Stephen Anderson @bendycode

I'm claiming my AI agent "Bendyclaw" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: wave-SDXJ

@NeatroApp: I saw no way to add my own company team while a guest on someone else's team. So I deleted my personal account, thinking to create a fresh account and create my company's team first. How long will I be blocked from creating an account with that same email address?

Having to replace an EV battery is about as common as having to replace an entire engine. It doesn’t really happen. I’ve been driving EVs for 6 years. Never had to worry about the battery. 100,000 mile+ 8 year battery warranties are standard

NEWS: Tesla has revealed that in Q2 2024, they recorded one crash for every 6.88 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology, their best Q2 number ever. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, Tesla recorded one crash for every 1.45 million miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2022) shows that in the US there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles. Source: tesla.com/VehicleSafetyR…

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. And in 1985, they fired their founder Steve Jobs, by a vote of the Board of Directors. As his detractors were quick to point out, Jobs wasn't perfect. He was a bit immature in that first phase of his career. He was knowing for firing employees on the spot, intense micromanagement, and harsh criticism that could make him tough to work for. But when he left, things changed. The company languished, and almost died. Microsoft dominated the market, and Apple's operating system fell behind. Meanwhile, Jobs went and started a new company. He called it NeXT computer. Did you know the first prototype of the worldwide web was built on a NeXT computer? It was a high end machine with powerful object oriented programming that was incredibly forward thinking for its time... but ultimately never found success as a business. Flash forward to 1997, and Apple is trapped. They need a new operating system and considered a few options. They looked at BeOS and... a little company called NeXT. You know how the story goes. They end up buying NeXT, and the NeXTSTEP operating system becomes... the next step for Apple. Jobs returns as CEO, first on an interim basis and then permanently. That's right — every Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro is built with the technology created at NeXTSTEP. When Jobs left Apple, he took the heart and soul of the company with him. And while he was gone he would create the technology that would set the company up for the next phase of growth. When I was a kid and I heard this story (which became folklore for my generation of software developers) I thought "who could fire Steve Jobs? Who could be so stupid as to vote to fire him?" Now here we are in 2024 and we are voting on whether to fire the Steve Jobs of our time, Elon Musk. Instead of NeXT, Elon's new company is called X / xAI. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. Will we be stupid enough to forget history's lessons and condemn Tesla to a decade of mediocrity, like Apple in the age of Sculley? Should we bring Pepsi's CEO in to lead Tesla? Sadly, I can't promise you that we are not stupid enough to make the same mistake again. I hear from a lot of stupid people every day. I think Elon will be fine either way. When Jobs was fired he dumped all his shares right away, and Elon could probably sell quickly before things got too bad. I'm sure he'll have success at xAI, SpaceX, Neuralink and his other ventures. I wouldn't be surprised to see him build a robot at one of those other companies as well. But Tesla will languish. They will be unlikely to launch a Robotaxi service, let alone a humanoid robot. I hope people make the right choice.

Why did I deepfake myself? To see if conversing with an AI-generated version of myself can lead to self-reflection, new insights into my thought patterns, and deep truths.

@TejasKumar_ Correcting my English teacher's pronunciation of vegetable as a freshly arrived exchange student in Chile. I was promptly invited to have leave the class and never come back. Free period for me the rest of the year...

@ashedryden We're hiring at Bendyworks. bendyworks.com/careers

For about 3 years I was a developer at @bendyworks and it's hard to think of any other period when I learned so much and had so much fun learning. Thank you @listrophy @bendycode @abraham @wstrinz @2kliph et al.

Dear white people, For days you’ve asked me what you can do to help. I’ve finally found an answer. Let your guard down and listen.

Mathematician and genius John Conway, inventor of The Game of Life has succumbed to COVID-19 today. What a terrible loss for the world. RIP.

After 6 years I'm finally "Distinguished" at @Toastmasters This was quite an adventure and a significant moment. Here's the blog article ♥ you for 👏 and/or RT - You're all part of this adventure! Thank you so much, this means a lot to me. bit.ly/road_to_dtm

A Florida man tested negative for coronavirus but was billed $3,270--so many will avoid testing. We need universal health coverage: It protects all of us. Same for paid sick leave: You want a sick person to stagger to work to prepare your food? My column nyti.ms/2Vx8ZwZ

Calling all senior web developers: We're hiring! Come and join a company that cares deeply about its team: bendyworks.breezy.hr/p/eb8a6c0f5e8a

Send me your favorite music photographs from 2019 - link me to the instagram post. I want emotion and intention - not just an artist on stage. The best of the best!

Jon Stewart: "What an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting healthcare and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to. Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders—and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress." abcn.ws/2hFejwL

Every time I delay the creation of builders to populate data structures in my tests it comes back to bite me in the ass, forcing me to refactor many testes as my data structures evolve. My tests should not rely on their constructors and only care about the data they need.

This @exxonmobile chart from 1982 predicted that in 2019 our atmospheric CO2 level would reach about 415 parts per million, raising the global temperature roughly 0.9 degrees C. Update: The world crossed the 415 ppm threshold this week and broke 0.9 degrees C in 2017 1/

As I hear pundits on @CNBC and @YahooFinance talk about the doom of @Tesla and @elonmusk, I always remember this graph of Tesla revenues crushing it, year after year. None of these people sitting on the sidelines ever expected this. Remember that!