Chriskmee

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[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What does that have to do with anything? Should I only care about what's best for me, no matter how much it screws someone else?

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No single solution will get you all the way there.

Except for the car, which is why it's such a popular choice. Also no need to worry about catching the next thing, or buying the right tickets, you just get in and go.

I haven't heard of any solution or combination of solutions that would be convenient and work in most cities.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In the case of "legit" apps that are following the new rules, they will be fine. The dev will likely have knowledge of an upcoming API change before it's released so they can update their app for it before it breaks anything.

The problem with revanced apps is there is no dev making these updates, at least not that I'm aware of.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The problem I have with taxing wealth is this. Let's say you start a company, it blows up and becomes the next Amazon or whatever. You own most of the company still, or at least a controlling share in it.

Should you be forced to sell away some of your ownership in your own company just because the market values that ownership and voting power to be worth billions? Personally I don't think so. There is a reason these big companies like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, etc can't exist outside of the US, the owner would be forced to sell away their company just to pay for taxes on money they don't have.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have eyes that are way more amazing than any cameras that are used in self driving, with stereoscopic vision, on a movable platform, and most importantly, controlled via a biological brain with millions of years of evolution behind it.

I'm sorry, you can't attach a couple cameras to a processor, add some neural nets, and think it's anything close to your brain and eyes.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's ok, it's in beta, so some features may not be complete just yet, but hey, let's just release this to the public anyways.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I agree that Tesla has done a lot to push us towards a more sustainable future with cars, and unfortunately I have to give Musk some credit for that also. The thing is, I don't think you can separate Musk and Tesla like you are trying to.

Without Musk there really isn't a Tesla. Even now they are very tied to him and his way of thinking. Nobody but Musk would ask someone to design the Cyber truck, and nobody but Musk would even call it that, or name the other vehicles so they spell S3XY, or release beta driver assist /self driving software to the public.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (10 children)

A lot of the problem with Tesla is Musk though, especially when it comes to the whole FSD and Autopilot thing. Tesla is spreading misleading data and releasing software to the public that they really shouldn't be, and it's Musk that is pushing for that to happen.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, if the sub was fairly small on Reddit it's basically non existent here. I'm using both Lemmy and Reddit for now, hoping lemmy gets some good traction.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, Reddit hasn't really changed the API itself with these recent changes, they just made the keys to it cost money.

An API is basically a communication standard between the app and Reddit, that standard changes as new features are added or decisions are made. The app might make a request like getvideo and expect to get a video with the .redditvid extension. Now let's say Reddit decided to fix their shitty video player and now they start rolling out a new video format, .redditvidgood, and update the API so that getvideo returns this new type.

Now the app makes a getvideo request and gets a .redditvidgood video, but it has no idea how to handle this format, it's still expecting the old .redditvid format. At best the app will fail to load these new videos but still function otherwise, at worst the app will crash any time it tries to load a video. In this example, even with the best case scenario most videos don't work anymore. It's only a matter of time before a change completely breaks all apps that don't update for the current API, and only a dev with the source code can make those updates to the app.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, feels like we have taken a step back almost, we went from Apollo to shuttle and back to basically Apollo as far as overall look.

The closest thing to the shuttle that has a planned Q1 2024 launch date is Dreamchaser. It's much smaller than the shuttle and not nearly as capable, but it at least looks cooler and lands like the shuttle.

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