There are literal slow motion videos on YouTube showing people pressing the correct intended next character and iOS "correcting" it to something else because it predicted(?) that they actually meant something else.
> My coworker drives a much newer (2026) SUV from VW... Apparently the button became like 4 screens in the touch-screen tablet the car comes with, just to force people to stop hitting the physical button, and you can't just disable it permanently.
> Well.. unless you jailbreak the software
Maybe this is locked on VW, but given that Audi and Porsche share a lot of the same software, methodology, etc., I feel "decently confident" that this can be disabled via an OBD scanner (obdEleven, for one, was built around the VAG brands).
I was able to disable it in my fiancée's entry trim 2017 A4 in about 20 seconds, and no manual "long codes".
It's not an option needed on my RS 5, but I've done a few other things via the tool, and the dealership didn't have an issue with it - when I brought my car in for some other issue (water ingress into a sensor/light), all they said was "Are you okay with the tech resetting any changes you've made if they need to for diagnostics?" (they didn't), and "Do you accept that there will be a diagnostic fee if the tech doing a reset of changes resolves your problem?"
> He doesn't say anything about individual users. It's left unclear exactly what he means when he talks about low utilization inference using DRAM. I figured he was talking about companies building clusters.
No, he absolutely does:
"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time," Altman said.
Is there a reason people who have been shown to abuse public positions of trust, authority, or both, should not be prevented from doing so again?
Though I am reminded of the federal register of law enforcement officials who have been terminated for cause, or resigned to avoid termination...
... before that was even more neutered by the Trump administration, the aggregated police unions who represent some 70% of the nation's law enforcement have somehow wangled it into their CBAs that this register was "not to be used for hiring or promotional decisions" (what exactly could it be used for then?).
Kaiser has some very opinionated beliefs that their medical leadership pushes. From my partner's T2D issue (from no history to an ICU stay with DKA): "You cannot go into remission with T2D". "You will need to keep your A1C between 6 and 8 otherwise you will have issues with the medications you are on". They also have many medications they will not prescribe, regardless of the reason.
And don't start me on their pharmacy. She had root canals with some infection, and was in substantial pain. Dentist prescribes short term pain meds between procedures - she's in agony. I drive her from dentist to the Kaiser pharmacy at their UC/ER-lite/whatever facility, that I know from my previous work as a paramedic has pain management medications on site (day surgery, etc.)
"This is a pain management prescription. We do not fill those in person. You will need to submit it to our mail order." "How long will that take?" "5-7 business days, and then shipping time."
"Oh, look at you, coming from the dentist with verifiable surgical procedures done and in pain - just in case you might be drug seeking, you can hang on for a week or two and get your pain management then."
That last one is, I'd argue unethical and against most pharmacists "oaths".
There's an amazingly hilarious interview with the Deltec's "Deputy CEO" and CNBC back in the day:
- was conducted from his gaming rig
- about Deltec's (and therefore Tether's) money movements being several times larger than all the banking in their country was due to people misunderstanding the country's two banking licenses, the names of which HE "couldn't remember right now" (the Deputy CEO of a bank who can't remember the name of the banking licenses where they operate?!?), and he "wasn't sure which [banking license] the bank has, but we might (emphasis mine) have both"
- oh yeah, said Deputy CEO's "resume": 33 years old, by his LinkedIn claimed to have graduated HEC Lausanne in Switzerland with a Master of Science at the age of 15... celebrating his graduation by immediately being named Professor of Finance at a university in Lebanon. While dividing his spare time between running hedge funds in Switzerland (called Indepedance [sic] Weath [sic] Management) and uhh... Jacksonville, FL.
Once CNBC's viewers started ridiculing and questioning both Deltec Bank and Tether and when that looked hilariously bad, they removed his info from the bank's website.
And when that looked bad, they added it back.
And when that looked bad, they removed the bank's whole website, and replaced it with a broken WP template with no working links.
Hey, look, several years after that, go to Deltec's website. "Ultra sophisticated private banking" running on a different WordPress site. "Client login"? "This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in ebanking.deltecbank.com. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN". Just as has been the case for years.
... and then the entire bank website was replaced with a low-effort WordPress template. Their online banking was Javascript hard coded to refuse all login attempts.
"Sounds legit to me", said the crypto bros. "Fuck the regulatory system. This is the new era."
Ironic that you chose the Apple TV. There's a bit of nuance, and the 3rd gen was $149, not $129 (the latter is Wifi only, when the first two were Wifi+Ethernet).
They then bumped UP the 3rd gen: $249 (+$100) and $199 (+$70).
And the 4th gen has only one option, at $299.
So we've not only "not dropped" prices on the 4K Apple TV, but they've gone up forty per cent.
Right up to the launch of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro in mid 2023, Apple would still happily charge you early 2019 prices for the 2019 Xeon processors in the previous edition, 2019 prices for memory and flash (I ordered mine with 32 and used OWC to go to 192GB, because for the exact same chips, spec, timings, OWC wanted $1,050 for 192GB, and Apple wanted $3,000 for 160GB, i.e. minus the 32GB already rolled into the price. Similar $1K to $3K margin for 8TB of SSD - I bought a PCIe card with 4x2TB Samsung Pro drives).
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