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Comment Re:New admins (Score 2) 13

Yeah sorry but that's a scenario that only happens in your head, especially given how a simple file server could actually be admin'd by a simple LLM manual. Look for another article to rage at the young generation rather than making up scenarios irrelevant to this one.

Comment Re:Not including Chinese vehicles (Score 1) 111

So no Chinese EVs, which are the most advanced.

Please don't generalise. Chinese EVs are the most advanced in many areas but they are not the most efficient. Quite the opposite actually, they are focusing in other areas including in battery tech that improves safety and charging speed at the expense of weight and charge density. Their designs are not favouring aerodynamics and their push from range is largely the effort of cramming more battery in.

If you look to Europe you'll find plenty of Chinese EVs tested. They barely rank in the top 10 in terms of efficiency. In fact in this market the Tesla 3 comes out very favourably right behind Mercedes.

I hope Americans who assuming the outside world doesn't exist, and people like you who blindly worship the outside world without looking anything up can meet somewhere in the middle and find sanity.

Comment Re:It's a really light car (Score 1) 111

It's just completely incorrect for cars without controls to even exist. Cars with controls are easier to manage in breakdowns. Not even being able to steer without the computer means it will be difficult to get disabled vehicles onto rollbacks in some circumstances. The correct infrastructure for vehicles without steering wheels is rail.

We have infrastructure in place to deal with cars that are unable to use any controls, it's a case that occurs with many cars in an accident. Also the existence of controls does not help. In virtually all modern cars the parking brake system is computer controlled, failure of a computer to respond means you can't simply roll the car on a flatbed as well. Also EVs, flat batteries result in the parking brake engaging there so also non-trivial to deal with - none the less we deal with it just fine.

That's not to say your concerns aren't real, but they are a mixture of managed and low enough risk to not be something to lose sleep over.

Comment Re:Possibly the only good thing... (Score 4, Insightful) 69

People realizing they need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels is probably the only good thing to come out of the Trump regime's Iran sh*t-show.

Sorry but this has nothing to do with Iran. The trend for wind and solar has been moving this way steady for years before anyone knew where on the map the Strait of Hormuz was. Sure it's not negative, but at best it cements something that that people were already doing.

Comment Re:GMT (Score 1) 124

I expect you to join a meeting at 9am. Since timezones are idiotic I have no idea if this means you'll be asleep, at home, at work, having breakfast, or having dinner with the family. 9am is 9am right? And the social structure we have build to aid a common understanding of when and how people live their lives doesn't matter.

So don't be late.

Comment Re:LOL Exodus (Score 4, Insightful) 111

That's a good thing. If their top engineers were leaving, that would be a bad thing. When management leaves, the engineers become more efficient.

That is an incredibly silly generalisation. Yeah some managers are shit and produce inefficiencies, but some managers are the opposite and contribute heavily to successes of projects. Just for fun I had a look at who left. Google's AI results showed 4 people leaving the vehicle division:
1x Chemical Engineer with a history of manufacturing optimisation.
1x Aerospace engineer with a post grad study related to manufacturing.
1x Mechanical engineer with a masters in manufacturing systems (also this guy, Emmanuel Lamacchia, lead multiple wildly successful programs at Tesla including the Model Y program which is Tesla's best selling product)
1x Electrical Engineer with a masters in electrical design.

So yeah let's celebrate getting rid of those "managers" who were holding back the engineers.

On the flip side we just lost a high profile manager where I work, a veteran accountant, with an MBA, and a history working for nothing but consultants. Yeah we were all very fucking happy he's gone.

Don't generalise.

Comment Re:Think of the school children (Score 1) 124

Shifting the clocks helped prevent the children from having wait for the bus in the dark, or walk home in the dark, something like that. But that may be me mis-remembering something I heard a while ago.

Yeah that's a problem, for people raising soft coddled little precious brat children who are unprepared for a world where the sun actually rises and sets and are afraid of the dark.

Comment Re:given enough eyeballs... (Score 1) 29

Enough eyeballs and 10 years apparently.

Actually 3 days. You completely misunderstood Linus's law. It was never about saying that something is discovered and therefore there are less bugs. The quote was about once a bug is discovered the number of eyes on it means the bug is quickly characterised and understood by someone allowing them to be quickly fixed.

This is a case of Linus's law in action. The patch was publicly available within 3 days of disclosure.

Comment Re:Vancouver BC (Score 1) 63

You are going to value what your mullahs value. Because replacement isn't a "theory", it's just math.

Are you suggesting that people migrate to a place to destroy it instead of because they like to adopt the lifecycle of that place? What a strange theory. I mean that's incredibly racist of you obviously, but even for a racist it's a strange theory.

I have many Muslim friends of my own. They value education, co-operation, healthcare, and have no interest in guns. They are perfectly normal people except for the fact that their beard and choice of imaginary friend offends shitcunts like you.

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