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Just so happens that the latter can't be fixed via software, because it's not a software-based safety failure.
The former is fixable via software update, because it is a software-based safety failure.
Both, however, are safety failures. Both need to be fixed. Both situations incurred regulatory requirements to notify customers and provide a timely fix at no cost to affected customers, whether within or without the vehicle's warranty.
In short: both are recalls, and recall means the same thing in both cases: notify, fix, or face regulatory consequences.
That's what makes it a recall. A software update is the mechanism, the recall is the "Tesla did something wrong and is being held accountable" part.
Precisely! NHTSA determined that these vehicles are unreliable in this specific case, and thus need fixing. Glad we're on the same page. :-)
(I know, you want to pretend that it only ever means "physical repair" in everyone's mind, but that's a pretty big projection on your part.)
The trouble in my view is that the only way to know that the answers you're getting are accurate and not misleading is to study up on the answers elsewhere - which is a great habit to nurture, but is also precisely why these tools tend toward uselessness in their "general AI" bids. If I can't know how the answer was built, or how good that answer is, there's no point asking it - I'll just do my own reading and apply appropriate discernment as I go.
To be fair, hardly anyone does this today, nor did they before LLM-based chat bots... So it's a moot point, because society is largely doomed anyway. But a moot point can still be a valid one.
I also think the author makes a good point that we frequently confuse performance for competence. "It does a really good job at <X>!... or at least does a damn fine job of mimicking someone who acts like they do a really good job at <X>!"
By way of analogy, consider Elon Musk - by all appearances, he's a genius and is saving humanity - but by dint of his narcissism and largely smooth-brained approach to... well... everything... he's running all of us into an earlier planet-size grave than is necessary. His performance is fantastic, his competence is nonexistent.
I might be terribly wrong though. :-D
Seriously though, I'm beginning to believe that this is the path of all general discussion platforms - jerks and morons infiltrate, and the rest of us fall for it.
I don't really understand why the walled garden seems to still surprise so many people.
I understand that's a much broader-scoped situation than mentioned in the article (who cares about one country getting certain regs enforced), but the point stands - coinbase is a literally Ponzi scheme, and comparing it to other "eventually became legal" business models seems disingenuous.
Fixed that for ya.
That goes waayyy beyond "not wrapped up in a convenient user experience". Talking of finances is not so trivial a proposition as... Well, anything else that might have started our complicated on the internet.
Still worthless tech, but in the interest of fairness. :-D
This is the critical point. Adoption matters, and always ends up with consolidated power. It's just how things are, and how they stay, short of the severe intervention of dramatically easy-to-use tools for "click to host your own stuff".
You... Really ought to look up what greater fool theory is. And maybe money, too, while you're at it.
And no, it's not circular - "negative sum game" is literally baked into the concept of a purely speculative unbacked "asset". More money has to go in than can possibly come out, and there's precisely zilch to show for it.
Any place that accepts crypto is simply immediately selling it for fiat, and making the customer pay more than they otherwise would in fees and headache.
Anyway, it's fun to be obtuse, I know, but you're pushing the limits here.
In the event that the world falls apart, the Mac is at least usable as a weighted object, if all else fails.
Bitcoins become purely thought in such a situation, and even in far less catastrophic ones.
When suddenly it loses its popularity and/or supply of greater fools, it'll fall apart, and I'll have taken some poor sap's actual money, even if it was delayed / distanced / distributed by some thousands of layers.
Money is an agreed upon tool for exchanging items/services of value - but it also a store of value, because it retains at least a semblance of stability. Cryptocurrencies are... well, not currencies, for starters, but they're also simply a proxy for "real" money (ie: fiat).
Where cryptocurrencies entirely fall apart is when the realization hits that they all fall into the greater fool category - once you run out of new marks, the scheme collapses, and all the money - note actual currency - ends up in the hands of a few early adopters and a couple extra lucky folks who timed it right. Negative sum games are not a good thing to prop up.
Letter: "Crypo rests on tech that is useless." Blogger: "I disagree, I think there are some fascinating things to be done with blockchain tech! Just... don't expect me to share them. You should DYOR."
sigh
A bitcoin is an ID number pointing to pretend money. It has zero intrinsic value.
I think we've had plenty of years to demonstrate a way to make it work without the toxicity and damage to society, yet we've not done so - even with the most scrutinized platforms in history and the world's most capable software engineers.
We are social creatures. Social media is not at all an incarnation of 'society' in which we can function.
I pay out of pocket fully, and it's $60/month.
Clearly YMMV, but worth looking into if the infusions are prohibitively expensive.
Ketamine's been working wonders for me, though it's only been a month. That said, the research on it has proven fascinating, and it really is helping me to fundamentally reevaluate some beliefs that, evidently, were in need of reevaluation.
Still a loooooong road I suspect, but it's the only thing that's ever helped me.
Normal meds never touched it, lifestyle changes are a nice platitude to make neurotypicals feel smugly helpful, and while societal structures definitely play a larger role than we care to admit, they're absolutely not going to change in our favor.
Anyway, something to read up on and ask your psychiatrist about. :-)
Happy to answer questions if you have any, though again - I are not doctor.
But yea, Apple Music is not great here either. Haven't had enough time with their suggestion engine, but Spotify's is indeed pretty awful.
I think this is a simple example of the people with wallets using said wallets to indicate what they will and won't tolerate.