turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I mean it's not out yet. The raffle for who can buy one hasn't started. This is just like scammers selling a PS6.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Slate Auto next year. Don't get the telematics module.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's all in the UI basically. They have an app store of sorts where it's managing the separate containers for you. If you already ate comfortable spinning up containers you don't really gain much.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no.... I thought I was exaggerating. 😅

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I vaguely remember they might've done that later on? Maybe that was for the business version only. It was at least interesting that Microsoft was trying to directly compete with Apple for a while in having a whole ecosystem. I was waiting for more hardware because I liked metro on the phone, but then that all collapsed.

Really the worst part of 8 onward was the fragmenting of the settings, Vista you could at least fallback to the old stuff but they started removing old functionality. I get that they wanted to "update" from the control panel. But that it's taken them 20 years, and they're not done, and now neither the new system or the old system is feature complete, is fucking bonkers.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

$10 no.

If that book enabled sick people to continue living another year, and they started out charging $2000 and gradually increased that to $10000 while the book production cost remained at $2, there would begin to be many ethical questions.

You're right that the per-pill cost is only the start of what it takes to develop / test / manufacture / distribute / market the pill. But the first two are done by the time the pill comes to market and the last is minimal because you have a captive market, people who have the cancer the pill is treatment for.

Increasing the cost year after year, because you have a captive market of people that will die without your product, should raise significant ethical and legal questions. Especially because large parts of the research and testing are publicly subsidized anyway.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The FCC is currently trying to apply Fairness Doctrine to late night shows in retaliation for them having James Talarico on.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's 3D compared to pinball videogames from the 70s/80s, which were decidedly not. It actually looks like a pinball game that could exist, the ball moves relatively realistically, and has paths that go 'over' the main play field.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The site seems to autoredirect to idlewatt.foundagent.net? Which is something to do with HIPAA vendors.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Veritasium(?) has a video about jerry cans that boils down to "Surprise! The Germans over-engineered the crap out of these!" and how most modern ones aren't as good because its significantly cheaper to make ones that just look similar.

Still better than the plastic ones usually but you kind of have to hunt for the older style at this point to get the best of the best.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is the point. It's not good, it meets the spec.

Sometimes the spec means it's overbuilt compared to a civilian version. A lot of the time someone not-the-government is willing to pay more for different features than the spec.

An AR trigger going to a 19 year old just out of basic does not need to be match quality. Most of them suck as marksmen. Most of them will rarely shoot a rifle after basic because their MOS doesn't require it, and they don't need a good (read: more expensive) trigger to qualify for basic competence.

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