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Question is to cover rural communities as-is, do you and up practically replacing every car on the road with a bus? Bus is generally only better if you have significantly fewer of them to scale.

If you didn't pay for roads, but you wanted public transit, I don't see how that works.

There's plenty of room to improve cities without having to bemoan that rural people are living wrong. About the only place I could see is making rural people switch over to intra-city transit instead of trying to have the cars wiork to get within a block of any given destination. That's probably about as far I think to inconvenience rural people to meaningfully improve things.

Mass transit is only efficient if you have a density of people going the same way at the same time. A bus is only better when you have significant occupancy, and that's not going to happen in very low density living.

You have to remember that the current investment level assumes that somehow everyone is going to use the AI stuff that much. It won't do if the only heavy usage is code generation.

Yeah, but my towing is like 95% less than 25 miles. I'll probably rent a more credible truck if I should ever need to tow more than my vehicles can handle. Or else take the hit and suffer the delay of a commercial charging station or two along the way (and the aggravation of having to unhook and rehook the trailer, but that's not too bad. Only was ever annoying trying to back up to a trailer that you can't move the toung by hand and we didn't have cameras.

Yeah, I guess when they started mainstreaming crew cabs their market took off and was much more profitable to chase that, with concessions for traditional cabs only for overly long beds.

At least judging from the internet, don't think the market is all that tiny, people have been lamenting the loss of the old S10 and Ranger and such ever since the Colorado and new Ranger launched.

But it looks like Slate believes in that market, but everyone else seems to think that a small truck must have a crew cab. That everyone that needs a 'real bed' won't mind a full size truck.

Heh, certainly the tone of their material is toward "pavement princess" usage, but a hair dryer does pull just about as much current as you could expect from a standard outlet, more than many power tools, more than some microwaves. Sure, if they showed a higher end electric welder than that would be more impressive, but no way are they going to take things that far.

It it can power a hair dryer, it could power a circular saw. Whether it would be suitable to get to work sites that demand a bit more off-road capability... I'm guessing no.

I can't blame them too much, they went with the 'F150 for your professional needs, just electric' and it didn't ultimately pan out that well. So they are going more city truck.

Yeah, the Maverick misses the mark by being roughly the right size, but a teeny-tiny bed for the sake of the crew cab. A car that begrudgingly has a token bed. People have gotten surprisingly good use out of the tiny bed and going to all manners of awkward tailgate-down shenigans to carry things that don't fit, but it's awkward.

The "more passenger space than a RAV4" makes it clear they are going to have an even bigger cab than a maverick, so that's a worrying sign. However, since they seem to also be obsessed with "you can fit your surfboards in the bed", then they may have at least done a mid-gate, and that could get me the sort of truck experience I'd need, with the compromise of being open to the weather to get full bed length. Might suck for trying to haul stuff into super dusty worksites where you'd probably not want to be open to the elements too long, but for me that might be an acceptable compromise (I do have to carry enough passengers to usually need the passenger space, and on the occasion I need to carry something long, I generally have a nice day of weather and don't go anywhere too filthy). Would be better than my current situation where I have to rent a trailer anytime I want to do anything mildly significant to tow with an SUV.

“Ai” has mostly wasted my time.

Particularly other people's use of AI has wasted my time....

Out of the few that said AI made their productivity better, most of them couldn’t code.

Note this point makes business leaders so excited. They hear "cheap labor can be productive". Missing the point that the output is supremely dubious. They are "productive" because they don't even know if the result is good or not, and so they can accept what is handed to them.

Currently, have a feature I thought we should have done, but management said one of the sales reps vibed up the answer, so we don't need to do it. I used it and pointed out that the result was actually incorrect, but management thinks I'm just some luddite because they can't understand the nature of the problems either.

One thing worse than AI PRs is AI bug reports.

One is a user that experiences a symptom that could be described in a quick copy/paste with maybe a sentence. Instead they have "AI" dig in and generate a dissertation on what it thinks is the issue and the original issue is lost in the AI diagnosis. Since the user doesn't even have it wired up to actually test the hypothosis, it is just the AI first guess, which is frequently wrong. Wasting my time and failing to provide data.

The other is someone letting AI run over code and report "bugs" as in "it disagreed on some detail in the code, even though no person has actually experienced misbehavior, nor is the particular issue a security issue, but it might be an issue that some person one day eventually might hit".

But I totally feel the coworker that had questionable code before that is now just utterly hopeless thanks to AI. I have nothing to do with his project but occasionally got called in to figure out and explain why his code would flip out. It hasn't passed test in over a month as it's now eternally buggy. Any attempt he makes to fix bugs inevitably lands with more bugs. But it's too far now, he can't turn back (CodeGen rewrote his codebase in a language he can't follow, so he can't hand edit, and he's too afraid to roll back to when he almost understood his code). Hilarious one time within a week where he reported he could work on his project no more because he had exhausted his tokens, and without the tokens he can't do anything anymore. Framed this as a failure of management to fund his needs adequately.

I have been shocked at just how many people, people long in the business seem to actively hate writing code. How much additional work they are willing to go through to claim victory in development through prose. Spending hours trying to get CodeGen to fix a trivial CSS issue in a web page that would have taken less than a minute if they just hit f12 and looked at the offending element. I can't fathom how they could stand their careers for sometimes two decades before CodeGen came available if they hated it just so much.

One of the rumors has me particularly wondering about this point... Allegedly no low-voltage battery. Low voltage is 48v (fine) but not even a 48V, just pulling from the traction battery. So the gigantic battery pack is now constantly running instead of being disengaged most of the time it is sitting.

I guess I haven't heard anything suggesting EVs have safety issues more often when charging, so maybe it's ok, but would want some assurances that there are good reasons why they skip a discrete low voltage battery when everyone else seems like they need to.

Sounds like it will be a poor road tripper, but on the other hand, I have used a DC charger exactly once in three years of EV ownership, so I personally am not going to fixate on that. Of course I have about 270 miles of range so a shorter range could change that equastion...