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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

the only bulb with a shred of intelligence that appeals to me is the philips one that is dimmer compatible and switches from daylight to like 4000k white at lower power levels

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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

musk hosed up https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i love tech metaphors. there was like a daylong discussion about literal and metaphorical file cabinets in the google java case

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Not a Children posted:

You'd be better served to call it an exploit you fools

I should be a lawyer

cheat code was his word in his memo, they're throwing it back in his face

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

the sarah jeong tweet of "hey guys is it bad to download the entire svn repo" and her article with "the core of the case seems to be in the 45 minutes the peanut gallery wasn't allowed to see the trade secrets" don't seem to line up

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

rjmccall posted:

she’s saying that the public case was really weak because the closest thing google has to a smoking gun, the mis-sent email with the board layouts that were suspiciously like google’s, was apparently ruled to not relate to trade secrets, so all google has is this circumstantial evidence about repositories being copied. so maybe there was something stronger that was presented in secret. it’s totally unclear what trade secrets the case is actually still about except that if the repository copying is pertinent then it must be something that was checked in. also “copying the repository” seems to just mean “checking out the latest revision” and there’s a witness from google who’s on record saying that that’s pretty routine even for a manager who doesn’t directly contribute anymore

that makes sense

Shaggar posted:

was goog claiming it was strange for a developer to checkout code?

i thought it meant everything, like all the random branches and development artifacts, instead of the current useful code, although i guess not. the lawyers are getting me to think what they want me to think

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Reddit audiophiles test HomePod, say it sounds better than $1,000 speaker

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

did we all read the latest car and driver article about this?

i thought it was interesting that apparently bmw wanted to gimp their cars when it found the seatbelts to not be plugged in in lieu of crash testing without seatbelts and the iihs? or some other body said no.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my uncle grew up in phoenix in the 60s as a kid and apparently the main form of entertainment was waterskiing on the canals being towed by a truck

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my bitter bi rival posted:

does every tesla look like this inside or just the 3 series

speaking of the 3 series, it's funny how bmw took the weird california ikea parts bin to another level


hifi
Jul 25, 2012

ham radio sounds cool to me except the part where you talk to people

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i use gboard and it's gotten worse. it used to predict words fairly well for prepositional phrases and common multiple word phrases but now they just use that shelf emoticons and memes or sometimes the shelf doesn't appear at all. the swiping keyboard doesn't work well either, i think they changed the algorithm for it or letter spacing or something so instead of kinda lazy drawing across the screen you really have to sharply angle your path so it picks up on what letters you actually mean. basically it doesn't feel like magic anymore.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

infernal machines posted:

waymo got the go-ahead to launch their autonomous taxi service somewhere near phoenix. so that's a thing

mesa, gilbert, and chandler are the places in phoenix you go when you feel phoenix has too many roundabouts and confusing streets.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i hate web fonts

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

id rather have a dirt bike

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Jonny 290 posted:

bad dragon dream

thank you

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/Vivek/status/966755239519969281

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my drat linodes down

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Luigi Thirty posted:

iheartradio, which owns basically every local radio station ever, is about to go bankrupt because bain capital missed an interest payment on their $20 billion leveraged buyout

hope you didn't like radio

phoenix is never gonna get cool radio stations besides the "urban adult contemporary" one and kjazz which i have a furious blinding rage for npr because they play npr until 8 pm

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

flakeloaf posted:

or even "really big"

picture a million people

wrong


ok an easier one, imagine a box big enough to hold a thousand perfectly-stacked pennies

nope you hosed that one up too

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i drink tea

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

in the npb world series games can end in a tie

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

interesting how ducey managed to get to the right line of thinking after the cops basically washed their hands of it as quickly as possible

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

arbys 5 for 5 probably made me who i am today

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

all of the artisanal panera places stick a slice of ham on an entire loaf of bread

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my bitter bi rival posted:

im just glad supplements for gamers are a t hing now https://www.chaosandpain.com/Pwnd-Gamerz-Aggro

good url

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

here's another good url i was thinking about last night https://usa.clutchchairz.com/product/pewdiepie-edition-throttle-series/

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

eschaton posted:

that “SGI-esque granite” interface though

:discourse:

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqi0ZAYPyPk

i'm the, uh, flute soloist i guess.


anyone know what the hell api is in volvo and gm cars that makes this at all possible?

a bunch of cars use hughes

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Krankenstyle posted:

there exists a hulk hogan bar? and people go in there? and some of them wear do rags like the proprietor is apt to do? and yet they are rejected for that specifically? what

that is once in a lifetime poo poo

theres a place called, "toby keith's i love this bar and grill"

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

remember red bull cola

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

maybe tesla does something cool like use autopilot to determine if you actually want to stop or just glide to a stop

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Shaman Linavi posted:

aren't brakes usually over specced on most cars anyway? like you can have pinned throttle and the brakes will still be able to stop the car?

comparing the engine output to the brake output isn't meaningful, maybe "are the brakes able to lock the tires up", in which case it doesn't seem like the tesla can do that reliably. tire quality factors into this too.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

quicker comes with a million asterisks too when it's awd and electric with no gears and the bmw is still close-ish acceleration wise

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Jonny 290 posted:

i'm still shocked that nobody's taking the EV angle to revolutionize offroad/jeepy type vehicles

No driveshaft or diff pumpkins to bash up

Get hub motors and you can use PWM and ~algorithms~ to build software 4wd/awd and tune it on the fly

Instead of trying to make a goddamn ICE engine work over a 10:1 rpm ratio, put a tiny turbodiesel in there, let it spin at 4k in its peak band, and use that to spin your generator.

these things would loving crush any bro truck at moab

offroading is like doing ham radio

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

yetis are for socialists now, i think

hifi
Jul 25, 2012


millennial christine

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

• The passenger vanity mirror fell off completely. Installed and held on only by double-sided tape. Reinstalled by pressing really hard on the mirror.


the russians used a screw

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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my favorite intelligence test was the ASVAB part where you figure out which direction a gear is moving

also, uber is quitting testing their dumb cars in phoenix. i guess people don't get run over in pittsburgh?

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