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It's not clear to me that this is actually a bad thing. Computer time is less valuable than human time, and that goes for both developers and users. For most one-off computing tasks, far better to fumble with something shoddy but free that someone dashed off in a few hours, than invest a day's wages into a product with man-years worth of polishing.

There's free food everywhere and we're complaining it's not gourmet.
I completely agree.

A friend once said all we need is 'the sinew between the questions'. Connecting them (contexts, intents, etc) and making it close to 1.0 probability on decisions through the entire conversation.

I think the 'marble rock' of Jarvis is there already, and with ML/AI we can likely make it 'David-shaped' but the refinement, 'warmth' and complexity of Jarvis is man-hours that would likely be better spent elsewhere.
Each time I come back to C# I find more and more 'decorations' etc. that qualify behaviour of code in one way or another, and it's getting to the point that I feel I need a reference book on the desk as I try to parse some source. These features might make the language more powerful for experts, but they make it much more difficult for devs that have to drop in and out.
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Is <= equivalent to ⇐ or ≤ ?

Personally, I'd love a keyboard that had a ≤ key and a programming language that recognized that symbol.
I think the bigger issue is that Tesla would rather lie than accept responsibility and work to improve the problem. I would never trust a company like this with my life.
But the reason might be ... Munich? I certainly wouldn't want to move there.
I think they do the first part of your suggestion (they send reports from all disengagements, and detailed reports from some), but not the last part.

Sounds like a sensible idea, particularly in an area where they've seen a near collision. The difficulty might be that conditions change all the time (barriers are moved or removed), and that makes it difficult to make this kind of determination on a case by case basis.
>Unfortunately users just don't care in most cases.

Users almost universaly don't care. This also applies to businesses, C-levels and managers. However, while they don't care it affects them indirectly as they end up using bloated sub-optimal software possibly with bugs and sometimes significantly slower than in could be. It then affects their productivity as well.

My point is that one could at least try educating the non-IT decision makers why it's important. My team has successfuly convinced the CEO that 2 month long refactoring project is really important and that while it won't directly affect the functionality it will increase productivity of the our team in future by making the team more productive and allowing for faster implementation of new features in the future. From my experience the "technical debt" metaphor is great for explaining such things to business oriented people. That metaphor is usefull because it is compatible with other debt related metaphors, like interest rate or refinancing. We could explain extra time needed to implement stuff in non-refactored bloated codebase as an interest-rate.

Also, the use of car-related analogies is quite effective.

My point is that while users don't care about the technological intricacies, the effects can be explained by the use of metaphors and concepts that they know well.
> Doesn't that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn't the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?

Not Linux, libraries instead are the ones breaking compatibility over time. Or missing libraries as well...
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Do you know why the sector did not boom?
Though of course a lot of those sightings also consisted of objects which supposedly resembled saucers, which matched media mischaracterisations of a particularly famous UFO sighting and an older trend in pulp sci-fi...

(I quite like the idea of aliens drawing ideas from their spacecraft from our popular culture as a storyline, but not as an explanation for the phenomena!)
It's entirely possible that you played it first only 5 years ago.
I always think to myself that the technology we see and know about now, the spy planes and such, are ~50 years old, so what is operating now that we won't know about until some of us are 70 or 80 years old?
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Tesla is improving Autopilot all the time.
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The speed at which Zachtronics pumps out quality games is astonishing to me. Every time I buy one, it hooks me immediately and 5 hours later I'm still playing.
Some people (and organisations/governments) attribute credibility to people in positions of power and/or professional prestige.
>something is very seriously wrong where you live

Places can become more or less desirable to live in - all this talk about matching inflation rates etc. is about the housing market as a whole - average. If you bought in a bad neighborhood and suddenly the neighborhood gets renovated and richer people start moving in - your property can increase in value multiple times over what you paid for it initially. If your area has excellent job offers and limited housing supply you will see housing prices increase because more people with more income will come to that area to work there. The problem happens when the local job market hits a slump and you assumed the demand increase will fuel the growth to cover your investments.
You could also build on top of one of the open source versions, eg Mycroft.

https://mycroft.ai/
I don't doubt it's true, but it seems strange to me that because you have many choices, you go to a platform with no choice.

Just because there are many choices doesn't mean you can't make one and stick with it, I've been on Arch for almost a decade now and there aren't many compelling reasons for me to switch all this time later.

I'd think for many the same is true with Ubuntu LTS.
This person died because of Tesla's cocky marketing, which leads people to believe that "Auto Pilot" is just that and that does very little to discourage this interpretation even though it is life-threatening. In this context them blaming it on the accident victim is a 100% asshole move.

I am life-long Musk's fan, but Tesla trying their hardest to weasel out of any responsibility here is incredibly damaging to their reputation. The future will come, trying to accelerate its arrival at all costs is reckless.
That would be great, my "anon" email is in my profile.
Many jurisdictions have residency rules that allow people to partially move - e.g in the UK if you have a residence overseas and spend less than half a year in the UK, you don't count as UK resident for that tax year.

Although really most of the tax avoidance schemes rely on moving one's income and assets to a company and then playing games with the "residency" of the company.
I'm paraphrasing from the last time this was posted, but Tesla's words need to be read very carefully. What they say is:

> the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision

What Tesla does not say is that the six seconds the driver's hands were not on the wheel was immediately preceding the crash. It is any six seconds before the crash.

Admittedly this is a very dark reading, however, this reading is supported by their further claims that the driver 'had multiple warnings', which was in fact fifteen minutes ago, and for an unrelated event.

This is the kind of sketchiness that makes people wary of Tesla. Funny thing is, they make cool tech, they don't need to do any of this, nor things like discounting the 'gas savings' from the sticker price. I genuinely don't understand where their apparent need for pushing the definition of truth to its breaking point is coming from.

Had they not openly misrepresented their autopilots' capabilities, they wouldn't have lie in this bed of their own making now.
You reminded me of a quote my father once told me: "I fully expect to see UFOs in the future, and they'll be real. They'll also have USAF emblems on the side."

For decades, he worked as a civil servant in the DoD as an instrumentation and test engineer on a few well known weapons programs (and some not so much). I think he based his comment on the trajectory military technology was taking, as he commented similarly to you (referring to Pyxl101) regarding the human problem. i.e. if you remove the humans, you can save weight on life support, and you can do things you otherwise can't when you're limited to keeping the pilot alive and (mostly) functioning.

Part of me wants to believe he might've seen what we'd now call UFOs, but I'm confident that's wishful thinking. His remarks were offered based on his own experiences, and I'm sure he extrapolated from there. Regardless, I wouldn't be surprised if some of your predictions did turn out to be true in the near future.

Your last statement also reminded me of Project Mogul[1] and the use of UFOs as a cover story (or rather not, as the case might be). In all likelihood, the Roswell "UFO crash" was an errant Mogul balloon--a project shrouded in secrecy to some degree or another, mostly because we knew the Soviets had stolen our technology but we didn't want them to know we had ways of detecting their tests. I don't believe the USAF instigated the UFO theory, and neither do I believe the air force particularly cared. After all, if I understand the timeline correctly, it wasn't until the mid/late 1970s when the UFO researcher Stanton Friedman began perpetuating the myth, long after the actual event in 1947. As a cover story, that would've come far too late to be useful enough to cover for Project Mogul. To an extent--at least in the early days--I suspect early UFO "research" was largely the outcome of a means to pursue fame or money via book sales and speaking engagements more than a theory perpetuated by the government.

Now, that's not to say that the government isn't using it now that UFOs have long been established in popular culture. That may very well be a strong possibility.

Aside: I once attended a talk with my father that Mr. Friedman gave in the 1990s on UFOs. I also recall Friedman was made somewhat uncomfortable with the fact my father was not only aware of Project Blue Book but had access to the archives when he was at the air force academy. The brief exchange between the two was made when Mr. Friedman asked the audience if anyone had heard of the project and were familiar with (IIRC) volume 13.

Friedman quickly changed subjects away from "government cover up" for reasons that escape me. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul
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There was a time when F1 drivers were taking their hand off the wheel in order to change gears, as this famous on-board video of Ayrton Senna at Suzuka [1] in 1989 clearly shows. Having only one hand on the wheel while you’re taking a turn at 270 kph is peak vintage Formula 1, it’s pure racing. Nowadays most of that raw feel is gone.

[1] https://youtu.be/Vj6ovrKExJE
I wasn't talking about these issues as if one party or the other had them and another party did not. I was merely pointing out that the construct itself is shady.
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It has to have a usage though. We ran a long proof of concept on voice recognition as in voice-to-text, for office workers and had good results once the software learned to recognise correctly.

I think the best cases were 20-30% increased productivity for a single worker, but it was ultimately useless because we use open offices, so the project got scrapped.
Should be possible now; I had mistakenly thought it was public already. Apologies for that.
There's also the the voice-controlled CAD ("throw in a little hot rod red in there").
Agreed, the Wii version was great.
This project is very cool, but I also think it was kinda possible on X11. However not as easy and that's why this project is exciting for me.

I tried to hack on tabbed from suckless [0] with a little utility to achieve a similar behavior. An X11 proxy that would rewrite window creation so that the parent window would be tabbed xid and not root window [1]. It kinda worked, but I never finished this for transient windows.

So you would start with a terminal inside tabbed instance with tabs hidden. The terminal would be behind chrwin proxy. Then when you launch anything inside, it would become a new tab and tabbed would switch immediately to it. There could be a possibility to kill the terminal after spawning a new client. But I intended to just leave it by default so you would go back to it.

Edit: that was my first approach. I wanted then to not rewrite window creation, but to reparent it afterwards. Something like this. It was supposed to simplify transient window handling, because the client would take care for it. At least that's what I remember.

[0] https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

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She can rationalize as she wants, but in reality she seems to be comfortable living this life. And I am not judging the sex part of it, that's her body so whatever. What seems a bit off is her inability to see her role in the society...
> Doesn't Linux then choose a weird place to put the border between "OS" and "userspace"?

Your fallacy is assuming that "Linux" is a single entity with a single mind. Linus is very strict about backwards compatibility, but he only controls the kernel, not glibc or Mesa or KDE.
I usually agree with the author, but not really here.

> They contradict Unicode

So what?

The ligatures are only supposed to look good in my editor, with my config, in the programming language I use and for my eyes only. Nothing else matters.

> They’re guaranteed to be wrong sometimes

See previous point.

As long as it's good enough for my purposes in the context I use the font, it doesn't matter if it breaks some edge case that makes the author upset.

> Bottom line: this isn’t a matter of taste.

It is a matter of context, which the author completely misses.

And yes, it's also a matter of taste. Everything design related is in parts taste.
Sample of things kids who play Fortnite have (indirect) decision authority on:

fortnite v-bucks default gift for birthdays, displacing the movie gift cards

racking up hundreds of dollars worth of v-bucks per year

getting family to buy a Samsumg S10+ so they can reap the associated "skin" to their Fortnite account

graphics cards upgrades

(expensive) gaming mice and other gear pushed by youtubers

general merch like toys
"like Zorg’s desk in Fifth Element"... What a great analogy!

For those that don't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA

(I think this is my favorite Gary Oldman character.)
Yikes, we'd be so screwed. Although from the reasons outlined in the book, I think it makes it very unlikely that actual aliens would come to the planet and look around before doing anything. They would probably just kill us from light years away.
I don't understand that the attenuator wasn't reset. In my country the lane will stay closed until all safety feature are operational again, including replacing the guardrail.
I said operating from a submarine because of the reported disturbance in the water. The witnesses said it wasn't one, but if they were seeing other strange things, and not expecting a submarine to be there, then IMO they could easily have been mistaken.

Alternatively, it's all lies. Both those scenarios are IMO more likely that natural phenomena, because there is no other known natural phenomena that moves in any way similar to the reported UFO.
> It means they already have capabilities far beyond what we could achieve

It certainly means that they have those capabilities as pertains to travel, but it is not a given that they would have those capabilities in a military sense. Of course the argument can be made that you can convert that kind of power into a weapon, but I'd hazard to say that a haphazard conversion does not in fact impart upon you a godlike ability to ignore everything we could possibly do.

I'm definitely not arguing that this means we should increase military spending. I think that is fundamentally not a great idea for us in the first place. Instead, I am arguing that while the things you are talking about are widely used as sci-fi tropes and held as beliefs by a lot of people, I do not think they stand on their own merits.
So what stops me from abusing Cloudflare's gateway as a free CDN for petabytes of traffic? There has to be a catch?

Edit: found it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/al8emd/cloudflare_ban...
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This is often not a good thing. You now have to version the library separately from the language itself and deal with dependency issues. Also you get competing and incompatible implementations of things everyone needs. This is exactly why people bag on JS for needing 600 node modules to build anything.
There is no Walmart in Berlin; nor any similarly sized super markets. The closest thing would be Lidl and Aldi but they tend to be much smaller.

One feature of Berlin is that it is very spread out and people mostly don't use cars to get around. It has a center technically but it's not where people live or shop. All the action is in the dozens of neighborhoods and micro neighborhoods around this. You can walk for two hours without leaving what most people would consider the downtown area or reasonably close to it. These micro-neighborhoods is where you find loads of small restaurants, bars, art galleries, and indeed weird, specialized stores and pop up stores. There are many thousands of these all over Berlin.

Part of the reason is simply that there's a lot of space for small stores all over building. Most apartment blocks have space on the ground floor. That type of space does not make sense for bigger chains since the locations are wrong and the spaces are too small. So if you want to open a small store for whatever, you can without spending too much money. Most of these efforts are short lived for obvious reasons but some of them succeed or at least survive.

Given that Berlin is crawling with tourists, foreign students, entrepreneurs, artists, etc. pretty much any time of the year, there's plenty of business for small quirky stores selling whatever. You don't attract tourists by being a bland boring franchise in Berlin. Star Bucks tried to open up a branch near where I live. They pretty much got laughed away and got replaced by a Poke bowl takeaway within a year. Just not a thing when you have several of the top coffee bars within a 3 minute walk.

Post internet, retail is increasingly specialized. You get all the staples online. Amazon is huge in Germany and Amazon Prime is operating in Berlin with their full set of services (including groceries).
This worked for me :)