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by xenadu02 3y ago
I'm not saying I agree with JD, just explaining their reasoning.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I'm just saying that's JD's perspective on this issue. Personally I think they're milking it for extra profit when they could be establishing a better relationship with their customers.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
There is still a large benefit to this. Because Tesla is seen as a leader in the EV space it prods others to follow them. In some cases like this it gives people in the supply chain or internally at other automakers justification to make ch
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by xenadu02 3y ago
JD does the hard stuff that others aren't as willing to invest in: a large service network with spare parts and spare machines. Harvest time can be make-or-break for farmers. Stuff you don't expect like a large storm at the end of
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No, you do not need this just for decryption. This entitlement is only required if you want your Notification Extension to be able to silently eat the notification. Normally an extension must transform the notification then the system prese
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You make some fair points. My main point is this: Stop posting the AARD code thing as some kind of "gotcha!". AARD is irrelevant. If you want to point at anti-competitive or problematic things Microsoft did then point at things th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The AARD code (which was a non-fatal warning that didn't stop you from using Windows) never actually shipped. It was patched to be non-reachable in the final release, probably a binary patch to avoid a regression and long build times (
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by xenadu02 3y ago
He used to be politically neutral but seems to have adopted a right-wing viewpoint that is getting increasingly right-wing over time. Not an extremist by any means but a definite shift. It started around the time he got into a scuffle with
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by xenadu02 3y ago
How long will other countries allow Chinese companies to sell there when non-Chinese companies face much stricter rules when selling in China? Not to mention the perks like state banks providing financing, forgiving missed payments and doin
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I pitch that advice as follows: You have two choices here. You can be fight for what you think is right but go into that battle understanding you have a high chance of losing. It is a noble endeavor and society needs people willing to pay t
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No the idea is they can replace a 4 unit 2 story rent controlled building with a 4 story 8 unit building that now has 4 rent controlled and 4 market rate units. This is due to another Byzantine quirk of SF zoning where the neighborhood is z
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by xenadu02 3y ago
In only 11 years Tesla built the world's best EV charging network to cover the entire US interstate system, highways, major cities, important destinations, and more recently even medium and small cities. I'm confident Tesla can ex
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Tesla's charging equipment itself is just flat out more reliable than competitors. AFAIK they re-use modules from their vehicles ganged up so benefit highly from using an automotive grade battle-tested component. It also means there ar
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by xenadu02 3y ago
In many problem spaces you can optimize for the common success and failure paths if you accept certain losses on long-tail failure scenarios. A common logging strategy is to use a ring buffer with a separate isolated process reading from th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
FWIW in two years of ownership we have never seen the touchscreen reboot while driving.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Actinide burning reactors are IMHO a better path forward. There are various proposals and research reactors, some using alternate fuel cycles. The bottom line is the nastiest stuff in spent nuclear fuel are the actinides. They're all n
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Goodhart's Law for those who don't remember: any measure used as a performance target ceases to become a good measure. Or put another way: when people can maximize their profit by manipulating the measurement or market at least so
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Some product categories are nearly monopolies too: - Garage Door Openers. Chamberlain (also Liftmaster). They have like 80% of the market. Its them or Genie. Almost everyone else got out of the market. Decent products with OK prices. Compet
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by xenadu02 3y ago
FWIW we barely avoided that here in the USA. I half believe that Congress didn't think anyone would meet the COTS milestones or they'd have never approved it. SpaceX delivered a product so much cheaper with excellent reliability a
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This works unless you GP is a huge jerkface in which case find a new one. Just be honest: tell your GP that your previous provider quit/retired/changed insurance. Bring your prior RX bottles or paperwork. Let them know you have an
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I believe the ancestor of bird lungs first evolved in a branch of theropoda. I'm not sure what drove that adaptation but it proved useful fodder when much later the avia branch of theropoda evolved flight. This also mirrors feathers wh
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Bird lungs work very differently from mammals. They have air sacs in front of and behind the lungs that take up a significant portion of their body cavity. The lungs themselves don't expand or compress. Air moves unidirectionally throu
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The current US Immigration system wasn't designed. It accidentally came together from a patchwork of individual programs and various bills modifying the rules. There is political disagreement over what a new system should look like so
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by xenadu02 3y ago
With regard to regenerating the desiccant: Presumably the same heat pump used for the normal A/C cycle would be used to handle this. Add some valves and controllable dampers which are potential failure points but not expensive. Instead
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Very rarely does any technology start off cheap enough to be mass-produced. If you don't build prototypes then expensive bespoke initial models you'll often never get to the "half of all who need it can afford it" let al
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Process groups aren't hierarchical because it is a two-level namespace: process groups (jobs) are members of a session and all processes in a job must be members of the same session. All child processes inherit their parent's proc
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The article is wrong FWIW. By default a child is a member of the same process group as its parent no matter how many levels deep. Shells push each job into a separate group, making the shell interpreter the process group leader. Thats why s
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Normally if the process group leader dies the system will send SIGHUP to all the members of the process group. The default behavior is to exit. So on Unix systems the first process calls setpgrp() and becomes the leader of a new process gro
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Modern airliners are tested and engineered to an extremely high degree of reliability. The manufacturer tells you how many flight cycles the airframe is certified for because they know how much stress cabin pressurization, takeoff, and land
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The vast majority of panels are on roofs where any reflection can't bother others. Any new technology will end up causing problems for a small minority in very specific circumstances. That doesn't mean we should ignore those issue

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