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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3167: Car Size
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    25 days ago

    You need someone to figure out how to get the car to interpret that button press. Whether it’s an electrical engineer or a dev doesn’t make too much difference to the argument.

    the software route actually makes a bit more sense at scale, as you can abstract all the same functions into the car’s computer regardless of what human interface device is activating that function.








  • We have only received two emails to our legal team inbox, last one on Sep 6 with a 48-hour deadline. This is unrealistic for a company the size of Proton, especially since the message was sent to our legal team inbox on a Saturday, rather than through the proper customer support channels.

    Semi-unrelated, but back when I worked weekends in phone support, nothing came close to the satisfaction of delivering a “no, we can’t do that right now” or “sorry, but that’s not even our issue” to some cranky bastard on a Saturday morning. Then, after listening to a fully grown adult have a tantrum, promising that a superior would reach out during business hours… Monday. I knew full well they would spend 2 full days stewing, only to hear back from someone in management who would say something like “the agent you spoke to was absolutely correct, we don’t have any control over the quality of your Internet connection, we are not your ISP, go talk to them, goodbye.” I was lucky to have some pretty based individuals I would report to - sometimes they’d even let me listen in on those escalation calls live to enjoy the resulting unhinged meltdowns. Talk about catharsis.








  • I too was raised with religion (Catholicism) in the US, while my wife grew up going to Baptist churches - our childhoods could not have been more different. I was taught that studying science and the processes of observation and inquiry bring you closer to God, while for her the sciences were alternately ignored or lied about. Our family gave into the collection basket of our own will because we believed raising funds for good causes was the right thing to do. Her family was under compulsory tithing - 10% of all income. I was allowed to read whatever books, consume whatever media, and wear whatever I wanted, she was not. The list goes on…

    I’m not trying to whitewash Catholicism - it obviously has its own major issues that shouldn’t be ignored, but it’s a far cry from the fundamentalist book burners who my family thought of as zealous nut bags.