vincekerrazzi

What a great problem to have. As a startup I’d love to be in that position.

This feels like a great idea on the surface, but will likely be overcome by a federal government no longer playing by the rules, requires swift and decisive action on the state government’s side that has not been consistent across the US, even when there’s an obvious issue and solution.

After working with them for nearly a year, it’s even worse than you think.

Half the team didn’t have basic understanding of git, and exactly none of the team designing the “smart charge” scheduling had or even had driven an EV.

The complete incompetence of every vehicle OEM team I worked with outside of Tesla and Rivian is part of the reason I left that job.

Indeed, it’s fairly certain that Tutankhamun’s dagger is meteoric in origin. I’ve always found it intensely interesting that “star metal” was sought out for its qualities but rarely replicated until the modern age.

I agree. So I did. And over the span of a year I was the only one that used them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I understand your premise, but I think the missing part of the cost function here, especially when it comes to safety, is the price of a human life. The US government has actually quantified it, and I think when we account for that it’s probably worth it. Though where exactly that money would come from is a problem.

Similarly, we know certain preventative medical treatments are costly but save money for the system as a whole when universally applied, yet we still don’t do it.

Unfortunately you have a very good point. After working with several car manufacturers I’ve come to the conclusion that very few good software engineers exist there.

Some of the most horrifying code and technical designs I’ve ever seen came out of Stellantis, GM, Ford, Toyota and Tesla.

I found this book absolutely fascinating because it filled in a lot of gaps that traditional nutrition wisdom seems to ignore, or hasn’t adequately answered to my satisfaction.

Calories in calories out? Sure. But then why do genetically identical twins respond differently to the same food? A huge facet of this book is understanding the difference in effect between genetics, epigenetics and microbiome on our bodies.

It’s hugely focused on experimental results and meta analyses of the effects our micro biome has on us, and it’s compelling.

Anecdotally I’ve found a number of the suggestions in the book very helpful for my wellbeing.

Highly recommend the book, mostly because it’s a very different approach to a tired subject area.

Interesting point, though perhaps a nightmare for screen readers and accessibility.

I love seeing this kind of thing posted but it’s not surprising in the slightest. We’re forever discovering brew bacteria in our guts that are apparently unique. When I had my gut bacteria tested a full 20% of what I had hadn’t been named yet, and some possibly hadn’t been seen before.

I had the same situation with my Polestar app up until recently. My solution was perhaps fewer moving parts? Worked well for nearly a year before I didn’t need it anymore.

-my backup phone connected to my NAS, running a signed in polestar app - a homebridge plugin that called a shell script that used adb to unlock the phone, open the app, grab the screen contents and parse it.

Boom, lock and battery status in homebridge and access to dozens of other tools for creating widgets and shortcuts.

Thanks for your response, that’s actually very encouraging. I e definitely spent a lot of time looking at LED suppliers too.

Currently my favorite bulbs are the ones that are as you describe- two LEDs, one as high as 6500k and one as low as 2200k and it mixes depending on the state of the dinner. Automateable!

Honestly this area is so interesting to me because of how incredibly strongly light (or lack thereof) affects in the winter. It also seems to affect me more strongly than most in regards to sleeping patterns. Too much blue light in the evening and bam, brain refuses to sleep until 2am or later.

So for me the biggest factor missing in these kinds of projects is a dynamic color temperature. While we get that from products similar to apples adaptive lighting, that’s missing in products like this. It seems we can only really have one or the other.

My dream is something like this build but with full adaptive and programmable color temperatures based on time and seasons.

Honestly I want to build something like this but my area of expertise is too far into the software domain, and not very far into the hardware or electrical engineering domain.

Potential digression here, this is why I absolutely insist on high performing software teams to have at least one junior. You need someone asking questions like this.

Staff engineer at a series b SV startup.

I have to be protective of my time since I’m on the east coast and my west coast colleagues, even after several years, still assume everyone lives in the Bay Area. I’ll sign off and still get a flurry of messages and requests until it’s time for them to leave at 5.

Floor of 40 hours, usually closer to 50.