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  • Even from the headline, your article states they were profitable in 2020. Yes, back then a lot of it was due carbon credits. So they priced things according to the market they were in?

    Are you complaining that GM for example was only profitable because of those credits? They (and other legacy manufacturers) decided it was more profitable for them to buy carbon credits from Tesla than to develop their own EVs. You could argue they were only profitable because they could buy pollution rights from Tesla.

    But of course that’s old news. Profits ebb and flow but Tesla has more recently been profitable even not counting those credits.

    Regardless the market has changed and those pollution credits no longer exist. It’s a different world for both EV manufacturers and legacy manufacturers, so we’ll see what happens. Pollution is free again, although of course the picture is complicated by trade wars, fascism and musk s reputation, as well as the meteoric rise of competitors in China


  • Yeah there have definitely been times when I’m driving quite a bit faster than I think in my model y. But the scary part is my teen. The very first time I let him drive my Tesla, he drove faster than I ever have

    But acceleration can be worse. The first time I found a “safe” stretch of road to try, the acceleration pushed me back in my seat so far that I no longer had a solid grip on the steering wheel. I really scared myself there, and among other things keep the seat tilted farther forward now



  • Still, not trying to be pedantic here but terminology is important. Seems like you’re talking about quality or reliability.

    Generally

    • safety ratings are government or independent tests on newly manufactured cars. The goal is to detect design issues. Tesla has always had very high safety ratings
    • quality or reliability is how these cars hold up over time. The goal is to detect manufacturing issues and places where too many compromises are made. There are many places attempting to do this and one source may be annual safety inspections. Teslas used to have some very well publicized quality issues that would show up here. Early model s and model X were effectively hand made, and they took a couple years to stabilize model 3 manufacturing. As far as I know they are similar to other manufacturers now (except of course the Cybertruck), but I’d certainly expect historical data to not be as forgiving.
    • accident data is real life results in how they’re used. In this case we have way too many streamers misusing teslas self-driving feature, convincing others it’s more capable than even Tesla claims, that probably contributes. But I believe it’s also the sheer acceleration. It used to be the Mustang that was stereotypically more acceleration than drivers can handle, but we may have that here as well. Every Tesla has outstanding acceleration and of course you’d try it. It will be more than you expect: can you handle it?

    Edit to add

    • insurance data generally determines repairability. We see that for a variety of reasons teslas are expensive to repair. Some of it’s the design, some the materials, some the plethora of tech, and some is availability of parts, and the lack of third party parts




  • I always thought this was an argument for properly racking everything. If it takes more effort, more time to remove, maybe they won’t bother.

    My understanding is that for most individuals, theft is mainly

    1. Targets of opportunity. Lock your door and make sure nothing expensive is visible
    2. Smash and Grab. The goal is to act fast and not care about what you break, so anything harder to smash (without tools) or that causes delay is good.

    I do have outside cameras but they’re not as useful as you’d think. Maybe they have some deterrent value but they’re not going to alert anyone fast enough unless they’re already in the house and you’re not going to identify anyone even if you catch a good shot of their face. If the do catch someone, perhaps the video is enough to say, yep





  • Yeah, jira is too customizable. I mean I wouldn’t give any of it up, but the one time someone let me have the reins, I mostly simplified. Removed workflows, removed customizations.

    There needs to be better ways of defining standard projects and sticking to them. Currently everyone wants their little tweak and you can’t even pick out what’s consistent and what’s not until you run into problems



  • Trail was excellent - my town has a well developed River walk, as does the next town east, but apparently there’s a trail connecting them! Runs right along the River so great scenery. I wasn’t looking for a hike so it’s nice and level, an easy walk.

    Funny you ask about the ice cream. All these years raising kids and I refused to let the frustrating times win. Now that they’re older, more independent, successfully raised, I commemorated challenges overcome by ordering “Exhausted Parent” - bourbon and chocolate chip!

    Edit: I don’t know how to refer to my kids anymore. They’re not little, but also not yet adult. Maybe I should say “teens”, hope I didn’t mislead. To be more specific: the younger kid graduated high school, has a summer job, and preparing for college in the fall. Huge milestone in parenting!




  • I’m actually planning to do an evaluation of a n ai code review tool to see what it can do. I’m actually somewhat optimistic that it could do this better than it can code

    I really want to sic it on this one junior programmer who doesn’t understand that you can’t just commit ai generated slop and expect it to work. This last code review after over 60 pieces of feedback I gave up on the rest and left it as he needs to understand when ai generated slop needs help

    Ai is usually pretty good at unit tests but it was so bad. Randomly started using a different mocking framework, it actually mocked entire classes and somehow thought that was valid to test them. Wasting tests on non-existent constructors no negative tests, tests without verifying anything. Most of all there were so many compile errors, yet he thought that was fine


  • My company only allows downloads from official sources, verified publishers, signed where we can. This is enforced by only allowing the repo server to download stuff and only from places we’ve configured. In general those go through a process to reduce the chances of problems and mitigate them quickly.

    We also feed everything through a scanner to flag known vulnerabilities, unacceptable licenses

    If it’s fully packaged installable software, we have security guys that take a look at I have no idea what they do and whether it’s an audit

    I’m actually going round in circles with this one developer. He needs an open source package and we already cache it on the repo server in several form factors, from reputable sources …… but he wants to run a random GitHub component which downloads an unsigned tar file from an untrusted source