You made a rather huge leap there, and I'm not sure why you committed to doing so.

I've never heard of this van. I work in several metropolitan areas on a regular basis and I've never seen one anywhere. I fully acknowledge they exist, but I've never seen one. I could well be unique in having never seen one, but if they aren't in any of the markets where I frequently drive then there are likely a lot of other people who have never seen them in the wild either.

The point I was after is that there are a lot of people who love to dunk on the automotive industry - particularly the American Big Three - any time they can. The Big Three are far from blameless. However, ripping to shreds a discontinued vehicle that you've never seen isn't exactly a fair thing to do.

and moves your money from a savings account to a Ponzi scheme stock?

I know of cases here in NH were financial advisors were sued and even prosecuted for misleading/undisclosed risky investments.

I'd like to hear if even one person in this discussion had ever heard of it before this was posted here. I follow quite a bit of automotive news myself and had never heard of this van before now. Granted it is a commercial vehicle that would have been difficult to obtain as a regular consumer here (similar to the larger current model Ford econoline (not transitconnect) vans) but I had never heard of this at all. I've seen news on the new USPS delivery vehicles, the new NYC taxis, but never on this.

It's awfully difficult - at least in real space - to claim to be an expert on something you never heard of. I'm sure that won't stop people here but nonetheless it is worth pondering why we had never heard anything of this vehicle. If regular consumers hadn't heard of it, how many potential commercial customers hadn't either? Plenty of commercial customers exist in this country who would do well with an electric van, if only they knew this one existed.

Are you sure you're talking about China there? That sounds like the MAGA party to-do list, especially if you add on corporate extortion and mandatory bribes to the leader of said one party state.

"Sources familiar with the situation" make shit up all the time. Apple production numbers and expectations are tightly held, but people still believe "media influencers" who look around and say "Huh, we can collect clicks by generating some FUD around Apple." In this case, we see is one "media influencer" citing another "media influencer" using their "proprietary algorithms" (usually involving rectal sampling.)

When you're in a yearly production cycle, there's ALWAYS production cuts after the product release, you produce leading up to release, and then move production to The Next Thing.

Uh, yeah. That's exactly what I thought when I saw this.

All Social Media is full of 'influencers' who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. The potential benefit of a (wrong) AI answer is that you -might- be able to query the AI to find out how why it said that. Of course, the LLM is likely to say "That's the most common content from Social Media."

The companies using Zendesk should be liable for the sins committed by Zendesk on their behalf! And then they can go back and sue Zendesk for causing the underlying problem.

What's the step beyond Enshittification? Microsoftification? Oracalization? Tech Broiication? Because we've clearly moving past Enshittification to something even worse.

My points ran out yesterday, someone mod parent up. (But I'm glad I don't have to decide between. +1 Insightful and +1 Funny....)

I'm thinking "Larry Ellison"....

I'm fine with sending Musk to Mars. He can take DOGE and the rest of MAGA with him. Few of them are smart enough to realize there is no return trip, even if the trip there is a success. Musk and Trump can spend the trip trying to convince each other who is the most important person in the history of the universe while those of us here on earth rebuild from the destruction they left behind here.

What exactly do they measure? SLOC produced? Job Postings? GitHub commits? Articles in magazines? Job openings that mention the desired language(s)?

(For the latter, I remember a company using job postings in the LA Times, their local ppaper, as their "independent scientific" rationale for selecting their preferred programming language. I responded, "By that measure, shouldn't you be developing this system in HTML, since that's listed as a programming language in the job openings you surveyed?" Then I said, "Look, if you want to pick a specific language, just do it. Don't -pretend- you did an independent language selection process.")

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As others have pointed out, embedded software is hard, real-world timing problems are unforgiving. Now one possibility that occurred to me is the problems may be related to timing managed by the operating system. If they're using a typical cyclical executive with timeframes allocated for each task, and some tasks can't be completed within its allotted timeframe, then a faster computer would fix those problems. Comms protocols, in particular, often have timing constraints where if you can't complete the task, the protocol times out and the operation fails. Doug Jensen defined 'hard real-time' as a situation where the value of a computation after a specific time is zero. That includes the situation where the computation cannot be completed within the given time window.

Sure, you could argue that's a repair for under-specified, under-designed, and under-tested software, and I would agree. .