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Shoutout to Samsung Ultra Power Saving Mode (and other modes)

You can get ~4 day battery life if you limit your apps to phone, text, music, email, wallet (with no lasting background activities*)

The title holds for much more specific and thinner stacks, along with support, QA, and sales - especially even simple web apps.

Onboarding is important Training is important Retaining is important

Maybe your system is 100% documented, conventional (looking at you Rails, Angular), debt free, tested, instrumented - but more than likely it's not.

But if you get down to staff who can't teach a a system, including product teams that don't respect feature overload, value, or internal feature training. If you prioritize new features over team development and training (aka a team that doesn't know the system), you're likely to get muddy with existing features both technically and use facing.

As an issue, yes, often ignored by QA, Product and engineers

The best way to justify that high p/e would be for them to use it to buy out the competition.

It costs Tesla ~<6% of market cap (780b) to acquire Ford (40b) or GM (44b) (with a friendly ftc); so for 15% of their shares, that could become the only "American" manufacturer - then they'd probably strip those 2 for parts, end the dealer model, bust the unions, maybe keep a few of the popular models.

Some of this might be inevitable anyway, as autos become more expensive (tariffs, inflation, chips, unions), and more reliable (dealer maintenance model, fewer sales)

The idea is that fasting does encourage aptopsis of cells.

Also, the amount of badmouthing of Japan, Korea, Germany... Especially car companies which have built plants in America.

The "calculations" of trade deficits not including services (which America became a services economy) is a bold choice. Ie, the iPhone might be buying from China, but if you purchase an iTunes or iCloud subscription.

It's completely possible that America produces luxury goods (ie John Deere tractors, Ford sprinter vans, airplanes) that can only have so much demand to smaller nations.

Fine grained policy, coordinated efforts could go a long way in making tariffs effective.

If high level broad tariffs (or sales tax) are implemented as a replacement for the progressive income tax (or regressive payroll taxes), and with a universal basic income program, then the shift would be more tolerable.

What you would really not want to do is, prior to raising tariffs, significantly reduce GDP efficient government spending, reduce welfare programs, and decrease public sector jobs.

For success, you would also want to avoid headline tariffs - people, business, and countries can make changes if you announce you are permanently changing your taxation system 1% at a time over the course of a year - and you definitely would want to avoid chastising trading partners that could reduce the control you have.

If (as in this study) the athletes stuck to their same level of resistance training (ie weight + reps) I would expect the study to hold with the exception of finely measured muscle teardown.

As other commenters have posted, the popular suggested use of creatine use it to either increase resistance (extra reps at a greater weight) or decrease downtime (lack of atp / lactic acid buildup that breaks down muscles)

.3% is drastically above the gdpnow estimate from the Atlanta fed, which, after compensating a -2.6% figure for increased gold imports, comes in at -1.8%

But it is more difficult to prove criminal intent and value paint, metal, and tire damage.

If Sentry mode records the perpetrator, the cops have to find it criminal, and then the DA decides to prosecute....

Good luck civilly pursuing every door ding or the mustard that fell off a sandwich -- even if somebody holds their ID up to a sentry mode camera, or drives off with their license plate clearly visible.

Agree

Tesla and Tesla charger vandalism was high last year by the anti-ev crowd

It's expected to be higher occurrence, but less measurable (ie, petty vandalism) by the anti Elon crowd

The insurance in question is more about individual cars rather than stores;

And while Teslas have Sentry mode that could detect things like paint, door dings, tire vandalism to record a criminal act, law enforcement has rarely been able to enforce much except the extreme or flagrant.

"compensated well" is an interesting takeaway on HackerNews where in a corporate world a chief economist would likely be compensated as a CFO, Chief Strategy Offer, or at least Partner of a VC firm, easily at 100xv earnings.

"Purpose" is also a less loaded word than "Charity", and whether you view USAIDs purpose as promoting American Exceptionalism or reducing global issues like hunger or disease, USAID was more influential than the World Monetary Fund, and often times the UN. Denigrating of this purpose in this organization is similar to suggesting a Joint Chief of the US Military doesn't really impact the world (which may be more truthful than I know if the US leaves NATO, the UN, and creates a power Vacuum in influence that other states like China fill)

Something odd being gas prices didn't rise with inflation, work equipment tax breaks + tariffs added to a materials / chips supply chain shortage, mortgage + student loan deferment + COVID stimulus + ppp loans boosted spending power.

Led to increased demand of used cars.

Similarly and I extended to think about a dryer with a humidity sensor; it doesn't measure time well, it measures complexity, it gets more accurate the longer it works on the task, but the last progress meter can still take significant time with significant clothes.

Weight shift is a good reason, rear and all wheel drive Regen should result in 2+x as much contact patch, versus friction brakes typically favor the front 70/30, applying 70% of braking to only 2 tires.

Because there is less extreme (and earlier) braking and less weight shift (drive motors on the rear or all), regenerative braking should lead to less overall tire degradation than comparable friction brakes for even a significantly increased weight.

Though this is contraindicated by Tesla drivers in the extreme Regen mode that induce motion sickness in their passengers and / or are replacing their tires very often (though conflated with rapid acceleration)

Agree; I'm seeing the same people that don't unit test or define types using ai to program, and ... even though Ai (CoPilot) can write 90% of the happy path and setup mocks... It's still too much for the developer (and exec team) that doesn't care to do.

This is exactly what Google and OpenAi meant when they list "no moat" as a risk.

Do the motion sensors add value when compared to independent motion sensors or humidity sensors?

My sense is that with independent dumb motion sensors you achieve much of a smart house with less cost, wifi dependency.

The best way to write without bugs is to measure bugs, and react to them.

Airbrake, Rollbar, Datadog, New Relic mean nothing if you ignore bugs because you don't take the time to replicate them.

You also can't fix what you don't know, so you need some telemetry or reporting of not your happy path. You can't have a goal of bug free code if you don't measure bugs (that's not SMART goal because it's not measurable).

Unit Tests, Typing, Linting, a collaborative code review process are key to big free code.

There is a big difference between "can turn off" and "doesn't emit white or blue light in the cabin at night by default" when it comes to infotainment.

Maybe the oleds will allow manufacturers become more conscious of this in the future, but as far as I can see, BMW, Ford (Cadillac), Mb group, and Kia Hyundai, Honda are not consciously limiting their lighting colors.

Related, the color of your dash matters, the modern backlit screens (both dash and entertainment) emit much white and blue light.

Mazda and Bmw (traditionally, less the last 5 years) seem to consider human ux more than others - hence orange lighting. Modern ambient (orange or green) can be nice.

> lifespan is not the parameter I want to optimize. Rather, it is quality of life.

Fortunately, the 2 are often correlated, the best ways to prepare for a long lifespan are the same as preparing for a long health span, and that includes a high quality of life.

I couldn't disagree with the premise of the sections more on development methodology

> Fast Food > Here, we develop in "agile" sprints. Working software is developed at the fastest pace possible, and all bugs are to be fixed later.

> Home Cooked > Here, things are slower, more thoughtful. More waterfall-y.

While Sprints is a term that sounds like fastest pace possible, that is not what the term means; and a key part about waterfall vs agile is that waterfall IS NOT more thoughtful, but all planned up front.

Both methodologies can create bugs, or deliver features faster than scale can be thought of and deliver features faster than can be tested.

If we remove the quotes from "agile" we actually get slower and thoughtful. A key part of that is measuring (training, interviewing, analyzing). An agile process should build a feature, release that feature, interview users, analyze system behavior, iterate by improving user's goal, adding appropriate scale, iterating by removing unexpected errors or behavior.

Brick, stucco, concrete siding are all fire resistant and commonly used in construction in the last 25 years.

Insulation plays into combustability as well, where mineral / rock wool has thermal mass, does not ignite, but us construction has recently favored fiberglass and cellulose for the the costs.

A forward looking (part of a) solution for Malibu would be the county acquiring and maintaining beach paths every few houses. Prescribed 10' wide fire breaks.

This solves the fire problem AND the limited access to a public resource that is common in Malibu.

Ideally a permeable surface without any growth, cleared at least 2x a year.

What I read when I read about the bicycle lane is that bike lanes were a requirement, the user persona was assigned to a casual recreational rider on a small low speed recreational (<24" wheels) (aka kids under 10), when in reality, that hill is used by a road cyclist commuter, would only be used by a confident cyclist that close to traffic on that steepb of hill.

It's not that the traffic engineer didn't care about a quality product, they didn't care to research who bikes (and have car brain), and have never traveled out of the US, to the Netherlands, or met a cyclist.

This solves for the US national security issue; in the event of war between China and Taiwan (and a possible proxy war with US), Taiwan immigration would qualify for asylum.