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Maybe one of the reasons is that buying software in general case is more complicated. Kebab around the corner does not ask you for credit card details, delivery address, probably will not want to track what you will be doing while digesting the kebab etc… In contrast buying a CD in 90’s was more like buying a food, but the price usually was too high. That grown into huge pirate software markets, like in eastern Europe. To extents like the other commenter said - “nobody ever will pay for software”.

I’m particularly interested in last three points. Do you mind to share some data?

For instance, where one recycle a Tesla battery, say in Poland?

I do not see to many chargers around and I believe the grid is not very modern here. Why do you think it can easily handle millions EVs? What about peak hours like nights? Do you think it will be env friendly, provided that majority of electricity in Poland is produced on coal plants.

EV initial cost is about 5-10 times more than a slightly used ICE in a perfect condition. Such a car car drive decades and will never reach in total spendings even initial cost of EV. I’m not counting charging that may not be very cheap. As electricity prices went up in recent years and may go up more.

When you stating something, think beyond your household. Your statements are not universal.

It’s a ridiculous argument. You are typing this comment just because this damn not environmental friendly data center exists. But you pay nothing for HN. Hence someone’s do. That maybe this damn dude who made a fortune. But more than that, this dude has had to work hard long ago so that the data Center could be built and some nerds have got their jobs.

I agree with your point in general. However, it will not be fair to say that nobody wants to be a bus driver or keep the internet alive. Think about train driver in Switzerland who enjoy stunning views every day by doing a routine job daily.

Reminds me about covid time math competition. It had to be taken online. Usually maximum score can be reached by less than a dozen of students, but when competition was online there were over 3000 math geniuses

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/koronawirus-gigantyczne-rozb...

Your point is very valid. It made me wonder, maybe UI font should be made without personality and without elements that grab attention? The UI elements are less important than the content that is displayed. Therefore UI should not distract user and grab more attention comparing to the content. Even if that attention is unconscious.

I think the idea might be that companies who will decide to use bard under the hood of theirs chat bots/assistants may use Google suite extensively. Attacker will use the prompt from the article as an input to this custom chat bot and will have access to private Google workspace (corporate email, docs,…)

I totally agree with you. When I’m thinking about switching to, say Tesla X, I need to explain myself how that could be cheaper during lifetime (how long is that by the way?)? The sticker tag is 10 times of the money I paid for my used one and on top of that insurance will cost as much as another used one. Only the first year of owning Tesla x will cost as eleven cars like I have now.

But that comparison would be more fair if I will compare with used Tesla. Not too many around though.

Well, it awesome and great that you live in such a safe place. That does not change the fact that this type of transport is not safe for occupants.

And cars are not always the cause https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-bike-accident...

I really think that cargo bikes should be banned forever as a huge threat for kids inside. I feel like this is invented for those who takes caring of environment as a religion and ready to sacrifice own kids for it. One could say that the danger for them is mainly from cars but you can say so about public transport. I.e bus or tram is dangerous for cargo bike occupants.

I really do not get this when I see cargo bike with two kids inside, two kids bikes hanging on the sides and bags of groceries pulled by one cyclists. What is the point? Prove that you are strong enough?

There is something in the middle like VW ID Buzz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_ID._Buzz with the size of a SUV and quite a good range between 400 and 600 km. And without SUV safety issues like limited observability. Not too many Vans like this around, but I think they will gain popularity. Obviously Mercedes Vito will be a good base for EV Van.

Xc90 length is 4953mm and width is 1923mm

VW sharan length is 4854mm and width is 1904mm

Therefore the difference in sizes is probably less than your palm. These cars are equally reasonable, it’s just a matter of personal preferences I think.

My 10 years old diesel on full tank makes 800+ km (tested a few times). None of the EVs can make that nowadays, or they can?

What car would you recommend to a family of five?

I have 2 kids and when we go for a trip the my Citroen c4 is full. Would I have one more kid it’s no way we can fit into this car, despite it has 5 seats.

Should we stop thinking about road trips and consider only plane/train/bus? Or should we consider only van/caravan?

I support the argument that unnecessary consumption should be penalised somehow, but I do not support blanket type rules that may discriminate absolutely reasonable people, like those with more than 2 kids.

I was involved in SEO related projects some time ago. Not that I’m an expert. I’ve heard google understands that the site is a search engine and does not index it. However it should be smarter, like do not index SO’s search pages, but do index question pages - because the original content is there. SO might have ran out of crawl budget which Google assigns to each site, and/or Google prioritises fresh content. But I agree with the sentiment, what we know as SEO is nothing more than playing games with Google indexing algorithms, based on rumours about the recent changes in it, or improving page performance beyond reasonable boundaries. The other day I was looking at apple.com internals and spotted a few things which we were “fixing” on our pages. I asked SEO experts “what is the point of doing X, since there are examples of a well indexed page having that same problem?”. And the answer was like “when we will be as big as Apple…”

When self checkout desks were setup in my grocery store, there were 2 cashiers and 3 self service points. The queues to cashiers are different, but there is a single queue to self service. After a few observations I found that longer queue to selfservice usually goes faster. Probably because of two reasons:

1. There is one more cashdesk in there 2. The payments are done by card, whereas there those who pays in cash to the cashiers

In general cashier, of course, faster than a customer in operating goods. But there are other slow processes involved. Like: loading goods on the tape (not present in selfservice), paying with cash (some advanced selfservice desks have that though), packing goods into bag (could be done right after scanning in selfservice)

P.s: the location of a barcode on a box almost does not matter with a good scanners doing scans in two dimensions

Same thing in Poland. I’m very surprised that this is not a common standard. I saw rage same in Austria, Italy… basically EU countries. I’m very surprised this is not common in US which is usually known as a place where many retail technologies have emerged. By the way, the plastic bag must not be wasted. If I take a few bananas I do not take any plastic bag, I just put a sticker on one of them, and then drop them all into bag area after scanning so that total weight matches expected. Same applies to many fruits which do not need a separate plastic bag (apples, oranges, …).

I’d suspect that using GCJ as a data source they assume that “good” = solving a given round of competition. The further you reached in rounds - the better programmer you are. Not the best measure if they really used it. Coding competitions have almost nothing in common with day to day work of software engineer.

Think about the request from air crew to switch phones to the flight mode. Many people assume it’s for safety reasons. In fact would it be dangerous for the airplane systems there will be a real measures in place which are enforcing the rule - like a kill switch for all phones, scanners for not turned off devices, collecting devices before boarding a plane; but nothing like that in place. It’s because this particular request is to reinforce that passengers must comply with air crew orders, regardless of what they request (to some reasonable boundaries of course)

It is very common in aviation. That is why at any point in time one pilot is flying the plane and another one is monitoring what the former is doing. The pilot monitoring is responsible for verifying the actions made by pilot flying not to punish or blame anyone, but just to make sure that intended action (pronounced by pilot flying) is executed correctly. It is possible that, for instance, you wanted to set value to be X but accidentally rotated a switch a little more. There are also other responsibilities of course. But, yes, making action in pairs is something critical in aviation. That does not happen often when it comes to ground software though. You need to remember that NOTAMs are user-generated content, many systems which allows pushing data to these systems are older than me. Nevertheless database maintenance is possible to do in a safe way. It’s not a DNS nor BGP - it’s high level software where tampering files is absolutely avoidable.

In Poland home shchooling is a thing. There are tens of thousands kids learning at home. They only need to come to school from time to time to do some tests. They have to pass mandatory exams after year 8 - for primary education and after year 12 for high school (yes, it is allowed to do high school education). To my best knowledge you do not have to provide any specific reasons why your kid is learning at home, the parents however need to provide evidence of theirs capacity to conduct that type of education.

I think you’d not argue that if you flight to the airport without ATC (there are plenty of those), reading NOTAMS about that airfield is kind of essential exercise before flight.

It works in both directions. If someone hits a crane in the fog they will present a NOTAM and you cannot argue that you have not been warned.

Triple nit: “airspaces” - there are 5 FIRs and 1 UIR in Ukraine https://uksatse.ua/index.php?s=330da740cf9126adde95bad0face2...

But it’s up to airline how they present NOTAMS to the pilot in the briefing package. They can (and do) use geolocation present in some (many) NOTAMs to filter them out. For example do not show the NOTAM just because the flight path intersects with the airspace. They can do even better - consider not only location but also altitude range, the best flight planning systems can consider also estimated time of arrival of the plane near the location of the NOTAM and filter out those which are not yet valid or those which are expired (the validity range usually present in each message). This makes the problem of including the NOTAM a 4-dimensional - geographical location 2 dimensions, altitude 1 dimension and a time. Not the easiest to solve, but solvable. Of course for every dimension margins can be applied to accommodate re-routes or departure delays, or ATC commands. There is no written in stone standard of how to present NOTAMS. Newer may be displayed at the beginning, etc Not to say that they can (and do) separate airfield and airspace messages to segment the large set onto meaningful subsets. I mean there ways to make sure important information is not lost and less important available if needed.

I was working on a suite of projects to compose briefing packages for pilots. Before pandemic the result of this work was present in ~1/7 cockpits around the planet. I cannot count how many millions of passengers impacted by this, in a positive way of thinking of course. I was not alone, these software products are joint efforts of many-many smart people. The funny thing about that impact is that there should not be impact on crew and passengers - everyone love safe flights performed on time.