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Comment Can never forget about him firing Victoria Taylor (Score 2) 29

Alexis Ohanian is the epitome of enshitification for his direct hand Taylor's firing and also letting Reddit's former CEO take all the flack.  He benefitted but never once took responsibility for his actions. I can't understand how people can accept such a shameful role.

Comment Existing product reduces by 22.2222C (Score 1) 52

There's a commercially available product from home improvement stores called Sunshield, it's a water-based elastomeric acrylic with ceramic additives which reduces temps by up to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  Though it only lasts about 15 years vs the decades of the product rated above.  The primary positive aspect is that it's available now.

Unfortunately, because of <insert cause of everything in the United States being more expensive>, the paint price went up more than 2x for a 5-gallon bucket.  It was originally around $200 bucks per bucket last year, it's like $500 USD today.

Comment Poorly written article. (Score 1) 137

It's common knowledge that Toyota simply does not like EVs and prefer hybrids completely.

Whether or not that's good or bad, that's not something I'm here to judge.

But the way the article's headline is written it makes it sound as though Toyota is experiencing difficulty selling EVs.

Simply put, they're not.

Toyota is deliberately not spending marketing dollars on the BZ4X or Lexus RZ as worldwide strategic decision, clearly not a sales issue.  They only made those models and in the configurations designed with limited range and low focus on quality because it is counter to their global market strategy of selling more hybrids and SUVs.

Comment Re:Why the shutdown? (Score -1, Offtopic) 23

In the article, it says just that:

*On Wednesday, Asahi trialled using paper-based systems to process orders and deliveries in a small-scale trial and it is in the process of figuring out whether to proceed with more manual-style deliveries.*

It should be noted that with complex ERP (Enterprise Resource and Planning) systems combined with JIT (Just in Time) manufacturing means that not only taking of orders and the making of deliveries is disrupted, but the process of procuring beer precursors, this is from filtered water, barley, hops, yeast, rolls of raw aluminum to make cans, can tops etc, maintenance parts, cardboard boxes, etc.

The extent of the breach isn't fully known either. It's possible it compromised their o365 or google enterprise suite. meaning all their contacts, mobile device data, and whatever else is managed via mdm could all be ransomwared or completely deleted.

Any interruption can cause easily cause problems for days.  Fortunately, shortages aren't immediate at the point of sale since large distributors like Lawsons, 7-11, etc, will have a large quantity available at distribution centers around the nation, it's just that they don't last forever.

Despite losing access to their data to the systems, they should be able to come back online with some limited capacity in weeks, in the meantime, distributors can juggle and rotate supply until newly manufactured beer starts showing up at loading docks.

Comment Battlestar Galactica had it right (sorta) (Score 0, Troll) 23

Do not network critical systems.

But if you do, practice network segmentation to make sure they're firewalled from one another to resist or completely prevent lateral movement.

While inefficient, air-gapped critical control systems gave the Battlestar a good security posture against software that excels at lateral movement.  Physical Access control and (some) auditing prevented most malware, esp those originating from communication systems from spreading into ship control/navigation, engine management, life support, viper launch control, DRADIS (Direction, RAnge, and DIStance), and etc.

Even though the CNP Program was downloaded to the Galactica's Navigation system, because the software required complete integration with all internal systems, it was never able to fully install due to Galactica's special no-network configuration. 

Comment Results and Conclusions from the actual study. (Score 1) 126

If you look past the superficial summary and read the study (or at least skimmed it), some of the useful conclusions were that rose essential oil (the scent used) it's possible people liked or disliked it and that caused the grey matter increase.

the other thing to note was that only rose essential oil was tested, no other scents. so it's possible that other scents can do the same to stimulate the brain.  with the understanding of the study, it's possible a hot new york restaurant dumpster in mid july might have the same effect at increasing grey matter as rose essential oil. we're not gaining much from this study, so to speak, the purpose of the conclusions for this research is that this is an area that's not well studied and is worth further exploration.

I'm going go out on a limb here and simply argue here that scents are greatly linked between the brain and memory, and possibly some of the best ways we can exercise our brain and mind is to travel from place to place and smell all the fancy things to smell. the things you smell in one state will be different somewhere else and at different times of the year and among different continents.

link to study:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0361923024000297%3Fvia%253Dihub

Comment The Old Reader (Score 2) 181

Literally reading this article from my RSS Reader.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheoldreader.com%2F

Cybersecurity news is often available via RSS. I can't imagine any good reason not to use RSS Feeds when you can focus on only the headlines.

Why would I want to waste time navigating to an actual site to read individual articles?  I don't need to read comments to form an opinion.

Comment Stating severity is a bad design decision. (Score 1) 16

While it would be helpful to send severity, I think in a situation like natural disaster, it's easier to just send the notification "An Earthquake event has been detected in your area, take precautions to protect yourself" should be a good enough warning.

You come into liability issues with too much specificity.

People are going to read things differently and gauge whether or not a specific alert or warning carries great weight toward their situation anyway.  Just having an alert that an earthquake, or tsunami, or anything else might happen, we, being humans that possess free will, are able to react and make a decision towards our own futures.

Comment Re:$10 million dollars labor for comprehensive che (Score 1) 41

$10m out of the original 450 m purchase price isn't bad, about 2%.

If we compare to a luxurious passenger SUV like a Lexus LX600h, that's like 120k, it's about 1,000 for annual maintenance.

This is oil changes, oil filters, engine air filter, cabin air filters, wipers, inspection, differential, transfercase. (transmission ATF changes are once every 30k).  And that's for a car that sees 10,000-12,000 miles annually in driving.  A car getting like 30-50k miles a year would see a lot more wear items. Tires, Brakes, more fluid changes, ATF, water pumps, bearings, seats, radiator, condenser, etc.

A380s are turned around and do about 2 trips a day for every day unless it's in maintenance, the route is discontinued, some international incident occurs, the plane is sold and transitioned to a new owner, or the airline goes bankrupt.

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