artificialidiot

That is exactly my point.

what part of scare quotes didn't you understand? oh right...

The thing is, if you wait long enough, CO2 will be removed by the plant life anyway so removing it is "free". However if you reflect the price of the removal process which is as _fast_ as it is emitted to the consumer, someone gonna pay through the nose...

Rivian is the much needed kick in the nuts. When it turn out to be a viable truck and not just vaporware with lofty promises, people took note. I am by no means a truck or suv type guy but the idea of full electric one is very intriguing, if only I had the space. I can imagine the allure of great low end torque, improved storage capacity and the fuel savings for the more leisurely drivers, who don't need to tow 10 tons or haul 1-2 tons which is frankly not the case for the vast majority of the people in my experience.

People keep saying lithium batteries loose capacity and stuff but less energy dense chemistries than the one in your mobile phone fare better in an automotive setting.

Big automotive companies had all the time in the world to come up with the tech of the future but they squandered the opportunity. Upstarts seem to be poised to eat their cake.

The real issue is not reading, it is editing the "canonical" wiki. Same goes for image hosting sites. Passive content consumption in a foreign language is not a great concern.

Mozilla lacks the financial strength to shove their merchandise down people's throats. Microsoft used OS market share, Opera used small device market share and Google used web search market share to promote their offerings. Mozilla never had a similar advantage, only technical superiority for a while, which others caught up in a few years and average users didn't care about that anyway.

While we are calculating the externalised costs, why not include the considerable health care impact of the exhaust gasses on the populace? I'd welcome the reduced personal costs, if electric vehicle adoption is much more:

* My immune system would work much better without having to deal with all the pollution so I wouldn't get sick as often.

* I would be able to commute work by bike if I wouldn't have to inhale that much smoke during such an intensely aerobic activity. I wouldn't need public transport that much either.

* I wouldn't have to consume fuel (or charge for that matter) when there is a jam.

* I would feel and think much better if I don't have blood full of CO. Less reason for costly vices that forces me to feel only slightly better.

If I have to put a figure, I estimate ~$150 monthly savings minimum for my current lifestyle which is nothing to sneeze at personally.

it is called "human"

I fully support letting people go home when they are objectively counterproductive.

I use it since 2005

The article pretty much applies to any comparable language, really.

That DC might as well be AC since it is not as stable as you'd like. Consider this, you have a DC source 5-15V and want to run a usb gadget from it. You still need a regulator between the wall plug and the device. Why not make it compatible with AC grid so your kitchen appliances don't need their own inverters each?

I don't know how kotlin fares in practice for android, but I experimented with scala on android a few years back successfully.

The thing is, android doesn't really need a marketing blitz as big for alternative languages to be usable. dex converter did well enough on jvm bytecode.

Thus apple invented stickers..

If you compare standard library approaches between languages, yes, ones which let you inline calls will beat callback through pointers in thight loops, which is comparison function in qsort. Most of the time it is inconsequential. You could have used C preprocessor if you really wanted.

No need to wonder. I think someone runs `grep apple` on posts and upvote. If they don't actually run it, I'm sure they can be replaced by a very small bash script.

Yeah you are right. He worships junk apparently. It is a stupid blog with less content than the apple marketing material which is taken seriously by some certain readership.

Is this a satire blog or apple worship reached new heights?

Hold my beer as I put the finishing touches on my Swift-to-node.js compiler...

I fear that someone will take this seriously and create "an app for that".

It is not as much feature X, but lack of feature X that's the problem in the article. Statical typing is a tool you should be using if it is suitable to your problems. The problem described is verifying there is no garbage in garbage out situation for your functions. Proposed solution is making compiler do the check instead of manually checking the codebase, writing more code known as TDD, enforcing conventions that are easily confusing... Common theme in these alternatives are necessity of extra tools and all associated effort. Compiler can be a perfectly servicable point of enforcement if types are used properly with possibly no extra cost.

I can understand the sentiment if the goal is to prevent someone mail ordering an AR-15 kit and a plastic %80 lower, then drill a few holes with a battery powered drill, assemble, spray paint it pink, slap a hello kitty sticker and off to the shooting range.

I have no stakes in the gun kit regulations so I couldn't care less if they ban them or not but banning machines would be akin to banning chef knives just because you are not working in a restaurant and the knife can potentially be used to stab. Have fun slicing tomatoes with a butter knife. IMO they are regulating the wrong parts of the equation deliberately and have no intention to alienate large swaths of certain demographics. I am only interested in this debate's entertainment value, so popcorn it is.

I don't see a machine ban on the horizon.

TFA doesn't mention banning the machines themselves. In fact only thing worth mentioning is the seizure of plastic %80 lowers because they were just too easy to finish while leaving the metal ones. There is no intent to regulate even the %80 lowers.

If you can operate a computer equipped with a plastic printer, I think you can operate a 18th century machine following a blueprint on paper. It is not like machinist design those lower receivers from scratch either.

For the about the same price of a 3d printer and plastics, you can buy a small lathe and aluminium stock to build a gun far superiour yet just as dangerous for the user. Required skill is comparable. Why aren't there any talks about banning those hobby machines too? Because you need a good scary story to sell and cutting metal is old news. I don't buy the plastic widget manufacturers getting in the way angle either. Do you have any idea how much cheaper is buying a mass produced thing instead of designing, building and botching the same piece with worse tolerances and worse materials?

So the whole watch body acts as a nipple mouse... Got it.

You don't know the joys of CNC until you break tungsten bits, about 10€ a pop, like candy. It hurts, figuratively or literally.

Not that you need to be an EE when the devices are integrated this much and vendors provide reference implementations but it is worth the money to get a decently built PCB quickly instead of doing it yourself.

Funny how those wireless "shields" have 10x performance of the AVRs on the main board.

Because he made more money than most people though was possible.