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by mwint 3y ago
Likely this has more to do with their professional liability insurance than any government regulation, directly.
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by mwint 3y ago
Did you suffer any increase in premiums? I’ve never been involved in any sort of accident (other than being a passenger), so what happens after an accident re. premiums, etc. is a Scary Thing that I’d love to demystify for myself before I l
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by mwint 3y ago
It doesn’t measure those factors in advance.
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by mwint 3y ago
I’ve thought that ever since they got caught rolling an EV down a hill for a promo video, after taking tons of money from a major automaker. Wait? That wasn’t Tesla? Okay, I guess there’s a level below “fraudulent to the very core”
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by mwint 3y ago
> My 2016 ICE car's "miles left" meter is accurate to +/- 2 miles from the moment I top up the tank (80% highway driving, 20% hilly city and rolling country roads). No way. That’d be accurate to under 1% - well within
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by mwint 3y ago
Regulation is just social pressure enforced by guns.
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by mwint 3y ago
USian here, I see the same thing.
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by mwint 3y ago
> could only see a about 5-feet forward Does this mean optical nearsightedness, or a neural thing limiting vision by distance?
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by mwint 3y ago
Charge timer is the only thing other than the backup camera that is materially improved by the larger touch screen. The charge timer is moved to the little dashboard LCD in the S model, and it’s a bit janky.
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by mwint 3y ago
I have a 2014 Nissan Leaf S (the lowest trim). It’s refreshingly simple, it has a screen but it’s only for the radio and it’s not a touch screen. Tactile controls for everything. It has an 80 mile range, which is fine for everything around
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by mwint 3y ago
Okay, so 20mi of where you were born and the four other places easily accessible by rail. It just wouldn’t work in rural, spread out America. (Anyway, if we cave to this demand, getting rid of trains will be next on the docket. Remember whe
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by mwint 3y ago
> to turn all of our freeways into green spaces. And live and die within 20mi of where you’re born?
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by mwint 3y ago
Hedge trimmers haven’t been.
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by mwint 3y ago
Defcon tickets are that cheap? Man, I just assumed it was a 1200+ thing.
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by mwint 3y ago
Keyboard brightness - you can put the control into control center and then it’s two clicks to get to a slider for it. Not awesome, but for the relatively rare times I want to change it manually, it’s been acceptable.
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by mwint 3y ago
This is a very strong statement about an unreleased product in a nascent field. What are you basing it on?
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by mwint 3y ago
They also don’t IPO more than once, usually.
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by mwint 3y ago
Not Apple PR magic, but true firsthand experience. Objectively, this is the computer that makes me happiest and most productive. It could run on a 6MHz slime mold processor for all I care.
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by mwint 3y ago
See, this is the thing about M1: I don’t care about your numbers (which I have no doubt are true), I care about my personal experience with the magic cold $999 aluminum slab that runs circles around everything I owned before. Reading these
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by mwint 3y ago
I have one, and it did/does. Those statements were not untrue. Idk if it swaps fast or what, and I don't care.
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by mwint 3y ago
Git commit timestamps are 100% fudgeable. You could implement this based on GitHub repository age, but the assumptions would break for imported repos. (Understanding we’re waaaay off in edge case territory here and this is all basically aca
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by mwint 3y ago
Collect calls.
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by mwint 3y ago
Good point. I’m mostly talking about following the phone tree (the vehicle extended warranty people needed you to hit 1 to get to a human). Definitely a good call not to just mash numbers.
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by mwint 3y ago
A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me. Probably 2h net inv
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by mwint 3y ago
This is somewhat pedantic. With this logic, you could say that the purpose of a car is to get somewhere, and therefore the optimal speed is c. But that would be a completely useless thing to say, because we can’t get your Camry to c. There
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by mwint 3y ago
Relevant: Bits About Money, The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero : https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
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by mwint 3y ago
Agree. Apple’s default password generator has always seemed to strike a sane balance - plenty of entropy, technically contains special characters (-) but nothing that needs escaped, and very typeable or readable.
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by mwint 3y ago
My requirement is to tow the Space Shuttle up Mt Everest. I found a used Prius and am unsatisfied with its performance. Cmon, that’s not a defect. That’s being irritated because you didn’t spec out what you need.
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by mwint 3y ago
Heavy. Huge. Expensive. Complex. Prone to failure. Basically like any design-by-committee output.
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by mwint 3y ago
Yeah, and there will always be a country willing to let you do anything short of actual piracy under their flag, maybe for a fee. There’s no world government, thank goodness.

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