This is why I use my credit card for paying them and not my debit card

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But it isn't surprising IMO - turbines will run on just about any combustible fuel if tuned for the fuel.

Good - because he sucks at being the CEO of Twitter

1. Never say never

2. It isn't the hardware, it is the software. The hardware will continue to improve exponentially, but it is the algorithms that will take time.

>Trying to leapfrog to FSD was too much of a gap and people underestimated the complexity of the problem, the maturity of the technology, and effort required to achieve the goals.

It is a hard problem, one that as you infer, will take time and a lot of effort.

One of the harder problems I see, is driving on the kind of roads and in the kind of conditions that I have to deal with; a gravel road that is muddy or icy or covered in snow, with no easily discernable edges - especially during the night or when covered with snow - especially when covered with snow (often unplowed). Add in ruts in the snow after multiple vehicles have driven any snow covered road, and you have conditions that are hard for humans to drive thru, much less an AI.

I have 50+ years of driving experience and it isn't easy for me to navigate the roads to my house on a remote mountain. In another 10-15 years I will probably want/need a self-driving car, so I hope there is significant progress made, but while there has been significant progress made from 20 years ago, I think the developers are now hitting the hard problems and it will take more time than I have left.

Meh.

I could see using that for some intermittent specialized usages, such as static status displays - maybe - if it would keep whatever displayed while power is off or very low power consumption - maybe.

But at $1500 they are not going to sell many of those.

I would like to see a single display that could switch between color LED and E-Ink, where the E-Ink continues display when the power is off. I could see some situations where that would be useful.

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Japan has already been there, but yes.

Good idea.

Crude implementation. The fact that it works at all is testament to it being a good idea.

I am retired, but if offered the right situation, I would go back to work at a part time gig working from home. I could fix some bugs that the team doesn't have the time to tackle because they are working on something more "important". I could tackle some short term tasks for a week or two if they needed me and then go away for a while until they needed me again.

Also, the employer wouldn't feel bad about telling me they don't need me for a few weeks or months, or only need me for a few hours this week or month. Less paperwork dealing with that than dealing with a layoff/hiring, I would think (maybe not).

Meanwhile I could relax or do my personal chores in between working and not get so burned out waiting for the weekend. And I wouldn't feel bad about telling them I quit because I am burned out or I want to go spend some time on a beach in Tahiti.

With Starlink, a lot of people are working part time in remote locations now, traveling around or snow birding, or just being remote permanently.

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>I can roll out of bed and start work, and then exercise/shower on my own time throughout the day. It’s fantastic

That is what I would do; eat my breakfast and work, get something done and push it to the repo, attend the online standups, then take a shower/break, get dressed, then go back to work until noon, take a lunch break, repeat and rinse.

I always put in my 8 hours (contract employee paid by the hour, no overtime allowed), but sometimes started at 5-6 AM (I am a morning person) and would have a task done early in the morning so those who started at 8-9 AM would have the code they needed from me that morning and I could talk about it at the standup,

If I needed to run an errand or get something personal done that day, it was a lot easier to do it from home.

Also, I live on 16 acres, half forested, on a mountain, so taking a 5 minute break was a lot better than being in a stinky noisy sometimes dangerous downtown.

>I asked them why not move office closer to their homes ... Been told that y'know, all the serious companies are in W1 right?

Seattle, Portland, LA, San Fran, etc. - it seems the execs all had the same idea; that they had to be in downtown to appear "serious", even though it was cramped and expensive and inconvenient.

Now we are seeing an exodus of not just employees, but companies too.

I am retired, but I have worked from home for months several times during my career. Besides avoiding an hour long commute each way, I could also take a break and do some minor chores at home, fix my lunch from my own fridge, not be so tired after work, more or less set my own hours not dictated by trying to avoid rush hour traffic, and be able to do things before and after work because I was already home not spending that time driving.

That and as a s/w dev, it was a lot more productive to be able to concentrate in a quiet more comfortable environment.

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For me, VR/AR will become useful when telepresence is useful for me.

E.G., when I can send a drone out to scan around my property, or check for the location of a tool or supply item in my shop, without having to walk out there.

That may sound like laziness, but my health makes walking the mile to my back acreage a chore, and half the year the weather is lousy (rain/snow/wind). It would save me a lot of time and enable me to do things I don't do (check for trespassers or other dangers - e.g., forest fire) because of effort and time.

I can think of a number of other beneficial use cases of telepresence - and I am not talking about avatars and some kind of virtual "metaverse".