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baru ,

Before you said that it was specifically addressed. Interesting shift of the goal post.

baru ,

That's not what was stated before.

baru ,

Truth Social is just a way to get money to Trump. Scam/money laundering/bribing. With max a few million/year in revenue I wouldn't compare it to actual social media apps.

baru ,

So tired of the same arguments. They don't mean anything in the real world

The second sentence is a fallacy.

And it does matter that the company is calling it full self driving while it doesn't fully self drive. That it would have that capability is something Musk has promised for many years. It's also a reason that Tesla stock is worth so much.

Go ahead in a court of law and claim you are not responsible for an accident

That's would be a very specific case. Tesla has been reminded multiple times that they need to take into account how people use their vehicles. The company is also under investigation for possible fraud because they are selling something that doesn't do what people would respect it to do.

You're focusing on one thing, but there's multiple ways that the company could be liable. There's been multiple articles explaining that the company is either under investigation or that the company has been warned to change things or else.

baru ,

At the same time, there's too many people who say that Full Self Driving obviously doesn't mean that the vehicle still fully drive itself. Though for unknown reasons it is totally fine to keep using the name Full Self Driving.

baru ,

No clue how long scams usually last, but famous ones easily last multiple decades, though funny how unclear if is when the scam started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal?wprov=sfla1

Federal investigators believe the fraud in the investment management division and advisory division may have begun in the 1970s. However, Madoff himself stated his fraudulent activities began in the 1990s. Madoff's fraudulent activities are believed to have accelerated after the 2001 change from fractional share trades to decimals on the NYSE, which cut significantly into his legitimate profits as a market-maker.

Alerted by his sons, federal authorities arrested Madoff on December 11, 2008.

baru ,

Prices usually go down as production increases, no? And it's not really about increased production, more about gaining experience in producing it.

baru ,

If housing supply is sufficiently elastic

But it takes ages to build houses. You're again blaming something that's a given just to ignore that housing is a basic need. Obviously if the basic need is manipulated there's loads of money to be made.

baru ,

Then explain why this is a global phenomenon?

Because the same causes are happening mostly all over the world. Meaning, buying up houses. Driving up rent, etc.

baru ,

Qualcomm: better support for amd

Intel usually has two type of WiFi adapters. One tries on things in their CPUs, the other one doesn't. So it a bit strange that this video finds it surprising that there's a version tied to Intel CPUs. I'd always get the one that doesn't need an Intel CPU. This as it'll impact your CPU less,, Intel or not.

baru ,

Roe vs wade should've been a law. Republicans said it wasn't needed because of that case. If it isn't a problem to have a law/restriction, then why argue against it?

baru ,

It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.

There's a video where someone upgrades the memory of an iPhone by cnc'ing the existing memory chip. So basically using a drill to more or less drill the existing chip to get rid of it. Requires crazy precision.

baru ,

I heard they were pretty good, on par and better than M3s.

I only saw that claim in an article where they explained that those chips (Snapdragon) aren't anything special. Apparently yet another case that a company uses misleading benchmarks.

baru ,

I mean, Apple was never innovative, so you surely can get something better somewhere else?

That wasn't stated by this person, no? It is a common fallacy to disprove a claim that wasn't made.

baru ,

Simply pay, and you won't see ads.

Loads of videos have embedded ads.

baru ,

For fucks sake, people, use KNX.

I thought you'd say OpenTherm!

baru ,

Long clicking on [3] then + + + + + + to boil your f eggs?

A lot of them have a terrible UI. But that's far from all of them. Enough have sliders. Sometimes one with a pan detection. Sometimes a slider per area.

baru ,

A lot of those smart thermostats do not support things like OpenTherm. As a result they often either start the heating or they do not heat. There's no modulation.

OpenTherm is from 1990s. Having a thermostat with a presence sensor is also not really anything new. Adding remote functionality would be nice if those "smart" wouldn't be so utterly terrible at being a thermostat. Meaning, the lack of modulation. And no modulation is pricy way to heat your home.

baru ,

OpenTherm is easy to install but "stupid" as hell

Ah, good but not nice to know. OpenTherm is really popular in the Netherlands. Not nice because I know loads who have such a thermostat. Oh well.

baru ,

I just bought one of these!

There weren't any better options?

Did you try e.g. long pressing buttons, pressing -, or anything?

I had the +/- buttons ages ago (cheap alternative when renting). Never again.

baru ,

You don't need solar panels. Could also just be dynamic energy pricing. Also do not need a water heater. Thermal mass could just be heating the place at a certain time. Don't get the bit about temp changes, maybe you mean you never heat or cool your place?

baru ,

In case anyone wants to read that: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

baru ,

Trickle down economics should result in more jobs. In this case it didn't. The lesson is that not enough subsidy was given because people were fired instead of hired. Suggest they give Musk more money, that should get the desired result! /s

baru ,

An artificial delay should discourage flood attacks.

You didn't explain how. It doesn't matter to wait a little bit. It's not like they're using only one connection and one account.

It's also not clear to me how waiting longer suddenly charged how easy it is to detect bots.

baru ,

This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Then why did Twitter needed to sue him to get him to abide by the deal? Musk often promotes stuff in a pump and dump scheme. One of the many examples is when he briefly promoted bitcoin. He made loads of money off that.

I'm guessing he thought he could make a lot of money quickly in some way. But then interest rates rose quickly and whatever he was planning fell through.

baru ,

Indeed, paying for YouTube would still result in loads of advertisements. So it's pretty crazy that Google (and various people) are saying you need to pay because you'd just pay and still see loads of ads.

baru ,

But that doesn't get rid of the ads, it just get rid of some. Sponsorblock would still be needed. Why pay a huge amount for something ineffective?

baru ,

Loads of videos have ads in there. They're put in there by the content creators. This as YouTube doesn't pay enough. YouTube premium doesn't block those.

It's strange that you haven't noticed those.

baru ,

YouTube has been running on a loss

Can you look to that? They only seem to share revenue, not profit. And profit is easily manipulated. Apparently they had 29 billion USD in revenue in 2023. There was a huge growth in revenue. I don't see why you really claim that they're making a loss.

baru ,

That you think not paying YouTube would make it so they could give their creators enough to where they didn't need to take outside sponsors.

YouTube has 30 billion revenue a year. You make a claim about what I think but I didn't claim it, nor did you back up that things would change.

Your claim is like the trickle down economic policy, which initially was meant as a joke.

baru ,

YouTube doesn't report their expenses.

But you said they aren't making a profit. And you could see their revenue heavily increased in the last few years. So something has to give.

baru ,

To. Support. The. Creators. I. Watch.

Did you ask those creators how much money they get? Loads of them make way more from inserting advertisements themselves.

It's also telling that you're saying it's about supporting those creators while responding negatively towards the person who blocks ads and gives money directly.

baru ,

Ah, so pay for premium to support creators, but if you support creators in another way then that's bad because... reasons.

baru ,

If the issue is caused by rust not escaping arguments

That Windows API is terrible. There isn't a way to have the escaping done for you. Further, there is not an API where you do not need to do the escaping. There is no documentation on what kind of escaping is needed.

It's not a Rust problem.

baru ,

I explained it elsewhere, but basically: an API that needs undocumented escaping doesn't immediately make you think that the API has huge issues?

baru ,

This isn't Rust specific. It's really difficult to securely start a command in Windows. I highly recommend to read https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/.

What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it's centennial birthday)....

baru ,

If you wire things, use keystones. I didn't know that standard. Makes it much easier to have ethernet. My house had non standard keystone type things. Those are sort expensive, I replaced them with keystones just not have to deal with anything other than keystones in future.

baru ,

Nah, it's a bit like government.

No it's not.

baru ,

but no explanation given

You didn't explain, so why should I? I did see you made things up.

baru ,

Jesus christ these headlines mislead everything.

One article included how often employees needed to look at the cameras. That was the case in something like 80% of the times people went in to shop.

The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.

The headline is pretty accurate. That might have been the goal, but they didn't come close. And now they are closing down those stores.

Seems that they utterly failed in the goal.

Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it.

These stores were open for a pretty long time. It's not a given that it's just a matter of training.

baru ,

Those sites determine what they promote. Such sites often promote extreme views as it gets people to watch or view the next thing. Facebook for instance researched this outcome, then ignored that knowledge.

baru ,

That's explained in the article. If Glassdoor somehow learns of the real name of an account they'll silently add that information to the account. Glassdoor is meant to be anonymous so such action can lead to repercussions.

baru ,

Fridge uses 143W idle

Isn't that like 1250 kWh on an annual basis of idle usage? An efficient fridge should use 150-200 kWh per year, this isn't just idle usage. Even an inefficient fridge would be really high with that kind of idle usage.

baru ,

That's already the case in at least the Netherlands.

baru ,

The Dutch article that they look to doesn't say what they think it says. In Netherlands there are legal implications to change the amount of power of engine after it is sold.

The article doesn't is solely about engine power. Not about any other subscription option to enable something.

I also wouldn't see how a stupid subscription would be banned by some EU law. Aside from e.g. engine power.

baru ,

Is it actually illegal in the EU

What's allowed differs per country.

baru ,

It's also faster to fill the tank

That's not true. A hydrogen gas station needs to be under a high pressure to be able to fill up just one car. That pressure is gone after 4 or 5 cars. After which it'll take 45 minutes to build up pressure again.

You're spreading doubt about EVs while promoting hydrogen while ignoring the known drawbacks of hydrogen.

Simply stated, per mile or km driven it's significantly cheaper to "fill up" an EV vs hydrogen. That's due inefficiencies around hydrogen.

baru ,

However, I haven't ever liked the argument that "most hydrogen is made from fossil fuels" that's looking too short term.

There's loads of studies surrounding that. It isn't expected to change. This because they're planning to create hydrogen from gas in such amounts that it'll not cause too much of a change in the percentage of green hydrogen (which is currently as good as non existant).

Hydrogen is also expensive, so it's pretty difficult to get a factory (e.g. steel factory) to switch to hydrogen.

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