DannyBee

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by DannyBee 3y ago
I'm staying out of all of this, but i'll opine on the legal side - defamation requires statements of fact and not opinions. To the degree his rant deals with facts - like claiming someone did or did not do a thing, that's at
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I weld the same way anyone does. I happened to be able to get it really cheap for various reasons.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
They are much easier to get good welds with - they are essentially computer controlled. So you can just select the right profiles, and pretty much drag the head in the right place and get a good weld. It will get better, as well. While it
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I own a 3kw handheld laser welding rig. Yes, they are easier than glue guns to handle. But you know, a lot more dangerous. Particularly since the lasers currently used are invisible and reflected light will still destroy your eyes (or someo
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by DannyBee 3y ago
IAAL - this is possibly the dumbest complaint i've read in a while. Media matters claimed that advertisements were shown next to fringe content. This complaint literally admits that happened, but claims it is somehow defamation because
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by DannyBee 3y ago
"But there's no upside to you as a corporate lawyer if you advocate for taking risks. " This is a great trope, but as anyone who ever worked with me or plenty of others would tell you, this is both totally wrong, and most goo
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Sure, i agree some of this is not feasible, and the most likely path for any large corporation here is to cut their losses and figure out how to deal. I'm just giving an example of where they do have leverage if they want to use it des
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by DannyBee 3y ago
So, for starters, they own all the compute being used. I think people seriously underestimate how hard it is to get the GPU compute/etc that is necessary to be useful here. Lead time would be years, easily, even if you had the money.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I'm not defensive, I just find your extreme position remarkably silly. You included nothing about how costs affect anything. You simply assert that you should always test prod on pristine production units. There are plenty of times ou
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Uh, this is a perfectly normal ota process when dealing with multiple embedded systems. It seems silly to off the cuff assert that it is a bad process or only done by those who have no idea what they are doing.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
In general, most state antitrust and unfair competition laws mirror the Sherman act. So even if you could construct a purely intrastate scenario, it would not make much difference in practice.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
One piece of confusion here is that you do not actually have to prove a literal explicit agreement between the parties to be successful. While tacit collusion is not itself illegal, conspiracy is. Put another way: You can prohibit folks f
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Lawyer here. Hard disagree. The software is sold for the purpose of reducing competition, and gives advice on how to best achieve that. Everyone colluding is buying and using the software with a goal of not competing with each other. That
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I'll also add - the times folks have spent fighting change in what jobs are needed rarely ends up well vs the time spend helping people adapt to that change. You have to know the change is real, of course, but once you do, we've e
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by DannyBee 3y ago
"(3) At some point, it will be so advanced that it will hardly need anyone to create it, and Google and other big tech companies can use it to be an alternative to traditional musicians, who will not be able to compete and therefore wi
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by DannyBee 3y ago
It is great to live in an ideal world, and in fact, in most software, you can do what you are suggesting quite cheaply. But once you get past the sort of "quip on hacker-news" level of thinking about this, or trivial and cheap pr
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Sure, but it could also be signed binaries inside the OTA, a variant of what you are talking about. IE OTA is a signed package, inside package are also signed binaries. OTA itself is properly signed, a single binary (infotainment) is signed
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by DannyBee 3y ago
The software package probably is signed right but contains multiple signed binaries of which one is signed wrong. Or is multiple signed packages and one is wrong. Or the test cars accept prod and test certs. Or some combo of the above. Ther
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by DannyBee 3y ago
The firmware is probably not just a signed package but signed binaries in the package as well. One is probably signed with the wrong cert. This would not cause the updater to fail unless it verified the certs of all the binaries in the pac
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by DannyBee 3y ago
It's probably closer to: The test vehicles accept test/prod signed versions Regular vehicles only accept prod signed versions They are otherwise identical. The test vehicles were sent test signed versions The prod vehicles were se
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Rivian does have a test fleet, and they test it for weeks before releasing. This particular issue is because they apparently distributed the firmware signed with the wrong cert. Not a bug in the software itself. That is independent of testi
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by DannyBee 3y ago
So that if you like to randomly switch your underlying network management tools, you can have something take what you have and generate semi-working configurations with hard to track down bugs.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Go did not have the goal of the best possible performance, it was targeting good performance with amazing compile times. It still targets this. It was also developed by some of the most productive geniuses in the world (disclaimer: the go
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I mean, working this long anywhere will make you a millionaire, but also keep in mind things often happen in 20 years that can cost a lot: Caring for sick parents/loved ones Your own medical/etc issues Kids Divorce Market changes
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by DannyBee 3y ago
I've been at Google for 18 years, starting as an L4, I'm now a VP. I've had nothing like the experience described (even while working on lots of non-shiny things). I had previously worked at numerous large tech companies - Mi
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by DannyBee 3y ago
This is not quite right. LTO was available in llvm forever, and well predates GCC, clang is just a particular frontend. RMS finally allowed the GCC IR to be saved to disk in part as a response to llvm doing it and becoming popular (I worked
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Of course - i'll add, if someone has an rpi4 around and wants to try it, i'm happy to work with them to fix wpa-3 if this doesn't do it. I just don't have one to test with.
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Good news! Basically all rockchip RK3588 are using a broadcom wifi chip that is built in. Better news! Rockchip, by default, ships broadcom's bcmdhd driver, with a few hacks for linux, instead of making brcmfmac work. See here: https:
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Whoops, yes, sorry
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by DannyBee 3y ago
Not quite but kinda. They use the same vendor. There are actually a few folks who use the same chips but produce different firmware (was broadcom, infineon, cypress, cypress bought broadcom's IP, and then cypress was later bought by i

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