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You didn't engage. You evaded.

Low sales makes you a low volume manufacturer.

Any answer on why Tesla is so far behind on the hardware?

So given that Tesla has pivoted to being a low volume manufacturer, why aren't they offering the same hardware capability as other players?

Porsche's got wireless charging on their cars now. Does Tesla?

ciscon Musk, the Movie

> They compete directly with BYD in China and win. Model Y outsells any BYD model.

BYD's sales are split across multiple brands and models. BYD sells more EVs than Tesla. Why is Tesla being outsold by BYD?

BYD is one of the global top ten automakers by sales. Why isn't Tesla in the top ten?

Why isn't Tesla selling 20 million cars per year like they said they would?

Why has the Cybertruck been such a sales flop?

BYD and Geely cars can charge 10 to 70% in 5 minutes on 1.5+ megawatt chargers. Does Tesla offer anything like that capability?

ciscon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

Without copyright the little guys would constantly be screwed over by the big guys.

It really is one of those "without law you cannot have freedom" things.

ciscon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

We're talking about the GPL. Linux is a major project protected by the GPL.

A license in isolation isn't interesting. The practical results of projects under a license is interesting.

Linux is a very successful practical result under the GPL and copyright makes the GPL work. Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable.

ciscon OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

What strawman? The GPL has been one of the drivers of the success of Linux and copyright is what makes that work.

You still haven't articulated how that's restrictive.

ciscon OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

So.. Linux is bad and we should all use BSDs?

Why has restrictive Linux succeeded far more than any BSD ever has?

ciscon Australia's Deputy PM Defends Data Security After OpenAI Hack

> Marles said the incident in which an AI system gained unauthorized access to files on an Australian government website for reporting healthcare statistics was a “significant warning.”

That's wonderful but are there doing to be any criminal charges? An individual does that and they get charged with a crime.

Will OpenAI be charged? Or is it the case that once you're a big enough corporation there are no more consequences?

ciscon OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

> the current system hurts us all

How? The current system enables the GPL. The GPL protects many open source projects.

ciscon OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

What's twisted? They pirated books to train their models.

Clearly these books had value to AI companies but they were too weak and too dishonest to pay for that value. That's not impressive.

ciscon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

> Technology is in the business of putting people out of work, by inventing better ways of doing things

Why is book piracy a better way of doing things?

ciscon Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

> I would like to be able to define variables on first assignment and scoped to the begin/end in which that happens

Good news! Object Pascal has inline variable declaration with type inference:

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/Delphi...

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/introducing-inline-variables-i...

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

> It's amazing when users of your software can modify it to fit their needs, in the same language.

But it doesn't fit their needs. It's too slow.

ciscon Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

Nope, you don't need to. For example, all class references are pointers and they don't need to be dereferenced manually.

Object Pascal's pointer syntax is detailed in the links I gave you.

ciscon Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

What's awkward about the syntax? It's straightforward:

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/Pointe...

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal#_pointers

ciscon Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

> It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them

What's an example of the pain?

ciscon Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

> To replace the board, Mullenweg leveraged his voting shares — he controls 84% of the vote

Then what can any board ever do?

ciscon Tesla moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays

Buses too:

https://www.mercedes-benz-bus.com/int/en/models/ecitaro.html

https://www.man.eu/global/en/bus/e-buses/model-overview.html

https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/products-and-services/b...

https://www.volvobuses.com/en/why-volvo/e-mobility/electric-...

ciscon Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

> They bet on the wrong horse -- a really stupid horse -- and it cost them heavily

How? Toyota has been the best selling automaker for the last six years straight:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

In 2025 Toyota had record sales.

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

> I could connect those gaps if shown the code - in variety of "creative" ways.

Why bother? It's better just to use a different language in the first place and get the performance for free.

Your argument is consistently "if only JavaScript was different then it would be faster".

That's wonderful but it isn't different. JavaScript is JavaScript. If you want performance you're better off with another language.

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Right, so you agree with him. TypeScript was too slow and switching to Go was the right choice.

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Why are you skeptical of Anders Hejlsberg's claims about his own language? He designed TypeScript.

Are you claiming that your own, separate programming language is faster than TypeScript, just like Go is faster than TypeScript? So in fact you agree with Anders?

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

But why bother when you already have the speed up? And why didn't TypeScript deliver it in the first place?

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

In both cases the WebAssembly result is twice as fast as the JavaScript version.

How do you account for that?

ciscon Grok 4.7

> If you watch the actual video

Here is the actual video in which Musk performs two fascist salutes at a political rally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

It wasn't an accident. He did it deliberately. Twice. He enjoyed himself doing it.

There's no value in the mental gymnastics to invent excuses for his fascist salutes. The rational thing to do is to accept the objective reality of it.

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Here's a presentation on the Amazon Prime Video stuff. The talk's about 50 minutes long: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Porting the TypeScript toolchain to Go made it 10 times faster:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

> I start wondering what we're supposed to do with all those precious milliseconds it just handed us back

Speed matters. WebAssembly is taking jobs from JavaScript precisely because it's faster.

The calculation engine for Google Sheets became twice as fast with the switch to WebAssembly: https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

The Amazon Prime Video app became twice as fast with less variability in performance when they switched to WebAssembly: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...

Compiling to WebAssembly enables every language to run in the browser. Google used Java and Amazon used Rust.