That's the delivery part. There is no room to stage anything on the site, so the mad 24/7 logistics nightmare has to happen during the entire construction process. There are 2 million more people in NYC now than there was in the old highrise heyday and that doesn't count commuters. That's a lot more traffic to have to negotiate. Not being able to physically deliver enough materials during the construction phase is an enormous slowdown. Coupled with the new smaller footprint/higher elevation slowdown it winds up being a slog. You can only fit so many workers in a given area. There are other differences that add time and complexity that the old buildings didn't have to deal with as much as well, like the thousands of miles of additional cabling that goes in now for higher electric loads and data. I would also imagine that inspections weren't near as thorough and time consuming in the past. It's death by a thousand cuts. Hundreds of little things add a little time and complexity and it all adds up.
I work for a place that designs and manufactures parts for a lot of these NYC projects. There are several factors that slow them down, and every step of the process is horribly inefficient. We start the bid and design process years before groundbreaking because it takes so long to get reviews and approvals. Permitting, planning, and impact studies that should take a few months drag on for years. The land prices are so high and putting lots together so difficult that they build tall skinny buildings. Tall skinny buildings take longer to build than shorter, wider buildings. Everything is so hush hush in the preconstruction phase that we don't even know who exactly is building it or where it's at until a few months before they start demo on the existing structure. Shipping and delivery is a logistics nightmare downtown and crane time is always at a premium. Imagine how hard it is to get around NYC anyway, and then imagine how many hundreds of tons of material have to be delivered 24 hours a day by big trucks that aren't as quick and maneuverable as a car. The whole process is just years of waiting followed by half a decade of absolute madness trying to get it all crammed into a city block.
I think the root problem is that writing documentation sucks and people just do the bare minimum. I am hoping that AI making docs easier to create will help make them more usable all around.
They don't give a shit about the dangers of AGI, they just have a lead and don't want to lose it. I can see why they would want to, but if you are going to do it then own it. They didn't mind being an open source nonprofit when it meant they were getting millions of dollars in donations and blowing through money researching, but now that they have a shippable product that was built on all that money they just happen to decide that they are the only ones worthy of being responsible for all that power? Give me a break.
I don't care what facebook is selling, I am not buying. Like every other big tech company they have been "building" all kinds of things, but haven't actually BUILT anything for years. The only two things they seem to be able to do at this point are stagnate or buy something someone else built.
I just bought a brand new motherboard that still has VGA and PS/2 ports, so I would guess IPv4 isn't going away any time soon. Old standards seem to hang around forever for legacy support. Why an ISP would assume they could set up an IPv6 only network is beyond me.
At this point I would just contact the bank for a chargeback. It would be a cold day in hell before I rolled over and lost $1,000 for something like this.
I have driven both gas and diesel vehicles for over 20 years, from small cars to bulldozers, and had all different kinds of them fail spectacularly at the worst moments. I have got gas at places where they accidentally put diesel in the gas tanks, diesel from places that had water ingress, rods thrown through the side of the block 1,000 miles away from home, you name it. I don't own an electric vehicle but I don't think anyone that does is under the impression that they would be completely problem free. It seems strange to me that a couple hundred thousand cars burn to the ground ever year in the US but all the news stories focus on the handful of EV fires. I also find it suspicious that the slightest problems they have are simultaneously written about by dozens of news sites with nearly the same wording. I don't have any skin in the EV game, but it's hard not to notice the bias against them. It would be interesting to see where the money flows to and from in all this reporting.
I had a job like that once and I had to bail. It was essentially free money but I could barely make myself get up in the morning. I despise busy work, and if I am spending time making things that nobody is using then busy work is exactly what it is. Either give me something useful to do or give me the day off.
There are several pieces of software I would gladly buy if only I could, but I've gotten to the point where when it gets to the subscription fee page I go find something else. Especially in the case of rarely used and nice to have software I am not interested in paying in perpetuity for something I may only use a few times a year.
I was wondering partway through if I had lost the ability to comprehend text, and then I realized this is just terribly written. Regardless of the fact that I disagree with the author completely (99% of all the meetings I have ever attended at every company I have worked for were a complete waste of time), I found it physically painful to read this thing. I actually thought, "She seems exactly like the type of person to put on a 2 hour long bullshit meeting".
I work for a company that (among many other things) designs and builds custom full stone masonry fireplaces. Almost all of our customers in Northern climates are heating huge mansions with two or three fireplaces and absolutely swear by them, to the point where the fireplaces are designed first and the rest of the residence is planned around them. Once you get all that thermal mass warmed up it radiates a surprisingly long time.
It's always bittersweet to see this posted. It is great and I wish more people knew about it, but it also has a daily limit so every time it gets press it runs of of api requests early in the morning and doesn't work again until the next day.
He also made this, which is extremely useful: https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
I have a manual lathe, a manual mill, a shear, a few welders, a cnc router, a cnc plasma cutter, a few band saws, a couple chop saws, a surface grinder, a couple hydraulic presses, a cutting torch, and more money than I ever care to think about in tooling. It is definitely a hobby where you accumulate things over the years and not something I would recommend buying all at once.
It's funny because I get stereotyped two different ways: People that I make parts for at home think I am computer illiterate, and machinists that I model parts for at work assume I have never seen the inside of a shop.
I think this is a mistake. The correct approach would be to throw as much money at it as needed while the hype train is rolling to gain users and worry about monetization later. It's not like the market share gain won't pay for itself. They are worrying about controlling costs for a product that hasn't launched to limit the interaction of users they don't have yet. They have spent billions on a search engine that nobody uses, why not spend some money on something that actually has potential?
I don't know how everyone else approaches it, but I just assume that anything uploaded to googles servers will be snooped using some legal loophole or another. I don't have time to study the TOS for every user hostile application in the world, so guilty until proven innocent is the only sane position I can see to take.