I wish the data would be more reliable (or they have better sanity checks) though. One of my flights suddenly "departed" one hour+ before scheduled time. I almost got heart attack.
Needless to say there were no objective reasons for that - airport dashboard was showing proper time and flight departed with 30min delay (displayed by Flighty as 1.5hr delay).
I've never seen what you describe but I have seen other data issues. It usually depends on the airline, the same types of problems occur with the same airlines.
I've asked and they say there's little they can do, the airlines systems are broadcasting this data and some airlines are better at it than others.
To be fair, it was the first majour hiccup with the app. Usually it is quite correct.
It's hard to believe airline broadcasted incorrect data in my case. Even if that was the case, they could have cross checked it with airport data, which is way easier to obtain compared to airline stream.
And also they could have additional checks for cases when aicraft "changes" departure time to 1 hr before scheduled at around 2 hours before scheduled time. It should be highly unusual case.
To add to list of questions - it's undeniable the AI is making humans dumber by doing mental job previously done by humans. So why we spend so much energy making AI smarter and fellow humans dumber?
Shouldn't we be moving in opposite direction - invest in people instead of some software and greedy psychopaths at helm of large companies behind it?
There is no point to argue with stupid people. It's the same people who support their "opinion" with internet articles (like that means anything), mainstream media (hard to find bigger deceivers), or social media posts (that's arguably the worst).
Now they got another "God" in LLM.
How to deal? Just ignore. There is way more stupid people with stupid opinions than we can possibly estimate.
To compete in EV, one has to compete also in battery manufacturing. Increasingly Japan is unable to keep up with China and even Korean manufacturers. Panasonic is still in the race due to their decades lead, but its market is largely shrinking. Once China took over batteries, it would have been unlikely for Japan to take the EV market, just like Sony. Same with most American EV manufacturers who are unable to compete, even with closed off large American auto market, that Japan has no access to. As rapidly shrinking Tesla marketshare world wide suggests, competing with Chinese makers is hard.
They can purchase the battery technology, just as many manufacturers already do.
I hate to be a luddite, but they also don't need to be pioneers to succeed here. They need cars that meet their customers needs, just like not every ICE car needs to have an F1 racing engine in it.
For that they need captive market that keeps China out to get the kind of marketshare they enjoy now, otherwise chinese makers will sweep in and dominate the market. Or another option is to just take Chinese EVs and rebadge them, like some manufacturers are doing.
Shenzhen is not nearly "almost-all EV" city. There is a lot of wealthy people and almost none of them drives EV. You can see all expensive cars are ICE (blue plates).
Modern ICE cars emit almost no sound or emissions. Its not 70s with black smoke coming from exhaust pipes.
You can take any densely populated city with almost none EV vehicles (say Tokyo) and you can hear birds and air would be very clean.
I live in Tokyo, and the air is not that clean close to highways: large diesel trucks pollute a lot, and also small motorbikes/scooters pollute horribly because they don't seem to require any emissions controls at all.
The main thing keeping the air clean here is the proximity to the bay, along with the fact that there just aren't that many private cars in the first place, since most people take public transit and don't drive because there's nowhere to park.
Large trucks do not pollute a lot (there are strict standards to that matter). While they do pollute obviously, there is no viable substitute to it. EV truck is a dream at this point in history.
Amount of private cars in Tokyo is huge. Pollution near expressways in rural japan far from bays is next to nothing, so having it close to ocean does help a little.
Small motorbike/scooters are not allowed on expressways.
I wonder why this is surprising. In other type of organizations when CEO demands something everyone is usually behaves like naah, screw it, i rather do what i like, isn't it? Or everyone yells yes sir and runs around?
You may not like Elon - I got it, but let's not pretend he is running xAI/Tesal substantially different from competitors.
I am calling my approach to these tasks to make them rot away. If CEO/customer wants something, I will ignore it until he will start demanding it repeatedly then I will start thinking like working on it. Because it can also happen that CEO/customer will want shiny thing you will deliver the shiny thing and he will have no clue why did you do that, because he forgot that he wanted that - the task has rot away.
Consider it self-regulating system. If task can't survive in a mind of a wisher for more then few days, it was not needed from the start. Now you are saving resources and time to company which you can redirect to actually required tasks instead of some silly whims.
It's not a "regulating system" of any kind, but plain passive aggressive arrogance. I know better what to do so I would just pretend like I am going to do what you suggested.
Unfortunately this trait is not so uncommon across IT engineers.
> It's not a "regulating system" of any kind, but plain passive aggressive arrogance.
Is it arrogance if the task won't stick? Because if it won't stick, it was not needed at the first place - system just regulated itself to have less workload.
> I know better what to do so I would just pretend like I am going to do what you suggested.
I would argue that developers probably know better what to do. Look on it from developer's perspective he has tasks which are supposed to be done yesterday, he is being pushed by his PM and then CEO comes in with completely wild and random task which will push existing tasks further down the line. And this is going to be done without any regard to existing tasks, existing deadlines and without any regard to ticketing system. So the best course of action, is to take no action and see if this random task will stick. In most cases it won't stick, because task is more a random thought than something to be worked on.
Yes. Because stick/not stick is "decided" by IT Engineer by excerpting leverage over someone who actually have decision making capability - a manager. And what it is "stick/non stick" in your perspective is just manager thinking how to make things work bypassing the annoying engineer.
> I would argue that developers probably know better what to do
Aaaand that's exactly where arrogance is. If developers "know better" why don't they become product owners/visioners?
> Because it can also happen that CEO/customer will want shiny thing you will deliver the shiny thing and he will have no clue why did you do that, because he forgot that he wanted that - the task has rot away.
Hate this. My boss: “Hey, why is it doing that. Who did this?” You did, you clueless idiot. You asked for it.
You need to be well versed in the attribution for camera disposition. I am too old for that so getting understanding who is the better person is challenging :)
Needless to say there were no objective reasons for that - airport dashboard was showing proper time and flight departed with 30min delay (displayed by Flighty as 1.5hr delay).
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