skywhopper

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by skywhopper 12d ago
“ A Hyundai executive told the media in 2024, "we also tried out putting touchscreen-based controls, and people didn’t prefer that", "people get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but
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by skywhopper 12d ago
Yeah, I’ve seen it working. It does work well to implement a multi-system transactional workflow broken down into retryable steps. So, eg, if you are operating a SaaS and need a workflow for new customer signup to wait for multiple steps th
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by skywhopper 13d ago
There’s probably a fuse to turn off the cellular radio that transmits the data. Whether that’s all it covers may vary from car to car. Or in some models it’s probably possible to just disconnect the radio entirely.
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by skywhopper 18d ago
You’d think, wouldn’t you? But there are so many promotions and discounts and bundles going on that it’s never a linear relationship. So no one would be able to easily tell the numbers were diverging for at least a few quarters. And as long
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by skywhopper 18d ago
You realize government services that support that home cost money, right? You act like if you own your home that your living there doesn’t impose any costs on your neighbors.
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by skywhopper 22d ago
Good, I wonder how much money they’ve wasted over the years paying for RHEL.
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by skywhopper 22d ago
The point is that the enforcement agencies make the assumption that GPS data is always correct. But there are any number of issues that can cause problems with it. People making decisions about how to enforce house arrest or design autonomo
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by skywhopper 22d ago
It’s the same category of error, is the point he was making. Relax a bit.
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by skywhopper 22d ago
Really large companies have lots of domains even if they aren’t “hoarding” them. But even a few dozen domains is enough to need automation.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
You have swallowed some dangerous, racist propaganda if you believe this. “Remigration” is a code word for forcible ethnic cleansing.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
Yes, that is literally what it is.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
He calls for removal of people based on their ethnicity. What would you call that?
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
Well, you should probably look into the open and loud politics of DHH before defending him.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
Literally any post on his personal blog in the past few years, for a start.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
The companies selling these ideas (and tuning their products to work well in this mode) make money based on how much they are used. They’ve committed to ludicrous levels of demand growth that can’t possibly be sustained by direct human use.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
That’s fine, and you’re doing fine. In fact, in a few years you will probably be far more skilled than most “software engineers”.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
No legitimate reason, but money plus investor pressure plus lack of privacy laws goes a long way towards self-justification.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
Yeah because it has an actual correlation, whereas BMI is a ridiculously oversimplified measurement designed for population statistics based on what data is easily available, not individual assessment.
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by skywhopper 1mo ago
So, your name is also this sort of identifier. But an “identifier” is not an “identity” in the way you mean it. Sometimes words are used in multiple ways.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
You don’t seem to know much about where these datacenters are being built. They are usually greenfield sites, often in relatively rural areas where there may not actually be any local zoning regulations. Or when they are on brownfield urban
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
You think the folks who are successfully organizing against datacenters can’t use the same techniques and support networks to do the same thing against other nuisance uses?
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
I hope you get paid for apologizing for the worst people in the world.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
They could (and should be required to) build out their own solar/wind/battery infra as part of standing up a new datacenter. So much money is being wasted on poisoning our air and further enriching the richest companies in the his
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
Batteries exist, and are getting better all the time.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
Yes, they said that.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
What a terrible outlook. “It’s not possible to do this thing safely at Meta’s scale” is an apologist cop-out. First of all, yes it is, Meta makes tens of billions of dollars of pure profit every year. They were that profitable while blowing
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
This author has a ton of axes to grind and a poor grasp of computing history or how industry works. Pretending like it’s strange or even bad that industrial datacenter builders with tens of billions of leveraged capital can outbuild the GPU
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
Yes, the new ones often use dirty generators 24/7, and probably will for years. They are loud and toxic to the local community.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
They tend to use coal and natural gas, instead, often in especially dirty forms. The fact that they can use solar doesn’t mean they do.
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by skywhopper 2mo ago
“Disability, the new form of welfare”? How old are you exactly?

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