zardo's comments

On: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

[zardo]

Though (at least to my knowledge) Zuckerberg doesn't have a history of abusing his authority to make deals that advantage other companies he owns at the expense of Facebook.

E.g. SpaceX buying up large numbers of Cybertrucks Tesla couldn't sell at MSRP, not even negotiating a good fleet sale deal.

[radicalbyte → zardo]

Where did that $70B from the metaverse go to?

[zardo → radicalbyte]

As far as I know, he lost that value with honest bad decision making.

On: A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft

[zardo]

Probably because there is no plan to develop a commercial plane.

On: .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

[zardo]

Yeah it's bad when it's abused, so don't abuse it.

But not having operator overloading when dealing with vectors is maddening.

On: SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

[zardo]

It's Starship that's supposed to do the landing on the moon. If the next few test flights don't go well it won't be ready for Artemis III next year.

On: SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

[zardo]

You've mixed up the ship and booster.

[rogerrogerr → zardo]

Yep, I did. Thanks.

On: How to convert between wealth and income tax

[zardo]

As long as capital doesn't get involved in some kind of highly financialized spiral getting further and further divorced from the real economy, we should be good.

[malfist → zardo]

That could never happen here. We have a history of strongly regulating capital and banks. Why look at all the executives we jailed for the 2008 financial crisis!

On: Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better

[zardo]

They're available. Though you probably shouldn't invest to heavily in gen1 (production) sodium-ion batteries. It's looking like they'll be obsolete pretty quick.

https://battery-tech.net/battery-markets-news/gotion-unveils...

[jillesvangurp → zardo]

CATL's recent sodium ion battery production start is their second generation. The first generation was a few years ago.

On: Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]

[zardo]

Yeah, a van is the real sport utility vehicle.

And yeah, people hugely misunderstand needing 4WD. If you aren't off-roading it's not doing much for you.

On: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

[zardo]

Surely Waymo can afford a test track.

[pinkmuffinere → zardo]

They can, and I bet they have! But they cannot afford a test track that accurately reproduces every condition exactly as it will be encountered in the real world. At some point, it is judicious to test with real-world conditions, and simulating only gets you so far.

On: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

[zardo]

You probably haven't been driving in areas that flood then.