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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and then simulating all the toolpaths to be able to export the G code for a CNC machine. I don’t know how much of what I saw is smoke and mirrors, but even if that is a stretch goal it is quite significant.

  <sarcasm> Damn, I ascended to become an AI and I didn’t realise it. </sarcasm>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was that this already tested on a smaller scale with ships: the fuel changed and that changed the exhaust fumes ability to reflect sunlight which cause some problems the proponents of the solution have not foresee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember to have read that change caused some other problems, and these collateral problems were unexpected.

  But I don’t remember if the problem were about the ocean currents or that the ocean was warmer or a mix of the two plus something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are gasses and particles that can be released into the atmosphere that will reflect sunlight and warmth away from earth. In theory that could be done very quickly.

  As far as I remember, that was tried with ships and it has some collateral effects that cause different damages to the oceans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. I was only pointing out that you can have a waterproof phone and a replaceable battery. Obviously you need to do better than the S5 but it is nothing impossible, even wanting to keep the audio jack and the USB ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The two features are not mutually esclusive. I owned an S5 which was waterproof and had replaceable battery more than 10 years ago. It did not seems too hard to do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to know how you would decide if the scan or copy of my ID, with picture, I send you by mail, or upload with a web form as a jpeg, is real or a fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you are right but the actual facts are that even outside OF there are underage female prostitutes that do it for money or the latest bag from some high end brand and often are prey of some predator. Only difference is that off-line prostitution is harder to find.
  OF is only folowing what it is happening in the real life, making it easier obviously, but it don’t create any new dynamic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the services that don’t need to sell your data to be in the black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More than the charging infrastructure it is the city infrastructure: when you have condos built without any planning 50 or more years ago, even if you pass a law that every home need to have a charging station in these condos it is physically impossible to do it. Charging infrastructure comes after you solve the problem where to put 70 or more charging station for every condo in the district.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hybrids: the worst of both worlds.

  If you want to keep relying on gasoline then just buy an ICE car

  Maybe I can use a hydrid: short trip (to the train station/mall/small affairs in the vicinity) go in electric, longer trip use gasoline.

  Not everyone has a charging station at home and in many places you cannot install it, be because forbidden by some old laws or because there is not the physical option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also weren’t an excuse to keep property off the housing rental market at scale.

  True. But given that houses were off the market even before, I don’t think it is exclusively their fault.

  For example Milano historically always had about 30% of the available homes empty, and that even before Airbnb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you to some extend.

  What I do not agree about is the implicit assumption that if AIRBNB is banned then every house that was used for short-term rental would become available on the long-term rental market.

  The main advantage of the short-term rental (obvious higher profits aside) is the fact that the owner is sure to be able to get back the house if/when he need it. So many owners saw the possibility to use an house with AirBnB (or other similar ways) a lot more attractive than keeping it empty (paying the taxes on it) and much less risky than having a long-term rental where the tenants could be turn out to be a bad one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because often it is a nightmare to evict a tenant that do not pay the rent.

  I can speak for where I live where a lot of people gone to the short-rental way exactly because that way they have the certainty that when they want the house back, for every reason, they have it.

  To me AirBnB is not the problem, it is the wrong solution to a real problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a big fancy building in a fancy city to attract top talent, high earners, so it keeps the class system intact as well.

  I don’t think that this is that true anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remote work is not right for ALL companies. Just ones that are completely or predominantly software-based.

  I would expand to all the jobs that can be done with a laptop, an internet connection and a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn’t, by itself, close the lid if something’s in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.

  I get the safety feature. The point is that here I am saying to the car to close the lid even if something is in the way. I made a conscious decision to do so, and more than one time, so I expect the car to do it. But I agree that it could have been designed in a better way.

  The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.

  Which is exactly what happened here. He made the judgement call to ignore the safety feature (and probably ignored how the feature works)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the request to Proton arrived from a Swiss judge, who received a request from Spanish judge, and he evaluated the request and decided that it has merit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously.

  But let’s face it: if the car lid would never close if something is in the way, some other dumb youtuber would have made a video about it and here there would be a discussion about how stupid are the engineers to not let the lid close even if a bag in slightly on on the way and the user know what they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What person with an automated cargo door closure mechanism has thought “stop protecting my stuff and just fucking close”?

  The same person that sometime need to force the door to close because even if his things are in the way, he know there will not be damages, just a bag a little more pressed. Or some more trashed trash you are taking to the landfill

  I’ll admit it annoys me when there’s something in the way that keeps my door from latching and it reopens, but I’d rather have to clear the door and shut it manually than it force itself closed and jams the door or break my shit.

  Which is what the system assume in this case. It stops 3 times, the 4th it suppose that the human know what he is doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, but they probably know that an elevator doors and a car lid are two completely different thing with different use cases and security concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never tried to force the closing of your trunk lid because there is a bag that is slightly over the limit and you need a little more pressure, even if the bag is a little pressed down ?

  The assumption here is that if it is your finger which is in the way, you take it out the way and you are not that stupid to try to close it again if for some reason you are not able move it away, which to me seems to make a lot of sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but if they live there, I think they have it that good.

  It is more (way more) probable that they just commute far enough away from there to have lower housing cost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a doctor here, but fulminant meningitis can kill a person in about 24/48 hours if not cured, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They cannot, that is the reason you need to pay that much to work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year?

  Assuming the same job’s quality, a possible answer is “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI grift that can literally poison you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy a book published more that a couple of years ago. Or ask the people living in the area (the older the better, normally ). Or ask the people living in the area where you can have the mushrooms checked, they usually know where to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI grift that can literally poison you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask the people living in the area. They know the mushrooms and eventually they know where to go to have them checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think that Russia would care to include the edits from the original Wikipedia ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does a battery seize control of a parent device when it is only connected by power wires?

  It does not need to. Just set the battery on fire. Now set 100.000 batteries on fire, simultaneously, in a city, at night.