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bjacobel commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience   myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena
xyx0826 · a month ago
I applaud his efforts to document this what must’ve been a nightmare of a case for him. But it felt like a lot of the wording is speculative or hyperbolic in nature and aggressively tries to paint Volvo in a bad light. For example:

“Analysis of Volvo's Final Response: This response … confirms Volvo's complete abandonment of customer responsibility…This is Volvo's definition of ‘customer care’ in 2025.”

“Center Display Failure - Critical Interface Blackout: Main Controls Inaccessible”

“Climate Control Malfunction - Climate System Override: Controls Unresponsive Despite Interface Status”

“Complete Center Screen Malfunction - Total System Breakdown: Hard Reset Failed to Restore Screen”

I know little about Volvo or this case; I’m choosing to offer them some benefits of doubt. Comms and decision making are prone to break down on the corporate ladder. Volvo had no doubt fumbled his case badly but I’m not convinced it is indicative of the company’s overall customer support policy. Sure, the main touchscreen had failed. But how is this an “override” of HVAC or a “total system breakdown”? And what’s the “system” anyways? On top of all that, these subtitle summaries smell like AI.

I don’t deny that Volvo has a lot to answer for. Though the choice of these instigating descriptions might not be the best one giving the author is actively pursuing litigation.

bjacobel · a month ago
It’s clearly written by AI.
bjacobel commented on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts   theverge.com/2024/9/23/24... · Posted by u/Kye
pbreit · a year ago
You can create a new account. It's a poorly designed feature that degrades the user experience semi-permanently and with no recourse.
bjacobel · a year ago
Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"
bjacobel commented on Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery   ai-murder-mystery.onrende... · Posted by u/PaulScotti
llmblockchain · a year ago
Plot twist. The LLM was trained on a real life crime database and you're solving a real murder.
bjacobel · a year ago
Plot twist: running this just made sea level rise another quarter-inch, and you're causing one.
bjacobel commented on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison   cnn.com/business/live-new... · Posted by u/misiti3780
zer0x4d · a year ago
Let's be honest here, "good behavior" is extremely easy to demonstrate in prison where everyone else is constantly getting in fights, beating up guards, etc. It's not a high bar and a person like SBF should easily be able to do that.
bjacobel · a year ago
A person like what? What attributes does he possess that your mental image of the average prisoner does not?
bjacobel commented on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison   cnn.com/business/live-new... · Posted by u/misiti3780
compiler-guy · a year ago
This was true for a long time, but the "First Step" act, passed I think in 2021, increased the good behavior credit maximum to 50%.

Realistically then, SBF is looking at 11.5 years if he can stay out of trouble, which is relatively easy for white-collar criminals in relatively low security prisons.

Federal rules still don't have parole.

bjacobel · a year ago
He's proven repeatedly that he's incapable of abiding by the conditions of his parole. What makes everyone in this thread so sure he'll demonstrate "good behavior"?
bjacobel commented on Apple Vision Pro review   wsj.com/tech/apple-vision... · Posted by u/fortran77
al_borland · 2 years ago
The biggest thing for me, from the Verge review, was the limited field of view. Apple sold it as filling the users entire field of view and it sounds like that isn’t the case. When I first saw the reality of the Microsoft HoloLens, that was my disappointment there as well… Google Glass as well. I don’t want to feel like I’m wearing an AR device, as so far, that’s what everything has looked like. Limits of the technology, sure, but until that is solved I’ll have a lot of trouble throwing money at it. I still plan to head to an Apple Store at some point to try it out for myself.

As far as viewing with other people, this doesn’t seem like an insurmountable challenge. They have the theaters, they have Personas, they have spacial audio, and other Apple devices have features for watching content together with friends. Put them all together and it seems like if several friends had Vision Pro they could feel like they were sitting in a theater room together while watching a movie. I’m not saying this will be easy, but it seems like all the building blocks are there. The Personas are probably the big weak point, especially looking at someone next to you, but with the focus on the movie, I that’s probably the least important part.

bjacobel · 2 years ago
The end goal here - multiple people who are isolated by the technology they're wearing experiencing a simulacrum of human interaction mediated by that technology - is not only unbelievably depressing but also honestly just really boring. We've already built this. It was called the "metaverse" and it sucked. Everyone left.
bjacobel commented on The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant   wired.com/story/pentagon-... · Posted by u/RafelMri
imgabe · 2 years ago
The Pentagon doesn’t arrest people. Does wired understand this? Espionage is unrelated to law enforcement. Spies don’t need a warrant. They’re not trying to put people in jail.
bjacobel · 2 years ago
There are multiple kinds of warrants.
bjacobel commented on eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case   bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/ethbr1
frabjoused · 2 years ago
This is meaningless. A few employees did this. Companies are composed of people. The whole company wasn't busy being distracted. They just had a worse business model.
bjacobel · 2 years ago
The CEO and CCO were personally involved, as well as a whole coterie of Senior-level directors. Calling this a "few employees" is completely disingenuous.
bjacobel commented on SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says   nytimes.com/2024/01/03/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions
dkjaudyeqooe · 2 years ago
You've got to pick your battles, and let's face it, a well run and sensibly led SpaceX is a benefit to society (so far).
bjacobel · 2 years ago
Is it? How've you benefited from the existence of SpaceX? I haven't.
bjacobel commented on The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps   cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/tomzur
tootie · 2 years ago
The immediate assumption is that Iran is doing it. They have done it many times before and they are allied with Hamas. I haven't seen any proof but it's a safe bet.
bjacobel · 2 years ago
This happened in late August and early September.

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