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All Teslas have this. There are several "helpfully automatic" features that do not make for good times in a car wash: windshield wipers, folding mirrors, touch to open charging port, regenerative/automatic braking (on the moving track car washes). Can even temporarily disable the touch screen for cleaning. Car wash nice just disables a bunch of stuff so the windshield wipers and charging port don't get ripped off by spinning brushes and you don't have to remember where all the settings are.

Lots to make fun of on the Cybertruck but this is actually handy.

Ticketweb was bought by Ticketmaster 24 years ago.

You mean like the traffic monitoring and road hazard reporting of Waze, Google maps Apple maps, etc?

Having a car directly implement that protocol instead of software on an internet connected phone is of limited additional value but adds massive complexity.

I was under the impression this was system wide in Windows and Mac at this point?

It's almost as though many of his companies succeed in spite of, not because of, his leadership. Get enough money and smart people on a problem and they can survive most leadership foot-gunnings.

He was very good at raising money when money was free. Unclear if all the other things about him add up to a net positive for his companies now.

Just Salesforce.

*yet

I'll give a slightly differing view from those presented here.

For most big tech companies, apps don't really matter. Your decision on your bank, streaming services, ISP, hardware vendor, etc isn't primarily driven by app quality, it's driven by other factors. "has a beautiful and thoughtful app" is not high on the vast majority of current and potential customers decision criteria. Apps are a cost center and a marketing channel, and are at this point quite often left to languish until they're bad enough to be fully replaced. They are not continually improved, refined, etc. Apps are expensive to produce and require constant maintenance, as both OS and user expectations change.

For a tiny indy shop the app may well be the whole business, and so is invested in accordingly. For a giant company, why spend money on something that just doesn't matter?

Counter example, just because it fills out the picture a bit:

https://www.techdirt.com/2011/05/25/is-mike-tyson-tattoo-ed-...

In 2011, the tattoo artist who did Mike Tyson's tattoo suing Warner Bros over The Hangover 2 / Ed Helms. It was settled out of court so no precedent was set, sadly.

That only involves one specific mouse, so perhaps we should grant an exemption. We'll revisit it every few years, extend as necessary. I'm sure there's no problematic downstream problems that will create.

I don't think either of those examples count as maintenance.

Yes, post-accident repairs are generally more expensive.

Last thing I want to do is make excuses for tesla, but the front doesn't look particularly different from any other truck for sale in the US. What is your question / suspicion exactly? That it is substantially worse than similar vehicles?

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They're also refunding purchases, like with Stadia.

Netflix doesn't refund my subscription for the last two months when a show I'm watching disappears.

Because interoperable communication systems are supposed to be core to getting to use all that government-allocated public infrastructure (like phone networks, wireless spectrum, etc). That Apple intentionally degrades the experience for interacting with non-customers is "malicious compliance". Only implementing the oldest standard at the minimal level is worthy of ridicule.

If AT&T started introducing delays, message duplication, degrading image and video quality, etc whenever you messaged a non-AT&T customer, HN would be up in arms. But because the world's most valuable company does it they get a pass?

I don't care if Apple let's me use iMessage. I care that they won't implement RCS or let users change the messaging protocol handler on their phone purely for anticompetitive reasons.

If that were true why is Apple laptop / desktop market share not 50% in the US like phones are?

For most iPhone users, the iPhone is their only Apple device. Maybe a few have an iPad (about one in 30 or so), but that's it. Most don't have a Mac, HomePod, etc, and so the "seamless ecosystem" is not a factor.

Talk to any teenager or young adult. It really is the green bubbles.

Also the 36% they get from Google showing ads on search.

That revenue is significant and would have to be replaced.

Same thought. You'd think title insurance would only kick in if the last title transfer predates say 1980, or some other relatively-likely-to-have-county-digital-records date

I'd go further and say that iOS safari and Webview iOS Safari are different browsers. They have fundamentally different features, standards support, etc. Unfortunately the latter is arguably one of the most popular browsers in the US, because every app doesn't want you to leave, no matter where you're going.

EvenUp Law | US or CA Remote | Full-Time | Multiple Openings in Engineering, Product, and Others

See more detailed listings at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/evenup?utm_source=8vmpmZkvDm

You can safely ignore all the location listings, those are there for regional job board distribution. Only requirement is United States or Canada (we're not big enough to support global remote devs yet).

About the company:

EvenUp is a venture-backed generative AI startup that ensures injury victims are awarded the full value of their claims, expanding the $100B+ in awards granted to injury victims every year. Every year, the legal system has made it difficult for millions of ordinary people to seek justice, especially for folks without means or who come from underrepresented backgrounds. Our vision is to help these injury victims get the justice they deserve, irrespective of their income, demographics, or the quality of their legal representation.

In the past year, our engineering and data science team grew to 40 team members and we rolled out infrastructure updates, new products, and updates to existing workflows - combining data, ML frontend and backend work. The next 12 months are very exciting for us; we expect the technical team to triple as we deliver on a roadmap to handle 10x our current volume. Now is the time to get on the ground floor as we scale!

Specific Roles:

* Engineering Manager (Data)

* Senior and Intermediate Machine Learning Engineers

* Engineering Manager (Dev)

* Senior Engineer (Backend / Fullstack)

* Senior/Staff Engineer (Backend / Fullstack)

* Sr/Staff Data Engineer

* Staff Engineer (Backend / Fullstack)

* Senior Product Manager: Client Portal

* Senior Product Manager: AI/Infra

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Tesla-sized and shaped glass is not available from general glass shops. I had a large crack appear in mine. My insurance and multiple glass shops in the bay area told me it had to be fixed by Tesla. No one else would be able to.

Tesla did fix it for free though, because they weren't sure it wasn't an installation issue (no impact point, just a hairline crack running down the glass).

In most places a large number of aberrant transactions that don't match the historic spending patterns of an account would be enough to trip a security review, and a call to the account holder, temporary freeze, etc are low impact to false positives and highly effective at stopping fraud.

So yes, because we afford massive protections and rights to banks in exchange for the necessary but largely low-risk activity (holding cash then returning it in exchange for a fee) - laws holding them responsible for failing to prevent theft do exist.

Apple's primary revenue growth and stickiness is in controlling everything you can do with their hardware, and taking a cut of every transaction. If it ran macOS it could run any code the user wanted and there'd be no way to guarantee a 30% cut of every movie, game, song, or experience you have on it.

As always, there is a relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/468/

I had never considered that angle, but I know from other examples that even a small impedement to suicide can tip the scales safely for some. A short fence you have to climb over, for example.

In the US, there are protected classes (skin color, political biases from your list, as well as others) that you cannot discriminate on. Being accused of a crime (not convicted) isn't one of those.

More importantly though, Google hasn't banned Brand, they've removed ads from his videos. Advertisers are very sensitive about where their ads show up. This is why X/Twitter has struggled so much under Musk - major companies don't want their brand next to certain kinds of content.

Not serving ads along Brand's content isn't gate keeping. It's not sending advertisers (and their dollars) to someone embroiled in a scandal. Just like how he's probably not getting lots of calls right now to host award shows, star in films, or be the face of company advertising.

Google is protecting their revenue stream, which is completely unsurprising to me.

If the reasoning was to prevent theft, why can I only buy one box at a time, and why does my license get scanned, preventing me from buying twice in the same week (or whatever) from different stores?

The Tesla Y introduced a heat pump for this purpose, and earlier models included heaters. There's some impact to range for running the heater but it helps for sure.

Every time I click the play button on my keyboard, Apple Music launches and asks if I want to start a subscription. There's no (normal) way to make it so that play will launch, or even reliably play, Spotify.

MacOS is covered in non-removable Apple adware like this but somehow always gets a pass.

... yes apparently I can install an app that force quits Music every time it launches, or I can modify system permissions, but...why can't I just uninstall it?

I'll say lots of things at Google Workspaces are behind a whole complex process.

At my last company I was our Workspace admin. It took 9 months and cycling through three different sales teams to get someone to sell me archive licenses (so we didn't have to pay full rate for former employees or delete everything) even though we were already paying for Vault.

Never underestimate when a sales team gets in between users and business.