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Comment · 24 days ago
Primarily because war reduces access to certain goods. Certain ideas that could work, need to be tossed due to the war's needs or effects on goods/services.
Comment · 29 days ago
Could you stop being so elitist?

Even in Japan there are plenty of places that public transit does not reach. Or, public transport is incredibly rare.(eg: Only one bus in the morning and afternoon, and nothing else.)

Walkable "towns" stop working when you need to leave town.

I do not have a car, because I do not need one. The same does not apply to my friend who is a forester.

Transit options are a major consideration, and cars are absolutely part of that. They aren't cheap, and assuming it's just a car company issue is daft and disrespectful.

Comment · 2 months ago
Oh I wish that was possible.

Fact is if the customer wants to put their worksite management on AWS, you inevitably expose the OPC server and/or PLC to a Intranet. This is then inevitably connected to the internet in some way. The customer may or may not put barriers between them, but that's not up to us to decide.

This becomes especially a problem if they have multiple sites across a country or countries.

We have a customer that runs a factory on god forsaken WIFI, then dares to complain about a bad connection to said equipment. Thankfully, they have their own internal IT department.

Comment · 11 months ago
No. That restriction has been gone for a few years now.

I can run rimworld and quasimorph via steam at the same time, as an example.

Comment · 1 year ago
He singlehandedly annihilated the US soybean market.

That's not a good thing. Lots of farmers going bankrupt now.

Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/japan-tariffs-us...

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15953967

Well, having the paper agreement certainly helped last time. (A month ago.)

There's also a Language barrier. So making sure there is a written agreement ensures that both sides understand what was agreed upon.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Paper trail stuff. But more importantly, when the first set of executive orders reducing tariffs rates went out, it conveniently mentioned Japanese investments but did not include tariff reductions for Japanese goods.

So the Japanese government pointed at the written agreement and told the trump admin to get their shit together. A few days later, the tariff reductions on Japanese goods was hastily added on.

Comment · 1 year ago
They definitely can. For my first 3 months it was obligatory to show up to the office. The office was basically a apartment room, and very small. But it got the job done.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am guilty of this one. I was 30 minutes from a presentation, and couldn't figure out why my code couldn't get the key from the hosting service.

So I just hard coded the key. The key was rotated after the presentation.

Does not look very good on a repo.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just the short demo videos on their website.

Their example of the music app. You have a translucent bar showing the currently playing music app.

It gets harder to read when it overlaps with the background music album covers. I can very easily see a situation where you need to scroll to an empty bit, just to be able to read what it is actually playing.

Now, imagine you have a visual impairment. It's already hard to read with mostly normal eyes. This will be impossible for anyone with bad vision, probably even worse if colorblind.

It is genuinely unreadable, and a mess visually.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh, so it's one of the two boosters they caught with the chopsticks?

Dang, that's actually quite insane.

Shame that block2/block3 starship is such a mess.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yea, the super heavy booster was flying a refurbished engine from a previous super heavy flight.

Explosion was probably expected.

Comment · 1 year ago
No car advertising lane keeping or emergency breaking, would punch through that wall. Regardless of whether it's a simple poster, or a Styrofoam wall.

Because emergency breaking should just work, regardless of mode.

Comment · 1 year ago
That should also be entirely irrelevant.

It's emergency breaking. There shouldn't be differing results on whether you paid an extra $8000 usd or not.

FSD does not advertise better emergency breaking as a feature. (Last I checked anyway.)

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