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Sufficiently far up (and down I guess) it makes little sense at all, or does so for very small part of the year. There's nothing to be saved in the abundance of light all day in the summer, and nothing to be done for the darkness of winter.

It is quite reasonably easy enough compared to any real practical programming task. For example:

  // your ordinary function declarations
  int plus2(int i) { return i + 2; }
  int times2(int i) { return i * 2; }

  typedef int (*modfun)(int);
  // a very reasonable syntax altogether
  modfun get_modfun(bool mul) { return (mul ? times2 : plus2); }

Nests as well if you ever wanted to:

  modfun get_modfun_no_mul(bool mul) { return plus2; }

  typedef modfun (*modfun_getter)(bool);
  modfun_getter get_getter(bool allow_mul_opt) { return (allow_mul_opt ? get_modfun : get_modfun_no_mul); }

Different tax systems can affect the equation even if you disregard that you pay less at the pump for fuel that your car consumes less than a petrol equivalent – lower CO2 figures may also mean that you pay less yearly fees or less taxes on car registration as well. The break-even figure certainly varies by country (as does depreciation of different cars).

Are you sure you know the target market you're speaking of? They're not coming from Android world, so they're probably used to exactly the kind of services these phones support.

Most definitely in Norway, Model S is significantly cheaper than E-class or 5-series, too.

With password generation, nothing really. If you want to choose the password yourself, it limits your options (for no good reason for the user).

>There are health benefits to eating less meat.

Are there? To what extent?

I'd very much like to see the science to back up a blanket statement like that.

>They're not excessive - they're more in line with true cost of car dependent society.

How did you come by that result? Assuming it wasn't from a magic hat, could you enlighten us a bit?

Bear in mind, that drivers pay much, much more tax for their fuel in Denmark, too, compared to the U.S. Fuel taxes are a major part of many European countries tax income.

It's not really a ban, although it does price out some from the market. Practically anyone who has a steady job could still afford a car (edit: even a new one I mean), although many choose not to, because it's not worth it for them.

Those who buy cars essentially buy cheaper cars for the same prices compared to the neighbouring countries with similar income levels.

Yes, I wouldn't one a tax policy like that, either. Where I live, we still have a car excise tax, although somewhat more reasonable, and I oppose to that too: taxing safety features for instance makes people buy less safe cars on average. In any case, road users pay their fair share in fuel taxes (which are high practically everywhere in Europe), not to mention the recurring car owner's tax. (Some car-opposing people from the U.S. tend not to understand how much taxes car owners pay in Europe, but it really covers all the externalities of providing service for cars, and then some; it's a cash cow for the tax man. Of course, you need to collect taxes somewhere...)

Electricity is cheap, when plugged in. Mobile storage is the hard (costly and heavy) part.

>There's no fundamental reason why trucks are less likely to electrify than other vehicles. In fact, the greater fuel savings makes it seem even more likely.

Energy requirements between commuter and heavy-duty commercial vehicles differ substantially, and batteries are of course the biggest hurdle against full electrification.

Light trucks could probably mirror SUV development, at least for part of the market. If they won't, it's probably due to demand side of the equation.

I've always thought the reason many cyclists treat red lights and stop signs mere warnings instead of rules is because it's annoying to have to speed up from standstill with your own power.

IMO it's a flaw in human-powered vehicles, although some purists will certainly vehemently disagree such a thing can even exist.

There are many types of highways. You might even call these rural roads just roads, even if they share the default speed limit for the area (80 km/h here).

With very low traffic density, you might build the house closer to the road (maybe 10m off, separated with trees) for just that reason – to save land. (Not all rural houses are farms.)

I take your stance is the same for train drivers, too?

What an utterly silly opinion, anyway.

The companies here (not Germany) can afford to pay for the right to put electricity in the grid because they are guaranteed a fixed compensation by the state for all the renewable electricity produced – at a rate that's several times the market price. Thus even at times when they have to pay, they still make more money than if they shut down the plants – which itself would just cost money.

No one in history has designed a city for cars. People driving cars over other people perhaps, but for a subset of people regardless.

AI is nowhere near the level of needing space.

Interesting. Personally, I find Windows quite unpleasant to use, even basic window management is a hassle (just an example: you have to target very small hit boxes for simple things like resizing and moving windows around, and default keyboard shortcuts are not configurable). As to fonts, many if not most custom fonts you see more and more on websites look quite odd, and sometimes simply bad with Windows' font hinting (I do agree the built-in fonts work nicely, but so do fonts on certain Linux systems as well, and have done so for at least a decade since Canonical merged certain patches to their Ubuntu's version of freetype).

Might it be that we tend to like what we're used to? When I jumped from WinXP to a Gnome2-desktop, I tried to make it a bit more like WinXP, even though these days I would probably want nothing of how WinXP desktop is laid about.

>An “anti-natalist,” he [David Benatar] believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion.

Poor me, I had no idea it was that bad committing to veganism.[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/TheSpeciesBarrier35Antinatal

>The Earth would be much healthier, there would be no suffering, the "Universe" wouldn't care.

No human suffering, perhaps. More drastic measures would be needed to end all suffering altogether, at which point it might need more evidence to prove the claim that the Earth would still be “healthier”, or that the healthiness of a rocky planet really matters (you can't really leave it to the hands of evolution not the create more suffering by leaving “it” an easy way, can you?)

That's easier said than done for some. A couple of years ago we had an exceptionally bleak November here, with one city for example having only 12 minutes of sunshine in the whole month of November. (I'm not talking about places within the Arctic Circle, although relatively speaking they could almost seem that way for some, of course.)

The average where I live for Nov is about an hour of sunlight per day, but to catch that you'd have to spend all the light hours of day outside (and for sure, November sunshine isn't quite the same as summer sunshine).

Did you also know that a sufficiently smart compiler can deduce the whole programming logic from English prose?

It's just pretty hard to create one. Same applies to automatic optimizations in the general case: what do you exactly know about what Java does beyond that it is capable of using SIMD instructions? Have you perhaps evaluated how and where it does so, or how the end result compares to more explicit manual use of stream operations?

edit: and for the record, the problem is not as easy as you seem to think it is, given how you described your astonishment.

>For the rest of us, Netflix and the major content studios begrudgingly allow us to watch 720p video on our way too open computers.

I wish they even gave this, but at least in here, many mainstream flicks are of even worse quality (although this restriction on some content seems to apply even on Windows and Edge browser, at least on my computers). Not that it really matters what's the nominal resolution of a 1000 kbps stream anyway (and lately Netflix has removed the option to see the actual resolution of the video I think), however...

... selling out the free web got us so much indeed.

The way you write it, it almost reads as if it comes as a revelation that smaller, turbocharged engines can compete with larger, naturally aspirated ones in terms of power output. How can that be: F1 cars already boasted much more powerful small turbo engines 30 years ago than what has since been fitted into them.

In any case, that lap records were beaten this year tells an altogether different story: the engines used don't matter that much for the lap times after a point. After all, they were running almost the same engines last year, a little development notwithstanding, and were much slower: what has changed, and what dominates the gains in lap times, is aerodynamics – which are severely restricted by the rules. That was also the case a dozen years ago when we had the similarly powerful, larger but lighter N/A V10 engines (no hybrid part to lug around back then), accompanied with a narrower track and grooved tyres to reduce the cornering speeds. Thus the comparison is moot: everything around the engine dominates the equation anyway, but that is hardly news.

IQ is, as far as I know, a pretty strong predictor of success in life (be it financial, educational, health-wise or longevity).

I've hidden window title bars for years, even on a full-size monitor; on a smaller screen it makes even better sense. Gives more vertical room for content in any application :-)

(Btw, with title bars hidden Firefox and Chrome actually have pixel-for-pixel same size nagivation elements, at least with Ubuntu's defaults – of course only when you toggle on system title bars in Chrome.)

Well isn't it just great to have a new Theme API, never even knew I missed that. And a Reader Mode API, I'm sure I'll love that too even though I've never even used that mode.

Glad they got rid of the old extension system now that the new one is so feature complete. I mean who needs spellchecker API anyway, if you miss spellchecking in your language, you can always start writing in another language, no? Perhaps they could introduce a Pocket API to compensate?

That's odd, considering vi is part of the POSIX specification and all. Many distributions won't come with full vim by default, but most do install a trimmed version of it to fulfil the role of vi.

These kinds of comments almost make me not want to live on this Earth any more.

Well, it's not like public transit is not subsidized... people who commute with a car pay taxes, too.

That doesn't make any sense. Just think how much power the engine would have to be able to produce near the redline if it produced anything decent at 5 MPH for that to be true (considering that Tesla's mainstream cars only have 1 gear).

Edit: Just to be clear, a constant torque would imply a linearly increasing power output when increasing the revs. Of course Tesla doesn't have that – what they have is high torque, and thus significant power output already at very low revolutions. A typical small DC electric engine has an almost linearly decreasing torque curve (unless capped), although I don't really know specifics about Tesla's engines.