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Or they don't want to pay a little extra for something that almost no one listens to. I think it's valuable, maybe for my favorite movies I'd want it.

Like all big companies, when something comes along that is growing fast, where they don't have a product, they might choose to buy an existing one to get in the market. On some of …

It is a fact that there was an insurrectionist attack on congress on Jan 6, that there were obvious lies about false election fraud pushed by the president and eventually by the ma…

Do you see Tesla as a snakeoil company today when it comes to their batteries, drivetrain, range, reliability? I wouldn't put Nikola and Tesla in the same categories. Tesla has one…

Just because its convenient doesn't mean I want that. I want less tracking. At least let people opt in to reporting their mileage and paying an annual tax instead of even more trac…

We should get a WA state law passed controlling information access for cars. I'm sure it will be really hard with all the usual suspects against it. Most recent cars have a privacy…

One more piece of this is they endlessly mutate, I don't think in reality there is a limit. Most mutations probably don't help the virus proliferate, might cause it to not be effec…

I never need to restart emacs. It's generally only when I reboot that I have to start emacs again.

It's different this time ;-) In 2008 there was a lot of new construction that wasn't yet sold, and people bought houses out in the boonies sometimes, but they got loans they could …

I'll add a guess for not able to keep charging it's batteries and having enough solar energy to keep it going in the cold.

If the workers aren't important, then they don't need laws to stop them from looking for jobs elsewhere. Are us software engineers more important than those in other countries with…

It's not impossible, it just takes planning and multiple technical steps. Until the last 6 months, no other cars had plug in and charge (with your car telling the charger the credi…

There are few repairs needed so parts don't matter ;-) More seriously I do hope that there can be third party access to shop manuals and repairs though.

Every 2 or 3 months it changes for everyone when they +/- it by $500. It's not a negotiation. It is surprising to me they do this, I cannot understand the tweaking.

Correct! Teslas have been reasonable for a lot of long distance travel with their superchargers for 5+ years. They built chargers between big cities, close enough to each other. Ev…

Can give some more context about this situation? A web search didn't find the obvious answer, other than it was an expensive area.

Ok, maybe not useless. It feels so far away what I imagine human or a dog's "consciousness" that it is hard to see how to rate the jump up from an ant to mouse, dog, great apes, et…

So consciousness is some kind of messy combination of matter, responding to inputs, to connections between particles. This feels wholly inadequate. My human consciousness is reduce…

The 10x class here are not 10x programmers - they have 10x or more the reach because they can be a celebrity/leader on a platform that reaches vastly more people. But the other sid…

Nurses and teachers are more important than me, a programmer. I was reminded of this when my state put me in the last vaccination group. Yet because of supply and demand, but also …

"Sumer is icumen in". I can puzzle that out more than 750 years later, hopefully without false cognates, "summer is a-coming in". It kind of matches the translations. A human being…

It seems like as soon as spacex has more polar satellites they'd be able to match this service with lower latency because they'll be closer to the earth. The only thing spacex can'…

I feel like that's misleading. The key thing you said is outside - inside there is plenty of research about various aspects of the protective value of masks in stopping droplets an…

Ha! Perhaps you have not published a theory paper. I'm on the systems side but theory is real too, even if there is no perf test. Systems papers can benefit from code and data thou…