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- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 5 days ago:
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
- Comment on 'About Us' page locked behind a paywall 1 week ago:
I’m not sure that’s better, though.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
It sounds like you’d know better than me, haha. Since they’re talking about being capital-lean I’m guessing they must outsource the frame pressing. Having a rare super-specialty injection molding machine would not be lean.
IIRC they mentioned fibre reinforcement, but it couldn’t possibly be the aerospace-style precision product, exactly because that would cost a lot.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
Hmm. Well, plastic can have a pretty good strength to weight ratio. Famously the best if you include fibres. If sheet metal can do it maybe they went all-plastic.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
And breaking. There’s no turning it back into petrol.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
Why not? I’d assume there’s a cast frame, and a thick piece of plastic will hold a person just fine (although I do wonder about bed durability in the back).
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
Dope. I wonder if there’s a way to customise it into a sedan. I can speak less to the mechanical aspects of having a super-bespoke super-integrated manufacturing process, but I’m confident the electronics need to go back to basics like this.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
Quite possibly. They’re gambling on a market for a no-frills car existing, but it might just be too small. That’s what killed economy cars the first time.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
As I understand it, the aerodynamics can be no joke on EVs. The motors are very efficient, and there’s very efficient regenerative breaking. That means drag is pretty much where your whole battery charge goes.
For an example off the top of my head, the Arrow concept car manages 500km by not having side mirrors.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 2 weeks ago:
I’ll second the mom-and-pop thing. It’s a lot more realistic than the average Joe having to configure and manage things, but still will kill monopolies and associated fuckery dead.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of those strong network effect things where nationalisation makes the most sense, for sure.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 2 weeks ago:
It will cost way more and work significantly less. There’s a reason networks are built like they are.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
Do they get sore all the time? That sounds like a lot of weight on not much area.
- Comment on Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers 3 weeks ago:
Somehow, they missed all the actual disturbing things about Roblox here.
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. Reductionist design probably has gone too far if you start to require radial symmetry.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 4 weeks ago:
Why thank you Snot Flickerman, I think you’re pretty random yourself.
- Comment on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Not buying their shit, hopefully.
- Comment on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
So by agent, they mean the same AI but they’re doing all the things you shouldn’t with it? Great…
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 1 month ago:
Has anybody actually followed the links? I’m mildly curious.
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 1 month ago:
Amazing. I’ve lost count.
- Comment on German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests" 2 months ago:
And they experiment was to figure out if they can actually do it without getting sued?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, yes. In reality it might well be that there’s not many good black CEO candidates because they’re still stuck in poverty somewhere. Really, DEI would have to start in early childhood education if you want to keep it fair at every stage.
There’s no way I’m diving immediately into nuance with a guy like we’re talking about, though. Lol!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Either OOP has somehow missed all the statistics about non-white people being underrepresented (media bubble?), or they think all white people are naturally more qualified.
I will relish the day someone like this gives me the opportunity to point that out to them.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
So did I, haha. This was a “yay new friends”-type comment.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
You folks ready for the next Rexodus?
- Comment on Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer 2 months ago:
Clickbait and a borderline-lie.
Quantum teleportation is a very technical thing you can do with qubits, no actual matter is moved. If you can’t describe a qubit you shouldn’t care about this.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism [404 Media] 2 months ago:
Donations are usually welcome, if you’re serious about helping.
- Comment on My YouTube homepage after I watch one balatro video 2 months ago:
Pretty much what I do with Lemmy, too.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 months ago:
Ah. Okay.
If you go back a bit, I did try to point out it’s different here when I figured out that’s what you meant.
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 2 months ago:
“Please purchase a premium subscription to skip sudden interruptions”