Tesla designs are the gaudy jewelry and tacky gemstones of the car industry; we shouldn’t even call them engineering. The Tesla dashboard seems to be only artificially, superficially, designed. A big piece of glass glued to the dash is cheap and lazy. The touchscreen certainly is not meant for anyone who thinks deeply about anything, … Continue reading New Porsche Dash Buttons Are Like Nails in Tesla’s Coffin →

Whether you look at the reign of a Tillerson, or the “Christian warrior” Pompeo, the GOP leadership destroyed the State Department and it’s having a disastrous effect right now. Foreign Policy: Morale has hit rock bottom at Foggy Bottom, as American foreign service officers languish and Rex Tillerson builds a mini-empire. GovExec: State Department Says … Continue reading GOP Wrecked State Department: Americans Now Abandoned, Left for Dead in Sudan →

Yesterday I listened to Cisco try to argue that musicians can’t play music apart and have their sounds stitched back together. This absolutely is untrue. Any musician using a time signature with beats per minute can lay a track down without hearing any other musician. Here’s a perfect example. If I record a percussion instrument, … Continue reading RSAC SF 2023: Why Are XDR Vendor Pitches Garbage? →

A truck driver on the Yankee Expressway has been killed by Tesla, according to police. Initial reports indicate that software is unpredictably launching Teslas like missiles across lanes into other vehicles traveling in the same direction. Recently I reported Tesla’s latest software version — 11.3.4 — seems dangerously unfit for general use. It is very … Continue reading Veered Tesla on Interstate Kills Truck Driver →