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Interpreted BASICs (such as BASIC-PLUS on DEC, MS-BASIC on micros) big benefit at the time was speeding up the develop cycle by working with source code in RAM, and running directly from it, thus skipping the edit/load cycle across crushingly slow I/O.

Turbo Pascal on CP/Ms breakthrough was bringing a similar experience to a compiled language. So you got fast turn arounds, with better performing code. Turbo did this by compiling from RAM, to RAM, and skipping the link process. The Turbo runtime was already loaded in RAM and used by Turbo itself, so the binary just called already RAM resident routines. When the final COM file was saved, it simply bulk copied the runtime to disk and attached the compiled code at the end. This is one reason why even small programs created large COM files with Turbo, they all bundled the entire runtime.

There's nothing particularly slow about a C compiler, but when you wrap it in reading from disk and writing to disk, or, even worse, writing assembly that then had to be assembled, then stacking on a link step, and turn around craters. The practice of several C files having to be linked together involved yet more I/O. Ostensibly there was a benefit of not having to recompile all of the files all of the time (but note, especially on CP/M at the time there were no timestamps on files, so "make" wasn't a real option to do this), hoping for a net win. Linking also let your program include only the routines it truly needed, reducing footprint. Linkers have lots of benefits, performance during the dev cycle is simply not one of them.

As you started to write larger Turbo programs, utilizing include files, and having to write to disk (because the RAM wasn't enough for your code any longer), and Turbo most certainly slowed down. But still not quite as bad as something like C as, again, there was no real linking phase. I have, I think, a 1200 line Pascal program, in several include files, that builds on a 4Mhz (simulated) Z80 and, yea, you can sit there watching the lines tick by. Doesn't take minutes, but it's definitely a time to get a sip of coffee and catch breath looking out the window.

The Atari series had ACTION, which was a very Turbo like system using a simple Algol-esque language. It, too, had a bundled runtime on the ROM cartridge, with a very fast compiler. I tried a C compiler on the Atari, and tossed it after my first build. It was absolutely horrific. The Atari (along with the Commodores) had notoriously slow disk drives.
> genocide

Citation, as they say, needed.
Per another comment, they provide legal representation and take 60% of the payout
I feel the same way and after speaking with many EV people i've realised the main benefit is how cheap they are to run. This comes down to the increase in efficiency compared to an ICE - ~80% of the battery energy finds its way to the wheels on EV's, vs ~30% on an ICE. If you live somewhere where electric costs are very low then a 0 to full charge your EV costs about $10. (Someone please correct me if i'm off on this one)

Depending on your mileage, by saving $3k-$4k a year on gas theres certainly a case to be made for an EV being a more sensible financial decision in the long term especially given government tax incentives

One of the biggest reason for the massive disparity in efficiency on EV's is due to regenerative braking (16-25%). So what's interesting is when you compare an EV to a Hybrid ICE vehicle then the efficiency disparity becomes a lot less and you still have the benefit of being able to take long trips and not needing a home charger.

Anyone thats driven a Hybrid Toyota will tell you that fuel consumption is dramatically less, in my real world scenarios I use about 2.5x less gas in something like a Toyota Corolla Cross compared to my not overly thirsty ICE BMW.

Another benefit to Hybrids is they only require a ~1kWh battery instead of needing a huge 60-70kWh battery like an EV. So you could create 60 or 70 hybrid vehicles for the same amount of lithium mining as one EV.

One has to wonder why the governments aren't just pushing everyone into Hybrids instead of EV's? If a young person was asking me to recommend a car and they didn't have a home charger I wouldn't hesitate to recommend something like a new Toyota HEV / Honda e:hev - they are basically an EV with an on-board Atkinson engine as a powerplant.
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> Anyway, for any EV owners, a more likely scenario is a person spending about $100-$150 for fuel per month. Doesn't buying a brand new $50000 EV's as opposed to a $30000 IC car (potentially used), and the insurance/registration costs offset the gains made by fuel savings?

Yes, given current prices, even with a $7.5k subsidy

> potentially used

If you open the door to ~$10k used Japanese compacts with a good 100k+miles left, it's not even remotely close.

EVs are still a rich person thing for now, which may be the primary reason?

If we had access to BYD cars in the US maybe...
They appealed to "god says I'm the monarch", plus personal charisma, plus playing off one group against another group. There also existed a state and laws, even if primitive compared to what we have today. Even so I doubt it was an easy thing being a European monarch.
You mean actual icy hellscapes? Correct! ;)
One thing about gel pens, and other 'fancy' ink, is that it tends to be quite runny and can take a while to dry on 'waxy' papers (many index cards, shipping labels).

Not sure which listed category of ink/pen would work best on those (besides a plain old, cheap Bic® pen, which works fine.)
Can one drive continuously without rest stops for more than a couple of hours with children in the car? Even when I'm driving alone, 2 hours is absolutely the limit before my knees force me to stop and stretch my legs for a bit. As long as the charging locations are numerous enough and have all the facilities that people with many children need, isn't it easier to just do both at once? If there are not enough reliable charging points with restaurants, bathrooms, etc., I understand your objection.
This is definitely not the first I’ve heard of it.
this isn't quite accurate. fast charging isn't available everywhere. did a road trip within california a few years ago and our model 3 ruined our trip on the drive from yosemite to sequoia national park. fast chargers became non existant to the point where we had to stop for 2 hours to wait for some low charge place to get us to 40% so we could make it to the next fast charging place.

i'm sure happy path traveling is great, but it becomes stressful as hell very quickly
Gotta have a leader of some sort, so why not the ruthless leader of the company that helped destroy civilization?
To progress in the same direction: what about having a static deadly hunk of metal at second floor of your house?

The point I am trying to make: most of things flying seem more dangerous (higher speed, higher reach, different fuel) than cars.
Living in NYC I used to think this way. Why would anyone want to live anywhere else, from street food in Queens, Le Bernardin, Omakase only menus ...etc.

The 3 star restaurants get old very fast. too expensive, way too long to eat. Very pretentious. As I got older I came to value home cooking many times higher than any restaurant that NYC can offer.

I highly suggest people try these places to understand what is possible with food, but don't value them any higher.
I am well aware of the parts catalog. I was specific about being able to see pricing.

For me this smells like a dark pattern. Tesla gets you in the car at a reasonable price point but why can't they show part prices online? Or even better sell them online? They are a tech company.

Right now, I can tell you the cost of a part for literally any main stream car with just a simple search. I can tell if the parts in stock or if they are out of stock how quickly I can expect to get them.

Why can't tesla do this, if legacy automakers have been doing this for years?
You redefined cost / profit center as 'primary' or 'support'.
This is a circular argument.
You 100% want to avoid whistle blowing becoming a politically aligned action.
The SEC does this.

https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/frequently-asked-questions

> The Whistleblower Program was created by Congress to provide monetary incentives for individuals to come forward and report possible violations of the federal securities laws to the SEC. Under the program, eligible whistleblowers are entitled to an award between 10 and 30% of the monetary sanctions collected in actions brought by the SEC and related actions brought by certain other regulatory and law enforcement authorities.
An EV just doesn't do anything that my 2007 Pontiac Vibe doesn't do better. My car is worth about $3,000. It:

- Has a 400 mile range

- Can stop anywhere and refuel in just a few minutes, including very isolated areas

- Plays all the music I want

- Hauls anything I want (ie. I don't care if I trash the interior with a pile of mulch on a plastic tarp)

- I can sleep in the back

- Fits in nicely in my lower middle class neighborhood

- Has plenty of spare parts at the junkyard if I need to repair it

On top of that, it doesn't require a #$@# subscription, doesn't force me into some plutocrat's idea of an infotainment system, isn't tracked remotely, with that data being sold to randos, and doesn't cost as much as a Master's degree. Last thing is that while EVs are probably more environmentally friendly than a new ICE car, they still don't compete with a used one from the aughts over their lifetime.
> We may be close to saturating the market for the former group.

From what I’m reading EVs are around 1% of total cars and around 10% of new car sales in the U.S., while at least 60% of housing units are single family homes.
This is a very matter-of-fact article covering an NLRB complaint.

What's garbage about the article?
> Is your company selling something else that has a software component or that software enables (pretty much every other company)?

I'm not sure this is true? If my company sells food or clothing or shoes, they don't have a software component. I'm not sure what the breakdown is, but my gut feeling is "pretty much every other company" is wrong.

I work for a company that makes clothing and shoes. We have an enormous tech organization, but we aren't a consulting company, don't sell software, and don't put software into our products.
thank you, I've got something to think about.
Powerlight technologies(formerly LaserMotive) has demonstrated power over fiber tech that can transmit hundreds of watts[0][1]. The intended application of this tech was for powering underwater remotely operated vehicles(ROV). The same amount of power could be transmitted with a thinner fiberoptic cable than a copper cable, so it would encumber the ROV less. Although other niche applications like powering electronics in regions with EMP or near MRI's were suggested. Powerlight's linkedin currently shows them powering an inflatable christmas decoration with power over fiber.

Some of the people at Powerlight found this tech to be ironic because Powerlight was originally founded as a wireless power beaming company. However, some of their customers asked if they could transmit power via wires, so that's what they did.

[0]https://powerlighttech.com/power-over-fiber/
[1]https://www.laserfocusworld.com/test-measurement/research/ar...
The comment I am replying to called it "routine maintenance."

With this attitude (it can always be as bad as it is now), when will the change be? Never.
Don't worry, at some point those children will grow up. They'll cease to be innocent victims, and will be forced into the same moral compromises that all adults are forced into. My only hope is that some of them will realize how silly their youthful generational blame had been.
It's 4 floors per family. An elevator or do a lot of stairs everyday. In both cases more time to move around than an equivalent 1 or 2 floors house. But if they do the stairs it keeps them fit.
Great questions, because people should be accountable. I have spent over $500k on clean mobility and energy solutions (EVs, rooftop solar on all of my properties [primary, secondary, rentals]) as of this comment, and offset all of my family's annual carbon emissions using credits from verified direct air capture providers. We keep flights to an absolute minimum (I have put ~110k miles on Model S in 6 years traveling cross country), and again, offset those emissions. We are vegetarians. I have two children, and I cut a check to someone who was getting permanent birth control to buy their unwanted fertility essentially. They had already made the decision ("want to hear something cool? I'm getting my tubes out!"), my action was more symbolic but still important.

If you have no resources, as I've said elsewhere, we should absolutely provide you the means to make choices that both improve your quality of life and are good for the climate. Tax me more, provide the subsidies. More EVs, more heat pumps, more solar panels. If you are of means and make choices dumping externalities on others, clearly you can understand my position that those folks get wrecked. I have attempted to align my actions with my position on the topic out of integrity. I agree contributions towards a solution as well as sacrifice should be proportional.

Could you explain why asking people to pay their fully loaded costs is being a dictator? Don't their rights end where our shared rights being? Is enforcing rights and their boundaries tyranny? Or is it just fair and just? Not rhetorical questions. I am attempting to do my part, and besides that, voting, and perhaps running for office, that's all I can do.
So? That doesn't make you above the law, or guarantee that you will behave well. Even if you personally do all the right things, laws aren't written to satisfy individuals - there are plenty of fishing companies out there ruining the oceans.
Realistically having done road trips, it's stopping every 3 hours and it's not 45 minutes, it's basically the amount of time it takes to get 2 kids out of the car, in to use the restrooms, and back into the car.
Not sure what's impractical about a four story building? Without lifts/elevators, four stories hits the sweet spot in terms of density vs accessibility.

Of course, if you consider any building older than 100 years to be "impractical", then maybe living in the historic centre of a city isn't for you? There are plenty of modern (and soulless) places to live in the more modern fringes of the city.

And I disagree - the new ESB headquarters on Fitzwilliam St doesn't look "silly" at all - it actually looks very well to my eye from the street. Unfortunately https://maps.app.goo.gl/NL2qtasuMNM89Nqg8 doesn't have enough detail to show it but certainly the materials and brickwork is of a high quality. It doesn't aim to be pastiche or fake as you call it, but it does respect the materials and elevation of the historic streetscape.
Jesus, I used to complain about a 30km commute
This is the bunker he wants us to know about. The real bunker is elsewhere?
That depends massively on having home charging. If you live anywhere without it like an apartment complex, a high rise, with street parking only or a multiplex you'll have to count on charging at work.
Fellow Kent alumni here! The CS department also has (or had?) the lecturer who wrote the textbook and IDE for most "Intro to OOP" courses, which was cool.
I agree for the opposite reason. I have one of them that I've used for daily journaling and note taking for ten years with no maintenance other than rinsing the guts twice a year.
I will be appreciative, since this so-called "law" has never had a lick of meaning beyond the realm of marketing mumbo jumbo. Even in the most desperate faith reading, the use of "sufficient" as a subjective measure of one's awe makes it a nonsensical utterance in any other capacity.
Yes I did transpose them!!! I have since had coffee and am feeling much more on the ball, thanks for catching my error folks!!!!
Seems very much against wikipedia's principles. Taking a neutral point of view is considered non-negotiable and is a fundamental principle of wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
I have personally found Supercharging to be too fast at times. Multiple times I've had to unplug and move the car because it finished charging before I was ready to leave the restaurant/store. I think people underestimate how long they spend stopped on road trips.
I don't want a $26k car. Back in 2014, I bought a base model Ford Fiesta for $14k. Modern cars are badly overpriced, which is part of why people are holding onto used cars so strongly.
Another reason why encryption in RCS (not just google's flavor), or Apple opening up iMessage, can't come soon enough.
> i've realised the main benefit is how cheap they are to run

Depends what you value. For me, that's a nice to have. Greater benefits are: never go to a gas station, no oil changes, no fumes, more fun to drive.
>Go is a decent industrial programming language

Industrial?
You don't have to. The web was created for exactly this purpose. What the journals provide is peer review, curation and trust. Projects like SciHub don't do anything to replace these aspects of traditional publishing.
i'd advice to look into productive/relaxing/interesting subreddits
specifically:
r/HumansBeingBros!
r/productivity!
r/confession
r/lifehacks
this doesn't solve the problem. i am not looking for a smalltalk desktop that can run in a browser, but for a smalltalk based web gui toolkit that uses html/css for its interface.

to bring it to a point, i'd like to use smalltalk with a web framework the way i use typescript or coffeescript with angular or react
Yes, because you act like you know better than me.

Typical attitude on Linux forums.

Do you want a hardcopy from the purchase order as well?
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Think of it as the same as the internal resistance of a conductor. Some of the photons are effectively absorbed by the fiber and turned into heat.
Large Media Companies Are Releasing Works as CC-BY
>nother factor that could be at play is that all the non-Tesla EV makers have recently announced they will switch their chargers to NACS, but this will take a couple of years to roll out, so it’s not a great time to buy a non-Tesla since it already has legacy charging hardware.

This is a big factor and one I note to anyone I know who is thinking of buying an EV. You don't want to be stuck with a dead end tech. Buying a non-Tesla that hasn't already adopted the north american charger is a foolish move at this point. I'm sure there will be conversion kits for many models at some point but that's another cost and one you likely want to have a professional do. Best to either buy a Tesla or just wait a year or two.
I’m in the first group with a 30 minute commute every morning. With the solar panels on my roof, transportation is essentially free for me.
They're shooting missiles at civilian ships. They are thankfully large targets with few humans, but that's not safe behavior. Someone's eventually going to get hurt/killed if it continues.

The US Navy ship has every right to be there under international law, and its reason for being there is to repel attacks on civilian shipping that also has every right to be there.
The F150 is the best selling vehicle in the US. That’s not an anomaly, the top 3 are all trucks, and 5 of the top 10 are trucks. Making a great EV truck is an enormous market opportunity.
I think what the article meant to say. “Farmland practices keep Europeans alive”
It all depends on how much importance you put on those few road trips per year. With an EV those few road trips definitely take slightly more time, but the rest of the year (assuming you can charge at home or work) you never go to a gas station or charging station and almost certainly save vastly more time over the entire year.
I suppose I'm glad there are people in the world who are so comfortable and carefree that they don't feel the need to prepare for disaster scenarios, nor can they conceive of scenarios between 'all is well' and 'total apocalypse'.

But it's not crazy to be prepared. "Preppers" seemed to get a bad wrap because the ones you probably know are motivated by Alex Jones saying the Aliens are about to emerge from the mothership.

Meanwhile, find someone who either came from a less comfortable country (Basically not a G20+ country), or find a person who's spent time there in some capacity (military/non-profit/private contractor) and ask them if it's crazy to have a cache/bunker with everything you need to survive for a month or 6.

They're probably going to look at you and say "No, it's called being prepared. It's everyone else who's lost it."

If you live in the US, you could find someone who lived through hurricane Katrina, a brutal Tornado, or other relatively isolated incidents. Ask them if storing 6 months worth of food and shelter is something only 'conspiracy theorists' would do.

Many people got a glimpse of where things could go during Covid, and in the United States we didn't really begin to go down that path. If you want to keep so much faith in our supply chains, corporations, and debt loaded government that you place your family's disaster readiness in their hands then I invite you to read about any of the above.
Seems like a variation of #1 where the rewards are probabilistic and lumpy. I agree that the motivations and resulting behaviors end up pretty different.
If humans don't nuke themselves but keep fishing as they do, the fish will absolutely not recover. Fish aren't magic.
Satellite phones have been a thing since the 1980s, and at least a dozen companies are operating some form of commercial 3G/4G/5G satellite services today that you can use on your phone or an IoT modem. Apple recently enabled this as well on iPhone 14 (via Globalstar). The article is about the first Starlink satellites with phone service, not the first overall.
An operation of this scale likely involves tens of thousands of people. Those people have families, are paid salaries, have grievances, etc.

In fact, bet a few of them are here on HN right now and could probably give us a first hand account while on the high seas trying to browse the only bit of the internet that still works with a 32kbps high latency internet connection...
If you can get a very base model Nissan Leaf, they're pretty basic. Bonus points if it's a bit older. Ours is extremely old fashioned, and except for the sound when driving is basically indistinguishable from a mid-2010s Honda Fit.
Hi there! NordVPN community manager here - thanks for sharing. Could you specify where did you find this URL?
> Does strict mode affect parsing?

Actually, yes. default parameter values could contain things that are allowed in sloppy mode and are syntax errors in strict mode. For instance, a leading zero in numbers without explicitly specifying the base, duplicate property names, the with statement, new reserved words and using delete on a variable name.

You need to disallow those in the parameter values in strict mode, but you only know this after encountering the "use strict" marking in the function body if you were not already in strict mode. You can make a parser able to do this, but it is more complex. I guess they decided that this complexity is not worth it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342 ("Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B", 135 comments)