Yes, at YouTube I inherited the Pilot Studio iOS codebase from Will Kiefer. This included a solid iOS application framework and a couple really nice prototypes. We hired some great folks, extended "PilotKit" quite a bit, and built a dozen incredible apps with it (Motion Stills, and the UX experiments that became YouTube Live and YouTube Stories, plus a bunch of fun internal stuff).
They aren’t, yet. There is enough demand that Ford does not need to produce these smaller pack cars for a few years at least. Much like Tesla, they announce the cheaper (shorter range) config, but enough demand exists they never need to actually build it.
The larger pack gets you a much larger towing capacity, in exchange for less cargo capacity (weight, not volume). You don't get much cargo either way, so for the commercial market trailers seem like something you have to have, and the extended range battery is thus required.
Yep. And here in Canada my understanding is the $40k (US) variant won't even be sold to consumers. Fleet vehicle only.
This is an ongoing switcheroo with EV manufacturers unfortunately. Targeting the high margin luxury segment only. They announce lower trims with cheaper prices only so that they can bait consumers but also get in good with various government subsidies.
Likely it all has to do with battery supplies. There's just not enough of them.
Many fleet purchasers are very much interested in the short range model. It's being targeted at businesses, not end consumers. Local businesses like landscapers don't need a ton of range. I believe Ford's long term strategy is to make up for the small margin with high volume on this model.
Yes that is a good long term strategy, but short to medium term, there are not enough batteries, and batteries are not cheap enough. It's aspirationally priced (which is OK because there is so much demand for the expensive models too right now).
I may be wrong, but I assume that once Twitter becomes a private company there will be no more board and Elon will be the CEO. Parag may stay at the company in a different role.
I don't think Elon particularly wants to be in the actual driver's seat of Twitter. That's a job and a half, especially when he already has SpaceX and Tesla to manage. I rather assume he will have someone competent at the helm to which he can give incredibly broad orders like 'figure out how to make free speech work'. Though that doesn't mean Parag won't be out - the competent person is likely to be someone who is not soft on free speech like Parag is, and there's a good chance it'll even be Jack.
Fun little Google/SpaceX trivia. For a long time, Google was the biggest SpaceX investor. Elon used to sleep in Larry's Palo Alto guest room for years... may still do so when visiting Tesla's Palo Alto office.
Larry has a Merlin engine in his office in building 1900 (Googleplex).
...and since you brought up Merlin engines.
Search YouTube for Jay Leno's Garage. He has one episode of firing up a Merlin on a test stand, and another of a Merlin powered custom automobile he bought and restored. He takes it out for a drive pointing out the engine is never running above idle.
Trust. People are more eager to purchase something if it's not tied to a specific company or platform. This is why art NFTs are so popular -- nobody trusts a single company (OpenSea, Foundation, Bitski, et al) to stick around forever, but the NFTs purchased are platform-agnostic. This played out explicitly recently, when "hic et nunc", a Tezos NFT website, shutdown suddenly. No NFTs were lost; everything people had purchased lives on the blockchain, and any other Tezos NFT website can display and sell them.
Weren't a lot of NFTs sold simply JSON blobs of metadata pointing at a web resource from some company? I remember seeing Cloudinary in some of the Beeple NFTs. I think some are pinned to IPFS now, but still that doesn't protect the NFT from link rot.
You are correct. IPFS attempts to address this issue by giving the asset a hash, so if no computer/server connected to the IPFS network has the asset, and you the owner have it, you could re-upload it to an IPFS server or join the network using your computer and the link will work again.
All you need is for the ledger to contain a hash of the file, and one of the people interesting in ownership of the NFT to keep a copy of the file around.
If the NFT is for a resource that is not in some way restricted, say because it is used for access to some asset in a game, then what purpose does it serve? You could claim that "oh, that NFT allows you to use that asset for that game that went under in a hypothetical future game that would recognize it", but I could just as easily say some hypothetical future game could just use that asset without the NFT at all.
The Bluetooth unlock worked fine during this outage. The only feature unavailable was “remote unlock/start” where the user is not within Bluetooth range of the car.
