Trigger alert!

From a Boomer to a Doomer - if you are right down at the bottom of the barrel, the ultimate victim of the horrible system, the person whom the system actively grinds down...

Perhaps a little introspection is in order. Yeah, I'm a boomer. Big deal, there are boomers among the losingist losers ever. You doomers didn't invent losers.

My millennial son is doing just fine, rising in his company, and is going to buy a house soon.

Wife's best friend has 2 millennial sons, gainfully employed, and own houses.

The same with other friends children, I just give three examples.

Things to ponder:

Maybe it has something to do with attitude

No one owes you anything.

No one owes you a 6 or 7 figure job.

No one owes you a one skill-set for life - if your skill-set becomes useless, develop a new skill-set.

Bring value added to your work.-If you bring no value added to your work, you are mediocre at best Tha man is not your enemy, unless you choose to make tha man your enemy.

For my own case, I've been called to work after retirement because it was difficult to find young people to fill the position. They stressed over minutae. They wanted really high pay without experience, and they had absorbed the teaching that they were the most important person in the universe, before, or now, or forever after.

They all crashed and burned, usually sinking into depression when they found out they were just 1 out of 8 billion people, and about as special as a grain of sand.

So while I probably gave you super high blood pressure, just consider that my advice might have some use, or you can revel in being a loser - it is after all, easier than the work to be successful.

Yep. Mr. Raghavan isn't the illness, he's just a symptom of ordinary market forces that innovative tech startups can only resist for so long.

M2 killer. They forgot to lead the target.

Na, it doesn't. Quit spreading this bullshit, asshat.

Ya, fortunately those didn't burn in. </s>

I've definitely noticed as I age that high-contrast displays are a must for me now. I just can't read for shit on muddy displays anymore.
It has led me to get OLEDs for everything.

Most phones these days use OLED screens. No backlight.
They have an interesting power dynamic.
They're less efficient when displaying high brightness (because more discretes will always have higher overhead than less), but far more efficient when displaying low brightness, since they're not fighting backlight loss, they can run those fuckers at uamps.
OLED screens have had always-on functionality for a long time now. Samsungs back in the early 2010s is I think where I first saw it. My Apple Watch OLED is always-on.

The Next Greatest tech will presumably solve the OLED problem of lifetime.
Organic molecules degrade too quickly. That hasn't been a huge problem in the mobile space (I've yet to run into a burnt in mobile display) but it's a hypothetical one for sure.

This part is incorrect.
miniLED refers to small backlight LEDs (so that you have have literally thousands of local dimming zones)
microLED refers to small individual LEDs (no backlight)
It's been this way for over a decade.

I can't remember the last time I saw a dead pixel. I was recently wondering if that even still happened.

That depends.
My CEO turns every initialism into an acronym.
Did you know you can pronounce PCMCIA? Hearing that *will* give you a stroke.

It *is* strange.
What does "settings" even imply in this context?
Why the weird part about them accidentally testing with x86 binaries? (assumed, since the "fix" was to use Arm native)
How on FSM's green earth do these people consider themselves qualified to evaluate what is "possible" for some set of "settings" on a new piece of silicon?

This article was a pile of shit. Even if it ends up being completely accurate- the article is still a flaming pile of shit.

Nothing to disagree with you there. I suspect that a limited scope is part of the design. I'm thinking that in the use cases this is designed for, that the doggo will head out maybe 50 feet from the human operator, spray a firebreak, then had back and be turned off, or maybe reloaded. It might be more busy when used for a controlled burn.

But that limited scope thing. Controlled burns are not particularly safe, and firebreak setting is really dangerous. pretty near the fire, and there is the possibility that the fire could crown, and you probably won't survive if that happens, it's a game of inches at that point. So you really don't want the thing to carry a whole lot of gasoline. If you had a I>big fire spitting doggo, and it was caught and disabled during a controlled burn, the control might be lost.

Ya, it's really fucking bad.
It screams like the kind of tortured logic someone who has been personally offended would employ.
I think this person is pissed off at QC, and they decided to lash out in an article, stretching what they really had to look as bad as possible.

I think the part that irked me, is that they even mentioned the part where they were testing x86 binaries at "SUB 50%".
Well no shit. That's a your bad. Maybe you should leave that out, because now it looks like perhaps you are trying to taint perception.

Before going too far, people who use flamethrowers against others, especially in t-word usage deserve being terminated with extreme prejudice. At least in my estimation.

But this pretend doggo with a flamethrower on top is aimed at a practical market. firefighting and controlled burning. As a tactical weapon, it is pretty lame. Simple to take out.

For all of that, it has pretty much the same possibilities that all of the flamethrowers of the past had. The question is why would one with the form factor of a canine suddenly cause people to use them as a tool against people in a never before thought of way? And it is not designed for an environment in which others are trying to destroy it. Sneak up on it from behind, grab it and whack it with a hammer. Or carry a shield and encroach it, then whack it.

But these other possibilities...Organic farming, a worthwhile endeavor uses flamethrowers as devices to "weed" fields. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I can imagine anti -personnel uses for that.

And if you want to really get scared, WD-40 makes a pretty decent short-range flamethrower.

In the end, it isn't that this might be used for nefarious purposes. It's that darn near everything can be used for evil.