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TomVDB commented on Tesla to run reduced output in Shanghai in January   reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
pengaru · 3 years ago
> The biggest problem with your understanding is that catching covid builds up immunity. In fact it appears the opposite is true: covid is causing immuno-deficiency. Each infection gets worse than the last.

Some serious credible citations needed for that apparent hogwash.

TomVDB · 3 years ago
I think it is well established that repeat COVID infections have an increasingly severe impact on your body.

It is also true that COVID can weaken your general immune system.

But that doesn’t mean that getting COVID won’t increase your immunity against a future COVID infection, temporarily at least, just the way the effectiveness of the vaccine is temporary.

TomVDB commented on Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours   npr.org/2022/12/26/114553... · Posted by u/edward
imchillyb · 3 years ago
Every airline, pre-boarding, informs passengers to place any and all necessary medication in their carry on bag.

This has been procedure for the last 40 years.

There is no excuse that is feasable or plausible for 'forgetting' important medications in the checked baggage.

This is a reading comprehension problem and not an airline issue.

TomVDB · 3 years ago
I have a million miles on United alone, and many more on others as well: I’ve never once heard such a message either.
TomVDB commented on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT    · Posted by u/brindidrip
plastiquebeech · 3 years ago
>It seems like there are a few potential negative consequences of using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow. For one,

This is where my "Probably written by AI" filter tripped, and I skipped to the end.

I can't exactly say why. Maybe we'll all start to develop a seventh sense for ML-generated content, in addition to the "probably an ad" filter that usually kicks in around middle/high school.

TomVDB · 3 years ago
Same here.

OpenAI commented on the verboseness of answers as something they need to work on.

TomVDB commented on Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee   bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/dariosalvi78
SirSourdough · 3 years ago
I wouldn’t complain if it was a one-time purchase. Different spec levels have always cost different amounts for basically every product.

But what ongoing value do I get for my subscription? Will I get free acceleration upgrades over time because they keep improving the software? Free brake light DLCs that show how hard I’m accelerating? It’s great I can upgrade OTA but what about that means I need to pay over and over?

Acceleration is not a service- there’s no ongoing cost to deliver it to owners and there’s no increase in value to the owner over time to compensate for the ever increasing cost. That’s why I think the subscription model is much more exploitative.

TomVDB · 3 years ago
A subscription model where you know the exact terms is less exploitative than a fixed cost where it’s not even clear if the upgrade is sticky or not (as is currently the case for Tesla.)

I don’t get the “it’s not a service” argument. It’s not relevant. There’s no ongoing cost with many software licenses either. It’s just a business model.

TomVDB commented on Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee   bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/dariosalvi78
thisiscorrect · 3 years ago
> The only difference here is that there’s now the option to change the program over the air.

The mutability is the part that bothers me. Remotely disabling features and the option to hike prices for monthly subscriptions to have functionality in the car serve to erode the concept of ownership. I'm not a Tesla owner but I believe they also allow paid upgrades that neither stick with the owner nor with the car during a sale. How is that not exploitative?

TomVDB · 3 years ago
It’s exploitative if it is not sticky and isn’t clearly communicated. But it’s not relevant for the Mercedes case where it’s very clear that it’s a subscription.

For my personal case, it still doesn’t matter, of course.

TomVDB commented on Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee   bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/dariosalvi78
TomVDB · 3 years ago
My Model Y has a $2000 in-app purchase option to increase acceleration by something like 0.5s.

It’s not a subscription, but the idea is the same.

It doesn’t bother me one bit: I bought the car knowing full well that it wasn’t included, I don’t need it (the standard acceleration is already more than I ever had before), end of story.

Car engines have been under the control of software for decades now, with different products differing by the program. The only difference here is that there’s now the option to change the program over the air.

Nobody would have complained if Mercedes had offered 2 versions without the option to upgrade.

TomVDB commented on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended   twitter.com/zoeschiffer/s... · Posted by u/minimaxir
ForHackernews · 3 years ago
Maybe a better question would be: why should we ever care? This isn't insulin delivery.

It's kind of tragic the amount of engineering talent wasted on non-problems at social media websites.

TomVDB · 3 years ago
If it works for a celebrity, it also works in case of a calamity.
TomVDB commented on Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=67W4k... · Posted by u/zdw
tharkun__ · 3 years ago
You can also see how he's really fast. This is a completely different style of archery from Olympic, which has stabilizers and a sight. Olympic style archers "aim a lot".

Lars shoots a different style, which is basically "draw and loose" with very little "aiming". The aiming done in that situation is to basically "look at what you want to hit".

Here's a Smarter Every Day episode that shows some of that. You see Byron Ferguson there already putting the arrow on but there's no aiming. When the mint is thrown in the air, he just looks at the mint and instinctively aims and shoots it in mid air.

https://youtu.be/Q8Yp9SjCU5E?t=225

I recommend the whole episode.

Also Legendary Howard Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36R7cLzPNuw

It's amazing how well this works if you don't need to hit a mint and no worries of shooting a person and even without exactly spined arrows and with just a stick and a string for a bow. Source: I do this for fun (with larger targets).

TomVDB · 3 years ago
Reminds me of the "Can I move? ... I'm better when I move" scene...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoCK5r2TWg

TomVDB commented on More than 60k rent-stabilized apartments are now vacant   thecity.nyc/housing/2022/... · Posted by u/jhonovich
vouwfietsman · 3 years ago
Calling landlords owners is deceptive, they are investors taking on risk. This is the risk.
TomVDB · 3 years ago
Being an owner and being an investor are orthogonal concepts.
TomVDB commented on Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770   chipsandcheese.com/2022/1... · Posted by u/pantalaimon
timw4mail · 3 years ago
I'm kind of disappointed all the tests were without ReBAR. I'm curious as to what kind of difference that makes.
TomVDB · 3 years ago
It would make zero difference, except, maybe, for the PCIe bandwidth test. Because all other tests were stressed interfaces that reside within the GPU silicon itself or between the GPU and the DRAM.

Even the numbers of PCIe bandwidth test might not change much, even it's trying to test medium size memory to memory block transfers.

u/TomVDB

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