Ford's method of making a profit requires the large volume of sales that only the mass market can provide. They are not designed to profit off of only the early adopter market.

That's not true. The market is not ready for mass adoption. We are barely getting past the "early adopter" stage.
There is a thing called the Technology Adoption Lifecycle. It recognizes that there is not really one market, that there are actually five markets with five distinct sets of customers with different means, different requirements, and different perspectives. We can simplify this for discussion by reducing the first two markets to the "early adopters" and the latter three markets to the "main market". Between these two is a "chasm" that is notoriously difficult, and time consuming, the cross.

The early adopters tend to be far wealthier, they tend to own homes that be updated with their own chargers, these home tend to offer shelter to the vehicles from extreme weather, etc. The preceding makes them ideal customers for a new EV offerings in general. Now add that they also tend to be less risk averse and willing to try new and unproven things. They are now idea customers for the new and emerging EV technology.

They can afford the higher price tags.
There is very little range anxiety as they top off their batteries to full each night when they park in the garage.
There is very little cold weather anxiety as their car is protected in their garage overnight
There is very little anxiety of expensive repairs, the lack of small local inexpensive repair shops.
They can afford a mistake, buying a technology before it is truly ready for the mass market.

Much of the main market simply can't afford the more expensive EV vehicles. Shortages of chargers and unmaintained broken chargers generate legitimate anxiety, as the Ford CEO's charging problems demonstrated on his failed "road trip". As did last winter's example of EVs that failed to start in the morning after exposure to harsh overnight conditions. The main market is terribly innovative, they want to see a reasonable timespan were the new technology is largely working, working for people like them, not people in some idealized situation. We aren't there yet.

We are only now attempting to get past the early adopters, and the chasm between them and the mass market is not built yet.

That's not necessarily the case. If iPhone users are keeping their devices longer, the percentage of new activations would be lower even if the ratio of Apple to Android users remains unchanged. Without additional information, it's not possible to make the kind of conclusions that are being drawn from the data.

It very much had the feeling of "oh noe teh EW".

he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

I think some people fundamentally support this sort of thing because they believe that one day eith enough hard work, they'' get to be the ones raking in heaps cash by screwing over people like they are now.

Oh, how awful, the EU has a privacy law and actually enforces it. Terrible, I know.

As for popups, guess what? No site has to have one. All they have to do is not do shady things with user data. Shouldn't be hard at all, but especially American sites can't manage. Open up some of the privacy policies. Some list more than 1000 sites they share your data with.

Sometimes it is, but as always, "it depends". It's always aluminum for aircraft and overhead cables since it has superior resistivity per unit weight. For buried cables it's a tradeoff, but as always it comes down to money. As the price of copper goes up, the tradeoff tips towards aluminium.

Your comment makes no sense. That does matter if you wish to be understood.

For most call center inquiries, AI might actually be better than people. And it saves people having a brain-deadening job. However, there needs to be an easy escape to an actual person for those edge cases that the AI cannot help with. Of course, there won't be. Just like today: you can go to the support page of a lot of companies: There's an FAQ, maybe there's a chatbot, but for anything else you are just screwed...

As a family man, I can tell you that you won't find anything more amazing than being a Dad.

For you, personally. If someone follows your advice and finds that's not the case, then, well, that's a bit of a permanent situation.

And statistically, well...

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychol...

Anyway I have no kids. My brother does but seems desperate to live vicariously though them which doesn't lead to happiness because they aren't interested in the same things.

You won't need to tell yourself to get up and go, not ever again, not until they leave home.

Observation of other parents strongly indicates that is not in fact true for a lot of people.

Why on earth do you think that the grid must be made from copper?

Copper has about 1.6x the conductivity of aluminium, which means you need about 1.6x the area of aluminium as you do copper for the same cable resistance.

Aluminium is a LOT cheaper than copper and a lot less volatile (making costs more predictable).

This is why there are very many cable manufacturers selling aluminium power cables for undergronud use as well.

You.

Indeed but I can't really work out and you haven't explained why you are so angry with me responding to "is it the year of the Wayland desktop" with "probably not when Wayland based desktops missing common desktop features and are rather more fragmented with tooling".

The thing is both of those are demonstrably true.

But it seems to really really piss you off that it's true to the point where you think I should whip out a text editor and make it not true, so presumably you have less to be angry about.

You are way too emotionally invested here. It's really not my job to find a solution that will be accepted to window positioning on Wayland desktops so that you don't have to be fuelled with rage when someone points out it's missing.

If you want people to stop pointing out problems with switching to Wayland, it's on you to fix the problems. Angry as you are you won't succeed into shouting people into submission.

Some people are good at never losing those things. I'm not.

I'm not either, but it wounds like you are a somewhat extreme case. Do you have ADHD by any chance?

But even if you never forget anything, there's nothing like going about your life without ever carrying anything in your pockets. It's truly liberating.

I mean... maybe that's a consequence of losing stuff a lot? I often want my phone for navigation or transportation times. I have certainly done it the old way in the past, but there's nothing quite like not knowing if there's a huge traffic jam and the bus is never going to arrive or if it's round the corner. Plus there are no good RFID bike locks.

But also I guess I've just never felt bad about having stuff in my pockets. I almost always carry a pocket knife. Never know when it's going to be useful!

eh, why?

That makes no sense.

It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.

If you're buying a $10,000 Epyc processor, you're presumably paying a heavy premium for being able to have a very large system image. It's something of a waste to buy those CPUs if your workload is embarrassingly parallel.

Why not make a server product at that point.

Why bother? You don't buy a mac for the bang per buck, you buy it because you need a mac. If you want a build farm to CI test your iOS, you need a fleet of macs. Apple get to charge their high margins whether the case sits in the dark or not.

Like popping into any store to do the groceries and simply waving my hand to pay instead of fumbling in my pocket, only to realize I left my wallet at home or something.

Is that something that happens often?