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by fargle 3y ago
yes, almost. for example, if a company made a car alarm called "SUPER EXTRA SECURE ELITE++ V5" and told me it had a "guaranteed thief proof" immobilizer. but then we find that a viral Tik Tok video shows how to with a ha
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by fargle 3y ago
i didn't say they did! i said they need to take responsibility for their own safety/security or suffer the consequences. whether they should be expected to... is totally irrelevant. i'm not stating a preference, i'm st
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by fargle 3y ago
and when they fire the rest of them and move the headquarters back to Renton (or wherever the engineers live), not VA. and pick some brilliant management with both engineering and business experience, that have strong incentives to make boe
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by fargle 3y ago
> And if Boeing makes a cheap, unsafe plane, don’t fly on it yes. exactly. if boeing ever makes a cheap plane, i would definitely avoid it. you are comparing a company that cheated on legally mandated safety requirements with a company
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by fargle 3y ago
so in what age was ignorance a good option?
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by fargle 3y ago
anyone who thinks there is anybody in the universe other than themselves that is going to take responsibility for their safety, security, happiness, etc. absolutely "deserves" what they get.
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by fargle 3y ago
> If the cars are too easy to steal insurance will increase accordingly that's exactly right. i was somewhat surprised that insurance was outright dropping people instead of simply increasing rates. and by the way, you can get a dis
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by fargle 3y ago
not hard at all. where is CPS? obviously someone isn't giving an 11 year-old appropriate supervision at all if they are driving, let alone stealing a car. there absolutely should be consequences for both the parents and the child in
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by fargle 3y ago
it'd be bad to advertise that they have in immobilizer or anti-theft when providing either nothing or a badly broken implementation (like you often see in IOT). it's not negligence to simply not provide a feature they didn't
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by fargle 3y ago
stupid on stupid. - it's incredibly stupid to ban the flipper zero because it's factually not even part of the problem - but it's equally stupid to "ban insecure vehicles". if kia makes a cheap car with crappy locks
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by fargle 3y ago
this is an absolutely insane position to take in 2024. all around we have junkies in the streets, squatters, shoplifters, car thieves, burglars operating with impunity. you are replying to a post about 12-13 year-olds stealing cars and ca
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by fargle 3y ago
yeah it kinda is
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by fargle 3y ago
can't upvote enough
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by fargle 3y ago
> Usually $20 ish yup. $29 here: https://farmmanualsfast.com/products/case-730-830-and-930-se... . There's also ebay, steiner, and of course yt. And if the same or similar model was ever used by the military, an
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by fargle 3y ago
exactly! and if it did the wrong thing after all, just undo.
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by fargle 3y ago
i'm guessing it's not typical, but i have significant influence over the product and technology choices for a medium sized engineering group within a very large company. it is my (fairly successful) mission that we ABSOLUTELY wil
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by fargle 3y ago
ha! i think we need to patent the method and practice of patent troll insurance...
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by fargle 3y ago
kinda prickly? when i think we agree. i brought up intention because it's a) historically true and b) to contrast with the complete opposite that they developed into. you get rid of something without acknowledging what it was intende
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by fargle 3y ago
i think it did in the US in the 18th and 19th centuries. Colt for example. many old-west certainly had lots of individual or small companies patent gadgets. i think by the 20th century, it was already a big-business only thing. or was that
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by fargle 3y ago
Awesome job! Thank you cloudflare. maybe this is the path to kill the trolls. tech companies could fund an insurance-like mutual scheme to defend instead of pay off the trolls and then drive them out of business. it can also research and in
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by fargle 3y ago
patents were intended to protect the little-guy, the inventor (meaning a person), with an artificial monopoly so he could make money. they weren't intended to be used by huge companies to help further their already impressive monopol
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by fargle 3y ago
that's an incredibly fallacious argument that apple and others make in really bad faith. unless you mean security for apple, that is. having the right to choose whether replace my screen/battery/etc. with a genuine apple (
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by fargle 3y ago
this shows why it's impossible for "HN" readers and like-minded people to agree on anything. the entire rest of mankind isn't bothered by such nonsense: - the bureaucrat that comes up with the sign does not carefully
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by fargle 3y ago
I'm going to email this to Boeing.
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by fargle 3y ago
when you open-source something, with any reasonable OSS license, you are placing it out there freely . not just free to people to use as in cost, but free for them to do mostly anything with it. if you expect to be paid in gratis, fame, re
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by fargle 3y ago
it is, in fact, usually the most interesting part of the document
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by fargle 3y ago
this strikes me as a chesterton's fence situation - "what kind of weird nonsense is this 2's complement where it's asymmetric ( yuck ) and you can't negate -0x8000" i seriously doubt the folks who think this is
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by fargle 3y ago
it's not rare, it's rare that it's the best engineering choice . if your management can't allow even a python script, but it can allow bash? then it's not an engineering problem. as you even allude - your business
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by fargle 3y ago
> Only when the shell calls other external C programs. Ten lines of calling ffmpeg or curl is not shell programming. 100% wrong . this is what the shell was designed to do and where it is at it's best. often shell "scripts&q
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by fargle 3y ago
that's odd, because if guardrails can't handle a rivian or even a hummer ev, then they can't handle school buses, u-hauls, tire service and welding trucks, amazon delivery trucks, etc. there's plenty of vehicles of that

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