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- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 6 hours ago:
This is a better start Image
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
Discord probably not, but there are many that could.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 days ago:
Oh it’s more than just someone, that post has -3 and the other one is -6.
Talking about Tesla against the narritive/hivemind always results in this.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
Too many startups go for VC money when they shouldn’t. It’s a cancer.
If you’ve managed to bootstrap it, or get some non-vc money, things are growing and doing well, maybe just try to keep growing that way. You’re company is fucked the moment you take that VC money.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 4 days ago:
Sure, but a little rust because they weren’t used isn’t a problem, comes off when you use them, but is an instant fail.
All brakes rust when not used. If you drove around in the rain today, then didn’t drive for a few days, you’ll probably have a little rust on your brakes. You go for a drive and then it’s gone.
If you take your car in for a pre-inspection report, and they see some rust on the brakes, they will tell you to drive it around a bit using the brakes a lot before taking it in to be inspected.
it’s not an actual problem.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 4 days ago:
Tesla doesn’t do a lot of the body work or glass type of things, but if you need a new computer, heat pump or anything like that, it’s going to be with Tesla, and especially anything around the battery/power train.
They could open up a lot of that to 3rd parties, but they keep it in house.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 4 days ago:
German TUV Reliability Report
Those numbers are very misleading, as it includes rust on the brakes.
EVs don’t use their brakes as often due to regen, and vehicles with one pedal driving where you can come to a complete stop without using the brakes, use it even less.
A large portion of these failures are from some rust appearing from lack of using the brakes. Using the brakes would clear the rust, but it’s a fail if it’s there when you take it in.
That’s not to say there aren’t other problems, but it’s not as bad as the 14.7% makes it look.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 days ago:
effort
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 days ago:
And this is why I’ll never connect my working printer to the internet.
Taking a USB stick to it to print is annoying, but fuck this shit.
They’re all horrible companies
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 6 days ago:
So a government is going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to get enough Ethereum to disrupt it, before accounting for the price going up by purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of Ethereum, and then they’re going to destroy the hundreds of billions of dollars they invested to take the network down, temporarily.
It would be more cost effective to do a supply chain attack and introduce exploits/weaknesses to try and make me doubt using it.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 1 week ago:
You better tag me when you make a post here a year from now that you’ve made it into the book of guiness world records. I don’t wanna miss that.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 1 week ago:
You should probably lube the outside after placing it in it’s position as well.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 1 week ago:
You wanna reduce traffic times with these better lights? Think of all the billions of dollars lost to advertisers since people won’t be forced to look at their ads now while waiting!
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
That would definitely help save on costs on a lot of fronts but I’m sure you’d get people complaining about the cars lacking their own style/differentiation and everything being the same if they did that. It’d think it would still be cheaper for a screen though.
But doing that is how you save money yes. Same dashes between cars, seats, heat pumps etc. as many same parts as you can between as many models as you can with as few custom parts as you can, while still making a car people want to buy that differentiates itself enough.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
lots of evidence pointing to it’d be quicker in 32 hour weeks than 40
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
Lol of course not, but it’s assembled somewhere which is why it has a cost more than the simple cost of the button itself. It’s a bespoke piece of hardware specifically designed for the vehicle instead of a commodity LCD screen which can be mass produced for multiple vehicles.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
Okay, so you admit, using a screen saves money.
Thank you, it was a pleasure watching you come to the realization.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
You’re contradicting yourself LOL
I don’t believe that.
Monroe has talked about how they removed some bolts that weren’t absolutely necessary from the vehicle, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars. In that case, it’s fine.
Its okay if you don’t like it, but come on dude, a screen is going to be cheaper by 10s or maybe a hundred dollars a car. Were talking 10s of millions saved with any company doing this at scale.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
The button might be 1c, but you gotta wire it, install it, warranty it etc etc. It’s not as inconsequential as you might think.
A screen is the screen and the wiring to the computer.
It’s a couple skus to maintain instead of dozens. It’s 1 warranty item instead of dozens.
It might not be a good idea, but it absolutely will save a noticeable amount of money per vehicle.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 weeks ago:
Start with a few minutes instead of 15, and make sure the calls don’t appear in the call queue for staff to see. Then don’t tell anyone you did it.
And voila, no leaks, no feedback!
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 weeks ago:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has now selected Microsoft as one of two companies that will advance to the final phase of its Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC).
The moment I read this, my first thought was, DOGE probably fired everyone involved in this program, and said they just saved American citizens $99999 trillion dollars by doing it.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 weeks ago:
Sorry making sure that prompt happens uses up all my qbits, I can’t do anything else.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 weeks ago:
With all the crazy to make phones super thin, soon they’ll be so thin you could add a sliding keyboard on it, and it’ll be thinner than phones of a year or two ago!
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 weeks ago:
In terms of message security, but they could shut down the servers amd disrupt the service for awhile.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 3 weeks ago:
Bonus points if from state that receives the most payments from other states.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 3 weeks ago:
Everyday Americans will not stand for these games
I got a bridge to sell this guy!
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 3 weeks ago:
Even trying to recovery half a private key seems like it would be quit a challenge?
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 3 weeks ago:
I would be shocked if it was still readable. He probably had a shot very early on, but now? Seems hopeless.
- Comment on Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s a typo… but an Ora Mastadon sounds really fucking cool too!
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
I’m with you on this, I strongly recall there was some sort of not fully open source portion of Signal at least at one point in time.
