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by ak217 3y ago
I don't know much about Lucid, but Rivian in its current form is not sustainable. Their cars are incredibly overweight and overengineered, their COGS/BOM is out of control, and with the end of ZIRP I'm not sure they have the
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by ak217 3y ago
Yes, and not just that. A lot of management boils down to aligning teams' responsibilities with their interfaces, and committing the teams to a baseline of usability of their interfaces. See also Stevey's Platforms Rant ( https:&#
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by ak217 3y ago
Yuengling sure tastes better than most "craft" beers to me.
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by ak217 3y ago
I broadly agree, but teachers and other public employees have pension plans that are funded mostly by the employer (public) and pay 50-80% of their annual salary for their lifetime after 30 years of service. So you can't compare those
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by ak217 3y ago
Having used Node/express, Rails, Flask, and Django extensively, I have been very impressed with Django. The framework itself is good, but the superpowers come from the ORM and DRF, and a few other great plugins. The stuff you can do wi
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by ak217 3y ago
How does this compare to Wikidata? I've been able to do some powerful things by querying Wikidata (via the Mediawiki query API, not the SPARQL one, which turned out to be unusable). I've also seen Wikipedia editors do great things
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by ak217 3y ago
I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles in cars of 3 makes (Mazda, Subaru, Nissan) with AEB systems and they never once had a false activation, while the feature did save me from several serious accidents. The Nissan is also nice en
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by ak217 3y ago
you're right, thanks for pointing that out... got confused by another reply in this thread, and whenever I see "unintended acceleration" I think "toyota" and the names kinda look alike. Too late to edit my comment.
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by ak217 3y ago
No such thing was proven in court. Instead, what was shown in court was that Toyota had a culture of firmware engineering that produced code impossible to consistently QC, debug, test or verify. And as a result, they quietly fired the direc
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by ak217 3y ago
The volley was fired at a massed coordinated strike of 6 Kinzhals, 9 Kalibr cruise missiles, and 3 Iskander ballistic missiles all arriving at the same time. All missiles were intercepted but one managed to incapacitate a single Patriot lau
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by ak217 3y ago
Flying an airliner by hand at cruise is dangerous and usually constitutes an emergency. ATC expects the plane to stay precisely at its assigned altitude, especially in RVSM airspace. It's difficult to keep that altitude by hand at spee
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by ak217 3y ago
The pilot is not flying the plane at cruise, the autopilot is. The autopilot can definitely have an effect on how smooth the flying feels, depending on how autothrottle and altitude hold control loops are implemented.
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by ak217 4y ago
I find it incredible that GM (or Rivian, or anyone else trying this) will be able to develop something that works as well as carplay/android auto and maintain it for the life of the vehicle . Phone manufacturers are known for better s
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by ak217 4y ago
Hey, just wanted to let you know that you're doing great and the parent poster is out of line for some of the comments they made. I graduated from one of the top EE schools in the world a couple of decades ago but focused on CS. I&#x27
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by ak217 4y ago
This is what happens when tooling providers try to do their own packaging. Homebrew, apt, rpm, and other package managers, as well as bash, zsh and other shells, all offer standardized ways to install configuration loader scripts for the us
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by ak217 4y ago
Had a great experience with Ford ordering a Mustang Mach-E (including transparent pricing at MSRP as well as canceling a reservation for another one - they refunded the deposit with no questions asked). Ford is really working hard to get th
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by ak217 4y ago
Yes but I think that's incorrect. I see no evidence of those recent HEs getting rejected. All the article is going on is a flag in the HCD database, not actual official communications with the cities. The cities I'm familiar with
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by ak217 4y ago
I doubt this applies to cities that adopted their housing elements by the Jan 31 deadline and submitted them as revisions that are still pending review by the HCD. I'm sure some of those will still eventually be judged out of complianc
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by ak217 4y ago
Nothing weird about that, it's the essence of federalism. The resilience of the American system of government is attributable in large part to federalism, the marketplace of ideas from the states competing with each other. There is no
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by ak217 4y ago
If a private employee union strikes and makes unreasonable demands, the employer eventually goes out of business. If a public employee union does the same, the government can't go out of business. So what that means is, as long as the
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by ak217 4y ago
Air traffic controllers do have a union. PATCO, the previous union that was "busted", was a public employee union that chose to hold critical public infrastructure hostage, which is unacceptable. Any union that does that should ex
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by ak217 4y ago
The vast majority of parenting advice out there is sanctimonious BS pushed by people who are either following a fad, using it as a way to establish themselves as some sort of in-group, or with some commercial motivation. For example, breast
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by ak217 4y ago
Things are improving bit by bit. BofA and Chase both have OAuth and pretty granular permissions now. Citi and Wells Fargo have OAuth APIs too, though I haven't worked with them personally. That's the top 4 consumer banks, but many
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by ak217 4y ago
Right. After 1945, the Soviet Union didn't suffer war on its territory - it exported it abroad instead, from Korea to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Proletariat of all countries, unite! Meanwhile, the economic condit
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by ak217 4y ago
The fact that the situation had not improved after 40 years of peace is about as on topic as can be.
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by ak217 4y ago
Not fair to whom? The Soviet apparatchiks who enabled Stalin's purges and banned the movie to avoid hard questions? I remember getting a ride, as a kid, in the back of my great-uncle's Volga and my uncle's Zhiguli. They lived
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by ak217 4y ago
ext4 still has an inode storage quota that is a fixed fraction of the total space available, so for small files, you will run out of inode space before you run out of block storage space. This alone makes xfs (which dynamically allocates in
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by ak217 4y ago
Again not my experience. The heatmap is essential and frankly all the other apps suck for route planning (including the ones you listed as well as others that have come and gone over the years). Strava's route planner has no competitio
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by ak217 4y ago
> their premium features have been stagnant for years Not my experience. They overhauled their route builder and made it subscription-only in 2021 - and kept improving it since. The route builder with the built-in heatmaps has no competi
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by ak217 4y ago
> Defibrillators wouldn't be chock full of capacitors if that wasn't the case Disrupting the heart's rhythm is way easier than restoring it. Especially if the disrupting current got in through punctured skin (which the def

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