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>Here's my take: you don't really own something if you can't repair it.

I agree, however ; e-bikes ARE different from BIKES.

I have been a daily biker for decades. (I literally just rode 5 miles ten minutes ago) - I have worked in bike shops, my first design in Autocad Class in 1990 was a bike, I just sold my original 1986 Gary Fisher (the inventor of mtn bikes)(controversial) -- blah blah, so I have SOME bike cred..

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I have a current e-bike that is a modern awesome thing, and I love everything about it.

An Orbea Rise H30 - I love it, but it has flaws, and ALL ebikes have THE SAME FLAW.

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THEY REQUIRE A POWER GRID TO EXIST

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THEY REQUIRE A BATTERY RELIANT ON A GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN

THEY DO NOT PROVIDE A MECHANISM FOR LONG HAUL CHARGING (hauling a solar panel capable trailer/pannier/whatever that can adequately recharge off-grid, such as in the Yukon)

THEY CANNOT BE SUBMERGED IN WATER

THEY REQUIRE A POWERBRICK THE SIZE OF YOUR FANNY PACK

THEY HAVE A FLIMSY 'SEAL' TO COVER THE POWER PORT - if that breaks off (twig, brick, tree or foot) - your F'd SEE: SUBMERSION.

THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS ARE FAR MORE COMPLEX

THE MOTORS ARE FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE - AND QUESTIONABLE MFRs

DEALER RELATIONSHIPS SUCK (orbea and mikes bikes parted ways, santa cruz and others are bidding btwn various bike vendors, and a bunch of other financial complexities in the bike industry -

mikes started out in marin area as a "youre local bike buddy" and now they are fuly in the MBA corporate quagmire of catering to their market balanced by their own economics...

Vendor hostility and preferential treatments abound (just like any industry)

But the majority of bike frames come from Taiwan, and the high end components are from majorly Japan, Italy, France, Germany, CHINA - and I would put US at same level technically, but a tier 2 on prestige.

(I have had people ask me if the e-bike motor was from china, and if so - no-buy. They only want Japanese (shimano) or German (bosch) -- no random china...

But what I find odd, is not the motor - but the battery...

THE BATTERY INDUSTRY IS THE PROBLEM

(A, AA, AAA, C, D (why no B) -- (the battery industry is the biggest threat to global anything)

Where the heck am I to get a battery for an ebick thats custom molded to my stem in my 100 year old bike?

But can I pedal my stupid legs through the ruins of MIT on a bike I made from BAMBOO? Yep... Build me a battery from the rubble of your lab?

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If you were at all aware of the supply chain shortage of bikes in the pandemic, I did some research on that and found a lot of details on whom were to control the supply of bikes to the US (most went east coast (size of "market on east coast" - vs, the value of supply on bikes on the west coast -- (this is anecdotal, but the west coast spends more on bikes, but the east coast is higher volume due to pop dense)

Anyway... Let me see if I can find that write up on the supply chain...
Ok, here's a different example.

Defilibrators, strategically positioned at places where a lot of people congregate. Such as train stations or city centers.

Herearound those are not locked. There's nothing stopping you of taking it out and toss it into the river.

The social contract is such that you just don't fucking do it and frankly, I never heard of such a thing happening. And yes, we have our shares of assholes.

Contrast that to the UK, where they are under lock and code. You call an operator explaining the emergency and she may unlock it.

There are two problems that I can see (and probably more). The communication device adds another layer of potential failure. And those two minutes it takes to unlock the device may be the difference between life and death.

I, for one, know in which kind of society I prefer to live. Even given the very occasional asshole who breaks that contract and abuses the accessibility of that life saving device.
> as a base assumption and leaves no room for individual choice and risk-management decisions.

We're still having this dance in 2023? Businesses can likewise reject people for increasing the risk profile of the business provided such rejections don't touch on suspect classifications. And even that last bit is less likely to pose regulatory risk to businesses now that businesses in the US have been enabled by the Supreme Court to reject clients for things like sexual orientation.

> Ditto on "designing policies that mandate vaccination".

Workers under mandates can just as easily quit the job that has the mandate, or they can be terminated at will. Or rather, such is the typical argument I hear from the a certain crowd when workers complain about employers doing silly things that workers disagree with. If you're concerned that these workers should bargain for a right (to reject a vaccine) without fear of termination, maybe they should form a structure that can collectively bargain for said right for them.

I'm inclined to agree with others who say that your own biases are tainting your interpretation, but your biases are also particularly revealing.
> A manufacturer only gets a certain number of attempts at repairs (usually 3 for new cars) on new vehicles or a limited time frame to fix them before they must offer a full replacement

Wow that would be awesome. Someone I know here in the EU had a leaking sun roof on their Toyota and after so many fixes and replacements that did nothing (and she had to pay for) the dealer basically said "we can't fix it, the parts are made by another company bla bla ...".
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> Most alien activity, either recorded by the public, the media or the government, happens in the USA. This is a major question that deserves the same level of scrutiny, if not more, than questions such as "do aliens exist".

Do you read the news in any language other than English? Is it then surprising that all the UFO sightings you hear about are written in English by English speakers?

If you actually had any interest in answering the question, which you obviously don't, you would have looked for information in other languages and you would have found plenty.
Yep, a DoK(Data on K8s) solution.
sorry!, i messed up the link -- i tried to link to the first tweet, which is viewable not logged in, and has a link to the study; then if you are logged in, it has a very helpful more informal discussion of the results.

but i accidentally linked to the middle of the thread, which was not useful.
Bagged orange juice is not sold in stores but it's something I had a kid in school. Single serving clear plastic brandless bags of OJ.
>(removing his financial burden) and then just do whatever he wanted with the info..

Thus creating a whole new financial burden.
I'm from the northern Midwestern US and there is a perception that southern portions of northern states bordering the US South (Mason Dixon line) are culturally more southern than northern, which carries a lot of current and historical significance and baggage - the perception that these areas are uneducated backwards hillbillies. Southern portions of these states also tend to be rural, which amplifies the uneducated backwards hillbillies perception.

There is still a very significant divide between Northern and Southern US states which isn't specific to the US. It's from media but there's a scene in The Sopranos where Furio (a mafia foot soldier from southern Italy) surprises the Italian-Americans of the rest of the crew by saying he hates Christopher Columbus because he's from "the north". It's very similar to the US - the perception that the north looks down on the south, that they have all of the money and power, etc. It's a less-than-friendly sibling rivalry.

I've also personally experienced this with various people from other countries - regions of the country with a superiority complex and regions of the country with a chip on their shoulder as a result.

I'm not saying there isn't any truth to this or I agree with it, just that it is a perception held by many.
Isn't that what gradians do?

360° = 400 gon, so 1 gon = 100 km of arc length

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian#Relation_to_the_metre
HN is not a good representation of the population.

> Why somebody take first statement as absolute and not the second one?

Because 90% of the US population is incapable of nuance and only listens to the first few words of a sentence? Maybe lead with the important part instead of wish casting?

Why muddy the waters? Why even say the first part when you KNOW it's going to confuse most people?
People should remember that Newton spent the majority of his life trying to turn lead into gold.

People can be incredibly smart and still pursue crackpot ideas.
I don't know the answer to your question, only that bash.org goes down every few years causing some discussion on here and Reddit then it comes back, sometimes without an HTTPS cert for a while. No idea if it is gone permanently this time. Perhaps you can find the admin/moderators contact info somewhere in the snapshots. They list qdb@bash.org as a contact email assuming their GMail account is still active. I see live MX records pointing to Google. Please let us know if they respond to your email.

The last snapshots on archive.is are from May 2022 [1] and June 2022 [2]

[1] - https://archive.is/8IRjm

[2] - https://archive.is/BYZ9l
Grades should reflect what they measure.

A pupil's grade in, say, Maths or English should only reflect how they perform in those topics.

If a school wishes to grade behaviour or attendance in general then they should have specific categories for that.
The e-bike industry is a scam!

The bike is a 200 year old invention, these people really are fooling consumers into thinking they have re-invented the wheel.

Some e-bikes go for 20,000$, that's the same price of a new Ducati Panigale which has 400 lbs of material in it, including a 220hp motor which rotates at 17000rpm.

It's either a scam or poor engineering, some people claim that the pricy e-bikes have 'a lot of carbon fiber on them' , but centuries of work showed that if you are struggling to propel yourself forward the low hanging fruit is a more powerful motor which is way more helpful than lowering the weight by half an ounce at the price of hundreds of dollars of carbon fiber.
> You vendored all your compilers/language runtimes in the source control repo of each project? Including, like, gcc or clang? WTF?

Yep. Along with paltform SDKs, third party dependencies, precompiled binaries, non-redistributable runtimes, you name it.

Giant PSD or FBX files? 4K Textures? all of it.

Client mappings are the bread and butter of P4 (or Stream views more recently which are not as nice to work with) - you say "I don't want the path containing MacOS" if you don't want it.

> Because the Linux kernel source tree and its history can accurately be described as "a few hundred text files".

I was off by a little bit, it's ~60k. But it's still "only" 60k text files, no matter how important those text files are.
Is there a functional difference? Would cracks from a cold shut not disqualify the product (whatever it is) from going into service?
What are you basing this on?
Looks like deaths peaked in 2004, but more people in Africa are receiving treatment. Without treatment the avg life expectancy seems to be 11 years, and doesn't look like that's changed.
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Not to mention a puncture risk.
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I worked on a system like this. Rolling out migrations would take hours.
The topic at hand is the pace of AI technology. This one is hard to quantify as it's been mostly linear in terms of technological progress. Example: From gans to LLMs. That progress has not been diminishing.

You seem to think the topic is about the current state of training algorithms and how it's hard to bring the model to 100 percent. That's a different topic with a subtle distinction.
Vision buddy looks very cool. This is what I had hoped Apple's headset would be.
Software used to come with source code escrow licenses (a long time ago). A third party would certify that you had done the due diligence you just mentioned up front.

I’d like to see legislation requiring this for any software that a physical device needs in order to work, but I doubt that will happen any time soon. (“Right to repair” is meaningless without something at least as strong as source code escrow)
It's one car, so I don't want to pretend like it's every car, but certainly Tesla has earned a reputation at poor quality control. It seems obvious to me they optimize for factory output even at the cost of delivering a correct product.

Anecdotally, a close friend had a Model S Plaid. He took delivery roughly a year after they were announced. Tesla forgot to install weather stripping in the frunk. "Flood" is too strong a word, but yes, during a rain storm water seeped into the frunk. This car is very expensive, but honestly I would expect an entry-level Toyota to have correct weather stripping.

Elon is all about "hardcore." He belittles his own employees and plays classes against one another — claiming information workers should continue to commute on the Bart just like factory workers. But oh, by the way, he takes a private jet from meeting to meeting.

So what baffles me is how Elon Musk continues to say casually that production ramp is "really hard." I have no doubt that it is, but the Model S was released in 2012. It's been, what, 11 years, and you're still delivering like this? Not good enough.
> We had (have?) a scare too; at christmas our company did a fancy gala dinner party, and the starter was a fish tartare of sorts. A few days later my GF had diarrhea, turns out there's a parasite in that type of fish that causes it days later.

It's safe to assume all fish are a parasite risk (for instance due to nematode worms or cod worms) - with the notable exception of tuna, and most farmed salmon. However! In the US, all non-tuna fish is required to be frozen to -4F for at least 7 days or -31F for 15 hours to kill parasites. [1]

You can make sushi - or tartare - out of any US frozen fish.

If you caught parasites it would have either been fresh fish, which (except for tuna) is never ok to use according to the FDA - or the cold chain was improperly maintained. In either case it could even be worth a report to local health authorities. However tartare or ceviche or any other kind of raw fish preparation in the US is safe if it's made from tuna or (properly) frozen fish.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/Fish-and-Fishery-Pr...
I have absolutely no knowledge about casting metal but I'm 100% sure you can cast these parts without any cracks. This is a very obvious quality control issue, we've been casting metal for decades..
Do you have any data to suggest that new engineers today are choosing the wrong data structures at higher rates than new engineers in the past?
Burying the lede, indeed
Both are ridiculous. The cells themselves go for $4-$6 each, there are usually 40 in that Bosch pack so that's $160-$240 in cells at retail pricing.
"GP was saying that it should scale without breaking" and the responder was saying that making that a priority means that your wasting time that probably won't be needed.

The time you spend making it work for millions of users that won't be needed is time not spent making value to customers that do need it.
Which makes it opt-out.
> ...scalability needs to be tested up-front.

I'd rephrase it: if expecting massive or longterm use - know how that thing is built/designed.

Picking a technology based on general popularity or vendor's marketing is not a way to solve _your_ problem.
Mmm, keep spreading that paranoia and lack of compassion for people with mental health disorders.

There are depressed people in every single aspect of human society, including the scary critical ones people like you fear.

Unfortunately, people like you who think this is an actual talking point make it impossible for the people who need help in critical positions to get that help by stigmatizing the existence of the issue in the first place.

People like you who cherry pick the negative outcomes of mental health disorders while ignoring that most suffer in silence for the "safety" of others like you are the problem.
Writing software is more like writing books more than anything else. So any process that presupposes that the workload can be divided among roughly equal agents is bound to fail. That's my experience after two decades as a software engineer. Every good software team has two or three engineers who knows how to write books, how to structure a story, and can work towards a common vision. The rest of the team more often than not consists of tag-alongs that don't know nor care about good literature. Every good software project lets these two or three engineers get stuff done. Every bad software project suffocates these engineers with processes and/or makes them quit.
This is said so confidently, but clearly with little to no experience with the military or the VA to back it up. No vet is receiving benefits without something to back up their disability rating, even if that rating is higher than it seemingly "should" be. Some disabilities are easier to establish than others, because the issue causing the disability is so prevalent in the service that the military has little basis to deny them. Hearing loss is a common one. That said, I'm a vet, with significant hearing loss due to my time in (I was an F-16 maintainer on the flightline, an extremely intense noise environment). I'm not eligible for _any_ disability rating at all, because I did not report issues while I was still in the service; but hearing loss issues often take time to become apparent, and it's not like we were being tested for it. It was not uncommon for someone to forget their earplugs (the second layer of hearing protection we had, under our headset), and be essentially forced to go out on the flightline anyway to handle some task around running engines. These events would be downplayed, but just one instance of that can cause irreversible hearing loss.

But that's just a specific issue relevant to my time in the service. The bottom line is that unless you report every little thing that _might_ cause an issue later, you're going to be up shit creek when you get out and find out that something you were exposed to during your service is causing an expensive medical issue that you have to deal with. There are all kinds of fucked up things people had to do while they were in, that they struggle to get compensation for now that the consequences are catching up, because the issues aren't straightforwardly attributable to some event during your service, like with combat injuries. Burn pits are the most notorious one - you have advocates like Jon Stewart fighting in Congress to pass laws to support vets who were forced to work those pits and are now battling all kinds of complications. If anyone should be an obvious beneficiary of the disability system, beyond those with combat injuries, it should be those folks - but they are largely left hanging in the wind. In the case of burn pits especially, the military _knew_ there were consequences to having soldiers work them, but chalked it up as the cost of war.

Frankly, from what I've observed, once vets are out of the service, our country largely gives them the middle finger when they struggle with mental or physical health issues. I say "them" here, because I'm not a combat veteran, and I'm lucky that I had it pretty easy during my tenure (2009-2015), but for many, that is very much not the case. Yeah, nobody in Congress is going to stand up in front of everyone and say "let's make disability benefits harder to obtain" - but I have no doubt they'd have few, if any, qualms about doing it behind closed doors.
Ironic fact: The Nexus 7 and the original Tesla Model S share the exact same flaw: They both used a Tegra 3 SOC with memory that would effectively fail in shorter-than-normal time. The outcome is that the system would get slower or in the Tesla's case, crash.
Ah yes, I too have accidentally committed node_modules.

Jokes aside, and coming from a place of ignorance, it's interesting to me that a file count that size is still a real performance issue for git. I'd have expected something that's so ubiquitous and core to most of the software world hasn't seen improvements there.

Genuine, non snarky question:
Are there some fundamental aspects of git that would make it either very difficult to improve that, or that would sacrifice some important benefits if they were made? Or is this a case of it being a large effort and no one has particularly cared enough yet to take it on?
It's very hard, and, yes, the treatments we're collectively using are still primitive. FWIW it looks like I'm in a relatively promising clinical trial, and the primary treatment is likely to be less hard than surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, but recurrent / metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (RN HNSCC) kills. It's conceivable but unlikely I'll somehow survive, but my understanding is that most people in the field think that it'll take some combination of treatments to make any substantial progress.
It wont be. It's being built in the same place this cracked Tesla was built. Also it's so over due I've got to imagine they're rushing to get it out the door.
based on what was inside, you weren't far off
Same in Poland, though here you can also use white lantern, if you don't have red one.
It is so amazing to me that Elon set himself the simplest possible problem in car manufacturing and is till terribly bad at it.
> A shop in Chinatown was letting dozens of customers charger their batteries overnight in the store and the fire killed tenants upstairs.

And this bit even has nothing to do with right to repair! People will do stupid shit that puts innocent bystanders at risk. That's just life. We should put into place measures that disincentivize that sort of behavior, of course. But giving companies a pass to make hermetically-sealed, unrepairable garbage is not how to do that. Ensuring that customers have detailed documentation and access to affordable, well-made parts so they have the ability and understanding of how to safely do repairs would be a good start.
Yes, but I would only do that for a car for which no tanks are available any more. If you can still get a NOS one then you probably should, unless the leak is very small and on the top of the tank (where it rarely is...).
A big part of the answer is, I think, that right now it's inevitable. Barring radical life extension, it's what is going to happen.
HIPAA defines an IP address as PII, especially in combination with any other identifier. If you have a first name + IP, or an email + IP, then federal law says that’s PII.
Microsoft uses git.
I too see nationalizing our power grid as inevitable.
Interesting... so given that is true, do you think Cal Newport believes:

1) Twitter-clone emphasizing negativity not solvable in any possible way

2) He has considered every single solution that exists in the entire problem space, even those which might take teams of minds to come up with answers to
And honestly, I kinda get it. Until you run into a case where your volume is such that you physically can't run on the db then run it on the db. I run all my job processing off the DB and couldn't be happier. I have to hit "can't run along side the real data" and "can't run in its own db" before I'll need to consider something else.

It probably feels weird for devs to drive the UI off the db but it's just Wordpress by another name.
The difference is that flu vaccines actually prevent infection in many cases, whereas COVID vaccines do not prevent them, but merely lessen the symptoms and risk of hospitalization.
All excellent recommendations. I would add to these, Bird by Bird and Zen in the Art of Writing.
I think people with learning disabilities and people who do not understand the tone they are expressing over the internet can still contribute positively to conversations, they just need a little bit of grace.