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Aren't you equally at risk buying from Amazon themselves due to inventory commingling?


Usually if it's Amazon-shipped they will "take responsibility for this fulfillment experience" and nullify the 1-star review while immediately refunding you, from what I recall.


...from what I recall.

Are you recalling something that happened to you, or a rumor you read somewhere?


Something that happened to me. I left a 1-star review for a merchant that took 3 months to ship and it stayed up. I left a 1 star review for a completely unresponsive merchant that took Amazon a month to FBA for some reason (stock/non-commingled?) and it was removed with the reason "fulfilled by Amazon, we take responsibility for this experience", but Amazon did credit me back while the seller continued to ignore contact.

I've had sellers also threaten me over reviews while they ship counterfeit product, but that's a whole other can of worms


In theory: no, because anyone able to break the TLS could just slip in some JS to capture your comments.

In practice: possibly, because many companies use TLS proxies that probably aren't doing that?


For a vast amount of human history food has been much harder to obtain and less calorie-dense than it is today, so evolution has optimized for energy efficiency rather than raw power.


Do chimps/apes have a greater muscular power-density than humans?


Significantly, and a large part of the reason why is energy efficiency. Humans have large brains that take a lot of calories to sustain, and because of their large brains didn't have nearly as strong evolutionary pressure to maintain musculature.


Probably the wrong way to look at it. They can exert greater force for shorter periods but the great apes have far worse endurance than humans. A chimp is about a third stronger than a human of equivalent weight but we can run marathons and they can’t. We have a higher proportion of slow twitch muscle fibres compared to fast twitch than the great apes.


Where are people getting a few seconds from? The video seems to display the crashed MCU for well over a minute. 30 minutes is unreasonable, but it does seem like the safest thing to do is pull over.


Once the hacker has crashed the MCU of the software (an old version you can't get any more) then it's up to the hacker how long they let it sit there in a crashed state. They could leave it there for hours or days, if they wanted to. I mean the car is in Park.

So, it doesn't make any sense that you are talking about the time starting from when the crash was induced by the hacker, to the time when the reboot finished. You must be talking about what all the above comments were talking about, which is the time to do a reboot.

Well, it was probably a hard reboot. Which can only be done while stopped and with foot holding the brake down. And which takes longer than a soft reboot. So how long was it, exactly, since you claim it was well over a minute?

I checked the video to see what you could possibly be talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSYyg4-3dg

The reboot starts at 2:09. The UI comes back at 2:24, which is being conservative... we could easily call it 2:23. 15 seconds. For a hard reboot. Again, soft reboots are even faster.

So, yeah. Saying it took a minute or more is a wild exaggeration. Fifteen seconds.

During these 15 seconds you are missing out on the ability to see your speed, which was shown continuously in the largest font at the closest part of the screen right up until the moment of the reboot. (Except in this case the car was in Park, so it's super odd that anyone would worry about driving safety here). And you miss out on the ability to open the trunk, the frunk, and the charge port. And the ability to look at maps. And possibly voice commands. I don't see any safety issue here. If this bothers people, they can just refrain from rebooting their MCU while driving. And if they really do get hacked, just look at the screen, note the speed, and reboot. Soft reboot should be fine, and can be done while moving or not, it's up to the driver, free choice. Don't like rebooting while driving? Fine, pull over. You don't need to though. Fifteen seconds. Tops. Of not having your screen. Soft reboot probably more like ten seconds.

This is how people form mistaken opinions about Teslas. Lack of personal experience, ignorance, presupposition of facts that do not exist, gullible acceptance of anything you read or hear, and exaggeration of perceived problems to a bizarre level.


I was referring to this video where the car is driving 60mph down the highway, and the MCU stays crashed for over a minute: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkhwRUaSCA4

> Well, it was probably a hard reboot. Which can only be done while stopped and with foot holding the brake down.

If this is true, then it seems like it is impossible to (hard) reboot the MCU while driving? So they definitely should pull over.

> This is how people form mistaken opinions about Teslas. Lack of personal experience, ignorance, presupposition of facts that do not exist, gullible acceptance of anything you read or hear, and exaggeration of perceived problems to a bizarre level.

You seem to be letting your Tesla fanboy/girlism blind you. I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla over this event, simply arguing that should this happen to you the safest and best thing to do is pull over. I would do the same thing in a normal (non-Tesla) car should the speedometer or other important part of the dash fail in those.


Soft reboot should work. I think leaving it crashed for 60 seconds was up to the discretion of the user. He never tried soft rebooting. Of course not, since it was a demo of the hack. But soft reboot would be my go-to thing here and I would also at the same time start looking for safe places to pull over just in case the soft reboot didn't fix it.

But yeah this is an annoying hack if it hits an average driver. I'd say whether it's dangerous or not depends on how the driver responds. Just as you say, if any important part of the dash fails, the actions to take are largely the same as for a regular car, except I'm adding that there is that additional option of the soft reboot, in the meantime, which may fix it completely before a pullover can even happen.

If they are not aware of soft reboot, they should just drive safely and pull over to call service to ask what to do. If they don't do this, it's just like anyone in any car driving with something non-functional; the responsibility falls on the driver.

>I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla

OK, fair enough. If not for you, it can stand as a general comment about the nature of comments often seen in discussions about Tesla.


This seems like a weird complaint - basically everywhere in programming two variables/functions/classes/etc with different names are different things. I'd be much more surprised if appending a ' to a function name did nothing in haskell.

> When you could have just called it foldl and moved the old one to the deprecated module.

1. Most people aren't a fan of randomly changing existing library functions

2. The lazy (non-prime) version of foldl isn't useless! There's even a section at the end of the post explaining how this post _only applies to lists_ and that with other data structures foldl and foldr' are actually useful.


There's Windows 10 "in S mode" which does this, but it's not a version of Windows sold at a discount, just a "mode" you can run Windows in. It's possible to (irrevocably) change from S mode to normal Win10.


> and so do SPA devs

??? - those usually use the URL bar in my experience.


In most SPAs, however, URLs aren't used like conventional URLs; they're treated as routes. I think that's more the point here.

They aren't conventionally "shareable", first off, which violates more or less the spirit of what a URL is supposed to represent on the Web.


This is pretty much untrue. Gmail is an SPA for example, and I can share "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#spam" with you, or "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDWqXKSSfXBDQ... (of course you can't access the latter because you don't have the appropriate permissions for it … but point still stands: I can open that URL in a new tab and it'll open the same email).

I've written plenty of SPAs myself that use the URL and you couldn't actually tell it's an SPA unless you have the technical experience to know what to look for.

If what you're saying is "this infinite-scrolling page sucks at respecting URLs", that's something else, and it's not specific to SPAs. Infinite scrolling predates SPAs (Here is one for jQuery! https://infinite-scroll.com/#initialize-with-jquery), and doesn't have to break URLs if you don't write your code like an uncivilized brute.


Breaking the back button and not using propers URLs are two cardinal sins in SPA development.


Yes, but this is due to the fact that most jobs require your physical presence, Uber does not.


which is actually an argument that they are not employees.


No it is not and never was. Sales people - going back a very long time and include fully traveling ones - are not employees? How about traveling service technicians, not infrequently located all over the country, far from any company office? Home office - not uncommonly full time even, e.g. the company I work for does not even have an office but people employed all over this and other countries - are not employees? Please don't arbitrarily redefine "employment" to make your point.


You are the one who has been entirely disingenuous... the previous post made a very good point which you have not contradicted.


TIL: on-call doctors are not employees.


I have a hard time believing that both a doctor would administer antibiotics for coronaVIRUS and that antibiotics would be of any use there.

Edit: Children comments are pointing out the antibiotics could be for secondary infections. Fair enough, but the parent comment's implication that the antibiotics helped with coronavirus recovery is what's problematic.


Lockjaw is a known bacterial infection where antibiotics would be useful. My guess is no virus was involved and the grandparent misunderstood what the doctors said.


Antibiotics could be administered to reduce the chance of getting a secondary bacterial infection in the lungs weakened by the virus. Cortisol would increase your cell regeneration rate, helping marginally.

It's a rough equivalent of disinfecting a wound and putting a band-aid on it. Better than nothing, but doesn't address the issue directly.


Antibiotics prevent secondary bacterial infection that exploit the immune system occupied with the primary viral infection.


I had same reaction, it happened in Torino, Italy. I've no idea why I am being downvoted for reporting simply what she told me.


You are downvoted for passing off your uneducated (in the field of health) opinion that her illness was coronavirus as fact, and for implying that antibiotics somehow could help with the coronavirus directly (i.e. in fighting the virus not preventing secondary infections) in any way (they can't).


>You are downvoted for passing off your uneducated

I asked her again, now it's confirmed it's Coronavirus. It takes time to get lab test, they can't confirm it immediately it seems for now.


It can't already be confirmed if the labtest is not completed yet. It sounds like you still misunderstood the nurse.

They're doing a labtest for Coronavirus because she's been in contact with a nurse who's been in contact with a Coronavirus patient. It is just standard protocol to get tested in that case.


You are putting words in my mouth. Labtest confirmed she has Corona.


No doctor is dumb enough to give antibiotics for a virus.


They don't know it's Coronavirus tho, they didn't test for it.

Calling it Corona is just my speculation based on who she worked with in the clinic where she's a nurse.


So "This was Coronavirus" was actually bullshit.


Not really, she's a nurse - she had told me that she cared for a boy who died from Coronavirus and no one getting same symptoms and bronchitis after sometime.


https://community.letsencrypt.org/c/incidents.rss perhaps?

(Pro tip: you can append .rss to many pages on discourse to get an RSS feed)


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