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Comment Re:King of the HBOs (Score 1) 57

by rwyoder (#65377237) Attached to: HBO Maxes Out on Rebranding

Two things need to happen for Tesla to survive:

1. Elmo sells all of his shares, and GTFO.
2. Rebrand the company.

I think it's already too late- there are lots and lots of perfectly good alternatives available now from an array of car companies and most of them less expensive, built better, and they don't come with any Nazi/DOGE bullshit baggage.

There is a precedent for a successful mfgr with unsavory past political ties.
Read up on the history of Volkswagen, and you will find a prominent Nazi involved. ;-)

Comment Re:King of the HBOs (Score 1) 57

by rwyoder (#65377085) Attached to: HBO Maxes Out on Rebranding

For example: "Tesla"

A textbook example of a brand becoming toxic and repugnant almost overnight.

But no rebranding in the world will ever redeem Tesla; that stench is built in.

Two things need to happen for Tesla to survive:

1. Elmo sells all of his shares, and GTFO.
2. Rebrand the company.

Comment Garbage in; Garbage out (Score 1) 179

by rwyoder (#65170613) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You to Trust an AI?

When I was studying in college, this was a common expression used in software development.
It seems to have been forgotten.
As long as AI is being trained by hoovering up everything found online, it will be absorbing massive amounts of bullshit.
Show me an AI that is trained with *curated data*, verified to be correct BEFORE being put in the training data, then I might have a bit of confidence.

Comment IMHO Conventional "TV" appliances are obsolete (Score 1) 28

by rwyoder (#64964729) Attached to: The Trade Desk Is Building a CTV OS Called Ventura

15 years ago I bought a Westinghouse LVM-37w3. (They also made a 43" version). It is purely a monitor large enough to use for the den. It is fed by a my receiver which has a built-in video switch. All video sources, eg TV tuner, Blueray, computer, etc, connect to the receiver. I am still using this today.

For a large selection of such monitors made today, checkout BHPhoto's "Commercial Display" pages:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...

Comment Re:The economics that chage (Score 1) 188

by rwyoder (#64024269) Attached to: Giant Batteries Drain Economics of Gas Power Plants

As I understand it -

At present Gas plants have two purposes - the first is baseload generation when the renewables can't keep up. That's a lot of work, but it isn't very profitable. The second is maintaining grid stability, keeping the grid frequency at 50 or 60 hertz, second by second.

There is a third use: "Peaker" plants that come online only at periods of high demand.
There is one near here: Plains End Power Plant, Arvada, Colorado
Interesting aspect is that it does not run turbines, but uses reciprocating engines from Wärtsilä.

Comment Re:Low aspect ratio tires (Score 1) 314

by rwyoder (#63784740) Attached to: Are Electric Vehicles Killing the Spare Tire?

Spare aren't that important and haven't been for years. But I hope we get over this fad of giant rims and low-aspect ratio tires. They are way more susceptible to side-wall damage. And they have a poorer ride, especially on heavy modern cars.

Was reading the other day that electric cars are so much heavier than ice cars that they are going through tires at a much higher rate than ICE cars. And if you scrub a curb with a heavy car and low-aspect ratio tires, the chances of tearing the sidewall is very high.

As an aside, we talk often about plastic pollution, but I wonder what the effect on the environment is of all the billions of particles of synthetic rubber our tires shed every day. I'm just curious.

Jason Fenske (Engineering Explained) made of video of what happened when his Tesla hit a pothole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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