Gemini says: "
Epic Games has relied on Perforce (Helix Core) for source control and change management for over 20 years, making it the absolute backbone of their internal development workflows and Unreal Engine architecture.Epic made the transition to Perforce in the early to mid-2000s, right around the time they were developing early iterations of Gears of War and transitioning the original Unreal Engine. Since then, the platform has grown to handle terabytes of source files, binary assets, and the source code for the engine itself.Key reasons Epic has stuck with Perforce for decades include:Binary Asset Management: Games require massive amounts of unmergeable binary files (textures, 3D models, audio), which legacy distributed systems like Git struggle to handle gracefully without extensive add-ons like Git LFS.Exclusive File Locking: Perforce allows for native, granular file locking. This prevents artists and level designers from overwriting each other’s changes in dense, unmergeable files (like .uasset or .umap).Because of its deep reliance on Perforce, Epic Games developed Unreal Game Sync (UGS), an internal tool running on top of Perforce that allows developers and artists to easily sync engine builds, track changelists, and submit feedback without leaving the editor."

Perforce does all of that (and provides Git compatibility) but is not open source. In fact Epic games uses Perforce extensively, so this is there way of getting out from under the licensing fees.

https://www.perforce.com/

How much federal income tax do you pay per year? Take that number and multiply by 13% and divide by 12. That's how much you are paying into the military-industrial complex per month. For most employed Americans that's at least $200 per month, $2400.00 per year.

Tesla One (originally Warp Drive) does it all, 100% developed in-house. So they're saying all of India's giant IT houses couldn't do what Tesla did internally? Yet another moat of Tesla's that few people understand. Ask Grok about it.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzdziadEkzs

It's also a microcosm of the Challenger disaster o-ring failure. :(

There's always at least 1 hydrogen valve issue. Perhaps they should redesign their valves?

Exactly. All fossil fuel electricity generating plants are stranded assets. It is now less expensive to build out a brand new solar + battery plant than it is to simply continue operating an *existing* fossil fuel based plant. Solar is now even cheaper than wind turbine + battery.

China is bringing 5GW of solar online per week. That's 2.5 Hoover dams (at its peak) per week. China now generates twice us much electricity as the US of A.

That is all.

"Tesla's self-driving system is quick-and-dirty, in comparison to those used by Waymo"

Nothing could be further from the truth. "quick-and-dirty"?!

Let's see how things go in Austin in June.

Book mark this and we'll revisit in 3 years.

You haven't tried Tesla's FSD lately have you?

"There's a reason robotaxis are only available in urban areas."
Yes, the current generation of robotaxis built on 1990's technology are all geo-fenced and using fussy and error prone lidar. Tesla's can drive anywhere. Even where they're not yet legal.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O6d6YMG17UU

And lots of other examples.

Bonus. People, even the experts and market specialists, always underestimate the speed of disruptive change. This blogger mentions Tony Seba, worth looking up on Youtube.

https://alearningaday.blog/2017/10/22/horses-cars-and-the-disruptive-decade/

Two very different markets with different market drivers (pardon the pun).

"On the 10 year prediction of widespread driverless ride share cars, color me skeptical."

Less than 10 years. I'll bet you a beer.

There will be no normal uber, lyft, or taxi drivers, as we know them today, in 10 years as the cars will all be driverless. The only time there will be a driver is if you pay extra for one because you need assistance with luggage, or for security, or just to have some human contact during the ride. You will also be able to pay extra for a humanoid robot in the car instead of a human. Also, Uber will be bankrupt.

The Montreal Metro system has used that style since it first opened in 1966. The Paris Metro as well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=montreal+metro+map&udm=2

"The world's most powerful supercomputer", no it's not.

Tesla's Dojo AI supercomputer is 100 exaflops ("100 quintillion calculations per second"). And they have recently expanded it to 400 exaflops. xAI has another 100 exaflops. And they are doubling the size of each of them (at least) over the next two years.