Partially you are right. My only disagreement is while most people don’t read those documents, 1 lawyer who is bored and sees a pay day is all that’s needed. Like someone has a law degree but can’t find a practice to hire them so they go to a dealership, test drive a vehicle, sit down to sign paperwork, read everything and are like “hold up… Can you give me a copy of this?.. Thanks, tell your boss to expect a letter from me.”

It’s like general computer security, you can block 500 bugs and security flaws but if 501st is discovered it’s a really bad day.

I would go further than software. I think too much stuff is cheap. I’m not rich, I’m barely surviving. That said if things were more expensive but better I think that’s a net positive. Like you can buy a 50 vacuum, won’t do a good job won’t last long no hope to fix anything. If minimum was a 300 vacuum but it had a 15 year warrenty, mandatory suction and cleaning ability and user fixable wouldn’t that be better?

It’s similar to the old boot thing. A poor man buys a pair of boots for 10 dollars and lasts 2 months. A rich man buys a pair of boots for 200 and they last 4 years.

Being poor is very expensive!

Would be an interesting court case… If I’m not even shown or given a method to see a disclaimer, can it disclaim anything (is that even good English? You know what I mean but there must be a way to say it)?

Part of me says no. The company should make safe devices, a lamp is certified by ul and a car us way more dangerous.

Part of me say yes. People are really stupid sometimes. Companies shouldn’t need to design everything with bubble wrap and people need to know not to slam their head into a coffee mug.

The sad part is this will/has gone to court and the first case will determine the future. Like someone is like “Nissan video recorded me buying lunch at McDonald’s and saw my pin code” court says there was no damage since you can change your pin and no record of fraudulent charges. From then on there is legal precedent they can take your pin code. Year 2056, you see a Ford employee emptied your bank account by buying door dash, court states “Sorry, 30 years ago these other people said someone seeing your bank account data with your car camera is fine, just deal with your empty bank account.”

I mean you are mostly right and I was joking and exaggerating. I mean someone who can tear apart a transmission and put it back together and have it work better is obviously smart and intelligent.

Honestly I hate the direction cars are going. For example twenty years ago I could buy a new stereo at Walmart and have it installed in an hour. Now do that in a tesla. Yes some cars had different physical mounts and some had the door chimes built in such a way they would not work with aftermarket stereos but generally worked.

That was a solved problem. There was no reason to make this difficult.

If it’s only at pre-delivery or in manual, then I buy the car second hand without a manual am I still legally complied to the disclaimer?

I’ve known enough mechanics to know… Maybe… BIG MAYBE… I may trust them with a screwdriver but nothing more complicated

Wait… Every car I ever rented, borrowed or owned never showed a disclaimer anywhere. What are you driving that shows a disclaimer?

I’m betting someone prompted chatgpt “should we order anthroptic to disable their models?”

It kinda felt like it but I could tell he was kinda mad. Me driving there to push a power switch the both the teller and manager were supposed to check and the manager confirmed to him personally on the phone cost him about 300 dollars in his budget.

He wasn’t mad at me but more mad at the teller and manager for not actually checking the power strip. Found out later the cleaning crew was told not to use computer power stripes for their vacuums. It wasn’t their fault and I know there was other fallout from his anger (no one fired but there were “meetings”) but yeah. Cleaning crew plugged vacuum cleaner into power strip after hours. They vacuumed and then turned strip off when done. Next day teller comes to work and can’t turn on her computer. She assumed computer died, reality was the power strip was turned off…

This is more fun than serious but… I worked at a small company who contracted out it support. One day I got a call that a computer wouldn’t turn on, no signs of power at all. This was in a bank. Per their policy the teller had a list of things to check. They notify the branch manager who checked all the same stuff plus some extra. They then call a vp who checks all the stuff with some even more extra. If still broken, they would call us. On this day the call was no power on computer, branch was about an hour away, drove company car to client and immediately saw issue. The god damn power strip was turned off. The teller, the manager and the vp were to check this so I decided to have some fun. I told them there was an evil spirit and we had to “cleanse” it. I had manager go get leave from outside, I found some old candles from a old birthday, the lights were turned off, I called out some random non-sense about mother gia and cleansing and whatnot, arm motions, everyone’s head down and eyes closed. Meanwhile I flipped the power strip switch to on and within seconds the windows xp sound was heard (yes I’m old). Everyone was confused but amazed and easily signed the paperwork to say I fixed it.

I drove back to my office and on way the vp asked me to come to his office as he had questions. I went to his office, he asked me to explain the issue at the branch which I did and how I “fixed” it. He was obviously upset but said "next time that happens call me first ". I was confused but said “ok”. He then followed up with “we could have had a animal sacrifice” and pulled a rubber chicken out of a drawer.

I didn’t technically work for him but he seemed like a great boss…

For first situation, fuck people who beat their partners. This wasn’t a “I was drunk and slapped them” situation which is also horrible and should never be done… She had i think a broken arm, 3 broken ribs, nose broken, and life long issues with her hip after that. This was a serious assault. I don’t technically know if “Tony” was part of a “family” but this was ny/NJ in late 80s early 90s and he was a older Italian man who wore suits but I never saw go to work and I was simply told to show him respect and don’t ask too many questions (I was a child, maybe 7 or 8 when this occurred).

For second situation, if someone has money and power to have a shipping container full of “drugs” yeah… They have money and power to disappear a person.

If I did it right now same thing would happen… With 2 different liquor stores

Fun fact…the chip maker and the calculator company are completely seperate. Don’t really know why it’s fun but well it is a fact.

Years ago (early 90s) my mother had a female friend. The friend had an uncle “Tony” no idea if a real uncle or just friend of family.

My mother’s friend also had a sister who was engaged. One night sister and fiance got into a fight and it hit violent. Sister ended up in hospital for a week, several broken bones and multiple injuries. Somehow, “Tony” found out. The next morning the boyfriend woke up and left the house for work. He never showed up to work. He never was seen or heard of again. Maybe he’s buried, maybe he’s in the walls of a building or under the pavement of a road. I have no idea, but sister got a beating and when “Tony” found out he ensured the guy would beat anyone else ever.

Thought of another instance, even less details on this. Coworker was from Trinidad. One day he didn’t show up, ok cool everyone takes time off. Next day he is also not at work, I ask manager and told “he had a family emergency”. I think it was a week later he returned and I was curious and talked with him. He told me he had relatives in Trinidad and one started a new job at a port basically checking to make sure fees were paid and paperwork was filled out. There was a boat with a shipping container that was not documented and was not labeled. He opened container, supposedly top to bottom, front to back was white powder. I assume coke but could be anything. He closed the container and kept silent to not cause issues with the gangs. He went home, told family what he saw over dinner, then went to bar for a drink. Next morning he wasn’t in his bed. He wasn’t in the home. He told someone what he saw and that was a mistake. The ship was docked and allowed to leave. Maybe corruption, maybe not… Don’t know, don’t want to know.

The part that irritates me is the act like they can’t refund anything after “the store confirmed the order”. One time I meant to check the price of a liquor bottle, dropped phone, between trying to prevent it falling and picking it up I touched the purchase button. The store “confirmed the order” within 30 seconds. Since the store confirmed the order and started “preparing the order” I could cancel it but couldn’t get a refund. The issue? It was 11:15pm. Legally liquor stores can’t sell packaged liquor after 9pm here. Either a. The store didn’t confirm anything and have be not started preparing anything b. The store is openly defying multiple laws. The c. The you are full of shit. Plus what’s “preparing” a bottle of liquor? Why can’t you send a notification of “put it back on shelf” and be done? Fine yeah my mistake of accidentally pressing button, maybe a 10% “restocking fee” still bullshit but acceptable. Not being able to cancel order at all though???

If it’s not clear, the store was closed but order was defaulted to be delivered at 11am the next day as that was next available legal delivery time.

True, Ace is cool from a technical wow that’s possible perspective but I much prefer the traditional chain running cook tricks type of runs.

You would probably be interested in TAS. It’s tool assisted speed runs, basically how fast can you setup a bot to beat a game. Celeste is especially impressive to watch, chaining frame perfect tricks back to back to back for the entire game.

One of the coolest examples I saw a few years ago was for an automated optical inspection. You would take a picture and identify all the critical features and then manually check like 50 parts, varied between good and bad and marking why the bad ones were bad. Afterwards just throw a part under the camera and it could accurately tell good from bad with about 99% accuracy(biased towards false failures). Granted it was about 35k just for the camera and software but still really impressive.

It could locate the part and rotate the image with no fixturing and each inspection was between 10-90 milliseconds depending on what features were being inspected.

I reviewed the article but not the paper direct but this could be very beneficial knowledge for gi doctors. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this at least nominated for a ig nobel prize.

Hers my favorite example, it’s 128 languages in a Quine relay https://github.com/mame/quine-relay