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Meh

- crap range

- no range extending generator

- no highway self driving / driving assist

Tesla semi is the seminal EV RV event, when it actually hits mainstream.

This thing has a hundred mile range? Probably costs 150k before customization/ outfit?

A Tesla semi will probably be 250k for a 400-500 mile range(remember the RV is lighter than a semi load) and will support much wider ranges of customization. So 250k for a hundred mile range or 400k for a 500 mile Tesla RV?

And while so much of Tesla self driving is smoke and mirrors, based on watching various supportive/critical videos, it would be enormously useful for highway driving

I've driven two c class RVs long range, and wow is it mentally exhausting, RVs require a lot more attention than a car on the highway, I can see a L2 self driving system very useful.

The other thing that is very annoying in RVs is the lack of torque, in rolling Midwest you have to build up speed downhill then bleed it off, otherwise the RV downshifts very annoyingly.

And the heavy battery lowering the center of gravity will be great too, the RVs are always a bit unstable.

And the torque for EVs going up mountains will be incredibly useful.

Why two batteries in the water Winnebago? Probably because they don't have the knowhow to tap into the transit battery. That seems pretty slapdash.

One thing this crappy range RV design may be alleviated with is if they can make some fuel cell or rotary generator that can charge the battery/ extend the range. If RVs can be all electric while plopped at a site and electric for 50-80% of driven range, that would still be a big improvement.

And again, much like the professed total lifecycle economics of the semi, an EV RV or PHEV RV should improve the transit costs significantly. So if the idea is serious driving distances, the initial capital outlay for aN EV drivetrain becomes more palatable with fuel cost savings.

Those inside our rotary patents so far haven't gone anywhere. Mazda is finally looking into PHEV rotary, which if the rotary is doing ng constant power output for recharge duty only seems to resolve a lot of issues with Wankels in variable torque output situations, but we'll see.

But I have maybe a half million I'd drop on a Tesla semi derived RV with decent highway self driving or driving assist, a compact ICe generator for emergency range extension or backup, solar panels for all electric power, mobile starlink for comms.

All of that is very feasible once the semi releases, but I doubt the current RV industry will do it.

Tesla is allegedly "visionary" and RVs like this represent attainable housing for the next generation, so maybe Tesla will get into that business.
If I had just invented this, I would want to show it off with a demo attached to a CPU showing actual heat dissipation.

I would have two laptops side by side, with motherboards exposed running some benchmark, and prove that my cooling solution could move more heat, be quieter, be smaller, or some combination of those things.

The fact it is demo'ed just as a fan is in my mind suspicious.
I like what you are saying, but I've seen enough test driven development to know that it doesn't force any thinking about how the API will be used. It certainly can help illuminate that, but I've been constantly surprised by the convoluted "use case" tests that I've seen people create and think nothing of it.
Nope, there's no blockchain anywhere in IPFS. There is a distributed hash table (Kademlia protocol), a peer-to-peer library (libp2p.io), and a bunch of clients and gateways. Crypto-adjacent is fair but IPFS has a lot of other applications that need block hosting and distribution in general.
"individuals and interactions" is how you make great things happen. "processes and tools" is how you make boring things happen at scale and with high quality.

very few teams are willing to admit that they need to be making boring things happen.

agile is not a universal tonic.
so don't watch it.

with censorship nobody can watch it.
Here's one of the things that honestly surprised me about the Python 2 -> 3 debacle. I witnessed people in 2020 starting new Python projects and deliberately choosing Python 2. For no real reason. They were fully aware that Python 3 existed, but they just sort of arbitrarily chose to use Python 2. This was about 12 years after Python 3 was originally released, it was after Python 2 was sunset, and none of the dependencies of these projects required Python 2.

It honestly makes me feel a little nihilistic about versioning and upgrades. I know there were many legitimate technical challenges for many people in moving from Python 2 to 3. But I now feel that versioning is always going to be bumpy, regardless of the technical issues, because a substantial number of users will make strange decisions.
> They have largely not been punished in any way for this.

Of course not, the lack of policing isn't because police abruptly became lazy, it's because of intense public pressure on cities to reduce the amount of policing. Since 2014, municipalities have been desperately trying to avoid becoming the next Ferguson by pressuring their officers to minimize discretionary policing (and the incumbent potential for "bad optics"). Many municipalities have passed laws which restrict police (e.g., "no pursuit" laws), some have made the job so unpleasant that their police departments have massive attrition (e.g., Chicago), and some others have passed formal policies to reduce the amount of police/policing (e.g., Minneapolis). Some cities elected soft-on-crime prosecutors who release or minimally-sentence anyone the police apprehend, further eroding the incentive of officers to make arrests.

It's not like police need to be punished for not policing, we just need to take away the negative incentives for policing. Of course, police accountability remains an issue, but the answer isn't a naive, blanket reduction in policing (instead, repeal qualified immunity, weaken police unions, raise the bar for qualification, mandate mental health evals, etc).
They used to have a small scale nuclear reactor run by the army but it was too difficult to maintain without issue so they ended up decomming it.

At mcmurdo and scott, wind power, etc are healthily supplementing and slowly substituting diesel but ultimately arctic diesel will stay a staple because it consistently operates at extremely low temps. Especially inland where the temperatures are regularly lower than -70C.

As for the geothermal being banned, that's because it takes a lot of digging and "permanent changing of the environment". Doubly so since the low temperature environment means you have to use a ton of additives in your transfer fluid to keep it from freezing up during condition 1. If the circulation loop blows, those additives will stay in the environment effectively indefinitely given the weather.

So as much as I prefer geothermal, it makes sense why it's banned. Even if they just accepted the risk, they'd still need diesel infra in case of emergency or else there's a very real risk of people on station dying in the middle of a long, hard condition 1 storm which would prevent fly-ins from bringing emergency supplies.

Also it's only mcmurdo(~1k people), scott(~70-80 people), palmer(~40-45 people), rothera(~150 people), and signy(~10-15 people) which have actual ground contact that aren't in a pristine field lab environment (like the dry valley) so there's only a few locations that could even use geothermal. The rest are either in field lab environments where you can't risk contaminating the ground or on ice shelfs where you have to dig down a few hundred meters or even a few kilometer to find anything other than solid ice.

Of those few viable locations, only mcmurdo, scott, and rothera actually justify the infrastructure cost (with all but mcmurdo only having enough people to justify it in the summer months).

So ultimately instead of choosing between maintaining diesel infra and maintaining both diesel infra and geothermal which both have their own problems you know have to address, they chose to just use diesel unless a project can prove the geothermal infra won't have con 1 failure and deep ground contamination risks.
This is known as "The Lake Wobegon Effect".
I have started ordering Kindle books that I really like as hardcopies. You never know…
Most seed funds (sub-$2M checks) have to make a large number of investments (like 15 per partner every 2-3 years) to make the fund economics work. Sitting on as many boards would be impossible / ineffective.

The situation is different when you hit SeriesA, where partners generally do up to 3x investments per year. This results in a more manageable board load.
Thanks for that. So what does ED refer to? Emergency Department? Synonym for ER?
> It is! So many people (both potential large customers and that long tail of small customers) will not click "contact a sales associate" and just leave when you won't say how much a thing costs.

Yes! Especially since 'contact us' can usually be translated as 'not financially viable for a private person' (or even small company).

Even if pricing is not easy to say (like for companies doing custom car mods etc.), at least a rough idea or example projects with their costs help to know whether you could reasonably afford something.
Dogmatic evangalizers
> SWE at Google means you're good at interviewing, and that's it.

Not quite true. As a hiring manager I lost several really good candidates to competing offers from Google. And these were strong engineers not only interviewing-wise.
For Musk's $44B Twitter bid, he could theoretically have purchased Delta, United, and American airlines.
Looks impressive from a tech standpoint, but I wonder how reliable it is. Laptop fans do clog and fail and something with tiny vents like this would likely fare even worse. Though a manufacturer might end up speccing these anyways as they expect the laptop to only last 2-3 years...
AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
I don't think microsoft cares about libreoffice at all. Office's customers are unlikely to switch to it, and they aren't really competitive with office for people who need office.
i have seen a scrum master code.

ScrumMaster = NULL;

there you go !
X still exists and they haven't laid off everyone there yet.
I'm going wait until the Linux install script has been merged - https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/pull/4967
In Puerto Rico, roofs are flat and get dirty within a few months. You absolutely can easily determine when it was last powerwashed as well as when it was last sealed.

Sealing will leave you with a pure white roof for about a month or two. Powerwashing will leave you will light to medium gray. They'll turn dark gray to black within a few months in the parts where the water pools.
Of course it's not a german invention. But very few people know that the germans improved upon the British ones (say that publicly and you risk being labelled a conspiracy theorist). And on and on with the chain of history. I was just trying to make a point about hypocrisy, double standards etc.
This is a naive question, but how does one even begin to conceive of a device like this? What does a "mechanical computer" development life cycle look like?
Ask HN: Can skyscrapers act as pillars for suspension bridges?
You could even have a skyscraper acting as a pillar for several suspension bridges at different altitudes and directions.

Why isn't this done to handle heavy car traffic in densely packed cities?
Ok my iPad it makes a dot where I touch the screen. It does seem like an irrelevant distraction.

Also, it would be nice to be able to search for available images without the app.
I’m really excited for this. I thought this was what the company Planet (planet.com) was going to be, but when I actually tried to buy images from them it went through a complicated sales process I couldn’t easily complete. I felt like I clearly wasn’t the target customer. I love websites with an “add to cart” button instead of a “contact sales” button :)
I use Octave when I teach linear algebra, but it is missing some things even for that, e.g., lasso was missing the last time I tried it. So back to Matlab it was. When I have time (not in the middle of an academic year) I might try to contribute some code.
This article is framed as if this is a new trend. My cities police department has been handing out steering wheel locks to Kia and Hyundai owners since last summer.
What’s the overall feeling towards scrum masters? In my last company, everyone outside product tech never understood their actual value. My CTO was a big fan, he said they were the glue binding the teams together or something like that. I never had a strong opinion but I’m curious to see how much controversy there was around this role.
If not, I was thinking this type of services could be a boon to moderately-funded OSINT organisations as it would make you able to get fresh satellite imagery very easy and accessible.
Isn’t this the exact justification that Martin Shkreli used?

It’s not hypocritical; when your life literally depends on something, and they have a monopoly on the only thing that will save your life, it’s absolutely greedy to try and maximize profits.

When Apple overcharges for an iPhone, there are a few things that make this less evil:

1. There are lots of different smartphones out there that you have the option to buy instead. Even when I worked at Apple I found it surprisingly easy to get by on an Android for my first three months.

2. I don’t die when I don’t have an iPhone.
The ashtray is actually mandatory even in new planes per FAA rules.

Modern aircraft still have ashtrays in the washrooms because they’d much prefer that somebody choosing to sneak a smoke puts their cigarette somewhere other than the washroom trash bin where there’s a history of them starting fires.
Publish or perish produces such low quality papers. Perhaps there should be a journal for interesting tidbits as opposed to blown out papers, similar to scientific blogs. But I recall in academia, teaching was also underrated and many professors delegated teaching to the TAs.
I need this, as in, today.

I am ready to make an immediate purchase. I want to give them my money.

But all I see is "launch skyfi" ... and, of course, I don't want to "launch" anything. I want to enter simple information into a web form and hit a submit button.

I do not need an app install or a telephone. All I need is a web browser.

Is it actually impossible to purchase one of these images from their actual website ?
Wow, I had almost the exact same experience with my team! The only reason I don’t think we work together is that ours was a he.

Still no idea what that was about, and it was never brought up again.
Meanwhile the purpose of widgets is that you dont have to open the app. So apple prevents successful widgets from working once you're used to them. Doomed to fail.
Yes, I accidentally keep hitting the reset button.

Maybe this is meant to be part of the challenge?
I occasionally use my remarkable as a screen for vim, it works quite nicely.
I would love to see a Shen port to Zig. I may attempt it after I learn enough Zig.
> Western sources have reported over and over that Ukrainian air defense is severally degraded and their airforce is basically non-existent since early on.

I don't know in which West do you live, but around here, the Ukrainans are the best. But they just need more weapons. /s
it is just the classic arrogant blogger isn't it?

"I rediscovered something obvious, mischaracterised what exists already, and I make up a term and pretend like it is novel, and credit myself with it"

Hoping someday to be the new Fowlers, surely.
Seems like an impractical waste. Just some engineers and VCs wanting to do something sexy.
Fitting a battery won't be an issue in larger RVs. Look at a c class, you can use the entire underside. So you have way more space than even the a semi tractor has.

The skateboard design of evs should work great in RV. More space, lower center of gravity, more storage.

You can probably take the base battery I'm the platform and strap an additional range extension battery in the back, that would likely be a lot more upgradeable, and just charge the driving battery with the extension battery for more range.

Or you could choose between an extension battery or an ice generator / range extender, or have both.
The logic is sound.

> "The minimum threshold to get hired for FAANG is ~average talent and the willingness to grind"

> "Some average talent people work for FAANG"

> Thus, somebody who is average can get hired by FAANG

I said absolutely nothing about the skill distribution or histogram of talent across all of FAANG engineering.

Anybody who's worked in the Bay Area has known a number of untalented people who have joined FAANG. That's reality. Believe whatever you want.

That an untalented person can join FAANG does not say anything about the talent of the FAANG engineer on average.

An interview process threshold defines the left tail of the skill distributions of the hires, and tells you nothing about the shape of the distribution beyond that. Though you can likely assume it's normally distributed.

How many ways do I need to slice it for you?
Thanks for mentioning Omnifixo- when you said it's not cheap, I mentally prepared myself for a price tag of several hundred EUR. I find the ~60EUR price very reasonable (IIRC a single stickvise with PTFE jaws is around the same price point).
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Much as Teslas navigate through "un-occluded space" I wonder if they do not sufficiently factor in their own Occlusion (blocking) of space.

What kind of idiot STOPS ON A DIME with speeding cars hot on his tail? Only a Computer...
It's unfortunate that the Driver did not have the sense to Slam on the Gas -The idea of "Slow == Safe" can be disastrous...
My point was this. Maybe they have that carte blanche power. Isn't a good public library system (where the work is also accessible) a good enough counterweight to that power?
Does test driven mean you need to write the test first? Seems pretty clear to me. I dont think testing needs to be so dogmatic but TDD kinda is.
Execution absolutely is a problem. Being able to build something is 10% of the battle. Being able to build it well and reliably is the other 90%. A culture around building the proper tests, monitoring, and tooling to handle launches safely and plan rollouts goes a long way and most companies don't have any of that.

The difference is stark even at large companies. Oncall shifts for friends at places like Amazon and Meta are nightmares of constant pages and stress. Oncall shifts for my friends at Google have tended to be far lower key, with dramatically fewer pages and more straightforward resolutions when issues appear.
Note: I can't view the website at the link above, www.crimeandpunishment.substack[.]com (SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP). Substack's cert is for *.substack[.]com.

Without the www, I'm taken to the author's landing page.
The fact they charge differently for existing vs new images tells me that they will probably let you know which applies before purchase...

And if that's the case, I think there could be a market for a monitoring/alerting system to detect if anyone else orders imagery of your factory/port.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
it would block sunlight from the street level

probably would also complicate ownership & liability
>You definitely have to be a special type of person and even a borderline social outcast to make it a regular job.

Many, many years ago I was in the Army and served with a man, Corporal White, who was the oddest person I had ever met. He was probably the best soldier I have ever seen, but refused to take anything seriously and treated the Army as a game to be played (as one should).

Anyway, he put in a DA4187 form, a personnel action request form, with roughly four words on it: "request duty in Antarctica", it worked its way up the chain of command, and after several months a telegram (the army sent telegrams called PERSGRAMS up until the late 90s!) arrived assigning him to duty in Antarctica.

He spent about six months down there, in his words "moving around barrels and crates and playing Nintendo", and came back engaged to a scientist.

Now he and his wife are itinerant adventurers and I don't think they've lived anywhere for more than six months in the last 25 years.
Paper map sales are booming
This. I evaluate lots of software in my position. If you don’t post at least ballpark pricing on your public webpage and you do not have a feature I cannot live without I’m talking to one of your competitors that does. Every time.
It's much less the name and much more the recent hype around chatGPT. And no one can deliver to the ridiculous levels of hype 'influencers' are flooding on social media for engagement.
I don't see any immediate evidence there were conflicts of interest here (happy to be proven wrong). I do see an astounding lack of any of the actual work an investment manager should be doing. Such a huge degree of laziness that I think it should be criminal. People at these firms didn't just squander their client's cash (this wasn't money lost because not ever bet is a winner, it was basically given away). They actively assisted one of the worlds largest frauds. Arthur Anderson were basically destroyed because they enabled Enron. And Enron was a much subtler, more complex fraud. There are serious questions to be answered here IMHO.
Most mature companies have _all_ of that. From the position of a large vendor, Google ships software with woeful quality practices on a regular basis.

That Amazon and Meta are worse than google, well, I will grant that. Meta's internal culture is crazy.
Or you can torrent them...

One person's collection serves that one person, but there are some really cool groups out there like DocuWiki[0] that try to archive every documentary out there and serve them on the eDonkey network. There's been numerous times I've failed to find a documentary by even the original publisher. Like I literally couldn't give them my money no matter how much I tried. And even libraries didn't have it. But good old DocuWiki always had my back

Torrents are kind of like a community archive

[0] https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Special:Newpages
I'm super happy with my Spotify subscription. Sure, maybe 5% of the things I want are missing, but 95% is pretty good.
> Even though the routines are great, her style didn't quite resonate with me (it's too spiritual/positive for an engineer like me).

Yeh this is what I like about down dog, it’s very customisable. You can choose all kinds of things, instructor voice, how much instructing you want, different music types, body part focus, type of yoga, difficulty level and duration.

> I struggle with this, I want to get through the poses as the instructor says and moving around to stretch a bit differently is not something I remember to do unless the instructor explicitly suggests it.

Literally just listen to your body. If you’re doing a pose and you can’t feel a stretch then just start moving about a bit. You might have to twist a bit more, or straighten a limb, or straighten your hips, straighten your back, move an arm to a side, any number of things really. It helps if you have a few basic pieces of equipment: a stretching strap with loops like this https://amzn.eu/d/fAuEeio (far better than your standard plain yoga strap), a yoga bolster (essential for saddle pose if you’ve got tight quads), a crescent cushion and yoga blocks. I also recommend not using a yoga mat and instead getting a decent rubber exercise mat such as a Miramat and a yoga knee pad such as this:

https://amzn.eu/d/fP2aPQ8.

If you’re doing active yoga most of the time you want a stable surface to stand on and if you’re doing long holds in yin yoga it’s far easier to just move one of these into position under your knee or whatever than it is to deal with a yoga mat that is constantly moving about every time you change positions.