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by zik 3y ago
The Prius powertrain is the most complex one I've seen in any vehicle. It's amazing that they can make that thing reliable.
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by zik 3y ago
FYI the demo starts at 11:32
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by zik 3y ago
Conker's Bad Fur Day
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by zik 3y ago
> No serious company would do the latter It happens literally all the time: [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/27/anthony-l... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2022/8
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by zik 3y ago
Not to mention how slow Electron would run on the embedded CPU on the Tesla dash board.
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by zik 3y ago
Sure, but the PME approach Qt uses makes constructing complex UIs quite a lot easier.
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by zik 3y ago
There's a huge financial incentive for them to punish competitors this way and it's been hugely effective in the US market. Why wouldn't they?
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by zik 3y ago
> If they'd simply added a "WhatsApp/iMessage mode" to Google Chat... They'd have been sued by WhapsApp and Apple if they did that since they're proprietary protocols.
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by zik 3y ago
Even when they adopt RCS I bet they still punish non Apple users with green bubbles.
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by zik 3y ago
Not really. Most real world studies take this into account. It's still way cheaper than nuclear.
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by zik 3y ago
> Calculations I've seen also places the cost of nuclear far above our hydro. It's by far the most expensive power source in common use, and becoming less competitive with other sources every day [1]. This is quite a surprising
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by zik 3y ago
I honestly think that MISRA ends up creating worse code that's less reliable because it forces programmers into contortions to get even simple stuff done. It's like programming with one hand tied behind your back - and a lot of it
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by zik 3y ago
Is it the job of linux OS people to provide multi-platform executable compatibility with every other OS? That seems like a stretch considering that no OS has ever done that.
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by zik 3y ago
I note that if those performance numbers are correct it'll still be a lot slower than Intel's Core i9-13980HX laptop CPU. The M2 Max was between 50% and 80% of the speed of the 13980HX on most benchmarks. A 15%-30% uplift will get
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by zik 3y ago
Yes, it's micropython 1.9.4
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by zik 3y ago
I wasn't able to access the paper you referenced unfortunately. Australia's rules regarding roundabouts prioritise vehicle throughput rather than pedestrian safety. Our road rules give cars priority at roundabouts - pedestrians do
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by zik 3y ago
Your designs are probably far better than ours in Australia. In Australia pedestrians have no right of way at roundabouts and pedestrian crossings aren't normally provided. Basically you cross at your own risk, and it's pretty ris
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by zik 3y ago
It's a documented effect of roundabouts that they tend to result in more pedestrian fatalities than other forms of intersection. But it does depend on the design - it's possible to improve pedestrian safety at the cost of traffic
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by zik 3y ago
By that reasoning C is also memory safe.
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by zik 3y ago
quiche may be great - I haven't tried it - but it definitely isn't memory safe. It uses unsafe constructs liberally.
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by zik 3y ago
Yeah, what the heic?
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by zik 3y ago
I'm honestly confused by this comment. I use a Pixel phone and the reason I prefer it over my previous Samsung experiences is the UI is toned back and doesn't hit you with distractions.
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by zik 3y ago
He did say "Apple and other Big Tech" so I don't think he's singling them out especially. It's just that they're the most obvious example of a closed ecosystem right now.
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by zik 3y ago
That's utterly incorrect. It's used thousands of times in the linux kernel.
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by zik 3y ago
Honestly the processor speed in the Pixel 7s is plenty fast enough. I can't imagine getting any benefit from a faster processor. I'm sure faster is better in some sense but given that there's no perceptible lag or anything I&
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by zik 3y ago
It's true that there's no "restrict" inthe C++ standard, however all the major C++ compilers have extensions for it ("__restrict__") and have had for a long time.
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by zik 3y ago
A friend who worked at MS tells me that there's a huge amount of "if version" in their code. Apparently it's at the level where it's a big maintenance headache.
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by zik 3y ago
But we didn't have mods then which I think makes a difference.
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by zik 3y ago
My hair stood on end both times he did this. Holy crap that's some massive legal liability.
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by zik 3y ago
> I fear what kind of ads Google while shove through if they ever get a dominant market share in desktop OSs Microsoft already forces ads on Windows users so I guess it'd be something like the current situation.

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