scrumper (u/scrumper)

scrumper commented on You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon theverge.com/news/821258/... · Posted by u/apparent

ceejayoz · a month ago

> Why on earth is this a law?

Car dealerships tend to be keystone businesses in towns; they wind up with outsized political power on the state and local level.

scrumper · a month ago

It stems from franchise law which exists to give franchisees a modicum of protection from adverse practices by the much stronger party in the relationship.

scrumper commented on Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

scrumper · 2 months ago

One of my former clients was a top 10 automaker. I had a digital consultancy so was very close to their ICE division. They were obsessed with owning the screen, mostly so they could charge subscriptions for it. We were doing all sorts of wild pilots, like AI-powered language tutors for people stuck in their commutes. I was happy to take their money, but of course if any sane person wanted an AI powered language tutor they'd just install an app on their phone and use the bluetooth to talk to it.

OEM margins aren't great and their C suites are desperate to unlock any new revenue streams they can. This is inevitable, and it's a shame the nice thing we had is going away. The baller move would be for Apple to go buy an OEM and roll out a vehicle, but that seems to have stalled. It doesn't have to be self driving!

scrumper commented on My Truck Desk theparisreview.org/blog/2... · Posted by u/zdw

scrumper · 2 months ago

And as a comment on an article written by, and about, a man who works a manual labor job because he can't support himself as a writer despite having published novels.

Most guilty, indeed.

scrumper commented on Hello-World iOS App in Assembly gist.github.com/nicolas17... · Posted by u/pabs3

wiseowise · 2 months ago

Complete bogus. This is programmers machismo that's completely detached from reality.

scrumper · 2 months ago

I'm not sure this is entirely fair though I think you're mostly right. The comment you're replying to is right in terms of the value of understanding one or more levels of abstraction below the one you're working in. Conversely you're right in that learning assembler isn't going to do much to help you debug a failing Flutter app. It's just attacking the abstraction stack in detail from the opposite end - equally myopic.

But none the less valuable because of the additional perspective it brings. That's the real point of it, another lens through which to view and understand the mechanics of the application.

scrumper commented on Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/WithinReason

amelius · 2 months ago

Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy?

scrumper · 2 months ago

Well, most cellphones aren't subjected to the conditions found under three miles of frigid sea water. Epoxy is also really, really expensive.

scrumper commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum

whycome · 2 months ago

I think you missed the point.

Presenting information in different ways is useful (and the method of display can offer informational insights itself). And for different users it might help parse larger connections. And by using the LLM to summarize just that one facet of the problem (itinerary and sequence) and sharing it here, they’ve contributed in a meaningful way. It may not have warranted a response. But it added to overall understanding of the problem space to help facilitate discussion. And they did well enough by citing that the info came from an LLM. They didn’t bypass the intent of the site. They added to it and fell right in line with that intent.

scrumper · 2 months ago

Okay that's fair.

I had no issue with the contribution itself, the route summary is helpful.

> And they did well enough by citing that the info came from an LLM.

In terms of acknowledging AI contribution, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Here it's sidetracked a discussion; but transparency is better than otherwise I suppose. Perhaps it just boils down to taste - and I don't like it.

Anyway, you made me think!

scrumper commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum

scrumper · 2 months ago

I'm curious why you did that? It's not a very complicated sequence. The whole point of engaging in a discussion here is to think about the issues raised and offer a point of view while incorporating other perspectives into yours. You've spent your money to bypass the whole intent of this site; akin to you being hungry then sending someone else to a restaurant for you so you can later read their review of the food.

EDIT and you of most of the commenters here, with your industry background, are better placed to offer an opinion!

scrumper commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum

metalman · 2 months ago

6 min, is empty, 6 min is purely theoretical, 6 min would not clear for ground handling or a test start, or a fuel system check,6 min would not do a go around. will interesting to see if they release info about what the real amount of fuel left is, and an authorative discussion on how much useable flight time was there. did they actualy make the taxi to the terminal?, or run out on the apron?

scrumper · 2 months ago

I think the article says that someone saw 220kg written on a log - that's about 6 minutes worth at cruise. So yeah, it's zero basically.

scrumper commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum

jacquesm · 2 months ago

> They had 6 more minutes to do that touch and go around if that happened

6 minutes is way out of the comfort zone. They might not have made it in that case.

scrumper · 2 months ago

Correct, article says they landed with 220kg which is around 6 minutes of average fuel burn over an entire flight - bit less at cruise, a hell of a lot more at takeoff/climb.

So I don't think 220kg is enough to do a go-around in a 737 (well, a go-around would've been initiated with a bit more than 220kg in the tank - they burned some taxing to the gate - but you get my point.) I've read around 2,300kg for takeoff and climb on a normal flight in a 737-8. A go-around is going to use close to that, it's a full power takeoff but a much shorter climb phase up to whatever procedure is set for the airport and then what ATC tells you.

I just flew 172s but even with those little things we were told, your reserve is never to be used.

These people came very, very close to a disaster. Fortunately they had as much luck left as they did fuel.

scrumper commented on Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47 joanwestenberg.com/p/reme... · Posted by u/herbertl

scrumper · 3 months ago

Irrelevant even if true, which it isn’t, so you’re both mean-spirited and wrong. Does this kind of comment soothe some wound?

Your characterization doesn’t make any sense anyway. A nepo baby how? He wasn’t in the construction business, working a cushy job in dad’s company. He sold cars and did PR work while trying to write. His family’s past seems to have conferred him no advantage whatsoever.