Assuming what you say is true, are they the only LIDAR vendor?

Just curious for anyone who pays more attention to this than me: is the company being sanctioned by the EU for this behavior the one that US law forced an ownership change of or does that company only operate in the US?

Personally? Because I hate the smell.

My thoughts. I can see this coming out in iOS 45, announced as a brand new groundbreaking technology.

Zendesk’s mailserver reputation has got to be extremely poor by now. I think they will have trouble with deliverability after this is over. Got about 50 of these today and nearly all of them were categorized as spam before they made it to the inbox despite being nominally “legit”

Unfortunately mail server reputation's based on how rich and important you are and not how much spam you send

Considering I get spam from large U.S. companies because they believed someone else when they used my email to sign up for something, I am inclined to agree with you. No matter how many times I click "mark as spam" in Gmail, it always gets delivered to my inbox.

Credit Karma is the biggest offender off the top of my head. For a company in the consumer datamining business, they sure aren't doing a good job.

You know them off the top of your head - because they reached you in your inbox - and other places.

It sounds like they’re crushing their goal, actually.

Two of the biggest spammers in the world are Salesforce and Hubspot. They should both be blacklisted yet most of their email goes into the inbox.

Well, I got most of the Zendesk inbox-bombing emails into SPAM in Gmail.

All support[at]<company>.zendesk.com were flagged, none of them reached the Inbox.

Most of whatever[at]company.tld were flagged also. I think only Headspace and another that I don't remember got to my inbox. There were some automatic SPAM flags using custom domains that are more or less known: Tinder, Squarespace, TED, ...

So I guess currently their reputation is messed up.

I know this is petty but I stopped reading when I saw the “c-t” ligature in the article headings. Obnoxious and pretentious.

I'm the biggest typography nerd and I'll fight to death in the defense of ligatures! Bring them back

I love ligatures and typography too but not these.

“people who don’t even know what tanh is” sounds like something a tribe-member criticizing outsiders would say :)

Lol, I like that as a joke, but I wouldn’t think you are saying “a person who has no idea how something works” their opinion should be given equal weighting as someone who actually knows? Maybe you are - that seems to be how things work now.

I think you already get what I am saying, but it seems that there are maybe 3 groups. 2 who know how things work under the hood and have differing opinions and are curious to hear the other side, and one group who have no idea how things work, are very loud, have sci-fi fantasies, and spout strong opinions.

I wouldn't call that discourse i would call it ignorance.

  > You can't hold it against us if that happens

No, what you describe is the entire purpose of owners title insurance. The idea that it “only covers previous owner” is false, it covers a wide variety of title defects.

I was getting ready to debate you, but I'll admit that I'm mostly wrong about title insurance.

Special warranty deeds only cover the current seller, but title insurance can defend against prior ownership claims. I will note that just because title insurance guarantees they will defend against ownership claims, they don't guarantee it will be settled in a particular way. There's a theoretical possibility that an agreement can't be reached that keeps you in the house you thought you bought legally- like in this story the buyers got their money back but didn't keep the house that wasn't theirs https://www.thetitlereport.com/Articles/Title-Insurance-at-W...

> I will note that just because title insurance guarantees they will defend against ownership claims, they don't guarantee it will be settled in a particular way.

Of course, insurance doesn't guarantee you won't have a covered loss. Insurance compensates you if you have a covered loss.

When I've purchased real estate with title insurance, the offer from the title company has been pretty specific about what risks are covered, what risks are specifically not covered, and what the dollar limits are for covered losses. There's a lot of paperwork involved in purchasing real estate, but the title report and the title insurance offer are worth taking the time to read.

I've read the terms of title insurance and no, you can't hold them liable if it turns out you don't get the property as intended. It's basically useless.

It makes sense that you can’t hold an insurer liable for the very thing they are selling you insurance against. The insurance exists to make you whole if you, e.g. pay earnest money and then someone disputes your title.

  > what building you're in at the office

This makes no sense. Every multi-building campus I’ve ever seen uses the same SSID for all APs across buildings.

For meshed networks there is a secondary ID (with a name I do not know) that is used to distinguish between APs, since your device should only talk to at most one AP at a time. It wouldn't be surprising if they used that for finding the location, but marketing sells it as SSID matching as the people they want to sell it to are most likely not experts in networking.

The ESSID (Extended Service Set Identifier) is the human-readable thing you see. There is an underlying BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) that includes the unique identifier for the AP (its MAC address) your mobile unit is associated with.

On Windows you can see this (from an elevated context and, in newer versions, with location services enabled) by running: "netsh wlan show interfaces"

They could use the BSSID, which is unique per physical access point.

Yeah, the whole feature brief seems like either a really flimsy cover story or truly awful product management since it's a completely useless feature.

And like I everything they’ve ever done in the last 20 years it will fail.