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Comment · 1 year ago
It would be nice if they'd let you see the whole thing at once.
Comment · 2 years ago
If they're selling below cost, who's the "we" that should buy them all up? Because if it's US consumers, then the domestic auto companies could fail in the while that's happening. If it's the US government - isn't that kind of what the tariff accomplishes, without having to take ownership of a bunch of inventory?
Comment · 2 years ago
That's really cool. I tried it with an angled mirror, it was really weird wiggling my thumb and seeing it in the reflection but not outside of it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think we can confidently call stupid actions stupid actions. Inertia from prior success can keep them from being company-ending actions, especially if they can be corrected once they are recognized as stupid (or once the people who knew they were stupid from the beginning can gather enough political clout).

Tesla has smart people, just like any tech company, but they're not uniquely smart and they're not immune to the same short-sighted thinking that plagues other tech companies.

Note that I think this particular idea is not necessarily bad for the company, it's just not anything special. It's basically Folding@Home, monetized. If you can convince enough people to leave it on (or force it on and somehow avoid legal/PR issues) then I guess you can save a tiny bit of money on certain kinds of workloads.

Comment · 2 years ago
Characters in a string can be thought of as digits in a base-256 number. Call counting sort recursively on each bucket, looking at the next character in the string. Can you not see the similarity?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
As someone who also bounced off it initially - I would recommend getting through the tutorial area and flying out somewhere in the ship before you put it down for good. Once I started going out there and visiting places, it really grabbed me. The more stuff you scan and read, the more intrigued it made me, and eventually I couldn't stop until I'd unraveled every story thread and mystery the game had to offer.
Comment · 3 years ago
My very-rough feeling about it from playing around with Stable Diffusion is that it takes about 4x as long if it runs out of GPU memory and needs to shuttle data back and forth from system memory. There are a lot of variables though - on my 3070 with 8GB of RAM, I can get very impressive 512x512 images in about 10 seconds with somewhat low sample counts, or I can set it to a higher resolution and sample count with 2x upscaling and get a really sharp image in around 2 minutes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sounds like they could implement local network IoT and reduce their server costs to $0 - but then they wouldn't be able to get a continuing revenue stream.
Comment · 4 years ago
They didn't, the Mac version of CE is a port of the PC port, shows the Gearbox logo on startup.
Comment · 4 years ago
My anecdotal experience (partially informed by working on the Windows Wi-Fi team) is that iOS/macOS are more aggressive about switching APs. It's a tradeoff - on one hand, you can have disruptive scans like this, but on the other, if it results in switching to a better network during a long period when the user is stationary, it can result in a better experience.

It also depends a lot on what your hardware is, whether you're doing a full scan or a partial scan, whether you have more than one NIC etc, etc.

Comment · 4 years ago
Anyone can buy the stock though, while working at a company that pays better and has better work/life balance. Is the stock grant particularly generous or is there a better-than-average employee discount on stock purchases?
Comment · 4 years ago
That's an oversimplification. Lots of people in this thread have mentioned consequences of giving companies like Facebook the option of moving to sideload-only, and how that normalizes not having a quality/policy gatekeeper for installed apps. You can't enforce good app behavior purely from API design.
Comment · 4 years ago
Depends how tight you want your security to be, risk tolerance varies.
Comment · 5 years ago
I used BetterTouchTool to add a second volume slider with no delay and no on-screen UI, for changing the volume while I watch something :)

I highly recommend using BetterTouchTool to get the most out of it if you still have a device with the touch bar.

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