> Where are the docker/redis/next.js/linux kernel/qt/roller-coaster tycoon creators?
They create their own thing from scratch, and turn it into a job.
The first 5 from that list were open source creations that became big because they met a need at the time and lots of people adopted them. Which is one route into creating your own thing.
I've seen senior engineers who have leveraged lots of domain knowledge to build a prototype of something super useful internally within a company that then grows in adoption and size as people recognise it's value. Projects then start to organically cluster around the core that was built solo.
If you are working on a web app that you can bisect and retest each new version in a few seconds it's an amazing tool.
If you are working on a stack of huge server apps with 1h+ build times, and complicated start up procedures you aren't going to find besect very useful at all.
I'm not sure I'd call 85miles extreme distance. It's very low compared to modern EVs.
I'd say this Citroen is totally targeting me. My need is less than 20 miles a day, and I'm saying I'd be nervous about how little buffer that battery would give me.
My point really was 46 miles range is too low, even for low usage. In poor conditions with heating, etc, if the range halves that doesn't leave any spare. Unlike an ICE you can't just run it close the bottom of the tank because charging takes time, and has limited locations.
I do love this, and hope more things like it gets made so there is choice. It's exactly the kind of thing I want for most of my day to day traveling.
It's competition though is what I did instead. Last year I brought a 7 year old Nissan leaf.
£9,800. 22Kwh battery (probably degraded about 15%, so estimated actual capacity is around 18Kwh) which gives me about 85 miles range with the current battery state. And I get a decent sized boot, 5 seats and 80+mph top speed.
I love my leaf, and use it to commute around 20 miles total each day plus lots of other local travel. It's perfect as a 2nd car for town driving.
However, that 85 mile range is only in good conditions. With the heating on in winter it's range is probably more like 40 miles. I'd say this Citroen's battery is too small for me to buy compared to my leaf. 46 mile range doesn't give you much spare, especially in winter when using heating. Unless charge points become a lot more ubiquitous. It shouldn't take them much to double the battery size though, and then I'd seriously go for this.
(Edit to add, my leaf also has air bags and antilock breaks. What with it being an actual car)
What I find most intriguing about this is the how a law that was enforced only 50 years ago has so quickly become abhorrent to the majority of the population. It's an interesting thought experiment to consider which laws we routinely use today to punish people will become morally unacceptable in the next 50 years.
Copyright and patent laws, and laws used against Snowden's whistle blowing are some obvious ones that are due for changes, but what's more interesting is if history continues to repeat itself it seems likely that some things we consider wrong now will become acceptable in the near future and the reverse is also true. This is much harder to predict.
(Humans driving cars is a reverse example. I think in the next 50 years it will become illegal for humans to drive cars manually except on private racing circuits)
And I agree, not letting your mind do this from time to time results in higher stress and less ability to focus.
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