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partial_accumen ,

“how? how this PhD professor is so happy and calm and confident”.

  • A person can be talented in a specific job area
  • A person can enjoy working a specific job area
  • There are some jobs that pay well enough to live happily on

There are people, through sheer genetic luck and general luck to be born in the right place and time in history, that they have all three.

I guess I am just a weird person

You're not weird. I think it is rare to have all three. Even someone that has only two will likely be called "unhappy". You are NOT to blame for not having all three. Its just luck.

partial_accumen ,

They want to add compression to the implant?

They're making their own silicon for their sensor so adding an on-die ASIC for a specific compression method sounds pretty attainable.

partial_accumen ,

What does this have to do with the question? Having samples of the data they want to compress is fundamental if you hope to find an algorythm to compress 200x.

There were two questions asked. I answered for part of the first question. I have no information on the second question (samples). You're welcome to do your own googling to see if you can find an answer.

partial_accumen ,

I'm not quite understanding what the benefit is to forcing skips to the end of the video. Having to click to the beginning of the video takes a fraction of a second which is still a better user experience than sitting through a 15 to 30 second ad.

partial_accumen ,

Nice try, social engineer /s

partial_accumen ,

What are its thoughts on Narwals, bacon, and midnight?

Has it yet indexed and integrated /r/rule34?

partial_accumen ,

Couldn't a Model 3/Y owner also just disable the phonekey and use the NFC cards? NFC only broadcasts a few inches right? I would think that would be VERY hard for a malicious actor to capture with relay/replay attack.

Following that, is it possible to use the Phonekey only in NFC mode or is it always broadcasting on Bluetooth LE and NFC?

partial_accumen ,

So we'd need Tesla to push a software change in the app with an option to turn off the Bluetooth LE signal, but leave the NFC on to continue to use Phonekey safely.

I guess the only safe alternative is using the NFC cards.

partial_accumen ,

Buns has a record of untreated kleptomania.

"Officer, I'd like to report a theft! Buns has stolen my heart!"

partial_accumen ,

If nothing else it breaks the stranglehold the 2.1 x86 licensees (Intel and AMD) have on the Windows market. Its just that that market is much MUCH smaller than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

partial_accumen ,

There are quite a few great cases for AI, but all of them need mountains of clean data. Thats always been the challenge and very few are working to solving it. The most successful ones are those that are creating their own data by building out their own expensive sensor networks in controlled spaces. That doesn't really work for the general AI that everyone wants to do the mundane tasks in their general work tasks or at home.

partial_accumen ,

I'm getting old. Google keeps changing their touchless pay system and app. I got tired of switching after the third version of whatever Google is calling it now and gave up. Google pay, no Android pay, no Google wallet!

partial_accumen ,

Google Next this year was the same thing. AI everything everywhere. I get that AI is the "new hotness" but there's still other tech and solutions needed and existing that needed some limelight too.

partial_accumen ,

I'm not understanding your idea. Why would it be harder for the US to replace tech talent? We're not restricted to just hiring US nationals. The green card queue is decades long. Ask any H1-B visa holder you know their 'priority date' for green card consideration. They'll be able to tell you immediately.

partial_accumen ,

Dyson gets shit on frequently for being overpriced, but the audible analysis they do one some of their products is crazy complex. Some years ago I watched 30 minute video on the design they did for the hair dryer where they were designing minute angles in the fins of the air impeller, and using a PWM algorithm to measure backpressure in a feed back loop to spin up the fan where it wouldn't create loud noise while also increasing the volume of air moved. They tuned the mechanisms specifically to shave off tiny peaks in oscilloscope readings.

One thing I remember is that they said they couldn't entirely eliminate the specific annoying sound frequencies because it had to ramp, but what they did is ramp to right below the annoying sound frequency level, then hold, then burst above the annoying frequency band very quickly. So the operator of the unit doesn't hear the annoying sound because the device shoots past it so fast.

I've never heard of any company be that picky and put so much effort into avoiding one negative experience of a product.

partial_accumen ,

They released that original Airblade hand drying 18 years ago in 2006 way before the hair dryer.

11 years ago In 2013 they released the Airblade V which doesn't do the vertical dip thing.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b8d731ee-8ded-4190-8528-36620e657154.png

partial_accumen ,

Stay by the phone always. We may need you to defuse a bomb someday.

partial_accumen ,

...and since the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, also simulating nuclear warhead detonation for development.

partial_accumen ,

A malicious response by users would be to employ an LLM instructed to write plausibly sounding but very wrong answers to historical and current questions, then an army of users upvoting the known wrong answer while downvoting accurate ones. This would poison the data I would think.

partial_accumen ,

Interestingly I see nothing in that policy that would dis-allow machine generated downvotes on proper answers and machine generated upvotes on incorrect ones. So even if LLMs are banned from posting questions or comments, looks like Stackoverflow is perfectly fine with bots voting.

partial_accumen ,

Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.

Did your mom buy your computer and hard drives? I doubt it. You spent your own money, right? So she's giving you a whole bunch of stuff which is consuming your space. Quote out the cost of buying components for a separate server for her with her own drives. When she buys the parts, build her her own server and put her stuff on it.

partial_accumen ,

While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.

partial_accumen ,

In a statement, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman accused President Biden of being “willing to sacrifice the American auto industry and its workers in service of its radical green agenda.”

If you look up the 10 most "Made in America" cars, the top 4 slots by a huge margin are Tesla Model 3,Y,S,X , which are all EVs, and they are at near 100% (or 100% for some models). There isn't another American car brand on the list. So when Coleman is talking about sacrificing American auto workers, who's he talking about? A car that is 40% American because all the parts are made in China or Mexico and there's some final assembly done in the USA?

P.S. Musk is an idiot, though I'm not sure that needs to be said anymore as its so obvious.

partial_accumen ,

This is only a concern for EV companies. The environmental impact of these subsidies and regulations is nill

Got a source to back up your claim?

Here's one contradicting it:

Gasoline demand growth to slow this year on EV growth in China, U.S.

"Penetration of electric vehicles has been increasing in U.S. and China," said Woodmac analyst Sushant Gupta.

Both the USA and China subsidize EV sales (and also petroleum exploration and extraction for that matter).

partial_accumen ,

@sub_ubi edited their post and changed their source. The old source cited was this:

" Can Electric Vehicles Save the Planet?"

Eliminating gas-powered cars and trucks may help avert a climate catastrophe. But they are only part of the solution
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/can-electric-vehicles-save-the-planet/

That is the source that @force as quoting and replied to, and @force is right I was going to respond similarly after reading the original source.

partial_accumen ,

The point remains, Biden’s environmental policies will doom civilization.

I thought you were on a bit of thin ground before, but I was willing to hear you out. Yet you've jumped laying the entire history of blame of climate change at the current sitting president trying to address it. You're forgiving 150 years of industrial pollution, but damning one element of a path to address it as the thing that will destroy humanity?

I just don't think I have the will to try to drag you back to some semblance of rationality. Carry on with your in your personal bliss.

partial_accumen ,

I’d be very surprised to hear that either one of them is in the top 4 best selling American made cars.

I said nothing about top sales. I said "most made in America". As in: of all cars sold in the USA, what are the top 10 which contain the most American manufactured parts and labor".

partial_accumen ,

i’d be interested to see the methodology!

You're welcome to read this 158 page PDF from the CBO https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/97th-congress-1981-1982/reports/1982_08_16_domestic.pdf

The main legislation comes from the Automobile Information Disclosure Act.

partial_accumen ,

Says this guy who literally egged on Musk to buy up Twitter and turn it into the shit hole it is today. 😂 Can’t make this shit up.

As bad as it is for the public, it was brilliant business move. Pre-Musk Twitter was barely making any net income (post-Must it makes ZERO net income). It was a profitable business, but just barely, and had been unprofitable for many years.

Goading Musk into committing to buy Twitter at the inflated high stock price allowed Twitter shareholders to cash out at a far higher value than they ever could have trying to run Twitter as a money making venture.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying we don't all lose because Twitter is a shithole now, but from a purely (cutthroat) business perspective the sale was a boon.

partial_accumen ,

You need to make sure you always use the "+consent" flag. Never move forward without it.

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    partial_accumen ,

    If they had started with the MVP instead of a flagship things might be in a different situation.

    I agree it would be different. They would have gone bankrupt from selling a car for $25k that cost them $60k to make.

    They started with flagship car because the technology and manufacturing was immature and costly. That "hurts less" when you're only make a small number of cars. Flagship cars also let you charge a lot more for the product because that level has a higher margin. So they can lose some margin to technological development and still not sell cars for a loss with a flagship to begin with.

    I do agree we need cheaper mass market EVs, however.

    partial_accumen ,

    Headline: "Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees"

    In the body of the article: Google is laying off at least 200 employees

    So hundreds is 2 of them, 2 hundreds. Literally the lowest definition of the term "hundreds" to still be accurate. Why the Clickbaity headline, CNBC? The truth was enough.

    partial_accumen ,

    True, and it makes me trust CNBC less. Further, my post here saves everyone else from reading the article because its click-bait. Their bad faith headline is costing them clicks.

    partial_accumen ,

    For now, sure. There as a time, now long ago, where I'd follow a Daily Mail link to read a story, until I noticed that the inflammatory headline used was never...ever substantiated. Now a refuse to even click on any Daily Mail links because I know they're in bad faith. I don't think I'm alone in this.

    CNBC is voting itself onto that same block list.

    partial_accumen ,

    We’re going back to the period between 2008 and 2020 where employers didn’t want to pay for well educated and experienced professionals and it was impossible to negotiate your salary.

    Is what you're citing industry or region specific? In technology those years represented explosive growth and wage increases.

    partial_accumen ,

    I know many wonderful Canadian brothers and sisters that have come from up north. Its always been one of those strange things to me that my Canadian friends can't get even close to the same pay in Canada as the USA. I imagine there are many reasons for it.

    I suppose we can say that those Canadians experienced the explosive growth in wages too, just not inside Canada.

    partial_accumen , (edited )

    And, tinfoil, but this very much feels like an attempt to steal the election for republicans. Because this is going to impact the infrastructure efforts of the Biden administration AND cause a lot of layoffs among blue collar workers when they can’t send invoices or get paid because everyone they knew got fired.

    There was a time when I could have thought that level of calculation of Musk. That time is long since gone. His mouth cost him $44 billion when he was forced to buy twitter because of his edgy comments online. Musk's recent comments about the firings were his version of the criteria of "excellent, necessary, and trustworthy" and did not, apparently include the entire Supercharger team. Any outside observer would say the Supercharger team is absolutely "excellent, necessary, and trustworthy".

    This latest action by Musk just reeks like a mania episode with a good dose of paranoia mixed it. I don't think it has anything to do with the election.

    I was holding stock specifically to be able to vote Musk out, but this latest move was the last straw. I sold what I had after the announcement yesterday. Its already down $5/share lower than when I sold mine yesterday.

    partial_accumen ,

    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.

    He's stacked the board with his friends and family. They're not going to raise the chance of it themselves.

    Our only chance is/was actions by activist investors. I suppose I would have been considered one of those until yesterday when I sold.

    partial_accumen ,

    Tesla really needs to vote this idiot out of the CEO position before he kills the company.

    I was holding shares specifically so I could vote Musk out when a vote would come up. These changes listed in the article are too much. I just sold my entire position in TSLA.

    partial_accumen ,

    Fourth to last line in the article:

    "While the company’s statement doesn’t go into detail about the rationale behind this decision, it’s good to get confirmation that RISC-V support in Android isn’t being killed off entirely. "

    partial_accumen ,

    Money isn't quite zero sum, but you don't need to zoom in very far for it certainly look like it.

    Then you start trying to think about better solutions. If you've got a decent understanding of human history you can see the solutions you come up with played out over the last 5,000 years of human civilization with various levels of success or massive failures resulting in war, slavery, or famine.

    Then you think about what would happen if we all return to subsistence farming to avoid all that where our entire world be what we see with our eyes in the morning when we get out of bed. Then again you realize you're back to war, slavery, or famine except on a micro scale with just yourself and your neighbor instead of on a nation-state sized version.

    The least-worse (not the best, because there is no best) solution I can think of at the moment is a nation that jumpstarts on war, slavery, and/or famine, and transitions to an egalitarian socialist society when its powerful and rich enough. That still doesn't remove the very human element of corruption or exploitation that just want more than that 'perfect society' would produce.

    partial_accumen ,

    I just wish they would take a hint and release a paid version that has none of the ads, none of the bloatware, and none of the bullshit.

    They kind of do already with Windows Enterprise (or Education) edition. Its certainly not exactly what everyone wants, but its significantly better than the lower versions.

    Many colleges and universities that have volume agreements allow their students to run Windows Education edition. If you're in this situation, GET THIS. Not only does it not cost you anything, but you'll have access to all the enterprise features for turning off lots of pushed garbage.

    partial_accumen ,

    And according to this article the upgrades will happen and consumer's electric bills will barely change:

    At the same time, the costs will be spread out over decades and only total up to (at most) three times the grid's annual operation and maintenance costs. So in any one year, the costs shouldn't be crippling. All that might be expected to drive the cost of electricity up. But Li and Jenn suggest that the greater volume of electricity consumption will exert a downward pressure on prices (people will pay more overall but pay somewhat less per unit of electricity).

    partial_accumen ,

    My uBlock Origin is showing 73 blocks on THIS PAGE here on lemmy after allowing the scripts to play the video. Without the video, only 1.

    partial_accumen ,

    bone conduction headphones

    What’s that? I’m intrigued lmao

    Sound is vibration. We typically think of it as vibration transmitted through air (to get to your auditory canal), but it doesn't have to be. Sound vibration can be conducted through your bones (which your auditory canal is enclosed in) so you can hear without something being in your ears because the sound gets inside you through a different medium.

    Do you have an electric toothbrush? Turn it on and bite down with your teeth on it. Notice how it gets MUCH louder? Thats the sound traveling through your jawbone (and skull) to get to your auditory canal.

    partial_accumen ,

    All of those are software, but also safety issues. Tesla had one where the self driving would kill people.

    Did you have to take time off and schedule a visit to your Chrysler to a dealership to have the Chrysler software recall or is it like Tesla software recall where its mostly automatic and you set it to happen in your garage when you're asleep?

    partial_accumen ,

    Customers also told Tan that "fast-moving change may require more time, so we have given support extensions to many customers who came up for renewal while these changes were rolling out."

    From what I'm hearing from customers, only select giant companies are getting this special treatment. Little guys are told to pay up.

    The changes were announced on the same day Reuters reported that European antitrust authorities have questioned Broadcom about its licensing changes.

    This right here is why security patches will be available for unsupported perpetual license holders. There was zero benevolence on Broadcom's part.

    partial_accumen ,

    Flash (NOVRAM or EEPROM as it was called at the time) did exit, but it was expensive, tiny capacity, and had astonishingly few write operations (compared to today) before it couldn't be written to again. Some of the early stuff could be written (reprogrammed) as few as 1000 times and only had capacity of about 20KB.

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