I don't even blame Tesla too much for going for minimalism in its initial design, since that was the epitome of futuristic at the time, and Tesla was still pretty busy just managing to pull together enough various pieces and parts to build an entire vehicle. But things have moved on and in a lot of ways it seems like they aren't leading the charge any more, or perhaps even keeping up, and in 2026 it is accepted that a luxurious modern interior is not just the biggest possible touch screen attached (and not even integrated!) to the dashboard.

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My sister has an EV6 and nothing but good to say about it.

He argues that human preferences for human connection -- from podcasting audiences to romantic partners -- will sustain an economy for human labor simply because it is human.

It's outright funny how precisely this coincides with the story from yesterday:

Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas

People now do a tiny amount of manual labor compared to before the industrial revolution.

But he didn't say egalitarian, he said everyone can have everything they need. Big difference. Still doesn't mean he's right, of course.

The impressive part of this demo was the fluidity of movement and balance, and that part is not remote control. Just look at that disastrous humanoid robot demo from Russia a few weeks ago. However the life part of this demo showed nothing in the way of manipulating objects which is disappointing. The battery self-swapping shown in the video is really cool, I wish they had live demoed that.

Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.

Ahh the mythical new users. I'm not convinced they actually exist. All that ever happens in my experience is you do alienate the long-time power users.

Gnome can do what it wants. I don't use any gnome applications anymore. The minimalist, hide-everything UI fad has been really bad for usability for me. No thanks. I once loved developing in GTK+ but now I just use Qt. Kind of sucks to be stuck with C++isms, but it is a very nice toolkit. Oh and it supports middle-click paste, even on Wayland so it can't be that hard. Besides that I prefer the KDE traditional way of doing things. I sincerely hope firefox does not follow down this road of removing useful features. I use middle click paste in firefox quite often. It's totally handy to have two clipboards essentially. Please keep it, firefox devs!

I disagree. I used to listen to NPR a lot, but finally got tired of it and quit because the majority of the stories are about some minority interest group angle. Story after story, hammering home the same narratives over and over. I think they're just doing what they think is right, but most of their stories are on social issues and all of their commentators have the exact same mindset.

It's interesting that he chose not to co-opt public broadcasting for his own propaganda and instead chose to shut it down and rely on his good friends at Fox to do the propaganda for him. Had this been Russia, Putin would have put money into public broadcasting (and thumb screws of course), not cut it, and use it as a propaganda tool. Along the way of course Putin eliminated and co-opted private media companies until now there really only is the state-run media for news and political opinion, and dissenting voices are very effectively quelled and even disbelieved by most Russians. This is happening in the US now too under the threat of civil litigation by the president (so weird that people now think this is normal and acceptable). It's just a slightly different path is all.

Let's be clear. No one thing is a prelude to fascism. But it's certainly an interesting step and one of many. The GOP has wanted to end public broadcasting for decades. I think it's mainly about money and power. They want to control the narrative and make money off of it (Rush Limbaugh was one of their heroes). They used to be afraid to cut things like public broadcasting when they were in power just like how until recently all Conservatives in Canada would never have dared to try to eliminate the Canada Health Act. Trump has certainly emboldened right wingers' worst and most base instincts. Oh there I go with my TDS again. Need more meds. Oh wait, can't afford them now.

This whole thing sort of reminds me of a funny line from Yes Prime Minister where Humphries is explaining that even though most people don't (or can't) go to the National Theatre. they want it funded because it's nice to know that it's there, similar to the Church of England.

If I had such a great solution to getting perfect information from crowdsourcing I suppose I'd be a rich man.

I experienced the same as others, I tried to contribute to stack exchange but was rejected, never met some criteria and never bothered to figure out how to do so.

Gatekeeping (quality assurance) is their only value-add. It is the essential problem with crowdsourcing (if you manage to draw a crowd in the first place).

The overall average debt for bachelor's grads is $30K. It's not nothing. It's a car. But it's not enough to justify becoming an electrician instead of an electrical engineer.

I think they'll get here, just later than everywhere else due to tariffs. Then we'll see if Americans actually buy them.

I own a 2024 EV Mini Cooper which is a really nice car with a really short range - about 100 miles. It fit how we used our previous gas Mini (mainly my wife's commuter) and she just likes how Minis handle and are easy to park. But it was never a big seller, most people expect more range for the money.

That's true. In a western, democratic capitalist society, the sociopaths end up running for office and very successfully tricking the normal people into voting for them, probably because normal people want no part of the toxicity that surrounds the halls of power. The civil service seems to, at least until recently, attract fairly honest, altruistic people who want to serve their country and fellow citizens.