Interesting moves in the #ElectricVehicle changing space lately (in the US and in Canada).
It sure would have been nice for the US to mandate some open #EV charging standard years ago, but it seems that everyone is coalescing around #Tesla's so-called NCAS "standard".
Right now, it seems to me that NCAS is not actually a standard, but rather, an open specification.
Hopefully, this gets on an independent standards track.
The fact that I was drinking water out of my bathtub for three days when I lived in #Dallas during Snowmageddon - all because #Texas refuses to integrate its power grid with the rest of the US - is just the cherry on top.
This country is really in rough shape and it needs to shape up soon.
@adamjcook@CrackedWindscreen I think the biggest problem in the #EU is the production of electricity itself: we produce far less than required for the electrification of vehicles by 2035.
As I have stated multiple time on this site, over multiple months now - the #NHTSA is an absolutely horrible #auto regulator that, frankly, has done tremendous, lasted damage to US #RoadwaySafety.
@adamjcook what an absolute mess. As a newcomer to the realization that cars aren’t the best and only way to get around, it shocks me to learn that the national safety apparatus for them has been left rudderless for so long.
I really doubt that the #Bears would stay in Downtown Chicago and, if even needs to be said, the 5th Floor is just being used to leverage additional tax breaks on their newly-acquired properties in Arlington Heights.
This has been a long-time coming, though. The McCaskey's (the #Bears owners) want their own stadium and they want a big stadium (and a whole theme park now, really).
Fair asks I guess, except the State of #Illinois was always going to pay handsomely for it either way.
The fact is... in #Chicago... I have no idea where they could even put a new stadium at the size they want - let alone adjacent to any new amenities they want.
Taking a break from #Musk's Hate Train on the Hellsite to recall this series of Tweets from a few years ago.
While under-appreciated then and now, the Tweet thread by Musk posted below contains an extremely damning #SystemsSafety admission and it displays the considerable #PublicSafety blind spot associated with remotely updating #SafetyCritical systems without oversight.
Musk has no clue what he admitted to here, but systems safety experts do.
But a potentially deadly situation when CM visibility is lost with a #SafetyCritical system like a car!
In that Tweet, Musk is hand-waving #Tesla's responsibilities in maintaining CM (and a validation process to match) as an "impossibility".
It is not impossible.
It is inherently costly and complex and it will substantially reduce Tesla's flexibility in changing vehicle hardware on-the-fly - an oft-cited competitive advantage.
The last Tweet in that thread was written by Musk a little over 13 hours after "the issues" were discovered when the second Tweet was published.
For #SafetyCritical systems of this complexity, no matter how many people are on the team, no matter how talented the people are on the team, there is zero chance that the "10.3.1" point update was actually validated.
There simply is not enough wall clock time.
Musk and #Tesla just tossed it out, like if they were shipping a video game update.
@adamjcook Yes. Where someone can be dressed up in a silver suit and someone proclaims in front of it that they're building a robot and people lose their minds in adoration. ALL HAIL OUR BENEVOLENT LEADER!
I do not recommend it, but if you feel like checking in on what that filth is liking and boosting over on #Twitter these days... the @elon_alerts account tracks it: https://twitter.com/elon_alerts
#Detroit#Pride is coming up this weekend and, sadly, I think that we must be prepared for a rough time.
I think it is somewhat undeniable that this year will be extremely dangerous for the #LGBTQ community... and the #Nazis, emboldened by what they perceive as recent "wins" from several weak-kneed, apathetic companies, will likely embrace violence at these events as a means of intimidation.
We cannot allow Nazis to continue to stomp on minorities and under-presented groups, as they do.
I do not think that the default expectation should be that the #Detroit Police are particularly interested in protecting these groups, given the history of the department and given recent events elsewhere (warning, violent content): https://kolektiva.social/@VPS_Reports/110484842287824615
By ethical code as an engineer, I cannot condone violence - but I also cannot deny the realities of it against a foe that embraces it wantonly.
Another day, another edition of Adam walking around #Detroit. 📸
Today, is featured the Three Amici along Bagley Street.
Two are problem children. One is not.
Let's end on the happier note.
This is the former Hotel Leland, currently owned by a deadbeat slumlord named Michael Higgins who is racking up blight tickets from the city while using it as a dangerous and unkempt apartment building.
Detroit is now suing Higgins to seize the property.
Lastly, we have the United Artists Theatre Building which is currently undergoing extensive renovations in order to turn it into residential units.
The theatre part in the rear of this building was demolished last year after the current owners, Ilitch Holdings (of the Little Caesar's Pizza empire), allowed it to decay.
Still, this is a much-needed development despite some missteps and, hopefully, the Michigan Building will see some developer interest once it is completed.
It is sort of an open-ended question... but does anyone have any war stories (good or bad) with #cloud credit support programs for #OpenSource projects?
Particularly, the programs that #AWS and #Azure offer (or seem to offer).
@adamjcook Google has a similar program for start-ups or something, and, well, ask me again in six months? :-P I don't have much to share yet, but I share the curiosity :)
Who are these people (from NBCUniversal) that look at current state of #Twitter and the type of filth that #Musk is increasingly elevating over there and say "yeah, I want to be part of that. I am excited to help build Twitter 2.0"?
I guess it makes sense since we have already seen shades of Linda #Yaccarino's bigotry.
Figures that Linda would bring other like-minded colleagues over.
@adamjcook no surprise, other than you bring people you trust and hope the boss doesn’t pull your budget ( and there will be one) to turn that bird around. But now that we’ve experienced what #algorithm#adfree social media can do, will anyone go back?
Maybe, unless the communities at #twitter can be recovered and improved upon here #mastodon