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I’ve replied to your comment elsewhere and I get the impression that you are very disconnected with what Elon is like and is doing. Your comments echos mainstream media headlines which are misinformed and/or malicious wholesale.

I really suggest you watch interviews with him, especially the technical ones (like with Tim Dodd at Starbase) where he is in deep in engineering and problem solving, on the ground at the site, not from some ivory tower, drinking whiskey.

You should care if you already don’t. He runs some of the most successful businesses and people are in long lines waiting to get hired by his companies despite the high workload and below competition (e.g. facebook, google) pay.

> by a leader that spends time on flamethrowers and cave rescue submarines

You are grossly misinformed by how Elon spends his time and seem to have read a few headlines years ago and assume that’s all he does.

I suggest you listen to some of his interviews where people specifically ask how many hours he works a week, and on what, and you’ll soon realize, no one, even factory workers can match his work ethics and time spent at the company.

He takes his own medicine religiously, that you can count on.

From what I can tell, bunch of different things going on here. The highest priority IMHO is:

> to never fully complete them and see it all the way through

Others who do have the persistence to see something all the way through, are simply, lucky! Lucky to have the drive. But there are things you can do, to improve your drive and determination, namely drugs. Go see a psychiatrist who can help you with that. Once you get a feel of what it's like to stay focused on something for a long time and see it through, you'll want to do it more often and naturally will learn some non-drug techniques to get there.

Some other things you may have heard numerous times, but doesn't help to repeat: have a hobby (could be as simple as taking care of plants), exercise regularly, preferably in activities that involve other people (I find top rope rock climbing to be perfect for this; squash also comes to mind).

> I'm stuck in a rut, wanting to better my skills and earn a good amount of money but unable to concentrate, riddled with brain fog, and unsure of my future.

This further tells me your issues aren't sprung up from your skills, but rather at a more basic level.

I can also recommend Sam Harris'es waking up meditation app which can help immensely with navigating your mind and better understanding how to focus your attention on things that matter the most.

Absolutely. I have a bunch of waveform light strips (the highest CRI) which I use for specific lighting conditions (e.g. taking photos) and it's the difference between literally night and day. I'm also using them for plants and they love it!

The only downside is their rather expensive cost so I'm yet to replace all my lighting with it, but it's a great investment given that it'll probably outlast me and so won't need to change them.

I pack a V10 :) - Also, I didn't mean using it at night next to someone sleeping. But rather, as not to awaken your neighbors.

> Whenever I see their hand-dryers in a public bathroom I just use paper towels

Removing and replacing paper towels with hand dryers in public bathrooms has been an unfortunately shortsighted move that's been copied without much thought. Hands aren't the only thing that get wet in a public bathroom. You may wash your face, you may be removing stuff off your clothing, and countless other uses that a hand dryer alone can't accommodate.

Dyson constantly improved their cordless vacuums in the past 6 years. I have a V10 which is leaps and bounds better than V7. The battery runs forever, the bin is larger and empties cleanly without meddling, has a great weight distribution and it's more powerful.

> I don't get the point of wireless vacuum cleaner

The point of anything cordless is how it eliminates the hassle of, well, dealing with cords. In case of a vacuum cleaner, one has to:

- pull the cord out

- plug and re-plug it

- ensure it doesn't get stuck around the corners and under furniture legs

- ensure it doesn't pull some other furniture and topple them over

In addition, corded vacuums have practically no power envelope or weight restrictions, so they end up being bulky, heavy and loud, even if the context in which they are used doesn't require the power.

Dyson cordless (I can't speak to any other) in contrast:

- weighs lot less and can be carried around with ease

- can be moved around without a second thought of where the cord is or whether it can be maneuvered in a certain way

- is a lot quieter (can be used at night)

- is instantly accessible without any setup so it makes sense to use it for a few seconds to clean something up

- can be used outside of the house where there is no power outlet - e.g. in the car in a rental apartment parking

Since I switched to cordless (which has been 6 years or so), I no longer dread vacuuming. It's actually a pleasant experience and sometimes, when I get a few minutes, I do a clean of areas that get dirty often (entrance).

The battery life and the power available have improved to the point where it's no longer something I worry about (especially for my two bedroom apartment).

> I hate Dyson shit so much

I've been using Dyson products since 2005. Happy to shine some light on why people pay for it voluntarily :)

From the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1529089543969943553

Starlink user terminal is "physically" not designed for working in motion. That is, it has not passed any safety tests that ensures it won't dismount, and fly off and damage property or injure people. The Starlink system is absolutely designed to work at high speeds (both as evident from comments in this post from people maintaining connection at 100km/h to it being deployed on airplanes).

Interesting. What I noticed was that without changing service address, it would be in search mode for hours without going online. After the change, it would come to life in minutes. I did my trips late last year. I'm sure things are changing fast week to week as more satellites (and thus more bandwidth) is put into orbit.

For those not aware, Starlink has no problem with working in motion as it's used on airplanes travelling at 1000km/h. This is more of availability announcement for end users.

Nice! I took Starlink with me on few road trips so far with my Model 3 and rigged it up to work off my car's battery. I did have to change my service address prior to arriving at new locations but it worked fine nonetheless. With the new roaming option, that's even easier now. I wrote about it on my blog for those interested: https://blog.oxplot.com/powering-starlink-on-the-go-with-tes...

Well, over here in Oz, all roads have speed limits which Tesla knows about and displays. Will have to try myself and will report. Although I'm fairly sure you're confusing engaging AP when under the speed limit at which point it will set it to the speed limit, minus or plus the amount you configure in the settings. So if you configured it to be +5 mph of the speed limit, that's what it gets set to. But if you were already driving at 30mph over the speed limit and engage AP, it will keep your speed. And it makes sense, in case it has incorrectly determined the speed limit, it won't cause safety issue by driving too slowly.

> they sell it as the safest driver on the road

And it is "statistically" which is how all safety measures are evaluated.

> Autopilot (without FSD Beta) will not go over 5mph of a road's known speed limit.

I don't remember such a limit on my M3 but will check tomorrow. You can simply accelerate to any speed below AP's global limit (90mph in this case) and then engage AP. It'll keep at that speed. Meanwhile, Model S'es manual doesn't seem to mention anything in this regard.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-5033143...

> Almost a decade ago, we started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy.

That should be around mid 2013 after Ed Snowden revelations. I remember some frustrated Google engineers on G+ commenting on the leaked slides from NSA where a packet capture of Google cross data center traffic was shown.

Back where I grew up, in the 90s, "La Petite Fille de la mer" played in between TV programs during the night. It was decades later that I learned who the composer was.

> commercial use of a celebrity's image

It's only commercial use if I made any sort of profit from it, which I didn't. So nope, not commercial.

> commercial purposes

It was a free app with no advertising, so it was not used in a commercial context.

> I'm finding it extremely difficult to have any sympathy

People have sympathy for much worse things - you should perhaps work on your sympathy. Here's something to help you: the person wasn't a business owner for decades and just wanted to help others with similar issues, hence spending dozens of hours of his personal time to build an app to share for free.

Nothing is absolute. Even in absence of Google Chrome, you still have all cloud services and ISPs abiding by the laws of the country they operate in.

The point is how much control one has over the end to end distribution. My own website could potentially receive a DMCA take-down, but I can just take down the offending content and continue with my life. In case of Google Chrome, I can't recall the last time I came across such a warning and I surf all over the place, hosting all kind of crap. So it's very unlikely.

F-Droid came to be in late 2010 and I built the app in early 2012. As such, I didn't really hear about F-Droid at the time and I assume the user base would have been very small (but still better than nothing).

Nope. Just google searched and dropped it in the screenshot.

I did — but only a tiny percentage of users can do that.

Eons ago, I built an Android app which allowed using high quality photos for contacts. I made the "huge" mistake of using a celebrity photo in one of my screenshots. Lo and behold, few months later, my free with no advertising app got removed from the store and the only way to put it back was to create a new app which would have a new URL and none of the ratings or reviews carried over.

The reasonable thing would have been to send a warning asking to change the damn screenshot, which would have taken me literally 10 second to do.

No more app development for me, not unless I control the distribution channel.

> How did they get burned?

In the early days after Fedora made it available, I lost my root twice after a kernel panic and later after a hard power reset.

EDIT: in comparison, I've been using xfs for almost a decade now with numerous hard power offs and kernel panics. I've only ever lost select files that were open for write at the time of restart, and not the entire filesystem.

> why host other languages

Here's an example:

I recently finished building https://subzo.com.au which allows customizing and ordering 3D models. The way the model's cost, volume and other attributes are calculated needs to be done both on the frontend (for speed) and on the backend (to validate). Backend is in Go and we can't practically run Go in the browser. So instead, I wrote the calculation snippets in JavaScript (which runs natively in the browser) and ran them on the backend on a JavaScript VM library written in Go [1].

[1]: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto

> As the world quickly switches to electric cars, how are we going to get them from factories to showrooms, especially when they have to cross oceans?

Pick the phone up and call Tesla logistics department. They’ll fill you right in.