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Or the professor who’s profiting off requiring the latest edition of their own book each year.

If it was really that thick plate it would be, but making any modern vehicle (that’s not meant for military use in hostile territory) out of thick plate is fucking stupid. And keeping thin stainless flat is really tricky, it wants to have at least a bit of curve to stay rigid. It asoc doesn’t like consistent forming, which is why nobody since Delorean has bothered.

Both for weight, and economy, but also for accident safety—good luck of you’re not also in an armored car, and occupant safety, since the crumble zones are greatly reduced and going to transfer way more energy into your soft tissues and internal organs.

But you can throw a rubber baseball at it just fine at least.

The iPhone had 2 interesting things going for it. Everyone had been begging for an iPod phone for years before this happened. Apple had been working on the iPad since the Newton failed and the iPhone was a combination between iPod phone and iPad.

All glass all touch screens were not a thing people thought they wanted before Apple made a really compelling (and pleasing) device.

AR has been a thing for years, but hasn’t garnered the popularity or utility that MP3s and phones ever had. QR codes being the possible exception and only since most phones handle them natively at this stage.

It’s possible that AR just hasn’t had a good enough UX to break the “cool experiment bro” uses imagined so far (because of screen/camera/movement limitations). It’ll be interesting to see if Apple has managed to revolutionize the experience enough to imagine new and more widely needed AR uses or not.

And projection that a bunch of them are probably into furries, or domination, or both.

We clearly need Barney Frank’s ‘expose em when they oppress’ tactics back in the house.

Renault tried it with AMC first and didn’t “succeed“ until merging with Nissan and then Mitsubishi as well. BYD should probably try to buy out them, or somehow license to Stellantis to give them small cars worth buying. I bet an EV Neon would sell if it was remotely affordable (I know, no new cars are affordable to younger drivers, even if it’s a cheap BYD underneath).

For those who, like me, wasn’t aware of rentry, it’s a pastebin the supports markdown.

I didn’t know pastebins were still a thing after stack overflow, JS fiddle and codepen replaced all that with more useful info. But I must have a different use case.

Maybe that’s based on streaming prices from 10 years ago, when there was only Hulu and Netflix.

OpenJSSCAD helps with the spaghetti code, unless you also write JS spaghetti, but I only use it for creating tools I want non-tech people to use.

It lets you make parameters editable from a web based UI of your liking with the model code hidden away, and can output decent meshes.

And it pushes the cost of redundancy into the backs of the workers who didn’t call in sick, and have to work more hours or more tasks in a day or risk being responsible for an underperforming store.

If it actually hurt monthly profits, they wouldn’t do it. The fact that it may hurt longer term profits—through delays, employee retention, or quality control—either isn’t understood by the C suite, or they just don’t care.

The first 3 I listed are why, yes. And it sucks that the Supreme Court and some dudes 250 years ago put us in this situation.

They’re basically telemarketing workers with hacking tools provided by an employer. They follow scripts and click the buttons they’ve been trained to use.

I’m surprised they got in with telnet and not their usual RDP. However I’m not sure they would have gotten anywhere on a Linux box with commands that are so different, unless they were a little familiar with at least MacOS (bash or zsh based now a days).

Sure we have plenty of high-hanging fruit:

• antiquated voting laws
• asymmetrical representation
• oligarchy via political funding
• military industrial complex

But we didn’t start a world war that killed millions of people, that we’re still digging up unexploded munitions from, and that gave us the ability to fix some of our governmental systems and implement social and societal change (at least for white European folks).