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- Comment on Did you have one of these? 3 days ago:
Recently dug one up. My older kid is interested in retro tech, so he has the boom box, a record player and a cassette player. He’s started buying vinyl and cassettes, and discovered my old crate of CDs in the basement
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 days ago:
OP is talking 6 AH batteries. If that’s all SiC can do, why would Apple use it in place of current 18AH batteries?
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 days ago:
Apple was never leading edge - their goal is to incorporate when it works well
But you’re both cherry picking and wrong. There’s huge lists of features on every new phone, you’re picking two and deciding that means no innovation. Take a look at the dozens of other features on models from each manufacturer.
SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh
You’re complaining about battery chemistry that you believe is innovation, yet current batteries are much larger. Why switch if the technology is not as good yet?
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
Yep
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
Interesting idea… we actually have a plan to go public in a couple years and I’m holding a few options, but the economy is hitting us like everyone else. I’m no longer optimistic we can reach the numbers for those options to activate
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
As a developer
- I can jot down a bunch of notes and have ai turn it into a reasonable presentation or documentation or proposal
- zoom has an ai agent which is pretty good about summarizing a meeting. It usually just needs minor corrections and you can send it out much faster than taking notes
- for coding I mostly use ai like autocomplete. Sometimes it’s able to autocomplete entire code blocks
- for something new I might have ai generate a class or something, and use it as a first draft where I then make it work
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
Shame. There was a time that people dug out of their own messes, I think you learn more, faster
Yes, that’s how we became senior guys. But when you have deadlines that you’re both on the hook for and they’re just floundering, you can only give them so much opportunity. I’ve had too many arguments with management about letting them merge and I’m not letting that ruin my code base
Speaking of meaningless metrics, how many people ask you for Lines Of Code counts, even today?
We have a new VP collecting metrics on everyone, including lines of code, number of merge requests, times per day using ai, days per week in the office vs at home
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
I had to sort over 100 lines of data hardcoded into source (don’t ask) and it was a quick function in my IDE.
I feel like “sort” is common enough everywhere that AI should quickly identify the right Google results, and it shouldn’t take 3 min
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
It may also be self fulfilling. Our new ceo said all upcoming projects must save 15% using ai, and while we’re still hiring it’s only in India.
So 6 months from now we will have status reports talking about how we saved 15% in every project
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
For some of us that’s more useful. I’m currently playing a DevSecOps role and one of the defining characteristics is I need to know all the tools. On Friday, I was writing some Java modules, then some groovy glue, then spent the after writing a Python utility. While im reasonably good about jumping among languages and tools, those context switches are expensive. I definitely want ai help with that.
That being said, ai is just a step up from search or autocomplete, it’s not magical. I’ve had the most luck with it generating unit tests since they tend to be simple and repetitive (also a major place for the juniors to screw up: ai doesn’t know whether the slop it’s pumping out is useful. You do need to guide it and understand it, and you really need to cull the dreck)
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 6 days ago:
I’m seeing exactly the opposite. It used to be the junior engineers understood they had a lot to learn. However with AI they confidently try entirely wrong changes. They don’t understand how to tell when the ai goes down the wrong path, don’t know how to fix it, and it takes me longer to fix.
So far ai overall creates more mess faster.
Don’t get me wrong, it can be a useful tool you have to think of it like autocomplete or internet search. Just like those tools it provides results but the human needs judgement and needs to figure out how to apply the appropriate results.
My company wants metrics on how much time we’re saving with ai, but
- I have to spend more time helping the junior guys out of the holes dug by ai
- it’s just another tool. There’s not really a defined task or set time. If you had to answer how much time autocomplete saved you, could you provide any sort of meaningful answer?
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Yet Chinese cars that meet US standards are quite a bit more than that. Where such vehicles are sold in developed markets, they are more like €30-40k
By “legacy manufacturers” I mean those who are stuck on internal combustion engines, and focusing on large trucks and luxury trims.
Average new car price in the US has greatly outpaced inflation and is currently almost $50k, closing in on a full year gross average income. Most people can’t afford that. For that rice you get old technology engine, old technology transmission, same features we’ve had for years.
Yet a replacement for my Subaru is much cheaper, only a little over what I paid nine years ago. It has safety features, electronics, and transmission more innovative than us made cars costing twice as much. Many more people can afford this vehicle, and it’s similar in price to what Chinese cars are selling for in Europe.
We don’t need to compete with $4k cars. We need to compete with cars affordable on average salaries, with new features and unique capabilities.
While the transition to electric vehicles has been politicized, it’s coming and it’s inexorable. “Legacy manufacturers” are those avoiding that change
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
You’d have an argument if legacy manufacturers were trying. We could talk about support if they were willing. They don’t want it. They’ve already given up
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
I’m not convinced it’s lack of sales. Trucks are the most profitable to manufacture but sales vary by region and some parts of the country are much more interested in smaller cars, but they ceded that market to Japanese manufacturers
It’s not they they can’t make them or that the sales aren’t there but that trucks are the easy route. They’re more profitable per unit and easier sell in some areas.
Part of this is also sleazy dealerships. Trucks have by far the biggest incentives so sleazy dealerships can get people excited about the “deal” they get over list price
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Protecting Detroit from competition would’ve just saddled US consumers with decades more of crappy, overpriced, low quality, cars.
And it did. Japanese companies maintained a solid portion of the market in the US, a notable lead in quality, and consumers no longer willing to waste money on crappy overpriced low quality cars from American companies. American cars were forced to get better and they’re better off for it, but they resisted the entire time, just like today
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
American car companies are focusing on their highest profit center, massive trucks. Milking that market for the short term.
…… regardless of their long term survival. It seems extremely short sighted.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Plus people usually bring it up in a stupid way. Yes they did. Yes we do that too (for all the “we” on the internet). Some amount of that is entirely normal on the global market.
The real problem is US conservatives who understand car manufacturing is a strategic industry but do not want to give that guidance to aid the transition to new technology, US politicians who can’t cooperate on a coherent long term industrial policy, US politicians who can’t look beyond short term profits for their corporate owners, or outrage headlines for their constituents. There’s nothing magical about Chinese companies taking over the industry, nothing hidden, just politicians establishing a strategy and sticking with it long enough to benefit
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Targeted tariffs and protectionism can help a situation like this, combined with subsidies like the ones Trump cancelled, to give legacy manufacturers a temporary respite to retool and innovate. However backtracking on your transition, reverting to the tried and true short term profits is just hiding your head in the sand. GM will find itself increasingly marginalized and more years behind. You can’t hide behind trumps skirt forever
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
The problem is the world is transitioning to EVs, and burying your head in the sand won’t change that. Legacy manufacturers could be trying to find their place in the new world while they can, or they can stick with technology of the past, let someone else come to dominate the new technologies, and be left with a ever shrinking market until they disappear
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 1 week ago:
If they tried to send me to my country of ancestry, it no longer exists
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 1 week ago:
As others say, ID has always been issued by states, but also
- until recently there was not standard security, so IDs that are not “Real ID” compliant have different standards
- some states explicitly do not ask about immigration status. It’s better to have all drivers licensed and insured than for immigrants to drive unlicensed and uninsured
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 1 week ago:
What about a “Real ID” drivers license?
While a regular license makes no claim about citizenship, id expect “Real ID” to only be obtainable by citizens
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Competency implies having some qualification other than loyalty, listening to subject matter experts, considering consequences. The result of competency could easily be just a matter of degree and awareness.
For example, tariffs can be a powerful tool for addressing specific trade inequities or supporting local production, especially in conjunction with other tools. Many US administrations have successfully used them. Only an incompetent buffoon would just throw them down everywhere all at once as the only tool, or as a bullying tactic.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And some turnip brain has thrown down a random slalom course of giant boulders of tariffs, terrorizing immigrant labor, and a full clown car of national “leadership” whose only qualification is personal loyalty
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 1 week ago:
That makes sense. Thanks for helping clarify
- Comment on It hurts y'all 1 week ago:
When someone says you stand like you have a stick olio your ass, they mean the other way. It should help keep you vertical
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 1 week ago:
Maybe I read this differently than you. I don’t see this as volunteering personal time, but asking people during their work time to help iwith a different job. Not that the article says either way, but volunteering personal time seems unlikely
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Best way to recover from a spin is push the yoke to straight down and rudder opposite the spin.
- Comment on How do you safely film a group of masked armed men while they are in the process of committing a crime, without them knowing that you are recording? [USA] 1 week ago:
Not that it helps the victims but maybe we need a bunch of falsely abused and detained reporters able to afford significant lawsuits.
I like to think I’d stand up and do it, but I’m white and in a state where we don’t often have such conflict.
I mean we do, you can’t avoid it with the current administration. However it’s just not as often. Actually a couple of weeks ago one of my city councillors was roughly detained for videoing a gang of masked thugs depriving people of their rights. However while I don’t think it’s as simple as racism, he is Hispanic and that clearly makes a difference
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 week ago:
Lidar has strengths that complement where video has weaknesses. That seems like a good thing. However it is bulky and expensive, and not yet produced at scale. Those are bad things. Whether it really makes a difference in simplifying the machine learning, only those developers know. You have to balance the pluses and minuses, and just because one company came up with something different, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Maybe it won’t work without lidar but maybe it will - in the meantime Tesla has saved like $1,000/car times however many million they produce. If they succeed, then they have a solid cost and scalability advantage
The deciding point is if someone does develop general self-driving. Will those who are behind be able to swallow their pride and modify their approach?