>The control arms, subframes, etc all look good and don't fit the 'chinese car bad' narrative you always hear.
While I think the "chinese quality bad" narrative still applies to many Chinese brands, this isn't as universal as it was in the past.
I think my eyes were first opened when I bought myself a Huawei phone(before the Google ban). My first few smartphones had been Samsung, I've always felt the term "planned obsolence" was the best way to describe these phones: After just a year, the phone felt considerably slower, and after two it was almost unusable.
Huawei flagship phones were similar in price to Samsung, but I felt they lasted way longer.
I have had a fairly good run with a lot of these Chinese phones. Huawei when we could still get them was great. Xiaomi is great build quality but they are rotting out their OS with too much bloat and up sell. Oppo has been brilliant in that they are built well, cheap and allow you strip out anything you don't want.
I had one of the last available Huawei phones, the P30 Pro, for 3 years. The only reason I had to get a new phone is because it got stolen.
>Xiaomi is great build quality but they are rotting out their OS with too much bloat and up sell.
I've tried Xiaomi phones in their stores a few times. I feel like they're trying to copy the look and feel of iOS in a way, and I generally don't like the iOS UX.
Pre google ban huawei phones were incredible. 2-day batteries, great screens, fantastic cameras and an awesome price. I had a Samsung after my last huawei and it felt like a solid downgrade, even though the samsung was way more expensive.
FYI, if you are looking for a post google huawei, check out honor phones.
That's exactly how Chinese android market works, every phone/pad is No.1 upon release and within a few week's PR campaign. After a couple months a new one is released with another No.1 bla-bla, while the old one goes on life-support.
Also have to mention their ads, built into the system, when every app opens, when you switch back, f*king everywhere. The funny thing is if you switch language to English or use it overseas, some of the ads will go away, ironic.
>I think looking at an LLM code and thinking you're now a coder is like watching a someone play guitar and think you can just pick up a guitar and play a song. The truth is, if you want to be good, you have to do the work.
So many posts here on HN claiming they created another useful tool with AI.
No, you didn't create it. AI did. You only had a supporting role. You're Ringo Starr and the AI is John Lennon.
>Ithey just kept paying her for 20 years to do nothing at work, and now she's suing them for the depression she got to get paid for no work.
It's called "mise au placard" and it's illegal. It's a technique to get people to quit by themselves, so companies don't have deal with the hassle of firing them. The lawsuit is 100% justified.
Copper is an essential trace element for many living organisms, including humans, meaning you need copper to survive. Generally, copper has low toxicity. (That is, unless you have rare genetic defects such as Wilson's Disease)
Lead is nothing like that. We don't need lead to survive, we shouldn't put lead in our bodies. Lead is also known to accumulate in your body (especially your brain). Avoid lead exposure as much as you can.
The heading content and structure is the biggest tell IMO. Even shitty highschool kids don't write like that.
I don't understand where or how AI picked up that habit, because it's self evidently terrible. It makes it clear how low signal AI based writing is. The writing is like the music in shitty blockbusters; engineered to make you feel, rather than to actually structure the content or provide meaningful sections.
Compare this writeup to the Pixter writeup, where sections feel natural and not "scripted" like this.
>I always believe software wages shouldn't be more than a plumber or mechanic.
Wages in the trades have gone up a lot recently, at least where I'm from. Decades of parents telling their kids the trades are for losers lowering the supply of capable craftsmen...
And not all software will work as specialized tooling.
Calorie tracker apps? Sure.
Operating system kernels? Each with their own schedulers and allocators and ABIs and syscalls? Definitely not.
While I think the "chinese quality bad" narrative still applies to many Chinese brands, this isn't as universal as it was in the past.
I think my eyes were first opened when I bought myself a Huawei phone(before the Google ban). My first few smartphones had been Samsung, I've always felt the term "planned obsolence" was the best way to describe these phones: After just a year, the phone felt considerably slower, and after two it was almost unusable.
Huawei flagship phones were similar in price to Samsung, but I felt they lasted way longer.
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