If a company sells one product at 2 different prices, everyone will pay the lower price. I’ve already explained how it’s cheaper to manufacture a low-end product based on a high-end design instead of creating a totally new design.
Do you think you’d be better off if companies were forced to remove unused components from low-end versions of products? How do you think that would benefit you?
Personally I find I’m able to focus on high level design problems which I enjoy a lot. I still enjoy crafting elegant solutions to unique problems, but at least in my current job, most code is trivial and feels tedious to write by hand. Also, LLMs generate better code than some of my coworkers. Most of the slop I’ve had to deal with this year is in 20+ y/o codebases, and none of it was generated by LLMs.
If it costs more to manufacture a product than it can be sold for, it won’t be manufactured. Competition isn’t going to drive down the manufacturing cost, it only drives down sales price. If you drive the sales price too far down, or drive the manufacturing cost too far up (or a combination of the two), the product gets canceled.
What do you think would happen if it was illegal? I’m only coming up with two scenarios:
The reality of mass manufacturing means that, at least in some cases, it actually costs more to create a second factory line than it does to build the low end version with the the same internal hardware as the high end version. This is especially true with silicon, the vast majority of the cost is in design, test, verification, and building the fab. Once they’re manufacturing chips, each additional chip doesn’t cost all that much to produce.
I’m split… A lot of the time it’s cheaper to make the low-end version of a product by locking down the high end version, due to economy of scale. If they were forced to use lower end hardware, some cheap products will end up costing more to manufacture.
I definitely think our right to tinker with stuff and unlock features should be protected, though. Along with the right to repair.
This is brilliant.
The resolution was that the DNA didn’t belong to anyone involved in any of the crimes. It belonged to a woman who worked at the factory that made the contaminated swabs.
It’s also a good idea to gracefully shutdown anything essential that isn’t using a read-only rootfs. I’ve got my NAS configured to shut down after 5 minutes, but my firewall and frigate server keep running until the battery is almost dead, then safely shut down if the power still hasn’t come back yet.
Is the same thing that happened to academia. The people submitting papers are paying for the privilege, the people reviewing them are volunteers, and the cost to read them is out of reach for many. The people making money are just maintaining the website.
This guy’s got upper management written all over him.
Yep. It’s a “write once, read never” storage medium.
The exact meaning of “4WD” seems to depend on manufacturer. Toyota’s 4WD works fine on hard surfaces because the differentials are normally open, which makes it a lot more like AWD. The center differential needs to be locked for it to behave like your described.
I read about a fungus found near the reactor in Chernobyl that seemed to be using the radiation as an energy source, so it seems plausible for a plant to evolve to absorb RF energy.
Honey bees are another good example of this.
Maybe they don’t count the founder as an associate? I read it the same way you did, though.
Next time, see what a local camera shop would charge to rent some equipment so you can do the shoot yourself. It’ll probably be less than $75 to rent the gear for a day. It takes a lot of experience to be a good photographer, so you’re paying for their time and expertise, not their equipment. Modern cameras do a lot of the work for you, so you might be happy doing it yourself. On the other hand, for something like a wedding I would hire a pro if there’s room in the budget.
Only if they get caught. Seems like a lot of money for a flawed system.
This conversation is going nowhere. I think I’ve adequately explained my point. Peace.