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New comment by raisedbyninjas in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

raisedbyninjas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:16:31 +0000

Yeah cash and checks haven't been replaced by mobile banking or mobile payments. Credit and debit card use took over the payment market with digital wallet exploding in the last few years. Electronic transfers took over paying bills with paper checks. None of those need a smartphone or other personal computing.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

raisedbyninjas — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:15:33 +0000

Is Oracle's headcount mostly sales? Not exactly tech industry decimation.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

raisedbyninjas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:35 +0000

Well to an extent, it does work. Flood the zone.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

raisedbyninjas — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:48:50 +0000

The same customers as grok. In the future where humanoid robots see some level deployment, there might be some people that need their robot to make CSAM and say the n-word.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

raisedbyninjas — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:16:25 +0000

I'm guessing that other developed countries don't need 6-7 figure injury coverage.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

raisedbyninjas — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:10:11 +0000

That's great, but it's no silver bullet. We have a 4th Gen iPad that was used mostly for consumption. Only one of the streaming apps works with its ios version.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

raisedbyninjas — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:42:02 +0000

Gemini only replaced Google assistant on Android a few weeks ago. I gave up on Google assistant a few years ago, but I'd guess it wasn't a worthwhile upgrade from Siri.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

raisedbyninjas — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:45:08 +0000

Tesla, Rivian and a few others are tech companies that make cars. They have great software and integration between components. Traditional automakers are assemblers of modules made by dozens of suppliers. That's why Teslas navigation accounts for traffic, weather, elevation changes, charger speed & availability to plan routes. For legacy car manufactures battery preconditioning is about the most sophisticated route planning feature they'll have.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

raisedbyninjas — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:23:56 +0000

Also not an expert, it would have to be EMI or maybe the bright light was causing LEDs on the nearby laptop to generate voltage. LEDs can poorly work in reverse.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

raisedbyninjas — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:59:23 +0000

Roomba has been obsolete for 10 years. Competitors have eaten their lunch in every segment.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

raisedbyninjas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:06:31 +0000

Probably a safeguard to keep sonebody from unplugging something during the update.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

raisedbyninjas — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:08:33 +0000

Sensor fusion is too hard is the new cope.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "How to slow down a program and why it can be useful"

raisedbyninjas — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:33:10 +0000

+1 for clumsy On Windows I've also used Heavy Load, Netlimiter for more fine-grained control and Microsoft's Driver Verifier.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

raisedbyninjas — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:51:48 +0000

I drew a real triumphant one that edged over the 60% threshold. Then read that the mod queue was at 63% and had to do it all over again.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

raisedbyninjas — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:35:50 +0000

Not really. Battery density and cost has been improving steadily for a decade. Most manufacturers are installing heat pumps now. The speed of DC fast charging is inconsistent between OEMs, but that's still a factor of infrastructure too. Vehicle to home and Integrated trip planning with battery charging are the biggest areas of improvement for most OEMs.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

raisedbyninjas — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:17:05 +0000

US News and world report ranks VW last in reliability.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Ford Will Keep Battery Factory Even If Republicans Ax Tax Break"

raisedbyninjas — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:18:50 +0000

EV range drops to around 90% after 10 years, but so has my 12 year old Mazda. I don't consider it totaled.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

raisedbyninjas — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:52:00 +0000

Several lives, national pride, and a new human frontier was riding on Apollo, but not VWs infotainment.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

raisedbyninjas — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:26:40 +0000

Apples app store was 3 years old at that point and white hot. The Samsung Galaxy was 2 years old then. If they wanted to go to market with an unpolished product differentiated with a few nifty features, they'd need to spend months paying loads of money to devs to fill out their app store to have a chance.

New comment by raisedbyninjas in "Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens"

raisedbyninjas — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:16:54 +0000

Newegg was purchased by a Chinese investment firm about 10 years ago. It's like Walmart.com reseller marketplace over there ever since. I definitely visit my local Microcenter when they have it in stock. They also have a "one time use" coupon for $10 3d printer filament.