KenSF

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by KenSF 4mo ago
It still doesn't suck.
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by KenSF 7mo ago
The EV1 predated the Roadster by a decade. Had GM been improving the EV1 for those 10 years, including Lithium Ion batteries, GM would have been far ahead of everyone . . . had they just kept going with a technology that was inevitable. Whe
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by KenSF 7mo ago
We should not forget this is the same company that had an amazing lead on everyone in the electric car market 3 decades ago with the EV1. See "Who Killed the Electric Car [0] [0] https://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/
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by KenSF 8mo ago
Please check out my response to another comment on this thread as so much has changed especially recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712477
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by KenSF 8mo ago
You’re overlooking Hotwire, PWA as a first-class concept, and Hotwire Native — the easiest way to take a functioning web app and migrate it to native mobile apps on both iOS and Android. I’d encourage you to take a fresh look at the new Rai
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by KenSF 8mo ago
To start, you build a standard Rails web app, enabling you to interact with your customers. When you want to build that iOS and Android app, Hotwire Native makes it easy to create an app store app for each. From there, you can add native fe
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by KenSF 10mo ago
HCB is an amazing Rails 8 app. It is the Rails app that is processing $6M/month. https://github.com/hackclub/hcb Excellent work on the mobile app though I would wonder, since HCB runs on Hotwire, why it was not wr
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by KenSF 1y ago
Yes, absolutely we are noticing. As I commented in similar question, check out any one of Irina Nazarova's talks about the startups that are starting with Rails. There are a growing number of them. Rails is having a resurgence. I belie
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by KenSF 1y ago
SF Ruby held one of our meetings at Y Combinator because they are big fans of Ruby on Rails. Check out any one of Irina Nazarova's talks about the startups that are starting with Rails. Rails is having a resurgence. I believe it is bec
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by KenSF 1y ago
In the real world, we have many businesses which will look at ones gov't issued ID, most bars for instance. We have other businesses which will record the information off ones ID, most dispensaries for instance. I will go into the firs
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by KenSF 1y ago
The move away from Scheme has always saddened me. The first thing we learned in 6.001 was abstraction and invariance. These are still the core of writing good software. I still use these principles every day. There is a purity to Scheme. It
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by KenSF 2y ago
as asked repeatedly and never answered on reddit, what is the use case for this?
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by KenSF 2y ago
My vote is 'any 1 election runoff system'[score, star, approval, ranked choice, ...]. Every 1ER is better than first past the post. It would be nice if vote nerds would shut the frak up about this one is better than that on. Open
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by KenSF 2y ago
According to the DMV of CA in 2023 there were 453,180 including motorcycles and trailers. Most vehicles are used very little or not at all where as autonomous vehicles are used most of the time. Also, the NHTSA numbers are for all AVs every
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by KenSF 2y ago
My neighborhood is shown in this video multiple times. Number of times I have seen an AV act dangerously? Zero. Number of times an SUV has hit me while I was legally in a crosswalk lifting me off my feet and throwing me through the air? mor
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by KenSF 2y ago
What amazes me is that none of the stories I have read address the decrease in health costs these changes will bring. “An EPA analysis showed that the Clean Air Act’s benefits outweigh its costs by a factor of 30.” [0] Nor has any one talke