The entire website is a bit of a red flag to me, starting with the cookie banner featuring an image of Ursula von der Leyen and some misinformation (cookie banners are not legally required).

Integrity? I understand that it's tough when incentives don't reward it, though.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer

is it integrity to ignore the very clear, direct requests of the person paying me? Like that's a nice idea, and I like what that page is saying, but reality is not so clear cut. If I believe our product is not generally in the public good, is it actually integrity to commit slop to the repo?

There are democratic parties that care about people's economic concerns. Just because they get discredited by extremist trolls doesn't mean they don't exist.

If they are really going to install fans to generate downforce, they will need space that the battery could otherwise occupy. The lower weight of a smaller battery is also beneficial for acceleration.

Based on the specs, I wouldn't compare the (non-existing) roadster to regular electric cars, but rather to something like the McMurtry Spéirling, which also has active downforce. It's not about range, but acceleration and cornering speed.

Motors don't need combustion, they just need to provide power. See electric motors or compressed air engines.

Haha, that's exactly the reaction you could hear from the crowd in the demo video. Made for bros by tech bros.

I'm wondering if it could even be sold to individuals given that the thrusters probably count as restricted military technology?

It's unclear what they'll be classified as and probably comes down to some negotiation and lawyering to decide how restricted they are. You can sell a lot of restricted hardware to US citizens that you can't sell internationally due to ITAR.

Yeah, you can sell fighter jets to private US citizens, if the guns and stuff are removed.

Yep. A friend own and regularly flies a Mig 29 in California. It’s faster than anything the US military has (not that he’s taken it that fast yet)

A MiG-29 has a lower top speed than an F-15 which the US military still operates.

MiG-29's top speed is 2450kph.. the F-14 is faster (2485kph) as is the F-15 (2655kph) you mentioned.

But then we get into the performance group.. SR-71 Blackbirds (3530kph), X-43A Scramjets (10870kph). Strange inaccurate brag.

Cold gas thrusters are big pressure vessels that vent through nozzles. You can build one in your garage and propel yourself on an office chair. People put them on drones for fun.

There are lots of situations where touching the phone is not possible or not ideal. For instance, when you're working with your hands and they are dirty, you might not want to get your phone dirty as well. Or the other way around, you might not want to touch your contaminated phone while handling food.

I sometimes use Siri to set timers while cooking. Unfortunately, adding items to the shopping list doesn't work well enough, Classic Siri is not smart enough to place them in the food section.

Paying bills of the same 3 companies each week is also not something that requires a LLM. In other countries, it would simply be a direct debit transaction or a scheduled bank transfer.

To be fair, direct debit also terrifies me. But I use that one.

> The ideal person should be ecstatic with new capabilities being unlocked. But they are complaining. Why?

It's because the ideal person is put in a disadvantage against the lazy person.

Someone who actually wants to learn can use it to learn, or to improve quality, or do other beneficial things. Although it's certainly not infallible and the output can't just be trusted.

People are lazy though, and in a lot of places you'll find that for every 1 person who cares about their craft and wants to learn, there are 10 that just want to get the work done with minimal effort. So now it looks like the lazy ones are more productive than the conscientious people.