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Yes.

If you buy a completely option-free $24,950 truck, there is no telematics/surveillance in their vehicle.

Which also means there's no remote app features that people enjoy.

The spirit of the vehicle is you can option out just about anything and DIY-it; very, very few "from the factory" options, but dozens upon dozens of DIY accessories from the factory.

Including a $275 telematics module - https://www.slate.auto/en/store/ACCIT010 - Which enables remote app features.

The current description for the module on their website:

> A plug-and-play solution that acts as a cellular bridge between your smartphone and your Slate vehicle, enabling features like remote access and battery pre-conditioning.

It's not clear to anyone exactly what features the module has to enable the above, or if it does more than all that.

Once the thing actually ships, there'll be manuals, and there'll be people hacking it to find out exactly what it both does and doesn't do.

And since it's a DIY addition, if you later become uncomfortable with what you added to your vehicle, you can remove it!

> Apple has not approved any...

They've approved - at the very least - AltStore, Epic Games Store, Aptoide, Onside, and Setapp Mobile.

There's an honest-to-god Tesla solar roof tile house in my South Bay neighborhood. They got them installed 5(+/-) years ago.

They look fine.

I don't know what their power generation is like.

> The problem with Waymos is there's no human driver, so they'll adjust pick up and drop off in a way that could be dangerous for the passenger. A human driver isn't going let a passenger off into a dangerous situation.

In this situation, you absolutely can (and are encouraged to) press the support button in the car to talk to a human agent. They have the ability to tell the car to go somewhere it normally wouldn't go for any situation that humans can reason about.

New NES were still available in the US through at least Christmas 1992, and in Europe deep into 1995, both selling alongside the SNES since 1991.

The final new international games were released in 1994, but Europe still got new games into 1995.

Japanese Famicoms were still being sold in Japan when the PS2 released. They sold more in Japan in 2001 than in 2000.

So no, calling the NES "retro" in 2000 wouldn't have made all too much sense.

The verb "to herald" means to be a sign of something that is imminent.

But the noun "herald" literally means "official who tells the news"

So this still definitely checks out.

> WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML...

WebKit has been a fully proper open source project - with open bug tracker, patch review, commit history, etc - since 2005.

Swift has been a similarly open project since 2015.

Timeline-wise, a new high profile open source effort in 2025 checks out.

> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.

Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push. It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

Since there is no service worker required, if ITP removes the service worker, declarative web push continues to work. I believe this is explicitly called out.

The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly talking with the other browser engines and web developers at the W3C TPAC conference, making concrete proposals to the relevant web standards githubs, taking feedback, etc.

Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?

Why is Swift interop needed for that? C/C++ are first class citizens in Apple's toolchains, and Obj-C++ interop has been a well supported thing for 25+ years.

But, you can still pair most types of extra controllers to it (including a set of Joycons), and the eShop is aware of games the few games that can only be played on a tv and warns of incompatibility.

It is not USB-C powered.

It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.

> Nearly all the combined work of humanity has been "lost to time," and society seems pretty okay with that.

Pre-digital age, preserving the combined work of humanity was actually quite difficult. The cost to preserve everything outside of "obviously important" artifacts would've been preventative (or even impossible) for society as a whole.

I believe many (if not most) folks native to the digital age believe that digital artifacts should be preserved indefinitely by default - as the cost in doing so is comparatively trivial - and laws in democratic nations will catch up to that.

Yup!

Much of Santa Clara Valley has "R1-8" zoning, which means "detached single family homes, 8 per acre."

43,560 / 8 = 5,445 sqft lots.

7,900 sqft is larger than average for many comparable neighborhoods.

Safari on iOS supports extensions, and - while I don't know - I'd be shocked if Chrome on Android didn't?

Our universe is a closed system. We cannot change its overall heat content. We can only move heat around within it.

Without tapping into another universe - which we're nowhere close to being able to even theorize about - all we have the ability to do is create a localized heating crisis within our universe.

> Are 200-3kb/s sufficient for a realistic attack?

Yes.

As both a software developer and a pilot...

We're (much?) closer to Fully-Self-Flying planes than FSD cars because the problem space is - perhaps counterintuitively - MUCH smaller to tackle. And we have a lot more experience tackling it.

Additionally there could easily be remote pilots as backup in case of catastrophe (See remote piloted military and border patrol UAVs)

And pulling a parachute at 1000'+ altitude actually has quite a bit of precedent (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...)

Now... There's probably a lot of cultural and regulatory reasons why the "string of automated glider ports" idea will never come to fruition.

But... As far as technical hurdles go, there's not much new technology that would need to be invented here.

Modern supercomputers are obscenely parallel machines built to chew through embarrassingly parallelizable tasks.

> XP was supported for 12 years, iOS 12 was officially discontinued after 1 year.

Also a pretty false equivalence, though.

Windows 7 was a paid upgrade from Windows XP.

iOS 13 was a free upgrade from iOS 12.

Devices that shipped with iOS 10 got 11, 12, 13, and 14 for free.

(Some/many/most/all) will probably continue getting future iOS versions for free.

Except it was trivial to reproduce with the script on non-Apple devices, and people in one of the many Twitter threads surrounding this showed that on their Mac there was MANY tcp retransmits due to invalid checksums, and the bit-flipped packet did have the correct checksum.

https://twitter.com/KielO/status/1335640544496689152

CEQA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quali...

Ever since it was passed, NIMBYs and other types of individualists have found more and more ways to use its provisions to block anything from happening that they don't want to happen.

> Did you grow up with Pluto being a planet? Having to learn about it in all levels of schooling as a planet? Seeing images of all the planets and Pluto is included?

Yup, grew up with all of those things.

And when they discovered more Plutoids - some even bigger than Pluto - when I was in high school, I loved watching science change as more information came in. Because that's what science does.

I love that we now have better definitions to more accurately describe bodies orbiting a star, and Pluto is definitely not a planet the same way the 8 planets are.

> In New York we have more homeless per capita...

At least based on latest 2018 numbers I found for both cities, that's not true.

NYC 78676 homeless with 8398748 residents.

SF 9784 homeless with 870877 residents.

106 residents per homeless individual in NYC.

Only 89 residents per homeless individual in SF.

> And for fuck's sake, it's not the weather. Our parks aren't by any means pristine but we don't suddenly sprout tent cities every summer.

I'm certainly not blaming it on the weather either. But this statement kind of misses the point on how exceptional our weather is. Our tent cities get to grow year round without interruption because it's mostly warm enough in the winter and cool enough in the summer to live outside full time.

The rest of your points stand without caveat. We don't build enough housing at all and we're incompetent at building shelters (at least ones that the homeless are willing and able to use)

I don't think it's cool.

Look at it this way. A full battery with the highest possible voltage can deliver its highest possible amperage. Once the state of charge has dropped just a bit, and therefore pack voltage drops just a bit, the theoretical amperage that pack can deliver drops.

A P100D does it's crazy 2.4s run on a 100% SoC battery. Let the battery cool and try it again, and you'll get your 2.5s run. Let the battery cool and try it again, and you'll get your 2.6s run. Etc. etc.

IN OTHER WORDS... the Tesla motors and traction control are able to take advantage of everything the battery pack can possibly deliver. So as the pack voltage degrades, so does performance.

Since the Taycan can deliver max performance runs on a 90% SoC battery the same it can on a 100% SoC battery... that means that the motors and traction control can not take full advantage of everything the battery pack can deliver.

OR, it means Porsche literally is limiting the acceleration performance of the car in software.

Either way, Tesla wins.

> Apple Maps doesn’t do bike routes which is reason enough not to use it.

...if you need bike routes for daily map app use.

Since I don't, should I also not use it because of this reason?

Unix timestamps have an extremely strict definition and should not be left up to interpretation.

You're describing UI/UX challenges with calendaring and appointments. Very real issues, but separate from Unix timestamps.

My last ICE car was a Mini Cooper JCW 6-speed. Still have it. I love it for it's power-to-weight ratio and it's "go kart handling".

Besides being a daily driver it's been autocrossed and tracked plenty of times.

I have Miata friends and listen to the way they describe how tossable their cars are with a glimmer in their eye. I've driven their Miatas and I'd take my Mini's handling any day.

My current daily driver is a Model S 100D (not the P100D) and it is insanely fun to drive.

As far as daily drivers go I'd choose the Model S over the Mini 99 days out of 100.

It's over TWICE AS HEAVY as the Mini but that weight is about a foot off the ground, the suspension is more than up to the job of handling 2.5 tons, and it has a near 50/50 weight distribution.

The Mini might corner like a go kart, but the Model S corners like its on rails. I have just as much "fun" driving the Model S around town as the Mini but the effort put in to doing so is a mere fraction.

You present your Miata as a "balanced and good handling car", and I assure you; a competent electric car is 100% both of those things while also being effortless in traffic.

I grew up as a "driver" which is why the Mini is never going anywhere and other enthusiast ICE cars have made their way through my stable over the years. It's why I still choose a manual transmission car where I have to spool up the motor 1 day out of 100. And I don't foresee electric cars being realistic choices for a track day any time in the next 10-15 years.

But anybody who truly believes they aren't already sufficient for 99% of the car-buying public's needs* because they aren't "fun" either hasn't given one a shot or is in irrational denial.

* - Trucks are a different matter, but Musk hopes to change that soon, as well...