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- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 2 days ago:
Sorry, there are so many Musk stans that would say that exact thing, I 100% missed the joke
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 2 days ago:
Fortunately the NACS has be standardized under the SAE as J3400, so companies should not have to rely on Tesla for development or implementation anymore.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 2 days ago:
Fortunately the NACS has be standardized under the SAE as J3400, so companies should not have to rely on Tesla for development or implementation anymore. Tesla’s network is going to suffer for sure though.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 2 days ago:
Musk is also a guy who’s gotten zero starships into orbit. The engineers at Space X have, and to a certain extent Gwynne Shotwell is a part of that, but that is despite Musk, not because of him.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] HW News - Intel is a Cluster, NVIDIA Blackwell Boosts Production, Sony "Still Learning" 1 week ago:
The Win11 ads has me looking at good Linux distros now. I didn’t buy a (discounted) $200 license so i can look at ads.
Same here. I did a test run of Mint on my 2013 macbook pro, and it was a mixed bag. Mostly streaming games from my desktop was unusable, but since that is a big part of what I do with that laptop, it was kind if a deal breaker. Granted the video driver for that laptop is real old, so will probably still try on my desktop.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 1 week ago:
I know you’re banned, but for when you come back, there are several reasons.
- It let’s people make a response to specific parts of what you said.
- It helps outside folks see the train if thought
- For me personally, it helps organize ideas and see the comment response closer together
- Comment on Does Arkham Knight get better? 1 week ago:
100% agree. I picked it up very late and very cheap. Worth the $10 or so I paid, but the batmobile sections almost made me drop the game.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
You got it! I am pretty bad at parries across the board and was able to get the timing
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
Yeah, I had a super hard time with her as well. Of note, if you haven’t figured it out, you can reflect her bolts when she is shooting at you from the air. Took me forever to figure that out and that helped a ton
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
Is that Laxasia?
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 1 week ago:
Musk isn’t left though? He is very far right. He gained popularity by keeping quiet (at first) and doing stuff like promising not to sue companies that use their patents, and developing a ton of EV infrastructure. Turns out he couldn’t keep his mouth shut and is also just a rich asshole. But a lot of people bought in early and made loving Elon a personality trait. So here we are
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 1 week ago:
Good news! NACS is being adopted as an SAE standard (J3400)
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 1 week ago:
J1772 is great for home charging, but for charging on road trips you really need CCS or NACS. The good news is NACS is being adopted as an SAE standard (J3400)
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 1 week ago:
The good news is that NACS is being adopted as an SAE standard (J3400), so further development is outside Tesla.
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 1 week ago:
It’s the Hummer EV. It is…a lot. Honestly, if someone is going to buy a Hummer, I’d rather they buy the EV. But yeah, way too big and pretty inefficient
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
There is one stockholder that has tried multiple times. The issue is the whole Tesla board are all his cronies, and a large portion of stockholders have bought into the cult of personality
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
That’s true, a lot of talent now available.
Last I heard Ford scaled back EV expansion because they overestimated adoption based on the sales of the Lightning, but they were still planning on an increase in production. Just not the 50% estimate they started with.
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
Well, the exact rumor is he did it to show that he is serious about staffing cuts and that no team is safe, and just made an arbitrary decision
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
Oh I agree. There have to be rival companies looking for that exact experience right now. They should not have too much trouble being hired on one of the myriad charging companies out there
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
There are rumors that this was an emotional decision from muskrat, and they will probably be offered their jobs back. Just rumors, but still would not be surprising
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- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Yup! I am pretty familiar with GDPR thanks to working for a company that had to comply with it.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Oh for sure I know the vague nature was 100% on purpose, but it doesn’t mean the bill is good or that is what I want to see from my government. Data privacy protections for citizens regardless of which country controls an app would have been more effective. Instead, our own homegrown unethical social media companies still get to board and sell our data. But of course that is useful to the US government, so…
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
This tells me everything I need to know. That you would even say something like this means you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Really? Just writing someone off without even hearing why?
Looks like I was mis-remembering Zelenskyy talking about moving troops into Russia, so that is the part I was iffy on. I never said they should not get the aide
Additionally, you realize that those are all separate bills, right?
It is one bill with 13 divisions called H.R 8038. The TikTiok part was fast tracked as an addendum to the bill. I can’t find any other bill related to it, and that is one referenced in most news outlets that I can see, but if you have more info I would love to read it.
But even if that has evolved into it’s own separate bill, that doesn’t change the fact that “foreign adversary” is poorly defined to the point where it can be anyone residing in a country deemed as an adversary. That means even say a rando in Cuba puts out an app with no ties to the Cuban government it would be illegal to have that app in the US. The bill also still names TikTok explicitly, so it is still a TikTok ban (with the exception that they sell, which they are unlikely to do).
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
It is a vague and sprawling piece of legislation that gives money to Israel and Ukraine, makes Fentanyl more illegal, makes money laundering for fentanyl more illegal, allows seizure and use if Russian assets, restricts “foreign adversaries” from distributing and maintaining apps, restricts “foreign adversaries” from transferring data away from the US, and makes Iranian terrorism more illegal.
It does like 3 things that are fine, but these should all be different bills (the data transfer bits, seizing Russian assets, and sending aide to Ukraine, though that is getting iffy)
It IS a TikTok band and explicitly names ByteDance and TikTok, and also vaguely defines foreign adversaries to the point where it could be any person operating in a country that the US doesn’t like.
“Quite a good piece of legislation” is only true if you mean quite as sprawling and good as ill defined
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
You clearly refuse to understand what a subsidiary is, and how that relationship works in regards to local regulations.
No, the US goverment claims that. You mistaken this with my opinion. I am just telling the goverment is blocking Tik Tok because they think China is doing this.
Fuck off with your goalpost moving, bad faith, devil’s advocate bullshit. Don’t waste people’s time with bullshit you may or may not believe, ask for evidence, then bail when confronted with it. Don’t be a shitass, be better
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
TikTok is literally a separate entity from ByteDance. They are owned by ByteDance, but they are not the same company and operate separately. Again, you are conflating the two
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
If it’s not proven, then you are speculating that China does not get the data as well.
That is not how the burden of proof works. I am not the one claiming the data is sent to China, you are. Please provide evidence of that.
I am claiming the data is sent to Singapore, which all evidence points to
reuters.com/…/tiktok-moves-us-user-data-oracle-se…
which is probably harder and more complicated than just getting it from Tik Tok
Probably not harder. Keeping a multinational social media platform going seems way more complex than buying the info. Which is why the US government does it (it is also a way to skirt the constitution, BTW)
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I missed the sarcasm in the original comment. Carry in
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Except the operational headquarters is not in China. LA and Singapore are the operational headquarters of TikTok. I think you are conflating ByteDance and TikTok as the same entity, and that is not the case, and quite on purpose. TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, and from almost all accounts the LA based CEO makes decisions. They are not sending data to China, they are sending it to Singapore. There are alleged cases of ByteDance employees having access, but nothing has been proven (not saying it won’t be, but we can’t operate on speculation). Also, data brokers exist. China can get “all the data from US citizens” outside of TikTok.
I am not sure if you are oversimplifying on purpose, but if not you should probably look closer at the corporate structure of TikTok instead of spreading incorrect info.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
So they banned facebook and twitter too? 'Cause…