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The EV1 predated the Roadster by a decade. Had GM been improving the EV1 for those 10 years, including Lithium Ion batteries, GM would have been far ahead of everyone . . . had the…

We should not forget this is the same company that had an amazing lead on everyone in the electric car market 3 decades ago with the EV1. See "Who Killed the Electric Car [0] [0] h…

Please check out my response to another comment on this thread as so much has changed especially recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712477

You’re overlooking Hotwire, PWA as a first-class concept, and Hotwire Native — the easiest way to take a functioning web app and migrate it to native mobile apps on both iOS and An…

To start, you build a standard Rails web app, enabling you to interact with your customers. When you want to build that iOS and Android app, Hotwire Native makes it easy to create …

HCB is an amazing Rails 8 app. It is the Rails app that is processing $6M/month. https://github.com/hackclub/hcb Excellent work on the mobile app though I would wonder, since HCB r…

Yes, absolutely we are noticing. As I commented in similar question, check out any one of Irina Nazarova's talks about the startups that are starting with Rails. There are a growin…

SF Ruby held one of our meetings at Y Combinator because they are big fans of Ruby on Rails. Check out any one of Irina Nazarova's talks about the startups that are starting with R…

In the real world, we have many businesses which will look at ones gov't issued ID, most bars for instance. We have other businesses which will record the information off ones ID, …

The move away from Scheme has always saddened me. The first thing we learned in 6.001 was abstraction and invariance. These are still the core of writing good software. I still use…

as asked repeatedly and never answered on reddit, what is the use case for this?

My vote is 'any 1 election runoff system'[score, star, approval, ranked choice, ...]. Every 1ER is better than first past the post. It would be nice if vote nerds would shut the fr…

According to the DMV of CA in 2023 there were 453,180 including motorcycles and trailers. Most vehicles are used very little or not at all where as autonomous vehicles are used mos…

My neighborhood is shown in this video multiple times. Number of times I have seen an AV act dangerously? Zero. Number of times an SUV has hit me while I was legally in a crosswalk…

What amazes me is that none of the stories I have read address the decrease in health costs these changes will bring. “An EPA analysis showed that the Clean Air Act’s benefits outw…