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I assume it means that he used his free time + company time (w/out asking) to solve a company problem


most faulty by raw numbers or by %?

Also poor quality of what?


By % of failing mandatory inspections in EU.

> Also poor quality of what?

Basically anything other than battery or motors. Interior build. One big touchscreen to make anything as cheap as possible. Brakes. Suspension.

EVs literally have less wearing parts by design and somehow they managed to made these few ones worse than on average.


I think this was sarcasm


Based on the book "The Idea Factory" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory), it sounds like the regulated monopoly forced certain constraints on their business, such that they had to prove they were a utility. This meant not having infinite profits, and that the engineers were generally allowed to think long term since any good idea in the future could benefit the company without short term profitability risk


man pages vary in complexity/readability, and for occasional use, is probably way more painful


definitely not $4k, but what about oil changes, brakes?


were the business/marketing/etc people using docs too? At my last job, those people had office


the original minecraft is in java, it's probably gone through a lot of code transformation. The version you're thinking of is the microsoft version, rewritten in c++


I thought the MS version was C#?


Some alternatives to these items: I like bandizip for zip needs

MPC-BE for video/audio

XnViewMP

Firefox for PDFs

MS office web (no need to install anything)

Windows 10+ includes clipboard history

PowerToys does have a file search, not sure how it compares to Everything


dygitopia works better I'd think


Digiclysm.


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