These all seem to be gross simplifications that dont really help the argument. While we could certainly make a case that no value is generated in trading certain derivatives,commodity futures and options are very imporant in regulating price/ supply supply shocks in the global market.
Im always frustrated by such journalism; "why won't they do something!?" . What is there to do besides, face id , chat controlor, heavy moderation, and if it were done, a whole other crowd wpuld have their pitchforks ready to go.
Somewhat out of my league in this thread but,I think I am.one of these people. I do remember a time before I had an internal monologue , in fact I remember the day in elementary school when I learned, after having been explained to me by my teacher, that everyone else was "talking to themselves in their head". I think I spent the next month or so obsessing over this new found ability. But before that day I was perfectly capable of thought, and conversation, and writing. Even now I can "switch modes" and have coherent thoughts occur, with no labeling or accompanying narrative. I can distinctly identify concepts and transitions between them but there are no words involved until I open my mouth. So I dont know if it was just a hidden background process before that day. But it definitely "feels' different when its in the foreground or back, or nor there.
Disagree with your take about how much you can trust the GPS. Maybe on a sparse road network this may be the case, but on a dense road network, stacked roads with adjacent lanes (like on a highway interchange )it can be downright wrong, even after corrections. But like you said in those cases we would have to rely on other inputs to compute precuse lane level location.
Where are these figures sourced from? This data does not seem to be consistent with EIA reports which bucket the contribution of renewable (including hydro and biomass) closer to 20% for 2023.
I worked in this industry. It used to move slow and consistent. Incremental progress or evolutionary improvent some used to call it. Wisdom borne from time and experience culminating in modules that ran on hundres of millions of cars, they to five years to finish but golly was it finished, no updates needed. They sold to every competitor, and even our own suppliers. Across the Atlantic and the pacific they scoffed at our POS cars, flimsy plastic trim, akward power trains. But, the beating heart of their cars ran our code.
Lots of grey beards, round tables, lecture rooms, the new kids like me squeezing into whatever room we could find to listen in. For some of these geezers their day job was just to investigate, educate, bring up the next generation. Some just sat around doing mostly nothing at all, schmoozig around the coffee machine, except when an exec or a new hire got a smart idea, skewer and stop them dead in the tracks, back to caf.
They used to brag about how refined their bom was and the lengths they went to test the foundation that we now stood upon.
The age of #innovation. New ceo, new board, new directors. We aren't a car company, we are mobility! We are SAFE, scrum, stories, velocity! 5 years? No! 1 year, or else. That's how the apples success don't ya know? Features! Bugs? Bugs don't have story points and we aren't in the business of shipping bugs so why are you talking about the last release? Why does your test bench cost $5mil, can't you do that with a raspberry pi and a beagle bone? Why do you have so many testers and QAs, this team we hired from the valley is gonna white the AI that can auto-test everything. Why are you paying so much to license this esoteric tool chain? O P E N S O U R C E buddy! The car is a phone ...with wheels!
The grey beards are gone, picked up and left when the winds changed or forced off the boat altogether. No promotions unless you're a yes man. SV kids that have never opened the hood of their cars or been around at a company long enough to see a product live and die in the market. More product managers than QAs. If you have a mortgage or kids, better put up and shut up.You get the idea.
The software culture in automotive companies is completely different from tech bro culture.
Also, some of the graybeards really held back certain innovations like security. Just roll your own crypto (spoiler it was broken).
Some of the older people were great though, really understood the electronics and vehicle communication systems, but in my experience the best software people were usually the manufacturing engineers. They had some really cool ideas and implementations that I didn't really appreciate until much later.
The coders for vehicle systems themselves were either electrical engineers who barely understood software, or software people who never opened a car (like you said).
I think most of the people who are pushing scrum and related ilk are cargo cutting, and aren't actually tech bros. I think a lot of this influence comes from the big consulting companies excited to make tons of money on "transformation".
Independent to this, you have the cloud providers, who are actually from Silicon Valley invading the stack from the backend and storage side, and now AI and analytics.
From what I've read about German car companies (in the past) is that they consider software to be 2nd class. Only the physical machine bits are 1st class (or things directly related to the drive-train). In that sense it's like the tech bros where details like sw update can be glossed over for a long time.
Assuming youre not a quiet quitter , youre not double dipping and you have some interest in your job. I'm pretty sure WFH is more productive and efficient. I'm pretty sure corporate knows this as well. They might even have the numbers to prove it but don't wanna show it. BUT i think the reason they want us to return is that if we stay home.. we will use the efficiency and productivity gains to optimize our personal lives and not the bottom line. It would change white collar culture fundamentally and that would not be good for the status quo.
Style nit: This is a badly written article; it about to a series of inconclusive quoted from experts duct taped together.
General observation:
Discussions about not eating meat in popular and social media seem to forget that 2/3rds other world don't exist. India, te most populous nation consists of 30~40% vegetarians and the rest have a very low animal protein diet compared to western standards. This is the same for much of east and south asia. The diet is heavily plant based, is healthy, nutritious and delicious, and does not contain much processed ingredients. It has been this way for hundreds if not thousands of years. Animal farming culture is very different and less industrialized. Many countries don't have a dairy industry to speak of even though dairy products are consumed.
Whether you're a non meatertarien on nutritional or ethical grounds, the east seems to have an answer for you. So you can stop eating meat...or you know eat less of it and still have a good time. I'm not sure why we in the west keep talking as if it's not possible without having some conglomerate reinvent meat for the 11th time.
What a jarring style! Is this a twitter thing?; No capitals and single spaced everything... Don't you have to go out of your way to do these days with auto formatting and all?
I've seen this style become "popular" and I have nothing but morbid fascination.
IMO one of the really cool effects of the internet is how much exploration there is of ways style, punctuation, and typographic choices can convey nuances of tone and mood that are not possible using a traditional style guide. Remembering especially that the real language is the spoken one and writing is just a set of conventions. This sort of thing gets us closer to the range of expressive choice we have when speaking.
It can definitely have a cost of readability if you're not familiar with it but this one is very well done and clear. The author makes really good typographic decisions in the paragraph breaks and section headings that provide plenty of structure and keep it from being disorienting.
So idk I am generally joyfully curious about this style and think this is a solid example of doing it in a way that enhances expression without sacrificing clarity.
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