cmpolis

I think there are two distinct markets and personas here:

"Wahoo / Strava / Zwift / Trainer Road / Training Peaks" cater to competitive cyclists which is niche group (huge downtrend in bike racing; look at #s from long running races as evidence).

Peloton is more geared towards "fitness" and otherwise would be gym and spin class goers; this is a much bigger market.

People who appreciate the submission upvote, critics comment. There may be more of the former, but unfortunately the latter are more impactful

My main machine for the past few years has been Lenovo X1 Carbon from a few gens ago - have had a great experience. Dual boots windows and Ubuntu without issue, battery life is great, performance is great with 16G/SSD/i7, feels well built and keyboard is as good as any that I've had on a Thinkpad. The only thing I miss from the MBP is the trackpad.

I can't understand the blindness of the Tesla/Elon fanboys in that thread; the comments on that thread are so defensive of Tesla and still show little concern for safety. Despite fairly damning video evidence, a fatality, many reports of accidents and near accidents...

Hardware is not faultless.

The analogy doesn't stand up - there's a non-trivial chance that a memory module or your hard drive in your laptop will fail over the lifetime of the device.

Furthermore, a LIDAR unit is complex and has firmware and lower-level software embedded that may be at fault.

a,b in news headlines often means "a and b"... this seems to be a vestige of print news, where headline space is limited.

It isn't obvious from the video if the human driver would have had time to react, but they certainly did not help their chances by being unalert. What is the point of having a human driver if they are not going to be watching the road or able to react.

If they aren't a passenger, are they merely there to get around regulation that requires a human in test autonomous driving vehicles?

Is this a real problem? Databases have been handling massive volume of transactions for decades.

You can look at how much exposure you have in aforementioned retirement vehicles and sell short that same amount of exposure in a brokerage account.

On a pragmatic note: leave your phone(alarm) on the opposite side of your bedroom or in another room altogether. You will have to physically get up to shut it off and benefit from not using it(and more importantly, thinking about email, work, social network junk, etc...) right before bed and again when you wake up in the am.

Tangentially related(tweet sized js) and an awesome project: https://t.d3fc.io/ is a collection of d3 visualizations from tweets. The code is cryptic on first inspection, but if you look at the sandbox setup, it starts to make sense and 140 chars is a wonderful constraint. eg: https://t.d3fc.io/status/694991319052103680

source: https://github.com/cmpolis/nba-seasons-vis