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Unfortunately EVs are still seen as a bells and whistles car, and carmakers are selling to that market.
the wording is wrong - it's not a financial stake that gives you said power, it's equity stake.

This equity stake gives you a vote for which you can use to influence the actions of the board and thus the CEO.

Being financially dependent on the company to provide employment by no means gives you power over the CEO. Of course, criticism is not black and white - but being an asshole CEO is not illegal, and putting yourself out to "fight the good fight" sounds good on paper, but do you no good at all.
But the backlit screen does make a difference in usability, one has to admit?
There is the story of the JSON licence excluding evil use and a company approached the author to get an unambiguous licence
Itself.

> gradle is faster as a build tool for incremental compilation

Implicit:

> …than it is building from scratch, where it needs to download lots of stuff

I mean, yes, saying Java builds are fast does seem a bit “rolls eyes, yes technically by loc when the compiler is actually running” …but, ^_^! let’s not start banging on about how great cargo/rust compile times are… they’re really terrible once procedural macros are used, or sys dependencies invoke some heinous c dependency build like autoconf and lots of crates do… and there’s still a subpar incremental compilation story.

So, you know. Eh. Live and let live. Gradle isn’t that bad.
> your company

it's not your company, until you own a controlling share.

> This idea is no more authoritarian than whistleblower protection laws.

the big difference is that whistleblowing is for protection against retaliation _for_ reporting illegal activities. Last time i looked, being as asshole CEO is not illegal.
Async programming is not an alternative to semaphores and mutexes. It is an alternative to having more threads. The substantial drawback of async programming in most implementations is that stack traces and debuggers become almost useless; at least very hard to use productively.
Why would it have to be floating point to work? For ("physical") money there always is a finite smallest part, so integer math works fine. For time, if you go nuts and store Planck time a 256 bit integer is enough to store almost 1 billion billion billion years and you cannot go smaller for more precisions. So I'm curious why you claim it must be floating point for calculation.
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> If I have serious on-going disagreements with my CEO's strategy and tactics to lead the company

That's like claiming bank-robbery is fine because "there's no law against holding money in your hands, everyone does it." For some reason you're leaving out all the most important details that make things different than normal.

In this case, those details are that certain "disagreements"--an obvious case being "we're underpaid, let's unionize"--are disagreements which that CEO is not legally permitted to fire you for.
It can add up quick, and there is all sorts of headaches around it and it’s super expensive if you get something that your allowed to take offroad.

Imho renting via a car share is great for the occasional city truck need but for recreation it’s much better to own.
What really is DEI, in the vein that Musk is invoking these three letters?

I've worked at one company where DEI was not anything unsavory or underhanded. It really did seem to be the contemporary term for HR explaining not to be racist or sexist, etc.

But two out of the other three companies I've worked at DEI efforts were just obviously discrimination on the basis of gender and race. At one, we had an OKR to have 40% women new hires in all departments. Engineering was almost all software developers (80% male) or electrical engineers (90% male). So setting a quota of 40% women would be a 2-4x overrepresentation.

Another reserved 20 slots in our headcount for diverse candidates. The document describing this policy conspicuously lacks an explanation of how to identify a "diverse" candidate. At an all-hands, the DEI head explanation that this mean "women, black, and brown" candidates - her words verbatim. In subsequent Q&A, she clarified that Asians, regardless of complexion, are not "brown". This was on top of the pre-existing policy of allowing "diverse" candidates two chances to pass the technical phone screen as opposed to one for white and Asian men.

It seems pretty clear to me he's speaking about the latter type of DEI.
but… can I use pandas?
I live in a big city and don’t own a car because I can use public transport for the 93% and taxis for most of the rest.

The weekend trip is indeed the problem and I rent an ICE car for that. It’s a pain, car rental companies are crap. If I can order a taxi to my house in 10 mins with an app, why do I have to trek across town and queue for 20 mins with a bunch of seemingly random paperwork to do that. Adds an hour to my trip both ways just doing car hire admin. And then there’s the ‘damage’ they invent when you return it.
A semi-open letter is an escalation. It's an admission that initial discussions have failed, and it is intended to prompt management to make a choice in a more concrete way. It's a powerful tool and it can be destructive or corrective.
This article is uniquely terrible.

"When automakers pivoted to EVs, they focused on the kinds of cars that were already popular — which meant a flood of big electrified SUVs and trucks. But massive-bodied EVs don't make much sense. Larger EVs require bigger batteries, which require more raw materials to manufacture, which requires producers to beef up their environmentally destructive mining operations. While bigger batteries allow drivers to travel farther between charges, they also make the cars heavier, more dangerous, more expensive, and worse for the planet."

WTF does the author think the ICE alternative is going to do better instead? Just as dangerous, even worse for the planet. You want to put in a paragraph in your EV article about how people are arms-race and status-seeking into bigger cars, fine, blame people for that. Don't blame EV's when this is what people want from autos anyway and of course it's easier for a new market entrant to get its foot in the door with the higher margin products. Every Model Y that isn't sold is a RAV4 guzzling 10,000 gallons of gasoline over its life.
Sound’s nifty. Did this take advantage of those Intel (maybe others?) STM opcodes? For a while I was stoked on CL-STMX which did (as well as implementing non-native version to the same interface)
I use an electric cargo bike. It's a really expensive one that cost almost $7000. You can get a perfectly usable one for less than half that price. I use it for what most people use their car for in 90% of their trips, including picking up 2 kids from daycare and school. And I use it year round, including days like today when it is -11 degrees C (12F).

I don't pay fuel. I don't pay insurance. I don't have to finance a car.

When I need to move something big or heavy I rent a full size van or a box truck for about $100 for the day. Most people pay more than that just for car insurance in a month. And then I get a vehicle that is exactly what I need, including a lift gate when suitable. I rent a nice sedan when picking up my in-laws at the airport and a big station wagon when going on holidays with the family.

And I'm still ahead thousands of dollars every year compared to the average car payment which is more than $500 per month even for a used car.
Because floating point math doesn't work the same as basic integer arithmetic? Divide two floating point numbers.
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100km is a short distance, i driver further then that for a day of snowboarding at the local big mountain (130km each way) - I’ve driven 2x that fora day hike

And road trip? Between 500-1000 a day on travel days.

North America is big.
Firefox uses the fontconfig settings only and ignores desktop environment settings. So you need to change the rgba setting in your .fonts.conf.
> This letter was circulated internally using internal employee communications channels.

if an employee undermined leadership's authority, it is likely that they won't last long.

Good leadership means being able to recognize criticism from your employees, but this can't come from grassroots effort within the company - it must come from the top.

If the employee disagrees with the direction of the company, and the leadership doesn't want to change (e.g., after voicing the opinion thru sanctioned feedback channels), their only option is to quit, or acquire a controlling share and _become_ the leadership.

Trying to undermine leadership through collective action via other employees is akin to a threat and an internal coup in a country ruled by a dictator - and you know how that will go.
As an ordinary driver, I cannot care less whether a car is electric or not. All I want is *A* car can cover all most if not all my needs around transport. Obviously those electric car advocate took what we *want* as what we *need*.
Correct, I'm not. I'm replying to someone who already owns an EV and sharing somebody else's logbook with them in case it's useful but for some reason my comments are being completely misinterpreted.
Fine 1300 instead of 2000. That is still an impressive detour for a road closure of any kind, no?
I sometimes think it reflects a difference between people who prefer maths vs languages. I'm not suggesting one is better than the other, but I do believe the former is a smaller group than the latter.

This dichotomy exists in mathematics as well. Some mathematicians prefer to flood the page with symbols. Others prefer to use English words as much as possible and sprinkle equations here and there (on their own line) between paragraphs of text.

The worst are those that love symbols and paragraphs, writing these dense walls of symbols and text intermixed. I’ve had a few professors who write like that and it’s such a chore to parse through.
Electric technology (vs. gas) allow for small vehicles.

It allows easy access to single person transports (electric scooters, electric scooters with seat, electric scooters with canopy, etc.) on the cheap.

And that is where it will thrive, and is already thriving in Asia.

Using electric for heavy vehicles doesn't make a lot of sense.
It does decrease the amount of trips you take, to be fair. It doesn't have to, but it does.

Also, renting is a pain. I used to rent 6-10 times a year and about 50% of the time you'd get what you asked for, or had to run to an airport for better selection. I'd ask for a subcompact and they'd give me a van, vice versa...
Congratulations to the Airplane team.

Is this Airtable moving in the direction of low-code rather than no code? Puts them up against tools like:

Budibase [https://github.com/Budibase/budibase]

Retool [Https://retool.com]
Airstream has a concept trailer called the eStream which has electric assist.
Haha, after reading this I got confused too and was about to shoot off a bug report. But that's someone's username. (And you're correct re Unix time.)
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Both my wife and I charge at home. We're probably spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-80 or so a month in charging versus the $200 or so we'd spend on gas (Texas has relatively cheap electricity rates, but our gas is also fairly cheap)
Also the cool features around deletion prevention, automatic lifecycle management.
maven is just a build tool. It creates a single uberjar which you run with the JDK directly - you don't ship the maven project.

But the real meaning is that you're not allowed to use external libraries, rather than build tool related dependency.
I suspect the redirect exists because people were confused by the 404s. As to why no HTTPS, no idea.
> talks about range concerns as if they're simply incorrect

I think the quote you highlighted explicitly mentions that they meet the daily range needs but "struggles with edge cases like road trips because of the need to recharge".

> 93% of trips are less than 30 miles, but the vast majority of drivers take occasional trips that are beyond the range of an electric car. It's no wonder that 73% of drivers have range concerns-- no one is concerned with the EV getting through their commute, they're concerned with the EV getting them to their distant family / weekend trip / vacation home / etc.

Yah, policymakers should push PHEVs harder as an interim strategy. They can be effectively electric cars most of the time but have the versatility to make road trips easier.
A lot of people are misunderstanding my point. It's not that intangibles don't matter or that people shouldn't spend money on their preferences.

Trust me; I spent $2,000 on a bicycle recently. Not a sports bike or mountain bike or anything. Just a bike for getting around town. Am I under some illusion that I needed to spend 2k on a transportation bike? Of course not. But it's something that I use every single day and derive great joy from using, so I prioritize having a nice one. So I am no stranger to spending money on optional things.

I also enjoy mountain biking, but I only really do it when I'm with my dad which is like 2 times a year. So instead of buying a mountain bike, I rent them. And I rent nice ones (nicer than I would buy, man those things get expensive).

My point is that there is a bias toward ownership of certain conventional things that don't get used very often, and are easy to obtain temporarily. (And of course every example I used had people responding, "I have that and use it all the time!", which is also missing the point.)
Nuclear submarines have no use for a working fluid that boils below 100 C. Indeed, they pressurize the water so that the boiling point is well above that point, because they have no difficulty heating water well above that.

Steam is used everywhere despite that it is quite corrosive, mainly because it is cheap.
> I live in Ventura County and the cheapest my electricity gets is around 33 cents per kwh

If you have an EV (or some other devices), you can qualify for the TOU-D-PRIME plan which gets you $0.23/kWh[1]; at this rate, for my car usage patterns, the Tesla Model 3 is a clear win over any car more than $25k or so. If you have solar, you can drive the prices even further down (I offset basically all of my 2022 bill, but 2023 was cloudier and rainier than typical and so I'm doing worse this year).

[1]: https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Time-Of-Use-Residentia...
I never left 1991 and I haven't seen anything that has made me consider leaving ConcurrentML except for the actor model, but that is so old the documentation is written on parchment.
Some places are pricier than the gas prices you're assuming.
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There wasn't a single place I asserted that uxn is specifically novel or unprecedented. In fact, Devine's own presentation[0] about uxn specifically cites Wirth and Oberon, among countless other inspirations and examples. I'm saying it's awesome, accessible, simple and open.

I don't need to "develop more tolerance for differing opinions" - I have no problem with them and am completely open to them, even from people who I feel are communicating in an unfriendly, patronizing or gatekeeping manner. rollcat shared some other people and projects and you took it upon yourself to shoot down as much as possible in that comment - for what purpose? No one said Drecker is "on Wirth's level" when it comes to programming. We don't need him to write FizzBuzz, let alone any other software. I'm sorry you don't recognize the value of a publication like Low-Tech Magazine, but the rest of us can, and your need to shoot down that recognition is why I called your messages persistently negative.

Further, when I give kudos to uxn and recognize it as a cool piece of software, there's absolutely no point in coming in and saying "yeah but it's no big deal compared to ____" , as if anyone was interested in some kind of software achievement pissing contest. The sanctity and reverence for your software idols is not diluted nor detracted from by acknowledging, recognizing and celebrating newer contributors to the world of computing and software.

I have to come back and edit this and just reiterate: All I originally said was "uxn ftw" and you found it necessary to "put me in my place" about something I didn't even say/assert, and make it into some kind of competition or gatekeeping situation. Let people enjoy things. And now, minimizing this thread and never looking at it again.

[0] https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
Single digit F temps is the baseline winter temperature. What should I expect during the 2 to 3 weeks of -20 F temps each year?
Seriously, I am very surprised how resistant people are to it. When I was younger my dad had a big car and all year he would drive it by himself to work, but we ”needed” this big car once a year to go on family vacation and then filled that car to the brim for this one trip. It would have made so much more sense to just have a small commuter car for his daily commute and then just rent a gigantic car once a year for the family trip that could actually hold all our stuff.
I wholeheartedly agree and am also going to bring another thing up that ICE cars have but EVs don't regarding range:

Peace of mind.

When we're driving an ICE car, we simply don't care about the range. We don't think about it; it's not a concern. That peace of mind is fucking priceless, especially if one's life is already busy with far more pressing concerns.

In an EV we have to constantly keep an eye on that battery level, on that Miles Remaining counter. We have to micromanage the A/C and other things that consume power. That is mentally draining, and for what? It's something we don't have to care about in an ICE car.

I drove an EV, I constantly worried about the range. Range was constantly on my mind, even when I wasn't driving the fucking thing. It was mentally fucking exhausting. Sincerely: No thanks.

I'll happily pay the $50~70 bucks at the gas station to fill up my car in a few minutes and be at peace. It easily beats paying almost nothing charging overnight and then worrying if I can come back home when I start another day.
>it's not your company, until you own a controlling share.

When you enter into an employment contract with a company, you have a legal connection. The use of "your" is appropriate.

>the big difference is that whistleblowing is for protection against retaliation _for_ reporting illegal activities. Last time i looked, being as asshole CEO is not illegal.

They are one in the same. Speaking about conduct and activities which can affect working conditions within a company is the basis of whistleblowing protections under the law (in the US). Speaking about conduct of a CEO in relation to the rules of conduct within your company is the same legal concept.
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I'd recommend a USB-connected external hard drive (not SSD). You don't have very much data, so a thumb drive could probably hold everything, but SSDs/flash aren't great for long-term data storage and will lose their data if you don't power them up and use them now and then. An actual HD doesn't have this problem, plus they're typically 1TB+ so you'd have plenty of space for future needs.

Alternatively, you could get a handful of flash thumb drives and back up onto all of them, syncing with a different one each week/month/whenever so that they're all getting continuously refreshed and you'd have snapshots in case you accidentally delete something and that deletion gets synced to the most-recent drive.
To offer another data point, I've also seen comments promoting alternatives on threads about acquisitions.

I find that the ethos of this community in general is more open to self-promotion.
We recently went through our first car purchase in over 5 years. Even when you choose a cheaper EV (so worse in non-range aspects) or even compare used, the math still doesn’t work out. EV + rentals for trips costs more over a 5-10 year span even after accounting for the gas and maintenance savings. So I’m kind of confused why people are suggesting rentals for trips as an alternative. You don’t even break even.
>As in, more than 50% of people? Not where I am from in USA, but maybe there are cultures where this happens.

You got me there, I'm not a sociologist and I can only draw from experience. I come from an immigrant family in New England and one my of my best friends is an immigrant from Europe which places high priority on the eating together thing. That said you could be right as more and more relationships move online.

>No but in such a situation only 1/8th of the people involved need to have a living room.

In a perfect economy with 100% efficient utilization there will never be any waste or duplication of resources. We don't have a perfect economy.
Maybe focus on area that will have a bigger impact then yet again, foisting the responsibility onto the consumer. Subsidize railroads and public transit, build out commuter rail, reduce air travel, electrify the railroads, move more freight onto rail, electrify trucks.

There are far better targets to reducing the amount of oil and gas burned, ones that are more uniform and less varied them peoples lives not to mention moving people to transit and commuter rail is better then evs anyways
I suppose it defeats the spirit of the game to, knowing your worst run is discarded, calculate the results on the first run by whatever slow method you want, save them somewhere useful, and just read the results and print them out on the following runs?

Or at the very least, convert the input into a more convenient binary format for the following runs.
Not only that, those people simply cannot recognize the costs associated with those hustles. Imagine the scenario: your friends are visiting you, and you are telling them I'm going to book a function room...
"Tesla Model 3:
Depreciation $24,261"

Ya, that's a no from me dawg.
My typical service for my EV6 is right at $20 every 8k miles.
Are you talking about Europe? they're certainly going to be biased against Google and any US tech giant.

I'm biased against Google, but I'm honest about it. I don't ask "what could I possibly be biased about?"
i say leave the escalators. why is that only a mall or airport feature?
EVs do not solve any of those problems and have their own negative externalities.
Look, no offence, but I'm a lot less likely to go to your rented public space for a party than I am to drop over to the over poster's house for dinner. They're not comparable experiences, other than being social events.

I also think you underestimate how often many people (especially in more social cultures) socialise. It could be literally 100's of times per year.
Indeed it would! Is anyone here going to try to do that?

As an observer is needed to assess the LLM, perhaps the easiest test is copy-paste between two instances and then ask chatGPT, or whichever LLM, "who were you talking to?".
What part of my comment made it sound like I was presenting something newsworthy?
The point probably doesn't land as well on this particular website where incomes skew high, BUT...

a LOT of people do not have the rosiest finances. Maybe it is student loans or credit card debt or whatever. But sure, maybe it makes sense for people with more wealth than they will ever spend to have extras around 'just in case'. But if you're not in that situation, I think it's something a lot of people should look at a lot harder than they do.
I honestly wonder how your friends and family feel about this attitude. Do you think they share it?