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New comment by pauljurczak in "A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor"

pauljurczak — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:40:59 +0000

Greenwashed hydrogen?

New comment by pauljurczak in "Tesla starts using 'Supervised Full Self-Driving' language"

pauljurczak — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:29:33 +0000

Fully supervised self-driving?

New comment by pauljurczak in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

pauljurczak — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:39:53 +0000

Why open a window if you can open a door...

New comment by pauljurczak in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

pauljurczak — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:06:47 +0000

Will there be a heavy discount for a seat next to the door plug on 737 Max from now on?

New comment by pauljurczak in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

pauljurczak — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:00:27 +0000

Deferred prosecution worked as intended, i.e. no effect. This company is too big to fail. Some mid-level employee will be sacrificed to mollify DOJ, and business as usual will continue. Crapification of the economy continues...

New comment by pauljurczak in "Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion"

pauljurczak — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 07:50:04 +0000

20 K is high temperature? Well, I better take my mittens and ushanka off. I thought 77 K was the official threshold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti....

New comment by pauljurczak in "No car company has taken up Tesla's offer to license FSD"

pauljurczak — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:19:01 +0000

Does the license come with legal indemnity?

New comment by pauljurczak in "Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find"

pauljurczak — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:14:57 +0000

Well, yes. In a better parallel universe. In our real world, the healthcare industry in the USA is a for-profit business with few partial exceptions. The costs are ruinous and the trend is not sustainable. It is naive not to think about costs, unless you are wealthy. The cost of blood tests done at a local hospital's lab will almost always be much higher than at a large national network like Labcorp or Quest. Even after insurance contract repricing. Quality is the same. Why would you pay more? The doctor belonging to a local hospital network will be inclined to send your blood work there and use "Hippocratic Oath doesn't say anything about pricing" as an excuse...

New comment by pauljurczak in "Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find"

pauljurczak — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:43:38 +0000

I think that the more fundamental problem is price opacity. Insurance contracts make price discovery technically more complex, but not impractical. A medical service provider can legally tell you (in many or most states) that they will not disclose the price of the procedure they will perform on you. That kills free market mechanisms, which could drive the costs down. Most people don't even care, thinking "insurance will pay for it".

New comment by pauljurczak in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

pauljurczak — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:20:23 +0000

A bit of evil now and then, perhaps?

New comment by pauljurczak in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

pauljurczak — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:17:47 +0000

Good point. In 0% to 100% capacity cycle, the battery will be dead long before 5000 cycles. OTOH, listed capacity may already take into account a more gentle 20% to 80%, or less, cycle. https://www.tesla.com/megapack doesn't provide specs, though.

New comment by pauljurczak in "A Vision of Russia as a Country That Runs on Violence"

pauljurczak — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:03:39 +0000

I don't know whom you are quoting, but none of this was in my post.

New comment by pauljurczak in "A Vision of Russia as a Country That Runs on Violence"

pauljurczak — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:34:09 +0000

Perhaps we could apply a data driven assessment, to find which countries run on violence, e.g. people killed domestically, abroad, per country, per capita. The results may be surprising to many and not consistent with the mainstream narrative of the Collective West.

New comment by pauljurczak in "Learn Modern C++"

pauljurczak — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:40:33 +0000

It has not happened yet...

New comment by pauljurczak in "Learn Modern C++"

pauljurczak — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:39:15 +0000

True. This is not a modern C++. It is a futuristic C++. Use {fmt} library in the meantime.

New comment by pauljurczak in "Learn Modern C++"

pauljurczak — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:34:08 +0000

No, he meant backslashend.

New comment by pauljurczak in "AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture"

pauljurczak — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 07:59:02 +0000

How do you use these intrinsics on an APU? https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html ?

New comment by pauljurczak in "GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving"

pauljurczak — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 05:49:42 +0000

Here is a quote from https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/a0w3nb/way...:

"Back in the Waymo office, a “remote assist driver” can view the feeds of eight of the vehicle’s external- and internal-facing cameras and a dashboard showing what the software is “thinking,” such as if it is preparing to stop, or the position of other objects around it. The remote drivers can monitor multiple vehicles at once. If a vehicle gets stuck, the remote assist driver can tell the car how to drive around a construction site or some other obstacle by using their computer to manually draw a trajectory for the car to follow."

New comment by pauljurczak in "Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers"

pauljurczak — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:32:07 +0000

Not sure if your post is sarcastic, but: 1. Russia is highly unlikely to lose. 2. Ukraine was planning and implementing escalatory moves to keep the West engaged. 3. The end of the world is not in strategic plans of either side, but it may happen as a sequence of tit-for-tat moves with a little help of an accident or two.

New comment by pauljurczak in "Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers"

pauljurczak — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:31:48 +0000

I should be a required viewing for all enthusiasts of escalation of conflict with Russia. When the shit hits a proverbial fan, it will be too late to start thinking...