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Not sure what emissions you are thinking about from an electric car that needs regulation circuits. You know, the thing I'm talking about. (And that I'm still claiming could end up vastly simpler than ICE cars if we only tried).
But in any case, in absence of a good faith basis to a discussion, it doesn't seem worthwhile for either of us to continue it.
Bring the trash yourself to a trash collection station, if your municipality/country has those? (Mine does; it's a blessing.)
And no, not every car needs to have top-end leather heated fake-racing shaped seats. Some people just want to get from A to B and not everybody has a SWE salary/compensation like the slightly-detached-from-normal-people's-reality crowd here at HN.
Of course when I discuss this with a tech crowd I need to expect a tech-focused attitude. See it as a challenge .. I mean, some people write compilers that output only move instructions (still Turing complete) or build websites entirely running on solar power. Minimizing electronics in an electric car could just be another creativity-inducing restriction. Just saying "it can't be done" does not sound like real Hacker spirit to me..
And anybody with that attitude should rightfully be let go. It's mutual.
(I don't want co-workers who act like that.)
It would be interesting to know how much cost it would cut to leave out the hundreds of sensors and CAN bus stuff and phone-home interactive NFC magic. Less dev costs, less certification, less maintenance, less licensing.
Depends on your time horizon. You can fire allof engineering tomorrow. Costs will drop dramatically, revenue stays where it is. But over time things will stop working and your competiton will take over with new features and being able to keep the lights on when something breaks. Same applies to many departments. Short time dispensible, long term absolutely not.
Ask the Twitter staff. First days the toilets were still clean..
A meta streaming service that dispatches you towars the service that has the show you want to watch. Of course it needs to work in colaboration with the actual streaming services and diatribute revenue proportional to services' use. It would create much more real-time competition.
Somebody should make a concept car that is electric but without any electronics (apart from battery and the motors, obviously). Apart from the battery, what's expensive in a modern electric car is that you are essentially sitting in a giant smartphone with 4 wheels.
Why is that necessary? Electric motors provide the unique opportunity to create vastly simpler (and thus cheaper) cars than ICE versions. This could over-compensate for the battery costs. But seems car manufacturers fill it with more electronics. I'm sure there are market opportunities for cars that just bring you safely from A to B without having some semi-self-driving-but-not-really Twitter client on board that opens the doors with an app on your mobile. I'm fine using a key, thank you very much.
That market contains the heavy lobbying by oil firms and car industry to keep trains at the sorry state they are in.
> To get to the bottom-line, I never got that promotion
To state the obvious .. these two are likely related.
It's still unclear to me why people do this. I'm not criticising - it's his and his spouses choice. But then no wonder you don't have time for anything.
(And no wonder the woman is forever dependent on the man which is again their choice. And again, if it blows up in your face 10 or 20 years later, I would find it hard to fake understanding.)
Excuse me, what? I just spilled my coffee all over the desk.
Care to explain what you mean with the problem and how js "solved" it? In my view dependencies and distribution are terrible in javascript, but maybe we mean different things.