And it’s hard to take him seriously when he presents his arguments as how stupid Arlin and his must be and how they must not have done basic research and how anyone with half a brain could’ve warned them. He essentially straw man’s an argument and the fills the post with how much smarter he is to see things a guy who has built multiple billion dollar manufacturing businesses must’ve just been too stupid to think about.
Elon is well-known for firing or sidelining technical staff with whom his intuition disagrees, regardless of his own technical depth in any of those matters. His companies have a lot of success for reasons other than his making the wisest technical and programmatic decisions. He sets his own standard for what he considers acceptable, even if those standards fly in the face of existing norms. That's not unalloyed awesomeness - there are sacrifices.
The author, in an admittedly ranty way, levels basic criticisms that are hard to individually disqualify. With the truck, it seems like Elon did Elon things, and his team is struggling to make his vision real in a mass-producible design with acceptable quality.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve written, but the idea that Musk hasn’t considered oil panning and should’ve just asked an engineer is ludicrous. The author assumes Musk must be an idiot despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
> ... the idea that Musk hasn’t considered oil panning and should’ve just asked an engineer is ludicrous. The author assumes Musk must be an idiot despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
I don't see anything ludicrous in the author's article, even if it sneers at times. Though unquestionably successful overall, since Elon has a history of bad technical or PR/appearance-driven moves, I'm not sure what's wrong with mocking him for some of those things. He is successful despite doing some idiotic things, it's not that everything he does is brilliant and correct.
The article doesn't provide any internal Tesla evidence as to whether Elon considered it and disregarded oil canning (for whatever reason), or if people on his team told him about this likely issue and he blew them off, thinking he could just keep demanding his team bring him solutions instead of telling him about problems with his vision. Under the circumstances, either could validly be criticized as idiotic, in which case mocking him seems like fair game. This would hardly be the first such issue ("Falcon Wing" doors, display screens on the Model S, the incredibly ill-advised 'Full Self-Driving' labeling, etc.).
Probably not. If they got to the point of needing a divorce that means the relationship looked like it was going to work, so much so that the people involved agreed to marry.
No online service can possibly promise to be more thorough in their due diligence than the actual humans who chose to marry each other.
No, it's something newer; last year or so. They show "top comments", with a "view all" option, but that "view all" option will often say there's 49 comments and zero show up, even on an old post.
The Graph API has also fallen apart, with their solution being to close the bug submission tool for most issue types. The "replacement" is a discussion forum where no Facebook employees visit, most posts have zero responses, and no issue tracking whatsoever.
Seems like Facebook is more in maintenance mode vs Instagram. Lets not also forget they made a massive push into Metaverse so I'm sure engineering was stretched thin on their other platforms.
Wasn't Graph API going away because of that whole Cambridge Analyitica scandal?
This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React version.
