cloudwalking

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Agree, I find Meet is the simplest and works the best. I really appreciate the audio filtering -- don't ever hear colleague's typing or dogs barking or lawn mowing.

Allegedly it's LTE and higher bandwidth than the Apple solution, although still relatively low bandwidth. Enough to text and call but not browse.

LTE, text only, with voice and browsing coming supposedly in 2025 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-...

Uber sold its autonomous division to Aurora in 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-atg-idUSKBN28H2RX/

Uber's self-driving dreams rest on a partnership with Waymo (and whoever else eventually produces a safe autonomous vehicle).

subsequent phones significantly improved FaceID performance (faster, fewer false negatives)

FaceID, camera, 120hz display are significantly good upgrades.

https://waymo.com/blog/2023/08/waymos-next-chapter-in-san-fr...

It’s not actually Dallas Texas, it’s The Dalles Oregon. Much smaller town. Bad journalism.

This is actually not true at all. At Waymo we have a very good understanding of our behavior.

Model 3 is available new for less than the average US vehicle price https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/tesla-model-3-sells-5000-less...

People need social connections with their peers to work together successfully. It's much easier to build these connections in the office than virtually. Seeing each other a couple times per quarter for an extended period could also work, but it's easier--if you already have an office space--to bring people together in the office once or twice a week.

I had ChatGPT hallucinate an entire iOS API, complete with docs, sdk version, and URL on apple's website. All of it fake news.

Yes, at YouTube I inherited the Pilot Studio iOS codebase from Will Kiefer. This included a solid iOS application framework and a couple really nice prototypes. We hired some great folks, extended "PilotKit" quite a bit, and built a dozen incredible apps with it (Motion Stills, and the UX experiments that became YouTube Live and YouTube Stories, plus a bunch of fun internal stuff).

Yes that is a good long term strategy, but short to medium term, there are not enough batteries, and batteries are not cheap enough. It's aspirationally priced (which is OK because there is so much demand for the expensive models too right now).

They aren’t, yet. There is enough demand that Ford does not need to produce these smaller pack cars for a few years at least. Much like Tesla, they announce the cheaper (shorter range) config, but enough demand exists they never need to actually build it.

A lot of assumptions here that Parag is out after Elon takes over. Is that backed up by evidence?

Fun little Google/SpaceX trivia. For a long time, Google was the biggest SpaceX investor. Elon used to sleep in Larry's Palo Alto guest room for years... may still do so when visiting Tesla's Palo Alto office.

Larry has a Merlin engine in his office in building 1900 (Googleplex).

Seems unlikely. They’re friends. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1507146276416098307

Multiple books and first-party reports. Hundreds of interviews.

Trust. People are more eager to purchase something if it's not tied to a specific company or platform. This is why art NFTs are so popular -- nobody trusts a single company (OpenSea, Foundation, Bitski, et al) to stick around forever, but the NFTs purchased are platform-agnostic. This played out explicitly recently, when "hic et nunc", a Tezos NFT website, shutdown suddenly. No NFTs were lost; everything people had purchased lives on the blockchain, and any other Tezos NFT website can display and sell them.

The Bluetooth unlock worked fine during this outage. The only feature unavailable was “remote unlock/start” where the user is not within Bluetooth range of the car.

App Store paid search placement

Much cheaper, maybe half that. Krafcik says approximately the price of a Mercedes S class ($110k) https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2021/01/22/waymo-ce...

There is no blanket logic here. This is not an atrocity. This is an instance of global pandemic, literally a 100-year natural disaster affecting all of humanity. It's not some slippery slope about your "freedom", stop trying to make it into one.

If UX was the gating factor for buying crypto, and Robinhood let you buy crypto... you had _enough_ control.

https://kottke.org/

No

FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...

"More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered"

"The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides."

It’s not just climate change which is destroying these ecosystems. A huge factor is pesticide killing huge numbers of bugs, which these birds eat.