xethos

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by xethos 2mo ago
> API has absolutely no switching costs. Were that true, many embedded maps would have switched to OSM instead of Google Maps after Google massively increased costs. Adding your business to OSM is free, and API costs would fall pretty dr
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by xethos 2mo ago
Minor note, you forgot battery life. Pinging your location every other minute for traffic and crowd denisty for Google Maps, even using AGPS, isn't cheap. When you find battery life randomly tanks for a few days, despite not changing a
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by xethos 2mo ago
The phone app misses lots of data the car can collent and send. When, how frequently, and how long turn indicators are used. How aggressively the throttle and brake are applied, how frequently pre-tensioners and other safety features activa
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by xethos 2mo ago
But then you're right back where you started: When you need a clean number for a hospital or similarly important service to call (Wife's work, daycare, school office), it goes to the distrusted, silent-by-default line, or, just as
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by xethos 2mo ago
> My only solution that I could think of is to have a dedicated phone line just for friends/family/work, and a second line for banking/shopping/utilities/everything else. This fails the moment one of your &quot
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by xethos 2mo ago
I think the most surprising thing about this is trusting Google.
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by xethos 2mo ago
> security and legal restrictions The security of American hedgemony, and legal restrictions that are due to laws enacted by the American government You're using different words to describe the same thing, but trying to imply Americ
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by xethos 2mo ago
In 2008 Sergey Brin and Larry Page saw the limo waiting, and instead chose to rollerblade to the Android unveiling. Sergey Brin, during the presentation, threw his G1 in the air to show off how his homemade application leveraged the accel
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by xethos 2mo ago
Sounds like you're unironically describing a Tangara [0]. They most certainly hit their goal, though I can't verify if they get restocked or how often. Mine's lasted, and it works pretty well, though the touchwheel isn't
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by xethos 2mo ago
I mostly agree, but it's the lack of enforcement that's the Get out of Jail Free card, not the T&C
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by xethos 2mo ago
> the right to own firearms is very explicitly stated in our constitution The right to bear arms does not necessarily mean firearms. Arms doesn't necessarily even have to include firearms, and America is already pretty damn stri
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by xethos 2mo ago
You're gonna love finding out who was behind the founding of Comma.AI, which adds self-driving to cars that shipped without it
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by xethos 2mo ago
> and I’ve done all the searching in the world for the lyrics I remember and have never found the band Shoulda posted what you remember (and ideally male / female vocalist) as a post-script. The throwaway comment could be your way b
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by xethos 3mo ago
Regardless of whether we classify it as humanities or political science (as neither seems to be looked at as terribly useful in the states), a population without some grasp of civics does not lend itself to a healthy democracy Not everyon
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by xethos 3mo ago
Sure, that's why Smokey the Bear is such a bad idea. Ignore the fact that pushing propaganda starts young, (the population in general, but especially) children are impressionable, and (echoing sibling) that we should probably consider
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by xethos 3mo ago
I'm struggling not to be sarcastic here, as I'm not quite stoked about Canadian Tire owning most of what's left of Hudson's Bay Company. It's pretty undeniable proof that age and revenue will not make a company im
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by xethos 3mo ago
> Its [sic] bad when a hostile foreign government has [...] information about [...] your citizens How many domestic automotive manufacturers does America have, and how many times has the current administration threatened annexation of th
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by xethos 3mo ago
Ironic coming from the country with three domestic OEMs, and routinely threatens economic annexation of my country
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by xethos 3mo ago
> Commissioning reactors that won't come online for 10-15 years makes no sense at all, economically and practically. Because we won't need base load in 15 years? Or because you're arguing that we'll have so many batte
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by xethos 3mo ago
The fact that every 737 MAX was the samew design also means that, upon rcognizing the flaw, every one could be grounded and fixed properly. We did not have to verify 15 different designs were all vulnerable due to Boeing trying to nickel an
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by xethos 3mo ago
This is entirely unrelated to your point, but as you brought up the sanctity some Americans hold their founding fathers to: How do some assume the American founding fathers thought ahead, and had it all planned out, with good solutions (i
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by xethos 3mo ago
That still means the main point, the reason they are there, will never be peace. They are there to fight, and to fuck your shit up - which is both an image the current administration embraces, and very much not a good look outside the c
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by xethos 4mo ago
> And frankly I don't see the problem with warfighter Because it implies, quite pointedly, that the United States will never send a peacekeeping force.
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by xethos 4mo ago
> Cd will never be the dominating factor at speeds which do not produce significant aerodynamic drag That helped it sink in, thank you
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by xethos 4mo ago
This is in no way a solution to the population-scale problem of a belligerant nation having root on the citizenry's mobile phones/cameras/GPS units/network scanners
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by xethos 4mo ago
As efficiency improves across motors and inverters, wouldn't regen make CoD matter more, possibly tilting it to the dominant factor again?
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by xethos 4mo ago
I'd throw in the manual gearbox, the noise, vibration, smell, and being able to see the mechanical workings as well. We can get a punchy, lightweight vehicle with an EV conversion, but as you've heard from others, that leaves so
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by xethos 4mo ago
Fuck, you missed it being bad at being a phone . It launched on the network that had such bad coverage they needed Apple's hottest product ever to get people to switch. They had to put a cell repeater (or was it a miniature tower?)
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by xethos 4mo ago
> Devs have always considered ourselves lazy. The point of programming is to do as little actual work as possible ;) Any self-respecting sysop has a couple hundred scripts so that they don't have to actually type anything :) Sure, t
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by xethos 4mo ago
While I could have sworn RIM put out their own modems (which Qualcomm used to make life difficult for them, especially as the world transitioned from 3G to 4G), and did their own hardware and software, I can't currently find a source

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