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Kyte posted:The price for that is worse gas mileage, less safety and more pollution. Oh sure, my car is almost 40 years old and it has computers in the engine. It only gets driven in summer but it handles snow like it was made for it (it was), but I don't want to expose it to more salt. Thanks to rust proofing it's weathered 34 years of salt well though.  The computer system is actually very reliable which is ironic since it's a Lucas system, but I rate it above the Bosch ECUs that other models got. It's also possible to upgrade this to trionic 5.5 and go distributorless and flex-fuel. I really think cars peaked in the 90s, that's when tech, feeling, durability and all that came together. Since then it feels like most advances have been co-opted by the need to extract more money each time, which has made each advance also a con. But it wouldn't have to be so. But those are the incentives... e: Sorry I like to nerd out about my car His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:One who's been taught literally any programming, on any platform.
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Ruffian Price posted:One who's been taught their native language, syntactic awareness is covered in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Syntax is one of the first words a child learns. I don't remember when I was taught the word syntax, but I remember how it's supposed to work. Much like teaching children their state capitals, they tend to only remember a few, but at least they know that every state has a capital.
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Ruffian Price posted:One who's been taught their native language, syntactic awareness is covered in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Syntax is one of the first words a child learns. Sorry, but in what language is "syntax" one of the first words a child learns? I've taught elementary and syntax is definitely not on any Grade 1-6 wordlist I've ever seen.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Sorry, but in what language is "syntax" one of the first words a child learns? I've taught elementary and syntax is definitely not on any Grade 1-6 wordlist I've ever seen. I’m assuming English, since syntax is an English word. That said, I’ve just conducted a poll of two kindergarteners and 0% of them know the word “syntax”
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PhazonLink posted:everything that isnt Firefox is chromebased, im sorry FF hurt you and you have to hold the line. Safari doesn't use Chromium either you know! 
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Mister Facetious posted:Safari doesn't use Chromium either you know! Neither does Minesweeper, but that still doesn't mean anyone's going to use either to browse the net.
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Kyte posted:The price for that is worse gas mileage, less safety and more pollution. what about e cars? would making ecars more fixer friendly make those trade off worse?
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dr_rat posted:Neither does Minesweeper, but that still doesn't mean anyone's going to use either to browse the net. I've middle clicked in minesweeper longer than I've middle clicked in browsers, minesweeper is beyond mere browsers.
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dr_rat posted:Neither does Minesweeper, but that still doesn't mean anyone's going to use either to browse the net. Safari has a 32% browser share in the US. Lots of people use Safari
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Jose Valasquez posted:Safari has a 32% browser share in the US. Lots of people use Safari That.. sounds wildly high.
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Volmarias posted:That.. sounds wildly high. Ios devices?
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Volmarias posted:That.. sounds wildly high. Mobile browsers are used more than desktop browsers and lots of people have iPhones
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Brain Curry posted:Ios devices? It's this. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america In the U.S., Safari accounts for 53% of all mobile devices. 40% of all tablets. But only 14% of desktop. Going worldwide though Safari is only 24% of mobile devices and 9% of desktops. Even just going to Europe alone, Safari is only 28% of mobile. iOS usage is not as ubiquitous outside the U.S.
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Even worldwide Safari is at 20% overall, so about a billion people use Safari
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Also "Chrome" and "Firefox" etc. on iOS all use the Webkit browser engine too, iirc.
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PhazonLink posted:what about e cars? Making a car more fixer friendly is always a good goal, but in my experience computers are loving haunted and anything with one cannot qualify as "simple".
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Kyte posted:Making a car more fixer friendly is always a good goal, but in my experience computers are loving haunted and anything with one cannot qualify as "simple". Can confirm. I have an old Dell Latitude laptop loaner that's been kicking around forever. I marked it haunted, oh, 8 years ago, marked a pentagram on an inside cover since then continues to chug right along. I loan it to friends who blow up their computers, they can never seem to kill it. Also you can enchant computers. Try it sometime.
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Mister Facetious posted:Also "Chrome" and "Firefox" etc. on iOS all use the Webkit browser engine too, iirc. Yes, Apple forces them too. That changed recently in the Europe though.
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Re: Tesla update, from the sound of it they're doing the equivilent of like, when your computer needs to update Windows so it locks down the system to run the Windows update while nothing is in use. Just from a top-of-my-head thought process, there'd be an easy way to handle that (and here's where I embarrass myself in front of all the yosposters): have a hot backup. A system that can take over and handle the functions of the car (at least some basic stuff like windows and doors, if you have to have doors be software controlled (you don't)) while the main system updates. It'd be a handful of bucks for a second SoaC and some flash storage, but would prevent stories about, say, your car broiling someone alive because they needed to add new fart noises or brakes or whatever the gently caress Tesla updates.
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Yes, they could be like other cars and not have the infotainment system also run the car but that's not disruptive. Also the front door could be opened at anytime with the manual release if the electronic handle didn't respond. The person didn't even try, because the whole thing was bait from an influencer trying to get in on the bad Tesla press.
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I am the last person who wants to willingly defend Tesla but from all accounts this person knew they were going to be locked in for a bit, but it ended up longer than expected for whatever reason.
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I feel silly for asking, but why in the actual gently caress would an OTA update, while applying (presumably having already downloaded the update in advance but this is Tesla so who knows???) take 4 minutes, let alone 40, to actually run?
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Teslas literally have an entire Steam and Proton install built-in. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that everything is some Electron bloatapp.
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Neito posted:Teslas literally have an entire Steam and Proton install built-in. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that everything is some Electron bloatapp. Sorry you mean steam the game store and infra platform, that steam? E: oh my god you do. What the actual gently caress??
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Volmarias posted:Sorry you mean steam the game store and infra platform, that steam? https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1602789357156536321
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Neito posted:Teslas literally have an entire Steam and Proton install built-in. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that everything is some Electron bloatapp. The touch screen controls in the SpaceX rocket crew cabin run Electron or some variant of it. Volmarias posted:I feel silly for asking, but why in the actual gently caress would an OTA update, while applying (presumably having already downloaded the update in advance but this is Tesla so who knows???) take 4 minutes, let alone 40, to actually run? I know for real cars, software updates can take a while because the internal connection is slow as it isn't built for large file transfers.
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oh reminder that you do left and right inputs with the steering wheel and it still turns the wheels so your balding your tires while doing stuff. also never mind the screen is to your right so the ergonomics is lovely.
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Neito posted:Teslas literally have an entire Steam and Proton install built-in. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that everything is some Electron bloatapp. If your cars ECU can't fit on less than 1mb of data it's too bloated and need revising.
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BlueBlazer posted:Can confirm. I have an old Dell Latitude laptop loaner that's been kicking around forever. I marked it haunted, oh, 8 years ago, marked a pentagram on an inside cover since then continues to chug right along. I loan it to friends who blow up their computers, they can never seem to kill it. Harry Dresden has so so so many words for you.
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Nervous posted:Harry Dresden has so so so many words for you. As somebody who only knows Harry Dresden from tvtropes, I still really liked this random-rear end reference.
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His Divine Shadow posted:If your cars ECU can't fit on less than 1mb of data it's too bloated and need revising. Teslas are manufactured in Gigafactories, not Megafactories
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Nervous posted:Harry Dresden has so so so many words for you. All of which stopped mattering after Bob discovered internet porn.
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Help me do my homework. I'm working on a stock pitch for Meta. Every single bank has it as a "Buy", only one or two as a "Hold". Being a contrarian would be fun for class, any real reason as to why their stock could collapse in the next 24 months? Only thing i can see is some out of nowhere privacy legislation in the EU or the US. I don't see the US lawsuit to roll back Instagram and Whatsapp as viable. Other antitrust complains are possible I guess. Doesn't matter if Trump or Biden win, I think both govs would be willing to go after them. AR is not going anywhere soon, but everyone knows that already, it's an implicit long term bet.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Help me do my homework. I'm working on a stock pitch for Meta. Outside of a larger, market-wide collapse, I don't see anything on the horizon. There is always the potential for another major privacy breach or similar, but those aren't predictable.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Help me do my homework. I'm working on a stock pitch for Meta. I have insider information that the stock will go to the moon. You should buy in, all the way in.
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both dems and repubs will be sore losers going after facebook in the event of a loss, but they didn't do a lot of damage last time they tried. they're currently busy being lobbied by facebook to ban tikok as it is. might happen sooner than we think, too one has to wonder what kind of company facebook will be if zuckerberg gets run over by a (self-driving) bus, but i don't know how much the market actually loves the guy
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I assume meta follows the general tech stock market and that seems to be trending up hence all the buy recommendations right now. If meta specifically goes down while the rest of the tech stocks go up then yea it’s probably some one off unpredictable event like privacy or antitrust legislation. I suppose there could be some mass migration away from social media or all content creators adopt new ways of making money like subscriptions, but those are trends that I think take longer than 24 months to play out.
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what do you mean by collapse ? even small things are too big to truely die and they just get eaten or absorbed by scavengers , a giant thing like meta is just going to rebrand.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Help me do my homework. I'm working on a stock pitch for Meta. Recent research suggests (https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2023-131/) that people actually have negative utility from social media, that is they consider themselves to be worse off with it than without it, and are only there because they need it to connect to others on it, who themselves are only there for the same reason. The 2024 election is going to see a huge amount of controversial content online which facebook and other social media has demonstrated it is utterly unable to manage. Facebook's issues in 2016, in terms of calls to violence/misinformation/dumb poo poo, will be even worse and they'll face more scrutiny which may make unrelated scandals come to the surface. Meta also won't have a buffer from low interest rates, so if they experience issues with advertisers or their user base they might have a feedback loop as people leave because more people are leaving. They've already had to scale back on a lot of metaverse stuff they were hoping to get long-term growth from. Meta is vulnerable to a huge controversy damaging their reputation or leading to significant anti-privacy legislation in either the US or EU. Their situation can snowball very quickly from the 2024 election, or really any other scandal, especially since they're a popular bipartisan punching bag. There's a lot of things that can go wrong.
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