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What makes/models do that?
Lots, apparently. Search r/JustRolledIntoTheShop for "headlights". Some of the first few matches: Ford Fusion: https://reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/pw1n0e/t... Tesla: https://reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/pvyq3u/y...
On the other hand, taking off a tire takes perhaps a minute.
Not for me (I'm in LTR), but casual dating life. Tinder is distorting the market making it "winner(s) takes it all" type
It's always been that way. While I have never used Tinder (Been married during its existence) but when I talk to men that have used Tinder successfully and unsuccessfully, their stories sound just like my pre-Tinder dating life. To me, Tinder sounds like it just increased the velocity of success or failure.
Robin Hanson has touched this very dangerous topic a bit https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...
I think there is an 'optimum' level for technology of all kinds, below that you really want more and it is clear that there is room for improvement. But once the optimum has been reached any further additions will degrade the experience. Examples: Car controls: pre: direct taps and gauges plumbed into engine parts and such, real switches and levers. optimum: does what it should, not more, not less, more reliable than…
Do you recognize that this is subjective? YouTube is way better than TV, imo.
I would prefer TV to Youtube any day, if I had a TV ad-blocker, simply because the content is far more likely to be reasonable quality rather than a 20 minute clickbait video with 30 seconds of actual content.
I think there is an 'optimum' level for technology of all kinds, below that you really want more and it is clear that there is room for improvement. But once the optimum has been reached any further additions will degrade the experience. Examples: Car controls: pre: direct taps and gauges plumbed into engine parts and such, real switches and levers. optimum: does what it should, not more, not less, more reliable than…
> nothing but eye candy IMO, the real problem is the number of abstractions we've created, not the nice graphical stuff. The tech companies would be wise to start throwing truckloads of money at hiring game engine people and get help with the performance problems we have everywhere. I'm not denying that things are more complicated now than in the 1990s, (unicode, high DPI displays, etc.), but we've completely abstrac…
Video games. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. There's simply too much money nowadays in micro-transactions, in-app purchases, loot boxes, pay-to-win and in-game advertising that almost everything is "free" to play and it's literally horrible. what we have now is mostly copy-pasted franchise titles (with a year after their name) that are just another optimized hellhole of extracting money from you a small…
My answer is video games but for different reasons. With an original NES you could power on, press start, and be playing the game in two seconds. With the Switch it has to load, the thing is never charged, cartridges are too small, you have to select through so many menus before you can actually start playing, games are two complex, etc.
I think there is an 'optimum' level for technology of all kinds, below that you really want more and it is clear that there is room for improvement. But once the optimum has been reached any further additions will degrade the experience. Examples: Car controls: pre: direct taps and gauges plumbed into engine parts and such, real switches and levers. optimum: does what it should, not more, not less, more reliable than…
> CPUs [...] you can pry my 16 core Threadripper and its 64GB of RAM from my cold dead hand. Some of us use computers for things where more CPU cycles per second and more RAM are always good things.
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I used to think this, until I happened across FullStory. With that tool you can replay a website visitor's exact session as if it was recorded live on video -- everything they typed (even if it was cleared and never sent in a request), where/when clicks happened, the contents and response of every request, etc. As a backend engineer, I had no idea that frontend monitoring was this advanced, but apparently it is. So n…
> everything they typed (even if it was cleared and never sent in a request) Okay, wow, that sounds rough...so in a way, phishing attacks don't even require you to login anymore, just typing the password or maybe 75% of it is enough to get you.
Surfing TV channels. When I was a kid I was constantly flipping channels. At commercials I would sometimes flip through the dial to see what else was on. You could change channels as fast as you could turn the dial or press the button. My state-of-the-art television today is so slow at this that I never channel surf anymore. You can count 5 or more mississippis after changing the channel before the new one starts pla…
I'm not an codec expert but, AFAIK, apart from buffering you also need to decode since the latest keyframe (so, typically, last n seconds of input).