVR cores (not the Apple derivatives) I can assure you all this discussed in the original post is extremely familiar.
You could be party to a dns amplification attack: https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A

& a quote from the article:

>Our findings revealed that we can reduce the overall potential by 80% if we patch around 20% of the most potent amplifiers (see Figure 1).
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Sure, but the denominator for flooded irrigation is huge, so the efficiency is high. That's why flooding is a superficial and not substantial problem. The plant transpires water at a certain rate and a certain density per ground area. That rate isn't influenced by whether the field is flooded or drip-irrigated. By the way flooding also provides wildlife habitat.

Anyway I'm just tired of the meme about growing rice in a desert. California rice country isn't a desert, it exists in places that were annually flooded before flood control engineering, and should still get flooded for various reasons. It is not a waste of water.
> Afghan and Vietnamese logistics weren't exactly top notch and they both defeated a much stronger military

Afghans had great logistics, and the Haqqani network never stopped importing. Given the pre-positioned amount of weapons, ammo, and fertilizer, it wasn't like they needed much though anyways. However, the porous border, and ISI support for the Taliban never wavered. That pipeline is probably the reverse of some of the ones used for the heroin exporting.

The Vietnamese's Ho Chi Minh Trail [1] was active the entire war, and they likewise had great logistics. To quote the Wikipedia article and NSA, "According to the U.S. National Security Agency's official history of the war, the trail system was "one of the great achievements of military engineering of the 20th century".[2] The trail was able to effectively supply troops fighting in the south, an unparalleled military feat, given it was the site of the single most intense air interdiction campaign in history. " Given that Russia and China were supplying North Vietnam, and there was a combination of North Vietnamese regular army, as well as the viet cong with whom to deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail
Did anyone notice the 1983 Nissan concept with falcon wing doors?
Indeed, like that but then in the main text instead of in a footnote, so it doesn't get overlooked. Anyway, I enjoyed your nice writing and congrats with the HN exposure!
It's amazing how one comment can have so much wrong with it. Long running showers? Downright hilarious. It doesn't rain a drop here 9 months out of the year. When it does, it barely qualifies as a sprinkle. You could walk outside for 20 minutes and not even get soaked. "Cold wind" is the breeze that makes every day feel amazing and fresh.

>I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:

> > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

He never said this.

I love it but any reason that gets people out of here is great for me.
But then I'm running a bespoke DSL for interface display in a validation lib.

It's not obvious that's the better direction eh?
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Quite a part from the fact that implicit bias doesn't replicate, if you have 80% male developers it is not because you are discriminating against women, it is because the pool you hire from is mostly men.

If you refuge to hire a woman because she is a woman, you are discriminating. Fortunately that is historically rare today.
Probably not, but people with money who are able to bid for land there probably did get 3x+ richer.
In my opinion the best pizza in the world is in Ottawa, Ontario!
I had the same thought. I really enjoy following along and getting a glimpse into the thought process of people working through challenges.
Thanks, that seems like an interesting approach.
I know what you mean, that's a really nice (and fun) tool to have in the toolbox. The basic world periodically has, and then doesn't really have, good tools like that as business cycles or platform dynamics change.
They exist, and that's why UCI scan bikes at the race start line for electric motors, it's a serious enough problem that it has a name, "Motor doping." Famously, Femke van den Driessche received a six-year ban after being caught motor-doping in cyclocross.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/36142963

If you don't want to cheat with a motor, bicycle stores sell all kinds of road bikes with pedal assist for non-competitive riding. Trek, for example, make several e-assist versions of their Domane road bikes:

https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/ebike_collection/
3-4 minutes per person is huge! What does an IC talk about for all that time? Thirty seconds per person is closer to the mark in my experience, and that’s as part of encouraging slightly longer stand ups as a fully remote team. The actual standup might usually be fifteen minutes or so overall as there’s often a couple of issues worth coordinating on.

Are your stand ups a way of identifying ways to move forward quickly, or just people feeling they need to justify their existence?
I think a more important point that should be added: don't have 500 interviews. Have at most 2 or 3 which altogether should not take more than 2 to 3 hours of somebodys time.

I've been to 8 hour all day interviews with a new person every hour 1-on-1. It was demoralizing and exhausting. I've been in interview cycles where I keep "moving up" to meet the next higher up person and the next higher up person to the tune of 3-5 interviews. Stop!

You can have a meaningful conversation in 2-3 hours over a couple days. Don't burn peoples time to find a unicorn. Most people are pretty competent and will rise to q challenge.

I wish a company would run an experiment where they just higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes. I think the results would almost be the same as being super picky.
It's a mute point. It's only relevant for VASP to VASP transfer.
The basic argument that I am living above my means by eating meat relies on the idea that I should consume 1 / 8 billion of the Earth's resources.

I reject that. I've spent my life outcompeting others in order to ensure that this is not the case - if you want to eat bugs, crack on. Meat could cost 10x what it does and I'd still smash it on the daily.
When applied to an open wound, rubbing alcohol can cause tissue damage and actually slow the healing process.
I think multisampling may be the answer.

For partial rendering all samples must be written out, but for the final one you can resolve(average) them before writeout.
This is correct. [This article][1] ([archive link][2]) goes through some of the contract law stuff, and they speak to this:

* The merger agreement contains a provision that allows Musk to walk away if Twitter’s securities filings are wrong — and this 5% number is in its securities filings — but only if the inaccuracy would have a "Material Adverse Effect" (MAE) on the company.

An MAE is apparently a high standard and courts [almost never find an MAE][2]

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...

[2]: https://archive.ph/NFWVp

[3]: https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2018/10/delaware-chance...
What profit does your company generate? I wouldn't call anything 'cushy' or stable until there's a reliable way to cover all expenses and investor expectations--especially given how badly company have exploited Goodhart's Law with respect to revenue.
By that definition, every embedded device is extremely marketing driven and trivial to clone.

With devices like these, you're buying time. People doing reverse engineering for a living or as a serious hobby do not want to fuck around making their own. Robust hardware design/validation and supply chain handling are NOT trivial except for the most simple designs. The firmware is NOT trivial to recreate. The target market has already bought products that do most of the shit this device does, and now they can have a lot of it in one place instead of scattered across multiple devices.
Oh man the pictures on the wiki don't do it justice - I checked for one with scale and they're a fair size!
I came here to say this, too. Please don't overlook this comment if you're interested in having the full OED online.

I've lived a few places, and my local library has given full free access to OED to all members. Just enter your library card number and library-given-password, and you are sent to an OED-hosted web app with full access to everything, all historical information - really deep rich full entries.

For example here in Wellington New Zealand, my local library access is at https://www-oed-com.wcl.idm.oclc.org/

If you're interested, just look up your local library's website, and find if they give members access.

Strangely enough, I was living in Oxford England for two years, and that was the only public library that didn't have OED access! But they had a free 3D printer, so fair trade.

Anyway - whenever I set up a new browser, putting in my local OED link is the first bookmark I create, and I use it every day. Highly recommended.
It would be perfectly safe to run in a conduit or to bury. It's just not rated to run between floors, but was stamped saying it was. My home is single story, and I mentioned that during the recall process, but the process was rather rigid...
The Wired article was paywalled and I could not read it, but it might be related to this ASME piece from 2018[1] regarding micro-robots killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

A possible concern with such technology is that it would weaken the body's immune response by creating a dependency on external factors. We get sick, and develop high fevers, for a reason -- our bodies need to learn to combat pathogens which are constantly attacking us.

If we stop training the immune system to go after some class of bacteria, then we may end up more vulnerable to related classes of microbes. Billions of years of evolution can't be second guessed.

That said, resistant strains are becoming a major public health threat so this approach may become necessary as a "last resort" to save lives.

1. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/these-robots-k...
mediaman’s comment (and the article they linked) says that the government blocking the deal is one of the limited circumstances in which Musk wouldn’t have to pay.
I don't have to be right for you to be wrong. That is your core logical error, here.
Amazing concept! I have been following the process and I'm really excited to see what you guys accomplish. Congrats!
These sorts of discussions start to seem nitpicky when you're talking about the sheer magnitude by which they're overvalued. Whether they have to make more _profits_ or _cars_ than every other car company combined doesn't really matter because it's so ridiculous.
You're right, but the poster above seemed to be talking for a whole population, which I then did too by talking about Americans as a counter-example. It's just that my experience of the Netherlands isn't that they are particularly racist, but if you haven't experienced other cultures then it is easy to lose calibration. Like how a lot of Americans tend to think of the country as number one in a lot of things (e.g. education), but when you visit other countries or explore other cultures you find out your views are miscalibrated.
At this point I feel like that can just be safely assumed, since ~every Micro-SD card comes with a fullsize adapter, and Mini-SD no longer exists.

The only fullsize cards I even still bother buying are UHS-II ones for my cameras.
For those who liked this text and want to read more from the author, have a look at his busybox replacement toybox:

http://landley.net/toybox/
I'm always frustrated to see the pervasivness of this type of political interpretation, which constructs a false equivalence between two parties and therefore places the blame on both.

I think this kind of view is the default interpretation for a majority of people, since it is a tempting conclusion to draw for people who aren't well versed in the actual details they're evaluating: to the ignorant, it does look like both sides are just slinging mud at eachother, and it's inherent cynicism seems "realistic".

I think to solve this, we need to educate people on the idea of "false equivalance" (that just because two parties are engaged in conflict, does not mean they are equally to blame) and to force them to state the details of what exactly both parties are doing in order to hopefully push them to recognize there is a meaningful difference between actions.
I know. It was a joke. I thought someone with the username compiler-guy might appreciate it but I guess not.

Edit: otoh I've been a bit grumpy myself this week so who am I to judge. It wasn't a very good joke. I'll tell you the "youthful porpoise" one next time