The title here says 100M, but the actual presentation says 1M?
Readit NewsGeertB commented on Apple expects to notify 100M people that they have hypertension in a year appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/brandonb
GeertB commented on Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas blog.adacore.com/introduc... · Posted by u/jaypatelani
There is a special place in my programming heart for Ada since it was my first professional language (back in 1996). It is interesting to see it coming back a bit. Ignoring the language, the culture and history of Ada is a great one. I was around for the fall of the Ada mandate and I got to see the play 'Lady Ada and Castle Mandate'. The community that put that on was passionate and, obviously, quirky.
That one has a special place for me. I was a consultant then and invited to join the chorus even though I wasn't at the more professional level the other cast members were. We did a performance in London and one in St Louis. Still, it was a lot of fun, and how I got to meet my spouse 25-ish years ago.
GeertB commented on Waymo's Quickly Taking More Market Share Than I Expected cleantechnica.com/2025/04... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
I recently visited SF with the fam. Besides riding the old-fashioned cable cars up and down, to and from, our Fisherman's Wharf apartment, it was a foregone conclusion that we'd try out the most contrasting way of transport: a Waymo.
So, we took one to the Golden Gate Bridge park, a 20 minute or so ride. Everything was smooth, clean, nice music etc. The driving was much calmer and frankly more comfortable than any Uber driver we've had. After a few minutes of nervously being in awe, everyone started to relax and enjoying the ride more. We took a few more Waymo's over the next few days, and the experience was consistent.
A few days later as we went to the airport, our erratic Uber driver made us all wish we could have taken a Waymo. Alas, Waymo doesn't yet go there, or on any highways at all, so we'll have to wait for a little longer. However, on our trip we saw both transportation from the past and from the future. There's no doubt in my mind that driverless taxis will not only arrive everywhere, but take over quicker than we may now think.
GeertB commented on Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB js13kgames.com/2024/games... · Posted by u/animuchan
This game is so fun! I spent entirely too much time playing it just once last night, and got to the 1024 piece in the first run. I don't know how long it took me, but it was long. With 2048 my runs are far quicker.
A smart compiler would have used the test (x & (x - 1)) == 0 to verify that x (assumed non-zero) is a power of two. Don't know why Clang didn't do that here.
GeertB commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88
This article really confuses the problems that legacy car manufacturers have with switching to EVs, with EVs in general. EVs work, just look at countries farther ahead in the transition, or ask the 1.8 million people who bought a Tesla last year. The transition is in full swing.
Tesla's excellent supercharger network is already more than sufficient for roadtripping in the USA and Europe, and now is open to non-Tesla EVs. This piece of writing is just a poorly researched bit of trash.
GeertB commented on NASA’s tech demo streams first video from deep space via laser jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-t... · Posted by u/basementcat
That's quite the bandwidth-delay product at 3.3GB.
GeertB commented on Auto Execs Are Coming Clean: EVs Aren't Working businessinsider.com/auto-... · Posted by u/Jerry2
I can only speak for myself and my immediate circle, electric cars seem like a hassle because you have to plan more to charge them. I can't just go on a spontaneous trip and know that almost any point if I need to fill up I can do so, quickly.
Actually, that's mostly false. If you can charge at home, you'll have a fully charged car in your driveway every morning. With the Tesla charging network, you really can charge no matter where you want to go. Typically after 4 hours or so of driving, I'm ready to take a bathroom break, stretch my legs and get a coffee. By the time I'm back the car is charged to 80% or so, good to go for another 250 miles or so.
It seems that the proposed system is an improvement over plants, but not necessarily over the Sabatier reaction driven by energy captured by solar cells. Is that right? How would these compare?