Your post may be in jest, but you are pointing at one of the real problems in taking action on climate change.
India and China have between them 1/3 of the Earth's population, and far to many of them live in energy poverty. These two countries have to raise their people's standard of living, or their people will revolt and install a government that will. If you stopped all CO2 and thermal emissions outside of these two countries it would only be a rounding error in global CO2 emissions over the next 50 years. Any climate solutions that don't address this issue are "feel good" ideas that ignore the real problem.
Given no data points whatsoever, "average" seems a reasonable data point for the quality of a manufactured item. It is, by definition, the mean of the field.
Given that an electric car has dramatically fewer moving parts than an IC car, and that the technology for charging and motor controls is very mature, I'd expect above average.
Given that the company is manufacturing their own battery cells, a key failure point, and they have not been in that business for very long, I'd expect below average.
Given that this is the first model year from a company that has never produced vehicles at this scale, I'd expect below average.
I want a Tesla 3, and will buy one before the end of the decade if I can. That said, there are a fair number of unknowns that make a prediction beyond "average" an open question.
I think the critical failure for the Windows Phone was the app store. If they'd have baked some way to run Android apps on it that would have dramatically changed the mobile world.
Unfortunately the company culture wasn't right to do that then, and now the opportunity has passed. Today's Mcrosoft would do it in a heartbeat.
What's the name of the developer that's behind bars because he kept a copy of some of the code he wrote for his big-name finance industry employer?
I can't remember the name of the company or coder, but I remember he was from the former USSR and he said something to the gist of "I would never use that code again, it was a complete kludge."
> As far as I know currently available lithium batteries still wear out after 1,000 cycles.
You aren't wrong, though the number can vary dramatically (0.1-3x) based on the depth of discharge and management. My suspicion is, and I have no basis to assert this, that there will be a maintenance contract which lets Tesla reclaim, recycle, and replace banks of aging cells.
I seriously can't imagine a method of inter-city travel that would be worse for the global environment.
I respectfully disagree. We have had far worse options in the past.
A GNR Stirling 4-2-2 locomotive required 60 pounds of coal per mile at 60 Miles per hour. Ignoring the infrastructure requirements, that is 220 tons of coal to go from Shanghai to New York. It's difficult to argue that is a cleaner alternative to ~500 tons of supercooled methane for the same journey on a BFR.
The fuel economy isn't as good as a 777-ER's 30 pounds per mile for the same trip, but it's not off by an order of magnitude either.
Someone mentioned this in the @slashdot twitter feed. It's actually really good. The SNR looks a lot better there.
Thanks to the Anon that mentioned it. +1
Hi. I work for Microsoft as a Dedicated Support Engineer. I helped a customer setup three Linux boxes in Azure last week. Why? The boxes were Lucent DNS.ova appliances. They wanted to keep the cloud DNS infrastructure the same what was on premise. I helped them setup an Apache httpd reverse proxy too.
Microsoft is not the company they used to be. If you don't believe that, you only have to look as far as the Top Linux kernel contributors list to see it.
I choose to believe these are the echoes of epic battles of ancient galaxy-spanning civilizations fighting to extinction over the correct pronunciation of "GIF" and whether emacs or vi is the superior editor.
>> How about: Don't use a gTLD for your local DNS?
Lest someone take that advice the wrong way, let's be very clear.
You DO NOT want to use fake/bogus TLDs in the internal network of an enterprise. It creates serious pain points, not the least of which is that you can't get public SSL certificates against your internal names. That means you have to push your private CA cert into a bunch of applications and it's a huge PITA.
Examples: On Windows you can distribute your Enterprise CA cert via Group Policy. That doesn't help you with apps that don't use the OS certificate trust lists. I.e. Java cacerts (yes, the password really is "changeit"), Firefox, Safari, non-windows clients, and other random one-offs. When you do an M&A or partnership you have to ask your peers to go through the same song and dance and hit show-stopping issues if the partners user PCs can't hit your CRL DP or OSCP endpoints.
Anti-FUD: Test signing mode will allow you to run code signed with a private cert, even a self-signed one made with MakeCert.exe. It puts a test mode watermark in the corner of the screen, but that's okay for Dev use.
It lets you set a unique local admin password on your AD joined workstation, store that password in AD, and automatically rotate it regularly. It's a pretty nice piece of kit.
For the machines losing their trust relationship, did you open a case?
The ideas are certainly out there, they just aren't here.
Toy with this alternate history for a moment. How would life be different if we had finished the superconducting supercollider in Texas, instead of scrapping it and ceding a big chunk of a generation's brightest physicists and engineers to CERN? Would it have made an appreciable difference in the US National Debt? National Pride? Hope?
Those wondering "what is contributing to the power and frequency of these extreme storms" should note our last major hurricanes were Wilma and Ike in 2005 and 2008 respectively. It's unusual not to have a major hurricane for a decade. Sadly, knowing that doesn't really make it any easier when you have two in the same year.
Too bad this is buried down at the bottom of the comments and it's unlikely anyone will see it.
I have a couple of family members that have worked at the Amazon warehouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
These are good paying low-skill jobs with benefits and flexible hours. I asked what it's like to work there, and they describe most of their time walking from place to place, pulling things from bins and moving them into other bins. It's not uncommon for them to hit 15-20K steps per day. That's a lot, even if you are used to it.
One of them worked at Nashville's UPS facility and used it for comparison. He said Amazon was much easier. At UPS the humans filled the same role as box-sorting pick-and-place robots. The work was physically exhausting and mind numbing. At amazon, it's physically easier and more mentally engaging.
Opinion: If robots can cut down on the walking by bringing shelves to the workers and carrying finished bins to shipping that would be a tradesman-to-assembly-line type of performance improvement. Algorithms can track product demand and try to get the same shelves to the same people so they can be faster pickers, and also track when a picker is getting bogged out to shift the load to someone else. It's an interesting problem to think about.
Is it common for vendors other than Microsoft to file a CVE for flaws that are discovered internally even if there is no public release and telemetry indicates no exploits in the wild, or for privately disclosed vulnerabilities with no public release?
This is not trolling; I'm actually curious to know. If that's not a common practice then it would be difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
(I work for Microsoft, but this isn't part of the work I normally do.)
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Your post may be in jest, but you are pointing at one of the real problems in taking action on climate change.
India and China have between them 1/3 of the Earth's population, and far to many of them live in energy poverty. These two countries have to raise their people's standard of living, or their people will revolt and install a government that will. If you stopped all CO2 and thermal emissions outside of these two countries it would only be a rounding error in global CO2 emissions over the next 50 years. Any climate solutions that don't address this issue are "feel good" ideas that ignore the real problem.
Given no data points whatsoever, "average" seems a reasonable data point for the quality of a manufactured item. It is, by definition, the mean of the field.
Given that an electric car has dramatically fewer moving parts than an IC car, and that the technology for charging and motor controls is very mature, I'd expect above average.
Given that the company is manufacturing their own battery cells, a key failure point, and they have not been in that business for very long, I'd expect below average.
Given that this is the first model year from a company that has never produced vehicles at this scale, I'd expect below average.
I want a Tesla 3, and will buy one before the end of the decade if I can. That said, there are a fair number of unknowns that make a prediction beyond "average" an open question.
I think the critical failure for the Windows Phone was the app store. If they'd have baked some way to run Android apps on it that would have dramatically changed the mobile world.
Unfortunately the company culture wasn't right to do that then, and now the opportunity has passed. Today's Mcrosoft would do it in a heartbeat.
What's the name of the developer that's behind bars because he kept a copy of some of the code he wrote for his big-name finance industry employer?
I can't remember the name of the company or coder, but I remember he was from the former USSR and he said something to the gist of "I would never use that code again, it was a complete kludge."
What is the conversion factor for States of Maine to Libraries of Congress?
> As far as I know currently available lithium batteries still wear out after 1,000 cycles.
You aren't wrong, though the number can vary dramatically (0.1-3x) based on the depth of discharge and management. My suspicion is, and I have no basis to assert this, that there will be a maintenance contract which lets Tesla reclaim, recycle, and replace banks of aging cells.
He gave away Hyperloop because he didn't have time to work on it. It's a lot of work disrupting 3 industries at once.
I respectfully disagree. We have had far worse options in the past.
A GNR Stirling 4-2-2 locomotive required 60 pounds of coal per mile at 60 Miles per hour. Ignoring the infrastructure requirements, that is 220 tons of coal to go from Shanghai to New York. It's difficult to argue that is a cleaner alternative to ~500 tons of supercooled methane for the same journey on a BFR.
The fuel economy isn't as good as a 777-ER's 30 pounds per mile for the same trip, but it's not off by an order of magnitude either.
Someone mentioned this in the @slashdot twitter feed. It's actually really good. The SNR looks a lot better there. Thanks to the Anon that mentioned it. +1
Hi. I work for Microsoft as a Dedicated Support Engineer. I helped a customer setup three Linux boxes in Azure last week. Why? The boxes were Lucent DNS .ova appliances. They wanted to keep the cloud DNS infrastructure the same what was on premise. I helped them setup an Apache httpd reverse proxy too.
Microsoft is not the company they used to be. If you don't believe that, you only have to look as far as the Top Linux kernel contributors list to see it.
I choose to believe these are the echoes of epic battles of ancient galaxy-spanning civilizations fighting to extinction over the correct pronunciation of "GIF" and whether emacs or vi is the superior editor.
I've commented, and can't +1 informative. In lieu of that, please accept "Thank you; I didn't know that."
They also get all of HTC's licensed agreements too. IIRC HTC had licensing deals for IP with Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple.
You misspelled patents.
>> How about: Don't use a gTLD for your local DNS?
Lest someone take that advice the wrong way, let's be very clear.
You DO NOT want to use fake/bogus TLDs in the internal network of an enterprise. It creates serious pain points, not the least of which is that you can't get public SSL certificates against your internal names. That means you have to push your private CA cert into a bunch of applications and it's a huge PITA.
Examples: On Windows you can distribute your Enterprise CA cert via Group Policy. That doesn't help you with apps that don't use the OS certificate trust lists. I.e. Java cacerts (yes, the password really is "changeit"), Firefox, Safari, non-windows clients, and other random one-offs. When you do an M&A or partnership you have to ask your peers to go through the same song and dance and hit show-stopping issues if the partners user PCs can't hit your CRL DP or OSCP endpoints.
Anti-FUD: Test signing mode will allow you to run code signed with a private cert, even a self-signed one made with MakeCert.exe. It puts a test mode watermark in the corner of the screen, but that's okay for Dev use.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Answering the obvious "WTF" question, driver signing has been a "should" since before XP. It's now a must because it's a malware/APT vector.
It's not going to help now, but when you get the systems back up have a look at Microsoft LAPS >> https://technet.microsoft.com/...
It lets you set a unique local admin password on your AD joined workstation, store that password in AD, and automatically rotate it regularly. It's a pretty nice piece of kit.
For the machines losing their trust relationship, did you open a case?
I'm slogging through Capital in the 21st century.
I don't understand how this got to the top of the bestseller lists. It's shelf fodder.
Sorry, could you say that again? My stupid neighbor is performing percussive maintenance on his quantum computer and I couldn't hear you. :D
The ideas are certainly out there, they just aren't here.
Toy with this alternate history for a moment. How would life be different if we had finished the superconducting supercollider in Texas, instead of scrapping it and ceding a big chunk of a generation's brightest physicists and engineers to CERN? Would it have made an appreciable difference in the US National Debt? National Pride? Hope?
The Lumias had fantastic cameras. I'm using mine for time lapse photos.
Those wondering "what is contributing to the power and frequency of these extreme storms" should note our last major hurricanes were Wilma and Ike in 2005 and 2008 respectively. It's unusual not to have a major hurricane for a decade. Sadly, knowing that doesn't really make it any easier when you have two in the same year.
Too bad this is buried down at the bottom of the comments and it's unlikely anyone will see it.
I have a couple of family members that have worked at the Amazon warehouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
These are good paying low-skill jobs with benefits and flexible hours. I asked what it's like to work there, and they describe most of their time walking from place to place, pulling things from bins and moving them into other bins. It's not uncommon for them to hit 15-20K steps per day. That's a lot, even if you are used to it.
One of them worked at Nashville's UPS facility and used it for comparison. He said Amazon was much easier. At UPS the humans filled the same role as box-sorting pick-and-place robots. The work was physically exhausting and mind numbing. At amazon, it's physically easier and more mentally engaging.
Opinion: If robots can cut down on the walking by bringing shelves to the workers and carrying finished bins to shipping that would be a tradesman-to-assembly-line type of performance improvement. Algorithms can track product demand and try to get the same shelves to the same people so they can be faster pickers, and also track when a picker is getting bogged out to shift the load to someone else. It's an interesting problem to think about.
Is it common for vendors other than Microsoft to file a CVE for flaws that are discovered internally even if there is no public release and telemetry indicates no exploits in the wild, or for privately disclosed vulnerabilities with no public release?
This is not trolling; I'm actually curious to know. If that's not a common practice then it would be difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
(I work for Microsoft, but this isn't part of the work I normally do.)
>> Taxation without representation
Will this be the cause of the robot uprising?