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inclementimmigrant ,

Judkins said that after the finger test, a lead cybertruck engineer at Tesla said he did the video wrong.

The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It's going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

Are you kidding me? You did the test wrong on a safety critical feature? No you dumbass engineer, you designed it wrong. Why in the holy fuck would you make a safety critical algorithm keep applying more pressure on subsequent attempts??? That's literally the opposite of what you do for safety.

inclementimmigrant ,

Yeah, I'm an embedded software developer myself and yeah, when we architect our code we have safety critical sections identified with software safety reviews and we always go with the assumption that we're going to run into that one guy who's the living embodiment of Murphy's law and go from there with that design to minimize the potential for injury and death.

Can't imagine who the hell is in charge of the software safety reviews there that let that pass.

inclementimmigrant ,

Because like you said, it's a nice to have feature. I like my wife's auto closing hatch for when I have a handful of boxes for that final grocery run and just walk away and it closes. It's literally just really nice convenience feature and if it fails, you go back to closing it manually.

inclementimmigrant , (edited )

Hey, @Killing_Spark, found a member of the Tesla software safety team!

inclementimmigrant ,

It's like you didn't read or did read and didn't actually comprehend what the article or linked video was actually taking about.

You sure would make a great fit at Tesla's engineering and safety team.

inclementimmigrant ,

And it's be okay with that honestly.

Sure he's an asshole, always was, but his money got the electric car competition started and now there's actually viable cars and a somewhat competitive market that could survive the loss of Tesla.

inclementimmigrant ,

This is why I fucking hate government grants to corporations. These assholes never put in safeguards to actually force these jackass companies to actually use it as intended.

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (arstechnica.com)

Trade groups claimed the state law is preempted by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules. Pai's repeal placed ISPs under the more forgiving Title I regulatory framework instead of the common-carrier framework in Title II of the Communications Act....

inclementimmigrant ,

Good. Fuck Texas.

inclementimmigrant ,

https://itep.org/whopays-7th-edition/#income-taxes

This report identifies the most regressive state and local tax systems and the policy choices that drive that outcome. Many of the most upside-down tax systems have another trait in common: they are frequently hailed as “low tax” states, often with an emphasis on their lack of an income tax. But this raises the question: “low tax” for whom?

This study finds that very few states achieve low tax rates across the board for all income groups, and those that do usually rely heavily on energy or tourism sectors that cannot realistically be replicated elsewhere. Alaska is the only state that ranks among the bottom 10 lowest-tax states for all seven income groups included in the study. New Hampshire and North Dakota are among the lowest-tax states for six of their seven income groups. Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have low taxes for five of their income groups.

The absence of an income tax, or low overall tax revenue collections, are often used as shorthand for classifying a state as “low tax.” These two measures are, in fact, reliable indicators that taxes will be low for the highest-income earners, but they tell us next to nothing about the tax level being charged to low-income families.

Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington all forgo broad-based personal income taxation and have low taxes on the rich, yet they are among the highest-tax states in the country for poor families. These states are indicative of a broader pattern. Using the data in this report, we find a modest negative correlation between tax rates charged to the lowest and highest income groups. In other words, if a state has low taxes for its highest-income earners, it is more likely to have high taxes for its lowest-income residents.

Similarly, we find that the overall level of tax revenue collected in a state has almost zero correlation with the tax rate charged to that state’s lowest-income families. Put another way, states that collect comparatively little tax revenue tend to levy tax rates on poor families that are roughly on par with those charged in other states. And, as a group, states collecting higher amounts of revenue do not do so with above-average tax rates on the poor.

For high-income families, on the other hand, overall revenues are highly correlated with their own personal tax bills. This suggests that high-income families receive a financial windfall when a state chooses to collect a low level of tax revenue overall, though that windfall comes at the cost of fewer or lower-quality public services.

inclementimmigrant , (edited )

So you're just going to be willingly obtuse. Got it.

What mosaicmango and itep are trying to say is that with everything that's taken into consideration, income, property, sales, excise, other taxes and bullshit fees like car registration, that California are better for middle class and lower class because you pay overall less tax there because you don't see that benefit in Texas unless you're in the 1% already rich asshole territory.

So those "fleeing" not seeing actually less money taken out of their yearly salary.

inclementimmigrant ,

You are being willingly obtuse when I have provided the study abstract that contains the methodology, the data behind it, and 30+ citations and sources.

Don't come talking about 'good faith discussion' and asking for sources when you clearly didn't even bother to read the information provided.

inclementimmigrant ,

I mean I'd be all fucking for it and honestly take the rest of facebook with you if you could.

inclementimmigrant ,

Not even a water issue.

The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours."

This is crappy and lax software testing and verification testing.

inclementimmigrant ,

It's just like in my model 3 or my wife's Teluride, the info screen/software can lock up or get stuck in a weird state and both have a way to reset it.

Normally neither would be a big deal, I push a button(s) and the screen goes black, it comes back up, again no big deal but at least with the Teluride, there's a the instrument cluster and heads up display to show your speed. I'm assuming the cyber truck is like my model 3 where the speed is only shown on the center screen. If it take's five hours over the minute of downtime, well that's going to be a problem. That said, in my model 3, I've only had to do this a handful of times on my model 3, mostly because the radio isn't working and only once on the newer Teluride because the map was stupid.

inclementimmigrant ,

So I'll push back and state that infotainment systems aren't embedded systems, more akin to a phone OS with the wide array of UX applications.

But yeah these infotainment systems are often left running on newer cars for connectivity and other features and just like any other OS, leaving it up and running is going to slow and get unstable over time for to memory usage.

Like I said, mostly not a big deal unless you're a Tesla and critical information is there and you didn't regression test properly.

inclementimmigrant ,

Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to my EAP I got with my model 3 initially. That already tries to kill me enough as it is.

inclementimmigrant ,

Winning over hearts and minds...one handy at a time.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

inclementimmigrant ,

I doubt that Roku is the only one exploring this option though. Heck Samsung displays ads everywhere in their UI, including the individual, source selection items.

inclementimmigrant ,

Could be, I'm sure other countries will be different since they all have different privacy laws. Honestly though none of this TV stuff really bothers me much in the sense of day to day life, it more just bothers me in the abstract sense.

I don't hook up any of my tv's to the network anyways, and I'm just always on HDMI and a media pc anyways with pi-hole on my router so no ads for me, this was just something I noticed when I hooked up my brother-in-law's tv and he wanted to use the built in smart stuff, which I don't blame him, it's his choice in privacy vs convenience.

inclementimmigrant ,

Am I missing something here? Why in the hell would I try to jam this into a TV, something that's not trivial btw and more than likely not compatible vs just not connecting the blasted thing to the network? Do they come with cellular data you can't turn off or something?

inclementimmigrant ,

Citation needed, could you provide an example or two? I have never heard of a TV that requires an account in order to be used.

inclementimmigrant , (edited )

So no, just as ID10T error.

Oh, btw

https://support.tcl.com/ca-gtv-setup-configuration/how-to-bypass-tcl-account-creation

oh and

https://support.tcl.com/rokutv-setup-configuration/02-turning-off-the-roku-features-of-your-tcl-smart-tv

ID10T and while I don't disagree that tv companies are becoming aggressive with their smart tv bullshit, hearing a guy at Wal-Mart isn't exactly empirical evidence.

inclementimmigrant ,

I've been using a Visio smart tv and a Fire smart tv, well smart for it's time at least, and I've never had any issues with it since it's never been connected to a network.

inclementimmigrant ,

Provide the citation please because the last one you mentioned to me was about a return that you heard about while standing in line at Wal-Mart about a rok/tcl tv, which btw which you don't need to do any of that to use it.

https://support.tcl.com/ca-gtv-setup-configuration/how-to-bypass-tcl-account-creation

oh and

https://support.tcl.com/rokutv-setup-configuration/02-turning-off-the-roku-features-of-your-tcl-smart-tv

inclementimmigrant ,

You mean about the "Woah there , pardner?" or the overwhelming about of racism, bigotry, and homophobia?

I mean I've been to the South and I can confirm one of these two things.

inclementimmigrant ,

Right, I forgot that Fox News declared that racism in America is no longer a thing.

Thanks for making me aware that the situation with the racism like the Ahmaud Arbery case is in the distant, distant past and southern racism is not a thing anymore.

Appreciate you putting me into the white view of the situation.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

inclementimmigrant ,

Do I hate the two party system? Yes. Do I hate the fact that centrists like Joe Liberman who literally killed universal healthcare in the US are revered and embraced by Biden's party? Yes. Do I hate the fact that Democrats are always dismissive of liberal ideas and often act like complete jackasses and can't admit that when Obama was running there were a ton of Clinton supporters that didn't vote for Obama in a blatant act of pure hypocrisy? Yes.

Do I fucking hate Nazis and Fascist? Fuck yes.

Hence why even if I don't like the Democrat running, I'll vote for them and honestly, Biden isn't too sucktastic. Except for kyrsten sinema, she can fuck right the hell off forever.

inclementimmigrant ,

I mean if you want to vote in a bunch of fucking Nazis and fascists just for some change , well feel fucking free to do so, I'm just going to consider you stupid and a Nazi.

inclementimmigrant ,

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/10/facebook-posts/when-biden-was-asked-if-he-would-veto-medicare-all/

And again, as a minority in America, I would take Biden over a Nazi any day. Doesn't mean I love him to death and would take him into my arms and give him a reach around but fuck anyone who would vote for a Nazi.

inclementimmigrant ,

Okay they Billy Madison.

inclementimmigrant ,

Sure. Very nice truthiness there Billy.

inclementimmigrant ,

I will say that the union at the St. Louis side was pretty decent from what I could tell when I was there, granted I was an engineer on the outside looking in. Still, agree with you that just replacing these couple of leaders isn't going to change anything overall, the entire executive leadership are full of MBA's that only care about EVM and I had a few arguments about doing the right thing vs the cheap thing.

inclementimmigrant ,

Yup, they're all still run by freaking bean counters, even if they were previously engineers. Despite all of the issues, yeah, I'm still in the industry, I really do love the puzzle that is aerospace and hardware.

inclementimmigrant ,

Yeah, I fought the good fight, even yelled at an executive when I was there, but eventually I left after they got rid of the pension and took the advice I offered the college grads I trained and jumped ship.

inclementimmigrant ,

Am I the only one that never tightened them?

inclementimmigrant ,

Twenty years I've been working in tech, had a few papers published, got a patent.

Still have imposter syndrome.

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    inclementimmigrant , (edited )

    Remember when conservatives complained about poor people having refrigerators?

    https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-your-world-does-segment-highlighting-poor-americans-ownership-refrigerators-other

    Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

    It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

    inclementimmigrant , (edited )

    Very much creepy and very much on brand with evangelical assholes who prey on the less fortunate.

    Still, I suppose it will give me more of an opportunity to tell them to kindly fuck the hell off my property when they ask for the 'nice Asian family that lives here' when my very Italian wife answers the door as they stand there looking very confused.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    I really, really hate capitalism most days but play the game I suppose.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    Yes they know the deep dark secret that I absolutely cannot stand conservative values and microtransactions. So many deep dark secrets that I expressed on Reddit.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    Is that a problem?? I mean I leave myself logged in all the time because I use google music and I absolutely hate their recommended videos and the algorithms behind it.

    No fucking google I don't want to watch some douche canoe movie reviewer complaining about the latest movie being woke just because I watched some other movie critic that's actually thoughtful and insightful or at least funny to me without delving into sounding like a dog with the constant "woke...woke woke...woke woke woke woke".

    inclementimmigrant ,

    As a more progressive guy who owns solar panels, drives an EV, and been moving over to plant based meat substitutes a few times a week, yeah, I do miss the era of the old cars, they had style along with their absolutely crap gas mileage.

    Don't miss the overt racism that went along with it of course.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    Okay, show me a list of high end products that last with our society of corporate planned obsolescence.

    My friend just picked up a 50+ year old joiner and drill press that still works like a boss. Meanwhile, my Delta drill press that I've had for less than a decade has already started acting up.

    I'll grant you that higher priced items will last longer than the harbor freight stuff, the Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness still apply in this day and age, but it's not anywhere near the build quality and maintainability that things used to be, at least that's what I've noticed.

    inclementimmigrant , (edited )

    Again, the Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness still holds but planned obsolescence where shit, even good shit, falls apart more readily than before.

    Sure there could be survivor bias as you state but I still own a crap ton of stuff inherited from the 50/60/70's that's holding up much better than today's cheap plastic junk and items that are literally designed to fall apart, including your dewalts, deltas, milwalkees, mikatas. Not saying that planned obsolescence wasn't a thing back then, it certainly was but it's a fuck ton more prevalent now than it was back then and repairing, something that today's companies are actively fighting consumers against makes it even worse in today's throwaway culture.

    That and I still think that the OP of this conversation thread is a bit of pretentious dick.

    inclementimmigrant , (edited )

    I mean fuck all these poor people who can't afford a Wenger backpack and Miele appliances amirite? And a whole two things on that list, impressive.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    I'd love to have a 67 Mustang GT Fastback as an EV with dual motors.

    inclementimmigrant ,

    Ha ha ha ha! Now that it's some complete shit right there!

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