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The missile may be unstoppable but you can bet it would take only a couple seconds to sink the ship and that there is a sub nearby ready to sink it. It’s unlikely to fire more than a few


A 5$ brother from goodwill


Apple is overtaking google because android OS is getting too insecure and pro advertising/tracking. Also it turns out that blue messages in chat are a killer feature that’s hard to fight


I wonder if they'll find some legal stuff to fight to blue messages.

When teens are getting judgement and peer pressure for not having an expensive locked down phone, it's not exactly great.

Either that or someone might make a 3rd party chat app with a true killer feature.

I'm not too worried yet, but I'd hate to see Android become the minority, or turn into a clone of iOS.


The product suffers when resource priority shifts in the wrong direction. Often times management infighting and empire building becomes the business priority and the actual product is a secondary evil that needs to limp along to fund the empires.


The right and wrong direction are up for debate. Everything is an opportunity cost, so if the product is not successful or making money, then shifting resources away from it to something more productive may sink the product faster, but might not have been the wrong for the business.

I've not known many executive decisions like that (right or wrong) being made without any input from technical side of the business, perhaps not Joe shitkicker in the trenches but technical leads. and I've very rarely encountered a technical person who concedes that their project or product or team should be given fewer resources. Almost always the complaint is that if only they were given more resources, they could have been successful, which rarely understands business and market realities and often confuses cause and effect.

And the egos and empire building and infighting and so on are definitely a thing that happens, and they are definitely not restricted to management. Engineers and technical people are some of the worst offenders!

I'm not trying to absolve executives and managers here, but I do think some engineers need better perspective and yes some empathy with the business side. Almost no new engineer needs to be told that their leaders are poor -- they'll hear it from their coworkers in their second week on the job and continuously after that until they retire. What I've rarely if ever heard is "damn we shipped a real piece of crap here, it must be embarrassing for our executives and sales people who have to sell it and answer to our customers, we could have done much better".


It’s because they are using the wrong metrics. The technical ability is not a strong contributor to success in leadership roles.


My cable outlasted the female side of my iPhone.


Are you getting paid enough to cover the extra 15-20 hrs? If not going lateral to just do 40 is a big pay bump


I get paid very well for my field and where I am at in my career. Although this wasn’t always the case.


The eggs I buy haven’t really changed in price but I already pay 5-6$ a dozen


You can’t override erratic braking can you? There isn’t much the driver can do to stop that behavior


Push the gear stalk up

Twist the steering wheel against the direction the car is turning it

Tap the brakes

These all immediately drop out of AP.

The driver also has the option of pressing down on the accelerator to make the car go faster and cancel AP’s anomalous braking.

One situation I can think of is using Navigate on Autopilot and the car thinks the exit is much further along than it is, tries to take the “exit” which is actually a concrete wall, AEB kicks in due to imminent collision.

But then why haven’t other Teslas had the same issue there?


EPA estimated so 50 actual


Jeez, you miss 1 off-ramp in some parts of California and there’s a good chance you run out of juice.


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