Thanks for the informed context -- I think my brain is just predisposed towards seeing such efforts as disingenuous, but I should learn to criticize companies after they do bad things, and not before.
tetris11
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Well, that sounds promising at least. I hope their interests continue to align with their consumer-base for another 20 years, and doesn't nosedive into the CEO rot we've seen with Mozilla
I'm not really. Who are these guys and why am I hearing about them on every social media outlet.
They're a company whose sole aim is to make money. Right now they're in the goodwill phase of building community trust, but what's their endgame? Is this an emerging market they're cornering.
I know these sound like sarcastic questions, but I'm genuinely wondering.
Code dump for the curious?
Yeah but cars have become increasingly more complex over the last 20 years. You basically need an EEPROM arduino kit these days just to get the fucking diagnostics out of the car, because someone decided that analog circuits were just too much bulk
This happened in my art class once. Our kooky art teacher invited an ex-student in without any prior warning and we were supposed to ask him questions on his art (he did book covers).
Silence, no one was having this shit. Out of pity I asked him questions on some tiny details I noticed on the spot. More silence, I ask about different tiny details. And so forth.
I've realised that there's a large portion of the populace that are perfectly comfortable in excruciating silence if it's not at their expense.
No history, no origin, it just exists. Lmfao
turkey, circa 2000
I was talking with a techhead from the 80s about what he did when his tape drives failed and the folly that is keeping data alive on a system that doesn't need to be. His foolproof backup storage is as follows.
- At Christmas buy a new hard drive. If Moore's law allows, it should be double what you currently have
- Put your current backup hardrive into a SATA drive slot. Copy over backup into new hard drive.
- Write with a sharpie the date at which this was done on the harddrive. The new hard drive is your current backup.
- Place the now old backup into your drawer and forget about it.
- On New Years Day, load each of the drives into a SATA drive slot and fix any filesystem issues.
- Put them back into the drawer. Go to step 1.
(Harvest moon)
I see the days grow shorter
I feel the nights grow cold
I sense the darkness clearer
I feel a presence here
I know they'll find her some day
They find them all that way
After the thaw in springtime
The snow melts away
Similar situation growing up. I asked my mum once how she coped with it all, and her answer still freaks me out sometimes.
She said she didn't know she was a person who had choices, or could think about the situation she was in. She just did as she was expected to.
She's in her 60s now and is far more in tune with her emotions, thoughts and feelings than I remember her when I was a kid.
Can you just imagine? Being virtually catatonic in autopilot most of your life, because no one encouraged you to live? It chills me.
I watched Westworld recently, and I can definitely draw some parallels behind the theory of a bicameral mind it hints at, where automatons slowly start to awaken and take control of the voice in their head telling them to do things...