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Slacker007 wrote: He has done more good for mankind than not...
At the expense of what? If this whole battery thing is factual, no amount of "good" can undo such unethical wrongs.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Don't hate the man; don't "like" his methods.
If he's willing to screw you over with a software update so you buy more of his cars, you can take your chances on his "space ship".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Shades of Apple some years back.
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I don't buy anything Apple either. They've taken Planned Obsolescence to the extreme with their anti-right to repair stance.
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On the other hand, I feel rather fortunate that Apple keep giving Louis Rossman enough material to be funny. 
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Saw a fitting meme...
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2106316[^]
On a more serious note, It cannot come as a surprise that they have to slash the battery current as the batteries get older. Internal resistance goes up and they will catch fire otherwise.
And 620 kg of batteries per car (Model S 100D) that cannot be recycled economically. Approx. 5% is recycled today, the rest is going into landfills or "storage".
Planned obsolescence at its best.
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I'm guessing they argued that in court, considering the lawsuit. Apparently the powers that be didn't buy it?
Real programmers use butterflies
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They never turned up in court.
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Ah. I hadn't read about it. I was just spitballing. Strange that they never showed. Maybe they figured it was just less costly to settle.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Maybe they figured it was just less costly to settle.
But they didn't settle. 
I don't know if that's the pinnacle if arrogance or just pure idiocy. If they fail to pay now it will go to foreclosure.
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 What the heck is wrong with them?
Well this should be fun.
*popcorn*
Edit: I really should have caught that from the thread but I've been up since the witching hour and not quite able to get fully awake.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, they could of course appeal to a higher court.
But then they would need to read the news, they apparently don't read their summons.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I've been up since the witching hour
Wouldn't have expected anything else. 
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Got to get my magic on early, but it has been a dud this morning!
I can't seem to convince an ESP32/ESP-IDF to read from an ILI9341 display adapter, much less an RA8875 no matter what I do.
My magic is a flop today. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's all in the wrist movement. Swish and flick.
Better get some rest, it'll come back.
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How do I unsubscribe from this hate Elon Musk facebook group?
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Can't talk politics ...
As I said: don't hate the person, but do "think" about their tactics.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Can't they just roll back the update?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Working with my current favorite JavaFx using the IntelliJ IDE, I faced a problem earlier today. I had a two-dimensional array of objects to sort. Think for the array as something like:
Object[][] myArray = new Object[88][155]
Index 1 of each sub array held a string as an object. In other words myArray[][1] was a string object.
The problem: To sort the array in alphabetical order for this string.
I looked at the problem and thought: "No way is there a simple solution for this! I'm going to have to write a sorting class for the job. It took me a couple of hours but I got it working in less than 30 lines of code. And it worked well. Just as I was getting ready to pat myself on the shoulder, I developed a nagging thought (don't you just hate those spoiler nagging thoughts?) that I may have overlooked a more simple solution.
So I did an online search and came across a solution to do the sort in some 6 or 7 lines. Skeptically I tried adapting the code to my situation. As I was about to try it out, up pops IntelliJ, suggesting it would be simpler to use a Lambda expression. It even offered to do the conversion for me. So I thought: "What the heck, let's give it a try.
Sure enough IntelliJ's Lambda worked. About three lines of code!
But IntelliJ was not done humiliating me. Up it pops with a suggestion that it can convert the Lambda to a "super lambda" or something of the sort. What could I do? I had to tell it to proceed and voila: The whole sorting action on a 2 dimensional object array done in a single line of code! Here it is:
Arrays.sort(myArray, Comparator.comparing(o -> String.valueOf(o[1]).toLowerCase()));
Tonight I will have nightmares of vicious IDEs chasing after me to correct all my many mistakes!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 25-May-21 9:55am.
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That's pretty impressive. I hadn't heard of Intellij, so I had to look it up. It doesn't support C++, so that's why. And I hope it never does, because I can imagine what it would do to my ego too!
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:laughs:
And here I was, a day or 3 ago, a little surprised my new phone used autocement to alter "b4" into "by".
The first time I tried out Augmented Reality on of all things, an Aldi catalog front-cover, my brain nearly melted. Ohhhhhhhhw - so that's why Pokemon Go has been so successful. :Checks last phone: - 7 years old....
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They have another IDE called CLion that's basically just a customised/simplified IntelliJ - It's much better than Visual Studio, but I don't really know how it stacks up compared to other C++ Editors.
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I know quite a few people who rate it - never tried it myself, mind!
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Cp-Coder wrote: String.valueOf(o[1]).toLowerCase()
Nit-picking: Depending on your data, you should normalize strings to upper-case, to avoid the "Turkish i" problem.
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care | You’ve Been Haacked[^]
(The article is about .NET, but the problem will affect other languages as well.)
In .NET, it's better to pass in a case-insensitive StringComparisonOptions or StringComparer rather than changing the case of the string, so that you don't have to create a new string for every comparison. I don't know whether Java has anything similar, or suffers from the same problem.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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