And it's worth noting that Lisp has GC to enable expressive idioms which are still not available in these so-called "modern" languages (which provide GC mostly to protect the world from lazy programmers)
The problem is that folks get used to the level of stopping power normally provided by their brakes - and if that drops sharply (and unexpectedly) then they don't react instantly to that. That could be the difference between having a close call, and having a trip to the body shop (and/or morgue).
I've experienced brake servo failure (in a road car) in the past - fortunately, I had plenty of room and nobody got hurt - but things could quite easily have turned out very differently.
But I don't think electric cars are the future either
Me either - but my reasoning is different... for personal transport, you're going to need a hybrid (be it sequential or dual-drive - I tend to favour the former) for the foreseeable future; the infrastructure to support purely electric cars is going to take decades to produce (if not longer). BUT, where purely electric vehicles are already making themselves worthwhile is things like delivery vans - and they could just as easily be used for buses.
Firstly, you have no "range anxiety" issue with these forms of transport - you know before you set off exactly how far you've got to travel before you get back to base. Secondly (and, perhaps, more importantly), when the vehicle returns to the depot there's no 8 hours (or whatever) of recharging - just swap the battery, send the vehicle out again, and leave the battery in the depot on charge for the next bus.
For the same money you could actually go out and buy a lotus elise, not just a car that looks like one.
+1 - although you could probably buy a pair of Elises for the same money as a Tesla. But not only does the Tesla like an Elise, it shares the same fabulous chassis (more-or-less) so it should handle like one... but it doesn't. The Tesla's heavier, and has different weight distribution (mostly due to the batteries) - which make it a bit of a pig by comparison.
So you end up spending twice as much money, on a car that's half as much fun.
Of course, it's not just the length of time it takes to top up - it's also the degree of difficulty involved in doing so.
If you run out of fuel with an internal combustion engine, you can bring a can of fuel to the car (I know, I've done it;-) - but if you run out of electricity in a Tesla, you have to take the car to a power source - which is an altogether more difficult proposition.
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ummm that was a gvim story
Wasn't that supposed to be what made it awesome?
If I had mod points, that'd get a +1 for the quantum Mac truck...
Don't you people understand dimensional analysis?
LoC is a measure of information content - this guy is talking about mass. They're different.
Lisp taught me more about programming than any other language.
I suspect that's probably true of most of the people who've got past their fear of parentheses, and actually used it.
No.
Yeah; all the EMacs haters are still living in the dim and distant past.
+1 truly awesome.
Abuse. Now that takes me back - awesome game.
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
8MB is considerably less than may editors which are considerably less powerful.
Effortlessly Making All Coding Simpler.
Lisp is deeply intwined with the fundamental fabric of the multiverse. Always has been, always will be.
+1 to that.
And it's worth noting that Lisp has GC to enable expressive idioms which are still not available in these so-called "modern" languages (which provide GC mostly to protect the world from lazy programmers)
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Joking aside, the news saddens me. Without him, things would have been a lot different (and, I would suggest, not half so interesting)
I lose track of the youth these days - but doesn't "bad" mean "good" or something?
+1. I have never needed mod points this badly...
I see a GP hull and want to paint it black.
That sounds like a synergy with leverage points at both ends.
Glad you like...
Yeah, I figured that you probably understood (and - given your context - also that you might relate to a little pedentry ;-)
Buick made a car, about 25 years ago that had buckets of power but handled like a cow - they still sold them out. How?
...because most of their target market (Americans) wouldn't know what a corner was if it kicked them in the ass? ;-)
The problem is that folks get used to the level of stopping power normally provided by their brakes - and if that drops sharply (and unexpectedly) then they don't react instantly to that. That could be the difference between having a close call, and having a trip to the body shop (and/or morgue).
I've experienced brake servo failure (in a road car) in the past - fortunately, I had plenty of room and nobody got hurt - but things could quite easily have turned out very differently.
But I don't think electric cars are the future either
Me either - but my reasoning is different... for personal transport, you're going to need a hybrid (be it sequential or dual-drive - I tend to favour the former) for the foreseeable future; the infrastructure to support purely electric cars is going to take decades to produce (if not longer). BUT, where purely electric vehicles are already making themselves worthwhile is things like delivery vans - and they could just as easily be used for buses.
Firstly, you have no "range anxiety" issue with these forms of transport - you know before you set off exactly how far you've got to travel before you get back to base. Secondly (and, perhaps, more importantly), when the vehicle returns to the depot there's no 8 hours (or whatever) of recharging - just swap the battery, send the vehicle out again, and leave the battery in the depot on charge for the next bus.
For the same money you could actually go out and buy a lotus elise, not just a car that looks like one.
+1 - although you could probably buy a pair of Elises for the same money as a Tesla.
But not only does the Tesla like an Elise, it shares the same fabulous chassis (more-or-less) so it should handle like one... but it doesn't.
The Tesla's heavier, and has different weight distribution (mostly due to the batteries) - which make it a bit of a pig by comparison.
So you end up spending twice as much money, on a car that's half as much fun.
Of course, it's not just the length of time it takes to top up - it's also the degree of difficulty involved in doing so.
If you run out of fuel with an internal combustion engine, you can bring a can of fuel to the car (I know, I've done it ;-) - but if you run out of electricity in a Tesla, you have to take the car to a power source - which is an altogether more difficult proposition.
you forgot:
Bletchly Park will be somewhere in the US.
20% of physics students, at this university level, thought that humanity had traveled beyond the Moon?
And just think - these people are "our future"... time to get very worried.