skohan

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721.
by skohan 5y ago
Idk I get what you are saying, but at least for me personally, if I am investing in making something part of my workflow, it makes me really uncomfortable knowing it's fate is in the hands of only one corporation who's interests c
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by skohan 5y ago
How is eclipse doing in terms of performance these days? I used it maybe 10 years ago for some C++ and Java development, and it was quite capable, but it had the feeling of being a lurching behemoth.
723.
by skohan 5y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Like you say, some regulations are needed, and we wouldn't want to allow unsafe cars on the road just because crash-tests are a barrier to entry for startups. However it does serve
724.
by skohan 5y ago
Yeah I think this is just one example of how VSCode can serve to blur the lines of what are OSS dependencies, and what are proprietary ones. It takes a certain amount of vigilance to have a truly open source development workflow on VSCode.
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by skohan 5y ago
Yes exactly. And a lot of this stuff is open-in-name-only. Like I tried to implement an LSP for a language I am working on using Sublime and nvim as test benches, and the documentation is so bad and some of the interfaces are so convolute
726.
by skohan 5y ago
I would not be as hard-line as the other commenter in terms of suggesting that everyone should start with bash and vim, however I think it is a valid point that learning the principals of computing is valuable, and tools which abstract that
727.
by skohan 5y ago
How does it know which packages to install for a given un-typed package?
728.
by skohan 5y ago
See I disagree that it's a good thing. I think accessibility is a good thing, but I would rather see it in the form of better development stacks from the ground up. Just building more tooling to cover up pain points by wrapping them i
729.
by skohan 5y ago
I mean MS basically invented leveraging market share to drive web standards. IE was famous for flaunting W3C and implementing things their own way, much to the chagrin of web developers even to this day. It's the kind of behavior whi
730.
by skohan 5y ago
I think there's a difference between giving you powerful, easy to use tools to solve your problems with, and solving your problems for you.
731.
by skohan 5y ago
Yeah when I think of MS products, they're never the best. They're usually just good enough, and then adoption is driven by some sort of leverage.
732.
by skohan 5y ago
The problem is when an open source project is owned and controlled by one large player. It's much healthier to have diverse stakeholders with different interests, none of which is completely in control, as is the case with Linux.
733.
by skohan 5y ago
I agree that they probably don't have a clear plan here. I would speculate that they saw the writing on the wall that Linux and OSS had won, and they just started doing anything and everything to gain influence in that space. And ther
734.
by skohan 5y ago
MS is normally the ones doing the bullying
735.
by skohan 5y ago
I'm generally weary of MS having too much influence over open source with Github and VSCode, particularly due to their history. My creep alarm went off a bit when I recently started a project to test the waters with TypeScript. I was
736.
by skohan 5y ago
It's not about what you can and can't do, it's the friction and cost associated with achieving compliance. I'm not against privacy protections, but having released digital products in Europe I can say that the cost of a
737.
by skohan 5y ago
> Commands are invoked, not by typing them out, but by pressing short mnemonic key sequences. It also sounds magical in the worst kind of way.
738.
by skohan 5y ago
Oh that's true! Is carbon fiber bonded by glue?
739.
by skohan 5y ago
> As for things like plywood that use glue for the laminations...glue is the most expensive and important part of the product I've been using a lot of MDF lately, and it's interesting to think that it's just sawdust and gl
740.
by skohan 5y ago
Yes frankly a lot of the US' problems are probably related to the fact that it's governed by people who won't be living there in 20 years
741.
by skohan 5y ago
I think the science is pretty clear that solid state batteries are the way forward if they can solve the dendrite problem. They should surpass LiIon in capacity, lifetime and safety if they can solve this issue.
742.
by skohan 5y ago
What information do you have on Tesla's progress towards humanoid robots or fully autonomous vehicles?
743.
by skohan 5y ago
Hydrogen infrastructure is complex. If we need hydrogen as a storage buffer, why not do it on an industrial scale at centralized locations? Why do we need a hydrogen distribution network in parallel to the EV charging networks?
744.
by skohan 5y ago
> But I predicted he would win and I predict the lightning will lose. You made one correct prediction in a completely different domain 5 years ago, and this is relevant how? Keep in mind that the F150 has been the most popular vehicle
745.
by skohan 5y ago
Do you expect Toyota and others to adopt these innovations?
746.
by skohan 5y ago
How long do you think they can realistically maintain a 50% YOY growth rate in deliveries? They're small enough now that 50% growth is very attainable, but that doesn't mean it's sustainable.
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by skohan 5y ago
It's still an important sign in terms of where Tesla will end up in the overall market. Tesla is a tiny player in terms of overall sales, so a 50% YOY growth in marketshare is still possible. If they're also experiencing a 50% de
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by skohan 5y ago
If I recall correctly, the math for fuel cells doesn't really work out. It's more efficient to charge a battery directly than to use energy to create hydrogen and then to convert it back into electricity. There are certain use-ca
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by skohan 5y ago
You can already own a fuel cell car in California
750.
by skohan 5y ago
I had the same reaction to the humanoid robot announcement. Totally impractical, but a great excuse for investors to throw money at Tesla on the assumption that they will "solve the labor shortage" in a frothy environment where F

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