Anecdotally I've seen more instances of dickheads in gas powered trucks sitting in EV charging spots thinking they're sticking it to Joe Biden than I have with actual EV drivers staying on a charger past 80% when there's a line behind them. Not saying it doesn't happen, though.

> On the Electrify America chargers, apparently this can take weeks or even months to fix basically anything.

Anytime I think about Electrify America, I end up thinking about this station of theirs at the Taco Bell in Ellensburg WA... a couple years ago, that stop was the first fast charger you could get to coming out of the mountains heading east from Seattle (or the last fast charger going into the mountains heading towards Seattle, if you like), and every time I went through there at least 2-3 of the stations would be out of service. One time I had an hour-long wait because there was a whole line of people running through the one charger that worked. Folks in line were cool with each other but understandably disappointed with things. One lady said she'd rented an EV that weekend to see what driving one was like and the experience of waiting for an open charger basically ruined the whole thing for her.

Compounding the problem was even if 3 of 4 stations were down, if you got on Plugshare and said you charged successfully at that 4th charger then that was a positive mark for the site overall. The effect is you'd be looking at this site that has an 8.5/10 and thinking "ok, that's pretty reliable" and you'd never know otherwise unless you scrubbed through the comments on people's check-ins.

I've since moved out of the area, and when I passed by Ellensburg for the last time I didn't even bother stopping through - just went the extra 35 miles down to Yakima and used the EA chargers at the local Wal-Mart instead, which were perfectly fine... looks like Ellensburg has a couple other options now, including at the local Pilot. I've used Pilot's chargers a couple times on the east coast and they've been decent. The one I used last weekend even had a trash can and windshield wiper next to it, which is not always something you can take for granted...

Knowing what kind of attention Tesla showrooms have attracted for a while now, that response seems pretty unsurprising. I'm sure word will get out sooner rather than later, though.

> Tasks that once took weeks now must be completed in days, with less time for meetings and collaborative problem-solving, according to the engineers.

Amazon, pushing RTO: you need to spend more time collaborating face to face with your coworkers!

Amazon, pushing AI: you need to spend less time collaborating face to face with your coworkers!

Step 0) of course being "claim government is broken" so when step 1 happens they can say "see, we told you so"

Seriously, who was asking for this?

Star Trek TNG viewers know the drill. Skip season 1, spot-watch the important stuff in season 2, and dial in for the rest. What's different between seasons 1-2 and 3-7?

The uniforms! Those jumbo spandex jumpsuits were obviously the problem, not the ratings.

"The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human — sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him."

I was at Ramstein for a while in the mid 90s. Looking back it seems like we were pretty well equipped, had multiple labs with Windows 3.1/95 computers, DOS computers, a couple random Macs. I got a look at the network room behind one of the computer rooms one time, that was my first up-close look at rack-mounted stuff. They were using a Sun Microsystems server to host the school website and peoples' midterm projects from the HTML programming class.

A few years before that, before the internet took off, I was at another base in Germany and there was one computer room full of old NCR computers from the mid-80s and the other computer room was basically just the row of Apple IIgs computers in the library. Most of the classrooms had a Zenith 248 computer in them which I think was just a basic hand-me-down from Uncle Sam. Those things chirped every time you pressed a key on the keyboard.

> A thirty second conversation can replace an email back-and-forth that goes on for hours or even days," Dell writes.

He then proceeds to not elaborate why that thirty second conversation needs to be in person and not just over the phone, or how he intends for that thirty second conversation to not be a fifteen minute digression about the weather or sports or what we did last weekend on company time.

The saying is "this meeting should have been an email" - nobody with actual work to do ever says "this email should have been a meeting".