“national security”. On Facebook. Okay guys. A better title would be "Zuck offered to completely legally sell their data (yes it’s their’s , read the ToS) to China in a completely legal bid to gain entry into China. It’s not even alleged that he broke any laws.

The real problem is that the US doesn’t have any digital data privacy laws, so ToSs for these services can contain whatever the host wants, and they can do whatever they want with the data. But that will never happen.

It still amazes me that all of those investors and endorsers were so dazzled by her sales pitch that nobody bothered to actually get confirmation of any of the technical details. They just believed…that’s it.

Someone somewhere is already asking whether a CEO’s job can be done by AI.

It happened with Snakes on a Plane too. Everyone was waiting to cheer when SLJ said that one line. Cool vibes.

Private equity is salivating over the idea of running his carefully built brand into the groundmaximizing value extraction from steam.

The current meta here is that things like brand loyalty and reputation are not really worth preserving, and are only as good as whatever short-term gains you can squeeze out of them.

They’ll have it lobotomized in a few days.

Okay but have you ever tried just throwing genAI at the problem and not caring about the consequences?

Of course not, whiteness means she’s reflecting all the light so wouldn’t be sunburning.

^ example of how a technically correct premise + sloppy logic can lead to a wrong conclusion.

I got the head unit changed in my Subaru . In the Subaru, the systems that the Head Unit controls (entertainment system, backup cam, Sat NAV) are totally separate from critical systems. So everything the head unit controls can fail and the car will still work.

And you’re right, there’s an interface/translation layer . In my case the guy used an iDataLink Maestro. It seems the only thing the iDataLink company does provide interfaces that allow head units to talk to car computers, so that the Head unit manufacturers don’t have to bother.

I’m not sure such separation is common in EVs.

This is why I wouldn’t put it past them to try to hide the real sales numbers. Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re down 90+ percent and the company is effectively dead already. The board of directors are Elon’s creatures and their personal wealth will depend on keeping the facade (and stock price) up so they aren’t about to cry foul.

I suspect most people will take the latter option. Enjoy your “victory”.

I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.

I remember printing out MapQuest instructions on paper before trips. The first time I tried it and it just spit out exact directions it seemed almost magical.

Pressing “Launch” is the same whether you’re in Epic or Steam. I have like 40 games on epic and I’ve paid them exactly $0. In the same time I spent quite a bit on Steam. It’s hard to see what value Epic is getting out of me from this.

I just built a desktop with 64gb of RAM. I could get by on 16 easily. Should I seek treatment?

You’re not creating more stick, but you’re making the stick longer. The pressure wave in the stick will travel at the speed of sound in the stick which will be faster than sound in air, but orders of magnitude slower than light.

Everything has some elasticity. Rigidity is an illusion . Things that feel rigid to us are rigid in human terms only.

They get away with it because they don’t have serious competition and the reason for that is that allowing anyone to upload videos for free, to be viewed by anyone else for free, is by itself not a viable business model.

Yeah this is the ultrasonic type. The diaphragm is basically a waterproof speaker fed with a signal in the 3-5 MHz range. I don’t get how the fine liquid bubbles don’t coalesce. Are they all similarly charge or something?

Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won’t have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.

I haven’t seen that episode in probably 15 years and I still remember exactly what this was.