This way, I could send $1000 in iTunes gift cards to my brother-in-law, er, that scammer that contacted me about my back taxes, and then get a refund of the whole amount. Double win!
If you RTFA, you'll see the article title is misleading and alarmist.
Darn, I came here to post the same thing. None of my cars have pistons anymore.
This was entirely expected. The all-battery Clarity was a near useless car. 89 miles of range made it a local-only car like the Nissan LEAF, but at a higher price. Honda's bugs with the cars charging system meant it sometimes couldn't be reliably charged for some (several people at my work had this problem). At least with the PHEV version you could still be able to get somewhere. But with the BEV version of the Clarity, you could be stuck. And it didn't help that the BEV version was purely a CARB compliance car; available in only a few states.
Honda still doesn't "get" BEVs; maybe they'll do better on their next iteration. (but I doubt it)
(FWIW, I've driven nearly 100K BEV-only miles, starting with a LEAF 6 years ago; my wife and I only have BEVs (2 Teslas) now)
It was a good read. Although that story started with a similar premise and then went off to talk about the near-term apocalyptic future.
That's what I thought when I saw the headline.
I used to leave the house at 6:10AM to get to the commuter rail station at 6:30 for the 6:45 train (the parking filled up at around 6:40, so I had to get there earlier and wait for the train). A 55 minute train ride would bring me to Boston for a 20 minute subway ride; including waiting for the subway and the 10 minute walk to the office meant I got into work usually around 8:20.
I'd have loved to have a free work provided shuttle that brought me right to the office. It could have left at 7AM and I'd still have gotten to the office quicker.
If the blogger's post was a paper it wouldn't have gotten accepted to any decent OS conference. It's full of mistakes and bad assumptions from an inexperienced developer who doesn't realize how wrong he is and decides to blame something else. I mean the guy titled his post and how Bad the Linux Scheduler Really is.
Linus's reply, while a little over the top, really contained some on the mark comments:
I repeat: do not use spinlocks in user space, unless you actually know what you're doing. And be aware that the likelihood that you know what you are doing is basically nil.
Because you should never ever think that you're clever enough to write your own locking routines.
There's a reason why you can find decades of academic papers on locking. Really. It's hard.
I (briefly) met him once after he gave a talk at a NYC Science Fiction Convention in 1979. He was a great speaker. I shook his hand and got him to sign copies of I, Robot and the three Foundation books (that's all that existed at that time).
That was a pretty good convention; I also got to meet Jesco von Puttkamer there, and he was freely giving out copies of the TRS-80 program that ran on one of the monitors in the background of the bridge set in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
From what I have heard The Rise of Skywalker is also all over the place in order to try and tie everything together
SPOILER ALERT
The problem with The Rise of Skywalker (ROS) is that it shows that nothing that happened in The Original Trilogy (TOT) mattered.
In TOT, Emperor Palpatine has a vast fleet of planet-destroying ships. Luke is a new hope. He is trained by Yoda. He has visions of Obiwan. He confronts Darth Vader. He converts Vader back to the good side. They destroy the emperor and his fleet.
In ROS, Emperor Palpatine has a vast fleet of planet-destroying ships. Rey is a new hope. She is trained by Leia. She has visions of Luke. She confronts Kylo Ren. She converts Kylo back to the good side. They destroy the emperor and his fleet.
But if Palpatine isn't going to stay dead, and he can just conjure up new fleets, then what difference does it make? Why should I care?
This sums up my feelings on the movie and why I won't spend $ to see it.
Sorry, I messed up the quote. OzPeter didn't say that; thomst ( 1640045 ) did.
OzPeter declared:
So, you're saying that the opening crawl I read in1976, which began with,"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" was just a hallucination
The opening crawl didn't say "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" when the film came out in 1977. Those words were added years later.
(since you can't remember the year correctly, I'm not surprised you've forgotten this)
I'd say yes. The Expanse is just a great show.
It's science fiction in that it takes place in a plausible future, extrapolated out a possible set of future geopolitical struggles. It's based upon a well written book series that, while unfinished, is going to see it's 9th and final novel published next yet (unlike other unfinished book series that became TV series). It helps that the authors of the books are also writers on the show.
If you do start to watch it, get through at least the first 4 or 5 episodes. There's multiple story lines introduced all at once and they can initially be confusing as they don't seem to relate to each other. It takes a couple of episodes to see it come together.
(similarly, when recommending Babylon 5, I told people to get through the whole first season to see it come together)
For what it's worth, the book series is pretty amazing, too.
They also do a great job of representing real physics in the books and show. This can be bad, because once you get used to how space really is, it really highlights had badly they make things up in other scifi movies and TV shows.
I like this introduction to The Expanse -- it is nearly spoiler free and covers the setup of the first season and a half (which matches the material of the first book, Leviathan Wakes).
https://youtu.be/VNjrI0YvZYA
"Criminal will serve 14 years in prison after home invasion using gun"
I had 2 pre-orders for Model 3s from the day of the unveil.
I canceled the first when I bought a Model S a year later. I canceled the 2nd when I bought a Model X last year.
So neither of my pre-orders turned into sales of the Model 3.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
