Oh yeah. I’ve definately seen some renders that make it look quite nice, but they do that by adding a bunch of elements to it like skirts, extended wheel arches, spoilers, light bars, paint and lower it to the point you can’t use it as a truck anymore.
But then it also really stops being what it origionally was.
It can be a controversial item, but then cars are rarely universally put on a podium for it’s looks. Usually when you cater to broad audiences designs are trending towards the more boring/vanilla side.
The cars that really stick out design wise have always been at least somewhat controversial. Even today still with all these decades of car design exprience. Take for example BMW’s new (massive) grille.
Tesla has a reputation around confronting people with expensive battery pack swaps over a broken coolant pipe and stuff like that, you don’t need them to go out of business for a reasonable chance to turn your car into premature ewaste.
I actually don’t hate the cypbertruck…
Hate is a big word, but Elon’s antics, the fact that most of the car’s aestetics are essentially superglued trim pieces, and that it just isn’t a better truck in any meaningful sense of the word took away most of this vehicle’s appeal to me.
Mostly the first point though.
That it ultimately didn’t sell for anywhere near the origionally announced price, and that in Europe they don’t want it on the road at all, also doesn’t help.
I also don’t think the Cybertruck’s aestetics are going to age the same way Edsel’s has.
Even placed in de universe of Cyberpunk, where it’s allegedly from, it really is mostly just a dumpster with wheels.
Why would you not just take a secondary (read: wiped) phone going somewhere problematic instead of relying on features like this? You know US border security under Trump plays fast and loose with your rights.
Why would these deter creeps if all the existing surveillance measures and social pressure we already have is evidently ineffective? You’re talking about the sort of people that have no problem posting highly inappropriate comments on women’s instagram profiles under their own name.
And at the end this is still a Meta product, which is at least 50 percent of the problem with these glasses. It’s not just some private device, all that footage gets sucked into some big cloud to serve who knows what clandestine purpose.
Everybody did think becoming a developer is where it was at, so a lot of people did, now these people looking at an ever tightening job market (even before AI) with LLM’s possibility annihilating the need for their expertise entirely at some point.
At least maybe people will stop telling other people what to do. It’s obvious we don’t know what is relevant next week, much less in 10 years.
All these people that are now told to school themselves for manual labour are being set up to run into the same thing. Especially when those chineese bots inevitably also escape the gadget level.
There are no “AI safe” jobs. Even if it can’t do your job (yet) all the people that are made redundant and need new work will be flooding remaining markets.
I don’t know how that even got past the brainfart stage. AFAIK nobody has actually demonstrated how that would really work.
Not saying this won’t ever be a thing. But not in the lifetime of anybody on earth right now I don’t think.
Well, then don’t make Claude run an actual NPP?
That’s not what you said though.
Where do you feel I’ve deviated from this point exactly?
Keep in mind that this is the question at the top of this particular thread we are responding to:
So you believe that customers of a company should have a say how the staff uses their wages?
To which loke responded, among other things:
Morally? Yes.
To which I responded what you then replied to.
I’m not quite sure where you see space for interpretation, but I feel i’ve been pretty solid with my point.
Are you contending unless otherwise specified, people should be mandated to continue spending money with companies?
No. I’m just of the opinion that I’m in no way obliged to disclose to you what I spend my money on, just because I work somewhere you spend money on.
What exactly is the allowed reasons for doing or not doing business with people?
Anything, including having no reason at all, obviously.
Morally? Yes.
How do you figure? I’d argue the opposite and state morally it’s quite litterally nobody’s business what any private person spends their money on. Especially when you’re talking about people outside the c-suite.
It’s also the only thing that is remotely managable. Otherwise, where does that crap start and end?
We are talking about some nationalist populists now (and more than “a donation”), but what about a membership of a more moderate political party? Or say your customer base for any reason is in large part Vegan, should you tell your employee’s to stop buying meat? Should they stop taking money from the non-vegan customers? How is anyone going to navigate this?
I have no real data on whether it’s true or not or what “better driver” even means but there’s some differences in car life i’m sure have some kind of an effect.
Driver’s license aquisition here is more involved and guided. At least in the Netherlands things like having a family member teach you drive for example is not a thing. You have to take out classes with a professional driving school in a car fitted with dual pedals and a professional instructor. Most people take 35 to 45 of those lessons to pass the practical test, which is also fairly ruthless afaik.
There’s also way less space and lots of traffic on fairly skinny roads, lots of different kinds of traffic too like way more pedestrians, cyclists swirving around all over the place, and public transport with different rules around things like right of way (particularly trams). US likes big wide roads, laid out in grids, with not really all that much in terms of other variables to take into account outside of other motorists due to the overwhelming bias towards car ownership.
Car driving is way more of a optional choice here. Especially in the west side of the country. Lots of people her are fine not having a driver’s license at all due to public transport covering all their needs.
Although i’m sure in terms of casualties there’s also other stuff that is relevant. Some of those pickup trucks blew over to here as of late and I think it’s wild something with such a limited visibility is legal. Especially here. I’m a big guy but the grille on one of those RAM truck is chest height for me, which in case of a head on collision means i’ll likely end up under it instead of on top of it.
Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.
I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we prepare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don’t need everybody that’s currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.
There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can’t do yet. But they aren’t safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn’t change and then people absolutely won’t be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it’s only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.
Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you’re creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.
“We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”
“Guy who sells shovels wants us to dig holes.”
In any sane country receipt price is what you get back if the issue cant be solved, price matching in reverse isnt a thing.
Samsung allegedly not “being able” to resolve the issue is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as there drives are very much still being actively sold and, in fact, in stock.
Should samsung eat the cost of issuing a new disk for goodwill?
Samsung needs to honor their warranty by replacing a defective product with a functioning product.
And what cost would they be eating? They make products and cover these product under warranty. Replacing a percentage of these should have already been factored into the price. These drives are expensive to us now due to shortages, not because Samsung has suddenly incurred massive additional costs in fabricating them. They just make more money sending them elsewhere.
They say that in a paragraph where they attempt to limit their liability, not in the part where they inform you of their actual warranty policy.
But I guess we’ll find out in time where this ship ultimately runs onto land.
This is obviously more about dust Louis is kicking up than the claim itself.
But samsung has so much money that it is splashing up against the baseboards in their offices. There really is no reason for them to nickel and dime their customers like this, especially not where they are just straight up morally obliged to replace the product.
I sincerely hope this affects them more than it would’ve just honoring these warranty claims like they should in the first place.
I mean, most people don’t use trucks as trucks.