Are you referring to the Apple Orchard? I know most of the sites that had manufacturing fall into the toxic category, but my fuzzy memory is that you worked around there.

I have done work in some former IBM sites, and even the very old ones can be quite interesting. (As an architecture nerd I would enjoy exploring an IM Pei building though.) Only problem is they are abandoned because of hazmat and ground remediation is a ~75-year process.

Your statement would apply if these data center space nutters could certify that everything they launch will reach escape velocity.

For everything else, what goes up, must come down. Right back into our jurisdiction.

Presumably it can help fill undesirable shifts by offering higher pay, but it would seem like you need a huge pool of people to make it work.

Are you kidding with the Lane Assist for 10 or 20 years? Lane assist from 10 years ago? Tesla was the only one that had a functional product for lane centering in 2016, but that is nothing compared to what the autonomous systems can do today. The Japanese cars I have driven recently have pretty functional adaptive cruise control / lane centering, easily on par with Tesla circa 2019, but things have moved forward.

I drive a 2020 Model Y and while it is on the old FSD stack still, surface street driving is just fine. (Highway driving on 4+ lane freeways is miserable though.) It does actually pull over for emergency vehicles (but not reliably enough that I would want to leave it in FSD when I see one coming). It gives way for bicycles by crossing into the oncoming lane if there is time. It will follow the car in front of it through complicated construction zones (but I take control if I am the lead car). It has quirks, but I would score it better than most 18-year old or 80-year old drivers.

"Perfect" is impossible for AVs or humans alike, and when you mix the two you are bound to have some screw ups.

That said, Waymo clearly needs to do better. Tesla seems to keep its number of autonomous vehicles/miles down in order to stay out of the news.

We can't afford to let the success of big tech companies depend on the health of fragile meatbags. We need to get resilient, fault-tolerant AGI in there running the enterprise. Also, unlike meatbags, you don't need $100M stock payouts to convince an AGI to work as a corporate executive.

They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)

Sorry. When you signed up for that discount card a few years ago, you agreed to individual binding arbitration only.

You can replace your entire BMW seat if you like with seats from another vendor. Put in a racing seat, or even install a seat you designed yourself.

This probably was not the brilliant analogy you thought it was going to be. :p

Unfortunately for Samsung the chip business is going to cause a lot of pain in all the other divisions. Apparently phones, tvs, and white goods are all dramatically reducing product offerings, staffing, and general competitiveness.

They have to paint a pretty picture or the backlash will be too restrictive for their goals. The problem is the technology is a long way off and they need a lot of "concessions" to buy that time.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Input energy 6MWh, output energy 4.5MWh: 75% efficiency. It is disingenuous for a manufacturer to state battery chemical round trip efficiency when the user is buying a complete package.

The battery is set with reserves for about 24h of backup, so essentially I have one module for arbitrage and two for backup energy. The parasitic losses account for ~12% of my capacity per day. I have enough PV that it isn't a problem, but for most people it will lead to disappointment.

Let's figure it out together:

test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:5:14: error: expected expression before ';' token
    5 | int x = 1+;

Apparently, Oneplus is a syntax error.

The use-case for Concorde on trans-Atlantic passage was cemented for me when my uncle explained that every time he flew from NYC to London to talk to investors about his company, the stock price went up far more than the cost of his trip on the Concorde, and he could be back in time to sleep in his own bed the same day.

Seems like a no-brainer to me. I'm pretty sure (as others have pointed out) that if it weren't for the Continental-caused accident, the Concorde would likely have flown an additional decade.

Looking at current travel, there is enough demand to pack planes on BOS/NYC-SFO, SFO-HND, etc. routes that I'm sure there's enough business money to pay for supersonic service.