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In the US RWD manual cars have been exclusively sport/GT for decades. They aren't cheap and a hybrid swap and/or daily driving miles would destroy their value.


There are hybrid packages, which are very good for performance applications. A performance oriented conversion, done well, should boost the value.


It's just trying to visualize bang for buck. Not science, much less pseudoscience.

EA ended up getting coopted by people who weren't interested in altruism at all but that doesn't seem like this.


It's an arbitrary metric that creates an illusion of rigor. That looks to me like an instance of the quantitative (or McNamara) fallacy, and a pretty typical application of pseudoscience.


effective altruism is about saying to yourself "I deserve this" and then pretending there's some divine right to deserve it because you'll go outrace capitalisms broad damage.


The first 486 reviewed by BYTE magazine was an Apricot. It was a pretty nice machine compared to the Dells you see advertised just inside the front cover. https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198909_Byte_Magazine_Vol_1...


Yeah man if a barbarian fells a tree in the forest but nobody is around to hear it, is it still barbaric?


That's about the US West. It might as well be a different country, with respect to water. East of, say, Omaha, the concern is more getting rid of water than collecting it.


Low power and high power electronics don't actually have a lot in common other than the broad types of engineers you need to be educating.

China has industrial policy. The country and companies are able to invest in BEV technology knowing that everyone agrees on the direction.


I think there is a misconception that FAANG type coding interviews are trying to find stars. They aren't, otherwise they would not cap the difficulty and have a bank of approved questions which can be crammed via leetcode.

They are testing for diligence just like exams in Confucian based systems.


Definitely not true. Otherwise we would have really fast C++ compilers and no one would ever have implemented hacks like precompiled headers.


You can write code that compiles slow in pretty much any language.

You can maybe even do it in C if you are generating code using scripts or abusing macros.

On the other hand, you can write sane C++ (without stdlib) and clang or gcc is able to compile it extremely fast. Because clang and gcc are really fast.

You can write a rust program without dependencies and it would be extremely hard to make it compile slow unless you are abousing generics or procedural macros. But you can write a 100 line webserver using some framework like axum and it will compile really slow. This is not because Rust is slow to compile or rust compiler being slow.

On the other hand you can write a zig file with a single test and compiling it using Release mode takes 3+ seconds on a modern computer because Zig compiler is extremely slow when using LLVM backend. This is also obviosly not because Zig is a slow language to compile since their own backend (non LLVM) has super fast compilation.


That hack is because of C.

Definitely true when using VC++ with C++20 modules and MSBuild.

It also helps not compiling everything from source as many UNIX folks do.


> Definitely true when using VC++ with C++20 modules and MSBuild.

Lol, sorry, but as soon as MSBuild is involved the compiler can be infinitely fast and you'd still need to be waiting for the build. Also the main problem of MSVC is the slow linker, and that isn't fixed by C++ modules. This is also the first time I'm hearing that C++ modules actually help with compilation speed in real world projects - the best I've heard so far is that they're a bit faster than precompiled header but not by much, which simply isn't good enough for typical C++ projects.


Follow engineering principles and actually test it.

The company behind Cadifra UML Editor is quite happy with their migration, the owner keeps posting about their modules experience on Reddit C++.

Microsoft also has CppCon talks on the matter.

All my C++ hobby projects use modules, as I only care about VC++.


What is the compile and link perfomance that you get then? Numbers on table... I know that even with MSVC, single file rebuild+link of C code at about 100 KLOC/second should be well possible.

You keep posting about obscure products like whatever UML Editor that noone cares about, why would I listen to what they say, and why do you not even link anything to look up?


An obscure application with paying customers, something foreign to many HNers.

Well, somewhere down in one of those blog posts,

https://abuehl.github.io

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/integrating-c-header-...


Founding editor of this magazine works for Mercatus Center which is a F.A. Hayek fan club. You know, the Pinochet guy.

You already know what the conclusion is going to be, the interesting part is how the author gets there.


Nothing, really. You can't build a company on a hack.


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