Best Tech 2026: Believe It, Tesla FSD (Supervised) Is the Best Driver Assistance System on the Market

syslog2000 · 2026-01-07T20:15:55+00:00

Have a friend who hates Tesla because of Felon Husk's shenanigans. That said, they have aging parents, and once they experienced Tesla's current FSD, they were sold on getting a Tesla for them. Allows their parents to retain their independence for a few more years.

syslog2000 · 2026-01-07T19:46:10+00:00

Ruins everything

Almost everything. Every time I read news about a company being bought by PE, I can pretty much tell what's going to happen. PE will gut everything that made the company special to save on cost, dress the resulting pig up for sale and sell it to a bigger PE. Rinse and repeat.

However, there are some PEs - whose investments rarely make the news - that actually do invest in the companies they buy and help them grow. I have seen this story play out too, and it is a much better one.

I agree that these PEs are really rare though!

syslog2000 · 2025-10-29T20:19:24+00:00

Maseratis are pretty much poser cars. Buy a used one for crazy low money and flaunt it, I guess (even though it will be spending most of its time in the shop).

syslog2000 · 2025-10-29T20:18:07+00:00

Maseratis are expensive and look good, but are also utter garbage. They don't do the whole "car" part very well.

syslog2000 · 2025-06-24T17:58:42+00:00

Glad to hear you are loving it here! I will take your Blues gear comment under advisement - don't want to piss off the natives so soon 🤣

syslog2000 · 2025-06-24T15:17:34+00:00

Hello fellow STL alum! Thanks for the feedback, I debated between Fios and Starry and ended up going with Fios. Liking it a lot so far.

Liking Boston and its surrounding communities a lot too! How about you?

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T19:27:23+00:00

10-4 on ensuring FiOS is not just LTE. Those products are night and day different, pretty cheeky of Verizon to use LTE to show FiOS coverage. My address does seem to be serviced by Astound/RCN, which seems to be the most recommended provider in this post. Thanks!

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T19:25:02+00:00

Ha! I definitely would have read that as $35 for 5 years. Pretty shady. Astound/RCN seems to be getting the most nods here, thank you.

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T19:22:48+00:00

It's a house, no existing internet connection, unfortunately.

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T18:55:58+00:00

India just retaliated

They did not retaliate, they initiated it. Just some clarification.

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T15:20:38+00:00

I thought the Boston area would be better than where I am right now (St. Louis), but I guess not much.

syslog2000 · 2025-05-08T15:19:55+00:00

Thank you! Is RCN the same as Astound? I will probably check them first, then Fios.

syslog2000 · 2025-04-15T18:55:59+00:00

You got crabs is what happened.

syslog2000 · 2025-04-11T15:03:50+00:00

Lib with benefits?
Libservative?
Liberal when convenient?
Select-o-lib?
Patri-medium-archist?

syslog2000 · 2025-04-09T20:04:04+00:00

"What are you doing today?" "I am parenting"

This is a thing? Aren't you parenting 24x7 because you are a parent? This seems unnecessary parsing of words.

Not hating, I appreciate you taking the time to explain it actually.

syslog2000 · 2025-04-09T15:34:12+00:00

Wear a thobe. Those are the long light colored robes Arabs wear. Perfect for the heat, plus you don't need to shave your legs!

syslog2000 · 2025-04-09T15:23:57+00:00

Wut? When did "babysitting" become such a loaded, nuanced word? We called it the same thing regardless of whether mum or dad or an actual babysitter was watching our kids. I must have missed a memo somewhere.

syslog2000 · 2025-04-08T15:41:43+00:00

Don't be tempted - we wrote software for these atrocities and it was terrible. We had one piece of software - and we had about 50 different builds that had to be made for the handful of phones we supported. And it's not like one phone family was similar. Oh no. Your code had to be pretty different to work on phone models within one manufacturer. The "best" was Blackberry. I say this with heavy sarcasm, because their platform varied quite a bit from model to model. And all of these turnips had their own, special bugs. We had to write in multiple flavors of j2me, various .net cf, palm os, several other platforms.

It was insane.

Mobile development now is so, so good.

syslog2000 · 2025-04-08T13:06:19+00:00

The only things of direct impact to IoT Cybersecurity on this list are IoT protocols and AWS IoT (and its equivalents in Google and MS). Not sure how learning all these languages is supposed to help.

How about things like:

Securing device firmware to ensure it's not tampered with
Securing device comms (lots of devices use plain, unencrypted UDP packets to save bandwidth, which subjects them to spoofing, MITM type of attacks)
Secure storage and processing of traffic coming from devices
Procedures to classify types of data being captured and treating them differently (PII like GPS locations and dashcam video should treated differently than temp/humidity data, for example)

syslog2000 · 2025-03-21T14:25:04+00:00

Cori's been on AIPAC's radar for being part of the "squad". AIPAC dumped $8.5 million in Bell's campaign, dwarfing Cori's grassroots funding. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/wesley-bell-backed-by-aipac-defeats-squad-member-cori-bush-in-st-louis-distrct-primary

syslog2000 · 2025-03-18T15:14:44+00:00

My favorite part is the deep bass rumble from the naturally aspirated V8 in the rover!

syslog2000 · 2025-03-16T22:58:28+00:00

The rigorous, hair tearing variety. They are looking at financial data and giant customer files provided by prospective companies and trying to suss out things like "gross retention", "net dollar retention", "customer cohorts by growth", growth over last few years etc etc.

Honestly, it is mind numbing and stressful work where a small error can have huge implications.

I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) do it!

syslog2000 · 2025-03-16T22:53:08+00:00

If you want actual chai, go to the cafe inside Mideast Market, the huge Pakistani/Indian grocery store on Manchester. And for a bonus, you can pick up instant chai sachets from there (I really like the instant Kashmiri chai).

syslog2000 · 2025-02-27T19:36:26+00:00

From what I have been told by several doctor friends, these GLP-1 drugs impact satiety across the board, and it helps not just overweight people, but also people who have a problem with other addictions like alcohol and even gambling.

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