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- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 4 days ago:
We’re all FBI agents on this blessed day.
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 4 days ago:
We know, but we don’t have time to change. We have another site waiting to get slammed out as soon as the one we’re working on, which was underfunded with a ridiculous timeline goes live.
There’s still a fair bit of “my nephew makes websites, it can’t be that [hard, expensive, time consuming], oh and by the way, e we need a way to edit every word and image on the site, that both our intern and barely literate CEO can understand, even though we’re literally never going to edit anything ever.”
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 5 days ago:
It was teased and unnamed in 2016c but we didn’t see the concept truck until November 2019.
The steering system and power delivery is interesting but not not enough to overcome the dangerously sharp, blond sport riddled and impractical body design.
The couldn’t even be bothered to put a digital rear view mirror in the place other companies and third parties have been doing it for a decade.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 5 days ago:
Rivian was also first to market and showed their concept a year and a half before the cyber truck reveal (where the first showed it and smashed its windows).
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 5 days ago:
Rivian had shown off their EV truck a year and a half before Tesla announced the Cyber Truck. And it’s a much more useful vehicle.
I believe the Ford Lightning EV might have been in the works already too, but not sure if it was announced yet.
Rivian also started delivering its truck in 2021 after showing the concept in may 2018.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 5 days ago:
No other wipers are this long and stupid though…
- Comment on It's basic science 5 days ago:
The gatorlyte also is way less sweet than the pedialyte. When my some was sick and throwing up we got him some pedialyte and he wouldn’t drink it because it was so sweet.
After he refused I tried some and agreed it was disgustingly sweet. Made me feel good about the watered down apple juice (and usually water and milk for lunches).
- Comment on greatest amazon review 1 week ago:
This is good, but the steering wheel laptop table will always have a special place in my Amazon wish list.
- Comment on greatest amazon review 1 week ago:
Over the shoulder boulder holders?
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 1 week ago:
At least if they are ever captured in Switzerland.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
But it doesn’t. PHEVs can still regenerate during braking though. ICE only vehicles can cut fuel when off throttle, but that’s not going reclaim the heat lost to braking.
PHEVs should still be more efficient overall especially in cities and stop and go traffic.
If we had ICE only vehicles with tiny engines maybe your point could work, but we don’t anymore at least not in the US.
- Comment on Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military 1 month ago:
I’ve been saying this pretty much since I started working in tech in 2005.
They paid too well for a while and gave nice lunches and free lattes while sucking 60-70 hours per week out if us.
I quit and fix cars now with hardly any retirement funds and shit health and dental care.
- Comment on Home Ownership is Just One Persons Fight Against Water 1 month ago:
But you guys have to find a way to keep water out of the second floor.
- Comment on Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill 1 month ago:
Massachusetts has had decent right to repair for a decade too. And had universal healthcare way back too. They just got legal weed recently, but like the others, cost of living is rough there. Boston, Somerville and Cambridge housing, but you’re stuck in Boston.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.
It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.
- Comment on The PlayStation 2 1 month ago:
Bought a PS 2, Gran Turismo 4 and the GT4 Logitech steering wheel and pedals when I graduated college.
Just dug it all out to show my 6 year old how fun driving can be. Looked better than I expected even with component cables.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Sounds like a job for the torque test channel.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
Led acid batteries seem to be less and less reliable lately. The warranties are shorter and shorter as well, which is the best supporting evidence I have beyond needing batteries more often for the 4-5 vehicles I maintain.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
At least the charging network. We can buy it off Tesla no problem (we already have them a $17 million down payment).
Then start printing up new stickers to cover the Tesla logos.
I don’t even own an EV and I support funding this. It’s probably cheaper than the existing charger network plan anyway and would allow actually standardizing around the smaller smarter Tesla plugs too.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
I could imagine them letting AI (or offshore workers) manage everything, and keeping the managers around with chatbots reporting in to the managers, so they wouldn’t know they were being replaced.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
And not being a raging narcissist. But then he wouldn’t be a billionaire, so it would be a win win.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 1 month ago:
I don’t know if you’ve already tried this, but I’ve had weird behavior with older Pi3s when the power supplies weren’t up to snuff.
A good 5V/10A (yeah I know they only need 5A) sorted out one of mine that had a heavy load of Neopixels running on it, even though the neopixels had their own 5V supply.
I haven’t needed to get a Pi5 for any of my projects and really use them as big arduinos in certain uses (better for camera detection and remote reprogramming).
- Comment on Are filament vacuum bags worthwhile? 1 month ago:
Hardware store buckets with rubber seal lids have worked great for me for the last 6 years or so. They fit 5x1kg rolls perfectly and there’s room for silica packets down the middle and sides.
- Comment on Modernizing the best Woodworking Joint to use for 3D Printing 2 months ago:
I’ve done some dovetails for a puzzle design before. They were meant to assemble and disassemble in multiple orientations.
Depending on the late line directions the problem I had was getting the fit tight enough to not fall apart, but not too tight to remove. I abandoned it because PLA also absorb water and they became stuck after sitting in humidity for a few days.
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 2 months ago:
We even have our own annoying group of brigade-ers.
I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 2 months ago:
The OG teslas had FOMOCO e-throttle pedal assemblies from Ford.
The problem is that Tesla is constantly changing parts during a model run, sometimes for the better (reliability, simplicity) other times for cost cutting and that is why I’d never own one. Because there are a million iterations finding parts to repair them, and I only buy 10+ year old cars (possibly nothing after 2010 at this rate).
Teslas are built like one time use smartphones. Only good for parts recycling after they fail.
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
Or maybe the time travel happens by warping space in the first place (since you need to somehow overcome the speed of light problems anyway). Seems like a good job for a wormhole if someone wanted to write around the space/time/motion rules.
- Comment on I knew it 2 months ago:
They did sorta start the mega corporation, and speculative trading. Both of which kinda ruined the world (assuming capitalism isn’t necessary for innovation, which I think probably true).
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 2 months ago:
They used to sell little disposable kegs of Heineken I think.
But box beer should really be and box of cans over 12. Like those 30 packs of Bud Lite.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 2 months ago:
Anything-“ice” is past that.