In case anyone hasn't visited the Sol LeWitt installation at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA, do check it out.
They usually have some other good stuff there too.
One thing that has changed for me personally is that these days if I’m parsing XML, I might just tell AI to write a parser that can handle these 5 XML files. It might load up a library or it might just roll its own, but one thing that is not going to happen is that I’m not building some beautiful well engineered XML parser which I then open source. I wonder if that is what’s going on?
The word recall sort of implies that the vehicle is recalled to the manufacturer. Calling a software update that happens in your garage at night and takes 20 minutes a “recall” definitely is worthy of quotes.
Hello. I just want to start by saying I appreciate this post as every other post on this article is: "this is politically motivated because I think it is".
That being said... on the linked page it says:
> Outflow water has been sampled after every use of the system and consistently shows negligible traces of any contaminants, and specifically, that all levels have remained below standards for all state permits that would authorize discharge. TCEQ, the FAA, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service evaluated the use of the system prior to its initial use, and during tests and launch, and determined it would not cause environmental harm.
I know this is unpopular to say and people love to pile on, but I have been using it for the last few weeks and I am optimistic about it. I pay $100/month.
Right now, it works just about flawlessly on the freeway. If you turn it on when you are on the on-ramp, and turn it off when it delivers you to that first traffic light after you exit, it actually is maybe better than actually driving. It passes slower cars, it is way safer than I am at checking my blind spots. It uses the HOV lane at appropriate times. I enjoy letting it perform the chore of getting across 5 lanes of traffic in time for an exit much more than doing that myself.
For local driving, it is still not perfect enough. It WILL get you home safe... but it is more stressful having it drive than driving myself. It pauses awkwardly sometimes... it makes an occasional wrong turn. It handles traffic lights and stop signs reasonably well but overall it's like driving with someone who is just learning to drive. It's more stressful than I prefer my transportation to be.
That being said, I think in a couple of years it will stand as an incredible achievement. The driving behavior it exhibits is incredibly lifelike at times and it is really so close... like all engineering projects the last few percent is sometimes the hardest, but I can see it getting there.
I think if I was getting off a red eye flight and stumbled into a Tesla at 6:30am having never been inside one before I would probably spend 5 minutes fumbling around in the parking space and then go back inside the Hertz office complaining that I couldn't find the ignition switch and please help.
I just wanted to say that anecdotally since I cannot see this perspective being shared here, that since Hertz started renting Telsas, I have only rented from Hertz, and only rented Teslas, and I have had nothing but positive experiences, and generally speaking have enjoyed renting these cars and felt much safer in them than I would have in the likes of the Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa (or is that vice versa) type cars I have rented in the past.
That being said, I would never rent or drive for more than an in town errand, any other brand of electric vehicle that doesn't allow the use of Tesla's superchargers and it is obvious why that would be a completely egregious breach of customer service to rent such a car to an unsuspecting customer.
It's the centralized exchanges, which are more akin to traditional financial institutions whose records are not on a publicly visible blockchain but rather private databases or... apparently spreadsheets... which fall victim to the same issues we have seen in the past in the traditional financial world.
One concrete thing that is better about the Tesla connector is that there are no moving parts that user needs to manipulate.
Tesla/NACs connector is just stick it in and it works... the car holds onto it until it is done or you tell it to let go.
I don't think I've ever seen a public J1772 connector that had a functional spring in the little thumbpress/lock/turn on thing which means if you don't know you need to stick a key or pen cap, or squeeze really hard to pry the little fucking plastic tab up to the lock position, it just won't work.
There are a lot of opportunistic/good hearted compassionate lawyers making a good business of shaking down smaller website operators for ADA compliance.
Imagine someone told you in 1989 when all the internet did was email and ftp, that the internet was going to do a lot of other things but they didn't really know what yet.
In fact, if you visit his IMDB page: <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/>, you'll see that right at this moment, the population of a medium sized city is employed producing content based on his writing.
It's open source, decentralized, there are hundreds of providers... and it doesn't rely on trust. As long as less than half of them are forced, coerced or compromised you should be ok.
In case anyone hasn't visited the Sol LeWitt installation at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA, do check it out. They usually have some other good stuff there too.