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New comment by pound in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

pound — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:39:31 +0000

Sacramento data center shutdown happened without even a few weeks notice (just suddenly, on Christmas eve Saturday)

New comment by pound in "The only tourist in Moldova"

pound — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:33:33 +0000

BelArus

New comment by pound in "First randomized trial of Ozempic for alcoholism shows big drops in drinking"

pound — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:17:40 +0000

Would be nice to see the numbers

New comment by pound in "Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S."

pound — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:59:17 +0000

I'm curious why Waymo is considered to be not living up to expectations? They operate in limited number of places, but seem to be just fine driving there (of course some people will not like them regardless). Tesla - yes, not comparable..

New comment by pound in "Changes we're making to Google Assistant"

pound — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:16:57 +0000

Of all 3, I'd say Alexa is the most practical for using at home, google one is kinda the smartest one but also is the most frustrating one - what worked yesterday will not work today or will work occasionally (exact same prompt's wording). Siri will not always respond but overall works fine within its somewhat limited scope, as compared to others (like number of integrations supported), but then again - ecosystem..

My biggest issue with Siri is intercom: at home we mostly speak other language than english, and when using intercom Siri often tries to parse what's being recorded, instead of just recording audio sample and send it verbatim.

Something like:

Me - Hey Siri, Intercom

Siri - intercom chime (not 'Aha?' of responding to just Hey Siri)

Me - *bjlkabdgkjhqwruo;fghnasd.mkfnlkjashfjkasdngjkasbdg* (doesn't matter, different language)

Siri (thinking she recognized some word) - Here are the results for what you asked..

New comment by pound in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

pound — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:10:24 +0000

I'm in SF and I welcome them. Human drivers are much worse.

New comment by pound in "City Council to install 20 cameras as automated license-plate recognition system"

pound — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:03:57 +0000

e-ink plates, as well as sticker plates are parts of dmv pilot program. it's not some overlooked violation.

New comment by pound in "Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco"

pound — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:39:45 +0000

it's 10PM - 5:30AM to be precise

New comment by pound in "Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge"

pound — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:00:09 +0000

it's 60 days to elect whether you'll be using COBRA. If employment is terminated early in the month usually coverage is still there through the end of the month, but if termination is at the very end of the month it can be exactly just 2 months, not few.

New comment by pound in "Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro"

pound — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:12:14 +0000

pin is used when faceID cannot recognize you (when you're wearing face mask)

New comment by pound in "Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’"

pound — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:24:13 +0000

Tbh, it actually is okay. After about two years most prominent marks we have on them are those left by seatbelts.

New comment by pound in "Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’"

pound — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:37:40 +0000

Funny thing is while I was okay with buying Tesla, it was Musk's personality attached to it that really bugged me.. So while there is a (quite loud) fanbase, there is also a group of potential Tesla owners who may go other route just due to desire to not be associated with "meme king"

New comment by pound in "Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’"

pound — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:34:20 +0000

One more thing that has no solution now but I'm sure Tesla will not fix it at all or will charge a lot for it:

White interior and black seatbelts. Despite Musks's promises how durable white interior is, seatbelts they use are dyed with I don't know what and they mar the seats. It's permanently baked in and cannot be removed.. Tesla responded long time ago that they are looking for solution, but whatever they will change will definitely not apply to any existing (screwed-up) white interior owners.

New comment by pound in "Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’"

pound — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:29:19 +0000

Actually it wasn't too expensive - something like half of that (I don't remember exact number, but mid-100s).

It was more of a feeling that I shouldn't be paying for it at all that displeased me :( (and reddit is full of stories when it happened with others (with the same service centers' experience))

New comment by pound in "Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’"

pound — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:25:07 +0000

re 4) - this is what Tesla does a lot :(

In Model3 you can move front passenger seat forward and up (to clean up in the back) all the way to the point when it pushes on sun visor and cracks the mirror in it. Just by using handles intended to move the seat, no manual pressure or anything, there are no limitation on how far it goes and it's strong enough.. Tesla service centers blame owners for that and charge full replacement cost for the visor :\

New comment by pound in "Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”"

pound — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 05:01:23 +0000

How do you differentiate between autopilot and cruise control in Tesla case? I assume by lane keeping engaged?

New comment by pound in "Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)"

pound — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:10:56 +0000

I haven't heard that they send it to the cloud, do you have more details on it?

And for even locally - you need to buy ssd and plug it in to start recording video from sentry/dashboard.

New comment by pound in "Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year"

pound — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:32:39 +0000

not enough housing to meet demand means raising property values, which is beneficial for property owners without having to pay more taxes

Snap launches a native Twitter integration

pound — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:26:34 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/snap-launches-a-native-twitter-integration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378145

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New comment by pound in "Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary"

pound — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:07:23 +0000

but maybe problem here is in that corrupted thing called lobbying is allowed in the very first place.. I don't see how legal buying politicians this way is different from illegal corruption.