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by gizmo 3y ago
It's not brittle. ipython has a special case for exit and quit. See my sibling comment. If you try to assign to exit you get a syntax error. Which is weird, but also fine in practice.
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by gizmo 3y ago
ipython has specifically implemented an Autocall that allows you to exit by typing exit, quit, exit() or quit(). https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/generated/IPyth... And repr(exit) also works
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by gizmo 3y ago
ipython intentionally diverges from the regular python REPL. It just quits like you expect without crying about it.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not having a feature is fine. Kind of having a feature but hiding it behind obnoxious gatekeeping is not fine. Features that are buggy or inexplicably complex is not fine. Some open source projects get this right, and others don't. Som
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by gizmo 3y ago
Your description of open source sounds like Public Domain. Take it or leave it, do whatever, as is. I personally don’t think an environment where nobody owes anybody anything is conductive to building great software. When every individual i
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by gizmo 3y ago
I agree and this will also put European countries at odds. Portugal and Greece will want cheap imports unlike Germany and France that want to protect their failing domestic car industry.
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by gizmo 3y ago
It will be rough in the beginning but when China starts exporting in volume it will get solved for sure. Building great cars is the hard part. Companies that can do that can also figure out the easy stuff like brand names, maintenance, etc.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The Roadster used completely standard 18650 cells that were already in mass production.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I doubt that. The innovation in lithium ion batteries was fueled by the demand for consumer electronics, laptops in particular. It’s the batteries that made electric cars possible. Tesla’s did kick off the trend of big screens in cars. I pr
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by gizmo 3y ago
You can learn the easy stuff by tinkering. It's fun! Many people are smart enough to teach themselves anything. But actually sitting down and doing the work is the hard part. How many people are going to struggle through "Algorith
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by gizmo 3y ago
NAT is an accidental consequence of IPv4 address shortage, but it turned out to a blessing in disguise. NAT gives every home a basic hardware firewall for free. Everything, for better and worse (mostly worse) is connected to the internet no
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by gizmo 3y ago
Even the most highly respected brands like Patek are stupendously tacky. Just look at their 2023 lineup: https://www.patek.com/en/collection/new-models-2023
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by gizmo 3y ago
Yes, because it's inconceivable that a veblen hobby community would ever decide something that costs a few thousand is "the best" as opposed to "beginner". The entire concept of a "beginner" watch that cos
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by gizmo 3y ago
Angry software devs who likely believe any taxation is unjust. Today a startup can go from 0 to a 5bn IPO in 10 years without ever having made an accounting profit, and they get R&D credits they can deduct from payroll taxes along the w
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by gizmo 3y ago
Only if the startup wishes to take advantage of R&D credits or otherwise wants to treat dev expenses more favorably than other expenses, which is optional. Otherwise revenue - expenses < 0 and no taxes will be due, like before.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You can still pay employees to write software and treat it as a regular expense. But if you want preferable treatment for R&D expenses now you need to amortize over 5 years. That’s all.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You cannot export 240TB in 7 days. And a journalist can be forgiven for not knowing what the market value of cloud storage is. Besides, Google offers many services for free (or below cost) in order to maintain their dominant market position
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by gizmo 3y ago
The battery swap demo was essentially a subsidy scam: > In 2013, California revised its Zero Emissions Vehicle credit system so that long-range ZEVs that were able to charge 80% in under 15 minutes earned almost twice as many credits as
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by gizmo 3y ago
> They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. An
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by gizmo 3y ago
> I'm equally in awe when they get capital and VC's don't notice this either VCs invest other people's money (Limited partners) and get paid fees based on the size of their fund. VCs also get paid when they hit a home
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by gizmo 3y ago
> DMV accused Tesla of misleading automotive customers with claims about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving with numerous false statements. One example: “The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no act
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by gizmo 3y ago
A Tesla Model 3 with FSD isn't a greater hazard on the road than a regular Ford F150, and we allow those.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Tesla has repeatedly claimed that the cars on the road today have all the necessary sensors for fully autonomous coast-to-coast self-driving, and that it will be made available via an over-the-air update before the end of the year (which ye
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by gizmo 3y ago
It's a ludicrous defense. Regulators don't want to be seen as anti-business or as hampering innovation. It's perfectly reasonable for regulators to adopt a "wait and see" approach to outlandish claims about safety a
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by gizmo 3y ago
Thanks for that information. I agree with your assessment.
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by gizmo 3y ago
We don't know what motivates the Hetzner executives. We only know what their actions are. We don't know whether they agree with the sanctions against Russia. But clearly their actions are because of the sanctions. Hetzner is not
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by gizmo 3y ago
I'm not inviting people to change the topic with my post. Hetzners actions are clearly because of sanctions against Russia. They say so in their email. My response asks whether "the geopolitical situation" is a good justifica
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by gizmo 3y ago
I'm pointing out clear hypocrisy. That's not whataboutism.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Does any company fire their American customers because of the calamitous Iraq war and related war crimes? Do companies fire their Israeli customers because of the current bombing campaign? What about Argentinian customers? Melei has contemp
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by gizmo 3y ago
On-premise is a sales & tech support minefield. That's why SaaS vendors don't like it. No matter how well documented an on-premise solution is, the customers won't read the docs and when something goes wrong the customer

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