We wanted a cross-platform C++ layer and native Cocoa front end. Objective C++ wasn’t a thing then, and having built a plain C shim previously I didn’t want to repeat the experience.

We built our own bridge by registering our C++ classes with the Obj-C runtime, generating selectors for all the methods so you could send messages to (carefully constructed) C++ objects using Obj-C syntax, or even subclass from C++ to Obj-C.

It was a pretty neat trick, but would’ve been difficult to port to the Obj-C 2 runtime.

When you’re in the heart of it it’s so easy to take pride in the technical challenges you’ve overcome, but completely miss the realities of the marketplace.

Buying votes simply doesn’t cost this much, by orders of magnitude. Burning your empire to ashes as a loyalty test doesn’t hold water either: It’s politicians that partake in loyalty tests, not donors.

There wasn’t a default folder structure in the early days. Your hard drive had a “System” folder with merely a few hundred files in it (in a hierarchy) that you can ignore day-to-day. Otherwise the whole drive was your playground.

There were intractable issues with window spanning across displays with different scale factors. Ultimately this was resolved by not allowing window spanning on the platform anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0

That said, my insurance covered the cost without a problem and I had my car back in 4 days. I don't know if they took possession of the original battery or negotiated a different rate, but it sounds like Tesla makes bank on this kind of repair. $15k for a new battery pack, a quick turnaround from their service center, and someone gets the old pack which in all likelihood was perfectly fine.

There aren't a lot of shops that know how to repair a battery pack (in most of the country anyway). With less than 2% of cars on the road being EVs that's not surprising, but as more are sold you'll see more come about. The insurance companies will be very motivated to reduce these kinds of claims, and with real competition Tesla will no longer be able to justify the practice.

AP has billions, not millions of miles driven FWIW.

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/04/hybri...

The primary advantage is faster refueling. The price is no in-home refueling -- a big win for BEVs, as most trips will not require refueling on the road. There are also real safety concerns about storing and transporting H2 at very high pressure.

This sounds backwards to me. My understanding of the main benefit of curved sensors is to eliminate complex lens series needed to correct aberrations caused by a flat sensor surface.