Greg Fordham

🇺🇸Husband, Dad, IT guy, Hobby Machinist and Mountain Biker

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[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@sysxplore Running Ubuntu as my primary machine currently. I had used it in the past as well, but when I started playing around with AI stuff 6 months ago I switched away from windows. It's never been easier to run linux as your primary machine.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@775Garage Usually in the 30's percent wise is when I charge, roughly every three days for how much I drive.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@mikepat711 Or, hear me out, maybe, Tesla should actually have a marketing department!

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@MrPitbull07 I have a business idea, it's a service that takes current appliances and replaces all the crap parts with ones that last longer. Like replacing rubber hoses for silicon and shitty switches for more robust ones. I'm too lazy to do it but it's a good idea.

[Barrett Linburg @DallasAptGP]

Everyone is talking about what Cybercab and autonomous vehicles means for the future of transportation. I want to talk about what it means for real estate.

Here is a site plan of a 76 unit apartment project we just finished in Dallas. It is leasing up now. Look at the site plan. Half the land is surface parking.

That is how many small(ish) apartment buildings have been designed for decades.

Cities used to require it. Many, including Dallas, are now getting rid of parking minimums. But that does not change much on its own. We will keep building as much parking as our renters demand. So will every other developer. Renters bring cars (especially in Texas).

So the parking stays until the cars change.

Here is what we did differently. The building and the parking lot are two legally separate tax parcels. If the parking is no longer needed, we can build on the lot without touching the building. On this site that means another 70 to 80 apartments.

No new land. No acquisition cost. Same property, roughly double the units.

And you may not even need robotaxis to get there. You just need cars smart enough to park themselves. Door to door. Bumper to bumper. Drop me off under the porte cochere, then go park yourself in a parking structure in a cheaper part of town. Half the parking field disappears right there.

Now run that across a whole city.

Every surface lot. Every oversized parking field. Every empty corner of a multifamily site. Each one becomes a development opportunity if the need for parking change drastically.

More housing. Less asphalt. More housing where people want to live.

Waymo, Zoox, and Robotaxi arriving in Dallas matters more than most people think. Robot cars do not just change how people move. They may change what we build and where it is built.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@ajpri1998 I have a juniper AWD model Y and use a hitch mount bike rack with it. When I have my fat bike on the rack and I'm low speed backing up , sometimes the emergency braking kicks in and it feels like I hit a wall. I turn it off but sometimes the updates turn it back on.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@NotATeslaApp I think they don't care about perception. They are going to take over transportation with autonomous vehicles regardless.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@TitaniumTomP I feel like Tesla has been being pretty secretive lately. Makes me wonder if they are about to release a couple of things. Cybercab all-at-once, optimus, roadster

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@wholemars Thanks I've been wondering that.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@concept_bjj @daltonbrewer People that do that will begin to be left behind.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

Also if you have optimus robots on Mars preparing for humans, it may come in beneficial having an orbital data center around Mars as well.

[Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett]

You aren’t serious about space if you think odds of a Martian colony have gone down since SpaceX announced StarMind and the Lunar Mass driver. The likelihood of 1M humans on mars skyrocketed after these announcements and SpaceX going IPO. The mission is on track and closer than ever.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@HawkEmDownChris Colonel Kurtz

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@farzyness That Tesla will not sell cybercabs with steering wheels and pedals!

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@AvonandsomerRob

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@SancastleAir @AvonandsomerRob

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@SpaceNews92 I think it's the new giant downcomer adding a lot of structure to the whole ship.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@eptwts Profit

[Ubuntu @ubuntu]

35 years strong. 🐧🧡

Happy birthday, Linux.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

@wholemars Not to mention that delivery wont even be an issue in the future as nobody will actually own the cars, they will just summon one when they need it.

[Greg Fordham @GregFordham3]

Pretty cool local to me science going on!

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two particles (usually photons, particles of light) become linked so that measuring one instantly tells you something about the other, no matter how far apart they are. Einstein famously called it "spooky action at a distance."

They sent entangled photons through open air between two points and kept the entanglement intact. That's hard because air is messy. Turbulence, temperature changes, dust, and sunlight all tend to destroy the fragile quantum link. Doing it in open air means you could eventually connect buildings, drones, or satellites without laying cable.

Quantum communication lets you detect any eavesdropper, because the act of intercepting the signal disturbs the entanglement and reveals the intrusion. Banks, governments, and militaries want this badly.

Connecting quantum computers to each other requires sending quantum states between them. Free-space (open air) links are one of the missing pieces.