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If Tesla never rose, the world EV market outside of Tesla would have seen precisely the same rise. would have seen the same rise _eventually_. I know from a friend that worked R&D …

Are ISO standard American football fields defined as 100 or 120 yards?

Having camera at home/yard is no issue Only if the camera is angled in such a way that it only sees your property. A door bell camera that can also see the public road in front you…

The big problem is that universities basically never hire or promote based on a persons teaching ability. One of the best lecturers I had at university was a postdoc who didn't get…

Pop in to publish your article, return to whatever else you had been doing after. Nothing is stopping you. I've published papers and presented at academic conferences while working…

Hiring someone else do the homework/exams on their behalf! We definitely should allow that for MBA students, since that will most closely mirror what they'll be doing once they get…

The working is the bulk of available exam marks but the calculator only gives answers Knowing what the answer is supposed to be makes it much easier to reverse engineer the working…

if one looks at completion rates of any online courses (Udemy/Coursera - under 4%) As someone with a 96+% 'failure' rate on Udemy/Coursera I honestly don't see the relevance of thi…

I think it's unreasonable for any app to be so slow to launch that this matters. That doesn't change the fact that very many apps are in fact that slow that it does matter.

Is there a lot of programming in civil engineering? Most civil engineers don't do a lot of programming, but virtually all civil engineering companies have people on staff that prog…

Civil engineering uses a lot of C#, mainly since it is the main language for writing plugins and extension for most of the big software packages. Python is probably a close second.…

My core memory of SGI workstations was not that they necessarily were super fast when it came to pure flops (especially towards the end of their life), but how smooth and solid the…

I wonder where this graph gets it's data from They've apparently written their own web crawler that attempts to infer what language is used based on a bunch of, unspecified, heuris…

Which countries are you thinking about? Honestly haven't seen a company in the EU self hosting email for probably 15 years, and I used to run the email server at a company.

I've just launched the application Honestly even this is questionable. If a running app gets focus between me asking for the new app to launch and that app actually launching, I pr…

attacked people driving the cars Did this happen? And if so in what number. Dealerships got attacked and cars got vandalised, but are there any records of the people driving Teslas…

Most countries don't have this advanced classes thing. UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France are the systems I'm aware of and they all have different levels of maths you can study…

So you're agreeing that Algebra I is viewed as an "advanced" class No, I'd say Algebra I isn't an advanced class, but rather the "gatekeeper" class you have to pass to get into the…

Who is pro-GIL Nobody is pro-GIL per se. But a lot of people were pro-No-Single-Threaded-Performance-Desegregation. The first GIL-removal patch was submitted all the way back again…

3dfx never really competed with SGI since they were never compatible with the commercial and scientific software that people bought SGI machines for. Nvidia on the other hand (most…

who is doing super shady appearing online gambling? At a guess, mostly people who for various reasons aren't allowed to gamble on more 'legit' sites, either because of their age or…

In most cases if you want to machine harvest you have to design your field around that. A vineyard, for example, that is designed to be machine harvested looks very different from …

Its a simple language It really isn't, and that is why the install and setup tools are so problematic. They have to hide and overcome a lot of complexity.

Sure, but so will SO. On most questions it seems that at least a third of the answers are just wrong in one way or another. At least with an LLM you can just tell it's wrong and ha…

It's fairly unusual to strictly enforce it on foreigners. Every place I've been with a no tattoos policy generally overlook tourists with smaller unassuming tattoos.