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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

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5 points·by bgarbiak·hace 4 meses·2 comments

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bgarbiak
·el mes pasado·discuss
The cheapest Minis are made by GWM in China, and are using different motors and batteries.

However, comparing prices between cars nowadays is a complicated matter. BMW's iX1 and iX2 (they use the BMW EESM motors) theoretically cost about €55k, but they have been very recently available to lease for about €250 euro per month - so pretty much for the same price as the cheapest electric Renault if leased.
bgarbiak
·el mes pasado·discuss
BMW also makes rare-earths-free motors for their EVs and - at this very moment - theirs are far more advanced. They offer almost twice the power (up to 300kW vs 160kW) and are on a 800v architecture.
bgarbiak
·el mes pasado·discuss
Working in the music industry and not being aware who Rick Rubin is… is a bit weird.
bgarbiak
·hace 5 meses·discuss
It’s not about goodwill. Selling parts is simply a good business. The margins at authorized dealers are crazy.
bgarbiak
·hace 7 meses·discuss
I guess it depends on who you’d ask. BMW made a switch from prismatic cells to cylindrical design only recently, and it looks like the biggest gain was in costs and weight efficiency. The range/capacity ratio didn’t improve that much. Although, to be fair, none of these parameters depend on battery alone.
bgarbiak
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Europe doesn’t need new entrants. They got legacy automakers that are no worse at making EVs than Chinese and American startups.

The problem is: they can’t make them cheap enough to compete with China in developing countries. I’m not sure if they even want to do that at this point, the margins there are so low. It’s easier to just rebadge a Chinese car as your own (Renault and GM already do that in SA).
bgarbiak
·hace 8 meses·discuss
There is also Mercedes eActros line and MAN eTGX. There are already thousands of them in Europe. Funny how that just happened, without fanfares and trillion dollar evaluations.

Speaking of which, I don’t know why would anyone still wait for Tesla Semi or any other up-and-comers. Promised better efficiency sounds good on paper, but means nothing if the product doesn’t exist or is an unreliable prototype with no service support.

Now Chinese want to enter the market with cheaper trucks, but - as the article clearly mentions - these are not yet ready to be used in Europe or the States, and making them ready will increase the price.
bgarbiak
·hace 8 meses·discuss
You can absolutely be a hobbyist photographer for a fraction of $3k. A hobbyist lens collector is a different story.
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
I tried this approach years ago. Now I consider it an anti-pattern. You really don’t want the look of your website/document to be dependent on its structure. Things like li:has( > a + p) - it seems so clever initially, but then you need to have a button instead of an a, or an icon, or a wrapper over entire thing; but only for a single item on the list. You either end up with messy CSS that covers all these scenarios, or you just go back to classes.

I kinda see a potential usefulness of custom attributes, but I’m still not entirely sure how they’d be better than classes. What’s the advantage of [shape-type="1"] over .shape-type-1?
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
https://archive.is/hO6YV
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Well, nowadays, you can implement a lot of logic for forms using HTML and pure CSS, without JS at all. Example:

  form:has(.conditional-checkbox:not(:checked)) .optional-part-of-form {
    display: none;
  }
I’m not saying it’s better (it’s not). Just saying there’s a lot of space between “just HTML” and “a web framework”. It’s worth considering these other options instead of going “full React” from the get-go.
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
How about mobile monitors? Like Uperfect?
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
In that case people (some of them at least) would switch to a different browser. Reducing Chrome market share would be healthy for the web too.
bgarbiak
·hace 10 meses·discuss
It was cool to smoke when all the cool guys in the movies were smoking. One of the reasons it’s not cool anymore is that the cool guys in the movies don’t smoke nowadays (although they do it more often now than they did ten years ago; which is worrying).

The correlation between an exposure and initiating smoking is proved: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27043456/
bgarbiak
·el año pasado·discuss
Trump can make that illegal in no time. „No foreign funds” is a well known method of fighting opposition, tried and tested in many soft regimes (looking for a recent example, Hungary comes to mind).
bgarbiak
·el año pasado·discuss
Uhm, that Polish plane wasn’t shot down. Don’t spread silly conspiracy theories. Polish military spendings were rising steadily since long before the accident, but a significant increase happened after Russian full scale invasion on Ukraine.