‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall… and give me some nibbles.’

How many of these are SmallSats and CubeSats?

There are high schools and colleges lobbing these into space.

At some point, some DIY person will come up with a way to disable these things in their presence.

And they will make bank.

644 miles means you could make it from Boston to Pittsburgh, San Francisco to San Diego, or London to Hanover with one charge… and plenty left over.

😔

You said “two of the three reviewers found substantive deficiencies in rationale, design, validation of results, interpretation, and presentation.”

So… what is left?

Like RAM, CSS color prices have gone through the roof.

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Electricity is one of those things that should be run by the municipality. Their incentive wouldn’t be to maximize shareholder value, but to deliver a basic need reliably and at the lowest cost possible. At the very least, it needs to be run by a Public Benefit Corporation.

The minute you enter private enterprise into it, things go pear-shaped. A municipal power network wouldn’t have problems with solar or distributed neighborhood grids. It just means lower cost for them, so they would encourage it.

They would need to get economies of scale, though. So you can’t have it just be city-wide or county by county. It has to be statewide. That way you can spread out the risk and costs. It also means investing in rural wiring since it’s no longer a matter of ROI.

Same for gas, clean water, sewage, and broadband. This isn’t closet socialism. We currently do this for roads, freeways, state parks, postal service (sorta), and defense.

Deer: Urine Stick? 😳

Gallagher’s fault.

Chinese manufacturers look like they’ve figured out vertical integration and manufacturing automation. BYD makes a TON of items themselves, from battery to drive-trains, tires, telematics, sensors, etc. And they can iterate FAST. It also means their battery division sells to the car division at cost, whereas a different manufacturer would have to pay cost + profit. Also, robots.

There’s no way a Ford, Toyota, or VW will ever go back to making their own components.

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Not long before git repos will implement Captchas for each submission.

Good thing there are openings in the “Physical Augmentation” division: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/doordashers-are-getting-paid-to-close-waymos-self-driving-car-doors-122711640.html

This whole post has a strong ‘Sovereign Citizen’ vibe.

Wasn’t “lo-code” a BIG thing a few years ago… that would destroy programming and make every PM a developer? Whatever happened to that? 🤔

Edit: read the HN comments. If I ever go back to consulting, I’m 10x-ing my rate to work on cleaning up this slop. I’m not anti-AI coding and use it for my own projects, but if you just give it a prompt and walk away, you will be very sad later.

There’s a BIG difference between prototypes and something others have to use. As the lo-code folks found out the hard way.