Ewan Makepeace
@ewanmakepeace
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Software developer, oil worker, Tesla Investor, Dad.
Doha, Qatar
Joined August 2008
@criminalplaza The thing is - it doesn't JUST auto scroll, but seems to auto scroll to something weird that would not otherwise be in my feed?.
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@russelljkaplan You fix her terminal - and it just connects to another sever that is down. It’s turtles all the way down.
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@stevenmarkryan @elonmusk “You just pass a law”. You mean Congress right? I see a flaw in the plan.
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@NoContextHumans Well when they steal your money 100 times by offering grippers that don’t grip, it all seems fair!.
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@joelatwar You guys have it easy. I never know whether it will be United Kingdom, England or Great Britain, or British. That’s 4 different letters to check.
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@luke_leisher_ Pretty cool: Mach 3 in 1964. But only 5 years later this could fly 128 passengers at up to Mach 2.3, and is arguably the more impressive aerospace achievement?
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@Congressman_JVD Fibreglass contains fibres of glass (weird huh) and is best not handled with bare hands. Goes for cars, boats, surf boards and lots of stuff.
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@WarMonitor3 Jokes aside, South Korea builds some of the most practical and effective military hardware on the planet - and they build A LOT. Let’s not forget they have been staring down their nemesis for a continuous 71 years.
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@SwannMarcus89 Worked for Napoleon and Hitler. Of course sometimes going in is the easy part….
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@JoyceWhiteVance Whats more shocking than that Trump is picking Sunset towns?. THAT USA STILL HAS SUNSET TOWNS????.
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@AnonymousLeftie I am having Deja vu. Over in France Macron called a snap election, forced the far right to show their cards and win the first round only to mobilise huge turnout in the second round that saw them soundly defeated.
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@ianzelbo It is a meaningless statistic - F500 companies employ 100's of 1000's of people - all it means that Canva was able to locate at least one licence registered to an email address at that company. The bigger the company the greater the chances of a licence. Does NOT mean that the.
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@GarrAarghHrumph Wow - so nice to be reminded of some of the positives for a change. Safe travels!.
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@Cowpat_No_9 As a child I always wondered how we could have had a “dark ages” in Europe - how could we go from knowledge to ignorance? Surely progress is always in one direction?. As an adult I am finding out first hand.
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@gbrl_dick What is wrong with you people? Red flag how? If someone is free and able to travel it is a great thing, and 3 weeks is barely a trip. Is the red flag because they are single or able to travel?. Do you have no life?.
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🧵 Having spent over 20 years in Indonesia I wanted to give my thoughts on yesterday's news that Tesla $TSLA was 'nearing' a deal to build production facilities in Indonesia:.
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@MatthewLBishop One small pain pointed (among many) - luggage trolleys that require a pound coin to use. Who has a pound coin handy when arriving internationally?.
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@f4micom True quote, but Bill was lying. Apple took the GUI interface way beyond anything Xerox had - and MS blatantly copied all of Apples designs, just as Samsung does today.
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@WorkaholicDavid Not at all. Vision Pro is very expensive but delivers. Humane pin is almost as expensive (over say a three year lifespan) and fails to deliver on almost all its promises. This is Apple vs the rest writ large - and the reason Apple is so trusted.
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@sturgios I was scammed by someone pretending to be a business partner in the US. I asked him to call me and he tried to make excuses, but I insisted and he actually called! . Thick Indian accent pretending to be a 60yo white pilot from Michigan. Hilarious.
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@cmkosemen Most construction in Japan is reinforced concrete and they have a much higher incidence of earthquakes. US has a whole industry geared up to build wood frame. Construction is amazingly fast (compared to other countries) and I don’t think people would pay for brick or concrete.
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@WillManidis I was today years old when I learn't anti-murder billboards were a thing. how strange!. What % of potential murderers are so on the fence that a billboard will sway them I wonder?.
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@NicholasTyrone Boomer is defined as a kid of the baby boom that followed the Second World War. By definition no Boomers served in that war.
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@BenGeskin They have 3 MILLION preorders. Anyone doubting its success (Apple Vision Pro prices) should look again.
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@elonmusk To be fair $700m in 1937 would be almost $15B today. Wouldn’t be such a fun comparison then?.
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@GrantSlatton A lot of the people saying they could do the whole thing with a Raspberry Pi are the people who take a glance at a legacy software app and claim they could recode it in a weekend. Tip: it’s not the primary function that is hard, its meeting all the secondary requirements.
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@GergelyOrosz I spent $1000’s on Sonos gear when it first came out 10 years ago. 2 of their remotes, 4 speakers and a couple of bridges. Then they changed the app and the comms protocol and orphaned us all. I will NEVER trust them again.
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@IDoTheThinking Apple Maps UI is nicer but in most countries Google is more complete. And of course for public transit Apple is not even in the game.
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@ChadNotChud @jianling_maher My father worked for a decade at the Ministry of Agriculture Weed Research Organisation in Kidlington. That centre has since been closed but there are others, devoted to testing and qualifying pesticides and herbicides for UK use. Because if the govt doesn’t do it, you would.
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@harrym_vids Actually - could be genius. If they have a half way decent new design, it will now get 100X more exposure following the rebranding debacle.
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@implausibleblog Moron. It is not companies’ job to absorb costs to spare consumers, what are they, charities?. Costs rise, prices rise, it is very simple.
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@Teslaconomics It's just the center of mass - pickup has a light bed at back and heavy engine at the front, so it cannot be supported with nothing under one front tyre. That does not make it 'worse' - just different.
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@theapplehub Its kind of funny to see Apple hiding behind the fact that in Europe they are less popular than WhatsApp.
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@aitchrobertson Uk has always had cell coverage significantly worse than most third world countries. For example Indonesia had largely 100% coverage across 15,000 islands by 2010. It blows my mind to be driving around and find dead spots - in 2024 no less. Of course Indonesia is served by a.
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@enjojoyy Don’t judge a book by its cover. All that complexity still exists - it is just moved internally with cast flow paths etc. In software terms they are presenting a clean interface and making the implementation details private.
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@GayBearRes You need to leave NOW before the new hire is up to speed. Otherwise they wont get to regret their hiring decision.
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@Grady_Booch Remember when fourth generation more natural languages would replace programming?. Turned out they were no different than less friendly languages. So we invented fifth generation graphical programming to make coding extinct. That did not pan out either. New decade, same plan.
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@SawyerMerritt Remember the shock when Ford adopted NACS? Then everyone else fell like dominoes (barring a couple of stubborn lemmings). So it was when BP announced they were buying Tesla chargers, and now this. Expect a tsunami of similar announcements by years end. Obviously there is some.
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@ashleevance @MrBeast You can’t run until you are 35 but you can at 86? How does that make sense?.
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@PicturesFoIder “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”. George Best.
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@levelsio Same argument was used against the Japanese in my youth. It is generally a lazy cop out to dismiss their success. Not much point expending resources innovating when you are behind.
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@interpretantion That’s because they won. Easier to forgive when you have humiliated your opponent.
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@helaineolen I think you missed the forest for the trees?. Back when iPhones had headphone jacks *nobody* was using wired headphones for calls, those were for music. Long before iPhone all the businessmen had Bluetooth earpieces with annoying blue lights (remember them) - you never see.
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@lord_vizsla @Sargon_of_Akkad That is not "Real Men" - that is insecure men who are worried they are not the biggest or best!.
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@Scobleizer They also have Apple TV+, their own source of high quality video content. How convenient, it's almost as if they saw this day coming?. Would not be surprised to find that some of them were filmed for 3D. .
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@jk_rowling Wow - the replies are full of “yes, but” messages 😰. How hard is it to agree that all children should feel safe walking to school?.
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@tunguz Doesn’t this go through Canada? But I guess all the European posts were international so hate the game not the players!.
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@igorsushko I don’t think the value is significant, it’s the time to replace. This is looking like a huge blow to Russia’s logistics.
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@appltrack I suspect Twitter has asked if they can implement the $8 checkmark payments in the app without paying 30% commission and Apple said no. When Epic tried that Apple kicked them off - same would apply to Twitter.
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@yifever If you think that is bad Australia has three different rail gauges. In 2023. Meaning that trains cannot cross the country freely.
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@TaylorOgan @Huawei Tri-fold sounds silly - until you realise that part of the mainnscreen is on the outside, and so it doesn’t need another screen for when it’s closed. Genius!.
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@DrHelenFry That I grew up learning that the first electronic computer was the (US) ENIAC in 1945 - only to find that it was predated by Colossus at Bletchley Park, but the British Govt. Kept its existence secret (along with much of Bletchley Park’s work) for 50 years. This tells me that:.
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@bryancsk In the oilfield we have a saying “Lord, grant me one more boom. I promise not to piss it all away this time.". Look at the number of broke rock stars and lottery winners. When wealth arrives suddenly it is hard to hang onto.
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@SawyerMerritt If they have a 50% cost advantage why have they won only 18% of the bids and 11% of the funding?. “So far, Tesla is the winning bidder to build chargers at about 18% of the sites selected by states using the federal dollars to fund fast chargers, more than any other company,.
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@notcapnamerica Hanlon’s Razor:. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”.
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@lozzylozboz QR code is generally just a URL to a website. Problem is your guard is down. Where you might be suspicious of a URL on an email or SMS, QR codes seem trustworthy. Always think before entering bank details on a web form.
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@JoshEakle @LeftwardSwing No airline offered that product. It was mocked up by Boeing to promote the 747.
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@GergelyOrosz I don’t often agree with Elon on politics but he is right: this is cancel culture at its worst. X reflects both ends of the spectrum. Look hard enough and everyone will find something they oppose. But that is the point - it is inclusive, diverse and reflects the real world.
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@DanPriceSeattle Had those deaths occurred in the US it would be a very different story. Different situation I know but remember BP were fined $20B for Deepwater Horizon.
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10. I hope you've found this thread helpful. Follow me @ewanmakepeace for more. Like/Retweet the first tweet below if you can:.
🧵 Having spent over 20 years in Indonesia I wanted to give my thoughts on yesterday's news that Tesla $TSLA was 'nearing' a deal to build production facilities in Indonesia:.
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@GwVillager We should have started at the top and worked South. No way the last stretch to London would have been cancelled.
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@ashleevance Sounds a lot like legacy auto with Tesla EVs. Or Semi trucks. Or Starlink. Or CyberTruck. In each case by the time the competition wakes up the train has not only left the station but making its second trip.
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@quantian1 Tax rules are like software code - one page for the default case and 100,000 lines for all the edge cases. Most of that 100,000 was added over many years of finding and fixing problems and encodes the organisational learning. His proposal is like the intern saying “I could.
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@MattWallace888 There are plenty of women working offshore now. This post is uninformed sexism.
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@kelseyhightower It’s an awful IDE. Literally the worst of JetBrains, Eclipse, NetBeans and Visual Studio. The only reason people use it is because they have to.
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@GergelyOrosz I had this recently - bought a MacBook on the US Apple site using my UK card. Transaction was successful but then my bank blocked the card. But this is shutting the door after the horse has bolted - if my bank requires TFA to have confidence in the authenticity why can’t they.
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@yifever Sure they should standardise - but which half gets to buy all new appliances? . The short term cost is bigger than the perceived benefit.
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