The problem with Chinese EVs is that they show it’s possible to innovate, keep prices down, and mass produce.

Ford, GM, even Tesla, are spending all their time whining about how it’s just not possible to compete. They point the finger at worker wages, instead of improving engineering and design, materials, manufacturing processes, and not chasing stock-market gains.

Stop making $70K SUVs and start making $20K Taurus and Escort EVs. You did it once. You can do it again.

RemindMe! 3y “reply to this thread”.

Anyone who has played the ‘Risk’ board game has an idea what the next moves should be.

Tweezers.

When you realize how many wars were averted because of them.

• Catch 22
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/two-weeks-after-launch-sony-shooter-concord-goes-offline-and-offers-refunds/

“Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales.”

Let’s hope no single person worked on that thing for the full 8 years under development. Would be crushed.

Once they get Threads support, their target audience will be the non-Twitter universe. This would make it easier for businesses, governments, journalists, and non-technical folks like influencers and celebrities to switch out. That’s how you get mass adoption.

I just tried it last week. Good start. Lots of promise.

How long before the students gamify it to see who can generate the most alerts?

Was listening to an interview with NY Governor on imposing cell phone ban in schools. Said if they left it to individual schools or school districts, there would be lots of pressure from parents or individual groups not to do it and the whole thing would fail. And if they made it voluntary, some kids would comply, but there would be social pressure to keep things as-is, due to FOMO.

Instead, the government would pass a uniform, mandatory law and take the heat.

Seems like that’s what will be needed to change everyone to a 4x8 week. Similar dynamic. Do, not ask.

Came across Openvibe. Mobile client that works across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and soon, Threads. Not perfect, but a good start.

May be one way to handle service migration fragmentation.

Google and Facebook already went down this route. Lots of amenities on-site (at least, in their headquarters). But they were more used as carrots to induce people to join the company and stay. The stick approach of ‘you can’t leave’ is an interesting variation.

Let’s see how long before the ‘apology/I was misquoted/retiring to spend more time with family’ tour kicks off…

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/arizona-wells-fargo-worker-death

4x10 hours could just lead to more rapid burnout.

Why not move gradually toward 4x8, but give employees the option of taking an annual pay raise or reduce a few hours each week until, after a few years, the numbers have stabilized? This way, the labor cost to the company stays the same, but employees have a choice of higher pay or more free time.

TLDR: People need to go touch grass.

Cleaning up the kitchen every night.

Used to leave dishes in the sink during college, then do them when it got full. Got a side job as a bartender, where you had to clean up every surface after the last shift, ready for people the next day. Applied it to home. Has stuck ever since.

Fortunately, married a woman who had the same habits. We’ve never gone to bed with a dirty kitchen, even after a group gathering.

Tried bash, Make, and awk/sed. All hit brick walls. Finally landed on pyinvoke. Two dependencies to install on any new machine. Never had problems. Also, easy to debug and modify as projects evolve.

Grandmother died a while ago of this type of lung cancer. Be great if nobody else got it.

Cloudflare just announced an AI Bot prevention system: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/

Original Star Wars as a kid. The whole summer. 13 times. Have probably watched it more times since on streaming.

Nostalgia is a drug.