Is this comment meant to be ironic? The removal of physical buttons a main cluster for the driver and the lack of a HUD are all terrible UX decisions.
People believe it is all part of the grand "autonomous driving" meme but the reality is that all cars that have been purchased today are going to be used up long before level 4 autonomy is passed through the legislation.
Can someone give me a quick rundown of Facebook's involvement? I get that they are the driving force behind it but what does it mean in practice? Do they have any power over the currency and its flow? Is Facebook governing the currency? Are there privacy concerns and if so, how do manifest in practice? Is it tied to Facebook stock or something, if not then what's the point?
Jim Keller apparently not only worked on Ryzen but also on an arm CPU named K12 [1] until 2015. It is likely that AMD still has the blueprint for that CPU stashed away to focus on the x86 market but still have a plan b if arm becomes dominant.
Not sure how this is going to fly inside the EU. Simply relocate from Riga to Berlin and get 1400€? Or do you have to become a German citizen? Wouldn't that be against the spirit of the EU?
I mean there are a lot of arguments PRO UBI. My favourite is that we are steering towards an ever more automated world. Maybe in 50 years from now a factory only contains half a dozen of people while the output remains the same or increases, meaning there is a heavy imbalance between available work and available workers. I believe Bill Gates proposes to tax the use of robots to compensate for it.
All in all I am not convinced, though. If more money becomes circulated the prices will naturally rise. If you can expect everyone to have at least 1400€ from the get-go then businesses will adjust their pricing accordingly. So the whole thing might result in a net zero.
I also believe the entire premise is wrong that the only thing that separates me from the Bezos, the Gates and the Musks of this world is money. When there are many more factors are at play and most of them can probably not be solved by having more money.
Eh I don't mind it too much. Once everyone writes jambon iberico on it you will have a minefield of quality. In the end people who want to avoid this problem will get their stuff from controlled origins.
Although I do enjoy the hypocrisy of the US considering brand name and image is everything there. Companies and government are especially keen on being punitive against trademark abuse. Yet many people there try to piggy-back on other products' success (e.g. Parmesan and Champagne)
Fun fact: nVidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are niece and uncle. They both are hardware engineers by trade and both wear leather jackets during presentations (although she took after him).
Must make for some interesting holiday family dinner talks.
For those inside as well. The reason most car companies don't use cold rolled steel is not because they are cash grabs but because if there was no deformation in the car all energy will be directly transferred to the occupants.
I am sure that tesla has something in their back pocket for this obvious flaw. Also I doubt the cybertruck will come to Europe. Certainly not in its current form.
According to [1] the entire VW group owns 61 plants worldwide. However this also includes motorcycle factories and plants which make various parts which are used by ICE and electric cars (i.e. metal casting, injection molding, gearboxes, etc.).
8 Factories are quite a lot when you think that VW has only 3 electric vehicles in the pipeline (id.3,id.crozz and id.buzz) and also does not own any battery manufacturing plant.
It's a very risky move for VW. Margins on ICEs are way higher and VW factory staff is way pricier than tesla's. They can't really burn cash the same way since going belly up would be way more devastating. That's why other big manufacturers like toyota are similarly cautious.
From the headline I was kind of excited. Like disney using some freak tech stack on their servers like freebsd or windows.
But it is just DRM incompatibilities with linux. Kind of a bummer. On a side note: prime also stopped working for me on mint+firefox. Still works with chrome though.
I really like the gesture controls in my bmw. They seemed odd first but now they feel quite natural.
I guess the best intuition comes from the fact that one gesture is mapped to one action unlike in touch screens where e.g. swiping has a platitude of semantics in different contexts.
Anyways I hope the sensor is released to the DIY crowd. I guess there is a good chance since all the tech comes from infineon and they already built small dev boards and google normally is rather open minded towards DIY.
Thinking more hard about it I can't really say that electron is pretty much an anti-pattern.
The idea/strategy behind chrome is simple though sophisticated:
1. Move all the software to the cloud.
2. Have a browser which pretty much lets you do anything you could with a regular OS from generating sound to using various input devices, to secret management, to displaying 3d content, etc., etc.
3. People will use the browser for everything from document writing (gsuite), to movie watching (youtube) to gaming (stadia), to file admin (drive) without every needing to install anything locally ever again.
4. You are now owning the OS market with win/mac/linux only serving as a VM to run Chrome which is essentially the portal to 99% of the Software your userbase uses.
Tinfoilhattery and cynicism aside, I don't think electron, where you actually try reverse the browser into its subservient state as a simple "app" is a sound strategy. This clash of philosophy really shows in the technical shortcomings of electron. If you want an actually interesting project create a small thin runtime that allows you to build html/css/js user interfaces rather than trying to make Qt great again by porting it to chrome.
I want to use html/css/js to create my front-end, Although it is more resource intensive then Qt, it is simply more flexible and has a much richer eco-system to rely on.
Meanwhile the usage of chrome as a run-time is one of the worst parts of electron as every app consumes a lot more memory than a "native" application would need. These days Chrome is so highly sophisticated by now you could easily call it an OS. It comes with a lot of baggage from a Driverstack for Sound, Joysticks and Accelerometers to a whole suite of debugging tools.
Don't get me wrong. Electron is good for what it is: a way to easily write portable apps which can share codebase with a SaaS-Platforms. I would just wish developers would have just taken a different approach e.g. using a more striped down version of chrome or maybe even use Firefox/Servo.
Not to be cynical about Tesla or the EV market as a whole but I don't get why Norway has become so important as an indicator for the car market while it hasn't mattered for the last 100 years.
The number of cars per capita in Norway is below the average in Europe. If you considering the countries GDP their number of cars per capita is even smaller. If anything, Norway due to it's high taxes and high government subsidies as well as abundant amount of green energy, should be highlighted as a "freak" economy rather than an indicator or even role-model for the rest of the world.
!!! DISCLAIMER !!! Before HN nukes this post into downvote oblivion please consider that I am neither a Tesla short-seller nor sponsored by the Big-Oil lobby. I am just a bit critical with what I read.
Scales to weigh fruit/veg? No at leas not in Germany. The scales are built into the barcode scanner of the register. They only have scales so you can double check when you are shopping.
After a you have committed a crime (and you were punished for) you are free to be done crime against without repercussions?
Sometimes I wonder where the keyboard warriors on this forum get their moral compass from... This codex isn't even consistent. If your past deeds define the rights you have in court today Bayer would probably win any case against it considering their inventions in medicine probably saved hundreds of thousands of peoples' lives.
This feudal mindset is so backwards it would even make the pope blush.