I found it weird there are about 20,000 vehicles of concern for models that sold millions. I wonder what happened, how are those relative few different?
That being said, they are really bright but now that we finally have the adaptive beams enabled, it seems to make a huge difference
True, whatever form a smartswitch is in, they usually are self-centering. The user is protected from appearance of a false state. They can match your other switches closely enough in the same room, but that will stand out in the same switch plate.
Admittedly I was never concerned about that either: even before home automation I installed dimmers and programmable switches that were already visibly different. I’m actually just now getting back to that consistency, after replacing most switches. That’s an expensive way to do it though
He was brought in by my uncle, who was a lifer at that company. He was “one of the guys” from day one.
I lived through Reagan and it turned a lot of things in directions wrong for the citizens but it was nowhere near this. There was still “shame” preventing anything blatant, there was still at least a nod toward helping people, there was still some competence, there was still some function in Congress.
You could even argue that Reagan did “make America great” by commanding respect in the world and getting at least something’s done.
Trump is an 8 year old in a tantrums version of Reagan
That’s the question: did he intentionally back over her or recklessly back over her. Seems like the DA already decided
In one of the more extreme cases where Duh Santis rented a jet to abandon a bunch of immigrants on Martha’s Vineyard without notice - we brought them to the mainland where there were already facilities. It was all just a game for headlines at the immigrants expense
I never really understood the use case for those relays. While I also thought they were a cool idea, the more I thought about it, they just weren’t. You’re leaving the switch in a weird state that won’t be useful to most people
A smart switch should be the same wiring as the relay and take care of the entire problem in a much more straightforward way. You can even get them in toggle or paddle to be similar to whatever else you have.
Most importantly smart switch means the switch keeps operating like everyone expects, PLUS automation.
A smart switch makes all this complexity go away
I’ve had this discussion with my conservative brother
Me: my company has diversity programs to reach a wider pool of applicants and to help people with historical disadvantages fulfill their potential. The best manager I ever had, had a little help overcoming language and confidence barriers, and i was happy to follow her to multiple companies
Him: they keep bringing in these managers solely by their gender or skin color and never promote engineers. They made us take this one employee who is completely unqualified and we have to do her work
He buys that there’s a harmful dei mandate that prevent qualified people from succeeding. You can imagine there’s some resentment there. However it’s easier to explain as normal large company bs, and only knowing part of the story
If you are caught driving without a license, the police officer takes down the evidence, maybe they arrest you, you are brought before a magistrate to see if evidence looks solid and you can decide whether to accept whatever the charge is or dispute it. If you dispute you are probably allowed free on bail or your own recognizance until you are called in to court. There the state describes the charge and produces their evidence and you have an opportunity to argue it.
There is all sorts of due process, checks and balances against abuse of authority, and the state has to have a preponderance of evidence showing you were guilty.
And of course the analogy falls over when you realize that overstaying your visa is a civil offense, not a crime.
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People are such idiots. There’s definitely something to the old trading requirements setting some baseline on your ability to lose your Investment
There’s no article where I clicked, so maybe it says who is borrowing to buy stock, but that is a great way to lose everything. I’m picturing a bunch of terminally online fools listening to streamers saying “you can’t miss. Guaranteed riches!”
Due process means following the legal procedure. Due process means proving it. Due process means giving the accused a chance to object. This is what prevents mistakes, prevents abuse of authority, prevents it from degenerating into racism, prevents terrorizing innocents. Due process is what keeps us from being the criminal.
Tech has been far worse, at least in my experience.
Until recently, government surveillance was at least predictable and consistent. Obviously I was against it, but seemed to have at least some voice and didn’t expect any personal harm. Of course with the recent sharp turn right, we can see how naive that is, how “the slippery slope” is not a fallacy
Meanwhile tech has formed entire businesses out of extracting and exploiting private information, including collecting it for the government to workaround due process, scaling out surveillance networks that government has no budget for, and generally going around limits desired by voters . They have actively pursued whatever avenue they can get away with, causing direct harm to us all
When the biggest abuses of privacy are committed by tech, but bought by government, which do you blame?
“Contractor”. Among the many problems with privatized prisons, This guy is going to discover his employer will disown him, ice will claim “not us”, and he will not be held above the law with a presidential pardon
I’m happy musk is out of politics, perhaps he learned some lesson. It’s possible. Then again I’d never stoop to find out what toxic filth he spews on Twitter, so whatever. He’s lost at least some of his stage.
But yeah I worry more about Tesla becoming a “robotics” company. I do have one of their vehicles that I want to continue to be supported for its lifetime.
…. And I find teslas are still by far the most compelling EV available in the US. I know I’ll get all sorts of grief for saying this, but there’s nothing else available in the US at their feature, price, and dare I say, quality? Maybe that would be different if we allowed a competitive market, or had legacy companies who want to survive, but that’s reality. Maybe it will be different in a few years if Rivian makes it to the big leagues with the R2, or if Lucid survives, or Slate is able to make a splash.
As the only compelling American manufacturer of EVs,we can’t afford for them to lose focus trying to invent humanoid robotics.
…. This used to be one of the benefits of incorporating. Let Tesla focus on cars. If you want to try humanoid robots, that should be a different corporation Insulating Tesla from that attempt
Think of it like Kodak with digital cameras. Even knowing the market is being disrupted, even having the technology, there is never a short term reason for self disruption. If the company can’t consider the longer term while a market is being disrupted, they will not survive. Of course selling a couple thousand EVs is not going to earn back the cost of entirely new factories and supply chains after two years. Duh. Of course it’s easier to sell hundreds of thousands of legacy vehicles built in legacy factories that are already paid for using supply chains that already exist. But one of those approaches is on a decline to the grave while the other is a paradigm shift for the entire global industry
Doesn’t help the US is so anti-competitive, so protectionist, so many policies favoring excessively large inefficient vehicles. By the time we emerge from this smog of political chaos, legacy American car companies will no longer be able to survive independently nor compete globally.
But the car companies certainly lay deserve a lot of blame- across the entire car market preferring to sell fewer more expensive vehicles, rather than more vehicle that are more affordable.
FWIW, my local shop claim they can handle state Inspection, brakes, tires, and suspension work on my Tesla. The most likely to wear items are also more generic.
Of course an accident or some other breakdown is an entirely different story
Laws like human rights, right of due process, right to not be attacked by unidentified masked thugs, right to not be attacked with unjustified force …. It’s clear who is committing the more serious crimes here: the end does not justify the means
Yes, my state has incentives for heat pump installs and a special electric rate for heat pump users (for those who heat with electric only)
I got a smaller incentive for installing a heat pump in my family room but still keeping my gas furnace. Electricity is pretty expensive here so the tradeoff is about 45°F. Above that the efficiency of the heat pump wins out, but colder than that the furnace is cheaper.
I did try the heat pump when it was cold, and it still produced a respectable amount of heat at 20°F