The question of when to compress the air in the tank is an interesting one. Ideally you’d use the rockets for acceleration, breaking and cornering; which is all the time.

So probably the compressor will run all the time.

You’ll have to do a lot of modelling to work out the best time to use the rockets, my instinct is that fast cornering is the best use of the rockets. Maybe with a boost button to get you off the line fast at the beginning.

From the marketing materials it looks like straight line acceleration is being prioritised tho, so you charge the tank during braking and cornering.

Agreed, if a company wants to fill roles it advertises on linked in. Maybe the rules need updating.

> Additionally, without pretty extensive work there is no means of physically disabling the telemetry

My car has a fuse for the antenna module. You can remove this fuse to block all data transfer. Have a look at the fuse box diagrams for the minivans you are interested in.

I find the rangers evolution into a proto police force fascinating.

It starts with being ready to help people who are having health crises. Then when a serious crime happens the community wants it to be investigated, and they call the only organised group that can help.

Alpha school struggles with the kids who are a bit slow.

If you’re the sort of kid who gets everything right first go then you join the “rocket ship” and spend 2hrs a day with AI then play for the rest of the day. You would do well in any school.

If you don’t get it right quickly then you join the “Pirate Ship” and have to spend all day grinding and obeying AI while your friends play. It seems pretty terrible.

https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/fourth-report...

I’m learning French and I’ve tried both AI and a remote tutor from Cameroon.

The tutor from Cameroon is much better.

She tells me when I’m getting the basics wrong and designs lessons to go back and fix the basics.

AI loves to tell me how great I am and do lessons at the frontier of what I understand to make me feel good about how much progress I’m making.

Perhaps tell the AI that it should rather "praise" you as much for the progress that you make as a Chinese parent.

:-)

(to make it clear: this was a joke, even though I'd actually be interested whether this works)

I think OP means the existing open source ecosystem, things like the Python requests library.

There’s a real risk that AI kills contributions to traditional open source projects, and we all move to custom libraries written by our own AI.

Why is a try/catch wrapper clutter but a switch case is not?

I had assumed that there would already be a switch/case because I was going with the example in the code of there being three pseudotypes (bid, ask, and reserved). So it seemed natural to me to use a switch statement to have it execute the code specific to them, and that doing so would be less cluttered than not having the reserved option and instead doing a switch/case (or if/else-if) for bid/ask and a separate try/catch wrapper in case it was a null object.

Edit: to be clear, I agree that the distinction is not nearly as sharp if it's just a case of "is the object valid or not"

Manageable during peacetime.

In a war with another major power resources would be stretched thin and depriving bases of food would reduce combat effectiveness.

Sure but that won't happen in Guam or Hawaii. Guam would be evacuated first.

Also these same things apply to any other major power (perhaps more so) who would also see their resources stretched then and their bases deprived of food to reduce combat effectiveness.

You absolutely can deny long term productivity gains.

Pre AI it took 100 engineers 5 years to get into a legacy code situation. Once you’re in a legacy code situation it’s very hard to add new features and your code is full of bugs. Fortunately most old companies with legacy code are making loads of money so they can pay the increased development costs to add features to their legacy code.

Now with AI five engineers can build a legacy codebase in six months.

Why five? What do the other four do?

Amateur numbers. I can build a legacy codebase in an afternoon