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Contrasts with "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

You just won that thread. Congratulations.

Asterix is nice - that's just scratching the surface of Belgian/French cartoon though. In the same vein, I'd recommend you to dive into the work of masters like Franquin, I really recommended it - the Marcinelle school let emerge many great talents.

Thank you - this is quite a find. I remember banging my head against the limitations of the HIRES mode and eventually doing everything in text mode with redefined characters - I was working on a windowing system at the time.

Best thing in for summer was two weeks with my grand father, my Atmos and my monitor - and certainly not my mom telling me to get out in the sun (and my grand father couldn't care less.)

> That's not how France works ;-) Schools don't decide much, everything is decided by the central government in Paris and then implemented everywhere.

Citation needed - that's not the case.

Schools are ran in a collegial manner (PTA + Teachers + Admin - I sit in my son's school board) What's imposed is pedagogical content (over a teaching cycle - three years long - kids should have learned this and that.) Then how it's done is really not the state's business. Schools implement it the way they want.

> Let schools set and enforce their own policies.

Most already were (my son's school was.)

> It seems to me that the main result of having an actual legal ban is that teachers are now prevented from using smartphones in class for teaching purpose if they wanted to.

All middle schools and up in France will soon be equipped with tablets. There's one large pilot happening in my region: books, assignments, quizzes, homework, etc... lots of it is done (at the teacher's discretion) on the tablet. It's great.

Music classes for instance are producing homework using garage band, etc...

Schools can pick their tablet. My son's school went with Apple. The high-school next door went with Android.

> where somewhere like Iceland is cooler than Rwanda

You are technically correct.

> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story.

Search "Tesla Orange Trick"

Agreed - and it's been proven (citation needed) that a low calorie diet prolonges life.

But here we are, needing to consume more energy because we do things (good, bad, useless or wasteful) with our time (and these things aren't directly looking for food.)

Which source did you use for Babylon Sisters?

And people ask me why I read HN comments. Thank you for that explanations!

The print could have buttons to trigger different filters.

Please note that salaries are horribly depressed in France - in areas like Paris, the cost of living is comparable to places like San Francisco at easily 1/3 of the salary.

Excellent, thanks for sharing!

"THE B1 IS SO ANTI-TECH IT HAS AN ANALOG BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR ON THE DASH"

LOL.

Ah - well, Tesla found a way to make EV sexy and I'm sure they have very ambitious goals. I'm just hoping that what's next steps down a bit from the luxurious (at least to me) interior and focuses on cargo space that can be used without bringing in tears ;-)

I'm fortunate enough (no pun) to be willing to spend money on an EV and I just don't find what I want. I understand Tesla had to produce vehicles like these to make people realize EVs actually were usable cars (usability predicated on luxurious interiors and sporty performances - which I don't care about.)

Alas not yet.

I'm not exactly implying that buying a car to show off and assert status is reprehensible. Have I touched a nerve?

Anyways - I'm just saying that I hope EV manufacturer move up (or down) the immaculate luxurious interiors trip sooner rather than later so that some of us can buy and start using EVs without having to constantly worry about ruining a design project we're probably not worthy of.

Nice but still not what I need. I need a long range electric car whose interior I won't be afraid to damage from time to time. I need something that moves me, my family and my stuff (skis, bikes, windsurf + sails, mountaineering gears, etc..) to where I need to be, not something for showing-off and asserting status.

The large screen in the middle of the car is a non complete non-starter - lots of the stuff I carry in my car are going to poke nice holes in it: what a joke.

Tesla (or anyone else), please build a cheap, high-impact plastic, no-large-screen interior car with front and rear seats I can fold for lots of room and I'll buy them for the rest of my life.

What I want is a long-range electric 4x4 Renault Kangoo that is not a utility vehicle. I'm sure it can be built.

Raising the price of gas in the mid 70s made it possible to get very sober vehicles, so this might work as well. Of course, it's far enough in the future that it can be canceled and amended enough to become useless. I do appreciate the move (India has a more aggressive target - 2030 - but the landscape is totally different.)

Same here - not a the same level though :-) Undisclosed location from the European Alps - I've always worked remotely, even when my company HQs were in Sunnyvale and I was living a few blocks from the office.

I work for the big G. and I work from home. There's a couple hundred employees that work full time from home, a minuscule amount in comparison to the work force.

I travel to the office every two quarters and I usually get nothing done (meetings, interruptions, etc...)

VC, chat and email makes it possible to do work. Folks saying that they can't, err, "ideate" when they're not together making noise and preventing other people from working just don't know how to use the tools they have.

50 and coding. There's nothing more satisfactory that carefully crafted code. Or maybe just releasing something and mostly never looking back because it. just. works.

"So why might eating chillies be good for you? The researchers speculate that it could be that capsaicin is helping increase blood flow, or even altering the mix of your gut bacteria in a helpful direction."

I live in the French alps and from time to time I see Teslas in ski resorts - these cars are sometimes coming from far away. The furthest away one was from Denmark.

I was at the Free the Lizard party - what a blast. I remember Google speaking there - I won a pair of boxer briefs, with a strategically placed "I'm feeling lucky" printed on them - I still wear them.

I left the Valley in 2005.

I've done something similar 21 years ago: a C interpreter targeting a virtual machine. The runtime had a dynamic equivalent of libffi to call into native code and use existing native libraries. I added extensions to run code blocks in threads so that the dinning philosopher problem solution was very elegant. Back in the days, not having libffi meant generating assembly on the fly for Sparc, MIPS, PA-Risc, i386. Fun times. That C interpreter was used to extend a CAD package.

I'm nearing 50 and I'm still coding. I'm looking forward to retirement where I'll be able to code more (contributing to open source stuff for instance) and do all the things I don't have the time to do now (more hardware, etc...)

There's mention of interpreted sections in the code. Do you know if it was possible to manually enter interpreted code to have it ran by the system afterward - or even program some of software by hand (being dictated hex) in case something unexpected occurring during the mission warranted it?

Doesn't handle "insanely"