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I’ve really been waiting for gas stations to jump in on this. Tying it to vehicle manufacturers just doesn’t make that much sense to me, not nearly as much sense as using the companies whose mission is already to deliver energy to vehicles. You need a tiny fraction of the infra for electric charging that you need to supply gas. Shell or Chevron could EASILY ink deals with, say, Starbucks, to put one or two chargers in every Starbucks parking lot in the country and just sit back and laugh as the money rolls in. And yet, they just keep pushing for exclusively fossil fuels.
AFAICT, the charger network is a huge part of Tesla’s value proposition. Laying off the entire 500 person team like this is going to be a massive, massive disruption no matter what anyone says, you can’t just patch it with [checks notes] an entirely different team. It’s going to take that new team months to get up to date, put out fires, find their bearings, etc. and by that point, issues are already snowballing. The rapport and contacts problem is also going to be enormous; basically shit canning all of the company’s industry/logistics ambassadors is what, in any other light, would be called a disaster. This is going to be a clusterfuck, and that’s before any competitors interested in starting their own charger network start scooping these newly available specialists up.
It’s incredible to see this man still idolized, even by bosses and other execs, as he tanks not just one but two household name businesses AT THE SAME TIME.
That’s how I was using it; I ended up spending as much time as I was saving going around and cleaning up after it and/or second guessing myself. Basically, because it only operates in the context of the file you’re working in, it will suggest garbage half the time if you have to work with resources from other files.
VS Code. It’s dead easy to use, has a ton of useful plugins, and it’s customizable while also being enjoyable to use right out of the box.
For AI assisted coding, I use Cody or GPT-4 data analysis on my personal projects. I tried copilot and found that it actually made my productivity worse. Often as not, I found myself stopping and second guessing whether I was stupid or if it was copilot, and it was usually copilot. GPT-4 is really great for problem solving a specific problem or getting some feedback on some bad smelling code, and Cody works great for helping to write my code faster.
This is how we end up needing patient ratio laws. “What do you mean our nurses are only taking care of eight patients each? How long does seeing a patient take, anyway? What do they even do all day?” -Someone who’s never done a real day of work in their lives*
*Or they once “worked” (but couldn’t be fired) for a year or two at their dad’s blue collar company, but weren’t dependent on the wage, so now they can say they “know what it’s like”.
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Tbh, yeah. I think the reason Biden is a tough sell is that his presidency has been a continuation of a decades long tradition of not dealing with the real problems in our society. The president isn’t exactly at fault, because it’s the legislature that refuses to meaningfully deal with any real issues and the courts that enforce that learned helplessness, but they catch the blame because they’re the closest we have to an HMFIC.
What bothers me is that the Biden admin seems resigned to this fate and has now made addressing hidden/shitty charges a priority for their election platform. Like, cool, but we’ve got 99 fires raging, and hidden, shitty charges MIGHT be number 99. The Biden administration has done a lot of things that I agree with, but the only even remotely meaningful change has been the Amtrak revitalization which, tbh, could have been much more aggressive. I’ll also give Biden credit for (seemingly) starting to right the ship in terms of federal agency appointments. It’s like, the ship is fucking capsizing, but the electrician has showed up and he’s going to finally fix that flickering light. Like, okay, great, but that’s not the priority at the moment, in case you haven’t noticed. I’d like it a lot more if the Biden administration was pounding the fucking table when they’re blocked on attacking big policy issues. Put the republicans on the defense, entreat the American people to get involved and call their legislators, scream this shit from the rooftops, act like it’s a problem and you’re passionate about fixing it. Instead, we’re getting probably flimsy legislation on hidden fees.
I know sure as fuck I won’t get this stuff from the Republicans, so I might still vote for Joe, but it’s hard to be enthusiastic when there’s no appetite for having the big fights that we really need to be having.
Yeah, you know, that [checks notes] one copy of a book that the lending library was able to lend* was really eating into their profit margin. Honest to God, they probably spent more money on lawyers over this shit than they’ll ever recoup, and it just makes them look stupid, greedy, and stupidly greedy.
*I think it’s one copy per actually book that’s owned. Just like you can’t lend you friends more copies of a given book than you own.
My big concern with this and the new digital standard for images that they’re proposing is that it looks to make the internet less anonymous than even in-person interactions. To me, that’s a complete destruction of one of the most valuable features of the internet. To some extent, anonymity is a shield against tyranny; a government can’t exactly come and drag you off for re-education if they can’t tell who made the image mocking the dear leader. No matter who you are or how you identify politically, we should be able to throw our tomatoes anonymously if we do choose, without threat of Google telling the Chinese or American governments who threw them.
This is Google’s biggest problem, I think. They’re so flaky on their products and services, I find myself not wanting to bother trying things out in case they don’t become popular enough for Google to maintain. I saw a lot of the same remarks about Stadia, and though I seem to remember Google assuring Stadia was playing the long game, well, we see how that played out.
I think the problem here is that there’s willful recklessness buried in the risk taking. It’s like running a shady skydiving operation and being like “yeah, the professionals are full of it and just want my money, you don’t really have to repack the chutes carefully, just stuff that shit in there, it’ll be fine. Trust me bro, it’s worked for me, like, five times.”
This is really cool, but it would have been cooler if they’d named their scouting missions Hugin and Mugin, since they’re Odin’s ravens that scour the earth for secrets to give to Odin.