Ooph yeah that seems pretty bad. What is even the purpose of seller rating with FBA if the inventories are mixed?

Who is “they”?
You have to test the product to know it’s counterfeit. Then you have to return it. Then you have to buy it again and, what? Hope that what they have stocked is from a different batch? I don’t think this is any different between Amazon and other retailers

I imagine that “sold by Amazon” has about the same supply chain reliability as big box retailers. On Amazon you do gotta check your seller rating if you’re not buying prime, but that’s not harder than driving to best buy, and big box retailer online stores have the same problem when they’re the storefront for 3rd parties (as many are, trying to emulate Amazon).

On Amazon, reviews can be faked, but at least it has reviews.

Is that like a power bottom on steroids?

I think the argument that A-A should be in the spec.

But usb-c is just so much better all around.

Even if you don’t, there is basically no way to tell you’ve got a legit authentic product that passed QC until you test it yourself. The supply chains that give retailers plausible deniability wrt child labor also by their nature allow counterfeits.

I have never seen this.

There is absolutely a certification process, but playing legal whack-a-mole with fly-by-night counterfeiters is difficult.
This is why buying reputable brands from reputable sellers is important.

But even then, I remember years ago I read an article about major retailers selling counterfeit brand name SD cards that didn’t meet the labeled performance specifications and had very poor QC. Turns out that gray market sellers were buying batches of the real product that failed QC and just reselling them as though they were fine, and they ended up making their way back into the distribution network.
In the end the conclusion was that we’re all kind of fucked until retailers start being way more strict about their supply chains, which they are disincentivized to do, because the current system gives them plausible deniability on things like child labor.

You don’t want people like me. I have time to complain, but not time to work on a solution lol

Especially when it’s always the same few people commenting and posting

Because there are only a handful of communities that have enough traffic to sustain a meaningful conversation.

Even popular activities have low traffic, god forbid you want to participate in a community based around a niche activity.

I love Lemmy and I’m not going back to reddit… But sometimes it feels like a desolate wasteland here.

That’s true! Although many people use makeup to do styling using the default styles… Which is… Not great.

But regardless I think my point still holds, it’s not providing instructions for a machine, it’s the data the instructions act on. But the difference between data and instructions is a blurry one

Congratulations, you’ve learned how memes are created!

It because they’re bracing themselves with the steering wheel when doing a very exaggerated shoulder check.
My driver training course explicitly brought this up, but presumably not everyone took driver training.

But I don’t think that’s what they’re talking about, I think they mean that little cars who give an enormous berth between their car and obstacles, so they end up taking up as much of the road as a large car would

Reading it, the latch doesn’t deform, the latch sensor deforms. It doesn’t allow the closed hood to open, it fails to alert the driver that the hood wasn’t closed.

But if the sensor is broken, idk how an OTA can detect that the hood is open.

The problem is a sensor that detects if the latch is closed. How did an OTA fix this?
It hard to tell how big of a concern this was

I did and it doesn’t really give complete answers.

The latch is fine, but the sensor to detect when the driver didn’t close the hood can break. I dont understand how an OTA can fix that, and idk how common the problem was, so I can’t tell how sensational the headline is

Is this a real recall or an OTA update?

I hate Tesla, but a lot of news outlets are like

TESLA RECALLS BAJILLION CARS And what they really mean is they released an OTA update to fix some extremely rare race condition.

The issue is still bad, but I feel like the news outlets are sensationalizing to the point of dishonesty sometimes.

To be clear I’m not sure I understand the actual underlying issue here, so idk how deserved the headline is, but whenever I see them, I’m immediately skeptical

I found somewhere I had previously shared it, it was a toktok, but the it no longer seems to exist and I don’t even know the creator anymore because the URL just redirects to the Tiktok homepage now.

I copied the lyrics though, and they go like:

Made AI so we could do the fun stuff
And it could do the dumb stuff
But now it does the fun stuff
And we become the dumb stuff

Trying to see if it was reposted somewhere

Sorry I wasn’t clear, I meant the formats themselves.
Writing rich text using a text editor is kind of like writing HTML with a WYSIWYG editor, but just like with HTML you can go in and write RTF by hand.
Likewise you can use Photoshop to make an image, but you could also go in and set the pixel values of a bmp by hand.

By sliding scale I didn’t mean wrt how you wrote them, but rather how much like an “instruction” the file tokens (for lack of better word) are. Is it instructing the computer to do something? Or is it data that the instructions act on?

Sometimes the line between input data and instruction is blurry.

Does that make Rich Text Format a programming language then? Does that make jpg a programming language?

I think that markup is the data that a program takes as input - but I also think it’s not black and white. How programmy a language is is a sliding scale.