droans
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- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
That’s the only reason I bought a modern car.
My parents would always buy cheap beaters. They had a car from the 90s they only recently got rid of because the transmission was shot. My first car was an '05 Caravan I drove for almost two years and got rid of in 2018.
I swallowed the pill after seeing cars get absolutely crushed to the point where the jaws of life were necessary yet passengers could just walk out.
I remember someone posted a picture of their brand new sedan. It was involved in a serious accident and sandwiched between two large pickup trucks. The entire car was squished down until it was smaller than the passenger compartment. The driver was able to walk away with minor injuries and the paramedics weren’t even surprised.
I don’t give a shit about the fancy features. I just want something that is reliable and safe.
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 4 months ago:
I’m all for American versions of things, but please get these staples of British cuisine right.
Kind of ironic this is where you’re making a stand.
The first known use of the recipe for pig in a blanket, the American cuisine, was in 1940.
The first known use of the recipe for pigs in blankets, the British cuisine, was in 1957 and was inspired by the American recipe.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
My TV came with a five year warranty - two year manufacturer, two years Costco, and one year from my Costco credit card.
My washer and dryer got seven. Same deal, but Costco was offering an extra extended warranty plan for free.
The best part is that they design their warranties to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Unfortunately, Citi got rid of the extended warranty with the Costco credit cards about a year and a half ago.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
That is quite possibly the least helpful answer you could give.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Wow. Everyone, ignore this guy, he’s also an ad.
Instead, you should hop on over to your local Chevy Dealership and ask about test driving the all new 2025 Tahoe. Drive one home today for less than $2,000 down!
- Comment on Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find 8 months ago:
HamCo?
I see them all the time near 37. You always gotta be careful around them.
It seems like the Mustang EV is selling better nowadays at least. I see just about as many of them on the road compared to Teslas.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 8 months ago:
SD has pass through charging, so once the battery is fully charged and also while it is plugged in, you aren’t powering it through the battery like cell phones and most laptops do.
That’s how nearly all modern devices work. Li-Ion can’t be charged and discharged simultaneously. There is circuitry to split the power between the battery and the device when it’s being charged.
Cheaper devices will just stop charging when you use them or they won’t work at all when plugged in.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
It’s not working because W11 is using a CPU instruction that doesn’t exist in older processors.
And by older, I don’t mean Pre-Zen or Intel 5XXX… I mean OG AMD Athlon and Intel Core 2 Duo. If you’re trying to run on a CPU from 2008, that’s on you. These were never supported - hence the title.
The only reason this was discovered was because some YTers make videos of running W10/11 on super old computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
My favorite part is looking at the rating and seeing that all the 1-4 star reviews are missing. Sure, the product has 1.7 stars, and, sure, Amazon requires you to write a review with your rating, but somehow only the people who rated it five star left reviews 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Only way I’m using most shopping sites is if I know they’re trustworthy and if they support PayPal or one of the major payment processors. I’m not going to type my CC number into a random website and trust that they aren’t hacked.
There are a lot of issues with PayPal, but at least it makes it easy for me to get a refund if the seller refuses. The last time I had to get a refund, it was because the seller told me I had to ship my $20 product back to China in order to get a 50% refund. This was despite the returns agreement explicitly requiring them to cover return shipping and that shipping it to China would have cost me about $150.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
The details for Prime explicitly refer to it as Two Day Delivery, not shipping.
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- Comment on FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law 9 months ago:
Blame the Republicans in Congress.
It took until last May for the Senate to finally confirm the fifth Commissioner. Per law, they can’t create new rules or regulations when there’s a vacancy.
Have you noticed that 5G was getting faster and had more coverage until it more or less stopped last year? For the first time in history, Congress did not renew the FCC’s spectrum auction authority. T-Mobile bought a lot of 2.5Ghz spectrum back in 2022 but the FCC couldn’t grant it to them. It wasn’t until a month and a half ago that they could use it… Because Congress passed a bill that granted the authority for auctions held prior to March 2023.
They’ve also tried going after the VOIP services that don’t follow STIR/SHAKEN or allow robocallers. But they don’t have enough funding to do much more than the minimum. For the very few that they can catch, they first provide a warning period for the company to remove robocallers and correct their systems. If that fails, the FCC then permits carriers to block the provider, but they can’t mandate it.
Except even that’s not enough. The FCC can’t take actual legal action against the providers, only the robocallers. So quite often, the provider will just change their business name, list different fake people as their executives, and then rejoin the networks as if nothing ever happened. Look up One Owl Telecom - they’ve done this numerous times.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
If you’re lounging around, 60 is perfect.
If you’re doing work outside, 50 is perfect.
If you’re doing heavy exercise, 40 is perfect.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
And when they’re not showing weather reports, they’re showing off dope tornadoes and hurricanes and shit.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Oh it absolutely did not work properly. We lost a $300M lawsuit because the system would bill clients wrong.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
What’s the use case?
Like for anything financial, Excel files are preferable.
Although I will say this. Companies are lying when they say they want Excel exports. They don’t. They want CSV but they don’t know the difference.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
I work in Finance at my company and we always save revised copies for Excel files instead of saving over.
But we also have strict rules on it. File name is always “xxxx_Workbook Template Name_MMDDYY.xlsx” or “_YYYY_MM.xlsx”, depending on how often it gets updated.
Older versions get moved to a subfolder. It helps us go back and find out what something was if there was a mistake or revert back if Excel done fucks up.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
My old company had a revenue system built in-house that only could run on MS-DOS. We needed a VM just to use it.
I left that company in 2019 and they were still using it.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Nah, the worst part is when I have to watch someone else use Excel.
YOU DON’T NEED TO RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT COPY. YOU CAN JUST PRESS CTRL+C.
And virtually none of them know how to paste values, so all the templates end up messed up.
- Comment on Outliers 11 months ago:
Yote
- Comment on The only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not. 11 months ago:
OpEx includes all salaries.
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
According to his comment history, the US.
- Comment on An EXTRA Hour! 1 year ago:
I don’t. My four month-old doesn’t understand DST
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
It’s only the wrong solution if you’re writing something where every operation needs to be accounted for. Modulo is a great, easy, readable method otherwise.
Not too certain on C++, but I think this would be the cleanest implementation that still somewhat optimizes itself:
private bool IsEven(int number){ return !(number % 2) }
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
Okay wow no need to get personal.
- Comment on Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income. 1 year ago:
By the rich?
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
I’ll use it for one-off short scripts. No point in doing the whole shebang for something that doesn’t need it.
- Comment on Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game 1 year ago:
You also have options that change depending on your skills and progress.
You can choose to bribe, persuade, manipulate, flex your muscles, or do them a favor. Sometimes you can choose to kill them if they’re not cooperating.
The whole no choice paradigm was much more true for FO4 than for Starfield.
- Comment on xkcd #2842: Inspiraling Roundabout 1 year ago:
Wanna really confuse them?
- Comment on new adaptor just dropped 1 year ago:
Ugh, micro Ethernet is a garbage standard. I prefer Ethernet Type C.
