“There is zero chance any of these investments are going to turn a profit.”

This isn’t accurate. There’s a zero chance ALL of them turn a profit, but there’s actually good chance that one or more of them will return a huge profit.

If I invest $100 in a hundred companies, and 99 of those companies fail, you may think I’m a terrible investor. If that 1 company returns $50,000 on my investment though, I’m actually a fucking genius.

That’s how venture capital works.

Taxi companies don’t keep specific vehicles for 20 years, they wear out long before then. Keeping them maintained to pass inspection at that point would be a costly nightmare.

The first Tesla only came out 17 years ago, and it was a 2-door sports car… so yea it’s not really surprising you wouldn’t see 15 year old Teslas regularly. They do exist though. The Model S has only been out for 13 years, and there are definitely still first run Model S vehicles driving around. There are 8 from that original year for sale on Autotrader.com right now, all in running condition.

There are only 2 Prius C from 2012, and 2 more Prius V from the same year. Those were the first years of each of those models as well, just like the Tesla.

I think Teslas are shit though. They’re designer brand electric cars, poor quality, and they make zero financial sense at all compared to full EV models from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, or VW.

Also, like I said in an other comment, Taxis are not driven the same way that a regular person drives their car. Hybrids are absolutely perfect for the Taxi driving use case. They make almost no sense when used once a day to go to work, and then hit the grocery store and gym on the way home.

Cabs don’t drive like you do. Neither based on distance driven, nor the constant stop and go driving that optimizes hybrid use case.

Full electric is better for a lot of taxi locations, which is why a lot of Cab companies are now starting to switch their fleets over.

Even Uber ditched it’s Uber Green branding for Uber Electric.

Every single Waymo on the road is fully electric at this point after they phased out their hybrid units a couple years ago.

And then it will become more expensive to maintain than the gas version the year after, and worth less at resale because of a degraded battery or some shit.

Also, brakes are not a primary cost in ownership of a vehicle.

Math is fun, but you need to do a total cost of ownership calculation, not a cost to date calculation.

Full electric is simply better math.

If you’ve only had it three years, the expensive maintenance part hasn’t started yet, it’s probably still under warranty.

A) Your car is not an EV. It’s a Hybrid.

B) All hybrid cars were/are bad investments.

You take a car, make it more complicated by adding an entire second power and drive system, and then expect it to not cost a fortune to maintain later?

Fucking stupidity.

Welcome to the Matrix.

It won’t matter in the slightest.

On one hand, you’re right.

On the other hand, you’re missing the point.

Jobs aren’t the the goal of life. People need to remember that. Our current system of distributing resources is broken if we don’t have enough jobs, but we could change the system rather than forcing everyone to work when it’s not needed.

Yea, don’t put that in your soup as is. It’s not going to be great.

You really don’t want to be taking big bites of extra-firm at one time, it needs to be small or thin and integrated into the rest of the meal. Treat it almost like cubes of ham, except it doesn’t add flavour so the flavour has to come from elsewhere. (And chicken soup generally isn’t a heavy flavour)

What about other meals? It can be great crumbled into ground beef for use in things like tacos. Or crumbled into an omelet. Small cubes in a heavy sauce like spaghetti or curry are great too.

The packaging doesn’t state the firmness? It should have one of: Silken, Soft, Medium, Firm, or Extra Firm.

The note about baking leads me to believe it would be firm or extra-firm

Honestly, If that’s the case, what I would suggest you do is not put it inside the soup. That would be far better with a soft or medium tofu. Instead, like a lot of people have been suggesting, fry it and serve it on the side like you would with gyoza.

My favorite option for medium-firm and firm is to coat it in a light layer of starch (corn starch is what we use here, but potato or rice starch would work too) then shallow fry it in a bit of neutral oil (Canola, Peanut, Vegetable, etc.) until the sides just start to turn a bit brown. Then put it on a side plate, and if you have a bit of teriyaki sauce for dipping it’s great. If you don’t have teriyaki sauce, you could put a little soy sauce over it (or use soy sauce to make teriyaki sauce, it’s really easy)

Second option, especially if you don’t like the oil/frying part or want to cut the calories, is to cut it into strips and bake it in the oven after covering it with a glaze of Miso paste and a smidge of honey.

Very important question, what firmness is the tofu?

Usually things like miso soup use soft tofu. If you have extra firm you don’t want to use it in the same way.

… What?

Did you forget your /s tag

the difference between unqualified and exceptionally unqualified means very little, neither of them can accomplish their basic tasks.

This is exactly how most developers are being asked to use it, it’s literally how most of the IDE integrations work.

The vast majority of people are unqualified individuals.

If the AI is writing ALL the code for an entire application it would be a problem, but as an assistant to a programmer, if it spits out a single line or even a small function, you can read it over very quickly to validate it before moving on to the next component.

Our ERP system that is used for Vacation entry doesn’t have that, it wants start date, end date, hours, and vacation type code. We have a small number of employees who work on stat holidays, so defaulting to all users needing that wouldn’t even work.

The LLM fix is cheap as shit compared to buying an entirely new system. It costs less than half a cent per submission. The power use for a single query is nothing, and this request isn’t some crazy agentic thing that’s using a million tokens or anything, more like 500-1000 tokens combined input and output.

Normally I’d agree, and we used some of that in the original form (like maximum hours, checking for negative submissions, etc.) but requests don’t always follow simple logic and more complex logic just led to failures every time a user did something other than take a standard full day off.

Some employees work 7 hours, while others are 7.5, some have flex days and hours that change that, sometimes requests are only for part days, sometimes they may use multiple leave types to cover one off period.

I spent a few hours writing and testing the prompt against previous submissions to fine tune it.

So far it’s detected every submission error in the two weeks it’s been running, with only one false positive.

I just implemented an LLM in a vacation request process precisely because the employees are stupid as fuck.

We were getting like 10% of requests coming in with the wrong number of hours requested because people can’t fucking count properly, or understand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays. This is despite the form having a calculator and also showing in bright red any stat holidays inside the dates of the request.

Now the LLM checks if the dates, hours, and note from the employee add up to something reasonable. If not it goes to a human to review. We just had a human reviewing every single request before this, because it was causing so many issues, an hour or two each week.