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541.
by revscat 7y ago
A carbon tax would help a great deal here as well.
542.
by revscat 7y ago
Economics doesn’t matter. So long as CO2 emissions continue to rise, subsidies are not only desirable they are absolutely mandatory in any rational sense of the word. The cost doesn’t matter.
543.
by revscat 7y ago
Not soon enough.
544.
by revscat 7y ago
Humanity is going to go extinct because of capitalism. In what world is that a successful system?
545.
by revscat 7y ago
Capitalism is great for what you want, terrible for what you need.
546.
by revscat 7y ago
I’m unsure what to think. Kudos for breaking the mold, I guess.
547.
by revscat 7y ago
Quiver.
548.
by revscat 7y ago
Powerful, absolutely yes. Beautiful? Absolutely not. This is of course subjective, but come on. Insofar as you can be objective about beautiful code, SQL stands over in the corner wishing it had remembered to shower while all the other ki
549.
by revscat 7y ago
> What is it with old automatically equalling bad? That's not what was said. What was said that it's old and that it hasn't benefited from decades of research on languages and the way programmers are most productive.
550.
by revscat 7y ago
Yeah, although it's been a while. Something very much like that is what I have in mind, though. My biggest complaint with LINQ is that it appears to be more-or-less another ORM: you're still dealing with objects, instead of datase
551.
by revscat 7y ago
> I've personally grown to love SQL and I think it is by far the clearest (if verbose) way to describe data transformation work. I'm going to go against the grain here, at least as expressed in this thread, and say something th
552.
by revscat 7y ago
As would I, but current political realities prevent actions of any kind from being taken.
553.
by revscat 7y ago
I get what you're saying -- that companies should be internally driven to address concerns such as yours -- but I'm starting to shift away from that thinking. We're social apes. We evolved in groups, and respond to group pres
554.
by revscat 7y ago
Thank you. When supernova 1987A was first detected, I thought I recalled reading an article that talked about how we detected neutrinos from it ~1hr before its visible light. I thought I was misremembering this, but apparently not.
555.
by revscat 7y ago
> during the test drive and I could not instruct it to stop. Frankly, I do not believe that you are telling the truth. If you can provide a test case demonstrating this, however, it would be international news. Tesla’s Autopilot can be m
556.
by revscat 7y ago
That is an area that is still being debated. I suspect it will depend on the level of autonomy the car claims to provide. If it is level 5, and perhaps doesn't even include a steering wheel or other means of controlling the vehicle, th
557.
by revscat 7y ago
Fuck your fiduciary duty. I cannot think of two words that have done more damage to humanity than those two.
558.
by revscat 7y ago
Tesla routinely gets data from the fleet and analyzes it. Here is Andre Karpathy speaking on this subject: https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE 1:49:30. I’m on mobile otherwise I would link to the exact spot. Tesla has tens (hundre
559.
by revscat 7y ago
> Waymo is in production revenue service. I’m going to ignore the fact that you’re flatly incorrect about the rest of your posts regarding Tesla, since others have more ably corrected you than I could, and simply ask what the hell this e
560.
by revscat 7y ago
It is, but that doesn’t mean you should want them representing you.
561.
by revscat 7y ago
Which arguable, and regardless is not the point under discussion. GP claimed that Tesla is behind. This is factually untrue.
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by revscat 7y ago
This view about the inevitability of LIDAR seems to become increasingly anachronistic as time goes on. I have autopilot. Two nights ago it drove me from the entrance ramp to the exit ramp for my destination, approximately 30 miles, and I di
563.
by revscat 7y ago
How did you come to this conclusion? I’m an owner, and frequent various forums, and have never had these complaints, and can not recall seeing them. That’s not to say that they don’t exist, but I question your assertions here.
564.
by revscat 7y ago
Yeah, but you’re helping to get the world off of oil.
565.
by revscat 7y ago
> Any idea how much damage sugar does? Plastic, too. Coca-Cola is the largest source of plastic waste in the world.
566.
by revscat 7y ago
Hahaha, wow! That’s just about the most awful thing I’ve ever heard. If you ever find yourself sitting across a table from an interviewer, I would definitely recommend not including this little tidbit in the conversation.
567.
by revscat 7y ago
This. Earlier in my career I made a point to deep dive into SQL. Long story short: I realized that there are a lot of very good reasons to limit the amount of raw SQL in your application that have nothing to do with familiarity. SQL is ju
568.
by revscat 7y ago
So? Stored procedures suck. There are good reasons they have never seen serious traction and are infrequently used to the point of being irrelevant.
569.
by revscat 7y ago
This is the polar opposite of my experience. Not to mention that you undercut your own argument by admitting SQL’s tediousness: tedious code tends to lead to more tedious code, as subsequent developers fear breaking something, so they just
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by revscat 7y ago
> nvim_paste: paste text at cursor Is there no corresponding `nvim_copy`?

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