The war in Gaza is a moral gray area
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I stopped about every 2.5 hours which may be a bit shorter than the average person's leg in an ICE car but is about as long as I personally want to remain sitting down.
The Tesla charger network is incredibly reliable, the Model Y's cold weather range is pretty darn good relatively, and I had zero charger wait times the whole way.
I'm glad to hear Tesla is opening up its charger network to others and am looking forward to the V4 chargers with longer cables. My only wish is that other EVs had the same connector because the Tesla one is so much slimmer.
This is phrased as if it is some bombshell, when it seems this was obvious from the beginning. Elon's been a critic of the CA High Speed Rail project for nearly a decade! [0] The literal whitepaper that announced the Hyperloop concept contrasts itself to the CA Rail project on the damn first page! [1] He's basically been screaming for everyone to aim higher instead of accepting mediocrity even relative to what already exists across the pond.
The Hyperloop project itself was proposed clearly and explicitly to contrast with the CA rail project, suggesting "maybe this is what we could do if only we tried!" In practically all the public appearances about this project (and in explanations for why he founded SpaceX) he's been clear and repetitive in stating that he wants to see inspiring things get built, if for no other reason than for us to want to get out of bed in the morning.
Of course Musk desired the CA rail project not to be built. And of course he didn't intend to build the Hyperloop himself. He'd been plenty explicit about that as well -- it's the explanation for why this was a paper and not a 5th company he's CEO of today.
[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/376439054209781761 [1] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
SpaceX has had onsite massages for a very long time as a comfort perk to all employees -- no different than FAANG perks https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-massages-return-to...
> losing sight of what really matters
I wouldn't say so. If anything his companies are doing better than ever. Tesla is doubling revenue / deliveries YoY with insane gross margins and just opened 2 new factories on 2 continents. SpaceX is sending a new batch of Starlink satellites is going up literally every week, and they've sent over 20 people to LEO and back (could you imagine if we had to rely on Russia for this today?!).
Not to mention that the autopilot program is full of a ton of really smart & hard working people who put their soul into their work, because the lives saved by bringing the product to fruition will be astronomical. They are making real practical progress on AI systems -- better than can be said of much of academia & industry.
My job is to build software to make the lives of the people building our product better. I'd prefer myself and my team to be there with them frequently, instead of considering ourselves to be part of some class of special people that have the luxury of working at home most of the time.
That said, I do appreciate the flexibility of being able to work from home for house maintenance, deliveries, family stuff, etc.
Beyond all that, going into the office (or factory really) is energizing. Too much time at home and I get reminded of CGP Grey's "spaceship you" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
1) The subreddit of my alma mater has been full of posts venting anxiety, depression, trouble with financial aid, trouble making friends, frustration with administration, etc for years now, exacerbated by COVID. While that may not be representative of the whole undergrad population, I can't help but be reminded of Thiel's line from Zero to One "Why are we doing this to ourselves?"
2) I'm now seeing not only friends without bachelors degrees get well-paying CS jobs with "engineer" titles & equity comp, but even some in mechanical engineering!
3) When I was in undergrad, half of my upper div classes were so abysmal that I figured the staff who cared enough to keep the enterprise going were fighting a losing battle. A complete rewrite would be better than an in place one. "Death is the best invention of life" and we should try the creative destruction of capitalism/evolution instead of holding the oldest institutions in the highest regard.
I don't have much of a clue what the future will look like by the time I have kids of college age, but I do not think particularly highly of what we've got now.
I wouldn't demote them to "marketing schemes" -- he actually wants to bring these technologies to market (unlike Hyperloop) -- but they're pretty slow burn / almost hobby projects compared to SpaceX & Tesla. Both have started posting job reqs for Austin.
Autopilot has been great -- probably over half my miles driven. Still a work-in-progress for city streets but FSD improvements have been pretty impressive from what I've observed on YouTube.
Service has been pretty great too actually -- the appointment booking process I just went through to get new tires felt like the future since it's completely through the app. My only wish is that they had better loaner availability in CA. In TX the availability does seem better though since I moved here.
If anything, Tesla will be brining a bunch of blue voters from CA which could help to push back against such laws.
https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/
That said (1) “you are not Google” as the saying goes (2) Google built their VCS from scratch in house for scale.
However it’s not tops hard to do this with just git and some rules/patterns for organization.
I remember wondering how it took so long for someone to make a half decent stock trading app for the iPhone -- all the other apps at the time sucked (and they largely still do). I was on ETrade before but signed up for the Robinhood waitlist immediately -- haven't left since being allowed in early 2015.
The traditional banks will never be good at UX because they can't attract the talent. Their apps are always a bloated mess of web views. I loved Simple because it lived up to it's name -- it was dead SIMPLE! For example, 99% percent of the time when I open the app I just wanted to view the list of my transactions. Many banks can't even do that right. Other than that I primarily just want to move money in and out as easily as possible.
One example of a well executed front end / back end model is the Apple Card where Goldman Sachs manages the back end. The Apple Card doesn't have the best rates and rewards programs but to be honest I don't give two shits about any of that. I want it to "just work" like the iOS home screen. I want notifications not to be a buggy mess. I want fast and reliable access to support.
If Apple does checking accounts (backed by Goldman or whoever) and checked the basic feature set I'd switch to them instantly. Everyone's finances are getting more complicated with more subscriptions and such. Despite this headwind I still want to spend as little time as possible poking around a UX from hell as possible.