mattgrice

In the US RWD manual cars have been exclusively sport/GT for decades. They aren't cheap and a hybrid swap and/or daily driving miles would destroy their value.

It's just trying to visualize bang for buck. Not science, much less pseudoscience.

EA ended up getting coopted by people who weren't interested in altruism at all but that doesn't seem like this.

The first 486 reviewed by BYTE magazine was an Apricot. It was a pretty nice machine compared to the Dells you see advertised just inside the front cover. https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198909_Byte_Magazine_Vol_1...

Yeah man if a barbarian fells a tree in the forest but nobody is around to hear it, is it still barbaric?

That's about the US West. It might as well be a different country, with respect to water. East of, say, Omaha, the concern is more getting rid of water than collecting it.

Low power and high power electronics don't actually have a lot in common other than the broad types of engineers you need to be educating.

China has industrial policy. The country and companies are able to invest in BEV technology knowing that everyone agrees on the direction.

I think there is a misconception that FAANG type coding interviews are trying to find stars. They aren't, otherwise they would not cap the difficulty and have a bank of approved questions which can be crammed via leetcode.

They are testing for diligence just like exams in Confucian based systems.

Definitely not true. Otherwise we would have really fast C++ compilers and no one would ever have implemented hacks like precompiled headers.

Founding editor of this magazine works for Mercatus Center which is a F.A. Hayek fan club. You know, the Pinochet guy.

You already know what the conclusion is going to be, the interesting part is how the author gets there.

Nothing, really. You can't build a company on a hack.

I didn't even think the link to greenhouse gases is denied any more.

The merchants of doubt ran out the clock and what I hear from the former deniers I know is that it is too expensive and too late to do anything now, being warmer will be nicer, and CO2 is a fertilizer.

Gauss supposedly did it when he was 7. The hardest part for the compiler is figuring out that you have a loop that computes that sum and does nothing else important.

No, these types of accommodations don't really exist any more. That's kind of the point of the article -- they were becoming extinct 30 years ago.

If structured the right way, agricultural land has numerous tax benefits that can range based on jurisdiction from carve-outs on inheritance taxes all the way down to property tax exemptions on what could not even be considered a hobby farm (very large exurban lots)

I've got a ton of mason bee tubes. They are awesome.

To use a silicon valley analogy, nobody has figured out how to scale out mason bees. Not to the > 200sq miles of pomegranates, pistachios, and almonds owned by the Resnicks. The Resnicks funded some in-house research and apparently considred it a failure.

It's probably possible. Might not even be hard once you know the trick, but it's certainly not a slam-dunk.

I think it is not a great analogy. As Jeremy Bentham wrote, “The question is not: can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?”

I have relatives that do or have raised bees (as a hobby). Can bees suffer? I don't know. I kind of think a bee can experience suffering in a small degree. I'm not going to run the experiments on that because I'm not a sociopath. Also arguably the hive is the basic unit of the honeybee organism, not the bee itself.

I do know for certain hogs can suffer. I'm a farm boy from Iowa. I've been around them from a young age and I hate everything about them. I hate the smell, I hate the way their meat tastes to me like they smell, I hate how if you are small enough and don't take care, they are mean enough to knock you down and eat you.

I'm probably one of the few people on HN who have actually experienced in person what a hog confinement facility looks and smells and sounds like. I wouldn't wish it on my worst hog enemy. It is a vision of hell, illegal to film in Iowa, and in no way comparable to how we treat bee hives.

I'm not saying anyone is doing 'enough' but neonicotinoid bans in EU are perhaps the most effective and 'costly' thing done so far. In Not that costs borne by poisoners

It's true but honey bees are still extremely economically important. And very useful because their hives are large and portable.

The billionaire Resinick pomegranate/pistachoi/almond oligarchs put quite a bit of effort into native bees which seemed quite successful but they shut it down I think about 5 years ago. I can't find the article now. Gen X+ might remember them as owners of the 'Franklin Mint' hawkers of knickknacks you either are or soon will be throwing into a dumpster.

They are BTW also largest renters of honeybee hives in the US.

It's actually wild that you actually CAN manually lean the mixture. What's the last car that was sold without closed-loop EFI?

If they were cars, most GA planes would qualify for 'antique' plates. Most of the rest are not technically antique, just antique technology.

By any definition has China not been leading?

Socialism with chinese characteristics/ Xi Jinpeng thought is the most successful ideology currently. Free speech/free markets power has decayed since people found ways to exploit them and more powerful people found ways to aid the exploiters.

The US is apparently powerless to exploit our own rare earth resources and fund/subsidize them or lithium production or photovoltaic production, nuclear reactors, or even semiconductor production.

By any measure that is weak.

It depends what adversary I guess. It seems like several middle eastern countries of very different religious bent are quite happy with our military activity. Though they are not usually named as adversaries they certainly are by any rational metric.

No it is not, an earlier WA building (not necessarily the earliest) was across from the Burgermaster on SR520/Northup Way. I think they meant it's the original MS building 3. As far as I know there is no 'new' building 3.

Pinks and oranges are notoriously not lightfast. Unless you use cadmium, which is kind of not something you want to be handing out to people who might be licking their pencils. Ever notice why yellow cars always end up looking pale lemon-yellow? Lightfast non-toxic cheap red pigments aren't that easy.

Many rose/fuschia colors are not lightfast. Pigments that are not permanent are called 'fugitive' in the arts. Rose madder and alizarin crimson are not lightfast. So are a lot of others: cochineal, geranium lake. That's why you see 'green' cherubs when you visit the Getty museum also why Van Gogh's paintings are not the color they were when he painted them. Most reds for art are now quinacridone or cadmium.

One of Windsor and Newton's (oldschool paint supply manufacturer, its fun to browse history on their website) most expensive paints is 'rose madder geniune.' They claim it is permanent but I don't know how they did it.

Note: x 'lake' means x dye turned into a pigment.

'Qume' at this time meant daisywheel printer, what used to be called 'letter quality. Not dot matrix, the output looked like a nice typewriter. which it effectively was, just with a parallel port instead of a keyboard.

I feel like nobody here ever drove in San Jose at night prior to 2020-ish. Because high-pressure sodium I like, LPS as in San Jose is like viewing a monochrome monitor.

Interesting, cover photo is of a machine that was never sold, only one ever built. (Cray 3)

Around 2000? The only project I ever knew that used it was .NET and that was on SD by around then.

"In terms if accuracy, it's pretty accurate." :) LGTM (sign off on PR)

I don't know what the confusion could be. That's the name of the product. It's '][' because that's a creative way to write 'II' which is a fun way of writing '2.' Just like the Apple //c

Sure this is bad but what about states where they don't have universal free dental care with bi-yearly topical fluoride?