Ghostalmedia

Ghostalmedia , 17 hours ago

Allow me to demonstrate something.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32507a24-248f-4b7a-ac12-ff9142ca5c2f.png

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.

Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Yeah, sometimes you’re in BFE and there isn’t much around. Other times you just want to eat fast food in your car like an animal and watch a TV show that is too embarrassing to watch on the couch with your significant other.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5408b0b3-e2e1-4110-980c-5548ca2f46ce.gif

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

I’m not. It’s in the article.

Ghostalmedia , 23 hours ago

GIVE TURD

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Sounds like a lot of this is for non-generative AI. It’s for dumb things like that frequently used emoji feature.

Knowing how my legal teams have worked in my tech companies, I’m a bet that a lawyer updated the terms language to be in compliance with privacy legislation, but they did a shit job, and didn’t clarify what specifically was being covered in the TOS. They were lazy, and crafted something broad, so they wouldn’t have to actually talk to product or marketing people in their org.

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Where do you live?

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Everyone eventually dies from IDS.

https://youtu.be/HDaFMZfIsV4

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Best part…

The web filter is in that stupid filter carousel, and it’s just off of the screen on mobile. So you have to swipe left from the top of the screen to view web results.

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

For you. It’s dynamic and the links keep changing location now. That bar is terrible now.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

A model trained on jokes about bacon, narwhals, and rage comics.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

I SAID RAGE COMICS

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

This is about making an electric leaf blower even quieter. The students were not given a gas leaf blower to design around.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

For the people not reading the article. This is not about gas leaf blowers.

The challenge was to take an electric leaf blower and make it even quieter.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

Good engineering and industrial design programs find opportunities for students to work with real companies on real products.

Back in the day I used to be the student that published stuff like this to our product design department’s website. The point wasn’t to demo tech or sell a product, it was to make the program look like something worth applying to and donating to.

If a brand was name dropped, it wasn’t because we wanted to sell their thing. It was because we wanted to let applicants and alumni know that we were offering real world experience with recognizable companies. It’s basically like a reverse internship. Department faculty finds companies to bring to the students, as opposed to students applying to companies.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

IMHO, the thing that’s being promoted here isn’t the leaf blower. It’s the university’s engineering program and the opportunities it’s providing for students.

I kind of doubt someone has this University blog post in their deck of Spring 2024 leaf blower marketing initiatives.

This is the kind of stuff that the people managing internships handle in a company. Companies do this for talent acquisition. They don’t even do it for the cheap labor, because coaching students usually gobbles up a lot of your IC’s time.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

A spirt visited me and told me this.

Luckily that spirt read the article and watched the video in it.

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

I did.

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

Ghostalmedia OP , 4 days ago

You might want to talk to your dentist if granola bars are hurting your teeth.

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

I’m just here for the claymation hotdog man.

Ghostalmedia , 5 days ago

Note, this is just what a chat bot said when prompted about what money saving advice he might give to poor people.

This is a trash AI article that only exists to show sponsored ads.

Ghostalmedia , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Damn this picture must be at least 30 years old. I know this mall, and the emporium closed in the mid 90’s.

This is in San Mateo, CA.

Ghostalmedia , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Since it’s only been a week, a lot of those people are going to come back. But now they’re coming back with updated resumes and a linked in pro subscription. The good folks will be bailing in the coming months, but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra. Musk basically ensured uncontrolled attrition.

How did this idiot actually manage to ship cars to begin with?

Ghostalmedia , 6 days ago

My point being, development of the consumer cars didn’t really kick off instill after Tarpenning and Eberhard left, and I don’t see how this current iteration of Musk would’ve pulled that off. I feel like this iteration of Musk would’ve fucked up Telsa spectacularly.

When the roadster shipped in 2008, that company could only hand make a few hundred cars a year and they didn’t even know how to make their own chassis, seats, infotainment software, etc. They had powertrain tech, and that’s about it.

The vast majority of the consumer product development and manufacturing tech was built after the OG founders left.

Ghostalmedia , 5 days ago

Coming from a Slack office is pretty damn painful when you get tossed into Teams. The lack of chat organization and chat threads is painful.

Microsoft also moves at a glacial pace. Terrible bugs float around in their products for months / years. That company doesn’t know how to ship stuff anymore. All they do is reorg product and engineering teams every 6 months, then wonder why they can ship anything on time on time.

Ghostalmedia , 5 days ago

At the end of the day, slack simply has a larger feature set and more options for organizing and staying engaged with conversations. Almost everyone who has clocked in significant time and Teams and Slack will tell you that.

And, unfortunately, Microsoft moves so damn slow, and prioritizes such weird crap, that they can’t seem to get some of the basics implemented.

Ghostalmedia , 5 days ago

Agreed. If I have to pick, I’m going with the OG Slack + Zoom combo. Only problem is that recordings and meeting chat are not integrated. But, honestly, I’ll gladly give up that one feature if it means I get the mountains of other stuff. Also, when meeting chats aren’t saved, they become a lot more lively. People know the chats aren’t going to clutter up any important meeting notes.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Do I you have post or comment examples?

I just did some searches that were filtered to the past 24 hours, and I’m only really seeing positively upvoted stuff about priests who were arrested.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Someone fucked it up. Next stopping point is 196.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

I get it if you’re doing photo editing on an iPad. That stuff is still a CPU hog.

That said, the M3 is on an end-of-life manufacturing process, and now that these things are getting updated every 2 years, it just makes sense to put the M3’s successor in this thing. A Pro M2 is going to stick out like a sore thumb in 2 years, and the M3s are going to start to disappear from the line up soon.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

Got it. Removing RAM modules now.

Ghostalmedia , 9 days ago

Damn. I was interested in the Volvo ex30

Ghostalmedia , 9 days ago

100% agree. They really stripped that car down in order to make it work with a 27% import tax from China. Few physical buttons, a soundbar instead of door speakers, etc. There are a number of quirky design

Android Automotive (not to be confused with Android Auto) is the only thing that makes me think I could make it work. More specifically, Google Assistant control for HVAC, defrost, etc.

One of the things that drives me nuts about Telsa is that the buttons are missing, and the voice control is shit in comparison to Assistant and even janky ’ol Siri.

Ghostalmedia , 9 days ago

Yeah, reviewers seem to like the sound bar and think it sounds better than what Volvo Polestar have done in the past.

Seems like a solution that other manufacturers should adopt. It can bring the sticker price down and can sound better in many use cases. Although it might come at the expense of diminished audio for rear passenger.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

"The artist formerly known as Twitter"

Ghostalmedia , 10 days ago

That shit is from the 70’s.

Ghostalmedia , 10 days ago

If Denver were Manhattan, it would be Manhattan, not Denver.

Ghostalmedia , 10 days ago

Big if true

Ghostalmedia OP , 11 days ago

Thanks fellow half baked watcher

Ghostalmedia , 11 days ago

Look at the hinges.

Ghostalmedia , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

UX vet here.

1. UX usually never ever has the final say on this stuff. Product management, finance, and marketing almost always win out in most companies. Heck, in just about every agile training that is given, people are taught that product management gets the final vote on whether or not a feature gets prioritized.

2. Amazon is famous for being driven by bean counters and analysts. Many of their product development decisions are driven by measurable short term incremental tests. Amazon has never really known how to build physical or digital experiences that people love.

Ghostalmedia , 11 days ago

Although this pause menu crap will 100% appear in the Apple TV too. Paramount+ and some others are already doing it.

Apple does allow video apps to use their own player, and not the default player. And many of the non-Apple players are total trash.