Posts by Blank Reg

Re: Look to Dinorwig

Yes a battery in between is helpful, but lithium is the wrong chemistry for grid scale batteries. Size and weight are not much of a concern for this use case so pick one of the cheaper less explody batteries

Re: Not again...

They just want to make things idiot proof.

Unfortunately some countries excel at making better idiots

Re: Twitter not asking for $1B at all

I've been saying that since before the twitter debacle. He keeps coming up with excuses for selling the vastly overvalued tesla shares since telling the truth could cause his net worth to plummet.

He's getting out while he can get top dollar leaving the suckers to figure too late that they fell for the hype.

I've actually been replacing solvers for routing calculations with my own purpose built code. the solvers are slow and unpredictable. I've now got it running at least an order of magnitude faster with better routing and deterministic results.

Re: Python--

The indentation is by far the stupidest design decision in python. What psycho decided that giving meaning to indentations was a good idea? Accidentally change some indentation and suddenly things don't work as they should. And all just to avoid typing {.

"truths" with no evidence are lies

Re: preaching the gospel

And I expect that most of those 100s of millions have no interest in having to learn to use a new OS, and their managers don't want to deal with the added training and lost productivity as people who barely understand what they are doing now get thrown into an unfamiliar environment

Re: Other car manufacturers are available.

Where I live in Canada the law is that the price they advertise is the price, they shouldn't be able to get away with mandatory hidden costs. So they can still have this mandatory "option", but it would have to be included in the advertised price and not tacked on afterwards

Re: Musk's sofa

Twitter doesn't need to increase in value, he's trading stock in a company that is about 100x overvalued for stock in a company that is probably only about 2-3x overvalued. He will lose less with Twitter.

Re: Self driving cars

if we ever get to the point that I can sit in the back seat and take a nap while the vehicle safely takes me to my destination then it will be fully self driving. Until then it's all a lie

Re: So Donald was right?

Well you'd have to be an idiot, or pandering to idiots to be pro trump

Re: Quite apart from online...

Before your are allowed to vote you should be required to pass a test to prove you are competent enough to vote. imagine how different politics would be if politicians didn't have to pander to the average idiot to get elected, I expect most wouldn't even run for office as they would have no chance of winning

I've known quite a few software developers with EE degrees. There are many more job opportunities in software and the potential for higher pay.

Re: How?

if enough of the governments from the big economies decide to kill crypto then it's dead. They just need to declare then none of their banks can have anything to do with crypto, nor do any business with any financial institution that does.

Re: The whole thing stinks

if he had anuything to do with the design of the cyber truck then he's closer to a 5 year old.

Re: A strange business model anyway

All crypto relies on a steady supply of people who lack understanding, AKA suckers

Re: Where is the ROI?

No, he was "buying" twitter so that he had an excuse to sell Tesla stock. He needed to try and hide the fact that the real reason he was selling was that it was massively overvalued and would likely plummet as the big boys have now entered his playground

I think china's goals for Taiwan went up in smoke with the invasion of Ukraine. They now see the real possibility of significant sanctions should they try anything. Sure the rest of the world would have to make due with not upgrading their phone every year but once the manufacturing moves out of China it's gone for good. And then the communist party will collapse as massive unemployment and starvation hit.

Re: Ponzi scheme?

Sub-prime mortgages still had value, just not the value that some were fooled into believing they had. Crypto on the other hand has no value and creates no value.

Re: Could this be the energy source that 'solves' energy for humanity??

It's even more efficient if you just use the heat directly in a district heating system.

Re: I can see this working

It's certainly possible to only have to provide proof of identity once when you create an account with the information never being saved and the account not retaining any personally identifying information.

There is no need to ever check age again, none of us getting younger.

Re: FUD

There is no need for spreading FUD, crypto is worthless and the sooner they all hit their true value of zero the better for all of us.

Re: This is what US Progressives want

The Texas GOP might as well change their name to the Texas Taliban as that is what they have become.

Re: For a country

The USA has been circling the drain ever since scotus decided to make it legal for corporations and the wealthy to buy politicians.

Re: Potentially an interesting legal case

The delusion is strong with this one

Re: The Google Combined Harvester

Another concern is that those conversations are not evenly distributed. It's often the case that those that say the most are those that are the least worth listening to.

So if it were to become sentient it may have learned too much from the worst among us.

Re: risks, but so do most things in life

Governments aren't likely to encourage less baby making as they and economists haven't figured out how to run an economy that isn't growing. There are quite a few countries already facing demographic Armageddon, and it will spread to most countries as they become more developed. Many western countries are only able to grow through immigration, but that will only delay the inevitable. We're a only few decades away from reaching peak population before we go into a global population decline

Re: Too late far too late

in the past when co2 rates climbed they climbed over millenia. now we have 100,000 years of change compressed into a century due to human generated co2, so past events are likely not good predictors of the future.

But even if temperatures eventually return to normal the problem is the the rate of climate change is far too fast for natural systems to adapt. many species and ecosystems will be wiped out

Bad programmers can make any code in any language on any platform inefficient

Re: these two technologies may effectively combat mass shootings

If tech bros are involved then they will probably fund it via a new crypto currencies of nfts of your favorite mass murderers

Re: Ego Musk

Tesla have always been a joke. poorly designed, poorly built and more interested in adding gimmicks than in making a good car. it took other car manufacturers many decades before they could consistently make high quality cars. Making your car electric is actually the easy part, making it with high quality is the hard part.

Re: "The problem with IoT devices is that consumers tend to treat them as appliances."

I've had someone from Google come to my door at least twice to offer me a free Home mini and they seem confused when I say I'm not interested.

Re: Earth, May 2022

Typically I just laugh at every word of Elon Musk and say "what an idiot"

Re: tit for tat

The current inflation was the inevitable outcome of a decade of free money. All it needed was a trigger, and we had several pulled almost at the same time

Re: So technology works as intended...

The only hype that I've seen claiming fully autonomous driving is from musk, and you'd have to be an idiot to believe any if his BS.

Re: Do Kwon is better off, probably - Certainly

there will probably be no shortage of suckers no matter how many coins fail

"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.” - Albert Einstein

Re: Did Musk ever really intend to buy Twitter?

And there are so many companies, both large and small working on the next big battery breakthrough that it's almost certain that someone else beats Tesla in finding the secret sauce that takes ev batteries to the next level.