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Looks like this was the bus: https://i1.wp.com/www.techtraveleat.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

From a link I found in Wikipedia: https://www.techtraveleat.com/story-of-london-culcutta-bus-s...

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/search/london-to-calc...

The fancy app is just something extra you get for close to no cost. Vertical integration is where Tesla is really strong at. An app or something pretty to look at is almost guaranteed once you get the rest right, IMHO.

Tesla's profit per vehicle is much better than the competition. If this becomes a severe problem, there are multiple venues it can pursue to avoid stock piling up, such as:

* Reduce prices further, making buying a Tesla even more attractive than it currently is. * Expand the market to other countries where they aren't present yet: this is not trivial but feasible. It could take their profit closer to other automakers, though.

The fact that they have stock for multiple weeks now isn't ideal, but they're still an outlier doing much better than the competition.

Oh, I loved Amarok back in the days! Nowadays the only end-user player I know that has some of its abilities is Apple's Music.

Because I was maintaining some IRC bots, I knew the IRC protocol quite well back in the days.

I remember when I was about 12 years old...

The school computers were quite limited in terms of software and it was just not viable to download or install mIRC during a class.

So I fired up the telnet application to connect to the IRC network everyone at school used. The computer lab prof. was not impressed... Next class she told me that if something happened to the machines, she knew who did it... lol

* granted, we used a lot of colors / decoration (ctrl + K on mIRC) and while I was able to demonstrate my abilities it was not much practical as it was just too damn hard to read the messages quick enough.

There's nothing evil in inside trading. It's a shame that it's against the rules in most markets. It only benefits some parties that aren't really invested into the company.

If you haven't seen the listing, scroll down.

Doesn't snow as much, but the rain/wind can be pretty bad, and people still bike everywhere.

My experience riding over 37k km in less than a year all around Europe with my Tesla Model Y hasn't been any like it (many trips, including from The Hague to Malmö, The Hague to Berlin, The Hague to Budapest passing by Vienna, and more trips than I can count to Belgium, twice to Switzerland, and also all the way South to Barcelona).

I think your car model isn't very appropriate for long distance travels, as most EVs. But there are some EVs out there that definitely can do it, especially all Teslas.

Value is subjective. It's not from nothing. It's from human action.

In an oversimplification, when Peter decides to do business with Paul and Paul is interested in taking his business it's because both believe they'll be better off after that.

Now you could [prematurely] argue that there might be externalities and so on, but you must recognize that that action of trading in itself can be seen as something that is going to increase the overall wealth of both as they'll be more satisfied after the fact (assuming everything goes well).

Exactly. Thinking wealth is a zero-sum game is short sighted.

Yes, there are many rich people who are rich directly or indirectly thanks to wealth redistribution: the state is very powerful in taking wealth using force (violence) from the poor and giving it to some wealth people.

But the natural course of how people become wealth is by generating wealth in a way that is positive for everyone!

There's nothing wrong with being wealthy. Poverty is a real problem, and the states are partly responsible for driving people to misery through wars, and the evils of forcing their own fiat currency with inflation and taxation.

Replaceable battery isn't easy and likely won't happen for cars. Maybe for airplanes when the time comes, but even then I'm a bit skeptical... Maybe for part of it for bigger jets.

3min is better than 10min, but ask anyone if they'd prefer to fuel up 3 times slower and pay half the cost and I bet most everyone would say they would.

For fueling up, you must be there until it's done. For charging you don't. You connect your car and go inside the convenience store. With 10min, that's excellent. Chances are most everyone will either exit their vehicles, plug it in, go back inside their vehicle for 10min, walk around for a bit, or go to the store for a quick errant. In any of those cases the experience will be better than dealing with fuel.

I think it "depends on the market".

My Tesla Model Y 2023 in the Netherlands complains a lot if I take my hands off the steering wheel. Heck, it even complains sometimes when my hands are in the steering wheel!

However, I rented a Model 3 in California through Hertz past month and it was much more lenient. I imagine I had to take my hands off for a period of time at least 5 times longer for it to start bothering, and didn't bother at all when I was driving with my hands steadily placed on the steering wheel.

In my opinion the one in California made long drives a bit safer as you don't have the pressure of putting the right pressure (pun intended) as much.

The universe isn't Hacker News :P

I'm really into driving and all, but I've been in Detroit a year ago and it sucked. The only good thing about it was the Henry Ford Museum and the fact that Canada is just across the border.

I also recommend

HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond (The Netherlands) https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/ The Apple Museum (Stockholm, Sweden) Computer History Museum (Mountain View, California)

This reminds me that recently I, here in the Netherlands, had to send a letter and made the mistake of writing it in the wrong format (to/from), but still the address in where it should be 'from' was really small, and 'to' was really big. To make things clear, I decided to just prefix "To: " and "From: " thinking it would be enough.

Surely enough, 2 days later I received the mail back at my mailbox. Wasted 2 euros ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just needed a single stamp, but they stamped on both so I couldn't even try to reuse it. And I also posted on the mailbox for "other zip code" rather than "close by zip codes".

I don't know if OCR or a person messed up. Well, definitely a person (me)...

Did you even read beyond the title? To say that because of this choice of title, I lack humbleness or respect for peers who came before me is despicable.

My title is too presumptive. Yet, the reality for almost everyone who doesn't interface with other systems that already require UUID is that.

The brief article gives some points – backed by trustworthy sources – and shows some alternatives without further ado. I didn't spend days writing it. I could cover many more scenarios but didn't invest my time in it. So what?

Oh yeah? Indulge me, please.

Yes! This might seem silly, but if you're working with a lot of data, it can be a pain and time drain...

Indeed. That's why I mentioned it's a 128-bit identifier format in the first line of the article, rather than 128-bit identifier. I probably spent 10min writing something to explain this, but then it wouldn't really be helpful so I removed it.

Hi. I'm the author of the post here.

I agree lines 12-14 doesn't do a proper encoding, but that's not what I was after. Would you still say it's still wrong if you consider that my function is not really encoding the string per se, but using rand.Read to generate entropy for what I want to be the final output (random string with the base58 alphabet)?

Fixed! Thanks!

Author here. I posted this because I've witnessed many systems in companies I've worked for where our end-users needed UUID to communicate with it (technical support, customer ID, etc.) in a way that makes communication harder. We could've used another shorter ID scheme, which would be fine.

The good thing about UUID is that it's omnipresent. From what I've heard, it's this lengthy (2^32) because it was hard to guarantee uniqueness when it was conceived in the telecom industry. The length is overkill, and per se, that's fine, but the fact that it dampers communication is awful.

That all said, since posting this, I've come to terms with accepting that it's part of life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

P.S. Using a second human-friendly ID to end-users is an alternative adopted by some projects. However, most projects don't bother, and also, most good IDs you might want to share with people would make UUID unnecessary anyways (in practice).

It's really sad. It looks like financial hardship hit hard and she decided to sell it to afford medication.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151211202252/http://www.molly....

https://web.archive.org/web/20151204202343/http://www.molly....

https://web.archive.org/web/20150711215305/http://www.molly....

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Globals are a nightmare. Despite this being something really common to do for developers and something that will cause a pain for a lot of early adopters of [whatever software that requires it], I see this as a great move!

Wanting to have a government organization buy something like the Internet Archives sounds like a terrible idea for me. It's not like you'd keep lobbyists away from it.

A great alternative is to build the Internet Archive so that after something is there "for a while", it is archived in a way that anyone can efficiently distribute it (thinking about long-term resiliency) and even survive a conspiracy to destroy it.

Growing up in Brazil, I always played with my monkey climbing optic cables trees. Fun times!

I live in The Netherlands. Two months ago, I received a fine notice because I drove a bit too fast and had a €80 fine to pay. I paid the fine the same day or week I received it. Today I received a registered mail from somewhere in Germany.

Because I had just been back from Germany again, I was worried I sped up by accident again, even though I don't remember this happening!

Guess what? They actually sent me a registered letter informing me I paid the fine I had received previously. Which I paid for on-line. On their website. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Hey, if you ride enough, the fitness would render an e-bike mostly superfluous.

Nice!

I love this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/notjustbikes If you don't know it, take a look!

I just wish public transport here was more reliable and available during more hours. Yeah, it might be one of the best in the world, but it's not without problems... For example, after midnight don't trust you'll be able to get back home until 7a.m. if you're far away.