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by kylecordes 3y ago
I find it weird when people list hyperloop as a Musk failure. He had an idea, decided to give away the idea instead of pursuing himself. It's certainly not a success, it's just an idea. Will somebody eventually make a go of it, or
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I have a complaint about Tesla on this one. In Europe they ship vastly better tail lights with a different color for turn signals. As I understand, the superior signals are acceptable, though not preferred, by US standards. But Tesla makes
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by kylecordes 3y ago
It's quite annoying that Hyundai got this so wrong, while a long list of other makers got it right. Even without regulators demanding they do so.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I assume there are some conversion-optimization experts who think and consult data to choose the ideal timing and frequency to invite a visitor to sign up. I.e. the moment they are most likely to do so if invited. ... and the other 95% of f
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Experiences seem to vary a lot. Some people report the Twitter feed changed radically for the worse. Others (including me) have found it's about the same. I think it must depend greatly on what accounts you follow.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Both. Elon's approach to all this is pointlessly erratic, alienating himself from numerous people and orgs he could really use as allies. He might be right that moving entirely to paid verification is needed... but even if that is need
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Would be slick if all the space-company accounts had a couple lines of detail identifying what % of their total sales comes from government, military, commercial customers, etc. Of course this would require people wanting to move away from
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I think people should be slower to act. Around the time they left, the label had already been improved to mention funding instead of affiliation. If they could just be a bit chill about it, is quite possible within a month it might have bee
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Imagine an upgraded version of Musk - making some of these changes in a less contentious way. I find the idea of labeling media outlets quite helpful. The initial state-affiliated label for NPR seemed like an unnecessary tarnishment. The up
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by kylecordes 4y ago
The essential characteristics of Buck2 look very appealing - but it's hard to see this catching up with the substantial ecosystem of language support rules for Bazel.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I was acquainted with Bob over 20 years ago, when he was a software developer in St. Louis, attending various St. Louis area developer meetings. I remember at the time thinking that he was a startling combination of very personable and incr
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I've seen this same argument made by lots of people on Twitter. But as far as I can tell, in at least the last several decades of bank failures in the US, every depositor has been made whole or close to whole, regardless of geography o
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by kylecordes 4y ago
While I moved away from Delphi over a decade ago, it is still reasonably popular in niche vertical market software and internal systems. It is probably still a practical choice for both of those. Certainly I've seen sprawling internal
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Instagram used to be mostly photos from people I knew or followed or whatever. Nowadays it is 95% ads/sponsored/influencer content. Almost pointless to visit. But I think this might be a result mostly of people not posting photos
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Related unhelpful behavior of Google's auth system: Dropping you from an online meeting, mid-meeting, and demanding you log in again right now. Perhaps because it had been X days since you last logged in or whatever. I don't recal
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Challenge is that the biggest, best customers are most inclined to get something that is part of a big product suite. So you can start a competitor, but likely stuck with with low end of the market where there is the least chance of actuall
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Also even larger kidney grills, of course.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
It appears so far that the good UI/UX Tesla offers is something other makers could replicate, but stubbornly refuse to. Still... that doesn't mean the stock is infinitely valuable. Presumably the market will shake out and TSLA w
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Nice them them to remind all the crypto people to deduct their 2022 losses!
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I don’t have numbers in front of me, but my impression is that carmakers have done a much better job in the last decade with front-rear balance decent on nearly all cars. Versus decades past when some were wildly front-heavy (or occasionall
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by kylecordes 4y ago
No idea why; one guess is that it didn't occur to Tesla to worry about test-drivability and rentability yet. Probably hasn't harmed them so far because the brand has a fan following, of people happy to spend a few hours learning t
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I've had a Model 3 since 2018. You can see earlier in the thread that I am not a raging Musk fan, in particular of his public behaviour over the last few years. But a couple of these concerns are may be just because of the short experi
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I'm not defending him - repeating an earlier comment: Musk's behaviour is harmful to his personal reputation, his businesses, his investors, and sometimes beyond. Also utterly unbecoming a CEO of companies which routinely have hum
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I agree - Musk's behaviour is harmful to his personal reputation, his businesses, his investors, and sometimes beyond. Also utterly unbecoming a CEO of companies which routinely have human life at risk, serve critical national security
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by kylecordes 4y ago
It appeared to many observers that Musk was mocking the Russian propaganda, he then made the mockery explicit later. I don't understand the thesis that Musk is somehow pro-Russia. Generally his ventures are against Russia interests: Sp
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Seems like a pretty narrow law could fix it. Easement of 3 feet at corners of very rural land where there is public land on either side. Surely such a "taking" of 0.000001% of private holdings could be tolerated - incredibly tiny
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by kylecordes 4y ago
This seems great in theory but unlikely to work well in practice. Your close friends are already in touch routinely via email, phone, text, in person. Your extended network of acquaintances though? Connecting on a social media site is much
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by kylecordes 4y ago
For commuting, you charge at home with a much slower charger than this. You start each morning at a high charge %, and never stop at any charger at all. The fast charger is for road trips - at the moment, the number and reliability of high-
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by kylecordes 4y ago
It's hard not to be reminded of Howard Hughes. And to be reminded that such is a tragic outcome.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Previous, I thought the "he's trying to destroy Twitter along with a good chunk of his own fortune" idea was ludicrous. I assumed he was trying his best, in his own way, and would take a few months to rediscover how to run th

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