Dr. Dabbles

In the dark ages, Mosaic downloaded Firefox and IE. Time truly is a wheel.

Best use of chrome is downloading another browser.

Literally no other manufacturer in the area is forecasting delays, and all of them have commented as much. Tesla doesn’t have the demand for the US, Chinese, German, AND Texas factory,. It’s just that simple. So they’re stopping production to let consumption catch up, after several quarters in a row of decreasing prices to increase demand.

Tesla famously removed RADAR and Ultrasonics from their cars two years ago in response to supply-chain disruptions

Yet that wasn’t the excuse they gave, which means they’ll happily lie about their motivations even when they’re clear.

due to the union issues

That and the lack of consumer demand in markets already saturated by them. Much like when they said the Chinese factory would only ever serve the Chinese market, and then started selling China production units in Europe. 🤷‍♂️

Ok, which other vehicle manufacturers are doing the same? Because my bet is this is in response to a lack of demand and a glut of capacity.

The “large scale cracking sound” seems like something to worry about. Yeesh. Hopefully they can find a reliable way to get these guys out of there sooner rather than later.

Because there used to be ffs (fast filesystem). Now there’s Flash (friendly) File System and it’s called f2 fs. The fs part is traditionally broken out in the initialism.

Recent studies show it doesn’t work at all, and has likely caused irreparable harm to people whose academics have been judged by all of the services out there. It has finally been admitted that it didn’t work and likely won’t work.

The day always comes, or you trade it before and someone else picks up the pieces. I’m sure whoever has my Model 3 is happy I replaced t he blown drive unit, but they’ll have to replace the next one out of pocket.

Tesla. Literally everything involving Tesla. Customer support, vehicle service, sales. And it’s gotten worse over the years, so I’m a one-and-done customer.

Odysey isn’t Starbuck’s loyalty program, it’s invite only unless you want to join the wait list, and it’s openly called an experiment at its launch in December 2022.

NTFs are different to blockchain, so you’re just muddying the waters for yourself with the Walmart thing. Lots of companies do chain of custody things with what you’d call blockchain. It’s been that way for over a decade now. Because it’s low transaction volume, no moronic “proof of…” nonsense, etc. Just hashes signing hashes at different points throughout the supply chain.

This isn’t the “win” the NFT hype weirdos are desperately hoping for.

Yep. Spot on. If they can raise VC money and walk away with someone else’s cash in their pocket, they’ll say whatever buzz word they need to.

None of those things took 60 years to still not materialize like AI has. Some of them are still to be commercially successful.

We have absolutely nothing similar to the classical definition of intelligence. We have probability calculation based on millions of examples.

A single airline in Argentina is experimenting with it in partnership with a bullshit travel company. Hardly the proof that NFTs make any sense anywhere. And of course, the only places this story is getting traction is the blockchain hype blogs, which is red flag #2 and #3.

As a counter to your example, this is my career’s third AI hype cycle.

Before this is was blockchain, and before that it was “AI”, and before that…

For all of those topics, I use domain specific sites. So for research I’ll look at arxiv or one of the sites that make research freely available. For programming, I’ll search language mailing lists, documentation, and examples. Searching GitHub also isn’t a bad idea, but watch out for license issues.

Be wary of using tools like got to summarize articles or outright answer questions. There’s no guarantee it will be correct, and if you don’t know the answer you won’t know it’s wrong.

IMO, requiring a TPM for any kind of attestation wouldn’t do much because they can be procured in the tens of thousands for not much money at all. Then they use an SPI bus to communicate, so you could basically build a cheap device that only multiplexes dozens, hundreds, or thousands of TPM on a single physical host.

The real sham of this, to me, is that Google’s talking nonsense about ensuring the client device is “trustworthy” for whatever their criteria means. But in reality the client needs a real assurance that the site it’s visiting isn’t malicious, serving malicious content, or otherwise collecting data that could be used for malicious purposes. Google has directly failed two of those three for many years, and one of them is their entire business model. Where is our protection from Google?

Maybe Google should use their clout to work against DRM online, and push back on the insatiable corporate greed of most of the content creation corporations? Especially those busy cutting down trees to prevent striking workers from getting shade?

Adding on to this, what of people in sanctioned nations? Google, as a US entity, is compelled to adhere to US law and to sanction nations that the US deems should be sanctioned. What about activists in those nations? What about targeted populations in those countries? What happens when a minority group is targeted by a hostile government and that government demands logs of device tokens accessing information the government doesn’t like? This idea is nonsense on so many levels, and such a 180 degree turn from how the internet has developed over its existence.

Aside from tobacco, all of those things were known to be dangerous but used commercially anyway because they were cheaper than alternatives. Today’s equivalents are PFAS, plastics, and sweeteners of every kind. You will die with all of them in your body.