I wrote a compiler for an ObjC-like language (with less brackets), which can produce binaries for any of {Mac, Windows, Linux, WASM, Arm A9 (Zynq), m68k or 6502} running on any of {Mac, Windows, Linux}. So you can produce a dev-signed Mac binary on a Linux box. I’m just going through extending that output range to mobile {Android, iOS} and I’ll release it as open source.

The compiler docs for the language (xc) are at https://compile-xc.org/ - feel free to browse.

I didn’t think getting the signing working for Mac/iOS was terribly hard.

Based on my back of the envelope calculations a 5% drop is a drop in the bucket when humanity amounts to close to 50% of the carbon load. Sadly this information was presented to the public exceptionally poorly, as if somebody wanted us to disbelieve it. Presenting massaged data while apparently arranging that the original data was rendered inaccessible was a HUGE er YUGE mistake. It left room for too much skepticism. Then all pundits did was demand humans sacrifice their standard of living for publicly admitted tiny changes. NO serious preparations were made to keep Florida, the Netherlands, London, et. al. above water. That is a big clue that the pundits were not taking this seriously or at least our putative leaders were not. Europe, Canada, and the US are about the only places this was treated as real. China gave lip service and added MORE carbon to the air from power plants they built. (It appears they saved their uranium for bombs rather than power plants.)

Now it's probably too late even if we go back to 10th century life styles. Intelligence is where a species goes to die.

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It has happened under both.

What real expert has said we can stop the global warming cold (pun intended) with the puny changes we, in the West, have implemented while some nations have started wars (Putin's Russia), opened new coal fired power plants (China), and ideologically nixed suggestions such as nuclear power that might make a real difference.

The numbers I saw suggested a 1% change in humanity's emissions, half the CO2 budget for the world, would solve the problem. I went to college when the engineering education received was real. 1% is more than an order of magnitude smaller than what is needed.

{^_^} This is probably one more message than I should waste time posting. You guys are not thinking beyond slogans and "Gretta told me." (That child is STUPID.)

I have. You have not. About all humans can do without mass deaths is a small single digit percentage point. That is not really enough to end the global warming. All it can do is reduce the rate of change. You've been sold a bill of goods if you think humans can end this spiral without experience massive physical effects with which we must cope. Even if all humans vanished at this point the climate will continue to warm for quite some time. And I did not consider the carbon emissions from billions of rotting corpses.

Where the (censored++) are the efforts to cope with the coming problems. Until I see those efforts I am convinced our species is not taking this situation seriously. As far as the species is concerned the climate is not changing out of usual bounds. Otherwise we'd be protecting what will be destroyed, working seriously on our CO2 emissions (at which time "Hormuz" becomes little more than a strange name on an odd geographical feature), and "modifying the behavior" of nations that claim to be limiting their CO2 emissions but aren't. (Hello China - where they paint hillsides green to make them look nice on satellite imagery and plant rebar with tufts of cotton on them to show how they are planting to mitigate their CO2 emissions all while they are rapidly building chains of coal fired power plants - all while the world "hohums" this nonsense.)

Does ANYBODY sit back and iterates asking about their pet changes that must be made, "So, what happens next?" Really, guys, what happens next? As a species humanity is pretty damn stupid but somehow we manage. I just hope our successors, artificial stupids, manage to do better when we're gone. I started out cynical. 82 years of watching this BS repeat itself with slightly different clothes each time have left me even more cynical. "Intelligence is where a species goes to die."

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I'd also add an SDR to that kit... opens up a whole new world if you're needing it for a survivalist or prepper situation.

A cheap RTLSDR stick and wire antenna will do the job fine with one of the many SDR programs that'll run on the Pi.

So all the climate change weenies have been predicting this was going to happen. They made our lives miserable with their harping and insane predictions that a small change in our behavior to satisfy their need to control would save us all. The totally predictable has happened. The measures taken did - nothing. Now we have the serious Global Warming, a least this year. And we have done absolutely nothing serious to cope with the problem, haven't we? Perhaps it is time to exercise our collective masses of grey matter (and our AIs) to figure out some feasible coping measures and implement them.

When that happens I'll believe Global Warming is something other than a Global Barming, dumbing down. I'm too old to do it myself.

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That last one really chaps my hide. Those mountains of fake drama posts punctuated by the 'negative parallelism' structure (now I have a name for the thing I hate.) It's everywhere and it's infuriating.

All you can do is try to ignore it and focus on your own (AI-free) stuff. Of course anything you post online will then become free AI fodder. It's hard to get away from it.

Yes it makes use of the thumbwheels, but that's missing the point. You have to go to the touch screen first before being able to do ANY of that. Sure, it's fine once you're in that mode for the scrollwheels, but getting there is completely obnoxious when you're also trying to drive.

Go to the screen...menu -> controls -> mirror icon. Adjust one. Fumble with screen to select the other mirror, adjust.

On my Mazda3 and every other car I've owned it's a selector switch and a joystick on the door. Very intuitive and within easy reach without ever looking at it. They've been that way since the 80s when power mirrors came to the masses. My '85 Celica had the same setup.

AC? If it's not in the little controls in the bottom corner you have to flip-up the larger control screen, and do weird pinchy things with your fingers to adjust the vents, looking at the screen while driving. Fumble for the fan speed at the bottom of the screen. Try to slide around to adjust the temperature at the bottom of the screen.

Compare to conventional car with knobs where you can take one glance at where your hand is going and do it by feel.

There are reasons why certain things are the way they are. It's because a company spent a LOT of time doing ergonomic studies and trials. I hate it when people throw out all that work in lieu of something else just because it's different, without a lot of thought and study first. It's putting the cart before the horse.

"OK, what would you do if you couldn't have any buttons, how could you make it suck less?" I feel they're working backwards from 'terrible' to 'only mostly terrible'. Not much of an improvement.

She wanted it, and she actually likes it. I found it ridiculous when I drove it, but she likes all the creature comforts. More power to her, I just avoid it. I think I'm a more of a driver-centric experience sort of person. She likes all the bling and frilly features and does not drive as much as I do.

Everything in this space lately has been a huge turnoff. Modern cars were never so physically capable, safe, and smooth handling, and yet they are absolute garbage in the human interface department. Giant touchscreens and gadgets are the equivalent of chrome and giant tailfins gone amok in the 1950s.

Quite happy with my 2016-era Mazda with a basic infotainment setup, bluetooth to my phone which has everything I need. My truck that I use to haul things occasionally is 26 years old. I have a bluetooth to cassette adapter in that one (a lawful-evil wedding of technology) and yet it works fine.

The wife has a Tesla, and while it has an amazing powertrain, it is just so aggravating to interface with in so many ways. No buttons for the mirrors. No buttons for the wiper. (there's one button on the end of a stalk to activate the wiper+spray automatic thing) If you leave the auto-wiper on it randomly activates and smears the windshield in the driest of weather. The door handles are terrible. The lack of any kind of physical controls for climate and entertainment is terrible. It is super distracting to try to do anything while driving. It calls home to mother and reports on everything you're doing. The auto dimming mirror, like all auto-dimming mirrors, doesn't dim enough nor when you want it to. The adaptive cruise control constantly slams on the brakes on highways with grade level intersections or if you're coming up on a hump on a road that hasn't been graded flat. The insurance is sky high. The tires wear out quickly due to the weight, and are very expensive. Anything saved in gas is made up for in those other things.

You can see where they had all these ideas and just didn't think them through. Whereas traditional auto manufacturers understand a lot of these things and even on their electric offerings still have plenty of physical buttons and not-ridiculous interface peculiarities. I got a ride in a friend's Hyundai Ioniq5 a little ago and it was great. Felt like a regular car with lots of buttons. But they are priced as such that any savings in gas is made up for in the overall cost of ownership of the car. So you're not doing it for that, you're doing it just to have the other features of an electric car or feel better about yourself. I don't feel it's worth it for that. My cars are paid for and the daily driver is absurdly cheap to fuel and maintain, so I'll stick with it until some sanity returns to the modern car market. (unlikely...)

Not going to happen!!!

Amazon is hoping to fly 80lb behemoths over populated areas to drop things from about 12 feet -- while all-too-often crashing into things. Of course to be fair, how could a drone possibly avoid an apartment building or a crane (twice). Last time it was a ladder strapped to the roof of a van.

These things are not only dangerous but hugely uneconomic. Nothing beats a gig-worker on an ebike!

Since invariably, you still need to carry a physical ID for the most serious of applications, according to the article, it's completely pointless.

Given how much of modern manufacturing is fully automated, why couldn't US companies compete on a level playing field with Chinese ones?

Tariffs simply allow domestic manufacturers to reap higher profits and/or continue to use inefficient processes to create an equivalent product.

Perhaps the motto of the USA will eventually become: "Tariffed into mediocrity"

These drone delivery services that have to operate in line-of sight and comply with a gazillion FAA regulations are doomed to failure. You could deliver the order faster using a trebuchet over such distances and with fewer liabilities or costs.

Manna Aero has moved to the USA for its trials because it effectively had so many problems in it's home of Ireland and Just the other day another 85lb Amazon drone crashed and burned.

Given the costs, both from a hardware, labor and systems perspective, they'll never compete with a gig-worker on an ebike.