I think the issue here is solely semantics. A phrase was created to speak to a very specific phenomenon, so when used to describe other things it doesn’t fit. Always happens with words outside of academic use. That being said, SO MUCH OF OUR SOCIETY IS BUILT AROUND CAPITALISM AND CAPITAL that to find a useful phrase…

The abuse of this term is simply an indicator of how selfish and narcissistic our society has become. A friend simply asking you to be a friend to them in a time of need now requires “consent agreements” and notifying everyone around you of what a burden you’re forced to carry, listening to a friend that needs a…

I liked the nipple mouse. Never had to take your hands off the keyboard

I did.

We had those nipple mouse laptops in middle school. We didn’t know at the time that we were unintentionally being taught a valuable life skill. 

its a survivor out of spite. No one wants it so it says “F you guys, I’m staying forever”

Mechanical parts that fail aren’t typically illegal to repair under multiple federal laws.

As a deliquent who has used pen-drives and did minimal research into SSDs before buying one...

yeah, it’s like: if anything ever goes wrong with a Tesla, Tesla = bad. There seems to be utter blind ignorance of literally every other issue that every other brand has had.

And a repair that costs $1800 on the low end or $5000 on the high end on a car that cost around $100k when new isn’t that surprising and does not make the car “worthless” as claimed in some of the dumber comments here.

Is this what the world has come to? An Auto tech has to resort to surfing Gizmodo for the latest fix for a car. Can’t we just hit it with a hammer or something?

i bet 8 bucks they will just do an over the air update that uses the memory 1/10th as often and replace only the units that are showing symptoms.

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*

Well 4 year old car needs 2k in repairs doesn't sound as good as 4 year old car is worthless.

Fair points.

Think of it as making the fuel filter part of the gas tank. We know the fuel filter has to be replaced every so often or the fuel flow chokes off, but this time the manufacturer has made it so you have to replace the entire gas tank in order to fix the filter problem.

It’s bad design regardless of the level of logging. Logged data should be written its own partition (or preferably physical storage device), and corruption of the logging partition/drive should have no effect on running code. Dialling things up/down can then be made purely on what makes the most sense to log.

A faulty storage device contained in every vehicle, which based on the description of the problem, will have a 100% failure rate over time, and makes the vehicle completely innoperable. Sounds pretty bad to me. 

I’ve seen this before. Someone in software is debugging something, ramps up the logging, fixed 6 the problem and either forgets to turn off the logging or the software manager re-tasks the software person to something else. A few years ago I showed up to investigate why a piece of equipment wasn’t working. The 2TB…

I don't know, I kind of just poured my martini into the socket.