aquaticsunset

9개월 전discuss

Sounds pretty hostile to consumers. A repair made that compromises the ability to safely charge does represent a huge risk. But what's their process for this? Do they publish this criteria? They say there's recourse for this, but it costs a lot and it sounds like the engineer goes off of "vibes" and not a rubric.

aquaticsunset

9개월 전discuss

No, it was a clean title. Tesla decided it was "salvage" according to their own measures. I can imagine a scenario where a poorly done repair absolutely can make rapid charging a dangerous thing. But I would feel extremely swindled if this wasn't disclosed ahead of time.

And how does Tesla know repairs have been made after a minor accident? Or do they just yank your access to the network whenever they want and demand money to have it "recertified"?

aquaticsunset

작년discuss

Municipal utilities exist everywhere. I'm not sure why you're being all hypothetical about it. They work well and for many reasons discussed here, sound like a good fit for Walnut Creek.

aquaticsunset

작년discuss

I take this as "nobody, including the competitors, think TikTok will actually go away"

aquaticsunset

작년discuss

Yep, those exist across the western US too. I think many people are underestimating the scale and intensity of the winds California experienced. A single house on fire with relatively regular weather conditions isn't likely to spread to others - despite the "ha American houses dumb and wood" sentiment on this topic, there are building codes and fire safety is absolutely considered. But the Santa Ana winds are extremely dry and extremely powerful.

It's a hard engineering problem to solve, but an increasingly urgent one now that these major events are becoming more intense and frequent.

aquaticsunset

작년discuss

Comments like the last here irritate me. No, we all learn that wood is the only appropriate building material and the Salesforce tower in San Francisco required a whole forest of trees to construct.

The root comment is based on a very dated concept. Of course we can built earthquake resistant megastructures from steel and concrete. A lot of that building technology was created in California. It's either naive or willfully ignorant to think we can't solve this problem.

The issue with those materials is cost. Spread out, suburban design without density is expensive and wood frame construction is a great way to affordably build housing. Wood frame single family houses are not the problem - it's how we design our cities that's the problem.

aquaticsunset

작년discuss

I'm clearly in the minority, but the new app is leaps and bounds more usable and stable for me. The functionality gaps don't affect me - those features weren't things I used. And it's way, way more responsive and consistent than the old one.

Perhaps it's just my specific network situation. The old app was a constant headache of inconsistent state - music playing while it showed nothing playing, pressing commands (like skipping a track or pausing) but those commands never happening on the device. It also took a very long time to show my entire device list. Never quite worked with the Roam like it should have.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

The first time I used a flare with their support agents, it truly felt like magic. It's such a clever way to perform data collection for a specific, imperative need without doing a dragnet of constant use telemetry (as far as I'm aware)

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

This has been my experience as well. The only major instability was due to the Ubuntu snap based runtime, which I migrated away from a few years ago.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

I half agree with you. We just went through an ECS to EKS migration, and we're still incredibly dependent on AWS. The hard part isn't the container orchestration system or even containerizing your workload - it's all the other crap you need to develop and maintain around it. Your databases, networking stack, MQ brokers, secrets managers, and everything else are still stuck to whatever cloud provider you're using.

EKS really isn't much harder to build out than ECS - but it doesn't set you up to be much more cloud agnostic.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

Maybe, but maybe not? Even if the data showed it was a huge life saving factor, I can't see helmet usage being enthusiastically adopted.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

It's complicated. The amount of industry knowledge needed is huge - not something someone with good software expertise can just leave on the fly.

It's also been, traditionally, a crazy business with dozens and dozens of vendors that a dealership can choose from. CDK and Reynolds might have pretty big market share, but a lot of that is because they integrate with zillions of tiny vendors.

Lastly, I just don't think there's been enough money in it to try. The industry as a whole is lucrative but you're not gonna get rich trying to dominate a single aspect of it. COVID represented a permanent shift in how software was viewed in the industry. Dealerships have to spend more on higher quality software, because they simply can't afford to stay in business without it.

The closest company I can think of that's trying to disrupt this is Tekion.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

If by that you mean "average people pooling their billions to further advance science and technology", sure.

None of this was done in a vacuum of billionaire self funding.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

Dunno about that... My criteria was a bit different than the "on paper" stats:

1) Had normal instrumentation and control systems inside. No spaceship tech features.

2) Reliability and build quality cannot be compromised.

3) Strong dealership network with readily available parts and trained technicians.

Fast charge rate and long road trip worthiness doesn't matter to me because I don't do that. It's absolutely peppy and will put down the power when you need it for a quick merge or highway on ramp. Overall incredibly happy with this car.

Edit: formatting

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

Compliance car for sure.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

If you want a screaming lease deal, check out the Subaru Solterra. It makes me genuinely upset I bought one instead of leased.

Love the car, didn't mind the price, but wow these things are at a discount.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

I have two gripes with how Java is today:

1) A lot of enterprise devs think all problems are best solved in Java, and refuse to acknowledge anything else (looking at the IBMers in the room) 2) Spring Boot takes what you don't like about Guice and cranks it up ten levels. It's so common in the industry that it might as well be adopted as a javax package now.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

NYC street sweeping is once or twice a week, for the most part.

My (my much smaller, car dependent city) is annually.

aquaticsunset

2년 전discuss

Their devices continue to work when a scarce resource is no longer plentiful. The every day user doesn't need to care, but the people working on the stuff the every day user has need to care.

aquaticsunset

3년 전discuss

I think the market for the current lineup of EVs is tapping out.

My wife and I own one that was very comparably equipped to a similar luxury crossover / SUV, and the type of driving we do in that car is perfectly within the capabilities of our range & charging habits. Never going to gas stations or getting the annual oil change is a nice convenient perk for us. But we fit right in this targeted demographic:

1) Can afford an expensive, new car 2) Own a home and can install an EV charger 3) Have a second ICE vehicle for long trips

However, I can't imagine many people wanting EVs who fit this criteria don't have one by now. If the manufacturers want to keep selling EVs, they'll need to figure out how to replace the 2015 Accords and Tahoes without access to charging at home.

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