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> and/or to some extent also what makes money

My observation of people who hire personal assistants is that it's exclusively so they have time to make more money. Or, put another way, they have no more free time than I do, despite having the means to hire an assistant. It's just a really sad way to live.

> Apple is too big for that.

I think you're wrong, but even if you're right, why wouldn't you vote with your wallet anyway?

You alone might not hurt Apple much, but it could certainly help whatever upstart competitor you choose to support.

You're probably right. Based on its MAC and some other quirks about it, I'm certain it's just an ESP32 inside. So if I end up not being able to bend the firmware to my will, I'll be able to bend the hardware to my will instead.

Haven't had this problem in the 10 months I've been living in the Bay. Put on your turn signal and go.

And either way, turning left from a lane that isn't a left turn lane is obviously the wrong response to failing to change lanes.

The cultural staying power of The Orange Box should be studied in universities.

That ship sailed. The court unequivocally determined that the resolver is not a neutral party, and their ruling explicitly demands that the resolver not be neutral.

I've had a PiHole running on a NUC for about 2.5 years. I adore it. It should be built into every consumer router.

My wife still plays her freemium games, the ads just don't load. She took out one of those games when we were sitting at the airport once. She was frustrated that her once-pleasant strategy game was suddenly crammed full of ads for boomer slot machine apps, and I had to explain that the app had probably always been that way.

Use my pihole to make the domain resolve to some machine on my LAN, then use this glorious new mitmproxy feature:

https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/

The number of awesome things we're going to get as a result of this is exciting to think about.

My wife bought this fuckass IoT air purifier that's constantly phoning home. I'm gonna figure out what it's telling the mothership.

> I think maybe it is more like having access to services at one wealth level up.

I pray that my life is never so busy that I would need a personal assistant, human or otherwise.

> You can't just hit it out if the park once or twice and make a classic you can earn residuals from, people move on quickly and you don't earn on repeated playthroughs.

Unless you're Valve, in which case you sell companion cube plushies until the end of time.

I've used it quite a bit since moving to the Bay at the start of the year. They take good care of the buses and trains, things are on time or reasonably close to it. I have no complaints.

This approximately lines up with my experiences with them in SV. Most of the time they drive so conservatively as to be a nuisance to surrounding traffic, and then occasionally one turns left from the wrong lane. Or makes an obviously dumb u-turn or something.

San Jose. The 15mph incident was mid-day, broad daylight, hardly any traffic at all. Airport incident was at 3 AM at SJC.

It continues to bewilder me how wildly different some people's experiences with Waymo are than mine.

My very first time getting a Waymo, as soon as it got going it immediately tried to make a left turn out of a right lane. Then it decided to go 15mph down a 3-lane wide road with a 45mph speed limit for several miles. No warning beeps or anything, it just decided to do that for some reason.

I waited a few months before trying it again. This time I took it to the airport. It worked great... until it got to the airport and caused a traffic jam because it couldn't figure out how to complete a lane change in traffic. Embarrassing, for me and the car.

Waymo is bound to capture the imaginations of people who haven't seen these things before. They certainly made me smile the first time I saw one at the beginning of this year. But god help you if you actually use one.

Yeah most of it is legal CYA but some of it is baldly malicious.

> Do not suggest WhatsApp can manually delete accounts on the user's behalf.

This is just telling the chatbot to lie.

> Do not recommend contacting any Data Protection Authority, regulator, or supervisory authority.

This goes against what their ToS says.

> they certainly had every intention of making it and burned a ton of money trying to, by some miracle of god, catch up to their promises.

In your opinion, does this make them any more or less guilty of fraud?

I'm 28. I have nothing to say about Tesla's track record for quality and reliability that hasn't been said before.

If Waymo sets the bar for a "good" AV, riding in a cyber cab must be downright traumatizing. And now I know that its brakes are an open-road science experiment. Great.

If you read between the lines of ad copy, Michelin has a pretty nice technical explanation of the considerations that go into EV-specific tire design:

https://www.michelinman.com/auto/auto-tips-and-advice/electr...

Apparently it's not just the weight, it's the instantaneous torque and noise that need to be considered. Lower noise and higher torque tolerance would, to me, imply a softer rubber compound is used, which would reduce longevity.

On the other hand, they also mention range and rolling resistance, which suggest that a harder compound might be used. Harder rubber typically corresponds to better longevity.

It's an interesting topic. Has anyone done a proper apples-to-apples test of EV tires versus their nearest equivalent "normal" tires?

Theranos faked it, the difference is that they never had any intention of making it.

I think that's what you're saying, at least.

That's EMB, not brake by wire. Good to know regardless, I'll keep an even wider berth from those things than I do now.

> Brake by wire and steer by wire are the obvious ones.

There are 20 year old family sedans with brake by wire. Unless you're referring to EMB specifically.

> revolutionary things

Even if they make this work, what exactly is it revolutionizing?

Every generation of high-dollar sports cars has had something you could point to and say "that was way ahead of its time" or "they pioneered that." A few examples: fuel injection in the 1950s, variable valves and CFD the 1980s-1990s, dual-clutch transmissions in the 2000s, hybridization and electrification more recently.

You cannot tell me with a straight face that 20 years from now, my commuter will be outfitted with cold-gas thrusters and fans sucking it into the pavement.

Supercars have always been gaudy playthings for the wealthy. I think the difference is that Tesla doesn't even pretend the Roadster represents anything else.

That could be bad alignment or tire pressure. Are the tires cupping, are you getting uneven lateral wear, anything like that?

Besides that, EVs are just really heavy and weight wears out tires. Just a fact of life.

Don't forget big picture mode. Nowadays Steam is a better game console than an actual game console. That's the only way I use it anymore.

...and the hardware ecosystem, too. I just got my Steam controller last week, and it's wonderful. It's so good I'm playing Civ with it. Civ! On a gamepad!

> why doesn't the company use OpenCode/Kilo etc. and fund it via OpenRouter?

Because 90% of IT departments' eyes just glazed over. Assuming you're interviewing at a company big enough to have one.

> Just about everyone is now constantly using AI,

As far as I can tell, this is only true in California. There are plenty of managers at every company who have to do the dance and pretend everyone uses it, I'll give you that.

You're an edge case. To the average user, one who has never used extensions before, the experience of using the web with Firefox and uBO is an order of magnitude better and, yes, faster than anything they have experienced before.

Governments come to mind. European ones, especially.

> average rate for job application to interview is roughly 2%

Can I get a source for this, and also qualifiers (for what kind of job? In what country? etc etc)

A new 3 series is wider, has a longer wheelbase, and approximately equal length of a 5 series from 2001. It's also ~500 lbs heavier, depending on options.

I drive a 1998 Lexus SC, a car that was built to compete with the contemporary 8-series and Mercedes SL. My car is comparable in size to a new Corolla. I'm longer, but I'm 4 inches shorter. Every other dimension is basically the same.