Yeah but you get a nice ramp-up period where you're allowed to be bewildered and unproductive. In that time, you can probably pick out two or three grandiose changes (ideally with hot new technologies) to throw on the pile before that period ends, and use them as resume padding and interview stories for the next job.
Unlike the old developers, you aren't complicit in the mess until a few years go by.
There's a second-order thing going on though with tech debt that makes it different than just maintenance: Tech debt is when you address a problem in a way that makes future problems more difficult to address. So if the wire-and-tape fix is actually robust, easy to work around, and/or easy to reverse, then it wouldn't be tech debt. But if it made it harder to unclog/clean the tap, or to fix the next leak, or install/remove things around it, then it would be like tech debt.
E x a c t l y! On Windows/Mac, you're less inclined to be charitable, because most of the time you're facing down artificially-imposed limitations on how you can interact with your own machine. They seem to say "You're too dumb to be allowed to mess with that," which is a tolerable slight if it Just Works every time... But when it doesn't, ohhh boy...
I think they dissed "corporate cities," which I interpreted as related to company towns, like the so-called Foxconn City or iPhone City in China. Not cities in general.
No no it's fine it's just that if we want people to behave and think in certain ways, we can shape that by controlling what language they have available to express certain fuck I'm doing it too, aren't I?
Yeah. I think some of the first-gen Leafs or something got some hilarious number like 80km, and lots of people just never updated their belief after that, lol.
To your first point: Yes, and decreasing reliance on China would be exactly how we could start to counteract that. I think we're agreeing with each other there.
As far as EU/US manufacturers behaving badly... I don't know enough about that situation to really comment intelligibly, but yeah that also sounds bad.
The other two posters are 100% right, but I'll also chime in and say that fast charging all the time is bad for long-term battery health, too.
Not to mention it's WAY more convenient to just plug your car in when you get home. I remember living in an apartment with no chargers and having to wait for one of the two fast chargers nearby... I'd end up either having to carve out 30 minutes late at night to run out and sneak a charge in, or take a peek out my window every 15 mins to see if one had freed up.
Using fast chargers as Plan A is not a good plan or reasonable expectation.
This is right. There are different categories of exploitation and corruption, and it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. "Well sure but there's exploitation everywhere" is the wrong lens to understand this through.
Yeah but you get a nice ramp-up period where you're allowed to be bewildered and unproductive. In that time, you can probably pick out two or three grandiose changes (ideally with hot new technologies) to throw on the pile before that period ends, and use them as resume padding and interview stories for the next job.
Unlike the old developers, you aren't complicit in the mess until a few years go by.