I'm thinking of the people that may have actually used the vehicle for its advertised purpose.
that'll be nobody then. These poor Jeep owners will now have to walk home from Walmart with their bread and milk.
The crap ain't going anywhere.
You're not wrong but also what is the point of a 'presentation'? Images, words or more usually a wall of text the presenter reads to the audience.
Impress is fine, the real issue is that the 'state of the art' for presentations is bullshit.
excel gives predictable output
So you've never had to deal with an excel file containing dates or times or values which could possibly appear to be part of a date type??!
yeah I don't know why people put up with this shit
I started a new job recently - requested a laptop with a geforce GPU so I could finally play BG3, I leave it in the background and have a fight every now and then. Conversely I spent most of the weekend trying to diagnose Kubernetes errors.
I could definitely get paid more elsewhere but a culture of trust and respect is priceless to me. YMMV.
it's not even that - all things being equal, I'd still go to the US despite not agreeing with the political climate there. It's a big country with lots of amazing stuff to see.
What I hear people really worrying about is the draconian powers that TSA/immigration seem to have acquired, and truly mindbending stories like this or this.
A bunch of my colleagues are raving about windsurf, one even starting a company to 'vibe code' an AI app. I was curious to try it.
Fired up a really basic web app I'm testing - pointed it at a file with about 100 lines of html/js and asked it to describe the function on line 78 or whatever. It came back with a very reasonable-sounding answer, but it wasn't the function on line 78. It completely hallucinated something from somewhere else. When I said "no that's wrong" it replied "oh yes! sorry about that..." and carried on.
Maybe my prompt-fu needs work, but this was enough to tell me that these tools are not ready to rely on for anything beyond playing around.
Great point. I did a PhD mid-career a few years ago. I never had any intention of going into academia, I can hardly think of anything worse.
I've since found that, because I already had proven practical skills, it has opened a lot of doors for people wanting consulting/contracting work in my field and let me span out into other research-adjacent jobs for really interesting organisations that would have been closed to me before.
I got a full scholarship so overall a no-brainer for me.
wow that's a big system! and a big saving on the power bill
I'll look into batteries a bit more, because I can't see it being particularly worthwhile without storage. I see Harrisons have the Powerwall 3 or Givenergy (3 models) - did you do much of a comparison between batteries, or just went for the powerwall?
I paid a fraction of that 4 years ago
what fraction? A large NZ solar retailer claims around US$7k install cost for a 5kW system; a presumably neutral news site (rnz.co.nz) says it's about NZ$2k per kW currently so that roughly checks out.
I'm quite surprised genuinely if these numbers are real. Having central AC, switching to a hot water heat pump last year, and probably buying an EV in next couple of years - with the retail price increasing - I've been thinking about this more and more...
Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer
