netwren

I clearly lost a bet about 10 years ago that we'd have autonomous cars everywhere by now.

As an insider of DevOps. It's not really that magical for most firms or that new it's mostly marketing fluff made to sell more capable admins.

What's your cynical take on autonomous vehicles?

Started out apprenticing as a Sysadmin, have been doing that until I got into DevOps. Always had an interest in programming as I was always limited in what I could do by what people had already created.

I've used Python, JavaScript, Golang, and now Rust over the course of my career.

Currently learning wasm and how Rust's borrow checker and generics get along.

I would spend an inordinate amount of money to simulate a work environment for me and not have to dedicate an office space.

1. Saves rooms dedicated for me while I'm work from home

2. I can get dynamically composed displays based on what I'm working on. Sometimes I don't want to be totally cut off by monitor space, sometimes I need lots of vertical windows.

3. I can use it on a plane.

4. I can use it in a hotel room

It's a desktop experience with a slightly more inconvenient format then a laptop.

Super interested in the idea but also NEED augmented reality for this similar to Apple's headset capabilities.

I was actually really interested in the Vision pro for those use case until Simula pointed out that it's based on iOS. This is what effectively killed the iPad for me as well. The platform just isn't there yet in work class productivity. That's a huge disappointment.

Bathroom picture? What am I missing here?

I see this as a really clear win over the likes of Reddit and Facebook of making the algorithm more understandable to users so they see WHY they're being fed the information they're getting.

I asked about this.

Around ~180 euros a month for the server they were renting to run this Lemmy instance. Anybody can host though and any member of a Lemmy can see content and interconnect with other instances.

I was looking into potentially hosting my own Lemmy for my friends and I because the cost would be more manageable.

I'd imagine if people started doing that it would decentralize the costs and the administrative overhead.

Right. Data is irreplaceable though, features and functionality can be re-implemented given enough motivation. Would it suck? Sure. But it beats having to write a scraper to save your stuff.

If Lemmy doesn't have it the community could open source a swagger doc for the api

Yep will dogpile on any and all thankfulness posts. The app rocks so far.

Honesty I think Obsidian as a product. They have done a pretty good job of keeping my data open and available in the Obsidian Vault.

I pay them for Sync, so I consider it a service for them to maintain and upgrade the software. I would prefer the client be open source but it would hurt their ability to stay afloat and profitable to pay their employees.

If they go under or start an "enshittification" I can just take my JSON and markdown and make my own client or use one of the hundreds of other markdown clients to get my information.

Took the time to try to find more info on this.

Apparently it came from a 90 minute talk by a Toyota Australia executive. And the assumption is that the power grid supplying the BEVs are dirty in comparison to the hybrids which reduce CO2 in their power generation/efficiency.

https://evcentral.com.au/ev-versus-hybrid-toyotas-co2-hype-analysed/

This really smells of bullshit because it really doesn't have anything to do with choosing one or the other.

We should be choosing BEVs and also putting tremendous effort on the power grid to go renewable energy.

I've come full circle on this statement after reading some more.

Edit: I've done some followup research after this and have reversed my opinion on perpetuating this information. https://evcentral.com.au/ev-versus-hybrid-toyotas-co2-hype-analysed/

It was because the math on carbon pollution from EVs showed their hybrids were better for the environment compared to the manufacturing CO2 emissions in making batteries.

Toyota is being brought to the EV market kicking and screaming because it's not actually better for the environment.

At least that's what I read. I'll be honest I'd not have a source off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt.