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Folks are speculating that a Model S/X refresh will be announced at the end of the Model Y unveiling next week.

It'd make sense, as both have had massive price drops recently, and haven't had a battery upgrade in two years.

Thanks for the critique of Facebook as a technical implementation. I was curious as to what societal good the company and its products have done.

It sounds like "saved people a bit of time by doing all the things separate services used to do".

As a person who has never had a Facebook account, can someone explain what societal good they've done? I see none.

I see espionage on a massive scale. I see democracies weakened for profit. I see self-obsessed shallow folks constantly taking selfies to post online. I see the degeneration of political discourse into pithy statements that can be 'liked'.

What good have they done, exactly? Helped people share photos and status updates?

Likewise, very happy to still be using my 2015 MBP. I don't feel any envy for users of the newer models.

I have exclusively been driving EVs since 2013 (Renault Zoe and a Tesla Model X), and also use a Brompton folding bicycle on my commute to work (total 6 miles cycling).

I've never understood the appeal of electric bikes. It just seems lazy to me. I'd feel guilty if I relied on the motor instead of burning calories.

I use the cars for transporting the family, or to go long distances quickly. I'm not averse to cycling 25 miles if time allows, and I've also managed to carry all sorts (like IKEA furniture) on my folding bike. I also wear my work clothes (jeans and t-shirt) when cycling on my commute, demonstrating that lycra is totally unnecessary!

I can only assume that electric bikes are for people that wouldn't normally cycle, or whose routes are prohibitively hilly.

Would be keen to hear the use cases of anyone here that uses one.

It appears that in China, the state tracks your every move, whereas in the West private enterprise tracks your every move (Google, Facebook, et al).

Anecdata point: I managed to make a commercial 2D platform game with GIMP. It's pretty powerful, even if the usability is not as good.

I get the feeling the author found out what "a priori" means recently and is trying to find excuses to use the term.

Kids in schools should not need to be saved by the responsible use of guns.

They happen less in the UK.

Really glad to see more pragmatism and less dogma in the Golang community.

And this is why we hire for empathy, and pair-program instead of doing code reviews. Code reviews and features branches don't cause this type of behaviour, but they are a fertile field for this to flourish.

I'd rather have ten mediocre developers who can be part of a team than one gifted diva.

I was expecting a story about snakes.

Dang, and there was me hoping for a write-up of the Fear Factory album.

Using Goland and we have no performance problems.

When are you all going to delete your Facebook accounts?

I got 9 friends to install Signal yesterday to help them away from WhatsApp. I'd love to see widespread campaign to encourage people to ditch these parasites we're addicted to.

I really wish I'd read these comments and realised the experiment isn't finished before scrolling up and down the article for five minutes trying to find the conclusion.

Eating "right-handed" has always seemed irrational to me.

It dates back to medeival eating traditions when folks only had a knife - therefore, it was held in the right hand as it was the primary and only implement.

Fast forward to the present day, and the fork is the primary implement. Hence, to my mind, it makes significantly more aense to hold the fork in one's dominant hand.

Does it matter for the people that die in the meantime because someone didn't read the instructions, the product description, or the in-car warnings?

When you select full self-driving capability in the Tesla configurator, it states explicitly and prominently that this isn't enabled (or ready!) yet, and is subject to legal approval.

Anyone that buys a Tesla, thinks it is fully autonomous, and dies as a result is failing natural selection. Third parties (pedestrians and other drivers) on the other hand are victims, but have there been any examples of this with Tesla cars? My not-full-self-driving AP2 Model X can detect pedestrians, and will also emergency stop if it detects things. This is aside from the fact I, as the driver, should be emergency stopping if I see a forthcoming collision with a pedestrian!

Think of Autopilot like a horse. You still need a driver, but at least you've got another set of eyes on the road. Sometimes it will notice things you don't, sometimes it will get spooked by things it shouldn't do, but two sets of eyes/two brains are better than one.

Consensus could be a synonym here for 'current trends'.

I see no advantage of returning error types over checked exceptions. I'm happy to be informed, though.

Thing is, that's been solved problem in open source at least since Ivy.

Visited a customer recently who had inherited a monorepo.

All their CI and release problems traced back to it.

At the risk of sounding like an old git, package coupling and package cohesion principles were defined for a reason.

I do feel like a lot of patterns in contemporary development are kneejerk reactions to how last generation's programmers did things.

Exceptions? Nah, multiple returns! Dependency management? Who needs it... Oh, wait.

Many small, single-responsibility repos? Wang it all in one, and then invent your own tooling to cope with it!

Cripes. The "pedo guy" thing made me cringe and reaffirmed that Elon is a fallible human, but this is the first time as a Tesla owner I'm worried about the leadership of the company.

Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama is one of my favourite albums of all time.

Your friend's problem is that she's a bigot.

Ha! Gears! I remember those old fossil-powered cars had more than one of those. Apparently in some you even had to choose which gear you wanted, rather than the car doing it for you.

Hopefully soon people will look at piston cars like IT folks look at manual deployment to dedicated servers.

Agreed - that is not how the platform should be used.

PCF is for those working at scale, and doesn't suit trivial deployments well.

> Devops become your enemies

You're doing devops wrong, which may explain why you're having a bad time with the platform.

> I have to login to PCF to check environments or add services to bind to an app.

You should automate this with CI servers and pipelines.

The complaints about RAM usage and support service I agree with.

It sounds like your organisation is disfunctional, and its treatment of PCF is the symptom not the cause.

It's clearly the Forerunner portal to the Ark waking up.