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Heaps of BYD EVs on the road here in Australia, and Tesla sales are plummeting here now too.

[Eric patting a big box of H100s] this bad boy is going to generate so much slop

There isn’t a definitive list, only vague guidelines: https://consumer.gov.au/sites/consumer/files/inline-files/ac...

The price you paid relative to comparable products factors into it - more expensive goods are expected to last longer.

If you and the manufacturer disagree, you can always take it to tribunal to get a decision (and manufacturers never want it to get there so are motivated to resolve your concern before it comes to that).

Are you suggesting the emoji squeeze toy conveniently rolled perfectly to the edge of the hydraulic press at exactly the right moment and then its eyes uniformly popped out? A perfectly uniform explosion of dust actually burst out the press? Seems doubtful.

If a bunch of CGI objects being crushed is disturbing to people wait til they see this movie of a train coming directly at you.

The state is very much in on the whole enterprise. The Star casino pay 35% tax on their takings, and pokie machine taxes can be as high as 51% in NSW.

It was a deliberately tightly restricted market to ensure taxi drivers could make a liveable wage. Now the industry is filled with people forced to work two or three jobs to survive and a tech company is capturing profits off the top. That might be a better outcome for customers but it sure doesn’t seem like one for the workers involved.

Does anyone understand why the arm64 instance types are showing roughly half the performance versus the comparable x64 instances in this? Other benchmarks I've seen put them within 20% of each other. Is this just a hyperthreading vs full core thing?

If you were genuinely remotely hacking a smartwatch, you’d be executing background processes to exfiltrate data entirely invisible to the user, not doing some bizarre remote desktop thing randomly tapping around on apps. The claim doesn’t pass the sniff test irrespective of the manufacturer.

Took about 5 months of endless back and forth to get them to replace a defective SSD in Australia too, despite very clear consumer law guarantees here obligating them to help. Absolutely hopeless company to deal with.

Oh. Well he always truthfully and accurately represents the situation so I guess that’s the end of that.

Reminds me of this bit from Monkey Dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTos3CsvnLQ

Something to think about during the next us-east-1 outage

This thread is about Microsoft, it’s pointing out their hypocrisy feigning concern about the environmental footprint of their cloud infrastructure.

The current management waived all rights to due diligence in the deal. They can’t complain now to learn facts they refused to engage with earlier.

The employees made decisions about their employment based on promises made by the company, in the form of statements by their managers. It’s not their fault the company was then sold to a colossal prick with a penchant for not paying people contractually owed. They deserve to be compensated.

No, he did not make amends. He never even apologised for it.

RIP to a real one. Nothing since has been as good

They've confirmed it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-13/optus-identifies-caus...

The government have said the Optus outage was not suspicious. Seems to have been a BGP config change gone wrong.

I appreciate that Apple are spending their ML efforts building things that are actually useful for their users, like improving the iOS keyboard and photo processing pipeline, rather than frantically jumping on the latest fad bandwagon with yet another LLM chatbot that gushes out plausible sounding nonsense.

Linear is awesome

You’re thinking of iOS. On macOS third party browsers can and do implement their own browser engines. Firefox is not running on WebKit.

Sounds like your friend should have read the App Store Review Guidelines, the rules are all clearly stated and have been for so many years now that it should come as a surprise to nobody doing business on iOS.