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I wish there was a "continually improved" model of car where they gradually tweak every part that fails over time, instead of just throwing it all out with an "all new redesigned" model every 10 years (with all fresh weaknesses).

Both eBay and Amazon have abandoned their own core business models and are trying to become second-rate clones of Alibaba.

The snag is that they aren't headquartered in mainland China.

I looked at Costco's financials a few years ago and their total annual profit is (was?) approximately equal to their total annual income from membership fees.

Good for sorting hashes.

US CAFE standards are well-known to have resulted in the switch from station wagons to minivans and SUVs, resulting in a great overall increase in emissions than what would have otherwise occurred.

The new (2020/2021) European regulations allow approximately 1 g/km of extra CO2 emissions per kg of extra curb weight for passenger cars. [1]

It's actually less emissions per unit mass, so I was wrong on that fact, but the point of perverse incentives to make cars bigger to be allowed more emissions still stands (I think?)

Also, diesel vehicles are basically banned in most places unless they're coal-rollers - even though they have way less CO2 emissions than their gasoline counterparts.

In my opinion, if the North American and European governments had truly wanted to reduce absolute levels of emissions, instead of just following existing technology and trying to take the credit for it (like they do for NOx emissions, and probably will for electric cars), and making complex rules that favour certain manufacturers at the expense of others, then they'd have just have made a Kei car category. [2]

[1] https://ww2.frost.com/frost-perspectives/european-emission-r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car

What about the perverse regulations that punitively tax and restrict the production of smaller cars, because they use more fuel per unit weight?

I wonder if mainstream CPUs will ever get back to being truly programmable with software instructions, instead of running off and speculating on what you might do next.

Started-up with principles. Got big. Reverted to the beancounter corporate mean. Now charging what the market will bear. Opportunity now open for new startup with principles. Rinse and repeat.

Interesting. The cannons would be so loud that, if they're at 0db, the rest of the orchestra would be waaay down there without substantial dynamic range compression. You'd have to crank the amplifier waaay up to listen to the orchestra at seemingly normal volume...

That's actually amazing music, though will blow your speakers at 1% volume ;)

Unikernels will be all the rage

This is why they're orbiting at a safe distance and waiting to see what we do when we discover antimatter bombs for ourselves.

Googled it in the morning and got this: http://runtimejs.org/

Also a big collection of info on unikernels: https://github.com/cetic/unikernels

It would be interesting to run a NodeJS clone or QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) on/with this.

This comment will get downvoted but, dude, you are a GOD tier programmer. How?

Meanwhile in Corporatist America you are not allowed to fix your own tractor due to software copyright laws...

Yeah... their website is full of broken links and there doesn't seem to be anything published about this in the last SEVEN years since the initial recall.

Edit: A 2017 "SDS" is lost in the source code of their website and it says nothing about infants:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191110194345/https://www.simpl...

So I take it the defense lawyer dismissed the MD offhand, but on your turn, the DA broke out into a sweat and dismissed you?

Ultrasonic cleaners, man!

What was it like? I see on his Wikipedia page that he's made a lot of discrete cellular automata over the years, but Logo seems more...analog and continuous?

So you gotta log into your registrar and copy paste your IPv6 address and wait god knows how long for it to propagate...

I wonder what would happen if you combined this with a Game of Life type algorithm?

...yeah there's no way the creatives we're talking about are gonna use that. There must _not_ be any command line or scripting involved for most of the population to be able to use it.

But why reinvent the wheel? I think that the key to Flash's success is in its roots as an excellent, intuitive vector graphics editor called SmartSketch. (Way easier to use than Inkscape, IMO) They added animation to compete with Macromedia Shockwave in 1995, and the rest is the well known history of corporate greed and a victim of its own success.

The Flash IDE is still around, however (https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html), but Adobe's giving it up at the end of 2020 :( I can only hope that they open source it.

A light, friendly version is Flash 5. It's available online (http://www.oldversion.com/windows/macromedia-flash-5-0), weighs in at a whopping 18 MB, and still works on Windows 10!

Anyway, Flash 5 Player .swf files can be exported as standalone .exe "Projectors". For example, the IDE tutorial one (https://www.sharhon.com/files/flash5test.exe) stands at 405 KB and still runs on Windows 10 as well. Surely it would be possible to wrap _real_ Flash projectors in a WebAssembly Windows NT emulator using a drag-and-drop webpage...and let the games begin.

Kind of, but to be safe you have to change 12 preferences from the defaults, IMO.

  New Document:
    Format: 
      Plain Text (select)
    Options:
      Check spelling as you type (disable)
      Correct spelling automatically (disable)
      Smart copy/paste (disable)
      Smart quotes (disable)
      Smart dashes (disable)
      Text replacement (disable)
  Open and Save:
    When Opening a File:
      Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text (enable)
      Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text (enable)
    When Saving a File:
      Add ".txt" extension to plain text files (disable)
    Plain Text File Encoding:
      Opening files = Unicode (UTF-8)
      Saving files = Unicode (UTF-8)

Programatically invoking the "Save As" dialog seems troublesome. Maybe there could be a signed WebExtension blob in the file, too - or it should download the latest updated library script every time the file is opened (although then there are security & CORS issues).

Cool! Just by putting "0." in front of your version number, you're magically not liable anymore!

Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS).

It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functionality, now that they bundle a real word processor (Pages) with the OS.

The philosophy is to regulate unhandled economic externalities.

I wonder if a spreadsheet and its editor could go in a self-contained HTML file. You'd open it in a browser, it modifies its own source code, and you just re-export or "Save Page As" when you're done?

Furthermore, maybe the data could be in CSV at the top of the file, in an HTML comment, and the editor could be in HTML at the bottom of the file, in a CSV comment, so the file could be opened in either a browser or Excel? Haha