Sowhatever @ Sowhatever @discuss.tchncs.de

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A Tesla is significantly cheaper than an equivalent combustion car.

Are you comparing a 5 seat 400HP tesla with a 4 seat 120HP Renault? Of course the 120HP Renault is cheaper.

Compare it to a 400HP BMW (or even a 200HP Renault).

EDIT: a Tesla Model 3 is 43.000€, a Renault Megane RS starts at 50.000€

Not in the EU for sure. American cars have always been "lots of horsepower and low-ish quality for a low price", and Tesla keeps the trend.

Where in the world is Tesla a status symbol? Because I bought my M3P because I couldn't afford a BMW i4 M50, let alone a iX or EQS/EQE AMG. The BMW is similar size and performance and costs 30% more.

I still like it, but it was the compromise option.

I'm sure using hours of 4k bandwidth while getting nothing in return is a great deal for alphabet... 🙄

Bandwidth is EXPENSIVE. If you are not clicking on the ads and not even watching the ads, every minute you use the site is costing them money. They are just optimizing costs by cutting all "leechers".

YouTube doesn't need "exposure" or to "convince investors of an active user base". They don't need to keep users that cost them money because they have enough users already. They are well into the "monetization" phase.

My github profile is under my real name, so no thanks. Won't be giving my social security or credit card numbers either.

I assume you program in Javascript and haven't written C code ever. SPARC doesn't allow unaligned memory access to this day, no matter what parameters you throw to the compiler. If a program doesn't process endianness won't work correctly. s/online/inline/g. You didn't even address 4 other arguments.

"if you can compile it, it will work" is just false.

It was implied in the discussion: "if you can compile it, it will work".

There's plenty of ARM processors before Cortex. There's SPARC. And there's a crapton of others with their quirks.

Just because you can compile a program from source, it doesn't guarantee it will work. As mentioned: online assembly, memory alignment, but you can add endianness or questionable pointer arithmetic, not to mention dynamic runtime code generation. And I'm sure there's 5 other reasons that I haven't personally run into.

Yeah, in a perfect world everyone would write bug-free, platform-independent code, alas...

Nonaligned memory access can occur in C code. I'm not speaking about nextcloud, you mentioned "if you can compile it works (for any architecture) ", which is demonstrably false.

SIGILL

Nah, they suck too.

Sometimes I'm on the phone and just want to type a few sentences on-topic, not a history essay.

It's not taking a clear side, sometimes one of them is the topic of conversation.

Oh boy, look at any post from hexbear or lemmygrad. No holds barred supporting Hamas, killing of civilians and terrorism.

Most def

I moved to YouTube premium a few years ago, family subscription, to share with up to 5 people. YouTube is my main source of entertainment and the 15 bucks total (or whatever the conversion rate is) is less than 90 minutes of a movie in a cinema, nit even including transportation and snacks. I get my news, tech news/reviews, tutorials, documentaries, inspiration and laughs on there. I watch it while getting ready in the morning, on my lunch break and for a longer while in the evening. I share it with 2 other people so it works out to around 5 bucks a month. And the creators I like get a big portion of that.

Sure, around 60 bucks a year might sound a lot, but it's the only service I pay for (except the 2 bucks a month Disney plus trial until December). As a small bonus YouTube music transformed my Google home devices into a multi-room audio Sonos alternative for under 1/3 of the price.

I still use NewPipe on my phone for downloads for offline use and yt-dlp for content I want to hoard.

I would definitely do. It's totally out of place and a first indication of missing "culture fit".

For the love of everything that is holy, do not wear a tie for an IT interview in 2023...

I would even tend to call him "overdressed".

Whenever I had in-person interviews my go to was jeans, sneakers and a presentable t-shirt (plain color, or a small logo, no metal bands or similar). Everything in good condition and clean. An unbottoned casual shirt on top, if winter.

Usually "know your shit and don't be an embarrassment" is the bar to clear in IT.

If you want to think that, you can.