I think it's helpful to point out that bikes often use wet clutches, which work and feel different to the dry clutches used in cars. I'm not sure the average person would understand how important a good clutch is to the usability of a vehicle, and wet clutches on bikes are much nicer to use than those in cars.
In 25 years people will still be collecting and riding their old ICE bikes -- the old electric versions will probably be inoperable due to software lockouts that prevent repair and various other proprietary tomfoolery. Even as a tech enthusiast, I'm loathe to accept that new stuff is superior in usability, let alone utility.
I've driven manual car transmissions my whole life, and I can't stand automatics. I hate the "hill-holder" behavior and the fact the car just lunges forward on its own when I don't push the accelerator. Automatics behave this way because of how torque converters work. Now that electric cars are becoming common, by default they mimic the behavior of torque converters because that's what most people expect. We can program electric cars to behave like a manual, but from what I gather, many manufacturers don't give you that option because "innovation" or something. If I can't configure an electric car to work like a ICE manual, which actually makes sense, then I don't want to drive it.
Yes, choice it what we need. If you don't like a feature, then just don't use it.
Compute costs are not improving by leaps and bounds like they were in the 90's. Today, most companies struggle to get 5% improvement per year. AI is still in the early days, but it's still very much hardware bound and it's unlikely to mature at an exponential rate.
Besides, the AI market has gone bonkers, and hundreds of billions are being poured into infrastructure. Investors want to make all that money back.
I don't suspect subscription costs to be going down any time soon.
I read your setup as a global throttle.
I didn't get that impression at all. Personally, I think you jumped all over this guy for no reason.
You don't get rid of the worst 10% of your work force, but on average, the 10% you lose is less valuable than the 90% you keep.
I'm getting a bad Sturgeon's Law trigger from reading this.
But these are solvable problems.
I see these as political problems, not technical. Fat chance of them being solved.
I mean, as long as Rust is governed by a "living standard", ie a standard that changes all the time, it cannot be taken seriously as a mission-critical tool for systems development. But, living standards are great as political tools, so...
It's astounding to me that a car is the 2nd most expensive purchase you'll make next to a house, and you're required to take from "dealer stock" instead of ordering exactly what you want.
The whole dealership model should have gone away decades ago.
Yes, finally. Not like it'll make me use Chrome, but this is a small step in the right direction.
You know what never ceases to amaze me? Geeks will spend months or even years working a big, elaborate features nobody asked for or wants, but simple little things like this that could be implemented in a day or two almost never get done. To hell with all the whiners complaining that this should be an extension. This absolutely should be an [optional] core feature, just because it's such a simple thing to implement by default, and is such a pain to "fix" as an extension.
I remember when the Mac Mini launched at $500. It didn't take long before it re-launched at $900... and you still didn't get a mouse or keyboard.
If anybody actually cared about security, they wouldn't keep computers connected to the Internet 24/7.
I do all my work on Win7 machine running software that's a decade old. Nothing requires the Internet. I only use an up-to-date system for playing games and surfing the web.
Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.
Nice to hear. One of these years I might actually discover one of them.
It's hard to "know" how to do something when the company keeps changing their policies on a regular basis.
Remember, we live in an era of "living" standards, which is to say, standards that constantly change all the time. You can't rely on anything, not even one's own smug superiority complex.
The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. -- Blaise Pascal
