Bidetception. Sitting on one, typing this.

Toyota CEO: “Unless things change, we will not survive.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/toyota-just-issued-stark-warning-173055087.html

It’s sad watching the U.S. and Japanese auto industry self-destruct in slow motion. There are a lot of smart and capable people in the auto industry, but the management are stuck in an 80s design and manufacturing process.

Yes, but nobody in their right mind will use boost at OS kernel or driver level. Also, using C++ has vtable/exception overhead. No-go.

I worked at companies that tried both. They no longer exist.

Rust has a lot more ‘batteries included’ than C, and the memory ownership model works a lot better than garbage collection or C’s YOLO model. It also has built-in async/await. But you’re pretty much in the same boat as C when it comes to multiprocessing or thread-safety.

Anyone building a long-running backend service would be wise to take a serious look at Rust. Personally, I’m glad Linus is open to change and isn’t digging his heels in on this one.

So many system bugs are because of unclear memory ownership, buffer overflows, and race conditions. C/C++ don’t help you avoid any of these footguns. Any other system that relies on GC is non-deterministic and prone to mystery hiccups, which is why OS and driver tech has been pretty much the same foundation since the 70s.

Rust lets you avoid 2 of those 3 issues (thread race conditions are still a thing). And being compiled, instead of interpreted bytecode means you can get reasonable performance on smaller machines. No wonder these OS guys are so excited.

I’ve got a pretty large Rust/Tauri program going. Breaking things into crates help, but if you touch enough bits of common libraries, everything needs to get rebuilt anyway.

I use Makefiles for everything. What I found helps is breaking out the parts that don’t change much into separate Make commands (like generating icons, linting, frontend, tests, etc), then leaving “make go” as the simplest inner iteration loop. That way, it’s a lot more bearable.

There’s also “make build” and “make fullclean.” You start one of those and take a long break.

It’s really unfortunate Apple dropped the iPod Nano. The ones with a physical scroll wheel and small display were just the right size for sticking in your pocket and going for a walk, run, or bike. Great way to leave distractions behind.

This one looks like it’s got some good design ideas. Nowadays, most people have streaming playlists. If they add software to snapshot those playlists onto the device in high quality, they might have something.

Google and Microsoft already tried underwater data centers to better handle heat dissipation. It wasn’t worth it. Hardware can fail and you need somebody to go in and swap boards and faulty cables. Every complex system has multiple points of failure. The wrong board and the whole container stops working. It was so much pain trying to maintain it under water they all gave up after the Proof of Concept stage.

How are they going to deal with it cost effectively up in orbit? Little nanosat modules? Humanoid robots that barely work today?

Be a lot cheaper (and faster) sending a tech in a little cargo van and a toolbox out to the suburbs of Memphis, Phoenix, or Bakersfield.

Hyundai USA has been taking social influencer types on tours of their GA factory lately.

The location is pretty sparse already. Super automated. Mainly floor lift robots rolling partly assembled cars from station to station, with big Fanuc arms moving and welding other parts. All pre-programmed. Nothing we haven’t already seen in Chinese car factories. They all hide the final assembly stages requiring humans fitting and finishing the harnesses and sensitive parts.

In the last video I saw, Hyundai had sprinkled their tour route with a few Boston Dynamics robots. The humanoid one was just standing around. The Spot yellow doggy ones, however, were doing synchronized dancing, similar to what they did on America’s Got Talent. Nobody’s figured out what to do with them that doesn’t require machine-gun attachments. They’re so desperate they’re even floating them as glorified package delivery platforms: https://www.theverge.com/tech/965378/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-delivery-assistant

If all these robots were anywhere ready near for full production, you can bet they would be showing them building the whole car. Boston Dynamics, despite all the robot gymnastics and being around for 30+ years, has not really shipped anything commercially viable. It’s already been passed around to Google, Softbank, and now Hyundai, and its CEO of many years just resigned in February.

My guess is this is all a lot of marketing flaff.

A few tips:

• Folding ones are easier to carry and store. You may not need a car rack if you want to take it far away. Steel ones are sturdier, but heavier. Carbon fiber ones are lighter but more expensive.
• Look for something that has both torque and cadence sensors. It affects how quickly you get going when starting from standing still. Also when changing elevations, how quickly the motor kicks in.
• Step through vs. step over. Step through is easier to get on/off.
• Definitely invest in a shock-absorber seat. They’re not that expensive online. Front shock absorbers are good too on rutted roads.
• Fat tire ones make a loud noise when riding over paved roads. But they handle better if you hit a patch of dirt or in rain.
• Mudguards on front and back are absolutely necessary in rain.
• Look for water rating on the battery. IP6x is good, but if you have a lot of rain, IP7x is better.
• Don’t believe the range they cite. Rule of thumb is divide in half for a realistic range. And always leave 10-20%. You reallly don’t want to run out of juice at the end of a long ride.
• If the charger is a USB-C PD one, it’ll be easier to replace. Unfortunately, a lot of bike vendors use their own proprietary ones.
• Get one assembled, from a bike shop instead of online. You will definitely need service or tuning, and having competent, trustworthy people (ideally, within easy riding range) will save a lot of heart-ache.

Thank you, that would be great to know. Had no idea they charged differently. There’s obviously history behind it.

Was also told by a friend that in some countries there are glass pour-lines below the lip of the glass. They are required to fill beer to the line, but different glasses have different levels for amount of foam.

Around us, there are no such rules. In some breweries you get 1cm, in other 3-4cm of foam, all for the same price.

The more foam, the longer a keg stretches (pure profit for the house). But sure, let’s gaslight the consumer into thinking foam is BETTER than beer: https://www.brewer-world.com/3-pours-of-pilsner-urquell/

Don’t be a potential meat-crayon. Always wear a helmet and pads, folks.

The problem is not enough RPis. If you get enough running in parallel, you achieve AGI, Nirvana, and quite possibly exit velocity.

Argentina played some of the dirtiest WC soccer I’ve ever seen. Grabbing the English goalie’s arms during a corner kick, regularly shoving opposing players in the back and grabbing their jerseys when they got the ball during a fast break. The referee only handed out a single yellow card, and let everything else pass.

Messi wasn’t doing it so overtly, but everyone else especially Simeone, were just blatant. Have no dog in this race, but that was just gross.

The beginning. Everybody loves a smash-cut intro.