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by gortok 1y ago
That’s the bug, that the rear view camera stayed on when I shifted into drive until I manually closed it. I could reproduce that bug reliably, leaving me to believe it’s just not a big deal to the manufacturer to fix. Also, just because you
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by gortok 1y ago
I agree. In the Venn diagram of the programming culture of the companies that embrace vibe coding and the companies whose developers like to rewrite applications when a new framework comes out is almost a perfect circle, however.
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by gortok 1y ago
Developers have always loved the new and shiny. Heck, getting developers not to rewrite an application in their new favorite framework is a tough sell. LLM “vibe coding” is another continuation of this “new hotness”, and while the more se
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by gortok 1y ago
I use their adaptive cruise control; and unless they intentionally nerfed it compared to their FSD, I have to be really careful using it in the DC area, as it will randomly brake in certain places. With the latest Tesla Updates I can tell i
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by gortok 1y ago
Let me start with the App. The Tesla App allows me to lock, unlock the car, pop and close the trunk, check the cameras, schedule it to warm itself up, input destinations, see its real-time location, and see charging issues. The app isn&#x27
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by gortok 1y ago
The "Hype" (not sure why we're using scare-quotes here; as if somehow EVs are the only thing that aren't subject to the Gartner Hype Cycle) surrounding EVs include some of the following: - Range is vastly overstated, esp
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by gortok 1y ago
I'm sure Teslas automated features work well in California, where their engineers are based. They do not, however, work as well in the varying climates found on the East Coast. This is funny as a "works on my machine" appro
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by gortok 1y ago
As someone who dislikes Musk's seemingly oblivious approach to "Move fast and break things" in government when real lives are at stake and expertise is not easy to come by, I really want this drop to be attributable to that.
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Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds(cnn.com)
179 points by gortok 1y ago|181 comments
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by gortok 1y ago
How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten
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by gortok 1y ago
The SSBA (Small Software Business Alliance) was set up by Michele Hansen -- co-founder of Geocodio, http://geocod.io (and the SSBA is now run by another person) for this reason -- to raise awareness in Washington DC of the issue
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by gortok 1y ago
The IRS releases guidance on tax code, and one of the issues with section 174 taking effect in 2022 (and the IRS believing it would be repealed before it went into effect) was that the guidance was released in 2023 under notice 2023-63 htt
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by gortok 1y ago
> A startup isn't likely to be making a profit yet, under either accounting rule. Is there a benefit to reporting a larger loss? As an example, A two person software startup; both drawing a salary, each making $100,000 per year. Eac
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by gortok 1y ago
Post a link to one? Would love to see how they turn out.
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by gortok 1y ago
> Companies seem to be persuaded that, like assembly lines of old, A.I. can increase productivity. A recent paper by researchers at Microsoft and three universities found that programmers’ use of an A.I. coding assistant called Copilot,
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by gortok 1y ago
At least currently, to qualify for copyright, there must be a human author. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-co... I have no idea how this will ultimately shake out legally, but it would
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by gortok 1y ago
This over-simplifies our federal system to the point of uselessness. The Federal Government is responsible for immigration. It's their job to set policies and adjudicate immigration issues. Local and State Law Enforcement are not resp
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by gortok 1y ago
Indeed; and when the Second Vatican Council decided Mass should be said in the vernacular, the obligation of the Church was to follow. Instead, the conservatives of the church ('conservative' here means those that emphasize adheri
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by gortok 1y ago
Define “substantial”? What percentage of copying is “substantial”? That’s the problem with concisely written licenses, the legal world thrives on definitions and terms of art, and when you leave something open to interpretation you invite t
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by gortok 1y ago
I would like to know how far from the “norm” ICE has deviated since January 19, 2025. It’s possible this is something that happens, and just wasn’t widely reported before now, but is because of the ethnophobic nature of our current administ
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by gortok 1y ago
It’s important to note that The Two Popes was a drama, and not a true factual story. It fictionalizes and sensationalizes some details; and that’s ok because its purpose is to make you feel exactly the way you feel about it. Pope Francis wa
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If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it(fastcompany.com)
64 points by gortok 1y ago|34 comments
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by gortok 2y ago
For the sake of argument, let’s say Trump won on the issue of the economy and “fixing it” to work for the work class who has largely been ignored politically by congress. That is a one issue voter, and at least the folks I’ve seen around he
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by gortok 2y ago
I would hope the folks that frequent HN would not be so insular as to only read what happens on HN and not read any other news source. If you’ve somehow missed Trump’s systematic dismantling of academic freedom or his disappearing of folks
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by gortok 2y ago
By “divisive” you mean dividing heads from bodies, right?
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by gortok 2y ago
As someone who is colorblind (Deuteranopia), the first level asks to swap the green and brown frog. With the hues used, I can’t tell the difference between the two frogs.
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by gortok 2y ago
That already seems to be happening. Business leaders with capital are actively trying to replace workers with AI or offshoring; so what would be the extra damage from codifying that we want folks to put their money here?
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by gortok 2y ago
The damage is real even if the dollar amount of the cuts is overhyped.
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by gortok 2y ago
Today. I get an interstitial every time I log in that tries to get me to enable their VoiceID system (here's a screenshot): https://georgestocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/schwabv...
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by gortok 2y ago
What shocks (and irritates!) me is that Charles Schwab keeps wanting me to set up voice ID. Why would I want to set up a voice ID for something that is now trivially spoofed?

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