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Exactly. Financials come out today, and after saying that it's "profits from here on out" ntwo quarters ago, Tesla will probably produce another huge loss.
As is par for the course, their PR news will come hot and heavy: Cars go further! Our entire business model is now robot taxis! None of it matters if you can't sell your product at a profit.
To be fair to Tesla, the "profits from here on out" statements came with some caveats around Q1 2019. I get the feeling that they have moved even more one time charges into the one-time-bad-really-bad quarter as a result.
To be fair to your point, the "Autonomy Day" presentation implied a willingness to renege on the promises about other quarters as well.
I believe they last longer if you don't fully charge. My thinkpad used to have a setting where you could stop the charge at 85 or 90%. For storage apparently its best to have them something like half charged and kept somewhere cold.
Please re-read the post, because you don't understand.
The 51% attack is carried in secret. Noone has any way to know if it is happening until the longer chain is published. And after that, it's too late already. Someone could try to catch up with (not anymore secret) longest chain, but the damage has been done - the state of the network has already changed. Actually switching it back is only adding salt to the wound. Noone would trust that coin again anyway, and it is worthless to try to rescue it.
AntPool is busy mining Bitcoin, because it pays better:
I think at least part of this is age and habit. In college my best period of concentration and work was roughly 11-3 or so. I was also ~20 years old and had trouble going to bed before midnight or waking up before 9.
A decade later and after military service the lion's share of my day job work is done between 7 and 10 in the morning, and it's rare that I'm not up, dressed and showered by 6:30am or asleep by 10pm.
Individual experiences vary widely; I am 41 now and still have just as much trouble going to bed before midnight or waking up before 9 as I did in my 20s. It still takes effort to restrain my impulse to stay up all night, in fact, whenever there's something remotely interesting or creative I could be working on instead of sleeping. It is not simply a matter of habits, either; I spent most of seven years getting up in time for a 7 AM conference call every work day, and it never got any easier. As soon as that was over, I went right back to my old schedule.
Perhaps it's less of a struggle to fit my life into normal business hours now, after years of experience trying to do it, but that's really just a matter of coping skills; my body clock remains as stubbornly nocturnal as it has ever been.
I stopped eating from 10pm until 2 pm, and it has changed my relationship to mornings entirely. It took a couple of days to for the hunger urgency to subside, and about a week before I started feeling more energetic and focused.
Most mornings, my breakfast is a cup of black coffee now.
I read somewhere that the best time to learn something is right when you wake up. I tested that theory when I was picking up ObjC a few years ago and it seems right (perhaps a placebo).
Very much agreed. I'm iffy from 5-7 (some days great, some days too tired), fairly productive 7-1230, nearly worthless 1230-2, then pretty effective until 4 or 5.
So the question then is, how do you add to their revenue? Seek projects that will save them money? Seek projects that will net them additional revenue? How do you make a find a way to make a bigger impact on your companies bottom line?
If you're a developer, the sad truth is that there's probably very little you can do. Even if you removed 100% of the company's infrastructure cost center, it's only a small fraction of your company's total costs.
Unless you are in Sales, Marketing, or Senior Management, there's very little you can ever do to significantly impact revenue.
Not that Senior Management wants you to think that; it's demoralizing when combined with bonuses being withheld due to missed revenue goals.
I do agree that the connection to revenue is much clearer in other departments but that doesn't mean engineering can't impact the bottom line.
Areas where I think good engineering can help include, designing software that minimizes its support costs, attention to code quality to improve customer/users experience, improving up-time, shortening maintenance windows, metrics and telemetry that help marketing and product development understand how a product is being used.
Good product documentation (reference manuals, in-product help, etc) is difficult and often over-looked. This isn't coding but engineering input into documentation is important.
Engineers can also provide significant input into product features and directions.
Sure, we build the product. And without that product, the company is a non-starter. And if we screw it up, we can lose existing customers.
But the product by itself does not produce revenue. Only selling the product makes revenue.
So, at best, we can avoid costing the company money, but we can't make money. Even customer service can have a bigger impact on the bottom line than we do.
Increasing top line revenue is almost always a better path than cutting expenses. (The latter is finite, although sometimes easier to prove specific correlation between action and savings. Until you're working at a company with huge expenses, though, going for growth is better than cost-cutting.)
