It's a type of rock

Not directly, but it sets a course where this might change.

One reason why they're not the same is because the memory representation is different (sort of). This will break FFIs if you allow reordering the tuple arbitrarily.

> 200 years ago the average life expectancy was 30

If you take out infant mortality the life expectancy wasn't all that different from what it is today. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2625386/

Fair point, this was a blind spot for me!

to be fair they said "test for everything"

If it’s things like CJD or other prion diseases then it’s true they don’t test, but AIDS, hep C, and other common blood borne diseases? They’ve been screening every donation since the 80’s.

I would say they would worry if they were even remotely in touch with nature.

I wrote a small thing for adding a `#doc List.find` directive. However, I don't maintain it anymore since I think it doesn't see much use and it's work to keep up on OCaml compiler internals changes (and it's my impression it never picked up much adoption). https://github.com/reynir/ocp-index-top

dbuenzli's down also has a similar feature.

In an electric car? Really? I don't know too much about electric cars, but it's my impression that gears and transmissions are completely unnecessary in an electric car. Please correct me if I am wrong.

There is usually a speed reduction from the motor towards the wheels.

Direct drive or wheel hub motors are uncommon.

The difference is that one fixed gear ratio is usually good enough.

Heavier vehicles more or less need multiple gear ratios for EV drivetrains too.

Precisely. Electric cars almost universally have one fixed gear, with the engine smoothly providing variable torque.

This is a nitpick for sure, but as I understand it, electric motors provide pretty much constant torque throughout their operating range, which is one of their benefits. It's the speed of the motor that varies, and consequently the power, which is a function of torque times speed.

No, electric motors exert the most torque at zero RPM. That's where you can put the most current through the coil, because there's no back-EMF. It's why EVs are so zippy from a stop. The torque-speed curve is a straight line, with 0 torque at max RPM and a constant power.

For synchronous motors. Induction motors (like the auxiliary/dual motors used on something like the Chevy Equinox EV) have a different torque/speed characteristic.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/electrical-motors-torques...

Sorry - not constant power, obviously, since at the extremes the power is 0.

I believe multi-motor EVs sometimes tune the motors to different uses, switching between one or the other (or both) to provide a similar effect as a gear shift.

this is a cost savings feature that was enabled by electric motor torque at low speed and the consumer's willingness to sacrifice high speed operation to focus on city driving.

electric motors hugely benefit from gearboxes, they're not used as a means to simplify and encheapen.

The README has this text:

> For example, if you are using a recent version of OpenSSH, you may wish to explore using the ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax options to have the SSH client exit if it finds itself no longer connected to the server. In many ways this may be a better solution than the monitoring port.

Are you the author? I found a few bugs. For example, using domain/ as the path makes it think there is no path.

ETA: example https://url-parts.glitch.me/?url=https://news.ycombinator.co...