Nah, that's too peaceful and hippie. Let's pray for Old Testament God and their unimaginable non-eucludean angels who have thousands of eyes and burning wheels and infinite wings with a baby fetus in the core with the absolute most fucked up horrific natural death possible.
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
— Article I Section 8 Clause 18 US Constitution
The Constitution indicates that Congress gets to set the laws that are necessary for proper execution of all the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.
Plus the fact that X is already trademarked in many countries.
All of which they’d know if their dumbass CEO — er, I mean their CTO who definitely isn’t running the company because they have a CEO who is a different person — had bothered to look into it.
On iOS I only just yesterday finally got a suggested app update so the icon could change. It’s been the bird still all week. Not exactly prepared, were they.
As a software engineer this is fascinating. Like, how would QC / QA have ever tested for this?
I mean, example, folding phones, it’s easy to just design a system that opens and closes it over and over. Samsung even has a butt sitting on testing device.
But testing whether the motion of a vehicle negatively impacts a wiring harness in some spot on the vehicle over time to cause this sounds rough. Again, though, I’m not in hardware jobs like these so maybe it’s actually easily caught?
I dunno, I think my angle of attack might be to not make the parking brake, which is also meant to be usable as an emergency brake in the case of hydraulic failure, fucking electronic.
Cable actuated parking brakes have served mankind perfectly well for over 100 years. I get that innovation needs to happen over time, but the whole electronic parking brake phenomenon I think is really a case of pushing in the wrong direction. It’s needless complexity for the sake of needless complexity.
When competence is in play, a wire harness chafe issue is something that should be fairly readily accounted for in the design phase, I think. I’m not entirely sure an entire-truck-vibrator to snout out harness chafes is really necessary, but it’s probably something that a company as large as Ford could build if they really felt like it. It could have been any wire in any harness, potentially, causing no end of superficially mysterious issues.
There’s a thing called HALT/HASS. HALT stands for highly accelerated life testing. Basically you put a product under extreme stress and try to find the failure points and mitigate them. Temperature, vibration (simulated or track), humidty, power cycles, … That said I’ve never seen one find everything. You can also do FMEAs, which again never find everything. In short this stuff is hard even for companies that presumably have lots of experience to draw on. Don’t know if Ford did something dumb to miss this or it was just one of those, “oops we missed it” that happens.
I would think that any loose wiring harness, especially somewhere it could touch another part, would be reflexively corrected by the designer. But I don’t know what the part and its surroundings actually look like.
You’d think so but harnesses being cut and cutting other things is pretty common. Ford had a f150 version with a v6 that has plastic valve covers that the harness went over that eventually cut through the valve cover.
Mighty fucking convenient. It’s this kind of stuff that tells me we are governed by children. “Nuh uh. Can’t do that. I’m on base. Na-na-na-boo-boo.”
Whom among you has the power to censor the censor!?
Edit: Also, where does this asshole get off? Congress doesn’t have the power? Let’s logic this out. Does congress have the power to pass laws? Do citizens have to obey laws? Are you a citizen? I can big brain this all day.
He may be wrong in a structural sense, but he is making a valid point in a how things really work sense. The phrase "legislate from the bench" was coined for a reason. The concept of judgement notwithstanding the verdict grants some of that power to lower courts. It shouldn't be like that, but it is.
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