If companies had to pay for your commuting time instead of just stealing it from you, they'd be way more interested in having as many employees as possible work from elsewhere.

This is not news for nerds. This is not stuff that matters.

I know that ship sailed long ago, and slashdot is kinda mid-grade engagement bait these days, but come on, there is no pretense of substance in this one. It's monkeys flinging poo on the front page. Please try to be better than this.

Happens I know both SCO's Expert and IBM's Expert. They both independently analyzed the codebases, each developing a similar set of analysis tools (think of a modified version of grep which searches for similarities in code patterns that remain after changing variable names and re-factoring equations to do the same math in more or fewer lines.)

Both researchers reached the same conclusion - the code which was the same in both systems was free to use - open source and MIT licensed (primarily code that was taken from the BSD source tree.) SCO's Expert went to the legal team and said that there was no stolen code, but that IBM likely had violated their obligations to the UNIX trademark by diluting its value when they put their weight behind Linux. The SCO legal team didn't feel that was a path forward, and continued to pretend there was stolen code.

Really have no complaints with battery life so far - knock wood!

2017 Tesla Model S P100D - 9 years on the road, 202155 miles (purchased at 50K miles), range 86% of nominal. 270/315 miles

2015 Tesla Model S 85D - 11 years on the road, 125251 miles (purchased at 16K miles), range 90% of nominal. 244/270 miles

Both vehicles have free Supercharging, and that gets used a fair amount. Both now have home charging, but the 2015 was almost exclusively supercharged for about 3 years.

These battery packs have active cooling and heating, and an exceptionally good level of cell balancing, which doubtless helps with the longevity.

Also, in the 250K+ miles we've driven, we've had one unscheduled stop - a damaged tire. Biggest maintenance item so far was a failed cabin heater and leaking coolant valve on the P100D, that required them to drop the battery to fix it, the rest were several minor warranty repairs, a cracked suspension bushing on the 2015, replacing a rock-damaged windshield, and between the two vehicles there were some door handles and a trunk cinch actuator repaired or replaced. Most of the service work was done by "Tesla Rangers" in the driveway.

The P100D looks and drives like a two-or-three-year-old vehicle which has had a couple of curbside parking dings, the 85D looks and drives even better. I remember my first automobile - a 1970 Plymouth Duster, slant 6 engine, which had the engine's top end rebuilt at 75K miles and died utterly at 150K miles. Obviously a different class of vehicle, but it was thought of at the time as a vehicle which was so reliable it would outlast the owner - in comparison, it seemed to have been manufactured from empty soup cans and bailing wire - even the paint was mostly gone by 150K miles.

36.1% pass would be worrying if this was a qualification test of things it needs to be able to do. It's not. This is a benchmark, and it SHOULD have a low pass rate. That's how you know if you're making improvements.

We could quite easily create a different benchmark where it passes 99.9%. That wouldn't mean the device being tested is good. It would just mean we have a useless benchmark.

I have no opinion on whether AI is good or bad for this use case. I just hate when statistics are used to mislead people.

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Your sig is currently '"Even if you don't have a Tesla, your children still walk in the footpath." - Lukasz Krupski (ex-Tesla employee)'. You can change it on the User tab in prefs.

What script blocker do you use?

Claim: "The alloy at the center of the Gateway controversy is Aluminum-Lithium 2195"

True: 2195 is sometimes used in space hardware.

WTF: A web search ("habitation and logistics outpost" "2195") turns up nothing.

Claim: "Exposure to salty, humid sea air is a worst-case scenario for this alloy."

True: Salt spray induces corrosion in many metals, aluminum alloys included. 2195 has poor corrosion resistance.

WTF:

* It's not like they left this thing sitting out on deck while crossing the ocean.
* Here's a picture of it being wrapped in plastic for shipping.
* Also from that article: "Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors, including aspects of the forging process, surface treatment, and material properties."

Conclusion: Your LLM is just making shit up.

Settings > Apps > All Apps > (the one you don't want) > Disable

It won't free space, but It removes the icons, it won't run in the background, etc.

Cold-start takes forever, but once running, nuclear plants can load follow, adjusting output by several percent per minute. Generally they don't only for economic reasons: it makes more sense to throttle back everything else instead. However, if you run out of other things to shut down, nuke plants can load-follow just fine. France does this all the time.

Batteries are still useful in a bunch of ways, but you don't need nearly as many for a mostly-nuke grid as an mostly-renewables grid.

They do not. If the grid can't accept the power, they just open the bypass valves and waste the extra heat while the reactor throttles down.

Not to mention that Ontario's plan is project to cost $20B / GW before the inevitable cost overruns.

Some years back, I was working for a large software company. One of their clients sued them, I don't remember the exact amount but I recall it being at least in the tens of millions. When it finally went to court, the customer's attorney's said that they''d put my company's C-level execs on the stand and have them read their profanity laced emails. Quotes like, "We need to drive f....g stake through [their] heart", etc.My company settled immediately.

A few months later, at an executive off-site, they brought in an attorney that lectured about 100 of us, basically that anything you put in email is subject to discovery. Don't write anything you wouldn't say in fron of your mother, or wouldn't want to see on the front page of the Wall St. Journal.

Indian firms failed because they were further from the customer than incumbents.

AI will succeed because it's closer to the customer than incumbents.

Joe in accounting has a spreadsheet that the whole company depends on. He can tell the AI what the company needs, and more critically can iterate very quickly to tweak it so it is exactly what they need; no more, no less.

The incumbents have an advantage over the Indians because they have better access to Joe, but it's only imperfect one way information flow. The key problem is that it's difficult for Joe to articulate exactly what he needs. He'll tell you what he thinks he wants, but it's imperfect communication. If you do agile/sprint, he gets to see how what he communicated ends up, and gets to adjust accordingly every 2 weeks. With AI he can do that in 5 minutes.

In Denmark it's easy to fire people. "Flexicurity" means that it's easy to fire somebody in Denmark but generous employment insurance and retraining programs means it's a much lower burden on employees if they are fired.

> The OEMs should fill that area with either more battery or... empty volume.

That would make the thickness of your phone + case even thicker. Right now the width of your phone + case is the minimum width of your phone + the width of the case. If you increase the minimum width, you increase the total thickness.

And now you'd have an annoying camera hole. Stuff would get stuck in the hole and scratch your lens.