rswail

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by rswail 10mo ago
Everyone with excess disposable income can be a shareholder in a publicly traded company. The oligarchy of the CxOs and boards and cross-pollination has led to concentration of the rewards of companies into the their hands, compared to 40
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by rswail 10mo ago
Incomes are up, but the expenses are up as well, especially with the upcoming changes in healthcare for people on the ACA. Also any comparison of wage growth vs corporate profit growth over the last 30 years shows that wages have not kept p
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by rswail 10mo ago
Worked on public transport ticketing (think rail gates and stuff) with contactless last 30 years, when guys would tell me that the software was "ready", I'd ask: > Is it "stand next to the gates at Central Station dur
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by rswail 10mo ago
Also don't use Homebrew on MacOS because it screws around in /usr/local and still hasn't worked out how root is supposed to work. Use Macports, it's tidy, installs into /opt/macports, works with Apple&#x27
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by rswail 10mo ago
Terraform CDK is just a layer on top of terraform to avoid writing HCL/JSON. It's also deprecated by Hashicorp now. CDK on AWS itself uses CFN, which is a dog's breakfast and has no visibility on what's happening under t
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by rswail 10mo ago
That was impressive. I liked the integration of add-on equipment with standardized integration with the software and car telemetry. Physical buttons for needed "eyes-free" use, the HUD looked great. Going to be an interesting deca
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by rswail 10mo ago
In exactly the same way as conglomeration occurred in the US car industry and across Europe during the 20th century.
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by rswail 10mo ago
They have their own internal market, which now has a middle class equal in size to the entire US population. They have all of Asia, with a market of another ~2B, and a completely undeveloped market in Africa of another 1B people. That&#x2
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by rswail 10mo ago
I thought private business competing in a free market would always out do a centrally planned economy with state owned enterprises. We've been told that in the West since Reagan, when we decided to forget all the advantages of a Keynes
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by rswail 10mo ago
BYD Atto 1 is arriving in Australia in 2026, base model is priced (including on road registration etc) at AUD 26,500. That's USD 17,750. https://evdealergroup-byd.com.au/configurator/byd-atto-1?pos...
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by rswail 10mo ago
The actions and words of the current US Administration are explicitly anti-EU and anti-NATO. The publicly released sections of the latest US National Security Strategy and sourced comments indicate that the US is looking to interfere in E
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by rswail 10mo ago
I remember vaguely an interview about it and he said he could understand the business and what was driving the industry and the technology. I think he said something about equivalent of selling shovels to miners in a boom, that PV was going
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by rswail 10mo ago
Tariffs are exactly the reason that situation is as it is. BYD can outwait the adjustments of the US car industry to a new reality, in the same way that the Japanese did back in the 80s. Last time, the US did it by screwing the union worker
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by rswail 10mo ago
Car show rooms are about catering to clients, selling them both a vehicle and a lifestyle, plus people are much more likely to make deals when they're offered food and drink. Makes sense anywhere :)
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by rswail 10mo ago
25 years ago I was on a project that was based out of offices next to a BMW factory, so we got canteen privileges, and the food was awesome, and beer was available as one of the beverages. This was at a car plant for people working in manuf
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by rswail 10mo ago
BYD, Geely, ZeekR, Kia, Hyundai, Mini, MG see them all around, more than Teslas (inner city Melbourne). Also noticing that a lot of the rideshare/taxis are going EV quickly. I'm guessing the much lower maintenance and service requ
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by rswail 10mo ago
I'd like the hint to display the hidden parts of each box when hovered. I don't need to be told on each one to "Click to Copy". But nice concept.
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by rswail 10mo ago
That's when he was bailing out the solar roof company owned by his cousins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity Being in Australia, we have the benefit of getting US, EU, CN, and other vehicle brands, as well
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by rswail 10mo ago
They still are an individual with HIV infection, except that it is in the stage of "remission" or "undetectable" but they have previously been diagnosed with HIV at a different clinical stage. So the definition is perfec
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by rswail 10mo ago
Based on the use of LLVM I guessed "Machine Learning Intermediate Representation"? How close was I?
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by rswail 10mo ago
Airbus is ~30% government owned by France/Germany/Spain and others. It is funded both as a private business and as a European "champion" to compete with Boeing. It is also likely to get the majority of the European civil
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by rswail 10mo ago
If debugging is the art of removing faults, then programming is the art of putting them in.
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by rswail 10mo ago
I believe the correct term that I've seen elsewhere is "clanker".
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by rswail 10mo ago
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rswail Accurate! Dammit, now I've got to improve those KPIs? Sigh...
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by rswail 10mo ago
Yeah, we've gone down the private CA PKI route, trouble is that you need to start managing your roots and your CA/RA properly, it needs to be auditable etc etc. Cost of a Private CA on AWS is $400/month for a CA that issues c
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by rswail 10mo ago
Elegance compared to a PV/Storage facility built next door to a data centre? It doesn't make sense right now, and won't for at least 5-10 years. By which time, this current round of hype will have burned up ~$1T if it doesn&#
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by rswail 10mo ago
If I want a client certificate, it sounds like that won't be available any longer from LetsEncrypt > These new intermediates do not contain the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage due to an upcoming root program require
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by rswail 10mo ago
Aside from the economics, the question is why do it in orbit vs on land (or sea)? What are the regulatory/legal gains? Lack of jurisdiction means open slather? What are the national security gains? Redundancy and resiliency by each sat
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by rswail 10mo ago
FFS, I'm not that old. I'm 61. I started out at school in 1977 on a PDP-11 with 16K of RAM, 3 ASR-33s connected by 20ma current loop. We also had a VT-52. All running at 110baud. No valves, all transistors and ICs. That system was
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by rswail 11mo ago
There's a reason why the basic Unix file commands are ls, cp, mv, rm. They're easy to type on a TTY. grep is from the ed command "g/re/p" which is g (all lines, short for "1,$") /re/ regular

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