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So is this just SF? How many people can actually sign up and use it?

Wow thats a nice amount of funding? Is this going to be their last funding round before they IPO? Is there a VC who give more funding? Are employees gonna be rich or is this gonna be a wework scenario?


Cruise was aquired by GM in 2016, unless they are spun off there won't be an IPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_(autonomous_vehicle)


They were spun off when Softbank invested. There's SEC filings on it.


It sounds like youre trying to love your job

are you trying to find a job that you love or trying to love something outside of work?

after youve answered that question, the next step is exploration. just try out different things and see if something sticks

the person who knows most about you is yourself and people close to you. and maybe ad targeting lmao


Curious if this has any effect on warranty, since theres always been different comments on tesla warranty.

ie: even something like wrapping your tesla can affect your warranty, is what a tesla employee told me


If you wrap your car with a shitty wrap, and it damages your paint, do you expect the manufacturer to fix it for free?


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Please don't do that here, regardless of how annoying another comment was or you feel it was. I've redacted the name and killed the comment. Please don't do it again.


Hey Mark how the hell did you manage to write 20 books?

Im interested in writing books but i cant seem to have enough time to make it a top priority for me

also how do you keep healthy at 70?

would you also say that in your case, tech is one of your primary hobbies?

also any advice on writing your first patent outside of your employer?


I have written 20 books over a 35 year period. Also, since 1998 I have gone on cycles of working a couple of years and then taking lots of time off. I do most of my writing during the time off periods.

Re: health: I try to walk or hike five to 8 hours a week, if I have time. I am mostly a vegetarian. I try to get a lot of sleep. Also, my Dad is 100 and in good health so maybe I got lucky in the gene pool.

My hobbies are cooking, reading (I have been going nuts with Chinese sci-fi recently), and hiking.

Re patents: there is no way I would try for a patent on my own. My patents were all team efforts with the help of highly skilled corporate patent lawyers.


This reminds me of multiple websites. websites that sells specialized items in their niche.

their products, all different companies have stellar reviews left in their website via third party software.

but you can easily tell that those reviews have to be fake. even though they are verified.

you can easily tell fake reviews, its like theyre not even trying to write a fake review.

even more hilarious is they sometimes accidentally write a review for the wrong product for the wrong company

the thing that worries me is this makes me question if the product that i am buying is actually legit. like is this product actually safe as they say it is and is actually non-toxic to a human’s body


This

Some companies wont even ask you interview questions and will give you an offer right away.


Wow, that's crazy. The interviews I've had still involve questions and code screens.


Haha the easiest I had was one 30 minutes interview. No coding. Just simple questions.


But do you want to land on that team? What are the conditions that lead a team to not even ask questions of candidates, and what do those conditions imply about their trajectory?


Edit: is there a place that you can read a tldr, and what this actually "means" ?

Anyone here an expert? How safe are these planes and their derivatives if I fly frequently? IIRC, they made some updates to the new planes that uses the same engines. Also more training for the new models? Would those be enough?

Also how do you prevent using specific airplanes as a passenger. Some locations, airlines, and their nearby cities i think only uses these planes and their derivatives right? So how do you avoid that? Seems like driving for multiple days is a terrible idea. Would you prefer using multiple nonprimary airports and small engine planes?


The only update that would be dependable is adding a third AOA indicator to implement voting logic. Boeing is too cheap to do that and the FAA is too gutless to force them.


> 97 pages, geez, is there a place that you can read a tldr?

Like most such reports, it starts with a section called "Executive Summary". Maybe start there...


Thanks! will definitely keep that in mind next time i see a white paper


We in the academia invented it. We call it an Abstract and we put it at the top.


Abstract and executive summary are not the same thing. https://www.umass.edu/buscomm/absumm.html


Hey there I teach people to code some of them I teach web.

I think the easiest way to go about this, is to learn how to fly a plane. Then once you've learnt that you can kinda learn it piece by piece. IE: it's easier to teach someone how to drive a car first before teaching them how to mod it and write a self-driving program for it.

But, then again, some mechanical engineers learn how to build planes, before knowing how to fly a plane.

It really helps if you can reach out to someone in that industry and they can show you the ropes


My first day on the job at Boeing, in the 757 flight controls group, as a newly minted mechanical engineer, my lead engineer told me to "size the jackscrew". The jackscew is what drives the leading edge of the stabilizer up and down. If it fails, the airplane becomes uncontrollable.

I went back to my desk, stewed for a while, and panicked.

So I go back to Erwin, shamefaced, and said I had no idea how to size the jackscrew. He chuckled, and said "did they teach you column buckling in school?" I said sure. He said it's a column buckling problem. You know how to do it.

And sure enough, I did.


Nothing to be ashamed of there. You hadn't had enough domain specific exposure to cut through the jargon from the sounds of it. First exercise I do with my hires/juniors is work to connect what we're doing with something they already know.

That's communication 101.

201 is divesting yourself of the assumption you always know exactly what everyone else is talking about, and remembering that it never hurts to play the fool and learn something, as in the process of being taught, sometimes new knowledge will become apparent.

People who master both pieces tend to be the most amazingly competent people I've ever had the privilege to work with.


OOh, ooh, ooh, me too!

A couple months into my first job, the chief engineer, who was an ME in an EE company, told me to figure out how a certain filter worked. I sat down at my desk with the diagram for hours struggling with it. Then I got up to go to the bathroom or something and came back in through a different door and saw the schematic upside down and that from that perspective it looked totally different. It was just a 2-port network; I know all about 2-port networks!

A few minutes later I was done :-)


Do you know if there a resources that tells you how to open a line to potential clients? IE: warm intro, cold call, etc.

It seems people prefer to report things anonymously especially when the bug bounty programs are worth so little.


I'm on the neutral side of the playing field. But, if they actually wanted to do this, they're missing a lot of critical steps in order for them to actually successfully do this. Granted, they even hit the price to purchase a team


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