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Gas stations have a very different configuration than Superchargers. It's an odd comparison to being with. Drive through supercharger stalls could be really nice and would resolve this issue, but they would take up a lot more real estate.

There is 1 stall on a single set of superchargers which can be charged by a F-150 without blocking 2 stalls, that is if there is an adjacent spot on the right side/end of the chargers, which is not always the case.

This is a post about Ford's getting access to Superchargers, so I don't think it's making a "big deal" about anything to simply describe the configuration of the trucks and how that impacts their ability to use the superchargers. It just is what it is.

The F-150 Lightning has a charging port on the front driver's side.

Tesla Superchargers are meant to be backed in to with a read driver's side charging port.

A F-150 will need to drive in to the spot adjacent to the charger they want to use and bring the charging cable across, effectivly using 2 stalls to charge, as far as I can tell.

This is for access to compatible 250kW Supercharges. There are a lot of them, but it is a subset of the total Supercharger network. [1]

If you check the Find Us map and select "Superchargers Open to NACS" then you will see which ones are compatible and their associated 'Charging Fees for NACS EVs' rates.

1: https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=53.02665397538087%2C...

I am with you. 2.5 years running on a Pi. I also have 6 security cameras writing to a MicroSD in it which I thought was surely a recipe for disaster, but it has been rock solid. I have experienced no reliability issues and I am running everything out of Home Assistant exposed as HomeKit resources.

I came here expecting to find a mention of Dave Winer. In geekland, I believe he belongs in the pantheon of underappreciated shepherds. In 2000, Dave began crafting OPML [1] to provide a means of sharing lists. He composed his weblog using an outliner, marking the first instance someone demonstrated to me that structure could support both thinking and writing.

Admittedly, Dave used to be rather cantankerous, which turned many people off. However, when I was 17, I encountered him in a pizza shop near Harvard, greeted him, and ended up spending the day together.

In 2003, he was working on RSS 2.0, and I contributed a Comments namespace to enable the syndication of comments. This occurred in a more idealistic and less spam-dominated web era. I can still remember the feeling I got when I hit Send to share the proposal with Dave and the community. [2]

Their human-readable and easily understood nature is a byproduct of a time when those qualities mattered. I recall rushing to upload an RSS module to CPAN. It was not simply a conglomeration of other libraries but rather something entirely crafted in my mind.

OPML and RSS are both awesome. They are two standards that have played instrumental roles in maintaining the free flow of information on the web. They were not created by a committee or the IEEE. They were created by someone who was passionate as hell about a free and open web. That's rare now.

1: http://scripting.com/manila/opml/spec.html 2: http://scripting.com/2003/08.html#When:7:12:20AM

An excellent video was recently published on this topic, although it focuses laregly on Vancouver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM

I recently returned from a trip to Venice. I highly recommend visiting in late November/December as the atmosphere is very different from the more crowded times of year. Locals will tell you it's busy all year round now, but low season still has a lot of appeal.

Before visiting I ready City of Fortune [1] for a high level overview of Venetian history and it is a truly enthralling read that covers most of Venice's timeline. I also came across several articles by Ioanna Iordanou.

I would be interested in better understanding what life was like in Venice from 1800 to the present day, but I haven't found much contemporary research on the Venetian economy and society in that time, including the run up to the Fall of the Republic of Venice.

1: https://www.amazon.com/City-Fortune-Venice-Ruled-Seas/dp/081...

Funny, I subscribed to HelloFresh for a few months and I get TXTs from them a few times a month now. I try to unsubscribe and report/ban the number every time but they just send a message from another number the next time. Really frustrating.

I use a Beryl as a travel router (connects to Hotel or Plane Wifi, you authenticate the captive portal, then it creates a separate wifi network and opens a VPN tunnel). It's such a great little device for less than $100 and allows me to keep things a bit more secure, avoid config for each device, and on planes it allows us to split a higher capacity plan. All OpenWRT

I am going to need to do that then. Mine runs hot. I have it perched up to try to get it some cooling airflow.

The fact that George has not taken on a CEO role since tells me that it probably wasn't a driving factor for him. That's conjecture though. I think that role would be available to him at a lot of strong companies if that was his goal.

I think those are good points and valid, but Twilio definitly had equivalent arguments in their own product.

Encumbents manage scale very very well and historically they tend to come to a market late. While Stripe is rushing up the value chain, the issuers are just slowly lumbering around.

Billing, Radar, Sigma, Connect are all very well built products which drive usage of their core revenue generator. I suspect the revenue mix at Stripe is still largely payment processing. Voice minutes and SMSs on a carriers network, or authorizations and settlements on an issuer network.

I am not saying Stripe is doomed, far from it, but it's a non trival problem to solve over the long term and the default state is attrition. I think Twilio is a very good example of how difficult this can be.

George Hu cut his teeth under Benioff during the most meteoric rise of both Salesforce and Benioff's celebrity. I would be very surprised if Jeff's desire to be a public facing CEO would even cause George to notice, let alone bristle at.

It's more likely that someone as smart as George might have just looked at the fundamentals of the business and decided it could not keep this up over the long term.

or... it might have just been epic timing too. Probably.

The decline of Twilio's position has been as pretty clear for the last 18 months now, and has been a topic of conversation longer than that. Twilio never had the margins or control of their environment to nearly the degree you need to have in order to maintain software monopoly levels of growth over time.

Most of Twilio's business has been built on reselling network access purchased via SMS consolidators. These are companies who, decades ago, got their hardware installed inside the networks of the major phone carriers. This allows them direct access to send/receive SMSs. Twilio never really tried to own the network layer and these companies continued to demand higher and higher tolls for access. Short codes are a very good example of this. Twilio spent a lot of time and money trying to sew up access to those short codes.

On top of all that, high volume customers would move directly to these consolidators. Sometimes Twilio would keep some portion of the business if the sender used a round robin model to distribute sends, but often they didn't. OpenMarket and a handful of others were the goto providers at scale.

Add on to this the overall decline of the utility of SMS. Even as SMS volumes increased, they have not increased at the same rate as messaging overall. ie: other channels like iMessage and WhatsApp continue to pull volumes.

Cue Twilio's attempt to go up market. Flex and the purchase of Sendgrid were the best examples of this. Could CPaaS work for Twilio as a business model? I think we've seen so many fits and starts with the Flex product line and the integration of Sendgrid that it seemed like perhaps buying their way in to that market wasn't panning out.

Finally, as seen in the last year, the culture just seems to have gone off the rails at some point. [1] I don't know Jeff, but my respect for him is sky high. I've read all his writing over the years and he's been hugely influential for an entire generation of founders.

Unfortunately this seems like a bit of a hasty departure. I hope it isn't, but the choice of replacement CEO screams caretaker-CEO rather than shrewd strategic move.

Another commenter mentioned Stripe [2] and how they get a lot of credit for advancing DevTools. I agree that Twilio did it first and I think paved the way. Jeff Lawson and Twilio deserve more credit. "Ask your developer" was not a small thing at all.

I also think Stripe very likely is in a very similar position, but they are earlier in their cycle and they've avoided the scrutiny of being a public company. Credit card processors are gatekeepers and fully dominate in their markets. Stripe serves a purpose for them and dramatically improves access to their networks via great tooling and abstractions, but there is still a fixed cost toll to pay and what that toll is cannot be static for interminable time. Is Stripe in the "Commerce" market like Twilio is in the "Communications" market, or are they in the "payments" market, like Twilio is in the "SMS" market? (or somesuch)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36382361 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913134

It is really impressive that everyone was able to evacuate the plane. From some of the videos online you can see that there was a significant and increasing amount of smoke in the cabin. It is a testament to the evolving design of commercial aircraft. The light strips on the floor always fascinate me when I am flying. I often think about how if the cabin was filling with smoke, those lights would be the only way you have to keep moving towards an exit.

You can read this the other way. Russia is so inferior to the US that something like the downing of a drone does not necessitate a response. If it's clear that you can and will act when and where you want, then responding to the bellicose actions of a lesser advisary is ... beneath you.

I've experienced the same thing. In commercial projects in some places, the contractors actually just file liens right away "as a matter of practice". They automatically expire 60 (or some number of) days after the last day of work on the project, unless it is "perfected" by filing an actual lawsuit. At least that is the case in Canada. That seems to at least shift some of the cost and risk to the lien filer as they must pay for a lawyer, be ready to prosecute, etc.

Regarding the narrative about Sama's behaviour during this fiasco, I believe the perception of him acting strategically is mistaken. I think he was just highly loved by the employees and that alone is what facilitated his return.

I think the tide has turned on the Lightening. I know that dealers near me are trying to sell the ones they have.

I am a very happy Tesla customer, but I have never purchased "Full Self Driving (Beta)" for any of my vehicles.

I feel like the promises that have been made about FSD and the amount of money that has been charged for it over the years could truly become the thread that the prosecutorial bureaucracy pulls on and in the end becomes a great undoing.

There are all sorts of terms and conditions in the "clickwrap", but at the end of the day they have sold a product for over $10,000 which simply does not work, and my be dangerous.

I really enjoy my Tesla(s) and I do not want the company to fail, but it feels like they have piled on the risk in this product line in order to not dissapoint the public markets, who have been sold a pretty big story about FSD.

This Intro to Transformers is helpful to get some basic understanding of the underyling concepts and it comes with a really succint history lesson as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpMkf4rD6E

I just don't know how to think about what to build anymore.

Not to detract at all from this (and thanks for making the source available!) but we now have entire classes of problems that seem relatively straightforward to solve now, so I pretty much feel like *why bother?*

I need to recalibrate my brain quickly to frame problems differently. Both in terms of what is worth solving, and how to solve.

Bell and Telus had mastered the art of extracting government incentives to pay for their fibre build outs as well. They would demand subsidies in the 100s of millions of $ in some cases.

In one example they had Fibre running to a city in Northern Ontario. Of course it was along a highway and already strung there for years. A subsidy was made availabel for providing highspeed internet to rural customers and rather than build out new infrastructure, the ISP just said they would connect anyone along the path of the fibre that was already there. That fibre had ALREADY been subsidized by a previous government.

Starlink has hopefully brought an end to that. Now instead of spending 10s and 100s of thousands of $ to subsidize the connection of a house, they simply need to provide a $800 subsidy for a Starlink dish.

MP3. They were mostly rippers but I was a courier who would get their stuff on topsites and then the indies or courier only groups would distro it. I have trouble remembering all the structure and rules (written and unwritten) after all these years, but an ASCii NFO file still makes my heart leap like nothing else!

Greets!

In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers.

I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)

I had a blog/changelog running for https://tier.run/blog and we just went live with Tina this week. Previously we were just writing md. It’s really nice and Tina Cloud makes adding authors etc really straightforward.

We don't advocate complex pricing models. KISS is often the best approach, although some complexity does have its place.

The real complexity comes from when you need to make changes to your pricing and have to manage grandparenting, upsells, etc.

Another vector of complexity comes from the need to make different pricing and packaging offers for different markets, geographies, etc.

You can have a very simple pricing model, but that doesn't mean that there isn't complexity that emerges pretty quickly.

That definitely is top of mind for any startups heavly relying on OpenAI or other hosted LLMs.