frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

If you have something from the Nvidia rtx20xx generation or newer, I'm not sure how much advantage there is to upgrading at all.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

I'm working outword to find a path in.

If a society can have power without money, then can the two overlap perfectly in any society?

To use a more concrete example, how do unions ever have power in our society? They tend not to have money, or at least very little in proportion to the business owners.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Then let me attack it from a different direction: can you have power in a society that does not have money?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

"Wealth and power are exactly the same". This is the claim I'm disputing. If there are places where money and power are in conflict, then they can't be the same. Your analysis of a situation will be have holes in it if this is not considered.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Oh, no, they're not exactly the same. They wouldn't come into conflict if they were the same.

As another example, unions. Employees often see issues early on; perhaps a machine needing maintenance. A union can bring this up to management and put the pressure on to get it done. The business will save money in the long run with machines in proper maintenance.

If it doesn't get done, best case scenario is that it fails and the whole production line is shot until it's fixed. Worst case, it fails more catastrophically and damages other equipment, or injures workers.

Despite plenty of stories like this, companies will fight unionization efforts every time. Why? Because money doesn't always align with power.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago (9 children)

i can guarantee that nothing can stop a business from maximizing profits.

Sure, it can, because I'm going to blow your mind: businesses aren't about maximizing profits. It is ultimately about power, and money is a path to power. There are sometimes conflicts between power and money, though, and when there are, you can tell what they actually care about.

None of the recent layoffs at Tesla make any sense what so ever. The Supercharger network may be the company's best long term asset--they just got most of the industry to adopt their plug, and they have the largest existing network to support all those new EVs--yet they just canned the entire Supercharger team. The Cybertuck may be a dumb vehicle, but it's still sold out for the next year, and shrinking the production line isn't going to help anything. Nor would it help sell more of any other models. A $25k Tesla would be a game changer in a market that the rest of the industry hasn't really entered yet, but they just canned development on new models.

All while the company is still churning some kind of profit, even if it's not as high as it was. These layoffs will absolutely have a long term impact on Tesla's ability to compete at exactly the time when the rest of the industry is catching up with them.

Does it even improve stock price? Maybe a one day jump or one week jump, but TSLA has been mostly flat for the last year and doesn't look like it's going to return to growth. Only bright side is that its P/E ratio now looks almost reasonable.

None of this makes sense in terms of money. Barely does anything in the short term, and the long term damage is huge. This might be the beginning of the end of Tesla.

If it doesn't make sense in terms of money, then what else would work in that slot? Power.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, ignoring them doesn't work past a certain point. If it did, it would have worked with Internet trolls back in the 90s.

You don't want to give small time versions of Musk or Trump a platform. That's when ignoring them works. Weird ass flat earther channel with 12 subscribers? Maybe don't post them on Xhitter as outrage porn; just let it be. Once they have a hundred thousand subscribers, though, you can no longer ignore them and hope they go away. If you try, they will yell louder.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

I was going to ask how WSL gets installed without the Windows Store, but looks like the install path doesn't use the store anymore. That was one of the few things I ever used the store for.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That sort of thing probably has an outsized effect. They get hate it at first because everything is different, then they have to use it at work, and then they get used to it and want to use it at home.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

10-80% charge time is in the range of 20 minutes. EVs already exist that will get you 4 hours of driving on that. Yes, even in the cold.

This isn't as big a problem in practice as it's made out to be.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're harming yourself doing this. First, sitting for long periods of time isn't good, and getting up and stretching every 2 hours is recommended. This applies to office work just as much as driving. Second, urination typically happens every 3-4 hours, and if you're not, then you're likely dehydrated or have something else going wrong.

If you really, really want to do this, well OK, but we shouldn't put the whole EV transition on hold just to let you do this.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They have the skill, have a good start on the infrastructure, and have the money to do what America did in the 70s.

They don't have the skill, infrastructure, or money to build what was shown in the rendering. Nobody does. To do what they show doesn't just require a moon base, but full out lunar mining and manufacturing. We only have preliminary ideas about how to do that, none of which have any practical testing, and we're a long way from getting there.

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