… says Mercedes. Meanwhile China takes over the market with L2+++. 🤡

“Europe will only establish itself as a third superpower if it achieves technological autonomy, with its own cloud and AI, which it currently lacks,” said Ferguson.

The underlying assumption here is that most of the profits go to the cloud and AI providers.

“I have five pounds. Is that enough?”

“No.”

“It costs more than five pounds?”

“No.”

“How much do I have to pay?”

“This is NaN pounds.”

“That means it costs more than five pounds?”

“No.”

“It costs less than five pounds?”

“No.”

“Exactly five pounds?”

“No.”

leaves the shop

(Remember, comparison with NaN is always false)

Looks like a normal branch where someone debugs some GitHub workflow.

Quite a while ago, I wrote this to document my understanding what OOP actually is.

This sentence at the end is interesting:

On the other hand it sounds unlikely that there will be a popular language without object-oriented influences some day, so at least minimal syntax-level support is desirable.

Rust was published like one year later and it can be considered popular by now. Does Rust support OOP via traits? Kind of yes, but so does Haskell with typeclasses.

Most C++ devs blame themselves and not the language though. So it still gets used a lot.

To be clear, the language itself is usually not the big part. You also have to learn the eco-system, libraries, packaging, debugging, etc.

(C++ is still a very “comprehensive” language though)

If you use the SQLite C API like this

    char query[256];
    snprintf(query, sizeof(query),
             "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '%s'", username);
    int rc = sqlite3_exec(db, query, NULL, NULL, &err_msg);

and someone enters Robert'; DROP Table Students;-- as username, it deletes the table Students.

    const char *sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?";
    int rc = sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, sql, -1, &stmt, NULL);
    if (rc != SQLITE_OK) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to prepare statement\n");
        return;
    }
    sqlite3_bind_text(stmt, 1, username, -1, SQLITE_STATIC);

Using this “prepared statement” and “bind”, your code is secured against such SQL injection attacks.

xkcd 242 obviously

They blame the politicians. While there is some truth in it, it is also childish.

You can also try fish, to see what a decked out zsh feels like. 😇

I would assume it is not about the braking itself. However, if there is a crash, then it might interesting if there was a hard braking right before or not.

Denial will also hurt in the long-term. With this annual quota it seems like reasonable compromise.

Android/iOS users: What is “closing“? What is a „program“?

I’m under the illusion that i did figure out how Gimp works. ☺️

Since Level 2 systems do not require expensive laser-based lidar sensors, unlike Level 3, the service can be offered at a considerably lower price.

That was always the tricky part: Level 3 feels nearly the same as top level 2 but is considerably more expensive. The difference between level 2 and 3 for the driver is essentially a legal one, not technical.

And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:

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🪨

Human: There are 11 rocks.

Alien: Oh, you must be using base A. See, I use base 10.

Human: No, I use base 10. What is base A?

I use “m”. Here is how to set the default btw:

git config set --global init.defaultBranch m

So we transition to Ethanol or what? What climate-friendly fuels is he thinking about?

I guess what they want is a smooth transition where they can devise a reliable plan until 2035 when to sell how many cars of what variant.

Worst case would be that they customers buy only ICE cars until 2035 and then nothing because of a ban. Then it makes no sense to build EVs until its too late.