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I don't really understand the issue. They say that people have a legal system if they're wronged by these companies. And it's clear that the legal system isn't an option for normal people when a company like UHS denies claims. So I want to know what they're talking about and why they think the justice system is sufficient as it is today to help normal people.

Seriously. I want to know what they're talking about. The justice system they're stating exists simply does not.

It has nothing to do with a flame war. That's an unfair characterisation, particularly when people's lives are so deeply affected when they can't get the care they need because of their insurance company.

Or have you been bought and paid for too?

Why do you think most engineers would understand users particularly well? From my experience, they're the worst at empathising with users, understanding user pain points and the value of a good UX.

Growing up, I was tech support for family and friends of family and also my own friends. I eventually worked as a PC technician for a few years and now work as a software developer. I have a very keen eye for how bad UI/UX is for most devices, computers and software because of it and it's been a huge help in my work in the same way, but it's also been quite infuriating when I see decisions being made that prioritize KPIs like sale and click through rates that intentionally make the UX worse.

Honestly, I like that kind of functionality. But you don't need AI for that. There are websites that have been doing this for years.

They used to have great deals on the app in Germany. I used to go to McDonald's all the time. The deals suck now, and now I only go if I'm really craving a McMuffin Bacon & Egg.

Whatever they're doing also isn't working for me.

Just because everything is bound to the face buttons doesn't make it the best solution. Developers make do with what they have. Extra buttons mean I don't have to move my finger off the trackpad or joystick every time I want to do a common action, particularly while aiming the mouse cursor.

I pretty much use them constantly. They're useful for playing any shooters or anything with mouse look, they're great for RTS, city builders, point and click adventure, Factorio, etc. Currently I'm playing Dawn of War, Ground Control, 688i Hunter Killer and Fleet Command, which basically requires trackpads. I also play Stronghold Crusader, Warhammer Gladius, Company of Heroes, Warframe, WoW and other MMOs on it. I honestly don't know how people get by without them, they're extremely useful.

Even for emulators, they're great for binding all kinds of extra functions.

Using the right trackpad also means I can free up the right joystick for other stuff, and there's always enough other stuff I want to access regularly enough.

Why, just why won't any of the competitors make one of these handhelds with at least the same amount and types of input options as the Steam Deck. I'd love a higher performance handheld but none of them have two trackpads, gyro input and four back buttons, so I'm stuck with the Deck.

I don't think lock-in is the reason. The reason is more that companies like Asus and MSI have a global presence and their products are available on store shelves everywhere. NVIDIA avoids having to deal with building up all the required relationships and distribution, they also save on things like technical support staff and dealing with warranty claims directly with customers across the globe. The handful of people who get an FE card aside.

I read the article. It provided pretty much all the facts required to get a sense of the problem. All Axios articles are written like this and it's great to get a no-nonsense or no fluff glimpse of a particular topic I wouldn't have found out about otherwise. If you want an exposé, this is the wrong site.

I don't understand. Stories like what? The article points out a problem and the risks and the consequences. What are you talking about? Is there anything you specifically object to? Do you think elevator maintenance isn't an issue in the US? Have you seen reporting elsewhere saying it isn't an issue or it's overblown? Or is this just a vibe thing? Why is the quality of HN comments becoming this bad? Your comment took zero effort to write. It's just "nuh-uh".

So you'd rather them have a certain 100% chance of death instead of more leeway and a chance against much less robust trees? Honestly, if I crash land, I think I prefer 150 more meters and a tree as the obstacle over the concrete block.

What is going on here and what's with this crazy ass logic?

People keep saying that, but I don't see how it's excusable for there to be a massive concrete block against which planes disintegrate at the end of any runway. Maybe everybody would've died some other way, maybe only 10 people would have survived, who knows. But we won't know because somebody put a massive concrete block in the way.

We aren't talking about any of your examples in this crash. And it isn't relevant for many other places either. If you have an open field behind a runway and you put a concrete block directly at the end of it, you can't defend your decision with "well, in this other city it doesn't matter because you'll hit the terminal". It's some weird form of whataboutism that I simply don't understand.

It's inexcusable and it's tiring seeing people defend it as if it's okay.

Well, I think it says more about mainstream media trying to paint Luigi as a villain and the CEO as an innocent victim, as well as social media suppressing any positive comments about Luigi. It's interesting to see the reach of the wealthy when Reddit started deleting entire posts and countless comments wholesale for simply being too supportive in any way. Everybody from the left to the right was ragging on insurance companies, but it took only a week before not a single post would show up anymore on all or popular.

That's when reality of class warfare in modern society really sank in for me.

Honestly, this is what a self-driving car should be. No interaction from the passenger required. Maybe eventually we'll be able to replace the human operator, but until then, risk averse AI where somebody remotely solves any unforeseen or unexpected issue is a decent compromise.

Out of curiosity, what programming language and GUI is this written with? Can you write a bit about what the experience was like writing a multi-platform GUI desktop application?

I take it you meant to write every car older than 10 years is a manual?

I think you're misunderstanding the above comment. Buying a perpetual license for a particular version (or set of versions), then in the future optionally paying a fee for a new major version not covered by that license is extremely common and imo the most fair model for both creator and customer. If you never buy an upgrade or newer version, the version you own continues to work the same way it always has. You just don't get the newest updates for free.

Sorry, you're right of course. I was on the phone and in a hurry and just took the terminology of the comment I was responding to without thinking about it. Static and dynamic typing are the correct terms. Strong/weak typing is the difference between Python and C++, which are (inversely) dynamically and statically typed respectively.

I think what a lot of people miss is that this ripple effect always exists. Whether you have strong types or weak types, it's hard and often impossible to avoid.

All strong types do is make it explicit at compile time (and with static analysis), instead of leaving it to be discovered in tests or at runtime.

This is why I'll use Python for small one-off scripts but anything that will be in regular use I prefer to do in Java. Even though I have many more years of experience with Python.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it worked. I also wouldn't be surprised if it led to better outcomes if that's how we chose political representatives. The way we do it now just seems to select for the most corrupt, greedy and manipulative, who are constantly pushing the boundaries of what they can get away with personally and professionally.

A significant number of people have enough money that they can decide between options that cost less or more. Otherwise we wouldn't have $2000 phones or TVs that range from $500-100.000. If the number of people with sufficient budget to choose between options was so small that we can ignore it in this discussion, no manufacturer would bother with market segmentation.

However, they do bother, so it's wrong to just assume baseline that most people just care about the cheapest option because that's all they can afford and that we shouldn't bother.

Many of us strive to get the best possible deal within a budget which satisfies our preferences and delivers a certain amount of quality. The fact that most of us don't have an unlimited budget makes it all the more important to us and this discussion that manufacturers can skimp on quality in a way that's unrecognisable to 99% of the market until a certain amount of time has passed. This has other consequences than just "it's cheaper but it's shitter and we don't know how much shittier". It allows utter bullshit like "I bought this $200 Xbox controller and the bumper broke after 3 months and I got it replaced twice and now the replacement is broken again after another 2 months". And all we can do is shrug because that's just what modern manufacturing is like. Skimping on everything while setting a price point as high as they can get away with using marketing.

Man, that would be a fascinating experiment. Would it be able to predict who wins and when? Would it be able to predict the Cold War?

It's blocked here in Germany too, what the ...

Alcohol and it's something you can have on while sitting in the living room with the family, talking about random shit. It's a vibe thing.

I certainly wouldn't put it on to watch alone. But in that setting? It's fun.

Holy crap.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1059435094421712896.html

This is amazing.

The encrypted SSD has a master password that’s set to “”

HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975

Original paper here: https://cs.ru.nl/~cmeijer/publications/Self_Encrypting_Decep...

To expand on this a bit, in many places a software project without a license means that all rights are reserved by the author and that nobody else has any legal right to use it in any way.

I'm not sure if unlicense/public domain would be a better default though. At the very least, that Github prompt should explicitly state with a warning what it means when you select "None" as the license. I think most people don't realize or know what it means for others who want to look at or use the project.

It doesn't matter if you change the settings back. I don't know how it works, but something non-user configurable is changed that prompts Windows to require a reset of the TPM keys.

Steam isn't trivially replaceable. What are you talking about? No other platform matches them on feature set.

Amazon also has a significant advantage in its logistics that underpin their entire business across the globe and that nobody else can match.

You're also wrong about how Google maintains its monopoly, or Microsoft.

All I see is bias and an unwillingness to understand, well, any of the relevant topics.

I have no idea how the other commenter could come to the conclusion that Steam is trivially replaceable.