RidcullyTheBrown

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RidcullyTheBrown,

That would explain the targeted scams I’ve been subjected to which seem to have been coming from old colleagues

RidcullyTheBrown,

Mercedes: the EV market is challenging at the moment.

Also mercedes: pay 100k for this car with limited autonomy and dubious software in early beta stages…

RidcullyTheBrown,

You made me check, the cheapest I can buy one here is 70k EUR for the EQA:

EQA is the name of the new entry-level model to the all-electric world of Mercedes-EQ vehicles.

What a bargain for an entry level model

RidcullyTheBrown,

Are… are you a prenatal brain surgeon?

moderators were highly skilled workers in a very, very small niche.

Let’s not pivot 180 degrees here. Mods were not the chosen ones by any means. In fact some other breaches of trust that Reddit plagued its users with were specifically because of how much power mods had and how they abused those powers. Maybe some mods were actually knowledgeable about the field, but there isn’t really any reason to extrapolate.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Serverless just means that the user doesn’t manage the capacity by themselves. This scenario can happen easily if the serverless provider is as incompetent as the Toyota admins.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Bad things can happen but that’s why you build disaster recovery into the infrastructure. Especially with a compqny as big as Toyota, you can’t have a single point of failure like this. They produce over 13,000 cars per day. This failure cost them close to 300,000,000 dollars just in cars.

RidcullyTheBrown,

it’s excellent in the hands of those who have enough experience and understanding of concerns at all levels to use it but they’re generally either used by people without that experience

You’re just saying that skilled people can do stuff better than unskilled people. This is hardly a software engineering issue. It is common in all aspects of life

The difference with software engineering is that the field is still relatively young enough to not have figured out a working model or sets of working models (unlike farming, for example, or finance).This field is realistically 30 years old during which it continuously evolves and redefines itself so it’s still not going to produce good working models.

Agile, since you picked on it, is very difficult to implement because it specifically relies on engineering figuring out how to work and how to deliver. It’s really not a model at all. It’s just a set of guidelines meant to create the environment in which the figuring out happens. It’s no wonder that it only works when people have the ability to figure it out.

RidcullyTheBrown, (edited )

“The base car market segment will either vanish or will not be done by European manufacturers,” BMW CEO Oliver Zipse said on Sunday evening in reference to China’s push into Europe.

Is there a base car market in Europe at the moment, electric or otherwise? Is there even a need for one? I was able to live comfortably for ten years here without a car. When circumstances changed and I had to buy one this year, I was shocked by the prices. There really isn’t an entry level affordable market segment anymore. I don’t think there is any car designed for people entering the workforce or young professionals in lower paying jobs.

I remember buying my first car in early 2000s as a young professional. There really was a lot of choice. Not good choices necessarily (yes, I mean you, Clio), but choices.

Edit: hah! I just checked prices for clios where I live. A new one would set you back 26,000 EUR. The average income around here is 47,000/year before tax…

RidcullyTheBrown, (edited )

The brands are so strong that they can afford to move slowly on this.

I really don’t think they are strong. The car industry was basically ravaged by the 2007 financial crisis and a lot of what were companies back then are just brands owned by a few of the industry players. It’s hard to believe they would survive another situation like that. I think they want to move fast, but they simply aren’t able to do so.

RidcullyTheBrown,

The sh market in my area was made completely crazy by the supply chain issues over the past few years. When I looked into it at the end of 2022, ah cars of 3-4 years were more expensive than the new ones. I could afford to wait 10 months for a new car so that’s what I went with, but had I needed a car quickly, I’d have had to part with serious cash.

RidcullyTheBrown,

That’s what I was saying too. The market has vanished because there is no supply

RidcullyTheBrown,

It’s not the investigators who are creating the hype, it’s the media. And the media does it because the think it sells. 'Effin BBC had live coverage of this dude arriving to his last court hearing, including his plane landing, wtf?! Who watches this shit in a country which has nothing to do with that idiot?

RidcullyTheBrown,

That data isn’t available unless Reddit publishes it. Since they’re not a public company yet, there is nothing forcing them to do so.

RidcullyTheBrown,

I never understood how it’s much easier to work with “three eights of an inch” than with one centimeter. Or how 6ft3 is easier to work with than 1.90m. The first one combines two measurement units and has very bad accuracy, the second one is straight forward dealing with fractions of itself and can be made even more precise if needed.

RidcullyTheBrown,

It is rated 7.3 on IMDB. Everything over is usually pretty good. Well, with the exception of superhero/marvel crap where even the crappy ones score high because of popularity. But liking something more low key with a score of over 7 is not that unpopular of an opinion.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Do you associate it with any fond memories maybe?

RidcullyTheBrown,

Bumner, you should have started your comment with the last paragraph. It would have been easier to get the point across

RidcullyTheBrown,

Bullshit take. Show me one instance of communism implemented in a democracy and I’ll agree to your point, but you can’t because there isn’t one.

RidcullyTheBrown,

it took a bunch of peasant farmers under exploitative monarchy and literally rocketed them into a global superpower in, what, 2 generations?

Russia was a superpower to begin with. The communists took over the Russian empire and it nearly lost them ww2 (in the beginning). What are you talking about?

Edit: clarity about losing the war.

RidcullyTheBrown,

thinly veiled dictatorships

There was no veil. They were all dictatorships.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Well, that’s inevitable whether you pay attention to the political environment you live in our not. It’s the environment that makes us sad, not the political aspects. And saying “I don’t get involved in politics” is just saying "I let other people build the environment"and somehow you expect that they’ll do a good job and build it in a way that suits you…

RidcullyTheBrown,

Switzerland? Netherlands? He’ll, even France, Germany?

Invoking cronyism as a downside in itself is silly. It’s not what matters, what matters is the quality of life. And just because US and a few other capitalist countries have drank from the neoliberal fountain and are unable to stop, it doesn’t mean that that is the only way. In fact social democracies, of which there are quite a few examples around the world, are pretty much still capitalist democracies whit none of the crap neoliberal ideas lead to.

RidcullyTheBrown,

pretty much everyone in the hemisphere “nearly” lost WW2

I reread my comment and it was ambiguous. I meant nearly lost the war in the beginning due to lack of leadership which they basically executed early in the revolution.

You’re right, nearly all of Europe lost in that war. The only two winners were USA and USSR

RidcullyTheBrown,

They did lose WW1 because of the revolution, that’s true, or rather stepped out of it, but that’s not what I was talking about. I meant the beginning of the WW2 and the Russian invasion which was a huge disaster overall. They managed to come out of it on top, but the cost was ridiculous. (Edited my original comment for clarification).

I’m calling them a superpower even if they were not on par with UK, France and Prussia, they were a bigger power than the Austro-Hungarian empire or the Ottoman empire at the time.

I’m not praising tzarist Rusia. It was a shit place, a reminesscence of feudalism after the industrial revolution. I’m simply trying to argue the fact that it was communism which allowed them the progress. They started from pretty high up to begin with. In fact, the two major examples, China and Rusia, while in some sort of identity crisis when they switched to communism, were historical powerhouses to begin with.

Other, no power houses who went communist didn’t fare so well. Cuba, North Korea, countries in the Balkans …

RidcullyTheBrown,

What would you call the siedge of Moscow if not nearly losing?

RidcullyTheBrown,

Every one of those four is a mixed economy with significant central economic planning and regulation.

Every one of those four economies are democratic capitalist economies. What is mixed?

RidcullyTheBrown,

There is no such thing as pure capitalism. If you’re talking about capitalism withat regulations, that is called anarcho - capitalism and it doesn’t actually exist anywhere at the moment.

RidcullyTheBrown,

That’s a very narrow view of what happened after the second world war. URSS occupied half of the European continent. It basically was the last empire in Europe with all the resources and human capital at its disposal to do anything it wanted. Not to mention war reparations.

And it lost. The ideology wasn’t working. It took 40 years for that empire to collapse, but collapse it did because it was built on the wrong principles.

RidcullyTheBrown,

I am giving you examples of perfectly functioning nations under capitalism, you’re replying one sentence nonsense. This conversation is over

RidcullyTheBrown,

There was no famine in URSS post world war 2. What are you talking about?

RidcullyTheBrown,

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 because of the famine in 47?

And let’s circle back around to the far more important concentrated international sabotage if you please.

International sabotage? Do you have evidence of sanctions against USSR and their allies which weren’t matched back by USSR & their allies?

RidcullyTheBrown,

Killing Hope’

That doesn’t answer the question. At most, it just shows that KGB were more incompetent or not endowed with literary talent.

RidcullyTheBrown,

I asked for examples of international sanctions which USSR & their allies couldn’t match. That book is about CIA and US crappy foreign policy. If you say that CIA actions where themselves sanctions against USSR, then surely KGB should have solved the issue.

RidcullyTheBrown,

No, I’ve already dismissed the narrative that poor little USSR had a disadvantage against the big bad US when I pointed out that they abusively occupied half of Europe at the end of WW2 and had influence over a lot more of it. If you’re bringing up secret services and you’re saying that the US one was better at its job, then you’re simply pointing out that the USSR one was incompetent.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Oh spare me of that song played on the world’s smallest violin. That’s the stupidest take an the whole situation that I’ve ever seen. “Read a book”… yeah, the poor little witch being burned alive by Hansel and Gretel… Is that how you view that story too?

RidcullyTheBrown,

But the poor witch was so hungry… What could she do?

RidcullyTheBrown,

Who did your daddy tell you the hungry witch was?

You’re telling me it was the USSR. Poor thing, alone in the woods with nothing to eat… Those kids were so unfair to her

RidcullyTheBrown,

You too. Have fun making excuses for poor witches

RidcullyTheBrown,

You’re obviously taking pleasure in debating an idea. Obviously so do I. However, you need more training. You have to add more support to your arguments and contradict the opposing arguments with facts that hold up. You have to concede points and counterpoint when possible. And most importantly, you have to bring datapoints to your claims.

At the moment you’re only putting out ideas with very little data. When I asked for examples of sanctions and international pressure, I was expecting something like this which is concrete. The “Killing Hope” is a really bad data point because it doesn’t support your claim directly and it is “fictional” 3rd party data from a biased source.

With the examples of actual sanctions, I would have pointed that USSR and their allies which included China and strong economic ties with India had its own access to resources and economic development and could impose sanctions of their own. In fact, I can point out that USSR controlled by itself a land area comparable to the entire NATO alliance today and that between them and China, they occupy considerably more landmass and have considerably more population.

In fact, those sanctions were not going to make any dent in the actual USSR economy. That wasn’t the goal (since it was impossible to achieve). They were meant to weaken the relationship with the communist buffer states such as Romania, Poland, Hungary and they did to a certain extent.

But, of course, USSR was doing the same thing in what has been the US back yard: South America. Countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil were being aided by the USSR with loans, technology and technical leadership in order to remove them from the US influence sphere. And USSR was more successful than USA at doing this. In fact, Romania, Poland, Hungary only became US allies after the collapse of the USSR while the south american countries were closer to USSR since the 70s.

The discussion from here either goes backwards in history to how Russia had a late start or goes into economic details for a while, but ultimately it always ends in the same place: one model collapsed, one didn’t.

I grew up in eastern europe. I’m intimately acquainted with the philosophy, propaganda and history of the area. More than just 3rd party information. I’m also familiar with the Russian culture and arts. This was the only foreign culture allowed to be imported into my country for obvious reasons before the 90s.

I’ve had similar discussions through my life and I’m frankly disappointed in this one. But keep practicing, you’ll get better at it. A hint: learn from the facts presented by others even if you don’t agree with the interpretation. It helps in the long run

RidcullyTheBrown,

Why would they lie about the user count? Netflix is a publicly listed company. A lie like that would be a criminal offence.

RidcullyTheBrown,

That information exists in the article

RidcullyTheBrown,

The article published the new total number of subscribers which is growing nicely. It’s less relevant how that number is growing for netflix. The databis taken from their quarterly report, by the way. You can read it yourself too. Here’s the letter to the shareholders. By the way, presenting false information in those reports as a public company is a criminal offence.

RidcullyTheBrown,

I don’t think hanging on to a prediction that didn’t come true makes sense even if it is painful to accept it. It’s much better if you accept the reality as it is and form a new world view based on it. Some people left the platform, myself included, but a lot of other people subscribed. It turns out password share wasn’t that big of an issue and it didn’t alienate too many customers.

To be honest, it didn’t matter to me either. I left netflix because they started charging 20Eur/month in my country and that’s just outrageous. To put it in perspective, AppleTv+, Disney and Prime cost me a combined 16Eur/month and I get free deliveries too. Fuck netflix.

RidcullyTheBrown,

And called the vaccines a big farma thing even though they were free in most countries. Including in the US…

RidcullyTheBrown,

An inferior (in my opinion) direct competitor to MySQL.

There is no comparison between the two. They don’t even compete in the same market. Oracle is an enterprise level database with features MySQL doesn’t even dream of yet, whether it is security, performance or just reliability alone. The problem with it is that the company is horrible and extorts people who actually have an use case which requires them to use oracle. They’ve built the infrastructure in such a way that one can’t just buy a database and use it by themselves, they need to buy services form the company forever. And there isn’t really a fixed price for those services. Oracle basically charges as much as it thinks the client can afford.

Sun bought MySQL in 2008. Oracle bought Sun in 2009, but not for MySQL, they just kinda got it as a package deal. The real target was java. There wasn’t any plan to keep developing it and MySQL wasn’t making enough money on its own to be able to fund it’s own growth. There wasn’t some plot from Oracle to kill off MySQL, they simply didn’t bother with it.

And by the way, there is a non Oracle MySQL alternative called MariaDB.

RidcullyTheBrown,

Not really. They get money when you click on them. They don’t get anything for displaying it. That’s the whole point of having targeted ads, it increases the chance of interacting with them.

RidcullyTheBrown,

By the next time Reddit messes up, and they will, the next batch of escapees will find a much more fleshed out set of alternatives, which will make leaving there and staying here easier. Rinse, wash and repeat.

I don’t think that even matters from a business point of view. Even if people aren’t leaving, the problem is that Reddit is not a place new people see as valuable after all the bad press. If they don’t grow, they fail.

RidcullyTheBrown,

It’s the same with Facebook. People are so addicted to it that no matter how badly they are treated they just can’t quit.

Facebook is a very different beast. It exists and thrives because it convinced people to engage personally. It’s difficult to leave Facebook because family and friends are there. And Facebook also bought a lot of the competition and branched out: Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. It also has value to businesses, it has a market place, it truly is a monster.

Reddit has nothing. It doesn’t know its users and most of them are really careful to keep anonymous. It has shared interests communities, but not friendships/personal relationships. It’s really easy to quit Reddit if one decides to. It does not affect daily life.

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