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These range extenders have all the advantages of an EV until your battery runs low.

Not all the advantages though, hybrids need oil changes, transmission fluid changes, water pump, spark plugs, timing belts, etc. all the maintenance burden of an ICE that EVs do not carry.

I’d rather have an ev with a diesel generator in the pickup bed as my “range extender” than a vehicle with constant maintenance needs.


I can dream of hooking up a generator on a trailer…

I also dream of getting a used Nissan Leaf because most of my trips are to and from town 20 minutes away and we already had gas cars that can take longer trips. If my son wasn’t bringing home old cars I might be able to make the space for it but right now I can’t.


> I’d rather have an ev with a diesel generator in the pickup bed as my “range extender” than a vehicle with constant maintenance needs.

You realize you still have all the same maintenance burden with that generator, right?


Yes. That is the question.

I just want to know what's in there. It doesn't need to be artistic at all. They put terabytes of data into the training process and I want to know what came through.

You might find it easier to dial 112, which is also universal and works outside of the USA.

It's a much saner number, though probably easier to pocket dial as well. I'm not sure how far back it was chosen, but 112 would also dial a lot faster than 911 or 999 on a rotary phone.

I think it came about around 2000.

Oh? I never did actually. I had to keep cutting down my goals and even took summer classes.

That wouldn't really make sense since amount of water could vary. Anyway the article says "Each oat meal comprised 100 × g of rolled oat flakes... boiled in water."

I liked the overview and examples. But your program has no output?


Good observation! The shift is intentional - safety-critical code typically doesn't "output" in the printf sense. Instead it returns status codes and modifies state that the caller inspects.

The pulse monitor example returns PULSE_OK/PULSE_ERR_* codes, and the caller queries state via pulse_status(). In a real system, that status feeds into a larger state machine or triggers hardware responses - not console output.

That said, the c-from-scratch repo (https://github.com/SpeyTech/c-from-scratch) does include demo programs with actual output for learning purposes.

The article focuses on the methodology shift rather than a complete runnable example.

Fair point though - I could add a note about where to find working demos.


I like the shift in emphasis to testing over just looking for output, but part of the point of a "hello world" program is to make sure the output is working. If it helps, you could frame it as debug output instead of a result. "Sending pulse...", "Received pulse!".


It doesn't work if the opposition is also organized. For example, a March 2003 Gallup poll showed that 5% of the US population had made a public opposition to the Iraq war, but 21% had made a public display to support the war. Small minorities can't go directly against more popular movements.


I don't think those happely going with whatever the elite says counts the same way?

In political parties there are always these members that vote with the leadership. You usually need way more than 50% support among members to go against them. Dunno how much. In the long term to share is probably closer to 60% but in the short term it might be like 90%. (Made up numbers)


Yeah there were way more people on each side who "supported" them and would have voted for them or something. But the demonstrators against the Iraq war were above the 3.5% threshold which the article says "has never failed to bring about change".


I agree that's what it's saying but it does make the whole statement a bit meaningless.

Essentially the statement is 3.5% succeed unless there's meaningful opposition.


It's not meaningless, as there is a difference between opposition and status quo.


They don't have a single person listed as CEO. It was Ricardo Biasini for a while. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/02/george-hotz-aka-geohot-is-... More recently he was part of DOGE. https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/riccardo-biasini-doge-ag...

Maybe they meant Harald Schäfer (CTO), Alex Matzner (COO), or Adeeb Shihadeh (CPO).


More recently he was part of DOGE

Maximum ooofage


He hasn't been running comma.ai since '22, and even left the board just in November.


He's not the type to run a company. He likes to work on code and he works on tinygrad a lot which comma.ai uses.


sorry not been keeping up. thanks for the info


He (geohot) is still the President of Comma.ai and still owns the majority of the company.


His LinkedIn says he stopped being president in November. https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-hotz-b3866476 I haven't seen any other news about it.


Im shocked Hotz has a LinkedIn. That seems antithetical to his entire existence.


You're not wrong. Read his profile.

    I used to joke about how I used LinkedIn as a dating site, but in the current year this just isn't that funny anymore. The professional managerial class I was mocking is quickly losing its grasp on power, so it's unclear if I'm still punching up.

    How many of the messages here even come from real people anymore? How many of those people have pronouns in their bio? Are they GPT/GPT?

    We have a big task ahead of us to define what the "new business" looks like. Comparatively, the revolution is the easy part.


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