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Not to mention the electric grids are getting overloaded, meaning they cannot add charging stations anymore until the grids have been upgraded - which will cost billions and years. This goes on top of a huge surge for renewables and getting rid of the dependency on gas - solar panels, heat pumps, infrared panels, electric stovetops and, indeed, electric cars.

The will is there for sure, but we're running into real capacity issues. We can only go so fast.

And the pessimist in me is saying it's too little, too late and we've passed the point of no return decades ago; no amount of switching to EVs will stop the polar caps melting (removing the ice means less sunlight is reflected), the permafrost melting (exposing sequestered plant material, their now decomposition releasing co2 and methane), and with that the glaciers melting (raising the sea level and lowering the salt content, causing the gulf stream to slow down / stop which will make the north colder and the equator warmer)
You are describing EU as if it was all the same.

What you describe may exist (now) in a selected subset of EU cities, but it is not at all common nor ubiquitous all over EU.

Please, list the cities you went to that offer these services, very likely they are a handful (i.e. not "a lot") and only in a few countries of EU.
My smart friends - rich and poor - universally approve of the rate hikes, because they understand, like me, that price stability is their primary mandate. Many also believe, like me, that the Fed really screwed this up in the last few years.

If by "PTB" you mean the market, then of course it hates rate hikes. Also just hates uncertainty.
Brian Eno was 100% right about ambient music, but he was just wrong about what form it would take. Basically, his music is so unintrusive to the point of being sleep-inducing for many, thus at least a little more intensity is needed. What really became the ambient music was 24/7 lofi hiphop streams. That kind of music is still very abstracted from a human composer, it just happens to have slightly different sonic qualities and sociocultural context than Eno, so it appeals to a wider audience.

EDIT: Should note that Eno's music is still very influential for a lot of people doing work. He composed Neroli after a lot of people doing intellectual work asked him for a new piece geared specifically towards it. Also, Discreet Music was historically used on many maternity wards. In general it is not as if he failed in the popular sphere, Eno is an extremely popular musician
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Someone already mentioned the, VW e-up! and it has a sibling called Skoda Citigo iV. They do belong to the "very tiny car" segment, but you can get them without any screen at all! Google some interior pictures. (Both not sold anymore, but you can find them used).

I think for a brand that does as simple and cheap cars as possible there's Dacia. They have the electric Dacia Spring which is also a small car. It does have a touch screen though. Only available in some select European countries.

Edit: Actually, the touch screen in the Spring is only the "Plus" version, so you can be touch-screen free! :) But the Plus version also has DC fast charging, so you probably want that anyway.
Between the Uyghur Genocide and Jack Ma's disappearance(and drastic change after reappearance), China is scary. Not the kind of scary where you bend the knee, but the kind of scary you don't invite them to your birthday party.

After I learned of the Uyghur genocide, I decided against having them manufacture my designed parts. Half of it was ethics, half of it was self preservation. Seeing what they did to Ma has convinced me it was the correct decision.

Now I just need to find a source of cheap electronics to run my device.
I'm used to bidets (separate from the toilet) being present in every bathroom, so it's strange to me how some people are completely unaware of the concept.
It might be useful, in both cases, to distinguish "fans" and "consumers" of those styles. Yes, the people who most consciously identify as fans of the styles are picky, but I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of classical play counts by volume are consumed for muzakish purposes. Mozart for babies, Vivaldi for malls, etc.

The same may be true for Jazz, though in that genre there may be a bit more of a separation between jazzy background mood music and jazz as consumed by fans. There are some overlaps ("The Girl from Ipanema", "Take Five", etc), but they may not be quite as central to the canon as their classical counterparts.
You clearly haven’t tried it. My kids still use an 11 year old gen four iPad every day. It’s absolutely incredible for the $500 or so that we paid for it. We’ve gotten 11 years of entertainment out of it.

The old apps still install just fine and we’ve never had to make any effort to maintain it, or fiddle with operating systems or software or anything.

It’s hard to imagine a better value from a device like this, especially when you take into account the amount of time you would have to spend managing something that had more software freedom to it.
> Adding a constant additional workload of up to 30% (you also have to run CI and everything on older devices) for 1000-2000 users is just not feasible.

How old is very old here? If you're talking about devices that are under ten years old adding 30% to your workload, I would argue that something is wrong on the operating system end of the deal. Part of the reason why we have operating systems is to provide a layer of abstraction so that software is not tied to particular hardware.

> I also don't expect to be able to run VSCode on a 1996 Pentium 60. I'd run Emacs instead, or Vim, or whatever else was en vogue in 1996

I think that most people would agree that expecting support 25+ year old hardware is not reasonable. When you're talking about hardware that is less than 10 years old, people's opinions are going to vary. Those who feel as though they are upgrading without seeing tangible improvements in functionality are likely to be more adamant about longer support periods.

For what it's worth, I have run recent versions of VSCode on my 10+ year old PC. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it's performance of the editor itself, or the associated extensions. I would imagine that it supports much older hardware than what I have simply on the merit that the operating system supports much older hardware.
That would be nice and fair, but that would actually hurt rich people so it would not be implemented. Only laws that affect the poor get implemented.
They drawed the line, the line is electric.
If you have socialized people into a culture where higher housing and educational costs more than offsetting the fact you make more money than your parents did at the same age causes four times as many people to kill the selves than folks in a Bangladeshi village, then I’m sorry the problem is your culture. You have created a culture where people have no resilience to a bump in the road.
I find the N types enjoy and find value in MBTI. S types seem to hate it because it's not scientific enough. As an N type I find the big five worthless for helping me understand interactions with others. MBTI wasn't made to be a correlate in your study; I guess it's meaningless.
You get to live in a functioning economy.

If you want to live in a society were the banks and wealthy individuals can make significant income by doing literally nothing, that is fine, but the rest of us would like to live in a world where goods and services are produced at a rate similar to how they are produced today.
You willingly bought games on a drm service.
Really does like going after cracks though :P
I absolutely despise these "personality" tests. I've done the DISC assessment bs at multiple jobs. I'm to the point where I think I'm going to purposely answer "wrong" in the future to get some odd letter and throw the hardcore DISC fans off.

We have a few people that continuously walk around talking about whether they're D, or "oh that's such an S thing to do". Yes... all people's personalities fit into some stupid 4 personality acronym.
What is interesting is that you don't need absolutely any technology to have a toilet that cleans your ass with water. It's really just a pipe that comes out from below the seat and a knob to manually open/close the water, it's even simpler than the flush.
Those installations are in the process of being converted from sodium vapor to LED, that should free up a few watts.
And this doesn't have to be fast-charging. Combining a few hundred watts over night and at the workplace could be enough to cover the daily commute.
Systemd took away all that.

And granted an endless litany of exploits itself, due to its overt complexity, including such absurds as null password assumptions.

Systemd has been a far less secure option.
So Bell Lab break up with Chinese characteristics?
> And they're far cheaper and more available than they are in the US

Ekhem, I think you live in a really wealthy place in EU, maybe Norway that subsidies electric cars so e.g. plumbers are driving Teslas.

But in the real world, electric cars are too expensive for normies to buy.

Car sharing - OK, that's available - but I'm yet to drive such car, because in in city in Poland there are only few such cars available (for a normal price) to drive. And I would like to test them out - but not at the price of driving to the other side of the city.

Car rental - tried that - either not available or too expensive to rent (trip to Italy last year).
I did it three times and ended up with three different types. My "personality" as measured by the test is more of product of environment, who is around me and how I adjust to it rather then something inherent to me.

Also, the questions (at least on last test) thinking/feeling scale seemed to measure values rather then actual personality.
For anyone interested how interaction nets work here's how one would program them directly:

https://github.com/inpla/inpla/blob/main/Gentle_introduction...
Since the sudden apparent concern for users' privacy IMO casts doubt on the intent, I think discussion on this issue should start with determining whether we should take those concerns at face value. Is there a legitimate concern for privacy or is it just another form of economic warfare? Are the governments protecting you as an individual or are they protecting FAANG?

There is little point in discussing this if we are all just pretending that it is an issue that it's not.
...It's _not_ from the Nintendo DS?
> Global e-commerce (alibaba.com + presumably some others)

This would include AliExpress, which is quite successful at linking Chinese sellers to a global customer base.
Excellent suggestion, will do.
> I suspect focused, attentive listening only makes up a small minority of the total streams.

You haven't justified your assertion of the dichotomy between pure blind consumption and active, focussed listening. You must actually argue that the negation of one implies the other. Your comment is totally meaningless as it stands
Reality check : there are people like my colleague who aren't software engineers and still have to occasionally maintain/create a regex in some corporate software config.
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Alibaba group were the ones that disclosed the log4shell vulnerability which always surprised me. There they were sitting on the biggest security vulnerability ever and they tell the West about it!?

I don't expect this to happen again.
The hardware is still working. I think it's reasonable that the software should continue to work until the hardware is physically incapable of booting. An entire industry deciding that hardware "should" only last 6 years is shameful.

(Typing this on a macbook pro 2012)
> rich people don't care about carbon taxes

So? What does it have to do with rich people.

Tax carbon emissions used to produce goods and services rather than some complicated per person credit system.
>The problem is that our electricity grids are nowhere near up to the challenge.

This is not a problem. Our electricity grids are usually matching the current demand. In the past they were upgraded at sufficient speed and economic model of that upgrade was reasonable. I do not see, why we won’t be able to continue the same way. We have 25 years to upgrade until majority of customers will switch to EV. That is a lot of time.
Could you share your script?
The thing is that was mostly done via government price manipulation (decreased VAT and other benefits). Now after VAT is back to normal sales of EV vehicles there drastically dropped.

https://insideevs.com/news/651052/norway-plugin-car-sales-ja...
The best defense being a good offense.
Once you've used the necessary amounts of up-to-date electronic design techniques and components to build the battery management, motor controller and charging systems in your "barebones" EV, adding some multicolour lighting and a touchscreen is a tiny step.

A milkfloat is nearest thing to a "barebones" EV.
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It's a big benefit if you can use salt water (and not fresh water) to produce food and animal feed. There are some things to keep an eye on while scaling up, but it looks like there are plenty of such eyes on such things.
You can gift the license to someone else, can't you?
To be even more specific - you can only ever describe something by a function, and you have to supply a state in order to get a singular result. In physical space, the state we provide to get a result of any particular "object" is time. More simply: you can't describe any specific table with any meaningful properties without specifying the time in which you're observing the description. Every "thing" is just a transient state of being for at least one, if not millions, of variously interactive processes.

Of course, none of that is relevant to how useful it is to be able to reduce "state" down to the singular (and mostly "invisible") property of "time". It's just that while you are technically correct that the article did not 'remove state', it's only as technically correct as saying a banana is a "berry". In the vast majority of use cases, including teaching people the value of something, the specification is a difference without a distinction.
I live in Germany and have no idea what you are talking about.
or you know, you can ask it to insert helpful comments
They are cheaper TCO right now, but not initial investment.
A purpose-designed '15 minute city' might be great.

But applying the concept to existing cities, it so blatant that it's just a big stick to bludgeon car owners with, and there's zero intention of providing significant new amenities within a 15min walk of... everyone.

It could just lead to more people fleeing cities and seeking rural freedom, especially those able to find WFH work.
> How about instead of an AI generating a regex we can't understand

Would you feel better if it generated a regex-builder expression instead of a regex?

Even if regex-builder generates a regex under the hood?

In any case, the regex itself is only an implementation detail.
We should force product owners to stop designing their products as thin clients of server-side APIs. Then there won't be any support costs for older devices.
Have been following your project for a while, I love the physical art form. For my nocoiner friends to be able to buy a TURF with a credit card is awesome, cause they don't need to setup a wallet yet and learn about NFTs right away
Every time I do this test I get about 50% on three of the four categories, and the random noise in my precise answers means I get a different "personality type" every time.
I agree that this is probably what the article tries to say.

There is another possibility, though: Maybe it's saying that a large area of Greenland's ice surface is at an elevation where the glaciers are barely staying neutral. If that's what it tries to say, then having all of that area sink by 3m means that a large area goes into decline and stays in a state of decline. The surface sinking by 3m, 10m, 20m or 50m would then be much the same, just different speeds of irreversible decline.
With all major automotive OEMs switching to electric anyways, regardless of what the EU says, cars will not be the only thing getting more expensive after leaving the EU. GB serves as a great example of the degree something like Brexit can screw up a whole economy.
I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?
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For comparison, iOS 12 just received a security update, and supports the iPhone 5S from 2013.
It’s not verbose, it just follows the same best practice. State premise, expand for a bit, restate premise. ChatGPT leans heavily on that style, mostly because people do.
"The European Commission has pledged, however, to create a legal route for sales of new cars that only run on e-fuels to continue after 2035, after Germany demanded this exemption from the ban."

How would someone build an engine that explicitly only run on ethanol and which would reject any mixture which contains gasoline, such as E85.
I’m not sure, connecting to an unknown server and giving that remote session the same abilities as my local PC has always seemed like a bad idea to me.

I guess you could misconfigure it, but it’s one of those things where I’d painstaking ensure I set it up correct because doing it wrong is not an option.

Maybe it’s because I almost always go direct?
Personality tests are just another way to discriminate. They have absolutely no basis in fact in predicting how a person is going to behave or perform in a given situation.

Corporations, and society in general, put far too much faith in trying to read the tea leaves of human cognition and behavior through shortcuts.
> All the issues you mention could be solved by more investment in public transport.

No. Insecurity won't go away just because stations look nicer. And for trains the problem is not investments, it's the civil servant mentality of people working there that don't give a shit about users and want to work as little as possible. The national railways company is well known for being a sinecure (it was personally confirmed by my brother who was told not to work too hard -- he was already not working a lot -- when doing an internship there).

And I'm not even talking of the huge ticket prices, the machines not working, the lack of accessibility (better not have a big luggage or god forbid being in a wheelchair), restricted hours when the services are working, etc. There is a lot of things to hate about public transportations, at least when it's not done properly. It's fine in Japan but even there there are issues, Kyoto buses for instance is a shitshow.

> I'm assuming you're from the states

You are assuming wrong, I'm from and currently living in France.
That’s nitpicking; writing «the planet» for «the world we live in» is an extremely common metonymy.
> electric cars don't pollute

Not air but tires still pollute environment.
It's not difficult to achieve. It's Europe's only solution now. This is not about CO2-emission, it's about politics. Europe used to control a good part of the world fuel and also had a pipeline to Russia. They no longer have a pipeline and also lost lots of their control on their colonial countries.

They have no choice but to find alternative energy sources. Look at what's happening politics-wise in the middle-east.
They're sufficiently practical for some applications, but not (yet) all.
America should unconditionally extend freedom to its own citizens, but not to agents of foreign governments that don't reciprocate in kind.
Things are less black and white with AI. Things like chatGPT bother me because they don't tell you the probabilities of certainty when they have this information available. (I know there is bias too, but the probabilities would be a best case)

Anyway, there is a huge difference between someone with a clear photo and you are showing up as a 99% with the next highest being 10%, vs a bunch of people around 20% chance. Not to mention, you could further triangulate with phones wifi/cell towers.

Maybe multiple pieces of evidence is too much to ask for petty crime.
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"Pre-k8s, that was just bespoke scripts, e.g., in something like Ansible"

How are these 'bespoke scripts' but helm charts are not 'bespoke'? Or do you consider them 'bespoke-but-better'?
> Thinking about switching to a better paid job and / or starting a side-project that would be able to generate semi-passive income.

Are you sure that's possible? If so, why haven't you done so already? Were you deliberately earning less money than you could?
No one thought to do a site data dump and mirror? Surely the data must still be somewhere on the Internet, interrupted by popup ads and surrounded by banner display ads for solving hair loss and flaccidity, maladies quite common among PhDs and researchers.
Everything always hits the vulnerable people the hardest, as that's basically the meaning of the word. We can't use that to justify policy, since then any and every policy would be justified.
>Anyone have an idea why modern versions of MacOS still uses a .DS_Store file?

For the exact same reason Windows has a Desktop.ini file?

They store per directory settings for the Mac Finder and Windows Explorer.
I've been driving electric cars exclusively for about a decade and this week I am borrowing my father's new expensive audi to do him a favor and "sluggish and inconvenient" is not critical enough!!

These cars are just dangerous. Trying to accelerate rapidly to make a merge? Actually impossible. A stoppage in traffic is coming? Just mash the brake pedal hard.. Maybe they have a deal with brake pad manufacturers... Sitting at a stoplight and want to fumble around with something? If you accidentally slip off the brake pedal, the DEFAULT behavior of the vehicle is to GO. What kind of design is that? Not to mention the gas station 'experience'
They skipped the 4/4T series because of some superstition about the number 4, which makes the 6T 3 years behind 2T
I like the compromise.

Plug-in hybrids with reasonable range (let's say 40 miles) achieve 99% emissions reductions. But don't have to lug around 1000 pounds of battery.

Allowing for plug-in hybrids outright would have been a good idea. Allowing only e-fuels is a second best.
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>We have a few people that continuously walk around talking about whether they're D, or "oh that's such an S thing to do". Yes... all people's personalities fit into some stupid 4 personality acronym.

It seems like it's only a stone's throw away from astrology.
Ah, but is not only that kind of stupidity. To this day you can go outside to have a drink or a meal and you will be forced to order using your smartphone. Scan the fucking QR code, go to website and input the order, despite verbally and physically telling the waitress what I want without even looking at the menu.
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> From what I've seen most Eastern European countries have parking lots on old buildings, and often underground parking garages on new ones.

Underground parking on new ones - correct.
Parking lots on old buildings - kind of, old buildings were built at the time when fewer people could afford cards -> much less parking spaces than cars.