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Why are all cars and trucks sold with air conditioning?

Is it too much to roll down a window?

Why are those who don't use air conditioning paying the "environmental refrigerant tax"?

How much refrigerant would be saved if vehicle air conditioning was an additional expense?
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Instead they keep the videos she calls out for causing death. Since at least they don't talk about death. Jesus christ google is a vile company!
> then the best employees will leave ASAP and the worst will stick around until the layoff date.

I see this tossed around and I question it. The people that will leave are the people with who have good intuition about what is going to go down. In other words, the people who are best able to see through corporate politics.

It's not a given that the "best performers" or "top engineers" have a good eye for "corporate political BS". It's not a given they'll see what is going down and run for the exits. Being a "top performer" in some subject matter they are paid for doesn't imply they are "top performers" in playing the game.

It is just as likely that "the dead wood" have an "A game" with corporate politics and they run for the door instead.

I know plenty of extremely good engineers who would not run for the doors in such a situation.
So, the review was my only contact with V until today, and I have to say your response seems unnecessarily hostile. I understand there night have been a lot of negativity around your project and it seems to be successful despite these, so nice for you.

The post seems to spend quite a lot of time on the V language and discussing it, so I got curious and put in some of the examples into V for windows. The results seem to be different, but my knowledge on V is too low to understand the implications fully.

The "No null" experiment does not give a segmentation faul, instead it prints &nil. That seems to be effectively a null value to me though. Adding another layer of null dereferencing creates an access violation/sefault.

The undefined behaviour for integer overflow is the exact same as in the post. (edit: and in the github issues it is marked as "won't fix" it seems V does not care about creating undefined behavior in the generated C code, just that the behavior is defined within V.)

The overwriting of len for the array seems to be fixed as the capacity is increased to the value of len seems to return nil references now.

The immutable->mutable trick seems to be caputred by the type checker.

The remarks on included libraries seems to hold, as well as the "simple webserver" being 2MB when compiling (although openssl seems to be included now).

I have no motivation to redo all the other experiments in the blog post. And your response as well as the small checks leave me not-very-impressed with V, as I can't take any of the claims on the website seriously like that. If you claim it is a v0.1 or v0.3 language, sure, make a list of features that actually exist or a roadmap when they are reached. This is especially true for the "novel memory management" which seems optimistically to assume it worked before when a changenote is included that the compiler doesn't leak memory anymore by default. That is not particularly instilling confidence, although it's the right direction.
Similar pattern of false claims.

Author has clearly stated that "all issues are fixed". The other guy found one unfixed issue. That makes the author's statement false.

I don't trust a person that lies, especially when they lie with such conviction and confidence. Reeks of narcissism.

-- EDIT - replying to @hunterb123 above --

I have reproduced the same error as in blogpost.
he said 5km from the capitol
I don't blame em. Tech has always thought of itself as a bunch of snowflakes.

Reality is, yes, it's a new industry, but no, it's not special.

Every other industry I've been exposed to has all the same bullshit office politics. The same supposed "in jokes" that only "their industry" would understand.
I want to give a shoutout to a similar but much nerdier design, which is no longer sold. Kenmore (rebadged as De'Longhi) used to make a single long-slot toaster with an adjustable width all the way out to about 2 inches. I have one. The heat element isn't amazing, and it, like the Dualit, is manual lift with a timer. But critically, you can move the toaster elements manually together or away from one another with a lever on the top of the toaster. In other toasters, the elements are fixed in position regardless of the bread width. As a result, this toaster is amazing for big thick hand-cut slices of bread. And no need for a sandwich cage at all: you can put entire hoagies in there.

A picture:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/De-Longhi-2-Slice-Aluminum-Toaster/...
One troll does not prove everything else is a conspiracy.

>"Immature" != "not ready for production".

What? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immature
The most environmentally friendly computer is the one you already own, it’s sad that Apple forcefully obsolesces still working computers by dropping support for them from new releases of MacOS. Unfortunately the whole ecosystem is geared towards users being on the latest OS version, so third party software also becomes quickly unsupported.

Realistically most computers made in the last 5-7 years have enough processing power to last until broken for the most typical office / web browsing / editing vacation pictures tasks, so as much as everybody likes new shiny things, it would be great if it was possible for the more environmentally conscious consumers to be able to keep using their computers without being exposed to security issues.

I’d rather pay Apple $200/year for new versions of MacOS than be in the current “your hardware is a time limited dongle for MacOS” situation.
I suspect part of it is just lack of knowledge; if someone showed up at your front door offering you money for some random item in your garage you'd be tempted to politely decline; because if someone is going out of their way to offer you cash, it's probably worth more than they're offering.
>Just to disassemble one, you need to know what the magnetron looks like and not try to disassemble it.

I know what you’re going for here, but it’s a funny sentence.
Is there a more precise link to an article related to the topic? What I see is a website inviting to read about Mothers day or Father's day and to buy a book with different name.
I do too but because it helps ME not the company. Why would my company give a shit about me?
“Hostage-taking laws” seem to be fueling a Twitter crackdown in India
I generally find that the US lags in weapons technology whose biggest utility lies in countering American superweapons - carriers and stealth fighters.

I think it's quite understandable why this is the case - imagine spending hundreds of billions on carrier procurement, and simultaneously developing a weapon that more or less renders them obsolete.

The situation has changed in that there's news that the Russians and Chinese have overtaken the US in this field, as well as the Chinese started fielding similarly high-end carriers of their own, creating a legitimate target for US hypersonics.
People vary a lot in how well they recognize, match or categorize what they see
Pop your favorite popcorn and watch genocides occur?

"Well but it's not our problem!" is not exactly comfort when a religious or ethnic minority is being erased on live tv.
"Not the SC's problem."

Indeed, it's precisely to the contrary and actually to the new SC's advantage. Republican obstructionism is precisely why conservative judges have adopted this new commitment to originalism. But on the other hand, isn't a clean environment a problem for us all?

"So if special interests have captured the regulatory body, how is letting them keep (or gain) their unelected power any better?"

Because this executive has been trying to fix it (https://grist.org/politics/epa-joe-biden-environmental-law-e...) and congress has been trying to keep it broken (eg. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/589767-gop-sen...). This ruling takes power away from the executive and hands it to an even more captured, paralysed congress. Whether the EPA derives its mandate from the executive or the legislature makes no difference since BOTH are elected bodies. Why mindlessly repeat that red herring? Obviously the real issue is whether it's effective and working for the public interest or for special interests.

"I can use the same argument about any topic we disagree about. Do you not see the problem with this line of thinking?"

No you can't, except in cases where the importance of the procedures themselves are outweighed by the importance of what they are preventing. For a decade the SC was okay with the EPA using the clean air act to limit carbon, and then it wasn't. The only thing that changed is the political constitution of the court which has exploited technicalities and procedural hurdles to prevent the addressing of an urgent, existential threat. Or is it just a coincidence that the sudden desire for more carefully crafted legislation comes from conservatives who have always opposed stronger environmental regulation?

It's a pretty narrow, justified case I'm making against excessive proceduralism. Do you not see a problem with checking tickets for lifeboats?
As I read these, I think the Court must reject the concept of federal reviewability of elections presented by this theory. With respect to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, Congress needs to reinforce (a candidate receiving a plurality or majority of the votes must have assigned a plurality or majority of the Electors), and simplify it.

From Lincoln's first inaugural address, he's clear that the majority in power should be restrained by constitutional checks and limitations for the purpose of making the government easy to change to represent the majority. And he makes the case that minority rule is not valid, with the rejection of majority rule leading to anarchy or despotism.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp

ISLT seeks to make the minority "legally" win by fighting it in courts. And as Lincoln also said If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. The majority's only reason to acquiesce is the fear of what it means for the government to cease, because otherwise it's not a politically legitimate arrangement, even if it's somehow shoe horned into being a legal one.
Rolling down windows doesn’t work. I require A/C, it’s not something I’ll give up.
It’s Time to Review the Institutional Review Boards (IRB)
Overclocking my old “Raspberry Pi 3 Model B”
I recently spent the $700 to become a Certified ScrumMaster. This is within the past month, so any evaluation on how much it has helped my career is premature, but being that I've found myself to be the accidental ScrumMaster at work, taking the course to learn what the role is supposed to be seemed worthwhile. It has given me some credibility with management that I didn't have before, although the long term effects are as of yet unknown. It was an interesting two day class and a 50 question multiple choice exam. I had the privilege of taking the course with Chet Hendrickson, one of the originators of Extreme Programming (XP) and a contributor to some of the books written on Agile. I think the knowledge was worth acquiring and I actually enjoyed the course, which is more often not the case.
The 127E program from my reading of it seems to involve small US SOF team operating in foreign countries with the logistical/security support of the local government as directed by DOD mission planning. This doesn't sound like proxy warfare, its clandestine direct action warfare. The Tongo Tongo Ambush, appears to be a 127E program with bad outcomes for the US military.
Frankly I'd rather have US service members pulling triggers in pursuit of direct US goals, then another countries government acting on our behalf.
That all being said, and as Ahelwer pointed out the policies and missions that this type of tool are used for are often misguided, imperialistic and short sighted. The oversight chain is not clear to me either.
Thus far the citizenry of the US is happily ignorant of many aspect of US policy and actions.
...and I prefer honest and open employees who won't immediately stop all work, squeeze whatever they can out of the company and dedicate 100% of their time to finding a new job on my dime.

The citation you're looking for is anyone who's experienced early warning of unspecified lay-offs yet to come, and what that's like.
Your money can't be debased. You can withdraw your money from your bank (digitally).
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Absolutely.

But also, I have no obligations to like or respect what they do either. I think they're going the wrong way and I can say so. The freedom works both ways, and I don't think we should shield them from criticism.
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The Scandalous History of the Cubic Formula
> Russia IS firing the 3M22 Zircon from nuclear subs now

A semi-ballistic cruise missile.

> At Mach 9, that's about 2-3 minutes to impact DC

ICBMs go Mach 20+ in their final stage. Falcon 9 flies faster than Zircon. Hypersonics don’t instantly accelerate. Their advantage is in flying low and plasma stealth, both of which are good against ground-based radar but not against anything in the air or in space.

If your stealth comes from submarine launch, you gain little from flying hypersonic. It’s faster than cruise or short-range ballistic, but much less accurate for a decapitation strike.

> Putin would survive

So would most of the U.S. government. (Not the civilian government, perhaps. But again, this is old news.) Certainly almost all of its military.
He might survive the strike, but would probably not survive the aftermath--just like the rest of us.
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it not that comment, there was some attacks after that

https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1142503808901308418

I can't find the article where he mentions that it is a scam, i also remember people attacking the patreon backers

This tweet seems to be an apology so i guess we can move on

EDIT: there i found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351
President Biden to Award Steve Jobs with Posthumous Medal of Freedom
Someone made a commercial fractal wood burning device years ago. It had very long handled probes (1-2 ft.) and a pedal for switching on the power (there might have been a main power switch inline on the device itself.) It had a dial to let you crank up the amperage. I think someone did get hurt using it. Reputable art/woodworking events and people do not allow or use fractal wood burning because the inherent risk is so high.
From the NPR story, it sounds like the business is ultimately constrained by customer acquisition costs and being in the US might actually be an advantage since the digital advertising market is more mature.

In fact, now that OP has jogged my memory, I might start using this as an interview question for junior marketing people. If given a budget of $10K, how would you deliver me enough people willing to sell me 1000L of 10+ year old refrigerant? I bet the answers would be revealing and almost all wrong.
I've often wondered what other ways we could do "refrigeration" without requiring such horrible gasses, CO2 would be a nice one (and we already distribute CO2 world-wide for soda), but perhaps something could be done with piezo also.
I know someone who went to Unity after being laid-off from 20th Century due to the Disney acquisition. True talent is being tossed around by the whims of executives and the economic climate.
The shoei one is interesting to me, but afaik not yet available.

I'm not going to trust my brain at 155MPH to a "move fast and break things" kind of startup.
Why does it matter what order the strikes are in? Unless the first strike somehow manages to wipe out the ability to retaliate, the order just determines how we queue up for the reaper (I guess first is best, there'd be a billions long line).
Very interesting! I hadn't seen this. Thanks for posting it. I loved the show.
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A friend of a friend disassembled a microwave to repair it, and accidentally put one of the radiation shields back on backwards. It ended up killing his wife (lots of cancers) a few years later.

So, yeah. Don't repair microwaves. It's really not worth the $100's you'll save on a replacement.
This is unbelievably sad news. During the pandemic, when my mental health wasn't doing so great, I fell into the Youtube minecraft rabbit hole and Technoblade was one of my favorites. My condolences for his friends and family, I'm glad he was surrounded by loved ones to the end.
Apple outs its invite-only program that rewards VIP forum members
> The C*Os and some of the finance team will know, but >95% of the employees will find out when the public finds out.

That 3,000 number was just a hypothetical, but I'd say that even knowing that 1 key insider bought some massive dollar value of calls leading up to earnings or sold a large number of shares before earnings is a valuable data point that provides better information to the public.
> I'm sure your average pot head tourist is not that much trouble and leaves quite a bit of money, no?

aha, they literally only come for weed and prostitutes, let's say it doesn't attract the most well behaved people in the world. Imagine the typical German or English 20 something years old tourist in Mallorca but instead of being drunk they're stoned.

Low travel cost + mass tourism + young adults + drugs = problems. You can travel there for 70 euros back and forth from any major city in Europe

It's limited to very specific streets but these streets are hell on earth, I don't even know why people go there anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/world/europe/amsterdam-to...
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1. Windows/Linux/macOS/Android/iOS/pi/WASM/*BSD/Haiku/SerenityOS

2. For stuff like i++ expressions, V allows them. Some stuff gets translated to adapted V code. Some (~2% of the syntax) will result in an error. Those will be fixed this year.

3. Memory safe, bounds checking, C ABI.

4. Ridiculously easy. The main reason it was created (was using Go before). Just run `C.foo(1,2,3)`. Use C2V to generate V wrappers.

5. Only system threads for now.

6. Same as with C. Need export "C".

7. Very stable, at least for me. Never had a crash/segfault.

8. Hard to pick. Fast compilation, hot code reloading, nice clean sum types, clean json serialization and ORM (mysql,sqlite,postgres).
> should that automatically mean crash?

No, not automatic. But it sure increases the likelihood.

Especially after years of cheap money have allowed tremendous unproductive investment. It isn't just banks, it is every company with access to capital markets.

Unproductive investment made sense when money was free ("easy money"), but when money starts to costs, those investments get closed down. And the people those investments employed become unemployed.
A lot of the success of SpaceX can be attributed to their rapid incremental development model that they established with Falcon 9 and continued with Starship.

But at least with civilian rockets all the competitors have clear success metrics: they all launch with some regularity, and it's obvious if those launches were a success. Lots of weapon systems have one or two tests and then take a decade before they see any action, if at all.

Fore example the Patriot system is operational since 1981, but when first used in combat a decade later its accuracy came under heavy scrutiny, and continues to look suspect on a per-missile basis [1]. But that's one of the weapons systems that actually sees active combat, and sees improvements based on that. Now think of all the systems that are deployed but never used.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Operational_hi...