Good to see Rivian moving away from those cells. I know they’ve been a source of criticism.

I see too many of these in Northern CA.

IMHO, the biggest problem with outsourcing is the distance and time gap. There isn’t enough overlap to help people get unblocked in the middle of the day. So they either make stupid assumptions and plow ahead, or freeze up and slow down.

It wasn’t a prototype. They sold it for 4 years in Japan and Europe, but it recently got the axe.

It’s a really dope car in person, but a lot of people avoided it because it was about $44k for a car that only got 135mi of range.

There are some media guest in the zoomed out picture. My guess is that he signed it for them.

Personally, I’m over complaining about the name choice for this crossover. It’s been 4 years now.

From time to time a manufacturer takes a car’s branding and expands it to encompass a family of cars with similar design elements. Example, Mini.

I’d rather move on and start having discussions about whether or not l these are good EVs and a reasonable alternative to Tesla’s price and performance.

I was promised a tiny fart.

Honestly, the AI information might be better than most of the dog shit insights people post on that platform.

K.

All I can say is that for many of us in people management here,

a) we could’ve paid our mortgage just as comparably on an IC track, and we do this job because we enjoy working with people and roadmap strategy, and

b) I don’t care whether you’re building a fintech bro trading app, public housing in the USSR, or are conducting an orchestra. You get enough people in one place trying to achieve a shared goal, and you need people to manage the people. Otherwise the work becomes messy and miserable.

I say this as someone who has worked for small companies, large companies, NGOs, and non-hierarchical collectives.

When you start working on something that is complex, and has a lot of moving parts, you need conductors. If you’ve got a better real-world example of an organizational model that works, I’m all ears.

Even in Leninist Russia, workplace structures had people managers in place to facilitate planning and to ensure that a team was aligned and set up to successfully accomplish a goal.

I’ve only ever seen one org structure that didn’t need some sort of people facilitation layer. And that was a tiny commune that a buddy of mine lived on. And everyone knew each other for years before they established said commune.

A lot of us here work in software. Often times there are two tracks, IC and people management. Often times both of those tracks pay similarly.

The good people managers and directors are usually folk that were identified as being good at mentoring people and good at providing air cover so people could do good work.

I’m sorry you’ve never worked at a place with good middle management. It does exist in many places, and many people selected it because they like working with the people and the strategy more than the product directly. Often times these people could’ve been paid comparably by working as a staff or principal track engineer or experience designer.

Twitter is mostly verified dicks these days. That might be the better platform.

Stupid ass Trump aside, this also just shows that Zelensky is a sane person who’s coving his bases. There is a 50 / 50 chance he needs to deal with a Trump whitehouse in Nov, so he’d better build the best relationship possible with that moron.

Yes. This was taken on iOS.

I bet they were banking on Geely manufacturing to be able to hit ICE price points and profit margins, but then that 100% Chinese EV tax rolled in, and everything they were forecasting went out the window.

Oh the irony. The site reporting LG’s ads wants people to remove ad blockers.

Midwest.social uses Al oomen umm

TIL Rob Schneider went down the MAGA rabbit hole.

Me and my team take our site down the old fashioned way. Code copied from some rando on the internet.

Only after rambling about eating pets and South Park style abortions of children who have already been born.