I’m developing X/D Loom (https://xdloom.com), a tool that helps car enthusiasts create automotive wiring diagrams.
About a year ago, I engine-swapped my Nissan D21 hardbody from the Z24 petrol to a TD27T turbo diesel and also installed a whole bunch of accessories, like spotlights, a winch, and an air compressor. But being lazy, I didn’t write down any of the wiring changes I made while doing all of this. So fast forward a year, and now I can’t remember how all the wiring works.
My current project car is a Jeep Cherokee FSJ, and for it, I want to build a completely new loom from the ground up. So to try and avoid making the same mistake I made with the Nissan, I Googled “create automotive wiring diagram”, but all the results were for complex enterprise grade solutions charging $200/month. That’s why I created X/D Loom as a project car guys' tool for creating wiring loom diagrams. It allows you to drag different electrical components onto a canvas, connect them with wires, and export them to a PDF or PNG.
Since you're trying to product-ize and might want to expand the market a bit... aviation might be a nice market. There's a whole culture of people who build light general aviation aircraft under the "experimental" class of aircraft.
Most kits come with wiring suggestions for standard things like fuel pumps, lights, etc but once you get into avionics the options are essentially limitless. A quick Google search has a few reddit threads of builders talking tools and it ranges from AutoCad ($$$) to some type of drawing software like MS Visio.
Awsome. I'm planning on adding the Edelbrock Pro-Flo 4 EFI system to my AMC 360. One feature I really want to add to the app is prebuilt templates for popular aftermarket EFI, ECU, and Digital Dash setups from Holly, Edelbrock, Haltech, and Dakota Digital.
Some of the other commenters here have posited a "vibe code theory". As the amount of vibe code in production increases, so does the number of bugs and, therefore, the number of outages.
None of the recent major outages were traced down to "vibe coding" or anything of the sort. They appear to be the kind of misconfigurations and networking fuckups that existed since Internet became more complex than 3 routers.
The "vibe thinking" trend where people stop using their brain and rely on whatever random output the LLM tells them is harder to diagnose, but it's certainly there and at least as bad as vibe coding.
What about the “vibe thinking” trend where people project their own narratives on to every situation, even if the information available shows that it’s a rise in large scale DDoS attacks?
> Some of the other commenters here have posited a "vibe code theory". As the amount of vibe code in production increases, so does the number of bugs and, therefore, the number of outages.
Likely this coupled with the mass brain damage caused by never-ending COVID re-infections.
Since vaccines don't prevent transmission, and each re-infection increases the chances of long COVID complications, the only real protection right now is wearing a proper respirator everywhere you go, and basically nobody is doing that anymore.
Most people are not self reflective reflective enough to notice. Need to trust the studies.
Far more plausible than the AI ideas.
I find it far more likely these are smart people running without oversight for years pre-COVID, relying on being smart at 2am change windows. Now half or a full std. dev. lower on the IQ scale, hubris means fewer guard rails before change, and far lower ability to recover during change window.
I somehow doubt that if a majority of the population was a full standard deviation lower on the IQ scale that nobody would be talking about it, that there wouldn't be more research, and that it wouldn't be covered by the news whatsoever.
Keep in mind many parties benefit from capitalizing on hysterical hype. And you're going to sit here and tell me they're all keeping it covered up for some reason?
This comes off like the extreme left-wing equivalent of extreme right-wingers that say the "world is run by the evil jewish cabal" and when people ask for proof, they retort "everyone is hiding it so none exists".
For a select few, maybe, but it's obviously not enough of the population to make a significant difference in downtime outages in large tech corporations.
It's far more likely due to either AI, or more directly, layoffs and offshoring, as that affects hundreds of thousands of their employees.
I have become dumber without having contracted covid or other respiratory diseases (which could have been covid). 2020s have been the era of fascism, war and communities getting torn, which does not really help with stress levels and intellectual performance.
One of the greatest stories from the first Trump presidency is him suggesting a "tenfold" increase in the United States nuclear arsenal, and Rex Tillerson subsequently calling him a "fucking moron".
I would say the smartphone market would be more stable in terms of market share by its nature. The only way that it would shift significantly is if there were a mass exodus of users from one platform to the other. But the vast majority of people are perfectly happy staying with whatever they have. Likewise, many new smartphone users who aren't locked into a platform yet get locked into whatever platform people around them are using.
In the vehicle market, there's a lot more competition space than just two or three brands. And just because someone is around, say, Ford drivers. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to go out and buy a Ford for themselves. Rather, they're going to buy whatever they find appealing.
Taken to the extreme for example, say Apple had 100% of the market. If a competitor entered the market and gained 1% share,then Apple's market share will have decreased.
In Tesla's case, a number of competitors have entered the market. It would be impossible to maintain whatever market share they had no matter how good the product is or how well their stock price is doing.
Yup. Cities often have lots of impressive public green spaces so I expect this a massive underestimate.
It may be worse for a rural kid. All that countryside that surrounds you is private farmland. Of course, now and again, you trespass and earn stories of being chased off by dogs and puce-faced-shotgun-wielding arses but it's not your daily hang-out.
Truly public land (not just a public pathway) will be concentrated in nature-reserves and odds are it will be out of reach except for special adventures.
The village-kid hang-out is typically "The Village Rec" (recreation ground) but if you live in something less than a village, i.e. random splats of houses between villages, you end up living half your life at a bus stop waiting for the mercurial 2-hourly bus service before you can even see another human face.
Isn’t that simply the inherent risk associated with business ventures? Not every investment will yield a profit. I recall reading about Ward Parkinson, one of the founders of Micron Technology. During his tenure at Fairchild Semiconductor, the company paid for his Master’s degree at Stanford. However, upon graduating, he promptly left to work for Reticon.
About a year ago, I engine-swapped my Nissan D21 hardbody from the Z24 petrol to a TD27T turbo diesel and also installed a whole bunch of accessories, like spotlights, a winch, and an air compressor. But being lazy, I didn’t write down any of the wiring changes I made while doing all of this. So fast forward a year, and now I can’t remember how all the wiring works.
My current project car is a Jeep Cherokee FSJ, and for it, I want to build a completely new loom from the ground up. So to try and avoid making the same mistake I made with the Nissan, I Googled “create automotive wiring diagram”, but all the results were for complex enterprise grade solutions charging $200/month. That’s why I created X/D Loom as a project car guys' tool for creating wiring loom diagrams. It allows you to drag different electrical components onto a canvas, connect them with wires, and export them to a PDF or PNG.
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