theneverfox

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

First of all, aviation has vastly more stringent oversight than cars do, in terms of manufacturing regulations, maintenance regulations, and pilot regulations.

This fact is so underrated... They do pre-flight checks and frequent maintenance, let alone requiring extensive testing and redundancy

The second question I struggle to get past... Why is this, in any way, better? In a 747, I doubt a pilots strength could control the aircraft, even if everything linking the steering column was strong enough to handle the forces directly. In a truck, the driver's strength could still steer... So what advantages are there to steering by wire? I've never heard an answer, and I'd love to hear any

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

In fairness, most computers built after around 2014-2016+ last way longer, performance started to level off not long after that. After all, devs write software for what people have, if everyone had 128 gigs of RAM we'd load everything we could think of into memory and you'd need it to keep up

Macs did have some incredible build quality though, the newer ones aren't holding up even close to as well. I'm still using a couple 2012 Macs to play videos, it's slow as hell when you interact, but once the video is playing it still looks and sounds good

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

They actually use consultants like McKinley, who are the coordinating force behind a lot of the obviously self-destructive decisions companies are making in lockstep

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago

Trouble is, their main job is to game public perception

A transparent, honest CEO would win a lot of people over (although they'd also probably be less likely to ignore the horrible decisions that require apologies)

Just remember - generic PR apologies are an attempt at mimickingv leaders actually taking responsibility for a mistake. The transparency will just become as soulless and corporate as the apologies are now

We need to fix the system to remove the incentive to put heartless demons in positions of power

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

Ideally, we should trust one large company to manage paying them as little as possible for us. Probably through an app, so they can slurp up data on us to decide how much we'd pay for the service

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

That's a user-hostile feature, not a property of electric engines. An electric car has far simpler mechanical parts, and the circuitry isn't very complicated either. It could be made incredibly easy to repair, modify, and upgrade, mostly at home even, if they designed them that way

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

A neighborhood kid showed me a fighting game on it, and I think there was a star fox esque game that should've been the launch app (assuming it was any good)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The virtual boy was awesome. I literally thought it was a childhood hallucination for almost 2 decades...

Imagine if they had more games for it, and kept improving the tech. Up through the Wii, Nintendo actually made some of the most amazing tech - the Wii accelerometers are what made quadcopters possible (outside of DARPA projects). The Nintendo back then could've made worthwhile VR before the iPad took the "I want to be on the Internet on the couch" niche

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

That's what marketing is for

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

That's a better alternative...

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

About 2 months ago I saw a news clip where he announced his resignation. There was a voice recording of him, he didn't say the word "resign" but implied it

Did I jump timelines?

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