Self driving has potential to be better than humans. However lacking independent analysis I have no idea of it is. The only people who are taking have reason to lie with statistics.

Release the data- all of it- so we can figure out the truth.

Check on your monitors, but also listen with terrible things like phones, cheap Bluetooth speakers, soundbars and other garbage. That is what most people use so it needs to sound acceptable on them.

You turn the regular down because the springs are compressed when they are up high and they will eventually fatigue and wear out. Realistically they probably will last longer than the compressor itself so I’m not sure if it matters or not.

As for the setting, that depends on the tools. If you are just inflating tires, it doesn’t matter how high you go. Go when high is good because that puts more air in the line when start. Some tools particularly paint sprayers need lower pressure, so you need to turn the regulator down. For a typical home compressor, everything else can handle the max pressure. There are high power industrial compressors or things they use to fill scuba tanks that put much more pressure and then you need a regulator to turn down to a safe pressure for the tool if you are using them, but odds are you aren’t.

That is an example of the system not working. That they are doing this implies that maybe the system has been fixed. It is hard to know.

Even hand coded projects need more than 6 months before I’ll replace anything in my stacks. Too many projects start with great intention but then the founder gets bored (life gets in the way?) and they go unmaintained. Really I’m looking for projects that enough developers have got involved in that I can be confident it won’t go stagnant. I could be one of those developers, but I don’t have enough time to contribute to all the different projects I use (I barely have time to contribute to the one project I maintain)

The system is working: nobody is perfect, but we have redundancy in place to detect problems and fix them latter.

The real dangerous systems are the ones where problems are covered up and ignored. You will get a false impression that they are safe until it is too late.

For the simple cases, a language package manager is easier to write and makes things easy. However, simple cases aren’t at everything and for the more complex cases, such as what C and C++ is commonly used for, a language package manager is not complex enough to handle all the little weird special cases and so it would be a bad idea.

Those who use a language for something complex will not use the built-in package manager. Realistically though, very few people are writing complex software and so this objection, although real, is probably a pedantic thing that doesn’t affect you.

How doesn’t it tow, and what is the cargo capacity? To me trucks are about work. I hate 4 door trucks because to get cargo space compromises either length or need space. I had one before and it was not fun to drive but I used that full length bed. I have need to haul a big trailer as well. If it is the family I’ll drive a car. (Spreading of cars, I want a tiny car as they are so much more fun to drive)

I disagree. I will drive regardless for a 300 miles trip because then I have my own car when I get there. No worry about trying to rent a car. Don’t forget that by the time the airplane takes off I’ve already driving 1/3rd of the way there (half an hour to the airport, which I arrived at an hour early for security). By the time I get my rental car and get where I want to be - my personal car is only 10 minutes behind. I also used a lot less fuel in my car than the ticket price and we haven’t even paid for the rental car (or taxi)

Those who don’t have a car have different considerations, and this is aimed at Europe where that is more common. But then anyone who doesn’t have a car in Europe should live close to a high speed rail station (note that I said should - large parts of Europe need to get their act together and build better rail)

That is very much a “it depends”. Tracks are narrow, but very long: they have a much larger ecological impact that a runway. However tracks can handle a lot more people than a runway or two.

If the tracks are between two large cities (and the smaller cities on the way) then they are the much better option. This is the most common case by far - most people live in a large enough city to support high speed rail.

However building tracks to every small town for the few passengers that would use them is an ecological disaster and so planes like this running a few times a day to a large city (where you can then get on the trains) is the better ecological choice.

Of course in reality high speed trains are around 300km/h (world record is around 600km/h - but at those speeds the aerodynamics of altitude make the airplane better). I didn’t find a speed in the article, but I would make an educated guess that they are planning on 600-700kmh speeds. Which sounds fast, but if there is tracks the train wins because a station is likely to be closer than the airport plus there is no arrive one hour before your flight rule.

The article didn’t say capacity, but the picture suggests around 100 passengers. Either your town is too small for this, or your town is large enough to build tracks. In the first case you want 25 passenger airplanes. In the second case this is an ecological disaster - just build the tracks to the city.

Your take isn’t quite right. Debt is only worth having when the long term payments are less than the long term value. Value is not just money, but don’t lose sight of money. Dept is automatically paid off when you die, which is sometimes a consideration though only rarely. However in between the question is what could you do with the money going to payments instead.

Buying a house - most of your payment would go into rent anyway and you have to live someplace. As a general rule of thumb if you will live in the same place for at least 7 years buying is better, but YMMV. When the house is paid off you live there rent free.

Buying something for your business - check with an accountant, but you should be able to make enough money with it to pay it off and make a nice income.

Buying collectable art. I’m not against it, but it is common for art values to collapse as what is “in” changes. It is also common for tastes to change. Thus not a thing even if you can afford the payments.

The problem is the math is correct on paper. However in the real world people who do the math tend to not translate correctly to the real world - they see the math and they don’t save anything while also keeping the loan. People who hate debt are more likely to pay it off, and then put something into savings so they don’t have to get more debt later.

Lesson: hate debt.

Probably more expensive than AliBaba. Which might or might not mean better quality.

I don’t know that culture, but in general those are questions they learn not to say. Perhaps they point to a place “there” and that is enough.

When translating from a gendered language to English (which doesn’t grammatically require a gender for everything) I often has to guess was gender important or not - sometimes this is not obvious.

I’m researching building my own because I’m so fed up with only being able to find garbage. Good luck in your journey. I haven’t built my own yet, but all I lack is the time to focus on a project.

They exist, but they are not yet generally available in the real world. We can ignore them today, but who knows what next year will bring. When I know I will change my position.

First of all because they are cheap and easy. Mice can live in a small cage, don’t eat much, and don’t live long. Mice also can be forced to eat whatever diet you want, (unlike humans - nearly all diet studied in humans should result in “in conclusion we were unable to get the subjects to eat their assigned diet”) That means you can do a study in a lab quick and cheap.

While mice don’t generalize, there is a lot we can learn from them. We just need to remember the limits of mice studies and not generalize to anything other than mice (and even mice is questionable since lab mice are often genetically different from wild mice, sometimes intentionally). So long as you remember the limits mice are valuable.

Copper slowly dissolves in tap water, so the pipes are only expected to last about 70 years. While we don’t have long term data on PEX, it so far is looking good and plenty of experts expect it to last longer than copper.

You think you can rent a car with the savings. Until you go to pick up the car and it isn’t there. That has happened more than once to people I know.

I have a modern EV. I’m describing my reality. It has plenty of range for everything until it gets cold. that range is more than 300km, and it cannot do my regular trips when it is cold. I found this out the hard way last winter, and when I checked there was exactly one charger in range (I was visiting friends in a poor rural area well off the beaten path) - a level two charger that only gave a few km per hour meaning I needed a long lunch someplace where I didn’t want to be just to get enough range to get home. At least nothing went wrong because I was well under that 20% buffer when it was deadly cold outside.

At -25 the difference between C and F a rounding error. Which is why I didn’t specify units.

Pretending EVs have no flaws is not helpful. I won’t too back, but in not blind to the flaws. Maybe your reality is different but you are not everyone.