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543g43g43 commented on The vibes are off at Tesla theverge.com/2022/12/29/2... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

How did the rest of the industry catch up exactly?

Model Y was the best selling car in November in all of Europe, beating out the VW Golf. Supercharger network is still best in class, and “recalls” are all typically addressed as simple OTA updates requiring no service visit.

Record sales, best and reliable charging network, and easy customer maintenance (https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...).

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

They bided their time, and knew about the (mandated) EV transition years ago.

543g43g43 commented on The vibes are off at Tesla theverge.com/2022/12/29/2... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

Veliladon · 3 years ago

The rest of the industry caught up. Tesla’s competitive advantage was being 5 years ahead of the industry. Now the dedicated FSD chip is 4 years old, every ARM chip has an NPU, and the old guard are integrating EV tech into their lines while eclipsing Tesla on capability and production quality.

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

That was always how it was going to work! I don't know how anyone believed that the "legacy" automotive manufacturers, with their fingers on the pulse of upcoming transportation regulations, would be "caught out" by the EV transition.

543g43g43 commented on Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019) nrk.no/chasing-climate-ch... · Posted by u/Tomte

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

That website is truly awful. Maybe it's personal, but I hate the "scroll to be shown a narrative" style of website design.

543g43g43 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta

nobodyandproud · 3 years ago

> Shame Hurun doesn't publish its source data, or a list of those people

> I too found that list of the globe's billionaires. As we are comparing the rates of billionaires in the US, UK, and France, that page doesn't help.

The raw data is there to help you derive and check Hurun’s claim.

Perhaps you mean you want an easy way to sort and aggregate the information in order to dispute this.

However, the burden is on you to do this as you’re the one questioning the accuracy of the widely cited Hurun list.

At this point it’s hard to take your objection seriously; nor view it as anything more than cherry picking with an underlying agenda.

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

> you mean you want an easy way to sort and aggregate the information in order to dispute this.

For a start, I need the list to include the country of origin of each person.

>he burden is on you to do this as you’re the one questioning the accuracy of the widely cited Hurun list.

I've pointed out that Hurun don't make public their list of billionaires per country, unlike the other providers of that data. As no-one yet has been able to show otherwise, my point stands.

543g43g43 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta

nobodyandproud · 3 years ago

Which is an irrelevant objection, unless the list is inaccurate. Hurun reports are widely cited with few (if any) questions on its accuracy.

In fact, it's an inaccurate objection proven by 1 minute of research: https://www.hurun.net/en-US/Rank/HsRankDetails?pagetype=glob...

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

>Hurun reports are widely cited with few (if any) questions on its accuracy.

I could make the same statements about Forbes and Knight Frank, so that doesn't help explain the 3x disparity between Hunan's figures and the rest.

>it's an inaccurate objection proven by 1 minute of research:

I too found that list of the globe's billionaires. As we are comparing the rates of billionaires in the US, UK, and France, that page doesn't help.

543g43g43 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta

nobodyandproud · 3 years ago

According to the third list (Hurun), the UK is keeping pace with the US.

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

Shame Hurun doesn't publish its source data, or a list of those people.

543g43g43 commented on Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable brev.dev/blog/ai-wont-rep... · Posted by u/naderkhalil

ikealampe200 · 3 years ago

Just today I used ChatGPT to help me speed up writing somewhat trivial C Code for a project in an embedded systems class.

Prompt: "Generate a tiny PID controller with only a Proportional factor written in C. That takes a rotational input from -360 to 360 degrees. The setpoint in degrees. And returns a motor speed in the range of -255 to 255."

=> Produced a compiling correct result.

Later I wanted to know how to communicate between my kernel module and user space program: Prompt: "How do I get a value via character device from my kernel module into my user space c programm?" gave a bunch of answers and digging deeper with Prompt: "Could you provide me with an example of the user space program" gave a compiling and correct answer again.

I could have written all of that myself while spending a good amount researching on google. But this way I felt less frustrated and was definitively a lot quicker.

Not the solution for everything but maybe for a C beginner where research can take a long time and often leads to more confusion than anything else. Now the question is if that confusion is critical in the learning process. And if so how critical and at what stages of the experience spectrum the most?

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

I've just re-created your "PID" controller, and was completely underwhelmed with the response. I just don't find it amazing that something using that much compute power can generate source code that multiplies an input by a constant.

If you can't write that quicker than the ChatGPT prompt you provided, then you probably should pay more attention to your class.

543g43g43 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta

ChuckNorris89 · 3 years ago

>the UK and France which in reality have taxed them out of existence

You're making it sound like billionaires are an endangered species there. :) Last time I checked there's more than enough billionaires living in the UK and France[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

That's the very definition of cherry picking.

Try this dataset instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

543g43g43 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta

bmitc · 3 years ago

To solve all this, it's pretty simple, and the U.S. actually used to do it: heavily tax the super rich. Heavy taxation and then appropriate use of those funds for education, R&D funding, infrastructure, etc. is actual trickle-down economics. And mega corporations should be heavily taxed instead of holding the country economically hostage. They jumpstart their companies off of government funding and R&D and then act abused when asked to help give back.

Right now, the middle class is getting slammed with taxes. They make almost all their money through salary and get taxed heavily, while the super rich pay either no tax or a maximum of capital gains, so almost 40% or less than upper middle class in terms of percentage.

Corporations and the super rich have bought out democracy, and what is crazy is that they are supported by the very groups they intrinsically hate and hurt through their policies.

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

Ah, the mythical "super-rich" who could fund all of our solutions, if only we could prise their money out of their clutching hands!

It's funny how they always exist, even in countries like the UK and France which in reality have taxed them out of existence, and payscales are absurdly compressed compared to the US.

Careful what you wish for, you are someone else's "super rich".

543g43g43 commented on Lexus in development of a manual transmission for electric cars evo.co.uk/lexus/205509/to... · Posted by u/CharlesW

wilg · 3 years ago

They're not going away because nobody is seriously talking about getting rid of cars because it makes no sense.

Figure out how to convince people to do it worldwide, figure out how to replace all auto transport with other modes, then build those alternate modes. I'll bet that will take longer and result in more CO2 emissions than electrifying cars.

We don't solve global warming by fantasizing about deleting cars, we solve it with good engineering and passable policy.

543g43g43 · 3 years ago

The Climate Catastrophe doesn't care about what certain groups of people find "sensible".