Companies trust them with their passwords and intellectual property and remain in business. It's insane to me too, but that's the world we actually live in
I don't understand, why do you say this? I would think that google's security is very solid, and am not aware of them ever being hacked to gain access to user accounts/passwords. Are you saying they're deliberately leaking user passwords to 3rd parties?
Reminds me of old IRC where you would trick a noob into revealing their password, then kick them out a bunch until they changed it. Channel would have a good laugh.
New job: poor person personal shopper. Someone with a "poor" profile follows you around the store so you can use their quoted prices instead of your own. Or travel agents that only book flights for you using early-2000s flip phones, shielding clients from the iPhone premium price.
I recall an article on personalized pricing that had it reversed - the poor pricing is actually higher, bc it's harder to buy more at bulk rate / shop around / just not buy it (discretionary).
Yes, aka the boots theory or at least similar to it: If you can afford a higher upfront price you have options with a better value over the products lifetime - bulk discounts are just a special case of that.
That tangle is not strain relief. Those wires are buried in injection-molded plastic. Pull on them and those loops will not stretch as they are in solid plastic. What they will do is potentially result in unwanted cross-talk between wires as loops start acting as antennas.
It is solid, which is why the wires cannot move. Molding the thing as one unit overtop the electronics is cheaper than making many parts to clamp over them as a box. A solid block is also generally better for strength and thermal.
Also look at the number unused/unconnected pins on the chip. The fake seems to be using a generic chip programed to act like the real thing. The extra pins are for functions it doesnt need in this use case. A professional-grade product will use a carefully-selected chip with no extra capabilities or unused pins.
> Every bad day for microsoft is yet another glorious day for linux.
Nah. If that were the case, Linux would dominate personal computer statistics. The reality is that most mainstream users just don't care. But, of course, that won't stop us.
I would also argue that _what_ personal computing means to most people has also evolved, even with younger generations. My gen Z nephew the other day was faberglasted when he learned I use my Documents, Videos, Desktop folders, ect. He literally asked "What is the Documents folder even for?". To most people, stuff is just magically somewhere (the cloud) and when they get a new machine tbey just expect it all to be there and work. I feel like these cryptography and legality discussions here on HackerNews always miss the mark because we overestimate hiw much most people care. Speaking of younger generations, I also get the feeling that there isn't such a thing as "digital sovereignty" or "ownership", at least not by the same definitions we gen x and older millennials internalize those definitions.
Across the generations, there are always a few groups to where cryptographic ownership really matter, such as journalists, protesters, and so on. Here on HN I feel like we tend to over-geeneralize these use cases to everybody, and then we are surprised when most people don't actually care.
At least the option is there, unlike with MS. Also the option to (very clearly) create an offline account, which MS try very hard to stop you doing (read: don’t publish how, block off routes to doing it sequentially)
As my family's tech support department, i switched them over to linux long ago. For the last decade, my elderly parents used linux laptops and much prefered the stability.
>> shoot the entire production without leaving California, and it’s hard to criticize them for not using authentic Yukon locations.
Yup. Everything on screen will be fake. No majesty. No detail. No grit. Nothing authentic. No presence. It will look like a marvel movie, a clean and sanitized version of "wilderness". I bet they will even add fake consensation so we know when a the scene is supposed to be "cold". Because the turbulance of a character's breath hitting a biting arctic wind and freezing to thier mask is so easy to model accurately in post.
"He also found the process difficult. "During much of the two-year shooting schedule in Canada's Yukon and in Nome, Alaska, I was the only actor present. It was the loneliest film I've ever worked on," Smith said."
Lane follow? Does it have lane discovery? There was snow on my commute this morning. 4-land highway was basically follow the leader. Pick some line where you think there is the most traction and stick with it. I have yet to see footage of an autodrive system in such a situation.
What's hilarious to me is that this scenario is framed as such an impossibly difficult thing for self-driving technology to accomplish. Detecting a car in front of you, and maneuvering left or right is doable without even using advanced models, nevermind the fact that we have them now. The other supposedly impossible feat is for the self-driving car to create a lane when there's been so much snow that the lines and thus lanes aren't visible. Given high quality sensor data, does it really seem that impossibly hard for the computer, which is already competently driving on the road in practice, in SF and Phoenix and LA; it seems impossibly hard for that computer to take the full width of the remaining road, divide in two, assuming it's a bidirectional road, and then create as much lanes + safety margin as can (safely) exist, and then pick one? Proof is in the pudding and all, so here's a 4 year old video showing that comma.ai's capable of that, in the sunny winter but snowy road condition in that video.
No cars to follow. No lane markings. Just a sheet of white with ditches on both side. Worse yet, no prior practice. Where you know the lanes are means little when the other cars are not respecting them. (As if lanes matter as nobody wants to drive that close together.) It isnt impossible but certainly a far more difficult problem than navigating an LA suburb.
If only there were some sort of magic sensor that could get you distance measures even if it's totally white outside. I don't know what such magic would be, but if you have it, it seems like you'd want that on all your cars, not matter how expensive. I'm no expert with electromagnetricity, however.
Nobody is claiming that this will work in that situation, but there are thousands of much more common situations where it does work and makes driving more safe and enjoyable.
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