elandrum (u/elandrum)

elandrum commented on How Best Buy saved itself (2019) inc.com/justin-bariso/ama... · Posted by u/lxm

Fauntleroy · 6 years ago

These days one of the biggest value adds of buying from Best Buy (over Amazon) is that you know you won't be getting counterfeit products. My confidence buying consumer electronics from BB is far higher than from Amazon.

elandrum · 6 years ago

Same with Target. I’ve switched nearly all of my household buying over to Target because they have an awesome app, good shipping, and no counterfeits.

elandrum commented on German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving mobile.reuters.com/articl... · Posted by u/codechicago277

patd · 6 years ago

Maybe because it’s not the same ? I don’t own a Jeep but Lane assist typically means warning the user if you drive over the line. Tesla steers by itself and more.

Adaptive Cruise Control typically works only above a given speed. Tesla’s does work at low speed too.

At least Tesla cars seem to do more than the German cars I have driven before.

elandrum · 6 years ago

Ah sorry, I was conflating two technologies (which are basically the same in my model). "Available LaneSense® Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist alerts you with visual and audible warnings during unintentional lane drifts and corrects your vehicle back into its lane."

I get a visual (and optional audio -- which I disabled) warning and a little steering wheel resistance to bring it back into the middle of the lane.

While I'm not sure what the minimum speed for adaptive cruise control is, but I use it in freeway stop & go traffic often.

elandrum commented on German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving mobile.reuters.com/articl... · Posted by u/codechicago277

dkonofalski · 6 years ago

I agree with this wholeheartedly, even as a Tesla owner. Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like "Autosteer" and "Traffic Assisted Cruise Control" under the moniker "Autopilot" while shifting everything above that to "Full Self-Driving". They should have called it "CoPilot" since that infers that you're still the driver in charge of controlling the vehicle and it would have had exactly the same reception (possibly better) than what's happening now. As it stands, it's misleading and, frankly, disappointing to get into a Tesla for the first time and try "Autopilot" only to realize that you have to keep your hands on the wheel, navigate the accelerator and brakes, stop at lights and stop signs, and basically drive the car while it keeps you in the lane and stops you from hitting other cars. That's not "Autopilot", that's "CoPilot".

elandrum · 6 years ago

It sure does get them a lot of attention though! My Jeep Cherokee has lane assist, adaptive cruise control, auto-parking, and crash detection (emergency braking) but they don’t get all this press about it.

elandrum commented on Show HN: Magic Photo Eraser – Remove Unwanted Content from Your Pictures apps.apple.com/us/app/mag... · Posted by u/gsurma

S_A_P · 6 years ago

Downloaded this and tried it. As popped up on my second adjustment. Nope. Nope nope. Would rather pay than use adware.

elandrum · 6 years ago

I’ve been using Retouch for a long time. It’s $1.99. Worth it many times over. https://adva-soft.com/app-pageTouch.html

Love removing my dog’s leash in otherwise cool photos.

elandrum commented on ICQ New icq.com/desktop/... · Posted by u/LemonHotdog

ricardobeat · 6 years ago

ICQ came out around 1997!

elandrum · 6 years ago

This doesn't appear to have anything to do with 1997 ICQ besides the name.

elandrum commented on This PIN can be easily guessed this-pin-can-be-easily-gu... · Posted by u/signa11

Crosseye_Jack · 6 years ago

> Not sure why they have the requirement of a 6 digit pin and expect it to be better than a 4 digit one.

Are you saying you can’t have a 4 digit pin? Because if you are then I just want to say that you can have 4 digits if you really want, it just defaults to a 6 digit during setup and there is an option to change to a 4 digit if you want.

Also. Password reuse if a bad thing. If you are really going to reuse a 20 year old pin, you might as well disable pin security completely.

elandrum · 6 years ago

Some corporate polices require 6 digits. I literally am not able to set a 4 digit pin on my watch or my phone because of the policy.

elandrum commented on iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature wired.com/story/inaturali... · Posted by u/SirLJ

elsigh · 6 years ago

"iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society."

It makes me pretty happy that this is not a VC-backed startup.

elandrum · 6 years ago

When someone recommended it to me last summer, I was hesitant to be yet another content creator for yet another platform. Then I saw it was run by science foundations! Signed up immediately. It’s been fun in Colorado to learn plants that I see on hikes.

elandrum commented on iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions myrobotmower.com/irobot-t... · Posted by u/apsec112

scrooched_moose · 6 years ago

They admittedly aren't perfect, but Consumer Reports is the only one I remotely trust. So many "review sites" basically just look at the highest rated items on Amazon and create an article out of it. I needed a new beard trimmer recently and it was just page after page of spam.

Amazon reviews are so manipulated they're nearly useless now. Reddit isn't too bad, at least for the most part they are real people.

elandrum · 6 years ago

Check out Tech Gear Lab and Outdoor Gear Lab. They’re based in Tahoe and the company purchases every single item they test. When they’re done with testing, they often put the gear up for raffles locally to support mountain bike trails and outdoor non-profits. The folks who run it are all really great people.

elandrum commented on Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America share-now.com/ca/en/impor... · Posted by u/kareemm

elandrum · 6 years ago

Don't let public companies become your city's transit.

elandrum commented on Google Feedburner feedburner.google.com/... · Posted by u/franze

krackers · 6 years ago

Link takes you to a login page. From the Wikipedia article [1]

>FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. It provides custom RSS feeds and management tools for bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Google acquired FeedBurner in 2007.

Whatever this is, it surely wouldn't be wise to depend on this for your business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner

elandrum · 6 years ago

It was a very popular service back at the hey-day of blogs and RSS readers. FeedBurner gave blog authors really great statistics and information about the feed, and they created a nice a static URL to point readers to, no matter where the blog was hosted. We didn't have a lot of that statistical information easily available back then (like how many people were subscribed) with the common blog platforms (like Moveable Type or Blogger). FeedBurner also provided a way to interject ads into the feed, since the person reading it wasn't seeing the ads on the normal site.

I believe you're quite right, it would be extremely unwise to use this tool at this point. I'm sure it will be vanquished with no warning.