I am kinda-sorta in the same area with you,,, I was wondering if maybe someone hadn't found a bunch of unsecured AWS buckets, and tried to download them all at once...

Startups pull this bullshit all the time. Their main 'product' is their share price. WTF they are actual doing is almost entirely unrelated (in their opinion, anyway).
"Innovating" is not really the same as "flying blind", but they often just start giving away free lunches and then brag about how much their 'customers' love them.

What's even sillier (as I casually browse past news stories about the semitruck) is that some of them are bragging about how it will have 900 HP (way too much) and how fast it can accelerate to 60 mph (nobody cares).
I wonder who does he think he will sell this thing to? He seems to stress aspects that are relatively insignificant at established OTR truck manufacturers.
What truck customers want boils down to two cold, hard numbers--total up-time and cost-per-mile. --And for an electric vehicle, you also have those not-minor issues of range-per-charge and charging station availability...

Tesla is selling luxury toys that people are willing to overspend on and still be inconvenienced with.
I'd be surprised if many logistics companies bother very long with the Tesla equivalent.

...it was a startup? Who cares what they were selling? Their stock price is all that matters, right?

....


[brainfart] -- My big startup idea is to have garbage men deliver packages. They had to go to everybody's house anyway.

Well no shit guys, some of us knew this months ago. That's when I moved all my investments into the Blockchain Shaving Club for Men.

And so you see, this is why Apple gives a 100% refund crash-proof guarantee on everything they sell.

,,,

Oh wait, no they don't. (roll-ii)

Maybe but maybe not.

If the (US cable companies) started cutting people off now, they'd probably lose many of them to an alternative service--at least, for TV channels.
The less-monied customers wouldn't be able to pay early termination fees or bills already due, and that alone would prevent them out of signing up again according to the cable company's own rules.
The current situation isn't a matter of a few tens-of-thousands or even a few hundreds-of-thousands of customers; there are very possibly millions of customers in this situation right now.

The cable companies can't just let people quit in debt and then let them restart again later, or else everybody will do it...
So they may be assuming that they must make a choice between allowing a small number of free-riders now, or dealing with a much larger number later on... -Or, losing a lot of customers permanently.

This is kind of like that saying "a rising tide raises all boats",,,, well, a falling tide strands the biggest boats first. ;>)

...that they say about fools and their money parting. (or... party-ing?,,,)

"It's only a secret until the cops come to the door."

I saw this at work, in the first week or so of the quarantine--germ paranoia...

Certain people (all female) got the bright idea to add bleach to ALL the other cleaning stuff, because "bleach kills germs!"... ummm... well yea but....

Oh, fuck it. I'm not in charge of these fools and I don't have time for this shit. (leaves the area)

The toy quadcopter design scales up pretty easily, but the problem is that it has a major efficiency/flight endurance problem.

This is the part that is most astonishing to me--after literally decades of being too much of a cheapskate to update ancient critical systems, now New Jersey is asking for VOLUNTEERS to keep it running.

That's what the actual web form asks--how qualified you are, and if you are willing to work for free.
They are claiming that they don't have the time right now to go through the process of appropriating money to spend to keep this system running--so they want people to do it for no pay.


..."We're hiring but we just can't find enough qualified workers!".

This is truth: most of New Jersey is more like wilderness than like what you saw on "Jersey Shore".

The 2017 bear hunting season was particularly high, with 409 black bears killed. https://www.njfishandwildlife....
(-the 2019 season was only 315 bears)

In 2019, the largest black bear ever taken in the US by bow was killed in New Jersey. https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Low/no-code is the future, no doubt. Maybe not the way this particular company did it, but eventually.

The idea of not being able to touch the real-actual-source-code seems to bother a lot of programmers, but it's probably better in the long run.

What I've seen lately is online services for creating phone apps. That is a very limited application domain for the concept, and not representative of what it could be IMO.

The problem with Etsy getting involved in the mask-making thing is that any mask you found for sale there would most likely have been mass-produced in China.

Etsy began as a "hand-crafted and antique" site, and a lot of people liked it for a long time. It's not so much that way these days.
They still promote it as being that way, but a casual browse of the last few months of any etsy-oriented forum will show otherwise.
There is a widespread belief that they have strayed from their original principles, and have alienated many customers and sellers in the process.

Warning: I have no net sources...

As I heard it--Australia imports some of the low-grade wood pulp that they use to make (toilet) paper,,, from China.
Due to the corona flu taking off in China and beginning to spread elsewhere, one Australian paper company said (~a month ago) they would halt imports of Chinese wood pulp temporarily, until everybody could figure out wtf was going on with all this.
Word got out that "there wouldn't be enough toilet paper" so Australians began hoarding it first.

{---I was told this by someone in Australia, but I can't find any web links backing up the entire story. The closest I can find is references that state that Australia supplies a majority of its own wood pulp, but not all---}

,,, So then, why are USA people hoarding toilet paper? When there is no such US dependency on Chinese sources for wood pulp?... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I dunno really, but I have a theory that they saw online videos of 'people who spoke English, and said there wasn't enough toilet paper'.

Now it's the place where "discreet men and chat bots meet".