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It's both. Nearly all ICEs are specifically optimised to cruise at 50mph. Anything more or less will significantly reduce your MPG.

But yeah, slow speeds are really inefficient in an ICE.

Consumer Reports once found with three brands, 80F is the sweet spot for range. Everyone above of below reduces the range. How much depends on how the vehicle heats the battery to optimum temperature. I don't know if the Leaf was one of the three models tested.

What's interesting is 80F is actually right at the hot end of what would normally be the ideal temperature for a battery. I wouldn't be surprised if that's because most EVs have extensive passive cooling, and at anything less than 80F those cooling systems over-cool the battery.

45F is a great temperature for a battery to run at... but if you add wind chill, then the temperature is more like 30F. And if you add battery cooling systems on top of that it could be even lower.

Without knowing anything about the Cybertruck... which didn't exist when Consumer Reports did their temperature and range test, it seems safe to assume 45F is going to affect the range (it would be good to actually test it though).

A lot of people really don't like Eich. When he was promoted from CTO to CEO of Mozilla, half of Mozilla's board resigned (one said it was because she refused to be a member of the board that appointed him, the other two didn't say why they resigned) and there was a massive campaign to get rid of him including websites showing popups to all FireFox users telling them to use another browser - specificially because of Eich.

He lasted 11 days as CEO of Mozilla, and founded Brave after leaving.

Since then, he's done things with crypto and said things about covid which have angered people even more.

It's far more effective in an EV. With an ICE about 80% of the energy is just generating heat so you've only really got the remaining 20% that you can influence.

It's not a best case scenario - it's a precisely repeated series of accelerations, cruising with a specific amount of resistance applied to the wheels, and braking.

It won't match any real world drive. In the real world there are other variables, traffic, wind, hills, speed limits, etc. It's also intended to be a fairly typical highway drive, so in ideal conditions you will do better than the EPA range. Down hill, for example, the cybertruck can drive forever (unlike an ICE, which is so inefficient it uses energy even going down hill).

Um... that's your example of a "wild" keyboard? I would've gone with a "Steno" keyboard. Which is inspired by the custom keyboards used in court houses to write transcripts. Typing on them is crazy fast too.

Some of those patents might not be valid anymore... they've been suing Apple/Google/Samsung/etc for daring to infringe on patents as broad as "a keyboard designed to be used when you're not sitting at a desk". The tech giants have had their legal teams firing on all cylinders to have those bogus patents invalidated.

Thanks for your response

Always happy to discuss copyright. :-) Our IP laws are long overdue for an overhaul in my opinion. And the only way to make that happen is for as many people as possible to discuss the issues. I plan to spend the rest of my life creating copyrighted work, and I really hope I don't spend all of it under the current rules...

The US copyright and trademark laws state that a work only has to be 10% differentiated from the original in order to be legal to use

The law doesn't say that.The Blurred Lines copyright case for example was far less than 10%. Probably less than 1%, and it was still unclear if it was infringement or not. It took five years of lawsuits to reach an unclear conclusion where the first court found it to be infringing then an appeals panel of judges reached a split decision where the majority of them found it to be non-infringing.

Copyright is incredibly complex and unclear. It's generally best to just not get into a copyright lawsuit in the first place. Usually when someone accuses you of copyright infringement you try to pay them whatever amount of money (in the Blurred Lines case, there were discussions of 50% of the artist's income from the song) to make them go away even if your lawyers tell you you're probably going to get a not guilty verdict.

Huh? What does being non profit have to do with it? Private companies are allowed to learn from copyrighted work. Microsoft and Apple, for example, look at each other's software and copy ideas (not code, just ideas) all the time. The fact Linux is non-profit doesn't give them any additional rights or protection.

This. As an experienced developer I've released enough bugs to miss-trust my own work and spend as much time as I can afford in the budget on my own personal QA process. So it's no burden at all to have to do that with AI code. And of course, a well structured company has further QA outside of that.

If anything, I find it easier to do that with code I didn't write myself. Just yesterday I merged a commit with a ridiculous mistake that I should have seen. A colleague noticed it instantly when I was stuck and frustrated enough to reach out for a second opinion. I probably would've noticed if an AI had written it.

Also - in hindsight - an AI code audit would have also picked it up.

It’s not just stock holders. I wouldn’t even hire an employee if I was criminally liable for things they do.

Say I run a restaurant and my wait staff are photographing credit cards and selling them… that’s not my fault, nothing really I can do to prevent it.

LLCs are essential.

Um - your examples are so old the copyright expired centuries ago. Of course you can copy them. And you can absolutely use an image of the Mona Lisa without accreditation or licensing.

Painting and selling an exact copy of a recent work, such as Banksy, is a crime.

… however making an exact copy of Banksy for personal use, or to learn, or to teach other people, or copying the style… that’s all perfectly legal.

I don’t think think this is a black and white issue. Using AI to copy something might be a crime. You absolutely can use it to infringe on copyright. The real question is who’s at fault? I would argue the person who asked the AI to create the copy is at fault - not the company running the servers.

What? Physical controls? It'll be a touch screen.

I just don't think that's how this will work in practice.

What I expect is the AI will provide several possible explanations for the test results. Most of them will be wrong, one might be correct. If the clinician can think of more that the AI missed, those can simply also be added to the list of things to consider.

Human clinicians are surprisingly bad at diagnosing problems - as soon as we think of something that fits the symptoms, we struggle to think of other problems that would also fit. A lot of time (sometimes years) is often wasted proving the first diagnosis was wrong before anyone comes up with an alternative hypothesis. AI can do a much better job in that specific scenario... but it doesn't mean it can replace humans entirely.

Everyone knows exactly where the satellites are and certain (potential) enemies have the capability to disrupt/destroy them.

A stealth jet is, well, stealthy, which has a lot of value.

Some artists impressions of the jet don't have any windows and it's believed to be unmanned or at least capable of unmanned flight.

Also I wouldn't discount the cool factor... the airforce does fighter jet flyovers all the time and occasionally stealth jets too. It helps with recruiting for one thing.

Honestly it's not even a rough estimate. ICE cars only convert something like 20% of the energy to actual power at the wheel. That means, in practice, range is mostly just about how much time you're behind the wheel. It would make more sense to estimate ICE range in hours than miles.

EVs are more efficient, so in practice, particularly on long trips at high speed, range will vary dramatically depending on what's going on aerodynamically, which changes dramatically from one second to the next.

Edit 3: Since this is for newbies, some information about recruiters: we pay the recruiter in addition to what we pay you. The recruiter’s typical pay for a rookie hire is around $50,000.00, if you stay for a full year. Half up front, in case you don’t stay.

On top of that - where I work it takes about six months for a new hire to start carrying their own weight. Until that happens, you're paying other people to spend time helping the new person find their feet in the company. It's not just coding either, a lot of it is little things like "who do I talk to when I when the VPN stops working?"

The loss in productivity during that time is often worse than if you'd never hired the person at all. And most new people don't last six months, so it's generally a bad investment. One that is only done because if you don't hire people, you'll have no workers at all since established employees can't be expected to work for you forever.

Hiring people is a big risk. Anything you can do to mitigate that risk (evidence that you're someone they should hire) will increase your chances of being hired exponentially.

Step one - do some open source work in various commonly used* languages.

Step two - apply for jobs, include a link to your open source work specifically highlighting projects that might be relevant to the company you're applying for.

Step three, while applying, keep improving your open source projects. Don't spend all your time writing code - spend at least half your time on planning and documenting your work - such as discussing issues with other people in the issue tracker (this is obviously easier if you're contributing to an established project rather than a new one that you've created yourself).

It's not enough to have knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have that knowledge. Also you need to demonstrate that you are able to work in a team environment which is a very different skill set to actually writing code. If you don't know how to schedule/plan/budget a project... learn that skill.

(* Rust is a popular language but it's not a commonly used one. It doesn't even get a mention on GitHub's lost of the top languages when you count code being written, though it is the fastest growing language according to the same source - I recommend you learn JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, bash scripting... build a decent understanding of all of those. And learn some common non-programming languages too - such as SQL, HTML, Markdown).

It’s just irresponsible drivers and Tesla’s own “it’s self driving” advertising ruining it for everyone.

Maybe if they marketed it as something less than "full self driving" people would be more responsible.

If your robot moves around, then it needs a wireless connection. And it doesn't really get any more reliable than wifi. I'm certainly not going to outsource that to a Verizon cellular connection.

And even for things that can be wired - ethernet is far from reliable. Cables are easily damaged or simply unplugged.

Wifi can work really well, especially with high end networking gear (and not, for example, the wifi access point you get for free from Verizon).