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Wrench ,

I used to develop smart TV apps, and Tizen / Orsay (older SS TV OS) we an absolute nightmare to develop for. LG's Web OS, and Android TV were so easy in comparison.

Wrench ,

LIDAR would have similarly been degraded in the foggy conditions that this occurred in. Lasers are light too.

While I do think Tesla holds plenty of responsibility for their intentionally misleading branding in FSD, as well as cost saving measures to not include lidar and/or radar, this particular instance boils down to yet another shitty and irresponsible driver.

You should not be relying on FSD over train tracks. You should not be allowing FSD to be going faster than conditions allow. Dude was tearing down the road in thick fog, way faster than was safe for the conditions.

Wrench ,

Huh. Flirty "Her" terminators to lower your defenses before the kill. Didn't see that coming.

Wrench ,

The problem with electric gardening tools is they aren't that feasible for contractors.

Batteries don't last long and take a long time to charge, so it's just not an option when you're working all day. Corded means at every location, you have to figure out outlets, extension cords, fuss with tangles and obstructions, etc.

If you're doing your own lawns, yeah, you can probably get into a workflow that works for you. But a lot of people hire out for landscaping.

Wrench ,

Except being very expensive, wear out after a few years (at best), and being sensitive to being in the hot sun all day every day. All in a profession mostly worked by under privileged people where frugality is a necessity of life.

Wrench ,

I doubt that most corporations would even consider allowing Slack as a trusted app if they weren't hosting their own instances themselves.

I have to assume that this training is exclusively on instances hosted on Slacks' servers. So probably lots of smaller businesses that don't know any better. And this was probably agreed to in the ToS as part of utilizing free and easy to set up cloud servers.

Wrench ,

Ahh, looked at it and you're right. They have an "Enterprise" version which seems like it's security conscious.

Still, I stand by my original assertion. I have worked for FAANG companies with completely locked down security that allowed us to use Slack. I would be extremely surprised if their contract with Slack didn't ensure complete data privacy.

We're talking about companies where a product leak makes international news. There is zero chance Slack employees have access to communications.

Wrench ,

Rofl. Imagine being mildly infuriated that someone marked up a bargain bin purchase by $10 to cover their time and effort to make it available to you to buy from the comfort of your home.

Why don't you spend your own day rummaging through thrift stores for it next time?

Wrench ,

You see 500% markup.

I see 10 pounds for the time and effort to shop around for bargains, then storing your haul, list the items online, and the cost of the other dozens of books that never sell, and then time and effort to package and ship, and whatever customer service along the way.

Wrench ,

Man. People will be negative about everything.

New breakthrough that may change the entire landscape of an industry? Oh, we hear about breakthroughs every few weeks. Call me if it actually makes it to market.

New apparently game changing breakthrough that's already being taken to market? Boo advertising, we should just quiet launch it and see if anyone notices? Seriously?

Wrench ,

That sounds a lot like what I understood how etrade platforms like Robinhood work when I was reading up on the GME shorts fiasco.

I definitely only have a surface level understanding of it, but it sounded like the stock brokers have a buffer in-between the transaction request to buy/sell, and they first try to handle that locally within their portfolio, before expanding to external trades. And if there's a favorable internal trade, brokers like Robinhood siphon out a little something something for themselves.

Sounds like people are getting busted for doing essentially the same thing Wallstreet has been doing for decades. Again.

Wrench ,

Wanting you to have a stable career as well as a passion hobby are not incompatible. It's when you want to make your passion hobby your profession, when the chances are extremely low of being successful, that you get conflict.

I don't know anything about your relationship, but it's likely the negativity comes from a place of wanting you to have a comfortable, practical life.

Wrench ,

It was straight and square when it was milled. Problem is that the big box stores cut corners during the kiln drying phase, so the boards have a ton of moisture still in them. As that dries, the boards twist and cup.

Plus poor protection from the elements at each storage step, which means rapid temp changes, which also causes wood movement.

Go to a local lumber yard. They tend to do a better job at kiln drying. You're still going to have warped boards, but far fewer in my experience.

Wrench ,

I tried the sled with shims on my thickness planer. It worked, but it was certainly a pain in the ass and unwieldy due to weight and length.

Picked up a 6" bench top jointer. Not great at long boards due to length of the feeds. Picked up some roller stands hoping that would be close enough, but I moved and the garage needs a lot of work before I can try them out.

If you can pick up a full floor sized jointer and have room for it, you'll save yourself several headaches if you plan on jointing a ton of rough cut lumber.

Wrench ,

While I agree, I think that basic business model is pretty much ubiquitous across consumer goods.

Entry level product doesn't cost much less to produce than their deluxe model, but they crank the profit margin to the roof for the deluxe version.

Yeah, these are software gated, but it's essentially the same idea, just more infuriating because you already paid for the hardware that's fully capable either way.

Wrench ,

We do have rentals, but they're more for large things that you'd use once and never again. Paint sprayers, giant floor sanders, etc.

They don't rent things like table saws, thickness planers, etc, which would fall into weekend warrior kind of tools. They want you to buy those.

Wrench ,

How exactly would it be any different without Google / SEO. Parsing of website content to determine topics would be a shit show historically, or ridiculously computation heavy now that LLMs could conceivably do a decent job at classifying content. So Google created a way for sites to tag the kind of content they have. Pretty much any search engine would need the same kind of mechanism.

And content providers are always going to be incentivized to be the top search result, which means targeting search algorithms. That's just the nature of the beast.

If there were multiple SEO implementations, that just means more work to target multiple algorithms. And the content owners with more resources, hundreds of developers, would ultimately win because they can target every algorithm.

I really don't see how Google as a "monopoly" changes these basic fundamentals.

Wrench ,

Or that they can get things like chicken feet that could help estimate force

Wrench ,

"Do no evil" was abandoned long ago.

Wrench , (edited )

CEO with a God complex and the drug habits to fuel it

Wrench , (edited )

Which, even if it went directly into his pocket, doesn't even move the needle for him.

Like another poster said, his goals are more likely politically aligned. He wants EV infrastructure to fail to show libtards are squandering tax money. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.

Why the tesla board hasn't sent him packing yet is beyond me. There must be some golden parachute clause that would be very expensive, but he's doing massive harm to their brand that it must be worth it to cut him loose at this point.

Edit - I also think this ego maniac is sabotaging his own charging infrastructure simply because the government passed a bill (IIRC) that requires the charging stations be accessible to any EV. Not that it needs to provide the connectors on-site - other EV drivers will need to bring their own adapters. Simply that the payment system allows non-tesla owners to use it.

Wrench ,

For Tesla and SpaceX, they attracted the top engineers because they were cool bleeding edge problems to solve that actually aligned with idealist goals in the industries.

Musk used that genuine motivation and overworked people into burnout, and took credit for others hard work.

Wrench ,

Trespassing is not a protected form of protest. Wtf are you talking about?

Wrench ,

Well, it made the national news, so seems like it was somewhat effective.

Wrench ,

We're not paying for the updates, though. I don't recall paying Microsoft for anything in ages, and I have a legit copy of windows 10 installed.

To most people, now that windows is mostly stable, there's no draw to upgrade when a new major version comes out. Why volunteer for new os growing pains when the last Gen works great? Even more so if you have to buy another license.

Wrench ,

Yep. Tesla charging cords are stupidly short, and are designed to force tesla drivers to back into the space for charging, so when you have several tesla charging, the esthetics is better and looks like you're in a dealership with all the cars uniformly facing out.

I get that there are probably better power delivery perks to a short cord. But this is classic "form over function" design that reeks of Musk.

Wrench ,

It is pretty exhausting fighting their subtle tankie arguments over and over, lest someone more impressionable only see their bullshit and believe it.

Wrench ,

Rofl. I was wondering why I couldn't see the other reply to you, and realized it might because I already blocked that user. Went to incognito, and yep, blocked that rabid user a while ago.

I recommend doing the same. I forgot "Global South" was even a term used here.

Wrench ,

I thought the special was hand written and performed, the only "AI" was the deep faked voice and face.

Every article seems to be intentionally misrepresenting it as AI written, at least in the title and synopsis.

Still a shitty thing to do without his estate's prior approval, but very very different than its being represented. All because "AI" is the new boogeyman

Wrench ,

Uhh, it's not hypocrisy.

The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don't want China to have the same access.

Also, TikTok has been caught abusing exploits to get additional information outside of the permissions granted by users. IIRC, TikTok was caught stealing the MAC address from phones a few years back.

It's odd the Steve Wozniak is pretending to be ignorant of the distinction. US government wants Intel, and doesn't want a rival nation to possess similar Intel. That's basic intelligence 101.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

Wrench ,

You mean, like the business model that Android has been using for years?

Or Windows / Linux have been using for decades?

What a weird thing to paint in a bad light.

Wrench ,

Man, can you fanboy any harder?

Apple has some aggressive "in-club" style marketing and exclusivity practices.

iMessage intentionally massively degrades user experience when a non-iMessage user is in the chat, to encourage their iPhone users to harass their friends into getting an iPhone too.

The cruelty is the point. They want their users to ostracize their friends into converting friends and family to their platform.

Wrench ,

To be fair, the unwalled garden of Android hasn't really come back with anything compelling in a decade, either. Just iterative hardware improvements.

Which is fine. The space has matured. There will be other frontiers.

But at least this might result in a decrease of friction between users with different platforms.

Wrench ,

And that tells me everything I need to know about your opinions. Horray for the block feature

Wrench ,

Only when they don't get my 90s references, or wear fannypacks and/or shoulder pads.

Wrench ,

That's.... very very different.

Wrench ,

I don't know the current trends, but yahoo was a powerhouse in Asia for a very long time. The primary search engine, news, Email provider.

Wrench ,

You're not paying for a ridiculously expensive novelty vehicle and then getting practical on after market accessories.

Wrench ,

My fucking Samsung Refrigerator refused to cool until I paired it to a mobile app. It wasn't even one of those fancy tablet screen ones. It beeped at me for hours until I had the time to figure out wtf was wrong with it.

Wrench ,

Yeah, I would have to if I had chosen it, but it was probably the cheapest stainless steel they carried in that size. Landlord replacement when the last fridge crapped out

Wrench ,

I used to develop smart TV apps.

I still only own dumb TVs. I do not need that bloat.

Wrench ,

What the hell does RTO have to do with women specifically? It's a mandate regardless of gender.

Reads article.

Ahh. Nothing. One department happened to be more heavily impacted for females, so suddenly it makes Dell a "boys club" (someone quoted in the article). The only reason provided was the possibility of women with spouses in the military that couldn't move.

Yeah, that's really stretching there and then slapped into the title for rage bait.

RTO mandates are newsworthy by their own right. No need to rage bait with nonsense to accompany it.

Wrench ,

Our first source cited personal experience of the return-to-office order's impact and told us only two men were affected, compared to 29 women. Our source made calculations about the impact using internal data, and suggested women will bear the brunt of the RTO mandate.

"Per sample data pulled, this group is disproportionately female," with women whose partners serve in the military perhaps especially impacted as life in uniform often means relocation.

Again, that's a huge leap they are making.

The sample set could have simply been from a female heavy department. Other departments could be disproportionately male afflicted. We have no idea what their sampling covered, and given how incredibly biased the source seems to be, that's more than enough reason for me to doubt their methodology.

Again, RTO is not inheritantly sexist, as this article claims. If you're intentionally targeting departments with disproportionate representation to specifically marginalize them, then that's discrimination. If this is a corporate policy expanding many departments, and one happens to be disproportionately represented by a gender, then it's far harder to substantiate claims of prejudice.

Wrench ,

Systemic bias != cherry picked data sets

Wrench ,

Good lord. Re-read the quoted text from the article.

Even their source isn't claiming that the distribution that they cite represents all the people negatively affected by the RTO order, they explicitly say this is one person's anecdotal experience on a very small sample size.

And then they immediately project this small cherry picked sample with claiming the mandate itself is sexist. And it appears to be the source of the unverified sample itself that makes that extreme assertion on sexism. Which is extraordinarily sus.

Reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Wrench ,

Maybe closer to cars not having limiters to prevent speeding.

They could. The tech exists. Even to lock it to specific speed limits (not just an upwards cap) using GPS.

But most would say that's overreaching. Until an insurance company sues/lobbies for it because it would improve their bottom line to force drivers to drive more responsibly by legally pushing the manufacturers to add limiters.

Wrench ,

Well, Ibought a few Google speakers back in the day for easy voice commands, mostly for lights and weather.

I unplugged them for privacy. Still use one in the garage for music, but it might as well be a Bluetooth speaker at this point.

And easy to hook up local home assistance would be ideal for me. I don't want to spend weeks of my time fussing with it. It's not a hobby to me, just convenience

Wrench ,

I would love to walk around with a video playing in a fixed hud while I go around doing chores. I'm constantly finding places to put my phone down every time I move to another station.

I'm not paying $3500 for that, though.

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