Seems very likely this will lead to “professional repackagers” whose business model is “for a fee you may install our fork of curl and we will promptly reply to emails like this”, unfortunately.
Red Hat would be smart to get in on this
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akadruid1 commented on Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric thecanadianpressnews.ca/p... · Posted by u/Kon-Peki
They're also more expensive, so cities buy fewer of them, leading to more cars on the road, worsening the problem
This isn't true:
> Our results indicate that today's electrified bus fleets are roughly cost comparable to their traditional diesel counterparts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X2...
I don't understand how (if?) WordPress has popularity among serious professionals. Extending it without plugins, many of which are paid, is a nightmare. Adding custom fields is laborious, configuring post type display modes is a slog as well.
HN seems to grumble about Drupal but even if your only requirement is a PHP server with a MySQL database connect, Drupal (8+) is just as simple to set up as WordPress and infinitely easier to configure. Older versions may have been less user-friendly but really, just click "Content->Add New->Page" and you're already running at the speed of WordPress.
Wordpress is clunky but it never broke backwards compatibility.
HN grumbles about Drupal because many got burnt by picking the wrong horse. Drupal was the biggest CMS in the world and like a safe bet until they told their users they would have to rewrite their 7 code to go to 8 and their users decided they would rewrite to WordPress[1]. Drupal never regained the trust they lost. They extended the life of d7 over and over but never made a compelling replacement. To this day, 7 is still more widely deployed than 8,9 or 10 ever were[2].
I think it's interesting to observe the fate that Python 3 narrowly avoided. Python 3 wasn't a compelling replacement until at least 3.5. In a nearly parallel universe they're all using torch.rb instead of pytorch.
[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/did-breaking-backward...
akadruid1 commented on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains blog.transitapp.com/go-un... · Posted by u/dotcoma
Ads make money, but not that much. I'm not convinced they are enough to be worth the bother. To have ads you need to pay people in sales to sell them, people to install them (now that this is electronic it is easier than the old paper days, but you need a more expensive tech person to keep them working). At best they are 5% of your gross budget, so not very significant and they often hard harmful to your riders.
5% of a transit authority's budget would be a lot of money! Advertising made £158 million for Transport for London in 2019, much less than 5% of their budget.
> it looks like a research station that could have been on Earth.
It looks like a research station that was designed to be _maintained_ on Earth. Their sense of cleanliness, I feel, is going to cost them in labor and repairability in the long run.
So many integrated panels. A microwave? Plants out in the work area with no shielding and nothing to constrain waste from floating away?
Pretty cowboy lookin' up there.
It looked like the plants are normally shielded by collapsible curtains which were open for the benefit of the video.
Unfortunately the archive link also lacks the full article. I guess the wsj found a way to detect it. Bypass paywalls clean also failed. Same with archive.org
This article from earlier this year covers much of the same ground:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/03/1090603/how-to-r...
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akadruid1 commented on Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/... · Posted by u/rmason
How about a flying drone that drops an inflatable from a few meters above the struggling swimmer?
These exist and have been saving lives for at least 6 years:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/lifegua...