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Windows Mobile phones had apps distributed by wherever, you could go get them on a CD from Bestbuy if you wanted.

> I was working in mobile games at the time and ended up working with Google on the Play Store launch, among other things.

Well, mobile games are distributed via ads, not the "stores."

I don't know. This distribution, network effects story. It's sort of, whatever. People were using chat apps then, and people are using chat apps now. The iOS App Store and Google Play are such shit shows, they are glorified installation wizards for 99.9% of people. Whether you have to install-wizard via sideloading or via a deep link or whatever, it's not super material nor revolutionary. I think this comes from conflating Steam with the App Store, ultimately Steam is a real, bonafide store, and the mobile app stores are more like technical restrictions that someone is using to take a 30% cut of revenues. Which is what everyone is saying anyway.
My understanding is that they're better not in reliability, but in lower maintenance (oil replacement etc).
The economics for rental cars relies on resale value after one to two years, frequency of damage, and cost of repair.

All of these things suck for EVs in general, and Teslas in particular. The recent price cuts have demolished the resale value way more than any other car, rented EVs get damaged more frequently because people are unfamiliar with their behaviour and torque curves and acceleration, and the cost of repair is atrocious for Teslas, since their service infrastructure is severely lacking, i.e. it takes forever to get parts.

And on top of that, rental customers do not want an EV in an unfamiliar place. Everyone can find a gas station and fill it up before returning, but having to schedule your entire trip around charging infrastructure is a complete waste of time.

The only rental customers it makes sense for is people who already have an EV, love it, and know how to live with. But the problem is that Hertz was throwing the Teslas at customers willy-nilly as some kind of "luxury upgrade", with crap results.
Absolutely, but it does feel bad when you know your negligence is impacting real people.
But you save a lot more time traveling with a gas car since you're not looking for charring stations along the route every 150-350km and waiting hours to charge.

Also, charging at public chargers isn't that cheap or frictionless. At home yeah, but at stations not so much. Not compared to filling up with gas and being on your way in less than 5 minutes.
> People are perfectly free to have Android devices and side load apps on to them.

And people who do not like "unsafe" technology are perfectly free to not use it at all.

If you make something idiot-proof, they will simply provide a better idiot.
Ooof make me feel old why don't you... this isn't Doom, it's Dungeon Master! The grid system, everything moving on a metronome, inventory system etc. I agree this version is shallow but very easy to pick up.

Legend Of Grimrock is the modern remake I know, drags you into its complexities level by level. Really good game.
That’s an Xwayland thing. If your Obsidian has no Wayland support, it will be blurry with any distro. It looks like newer versions use a newer version of Electron that supports Wayland:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/please-ugrade-to-the-newest-elec...
Although I can and have managed domains and mail services, I don’t agree that what you described is for the majority. Do you really think that’s true?
> I thought one of the selling points of electric cars was reliability over an ICE engine.

They are if you take car of them. Hertz notoriously did not have chargers in their lots and I've read plenty of stories of EV renters getting an EV with 20% of the battery.

If they are letting the cars sit and discharge to 0, yeah, that will look like them being "unreliable" and will ultimately wear the battery.
Last week on a trip to Florida I rented a Polestar 2 from Hertz.

It was in abysmal shape. Both tires on the left had been installed backwards, with the inside on the outside, and something was badly wrong with the front left wheel, I suspect the rotor was warped because it scraping, loudly, with every rotation.

I read about Hertz having problems with EV maintenance but experience leads me to believe that it's nothing to do with being EVs. They're simply not maintaining them.
I told them about the problems on return, and the guy just shrugged.
> To offer my anecdotal observation, where I live, I rarely ever see an EV.

Where do you live? I live in a regular German town, nothing I would consider particular techie, and I see so many electric cars. If you only see one ev per day, I think that you might live more in a bubble than OP.
There's not much point grumbling about an anecdote and supplying another.

The EU as a whole has 1.68% EVs out of all passenger cars, though it's about 15% of new cars. [1]

Here in Denmark BEVs are 5.68% of all passenger cars, and I'm sure it's higher where I live in Copenhagen. Over half of the taxis and buses are EVs, plus a good proportion of private vehicle. I won't guess, but I do see many EVs every time I go outside.

[1] https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport...
Regarding No 2. That is very true but it is astounding just how much inertia is in the system that keeps iPhone going.

Turns out that the curated experience of iPhone combined with a lot of fumbles from various android vendors has kept iPhone image of being the best and most desirable phone.

It is very vaguely feeling like if another big player was to come in they could actually make some waves that causes everyone else to jump. To the benefit of the users. But I doubt that will happen.
Having a small domestic p.v. system I've reasoned a bit about agrivotaic, or how to integrate p.v. AND food production not to inject electricity to the grid but to power local machines, like pumps or even a new form of agricultural machines made to run slowly with less power.

It's pure speculation but I think it would be possible push a bit of p.v. to shield some areas to excess of light and keep a bit more humidity while provide enough power for irrigation, plantation of many kind of crops, and some harvesting as well. Unfortunately I suspect most of the people involved in both agriculture AND p.v. do not even think about such integration as people involved in BEV and p.v. do not even think about direct charging since most modern hybrid inverters works with 400V LFP batteries who happen to be same of most BEVs but essentially no damn single player on the market offer a DC-to-DC direct charging instead of an useless DC-to-AC (efficient enough, at least) than AC-to-DC (inefficient as hell) double conversion.

It's about time that all people involved realize and understand well a thing: we can't power a national grid on p.v. until we have year-long storage, something that's sci-fi today, so the SOLE reasonable p.v. usage is LOCAL self-consumption and as a result the sole things to do now is try to made anything we can usable in such mode, usable depending on the Sun, able to stop-and-go still producing meaningful results.

Crops grow slowly so slow limited machines should not be an issue at all, for instance...
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Isn’t this specifically a case of Hertz having estimated the economical proposition as proven and positive, and now having to fix that miscalculation as the actual economic results have rolled in?
> You literally have to gatekeep because the alternative is going back to circa-2000 levels of spam.

The vast majority of spam is explicitly permitted by Google. What are you talking about? Do you not use e-mail? They have a Promotions tab, they could make spam - that is, marketing emails - go away in an afternoon, if they wanted to. They just don't, because those same companies are Google Ads customers.
How about dicing them this way: "Sixth-graders already read about as well as the median adult." Sounds pretty good to me.

The shock value of the original statement derives from the idea that sixth-graders are basically illiterates who can barely function in society, but what if that's not the case and six years in school are actually enough to learn reading and writing? It's a pretty long time already. What further improvements are to be expected from another six years?
Define apocalypse, in the terms of what will remain at the very least. All technology (including discarded old computers) will be unusable? All digital media will be erased? All printed books (specially the IT ones) will be burned down? All the people with present knowledge of those and related technologies will die out, or the time of recovery to think about building back will be too far into the future?

Anyway, can’t stop thinking in the Delorean’s chip of Back to the Future 3.
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i'm not saying that they're wrong. i'm just saying that's a lot of the logic.

it is pretty cynical to say "i don't want to make people's lives easier so they better align with my political goals"
> We are so significant that nation-states target our equipment.

Maybe if they didn't lobby so hard, they would have been spared and Huawei would have been targeted instead. /s

> they risk the govt dragging them through the mud

Lol. Chances are they're probably already in bed with all sorts of 3-letter agencies for things we'll never learn.
I've built tons of things. Most usefully, I built presence/motion/light/temperature sensors for my home, along with IR transmitter so I can control my TV/AC. They're about the size of two matchboxes, they cost about $10 each and they're amazing for my home automation:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/sensor-board/

I've built cat toys for my blind cat, toy planes, a CNC, a cat feeder, a back-scratching robot, and more stuff that I can't remember. I love the ESP8266.

Also, an e-ink display that shows my calendar:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

A house with a tiny person living in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUqTN-7_gU

A way to project images in mid-air, for long exposure photography:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/

A button that I can press to get food:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/

A drone that blows bubbles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk99zrlAp9U

A toy bus that shows you when the next actual bus will come:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/bus-stop-bus/

A rotary mobile phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8

An alarm clock with the weather so I know whether it's worth waking up for tennis:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/do-not-be-alarmed-clock/
At 14 man I wish you the best of luck I truely do. And don’t give up.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-gift-of-ambition-e7b41ffc
Every tech around us was lab experiment once.
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of course your address, phone number, income, etc should all be private
just because the phone companies shared this didn't mean it's a good idea; and they always provided a way to be unlisted
This is true for BlueCruise and SuperCruise, the only other ADAS'es that market a completely hands-free experience.

However, Lane Keeping and Autosteer systems, like Volvo's DrivePilot, have existed for a while. These usually activate whenever they detect lanes. However, they don't consider VRUs or obstacles in their paths at all. As long as they can detect lanes, they will happily drive you into a wall or a person at speed.

The biggest difference between them and FSDb is that FSD can be activated on any road surface. FSD can make decisions based on the environment it's in as perceived through its cameras (with a very short delay), but it doesn't disable itself when it doesn't know what to do. It tries very very very hard to not ram itself into anything, but it is definitely capable of it if it guesses wrong.
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What an irritating reply.

1) We already build thousands of transmission line miles per year, so describing this as unreasonable is just out of touch

2) the ??? step is just regular transmission utility business. There’s no ambiguity here.
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You should try Qubes OS instead.
they probably won't negotiate higher pay or better WLB, they'll just waste the negotiating power on a bunch of political horseshit (specifically a tech union). For example the alphabet one pushing BDS

as a dev, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of incentive to join one (except maybe in parts of industry that get a shittier bargain like gamedev)

In general the people like Doctorow or journalists more generally push tech unions not because they think it will benefit tech workers economically but because unions further their own political agenda
This is insanely good, as someone who hates mobile gaming outside of pixel dungeon this is probably the first 3d shooter game I've enjoyed playing on my phone where the control and game play felt good, the fact that it's in the browser is fantastic.
Fuel costs aren't insignificant, low MPG cars can have fuel be a solid % of the overall rental cost. I think for a moderately efficient (30ish MPG) rental I used for an afternoon a few weeks ago fuel was ~15% of total cost to me. Like $55 in rental fees, $10 in fuel. A rental a had last year for multiple days was closer to like 20%, but I got stuck with a gas guzzler.
Can you not see the charge amount before renting it?

The equivalent services in Copenhagen show the state of charge of the cars on the map, before paying anything. (There's also free minutes for leaving the car plugged in to a charger at the end, and perhaps because of that it's rare for them to be at a low charge.)
Lenin more or less defined "socialism" to mean that
Im not sure what’s so hard about doing it in PHP. Can I not just get all the data from the GET/POST-Data-Assocarray, get the form fields I want, and put them into a prepared statement to save them to the DB? What’s the vulnerability here? Maybe add an CSRF Token for extra security and I think you’re done, or am I missing something?
It’s worse than that. For example we were also supposed to withhold 50% of the social security tax that the employee is responsible for, or if we pay the full amount for them (which we did because we didn’t know we were supposed to withold that), then we have to declare that as additional income for the employee, and more I’m sure I’m forgetting because I started to lose it at that point.
Ford looks to future EV breakthroughs– and smaller cars – to stanch the bleeding
All points described are simple artifacts of tokenization.
> The user was never going to view that stack trace anyway,

Well akchually, I found stack traces useful as a user. It allowed me to pinpoint an issue (SPICE simulator crashing due to inconsistent quote handling in E-sources vs another simulator which did not crash). IDK how else I'd be able to find this other than file a Jira ticket to the simulator team (and then wait 2 days for various people to pass the ticket, as they almost always do)
I use LyX for this
There is no appetite to remove the subsidies politically. But yes, these subsidies are both unnecessary and harmful to humans (due to subsidizing food systems that are unhealthy at scale).
M5stack is the way to go here
You made two points that are correct in theory, but in practice those lookups would/could take micro-seconds, and the bug would be detected within minutes in a production environment. And it would take five minutes or less to patch.
Or put another way and say, put poor linux support as a reason to not use certain hardware.
Apple, we "care about privacy". But we will take billions of dollar every year to keep your data funneled towards Google via the defaults.

Steve Jobs was barely out the door before Cook ran to allow PRISM access, something Job's had fought against for years.
It can be the same thing. :-P

I'm being facetious here, but I did edit it and I'm sorry for not making the edit obvious.
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For future reference, if you strongly suspect something specific and you have reason to believe your doctor is wrong in dismissing your concerns, you can double-check that they're following evidence-based best practices by looking up the issue on UpToDate. For example, you can look up Lyme disease and see how it should be tested and when it shouldn't be tested (for which there are very real reasons).

It requires a fee to use, but it's not much compared to healthcare costs of missing a diagnosis.

If you find they're being negligent, definitely print it out and show it to them or get a second opinion.
However for Apple to keep making money they need to satisfy their users, so as with all commercial relationships there is a direct commercial incentive that aligns customer and vendor interests. The interesting question is how and why those interests align, and when and where they diverge.

The answer to that will be different for different customers, or potential customers. A lot of iPhone customers like me are quite happy with the devices more or less as they are. The vast majority of people complaining about iPhones aren't iPhone customers. Frankly I don't really see why I should care what they think.

I'm more sympathetic to actual iPhone customers, or former customers that left, but looking at the numbers satisfaction levels with iPhones are through the roof. This is a teeny tiny proportion of customers. The case for Apple harming the interests of customers directly is super thin.

The other main dimension to this is Apple's commercial relations with other companies, mainly app store developers. I'm sympathetic to the idea that such relationships should be regulated to at least some extent. I'm glad controls on links to external payment options are being opened up, and there's pressure towards more equitable revenue structures. I think this is the main area Apple's control of the platform is open to abuse, but IMHO that doesn't extend to third party app stores. The current app store should be properly regulated, I think third party stores are a complete distraction. They'll never take off, and are probably going to be a worse experience for users.
You’re barking up the wrong tree. More than a third of people file their own taxes.
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The discussion is about tor. If you look at the countries where tor nodes are hosted fiber tapping is a relevant attack vector.
I built a weather dashboard using an M5Paper from M5Stack. The M5Paper has an E-ink touch display, is the size of a small smart phone, and only needs to be charged every week or so.

https://speechcode.com/blog/weather-dashboard/

I feel sheepish mentioning this project because there are so, so many weather displays like this. But this is mine, and not only was it fun to put together, but I use it every day.
> extremely rural

Depends on how "extreme" extreme is.

Certainly affordable wouldn't work for rural because range is really needed. However, it's doable now with 300+ range EVs (assuming there's a city within 100/150 miles of your location).

One thing that would change this quickly is if V2H ends up taking off. Then you can ditch your backup generator and use your EV in the event of a power outage. For very rural places or off grid places that could be really valuable.

But totally agree about the other categories.
It's been a while since the first-class ZFS support had any advantage for the user beyond an initial install. Maintenance on it was so limited that they ended up rebasing on ZFS on Linux anyway, making it literally less first-class than on Linux.

Today you can get ZFS packages from contrib in Debian and run it for several years with no problems. I know because I did that from Debian 9 (2017) through Debian 12 (2023) and still going. Ironically, Debian 9 took over that ZFS pool from a FreeBSD server, and there is not one part of that migration that I regretted.
I built almost the same thing! Mine is a Christmas house with a tiny person living inside, you get a realistic fireplace, a TV, and the person goes around the house every so often:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUqTN-7_gU
There's been a free e-file since 2009 according to archive.org. Looks like this was the selection of forms at the time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090418011703/http://www.irs.go...

I've used it for years. It's just the paper forms with some auto-calculation built in. I've never had a company do my taxes for me so it's a little hard for me to even imagine the value-add for simple taxes. Presumably they ask for the same information that's on the form.

I imagine Intuit is still ripping us off behind the scenes even if it's free at point of use, but maybe they don't get a good deal and are happy to do it free/cheap as long as they can make it have a scary enough UX to get you to pay them instead.
For Chromium based browsers you can use getLayoutMap() instead of prompting the user and then rely on the manual fallback for Safari/Firefox/Other unsupported browsers. In either case, detecting/asking for the layout makes sense for displaying the controls graphics but you should still ultimately use the keycodes for positional keys in the actual code so someone on the misdetected or on an unlisted layout can still use the positional keys as expected.
That'll run you at least $50/m here in the Midwest.
> A bunch of teens got together and decided

No, they did not. There is no teenage illuminati pulling the strings. The green bubble phenomena appeared throughout teen social life as iPhones became widely adopted.

> I’m sure there’s some schools where you can’t be included unless you are wearing Abercrombie clothing, or have a MK purse.

These are imagined phenomena which don't have bearing on the real phenomenon in question.

> Is it time to step in there too?

No. If there comes a time where Abercrombie and control widely used social infrastructure, in a way that prohibits non-Abercrombie wearers from participating through technological means, resulting a widely-acknowledged negative social phenomenon, then that'll be time to step in there.

But the Abercrombie thing is imagined, and the iPhone thing is real and has been happening for a decade.
No, they simply ignored it.
Grandma doesn't have to install an alternate app store or sideload apps, and she can sill rely on the same "high trust" environment that allows for apps like "LassPass" to scam her in the Apple App Store.

Hell, when she is scammed, Apple apologists will tell her it's not really that bad, and to get off Apple's case about it...

Gruber:

> Instead, the scam LassPass app tries to steer you to creating a “pro” account subscription for $2/month, $10/year, or a $50 lifetime purchase. Those are actually low prices for a scam app — a lot of scammy apps try to charge like $10/week.

(emphasis mine)

Lucky people, I guess? They could have been scammed for more?

He also claims, without any way to know, that "it doesn't look like this was made to steal LastPass credentials".

The whole article is very much a "yeah it sucks and shouldn't happen, but this is no big deal, really, why are you getting all up in Apple's face about it?" vibe.