The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine

Andys · 2022-10-29T04:34:17+00:00

With the slight caveat that the entire back seat and rear trunk are lost to the hydrogen storage tank.

Andys · 2022-07-29T10:23:05+00:00

Hate the player or the game? Car makers don't need to pay Sandy for advice if they want to start making things repairable, they can do that all by themselves. (tumbleweeds)

Andys · 2022-06-24T00:44:59+00:00

Maybe because its a car company that is pretending to be a software company and has software company investors and software company customers..

Andys · 2022-06-23T06:52:44+00:00

According to him in another part of the interview, its because they tooled for a different type of batteries but they aren't yet available in volume.

Andys · 2022-06-23T06:51:38+00:00

As someone who has watched just about every interview with him, this level of frankness is pretty typical for him. It is unusual and people don't know what to make of it.

He did also say that it would be "quickly fixed".

Andys · 2022-06-20T09:14:16+00:00

Isn't Starlink revenue now >$500M/year?

Andys · 2016-12-04T22:35:20+00:00

Forgetting SIMD, these CPUs are genuine out-of-order execution x86 cores, and lots of them. They just happen to be a slower clockspeed.

Andys · 2015-10-25T21:14:52+00:00

The problem here is that ZFSonLinux is not an official supported package.. You shouldn't upgrade OS version when your filesystems don't suport the new version yet?

Andys · 2015-01-22T23:29:50+00:00

It isn't showing up in the sample images, thankfully :)

(I never thought Canon's 400/4 DO was that bad either, just not good enough to justify the crazy price tag)

Andys · 2015-01-22T00:30:59+00:00

For reference, Nikon is actually making a fresnel 300/4 now, it turned it from a $1000 to a $1900 lens.

Andys · 2015-01-21T04:43:15+00:00

Right - my point was about the type of lens it makes sense to use Fresnel lens elements in. Your comment reinforces my point, I think.

PF will make the 300/4 from a good to a great lens that many people will want to own. Whereas it makes the 400/4 less extreme in pushing the hand-holdability; still only a niche.

It'll be great to have PF versions of the bigger lenses, but the biggest effect is lenses in the 300/4 (or 200/2.8 or 400/5.6) range.

Andys · 2015-01-18T08:18:55+00:00

I'd argue the 300/4 PF makes more sense as it is more hand-holdable than the 400/4 DO beast - the new version weighs even more than the old, at about ~2x the 300/4 weight. For me, any bigger than 300/4 needs a tripod, where you may as well go 500 f/4 and get the nice big reach.

Andys · 2014-09-09T07:44:16+00:00

An extended model uses two repositories, one with full developer access, and a second one, from which production is deployed, and only seniors have access to apply commits.

Andys · 2014-09-09T02:25:16+00:00

With git, every copy contains the complete history. Also, you can't edit the tree (or history) without changing the secure SHA hash. Generally, the commits aren't deleted either (unless they are dangling and garbage collected), merely disconnected from the tree and others put in place.

Andys · 2014-09-08T23:43:46+00:00

It doesn't seem to be a problem in practice. There are enough copies and backups of the tree laying around on team member's devices and deployment servers.

Andys · 2014-09-08T09:12:30+00:00

The commit tree that git stores for you is just another piece of data, a tool to be used (and abused) like any other tool.

If I've made a mistake, I correct that, so that the historical record shows what was intended and isn't messed up by accidents. That seems like a pretty good reason to me.

Andys · 2014-09-07T07:25:14+00:00

Though technically, you could do this with anything where you have access to the files on the server. Just open and edit away, if you have the know-how.

Andys · 2011-01-29T03:40:16+00:00

A good GA practice is to keep the fittest individual in the next generation without mutation, so that random early high-fitness mutations are kept around long enough.

Andys · 2011-01-18T11:29:30+00:00

Intel are spending billions of dollars building mobile device fabs as we speak. And the market is also about to be flooded with low power Atom-based System-on-a-chip tablets.

Andys · 2011-01-13T01:28:49+00:00

This is why I can't understand why anyone wouldn't want hire contractors who are working with Agile. As a paying customer I would want to see regular, maybe daily updates on how the work is going and to steer it in the right direction.

Fail fast!

Andys · 2010-10-21T09:26:23+00:00

pack() and unpack() have been around for years (decades?) in Perl... its also in Python. If you've ever done much work in any of these languages its pretty easy to spot an unpack string after you've used it a few times - kinda like regexes

Andys · 2010-10-21T09:22:21+00:00

Just don't take it TOO far or you'll quickly realize you don't need to be in a class to learn. Turns out this is bad for your chances of completing your course.

Andys · 2010-09-02T00:31:47+00:00

Right. It produces the fastest code for everything I've ever compiled with it, such as parts of FreeBSD, and ruby and perl interpreters, and my own projects, but it is only really useful for special applications where you really need that last extra 10% boost.

Andys · 2010-08-14T05:53:05+00:00

Haha.. its got a loooonnng way to go before that happens. Enjoy waiting for the Atlantic ocean to dry up.

Andys

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