One of the reasons for Teslas success is that they make attractive cars that people don't feel ridiculous driving. Those vehicles you linked to are ridiculous and can't be products because they wouldn't sell.
Real EVs will make stepwise improvements on aerodynamics. They won't suddenly be redesigned.
By the time those 3 lamppost chargers are in regular use, some company will have seen the profit in installing dedicated chargers too between the lamp posts.
Learn to read. I didn't say " following what's going on in the tech world as a professional" was a bad idea. Just that Slashdot is a very poor place to do it these days. It's days as a useful resource started declining about 15 years ago.
If they were moving from open plan offices to a new building where everyone had their own office, the slashdot hive mind would be pointing out how that leads to a reduction in ad-hoc collaboration, and is isolating.
I can't log onto slashdot because I'll quickly get a reputation as someone who doesn't work and just surfs the web.
That might be bad for you. It's not bad for your employer. I mean the days when slashdot was a good way of following what's going on in the tech world as a professional are long gone. Now it is just a time sink.
(And before the smart arse ACs come in, I'm at home, it's 10:50pm where I am, and so I'm definitely wasting my own time here.)
And Hyundai is already suffering from lack of batteries from LG Chem. Their Ioniq has been far more popular than they predicted. They could raise production to deal with that, except that they haven't pre-ordered enough batteries from LG Chem, and LG Chem has other bigger customers, so won't/can't increase production for Hyundai.
And for the same reason slashdot hive mind's hatred of Apple is irrational. They too have vertically integrated products, but there's plenty of competition.
Probably a bit unfair comparing just US production. Tesla produce all their cars for worldwide distribution in the US. The larger US manufacturers have factories dotted around the world.
That women differ from men is undeniable. That they happen to differ in ways that make them less good engineers is not a defensible position. What we see in the Googler's post, as in the bigotry here is that certain men assume that the attributes they display must surely be the ones that make for a better engineer. And that is just ignorance.
That pair programming isn't practised as much as solo programming doesn't make solo programming the right way. It may just be a symptom of the lack of communication skills amongst the current engineering population.
If you define gaming as a boys activity, and make games that appeal to boys, then it's not surprising that the majority of gamers as boys. As used to be. When you drop that bigotry and produce games that girls want to play too, low and behold it turns ou there are more female gamers.
Likewise, if you create an engineering industry catering to male ways of doing things and male opinions, then you end up with an engineering department where there are few women. However if you accept that women have different approaches, then you will likely find that there are just as many and just as good women programmers.
There was a film out a few months ago called Hidden Figures. Based on a true story about some black women who did some of the maths behind the early NASA missions. It was about the racism and sexism that existed against women engineers and mathematicians at the time. Sad to see that some people haven't progressed much in their opinions. The racism has lessened more than the sexism has.
Ah yes. More bigotry. Since the claim that boys game more than girls, now you, as a boy, must assert that the KIND of games played by a boy are somehow superior in any objective sense to the ones played by a girl.
If it's advantageous to pay people different amounts depending on performance, it's even more advantageous to let them know that they are earning more or less on that basis. Secrecy doesn't help in that situation.
The reality is that secrecy only helps the employer to keep the salary bill as low as possible. In the overwhelming number of cases, employers pay their employees as little as they think they can get away with, rather than what an employee is worth. And that's difficult to maintain if salaries are public knowledge.
As far as programming goes, men tend to prefer that type of solo work
Spot the person who's never heard of pair programming. Or who believes, due to his own inability to work with others, is the wrong way to go.
But hell it doesn't need to be pair programming. Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.
But hey, what is programming at all but communication. Communication with the computer. Maybe women are fundamentally better at it. On average.
try to figure out why boys play video games significantly more than girls.
Ah, yes, I remember that being a concern once upon a time. However, it's no longer true. There are more girl gamers than boy gamers now.
Turns out it was simply that because development was full of males, they weren't producing games that appealed to women. Once that problem was sorted, women started playing games. Another reason why it's beneficial to have women in development.
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One of the reasons for Teslas success is that they make attractive cars that people don't feel ridiculous driving. Those vehicles you linked to are ridiculous and can't be products because they wouldn't sell.
Real EVs will make stepwise improvements on aerodynamics. They won't suddenly be redesigned.
By the time those 3 lamppost chargers are in regular use, some company will have seen the profit in installing dedicated chargers too between the lamp posts.
"one thing changed" is not a great method of measuring improvement.
Batteries are improving energy density at a rate of 14% per annum. That's a doubling time of 7 years.
That improvement can either mean longer ranges, or lighter, cheaper EVs.
There's also the plausible deniability factor. "Gee, officer, you've got me so flustered, I can't remember the password."
If that rumoured feature is there, then pretty obviously it would be programmed to also deactivate after the 5 presses on the home button.
Alt-right dickhead got canned for putting his misogynist thoughts into the company intranet. Good riddance.
Learn to read. I didn't say " following what's going on in the tech world as a professional" was a bad idea. Just that Slashdot is a very poor place to do it these days. It's days as a useful resource started declining about 15 years ago.
If they were moving from open plan offices to a new building where everyone had their own office, the slashdot hive mind would be pointing out how that leads to a reduction in ad-hoc collaboration, and is isolating.
Some CEOs do. Mark Zuckerberg for example works in an open plan office.
Apple? Who knows. First of all Apple is secretive. Second, as a company they are not in the open plan offices yet.
I can't log onto slashdot because I'll quickly get a reputation as someone who doesn't work and just surfs the web.
That might be bad for you. It's not bad for your employer. I mean the days when slashdot was a good way of following what's going on in the tech world as a professional are long gone. Now it is just a time sink.
(And before the smart arse ACs come in, I'm at home, it's 10:50pm where I am, and so I'm definitely wasting my own time here.)
You only get resentment and bitterness if the salaries being paid to individuals are not fair compared with each other.
What age were you when you started having paranoid thoughts?
In what way does a PhD from Harvard negate it being a horrible sexist mess?
Other than that, cool story bro. You should make it into a comic.
But he does understand psychology.
They have a new model being launched next month. That will undoubtedly be 150+. But they need 200+ now.
And Hyundai is already suffering from lack of batteries from LG Chem. Their Ioniq has been far more popular than they predicted. They could raise production to deal with that, except that they haven't pre-ordered enough batteries from LG Chem, and LG Chem has other bigger customers, so won't/can't increase production for Hyundai.
And for the same reason slashdot hive mind's hatred of Apple is irrational. They too have vertically integrated products, but there's plenty of competition.
Probably a bit unfair comparing just US production. Tesla produce all their cars for worldwide distribution in the US. The larger US manufacturers have factories dotted around the world.
As well as the implication in all you wrote, you actually referred to boys games as "real games". So yes, you did. There was no projection.
That women differ from men is undeniable. That they happen to differ in ways that make them less good engineers is not a defensible position. What we see in the Googler's post, as in the bigotry here is that certain men assume that the attributes they display must surely be the ones that make for a better engineer. And that is just ignorance.
That pair programming isn't practised as much as solo programming doesn't make solo programming the right way. It may just be a symptom of the lack of communication skills amongst the current engineering population.
If you define gaming as a boys activity, and make games that appeal to boys, then it's not surprising that the majority of gamers as boys. As used to be. When you drop that bigotry and produce games that girls want to play too, low and behold it turns ou there are more female gamers.
Likewise, if you create an engineering industry catering to male ways of doing things and male opinions, then you end up with an engineering department where there are few women. However if you accept that women have different approaches, then you will likely find that there are just as many and just as good women programmers.
There was a film out a few months ago called Hidden Figures. Based on a true story about some black women who did some of the maths behind the early NASA missions. It was about the racism and sexism that existed against women engineers and mathematicians at the time. Sad to see that some people haven't progressed much in their opinions. The racism has lessened more than the sexism has.
Ah yes. More bigotry. Since the claim that boys game more than girls, now you, as a boy, must assert that the KIND of games played by a boy are somehow superior in any objective sense to the ones played by a girl.
If it's advantageous to pay people different amounts depending on performance, it's even more advantageous to let them know that they are earning more or less on that basis. Secrecy doesn't help in that situation.
The reality is that secrecy only helps the employer to keep the salary bill as low as possible. In the overwhelming number of cases, employers pay their employees as little as they think they can get away with, rather than what an employee is worth. And that's difficult to maintain if salaries are public knowledge.
As far as programming goes, men tend to prefer that type of solo work
Spot the person who's never heard of pair programming. Or who believes, due to his own inability to work with others, is the wrong way to go.
But hell it doesn't need to be pair programming. Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.
But hey, what is programming at all but communication. Communication with the computer. Maybe women are fundamentally better at it. On average.
try to figure out why boys play video games significantly more than girls.
Ah, yes, I remember that being a concern once upon a time. However, it's no longer true. There are more girl gamers than boy gamers now.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
Turns out it was simply that because development was full of males, they weren't producing games that appealed to women. Once that problem was sorted, women started playing games. Another reason why it's beneficial to have women in development.
Your bigotry is not born out by the facts.
A space Luddite on slashdot. Interesting!
The demand, most obviously, is a means for America to start putting astronauts into space again. No more relying on the Russians to do it.
And it puts in place a stepping stone to moon trips or mars trips.
Yes, most of this is regaining lost capability.