To unlock drink verification can (2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by themoonisachees » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

fho wrote: post #92

Dylan16807 wrote: post #60

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Features that are locked off permanently are less scummy. It's a bad way of emulating different production lines, but at least it doesn't let them charge ongoing rent.

If I am not mistaken sometimes this is due to yield rates in chip manufacturing. Iirc there were 3 core pentiums at some point that were basically faulty 4 core chips where one core did not pass QC.

This is extremely common on CPUs and GPUs. gx104 from Nvidia was famously identical to gx100 with cache, cores fused out, probably because they were defective. It's a good way to increase yield for monolithic dies.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by petesergeant » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #99

petesergeant wrote: post #38

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I think I am in a minority group of 1 for thinking that features that are payable extras are a good thing, actually. I guess people who don't like it see it as losing features, and talk about _owning_ their vehicle, where I see it as the ability to fine-tune the cost of a vehicle depending on what features you do or do not want to license. With any luck, competition should end up giving a market price to each of thes…

yeah, but the extra features don't cost extra money for the manufacturer. For example, BMW sells a subscription for heated seats. But... EVERY BMW has the hardwere in place, seat heaters and everything installed on the car, even if you don't have the subscription. it's not some cost savings passed on to you, it's cheaper for them to put seat heaters in every car!!! They're just going to charge you more to unlock it.…

It’s cheapest for them to not put it in any car though, which is what makes it a value-add

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by TheHappyOddish » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #15

good time to post other ones like: http://bash.org/?244321

I still say "I put on my robe and wizard hat"[0] to people, although I don't think people get it.

0. http://bash.org/?104383

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by antifa » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

fho wrote: post #91

petesergeant wrote: post #77

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The option is they sell you the same car without the hardware that the second-market buyer doesn’t want, and then it’s harder to resell

I don't think any used car buyer will install additional feature in a car. Maybe a new car radio, but even that has become difficult. In our 2nd gen Berlingo the radio is connected to the multimedia "lever" and the digital dashboard ... the aftermarket radio that worked fine in the previous car does not even use the same connectors :-/

IMO the whole purpose of aftermarket radio was going to be multi-cd players, mp3 cd players, or an aux port to connect your own player, but last I went car shopping everything I saw had Android/iPhone bluetooth support that included audio and google maps/waze good enough that I can't imagine anyone wanting to replace it.