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3 часа назадdiscuss

>Do Americans not all use iMessage, since pretty much everybody has an iPhone there?

I'm Irish and travel back and forth a lot. First, not everyone has iPhones, Android has 40% of the market.

Older generations use Facebook to manage their clubs. I'm increasingly seeing Whatsapp and occasionally Signal for younger and more tech-savvy social circles. Facebook is non-existent in sub 35 year olds. Its just taking longer to switch over (or away from) Facebook given how tech savvy older folks are here compared to Ireland.

26 дней назадdiscuss

Another once great channel (the loam ranger) did a deep dive into the phenomenon of why mountain bike youtubers were struggling with the old format.

Its nuanced, part safety, partly that its a tonne of work to produce good content when you can simply switch to fluff pieces like Berm Peak

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

"The Algorithm" doesn't reward hard work, imho part of the math is our short attention spans... there's only so many time you can watch someone else vlog from a sprinter in Squamish.

26 дней назадdiscuss

I'm curious what the tradeoffs are, I exclusively use FF and any time Chrome auto opens via a link I immediately baulk at the experience.

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

While true, imho its more complicated than that

* PE, on the whole, has extracted wealth from quality. This is true at both the consumer level and B2B. E.g. its impossible to trust any aftermarket car part manufacturer, and some OEM brands have turned to dogshit too.

* "most people just buy trash at WalMart and Amazon" I'd rephrase that to: most people either can't or are unwilling to pay the premium for quality in an increasingly disposable world.

So, I'd say that similar to post war Japan, while Chinese manufacturing has an image problem, they're just producing what we asked for.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

It's not a joke if it doesn't make any sense, what good is a snorkle on an electric car?

2 месяца назадdiscuss

More a comment on how HN has devolved in the past 2 years, if I want snark, this isn't the place I go to find it.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

Why?

3 месяца назадdiscuss

Its not always about speed, This winter I was on interstate 93 in a 4WD with winter tyres. I was doing 25-35mph because the roads weren't treated. I still spun out, like many others. The road was an ice rink.

Humans and Control System Models need feedback to operate, and worse still... when any input into the vehicle's controls produce zero results, you will spin out.

My concern with a model in these conditions is that it wouldn't recoginize the fact that other cars were in the ditch and that it should probably slow down

3 месяца назадdiscuss

I'm fairly certain at some point very early in your career you thought so! You may have even cried out for it in public!!

3 месяца назадdiscuss

Firefox 149 + ublock origin did not display ads for me

4 месяца назадdiscuss

>I actually believe that software “could” be an engineering discipline but we have a long way to go

It certain mission critical applications, it is treated as engineering. One example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B

4 месяца назадdiscuss

You might be talking to a chatbot!!

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

tbh, that's just what I read yesterday, it could be turned off again. I haven't looked at that cesspit in well over a year.

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

Right, and the outcome changes little that wasn't already known.

The interesting part of this story is why was this switched on now, by whom? Why was it briefly turned off? Was that an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle?