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the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
> But we know how that goes and nobody actually will care about the scooter enough to return or take care of it.

Looking at countries like the Netherlands this is not true. Train stations have rentable bikes which are always available in sufficient quantities.

> So what do we do? Uber-Tesla-Subway pods. I call it by phone, it shows up to my house, either transfers me or lets me dock with the subway and then brings me the last mile just to leave me there for the next thing it has to do.

Individual 'pods' will just never be a sufficiently scalable & ecologically friendly solution for any real city. There's just no way that having several hundred kilos of metal & plastic per individual, along with the space requirements (esp for safety) works.

On the other hand, autonomous & shared 'cars' could replace individual vehicles for hauling / transporting as peak usage would be much lower than for transit.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
if I recall correctly, the fine scales up as time goes on up some (2?) percentage of company revenue. Like most people I would be happier seeing them get a several billion dollar fine right off the bat but so long as it eventually becomes unbearable that's good enough for me.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
I don’t think most theoretical physicists are seeking wealth, they tend to have deeper intellectual motivations.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
This is an interesting idea but is there any description of the soundness of this approach? Any functionality capable of subsuming not just inductive types but higher-inductive types is going to be very subtle. I looked around on the repository but I can't find any formal description of the language or type theory, which is worrying for a proof tool.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
> Some programs in the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus [^1] have no type—i.e. diverging programs.

Nitpick, because those programs have no type they are not members of the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus but only of the underlying untyped calculus
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
The french government has actively promoted the growth of forests / their management for over a century. Today, there are more acres of forests than at the turn of the twentieth century for example.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
from the cursory read of the documentation on the openbsd site it doesn't seem to support TPMs. Setting up the encryption of a disk paritition does seem easier though.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
On some fronts it even feels like things have regressed. Trying to resize an encrypted partition is way, way too difficult. And it seems like GParted doesn't handle LUKS so you're back to manually typing block offsets on the command line.

If you wanted to use a TPM to store the FDE passphrase, well, you have the patience of a saint. Compare this to Mac or Windows where you click a single button and it's all setup, including TPM!

As much as I love linux for server environments, it remains a failure when it comes to modern desktop environments.
the_french
·5 anni fa·discuss
This may be rather naive but wouldn't using an energy storage mechanism for structural purposes be a bad idea?

That could mean that every fender bender now risks igniting the hood of your car.
the_french
·11 anni fa·discuss
The vast majority of European travellers use trains or roads, not air travel.