It is a misconception that mainstay Linux distributions have any sort of hardware or software incompatibility (aside from Mac- or Windows-only targeted software). That said, you are correct that people use OSX because it's literally 0 set up and configuration.
There's a lot of incompabilities on new hardware. Usually Linux kernel needs about 6 months to catch up with latest Intel or NVidia products. Also, try to use an iPhone with Linux computer - it is a nightmare. I have Windows installed in VirtualBox vm solely for iTunes's sake.
Don't bother with hybrids if all of the shortcomings are covered with gasoline. A good EV or a good gasoline car are both better than a hybrid, so what is the point? Who wants to buy a car that is heavier and slower than their full gas and full electric counterparts?
It's always too late to push for something that is just a bad product.
> A good EV or a good gasoline car are both better than a hybrid, so what is the point?
I don't think this is true. A plug-in hybrid will always have an advantage over a gasoline car, in that it can do short trips without starting the gas engine at all. So for repeated short trips, it acts like a BEV. But unlike a BEV, there's no range limitation or worrying about where to find a charging station.
I've thought fairly hard about a pure BEV and I can't see myself getting one except as an additional vehicle. But I could see getting a plug-in hybrid like the Volt in the near future. Anecdotally, all the people I know who are seriously considering BEVs are buying them as second or third cars. There's certainly a market, but I think it's going to saturate pretty quickly, because a lot of people don't want to have one vehicle for known-distance commuting and then another vehicle for unknown-distance or long trips. While these trips may represent a small percentage of driving in terms of actual mileage, they're enough to shape the choice of cars. (E.g. someone may not drive to grandma's house out in the sticks more than a few times a year, but if the car can't handle that drive, it's not going to get purchased, period.)
Lots of Tesla owners have it as their only car. (Or they own multiple cars, but all EVs.) I'm one of them. Of course, Tesla is the only one out there that can really handle those long trips. The Bolt can't unless all the stars line up.
I really don't understand why other manufacturers aren't pushing hard on fast charging networks. As you say, those long trips may not be common, but people won't buy the car if it can't make them.
If the goal is environmental (reduce the impact of burning gasoline), then currently a full BEV is inferior to plugin hybrid. The success criteria should not be number of BEV on the road. Rather, it should be total electric miles driven. For that goal, what is more likely to succeed in the market? A really expensive full BEV? Or a SUV, pickup truck, etc. that is only a little bit more expensive than gas version and has a 25 mile EV range?
Is there a way to set a pre commit git hook in a project's source code? So that the same hook only runs on that project and not on every project using git.
Note that it works best to have that install script create symbolic links for the git hooks rather than copy, so that they can be updated without having to rerun the install script.
Well, it shouldn't drive you nuts. That implies that the truth drives you nuts. WW2 didn't look great before the USA stepped in. World wide innovation has been driven by the USA in almost every frontier. And you cannot expect a CEO to regard his product as anything but the best.
The thing that drives me nuts is the lengths people such as yourself will go to in order to rationalize their dislike of him. Calling people who like him and the car 'disciples' is also pretty terrible.
Well we can split hairs over this all day, but Musk and Trump (Bernie Sanders too) fit the definition of demagogues IMO.
People like the cars because they view them as antiestablishment. e.g. better than what other car makers are building — because the establishment car makers are crooks with no regard for the world and would allow the destruction of nature for a dollar.
Meanwhile the data shows that cars are a minuscule contributor to global warming in comparison to burning coal. And that electric cars are not necessarily cleaner than gas cars when you consider what source they are charged from.
If you want to do something about global warming that will have an actual impacted you must turn China and India into rich countries that can afford be green (to use the common vernacular).
Musk's whole brand and "popularity [is based on] exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people" (from the Wikipedia article on demagogue).
This is not splitting hairs! These are basic facts. The whole idea behind Tesla and Solar City is to have solar power generation and electric cars. 100% clean and renewable, and that's the long term goal. You cannot criticize the means to get there -- powering Teslas with current electricity generation -- when that's so much better than Fossil Fuels already.
People like the cars because they are better than what the other car makers are making. Model S is the safest, fastest, and most efficient sedan on the market. That's a fact!
Cars are minuscule contributors? The EPA site says 14% Co2 is from cars, which is substantial. That's also a fact!
If Tesla keeps going, it will replace generation and consumption of fossil fuels with a fully renewable cycle. How is that not the best thing ever? That's fantastic! We might be cutting more than 30% of our CO2 emissions.
You need to re-evaluate your standpoint. Also, when you're struggling with cognitive dissonance after reading this, consider this: Your brain's attempts to discredit my argument, and paint Elon backers as mindless followers/disciples, is the real example of psychological trickery, not Elon exploiting some prejudice.
Yep but my argument still holds true especially in the era of IoT risks are now becoming physical. Bugs earlier used to only impact people financially, emotionally but now risks are physical.
Facebook, Google, Amazon, and every other huge company are huge because of their monopolies. Tesla would be making a massive mistake to not start walling in their garden.
I have replied to the other commenting wondering about Vim but I will say it here as well: Learning to get fast with Vim is incredibly rewarding. It is tough to memorize everything, sure. But it's all in pursuit of speed and efficiency that become huge multipliers over your career. You use so much less hand effort, and it runs straight from the terminal which means you need fewer running applications.
Suppose you have two identical codebases that each need to have the same 200 lines changed. Functions need to be added, comments to be removed, templates need modifying, and so forth. In one of the two codebases, you use Nano to apply those changes. In the second codebase, you use Vim. Assuming the Vim user was proficient at Vim, you can be sure that he/she used 1/3 -> 1/2 as much hand and wrist effort than the nano user to make the same changes. It could be that the effective Vim user ended up using less than 1/2 the hand effort than the nano user.
If you extrapolate this over these two coder's careers, you realize that the Vim user is going to be glad he spent the time learning Vim.
Learning how to use Vim has been so rewarding for me. I love coding in Vim and I love learning new ways of doing things.
> Suppose you have two identical codebases that each need to have the same 200 lines changed. Functions need to be added, comments to be removed, templates need modifying, and so forth. In one of the two codebases, you use Nano to apply those changes. In the second codebase, you use Vim. Assuming the Vim user was proficient at Vim, you can be sure that he/she used 1/3 -> 1/2 as much hand and wrist effort than the nano user to make the same changes. It could be that the effective Vim user ended up using less than 1/2 the hand effort than the nano user.
> If you extrapolate this over these two coder's careers, you realize that the Vim user is going to be glad he spent the time learning Vim.
This I completely understand, and if I was a professional programmer who had to deal with those sorts of operations regularly I'd probably find Vim very rewarding to learn.
The perspective I come from is that of a sysadmin. If I'm editing large amounts of text I'm probably on a system where I control what's installed and thus can have whatever editors and IDEs I want, within reason. The situations where I find myself forced to use Vim are stripped down appliances where more often than not I'm looking to make a single change in a single line of text.
For that use case basically any editor with a working find feature is equally fast, so I'd much rather have one that uses a standard or at least discoverable user interface.
To me Vim is like one of those simultaneous torquing machines used in modern vehicle assembly plants, where I'm just looking for a torque wrench to check my lug nuts.
I hear you for nano, but what about compared to [graphical mouse-clicky editor of choice] (in non-vim mode)? I know enough of the basic vim commands that I could edit a file if I ever needed to but how much hand effort could it save me vs. kate or VS Code? (though i really prefer notepad++ to both of those) I feel relatively efficient in a good graphical editor but maybe I just don't know any better? Really just give me reasonable multi-selection features and I'm happy.
To prove that Vim is faster than a graphical editor as well, I might make a WebM where I edit two identical files, one with notepad++ and one with Vim. Would you appreciate that? I will do that if you respond to this.
There's a plugin (can't remember the name of it right now) that lets you use mouse controls as well. Click where you want the cursor, scroll, click on which tab you want, etc. That was game over with Sublime for me.
During development, I have to check the browser's inspector periodically to see what my console.log()'s are saying. This leads to having two browser windows open: The browser and the inspector. And in the inspector, I usually only need to see the console. With these desktop notifications, I can develop and debug web apps with just two open windows: A single browser window and a terminal. And it's only adding ~100 lines to your project.
