I honestly loved driving in France...once I realized that parking somewhere near transit (usually at the end of a tram line) was a heck of a lot better than driving my car around in the centre. Outside of the cities, intersections were great (primarily roundabouts), the freeways and tollways were impeccable, and people generally drove well
We (at a public research university in the US) designed a rudimentary CPU, wrote mips assembly, and understood computer architecture for our CS degree. I graduated 6 years ago
Edit: we also did formal methods and proofs as part of core curriculum
Yeah, I have an old Panasonic Sport that I'll take out with some older fellas who live near me in rural Kentucky. They have nice carbon bikes with all the bells and whistles. It's night and day how much harder I have to work to keep up with them
So should Google be regulated as a public utility? I am leaning towards search being a natural monopoly due to the huge resources required to build an index/algorithms/etc
I have been wondering how hard modern search would be to implement. More and more of the world is getting hidden behind walled gardens denied to search.
Reddit, newspapers, Facebook, Twitter, are all locked down or heavily restricted. I am sure there is still a burgeoning small web, but it is increasingly hard to find. Would many consumers notice/care if your search engine only surfaced pages from the top 1000 highest ranked domains? You would actually decrease the amount of SEO garbage you hit from Stackoverflow clones, Amazon listicles, or Grandma's cookie recipe #9381.
We should create non-profit versions of each of the archetype sites that exist. Reddit (forums), Twitter, Search, Email hosting should all have non profit versions ala Wikipedia.
> Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?
I would certainly love the opportunity to do a greenfield data integration / crud application project in logistics. This is definitely the right thing for a passionate senior developer
It would be more politically palatable to pick a Senator Joe Manchin or Governor Andy Beshear. In other words, a Democrat so moderate that they can win in the reddest of states
I have an M1 Air and I test drove a friend's recent M3 Air. It's not very different performance-wise for what I do (programming, watching video, editing small memory-constrained GIS models, etc)
The main factor that's been an issue for me using an electric scooter was road surface quality. Even small potholes and cracks in tarmac make a scooter dangerous.
A bike, electric or acoustic, can go just as fast and be less particular about road quality. A Walmart pedal bike can get you a long way for rather cheap
> The main factor that's been an issue for me using an electric scooter was road surface quality. Even small potholes and cracks in tarmac make a scooter dangerous.
Totally agree. Loss of control, jolts to the rider or potential damage to the scooter
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