Comment Pot, kettle. Black. (Score 1) 105
The arrogance is insane. What a fucking waste of time to argue this when your business model is exactly the fucking same.
Comment Re:Cost... (Score 4, Interesting) 122
Way more than cheaper rides.
* App to summon
* Automatic driver mapping to pickup
* Predictable arrival for pickup
* Predictable arrival for drop off
* No BS routing and you knew the cost before pickup/dropoff.
Back in the day I called for cabs ahead of time and had them fail to show up 25% of the time. I've never lived in a dangerous area, so that wasn't it. They just were not reliable or predictable. Uber saw a huge opening for a service and they took it. They also saw a huge opportunity for destroying the existing market solution in an anti-competitive and illegal way and took that, too - banking on the notion that government would not act fast enough to stop them. And they were right.
Comment Re:X is paywalled (Score 1) 51
I am sure you know this and are just trying to shit on the editors, as one does on
Submission + - CircuitPython Turbo brings native code to tiny boards (adafruit.com)
ptorrone writes: Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer, then loads them onto compatible microcontroller boards. It builds on MicroPython's Native and Viper emitters. In a documented Metro RP2040 fixed-point Mandelbrot test, Viper cut computation time from 8.335 seconds to 0.423 seconds, a 19.71x speedup over bytecode. The rest of the application stays in Python. The guide includes benchmarks, source code and hardware demos. The speedup is for the measured computation, not the whole application.
Submission + - From Palm OS to Foldable Phones (linkedin.com)
ardiri writes: Long-time Slashdot reader Aaron Ardiri, whose Palm OS work has appeared here a few times over the years, has revisited a mobile architecture he developed more than 20 years ago after this week's renewed attention on fold-able phones.
MedHand International began developing medical reference software for Palm OS in 2000, eventually supporting Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Windows and Mac OS X. Because medical publishers supplied content in wildly different formats, MedHand developed its own canonical XML representation—“MedHand XML”—and separated structured content from its presentation.
That work resulted in a patent filed in 2005 describing components, containers, a layout manager, hierarchical information and display-dependent presentation. Its diagrams explicitly show the same information hierarchy being presented differently on a mobile phone, PDA and desktop display.
The interesting comparison isn't that MedHand somehow “invented the foldable phone”—it didn't—but that modern foldables create essentially the architectural problem the software was designed to handle: the underlying information remains unchanged while the available display environment changes substantially, requiring the presentation and visible information hierarchy to adapt.
Ardiri has written a retrospective comparing the 2005 architecture with modern adaptive mobile interfaces. There's also an amusing historical circle: MedHand International built its own XML publishing pipeline before EPUB became an industry standard, while Ardiri has just released his autobiography and Inside the Machine as EPUBs—including on Apple Books.
So how many supposedly “new” computing problems are really old architectural problems waiting for the hardware to catch up?
MedHand International began developing medical reference software for Palm OS in 2000, eventually supporting Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Windows and Mac OS X. Because medical publishers supplied content in wildly different formats, MedHand developed its own canonical XML representation—“MedHand XML”—and separated structured content from its presentation.
That work resulted in a patent filed in 2005 describing components, containers, a layout manager, hierarchical information and display-dependent presentation. Its diagrams explicitly show the same information hierarchy being presented differently on a mobile phone, PDA and desktop display.
The interesting comparison isn't that MedHand somehow “invented the foldable phone”—it didn't—but that modern foldables create essentially the architectural problem the software was designed to handle: the underlying information remains unchanged while the available display environment changes substantially, requiring the presentation and visible information hierarchy to adapt.
Ardiri has written a retrospective comparing the 2005 architecture with modern adaptive mobile interfaces. There's also an amusing historical circle: MedHand International built its own XML publishing pipeline before EPUB became an industry standard, while Ardiri has just released his autobiography and Inside the Machine as EPUBs—including on Apple Books.
So how many supposedly “new” computing problems are really old architectural problems waiting for the hardware to catch up?
Comment Re:Well come on bootlickers (Score 0) 148
Let's hear how this is a good thing.
It's possible this might change some minds about government data collection of financial activity.
It would be great if we all someday learned that PITT data analysis was actually based on de-anonymized CFPB data, which constitutes the singular largest and most granular financial surveillance program the US government operates, and perhaps put a large moral panic sized dent in the "consumer protection" narrative.
Comment Re: Shocking not shocking (Score 1) 166
It's kinda dumb. I'd never buy from a dealer who did that. And word spreads.
They're not just asshats, they're stupid.
Comment Re:A giant step forward for mankind (Score -1, Troll) 274
but is this really the top agenda item at the UN?
Sure. Why not? The grifters bumming around the UN live in paradise; all the soluble problems they might otherwise suffer in life have been solved. So they pick at these scabs, having little or nothing better to do: once you've finished doling out the annual climate bucks budget to the official climate narrative writers, what relevance does the UN have on this Earth, aside from the periodic condemnations of Israel?
Comment Re:Why a two seater? (Score 1) 153
And because cars are a certain size. Making it half the size for just one person would be nearly as expensive and would be worse for taxi'ing 2 people (which are still a reasonable number of fares).
Comment Re: Renamed already (Score -1, Offtopic) 47
MAGA... racist
10/10
Well trained. Carry on!
Comment Re: Renamed already (Score -1, Offtopic) 47
So Trigger
much words
Wow
Comment Re:Renamed already (Score -1, Troll) 47
Clinical TDS. Living in your head, rent free.
Comment Re:Getting tired of Cold War 2.0 already (Score 0) 160
what would it be a dictatorship
A few too many bong hits? Bet it took ten minutes to write that.
Comment Re:Crappy IT security has consequences (Score 1) 76
What's this Ohio thing you're referring to?
FirstEnergy stole >$500 million by applying a surcharge to rate payers for smart meters, dumped the money into a general fund and spent it on other stuff, including some bribes of Ohio politicians, and colluded with the PUC to alter audit records to cover it all up. The former Ohio house speaker is in prison over it right now. Another politician died before trial; supposedly a suicide...
And no, we're not talking about different hardware. The same rampant corruption is endemic throughout the entire industry for all such procurement. The contractors, utilities, PUCs and politicians are all feeding at this trough.
Comment Re:Crappy IT security has consequences (Score 1) 76
I can tell you that's wrong.
You can provide an anecdote of your personal experience in one case. I, however, can tell you about the half billion dollar scam of FirstEnergy (Ohio), or what's gone on in Oregon, California, Michigan and others. The cases PUC scams around "smart grid" equipment are legion. Some of them are exposed. Many are entirely suppressed when the more competent criminals ensure the auditors are (willingly) prevented from noticing.
