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Regenerative braking FTW!

Thank you. I abhor Medium. I need to read this clusterf** though, as I read some comments and I have to witness this ineptitude myself.

Exactly. The large gas guzzling, glorified grocery getters are just an easy out for manufacturers to subvert the requirements made for smaller vehicles (which was completely short-sited, or it was planned by lobbyists). It was simply easier for these companies to continue doing what they were doing with what they had. Give a company and alternative that costs them nothing, then they will do nothing. We need a new fuel standard. A truck or SUV purchased after <some date> then you pay an extra $<some dollar amount> per gallon. Yeah, I know the implementation is a problem, but I am simply throwing out an idea. Perhaps they yearly registration is now an extra $2000/year. They already screw EV owners in many states. I pay an extra $220 a year for my car, and that is ridiculous. I have owned my car for 5 1/2 years, and I have 24k miles on it. This tax is completely unfair and has no basis in reality for "road tax".

I'm not sure, but it's probably not too far of a stretch to call this surveillance harassment. Sure, if I'm walking down the street on public property and film houses and people, it's fine. If I showed up every day in front of your house and set up a camera to watch you, your family, and property... I'm pretty sure I could get a restraining order as it's a pattern of intimidation, stalking, and/or harassment. These cameras are there to threaten you.

"no mainstream language..." COBOL is has not been a mainstream language for many decades now.

Hah! I accidentally deleted a production deployment the other day, because I thought it was mucking with my local Colima Kubernetes's cluster. I forgot that I had my context set to one of my AWS clusters. I had been meaning to write a command to wrap helm and kubectrl to prompt me with info before committing, so I will have to take a peek at this.

Seriously, this is why people need unions. People need to be represented so that they don't get fired when trying to fight stupid things. If the camera's backend detection system is so bad wit distracted driving alerts, then they will just have to manually view all videos that are alerted.

If everyone banded together tomorrow and didn't show up for work for 1 day, these problems would be solved. But, again, you can't even attempt such things as you'd be fired on the spot.

Kotlin time (since we're in the JVM context for Clojure)

    fun color(word: String, letter: Char, idx: Int) =
      when (letter) {
        word[idx] -> GREEN
        in word -> YELLOW
        else -> GRAY
      }

Braveheart style. Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVuQi4gdtk

Almost every species that has ever existed on this planet no longer exists. Nothing “evolves into something else“. Evolution is simply constant change over long periods of time. Eventually, the thing that used to be no longer exists, whereas the new thing does. It’s a giant tree of change. This is literally what Darwin discovered.

Species can completely disappear because they can be hunted out of existence, climate change can kill them off, natural disaster's can wipe them out.

Then that is simply a bad lead on the team. "Do your job." (Not you)

I'm a remote software dev, and I prefer it. I won't go back to that silly commute garbage so that I can carry my laptop from my house to my cold, lifeless, work setup. If I could work on hardware, spend all day soldering, and building things with my hands, I would gladly go into the biz. If I could go back to having hardware at the office I could build, install stuff on, and control again... Oh how I wish I could do something like that instead. I'm so tired of the code. Simply dragging me to an office, so I can talk to other people that aren't in the office via email, chat, video etc. is friggin' dumb.

I still back Snowden for his original motives in 2013. I will not bother listening to anything he has to say these days though, because I have no idea who is pulling the strings. I have no idea who he's working for, or what his motives are. It's a problem for me that he's holing up in Russia, and has probably already given up enough info to them in exchange for his asylum. I simply can't trust the man at this time. Am I being unreasonable?

Wow, you are right. Nice catch.

Maybe people could learn what a portable transistor radio is. Maybe they could just give you one with your car. Sell one for $2.99. Is a car really your best option to be in in an emergency? Sometimes you need to get out of that car, maybe find shelter. That car radio is not going help you at all while down in a cellar as tornadoes have ripped through and destroyed everything including your car.

I did too! I immediately thought "Cool! I wonder if 'Violence Against Nature' will be the theme song of the event!"

Your assertion is inaccurate.

I got into an argument with a fellow Tesla owner on a forum who was screaming their car was bricked after their 12V battery died. All they had to do was replace the battery. It wasn't bricked. I sure received a lot of vitriol for saying it wasn't bricked. If you can simply perform a maintenance task, it's not bricked.

That's not what is happening here. It uses gravity to generate energy as the mass going downhill is significantly greater than the mass going back up. The mass of the load is used for "powering" the regenerative braking system (resistance is converted to electricity, stored in the batteries) when going downhill. The batteries are now charged when at the bottom. The heavy load is removed from the train. The generated power is used to take the train with significantly less mass back up to be refilled. There is no "perpetual" energy here. Basically the fuel is the load. It still takes energy to load and unload the payload. No magic here. It's just a function of how much mass can the train take downhill, how much regeneration occurs during that operation, and how much energy it takes to take the empty train back up to the top.

Just as you can take a tiny regenerative toy car, give it a few little revving pushes on the floor (let's say 4 feet of regeneration), you can let it go and have it go 100 feet, as all that mass you used from your arm to charge the battery was transferred (obviously not 100%) to the battery. It's not perpetual motion. It's just converting mass into energy. Pure physics here.

This is the same concept when using water, rocks, sand etc. and gravity for batteries. It's just a simple transfer of potential energy.

Wow. Just wow. I am utterly envious.

CSS seems like it was “designed” by several teams in an “agile” environment with no plan and simply didn’t consult the people that would actually be using it.

I hear ya. I was so in love with that interface back in the day. I thought it was beautiful. If I have to stare at a screen all day I want it to be attractive. Everything is so flat, muted, and boring now. A button is so much less intuitively discovered these days. Tabs are hard to determine due to limited perspective. Window borders are gone and it's so difficult to determine the boundaries of applications. I'd gladly take back some skeuomorphism please.

Remember how cool those confirmation buttons were? Nice blue pill that said "Click me!" They really looked like you could touch them. If only Apple hadn't taken away the customization capabilities of the UI. Remember themes with Shapeshifter? I would love to have that back now to get some old school OS X widgets.

You can't do that. From the terms:

  If we discover that You are not abiding by the requirements above or have disconnected the Product from an internet connection or WiFi for more than short periods each month, You will no longer be able to use the Service and You must return any Products in your possession to Telly. Failure to return Products to Telly will result in Telly charging the credit card on file. If you do abide by the Terms of Service, your credit card will not be charged.

You can literally compile C/C++(using clang)/Rust to LLVM bitcode and run those using GraalVM: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/llvm/Compili...

Which, I hope you would admit, has basically nothing to do with this “headline.

Hah, yeah. I'm silly that way. I don't like that it doesn't have macros. It's not something I need to look into at the moment anyway. I'd probably never find a use case for it.

The grand applause when they blew it up showed that it was a success.

Not sure what startup time matters for running a persistent service is, and it's obviously tied to hardware. You can get applications up and running in less than second or so (we were using Micronaut to resolve dependencies at compile time). If you use GraalVM you can compile to native code and now we're talking a few tens of milliseconds to get an application up and running (or execute and exit).

Vibrator. :-)