Our banks are publishing papers that for every 1% our population increases, home prices appreciate 3% above the target CPI of 2%; AFTER accounting for interest rates.
It's flat out a Ponzi Scheme. Our real wages are absolute CRAP.
Sadly overloaded by the time I tried to see what made it funny.
I'm going to just imagine it was an over-serious presentation about your butt being a fantastic investment opportunity with unicorn potential, offering growth of 35% per year by providing a zero-carbon solution to gas shortages.
In some alternate universe 1984's "The Terminator" is a movie with a similar plot to "Pitch Black" in our universe (yes I know it's an eclipse in "Pitch Black").
This isn't really relevant to bring up in 2022. But this thread always brings a huge grin to my face.
I'm probably one of the few that really likes watching the "Steve Jobs" level of product quality, just blast across the internet at all expenses. Because it helps me feel better about what passes for quality in a lot of my day to day.
It brings me hope to see that level of passion over reliability. There's a time and place for that, but yeah, things happen.
(Unfortunately I have to flag this post for relevance, because 10-year old threads are not exactly meeting the quality for content we want on HN!)
You’re definitely not alone in enjoying seeing something like this. I would probably hate being on the receiving end personally, but I’m glad that this kind of sheer passion for quality exists in the world.
I agree that your point on cloud gaming is probably valid for companies trying to maintain a rigid grip over software piracy when the companies still build things that can be stolen -- But I don't think it's strictly necessary for the development of anti-cheat systems.
In the next version of Windows, we're seeing a rapid acceleration in the amount of hardware/software fingerprinting and secure storage going on in home computing, with the introduction of the TPM 2.0 and UEFI requirements.
I am almost certain that Microsoft is progressing to be able to sell a completely hardware-protected memory address space to game developers, so that they no longer HAVE to worry about cheating. Because if everything from boot onwards is both signed and supports DRM, it's the perfect place to authenticate everything that happens afterwards.
This is interesting in that it will almost certainly lead to an explosion of DRM, DLC, and software sold via subscription models. And while this kind of thing will probably be initially well received by players hoping for decent anti-cheats, it will almost certainly lead to users forfeiting even more control to corporations over the final direction of the software programming.
(This kind of control may eat itself alive given enough time; we'll really only know after humanity has already gone that far!)
I am almost certain the MS store built into the Win11 will be this antichrist of consumer control. They have all the pieces. They just need to put them together in the coming years.
> Negative associations have been highlighted by virtue of the darkness and unilluminated things in general being traditionally considered negative.
It really depends where you go. Contrary to popular belief, America is not the center of the universe...
Your argument associates Black = Bad = Black people. But as an example, they don't do this in Russia. Yes, they do associate Black = Bad to an extent, but black people do not come into the picture at all!
I'm fairly sure that when I say they're not racist towards black people, I say it for every Slavic country out there.
So it really does matter where you go when making that kind of claim about ethnically motivated interpretations behind words. We might need to go as far as to appreciate if/when the complete opposite of Black = Bad may be true.
This action on the whole though needs to be careful about whether it is doing anybody any favors, by trying to force the speaker's /intent/ about what was said, where none was necessarily had to begin with.
On the whole, you can't just change people by changing words. You have to show them a reason to WANT to change. The bigger the change, the more powerful reason you have to give them. Telling people what they /meant/ though, is not quite the same as trying to fix a racism problem.
I work in the auto industry in HMDs, and I think the last comment was somewhat on the right track, but perhaps missing bits of a larger issue at hand.
We can get the impression that Waze was built on a lot of technical debt by the amount of corners Google had to cut to even get it on screen -- how much it doesn't fit in their UI framework, and how poorly it runs when streamed to the HMD. Even Google Maps in satellite view runs terribly on the 90% of vehicles on the road that implement Android Auto. The underlying protocol used to convey that amount of data to the HMD runs like crap on most vehicles, and for better or worse the current protocol is pretty much frozen in time because most vehicles don't apply OTA updates yet. (Some manufacturers even charge labor for applying updates!)
The reason I'm picking on Waze specifically though is because HMD's have much stranger User <-> Interface considerations for what is safe, legal, and not crappy UI design. Add fire to fury, the performance is barely passable today.
Apps must have this, and so will Google if they are to be successful here. Whether Google even knows where they're going with a reliable HMD framework for using cookie-cutter UI components is largely unknown, but I don't think they're satisfied with the current API.
That's exactly the sort of comment I come here for.
We retrofitted (i.e. hacked) AA onto my wifes 124 Spider. I've noticed it judders a lot when in satellite mode, but not in normal. Assumed this wouldn't be the case as it's essentially a video stream being played with touch events sent back and USB audio. Maybe some headunits are a bit underpowered for this?
That said on my Kia Cee'd it runs like a dream regardless, there is never a glitch.
Any more insight on the way AA and Carplay work from a manufacturers PoV?
If you go through with it, pay attention to the version numbers.
I personally didn’t install it yet because previously you’d lose some functionality like navigation for the next owner. With the new tweaks that’s not an isssue.
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The software AA is laggy because it’s essentially simulating proper AA.
There’s a note saying it’s not recommended anymore for being out of date and buggy
> ...most vehicles don't apply OTA updates yet. (Some manufacturers even charge labor for applying updates!)
Some vehicles' nav systems do not refresh the navigation data in any way unless you pay for the update and, as you say, pay labor to install the update. In other words the application code and navigation data are bundled. The update costs run about one iPhone XS per annum. From experience, the update is not even satisfying.
I certainly won't be looking to built-in nav in the future: too many opportunities to test my resolve to not feel bad about something expensive, disappointing, and out of my control. As long as smart phones fit in the cupholder I will use my phone.
> Android auto is just a remote screen. Nothing is generated by the car display. A H264 video stream is generated by the Android App on the smartphone.
So ... the car really just needs to implement h264 streaming to be compatible? So there's exactly nothing special about bringing an app to Auto (in theory)?
The ridiculous part is if you had once had location tracking on before, and had previously set your Home/Work address - Android Auto will still occasionally offer you directions to Home/Work spontaneously, despite Android Auto refusing to let you "Navigate Home/Work" when you attempt to do so on demand?
Hiring discrimination is not the same thing as advertising/outreach.
You are free to to apply to any company you want, and they are legally required to judge you on the basis of your skills (equality of opportunity). They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).
If 60% of your workforce came from European universities, while 40% other universities -- are you required to advertise to them all equally? What if that 60% figure came about on its own, with no external influence on your part. Maybe they have more international renown for the skills your company just happens to desire? Would you spend the same advertising budget on both institutions?
Sometimes these things happen on their own, But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality, especially when these things weren't necessarily broken in the first place.
Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance -- we need to be careful!
> They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).
Huh?
> But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality
Uhh....
You're arguing against things none of the ancestors have argued.
You use an example (geographic location of a university), however that is not a protected class under US labor law.
> Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance
There certainly are bigots running companies, and in hiring committees. Even in Enlightened Silicon Valley! Ignoring that fact is one of the reasons Facebook now faces a federal lawsuit with substantial merit.
Our banks are publishing papers that for every 1% our population increases, home prices appreciate 3% above the target CPI of 2%; AFTER accounting for interest rates.
It's flat out a Ponzi Scheme. Our real wages are absolute CRAP.