Looking back, funnily the top comment drew a parallel to negotiating USB-PD in u-boot, aka the bootloader. I suppose this wouldn’t have worked for your case though, since your device couldn’t boot at all on 5V.

That said, I did some research last year before buying my first robot vacuum. I wasn’t able to find a project - Valetudo included - that would support the bigger, fancier robots made by Roborock etc. If you’re looking to decloud a recent model, I don’t have a good answer.

* Edit: the article mentioned freezing could crack the seal. Freezing would be a bigger issue than I had thought, then.

“Analysis of Volvo's Final Response: This response … confirms Volvo's complete abandonment of customer responsibility…This is Volvo's definition of ‘customer care’ in 2025.”

“Center Display Failure - Critical Interface Blackout: Main Controls Inaccessible”

“Climate Control Malfunction - Climate System Override: Controls Unresponsive Despite Interface Status”

“Complete Center Screen Malfunction - Total System Breakdown: Hard Reset Failed to Restore Screen”

I know little about Volvo or this case; I’m choosing to offer them some benefits of doubt. Comms and decision making are prone to break down on the corporate ladder. Volvo had no doubt fumbled his case badly but I’m not convinced it is indicative of the company’s overall customer support policy. Sure, the main touchscreen had failed. But how is this an “override” of HVAC or a “total system breakdown”? And what’s the “system” anyways? On top of all that, these subtitle summaries smell like AI.

I don’t deny that Volvo has a lot to answer for. Though the choice of these instigating descriptions might not be the best one giving the author is actively pursuing litigation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434331

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For sure! And that’s perhaps the #1 reason these teams are so valuable: it’s an environment to get hands dirty in. If something sticks, that’s great and goes on the resume. If something awful happens, just walk away with a cool story assuming you didn’t blow up a school building or anything like that. Either way the experience and hopefully learnings stick with these young people like me for a long time.

Sure, we can make an arrangement like this out of college. Call up your ex-rocket club teammates, who have all now graduated and making banks at rocket startups. Spend the Thanksgiving week grinding out the CAD, code and circuit boards then test everything out in a desert. But projects like this are a huge time investment and with work and family in the way, they can often be very difficult to coordinate and pull off.

Even if your rocket does end up shooting off and breaking a record, does it truly “beat them”? I find it a bit hard to compare a team of similarly educated college students to a group of adults, usually with relevant professional backgrounds. Maybe the closest we can get are YouTuber collabs. Sometimes I miss my days spent on my college team; it’s pretty hard for me to get an exciting, rewarding, comradely and occasionally traumatizing experience like that ever again.

Does it support the use case of publishing the wiki as a public documentation site, while allowing authenticated users to edit?

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_n...

I don’t have the space, time or incentive to set up a home office in the place I live. This unfortunately means all the stuff around me become distractions. I find it harder to sustain long work sessions at home.

I miss having quick chats with coworkers by their desk. Sometimes I hit an issue and all I need is a 30-second talk with the dev 2 aisles over. And it’s mutual: I find these quick chats great for helping folks out and keeping myself in the loop. Instant messaging is not an adequate substitute.

And lastly this is tied to my work and company policies but usually I can only access test hardware at the office, due to logistics or confidentiality.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1161580/Hardspace_Shipbre...

“event[0]” is a singleplayer sci-fi RPG where you communicate with an AI on a stranded spaceship, essentially a chatbot, to progress the game and learn its story. Your goal is to convince the AI to let you go home. The chatbot detects semantic tags, intents and sentiments from your input, then procedurally generate output in the form of text and game mechanics depending on your request, the context (what part of the game you’re at), and short- or long-term memory.

LLMs weren’t as big of a thing back in 2016 so this game used a rule-based conversation system. Even then, many people praised the AI for how natural and relevant its output felt. There was even an unintentional, secret ending in game due to a bug in how the AI is programmed. I think making a game like this but plug the chat interface into a LLM would create chance for more emergent gameplay and help the game feel more real.

Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/470260/Event0/

Developer interview: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/q-a-ocelot-society-on-b...

The use case and revenue doesn’t have to be contradictory, I guess? What do you mean by “serious work”? iOS and macOS and their bundled apps use SQLite in a lot of places and Apple generated, idk, at least 9 digits in revenue last year. It sounds like you expect SQLite to excel in all use cases including high concurrency/resiliency web services where traditional heavyweight DBMSes like MySQL and PostgreSQL typically stand out, but that’s far from the truth. The authors of SQLite clearly carve out when you should use it (https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html) and it’s clearly succeeding in what it’s good at.

With that said, lots of big firms successfully use SQLite in desktop and web offerings as well: https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html