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Elon Musk started the Boring Company to dig tunnels.  Does this make sense to do?  As one of the worlds most famous engineers, why would anybody focus on this. Elon drives through L.A.  The traffic is not good.  The amount of time cars spend moving slowly or stopped is high.  A tunnel underneath, that had […]

Shopify did this: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/api-announcements/t/upcoming-change-to-productvariants-default-parameters-544573 That is, they changed the defaults of the variants from having inventory not applicable, to having inventory managed by Shopify and 0 inventory. Yesterday we had a nice stable system that would programmatically create variants and allow users to add those variants to their cart without a problem. Today, these variants that were […]

Have you ever wanted to write code on a tablet in a Tesla? I have. Maybe not the most common problem, but since I want to work on this page, it would be nice to be able to edit some javascript. But getting Javascript into your WordPress page is not something WordPress does nicely by […]

When it comes to improvements on voting systems, there are some long-standing methods used in democracy that may now make sense to revisit: Should you pick a single candidate from a list of candidates?  Why can you not pick two candidates?  Or weight your entry 60/40 in the favor of one candidate and another. If […]

Have you ever played the game 52 pickup?  It takes much less time to make a mess than it does to clean it up.  I can’t begin to understand Tesla as a company from an accounting point of view, a legal point of view, or even engineering point of view. I do feel comfortable looking […]

Here is how I think Tesla will bring a security system to Tesla vehicles. Proximity sensors take stills and immediately uploaded them to the cloud. Damage detection system activated by the enhanced autopilot algorithms similar to self driving system. Tesla’s self driving algorithm is a very simple (and by simple I mean brilliant) data pattern […]

This is just speculation as to what Tesla could do in the future.  The Model 3 comes equipped with an amazing LTE connection. So far the LTE connection has been used to get over the air updates, connect to music, make Google Maps work, but for what else can it be purposed? Well, anything really.  […]

Elon begins the day with the tweet: Funding secured?  That implies lawyers have all the contracts in place to make this happen.  Elon disguises his clever plan to take the company private as a rash judgment on Twitter.  There is no way he didn’t ask his team of lawyers if he could tweet that. Shortly after, Elon […]

I just noticed a feature on the Model 3 map.  Not only does it list the superchargers within range, but also seems to be showing the number of spaces occupied & available. Of course Tesla would know this as they track who is charging so they may be able to bill those whom dont have […]