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The software is terrible though. There is no vibration consideration that justifiably makes software horrible.

Every vendor has their own telematics tech. You need to use their horrible app to unreliably access your car.

Why not have a single standard api for say, lock and unlock, headlights on and off, etc ...

The manufacturers think that by being covetous and proprietary it'll work out best for them in the end.
It's a 1970s way of doing software: Zero open platforms, Zero open standards, Zero open source, blackbox machines with a completely proprietary pay-as-you-go manufacturer-specific system.

I manage a fleet of Hyundais we got through a special partnership with Hyundai of South Korea and we weren't allowed to directly talk to their proprietary "BlueLink" technology. That was kept as a Manhattan-level company secret.

Instead we had to go through a third-party authorized company who also wasn't given the information. They were the only ones authorized to reverse engineer it (and they were bozos). So we had to put our own telematics into the cars because Hyundai decided to be so covetous and secret about theirs.

These cars ship with a USB port and 3.2GB free on their in-dash computers. It has "apps" on it but not really because you can't add any additional ones.

Why isn't there a way for me to make my own apps? There isn't even some crippled Qualcomm BREW style way of doing things - there's nothing.

Write software, place on USB stick, install on car. Why is this impossible? Come on now, we're almost 1/5th of the way through the 21st century.

Then when it comes to Android/iPhone Auto it can't read OBD2 or CAN information such as battery voltage, fuel level, odometer, speed, no nothing. It can um, play music, take phone calls, and show maps. Whooppee.

It's entertainment integration, not car integration - there's some apparently super secret firewall between the phone and actually getting useful information from the car, when plugged into the actual car.

Why not just put up some permission request dialogs and only allow signed software? This has been a solved problem for 20 years. What on earth...

We could do early mechanical failure detection, OTA software updates through the phones, data gathering to know if components are failing to avoid expensive recalls or wrongful death lawsuits. This would save Manufacturers billions. But they want to have their secrets as if they're shipping their own little enigma machines.

It's like one of the iterations of the Internet TV ideas from the early 90s of how Comcast and Time Warner would write a bunch of shit software running on a tv appliance and that would be consumers interface to the internet. What a terrible idea. But with cars it's the reality we live in.

Expensive, bloated, crappy products with aggressive vendor lock-in and required subscriptions. Just Awesome.
I’m not sure. It’s been pretty good for what I need it for, running small businesses.

I’m constantly bombarded by SEO spam to SEO my wife’s site. She just writes content, frequently and have genuine activity and ranks higher than all her competitors who SEO like crazy, but whose sites are vapid.

Granted, would likely get more traffic with SEO, but it’s better, I think, to put energy into real, useful pages. Rather than trying to trick users or outtrick other sites.
It could lead to more than just putting casual models out of work. Fewer stylists and designers would be needed.

Let the AI generate the color patterns (sticking with Gap as an example, it might retain their chosen /size as constraints) and boom, on demand styling
I don't agree with this at all. If they want to put a big warning on it, contain the posts, etc. that's fine, but banning is not cool. One person's radical fascist is another person's ardent hero. Facebook should support freedom of speech, not freedom from speech.
This used to be hilarious, but living it is about as much fun as predicted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
I'm happier than ever before. When I had a day job, I worked on Zig nights & weekends, and I was pretty stressed out.

Now, I work on Zig during the day and I'm training with my brother for our first marathon on nights & weekends. I'm really thankful for you and others' support so that I can do this.

Still in NYC for 1 more year, but my girlfriend is finishing up her master's and looking for Ph.D. programs in California.
Sounds absolutely terrible. Android auto exists and is pretty good. Add Tasker and it covers your example use cases.
I don’t know how old you are, but I think you’re being ignorant about the full spectrum of what Farrakhan represents. He co-organized the Million Man March, which was a defining event in the 1990s, much like the Ferguson shooting is today. A recent Rasmussen poll found that over half of black likely voters had an at least somewhat favorable impression of him. You’re acting like he’s just anti-Semitic and not culturally significant for other reasons. That you can ban him for that one thing and that makes no statement about what he represents overall. Farrakhan has always been anti-Semitic, and nonetheless many black people have been willing to overlook that. Here is a poll from 1986 where blacks split about evenly in their view on his favor ability (still, twice as high as Reagan’s): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/01/18/r...

Maybe the anti-semitism alone warrants a ban. Maybe any one of his extreme view warrants a ban. But it’s very problematic for Facebook, a company with almost no black leadership, to be making that call.
One would think after that 2016 Dyn outage people would strongly consider having an alternate DNS provider....
Is it possible to convert the packages for nixos to guix? Seems like someone should create a nonfree repo for guix to allow people to simply add a new source for nonfree software.

If I understand properly this is done via GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH which works somewhat like PATH in that multiple sources are searched in order of precedence.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Packag...

Instead of hoping that someone does it you could always do it yourself and host it somewhere everyone can benefit from.
It used to be this way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7736

I remember buying aftermarket “din 1” size radios for my dad’s car in Europe.
It's funny how sometimes the best utilities are just really complex Excel sheets. Amazing how versatile Excel can be.

I homebrew beer and use a tool called Bru'n Water to calculate what adjustments I need to make to my source water to match the characteristics of the style of beer. Once again it's just a massive excel file. Water and style information goes in, water additions (calcium sulfate, lactic acid, etc) comes out.

https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/
Are cars still a topic? Who owns a car here? I don't and i really don't plan to. Public transports, bus, subway, train, carpooling, stuff like that seems more than enough for me, here in europe (france) at least. I think we need to shift the subject here: sure current cars are bad (low reparability mostly), but to what extend do we need personal cars (at least specifically for people living in urbanized areas).
Can biometric data be hashed like a password would be? Or is the signal too noisy?
> The best is when two of these people start rambling to each other, they can go on for hours

A phenomenon otherwise known as "conversation".
Oh! I did not know that retaliation had a legal definition. Super relevant here and apologies for not knowing that -- glad to have learned something today

To reiterate, my gripe is not about anything "legal". Rather, my comments are focused on how our milieu responds to corporate actions

A huge Q.E.D. for my point: my original comment got flagged!
Sonic Director Jeff Fowler: changes to Sonic's design are “going to happen”
Thank you, the key here is Total Cost of Ownership. Can I spend 30k and not replace a thing of 120k, or spend 18k and spend 2k per year on random fixes and deal with things not working. How much time do I spend without my car while these things are being fixed? Do I get stranded on the highway once a year ? Can I hop in and drive across the country? Does it have knee airbags? Does the 200k Honda compare with modern cars on the crash test?
I’ve once met a German saying that I wholeheartedly adopted, “blessed be those who have nothing to say, and nevertheless remain silent”.

(Don’t remember the German original - I don’t speak German)

There’s also a more philosophical take from Wittgenstein IIRc.
<insert snarky reply about how solar never beat coal for any timespan between 10pm and 6am that still contains a kernel of legit insight about the need for better energy storage to solar/wind to ever completely replace non-renewables>
‘Cybersovereignty’ Splits the Once World Wide Web
> C++, D, and Go have throw/catch exceptions, so foo() might throw an exception, and prevent bar() from being called.

Since when can you throw exceptions in Go?
"make the system as simple as possible, but no simpler"

I think designers get into a mindset, and then keep going (too far)
Are you arguing that the middle east would be more violent without religion? I said nothing about secular groups being non violent by the way.
Legit: A language based on a Git commit history
>> In your opinion, do you think that the hiring manager rejected the applicant because that hiring manager thought the applicant was too good?

Not in this case, but I definitely think you are correct, that some people don't want to hire someone who might be smarter than them and therefore be a threat to their position in the hierarchy/sense of belonging/job security.
Sure, but that's hypothetical, and I don't recall AWS having any such issue in recent history.
Isn't Android auto the API described?
Try this instead:

fn eval_forms(arg_forms: &[RispExp], env: &mut RispEnv) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr>> {
arg_forms.iter().map(|x| eval(x, env)).collect()
}

Or, if you don't like return value polymorphism, then:

fn eval_forms(arg_forms: &[RispExp], env: &mut RispEnv) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr>> {
let mut exps = vec![];
for x in arg_forms {
exps.push(eval(x, env)?);
}
Ok(exps)
}

It looks no more noisy than your C code, and I can't actually tell whether your
C code is doing error handling. Is it? If not, try adding it. Now which is
noisier?
I feel that the best we can do is "does this person look good on reference and/or paper? Then if so, in the phone screen and then interview: is there any reason to believe the stuff on paper might not be true?" (that latter happens a surprising amount).

Also: "is this person a jerk?" though you have to account for the awkward things someone might accidentally say when they feel they're in a high-pressure situation.
> the last generation of pure-blooded people and holders of possibly the only untampered gene pool left in the world.

I'm no geneticist but I wonder if such statements have any scientific value or even meaning.

What is an "untampered" gene pool? The article mentions that they are likely to have migrated there from somewhere. Their existence was a secret to no one in the region. That they may have had a high rate of intermarriage for centuries due to relative seclusion seems likely. But is that tantamount to being "pire blooded"...
> exposed how IBM used NYPD surveillance camera footage to "develop technology that lets police search by skin color", raising racism/bias concerns.

How else are the cops supposed to find a white suspect?

Is searching by any property (skinny, short) a bias?
They're really missing an opportunity to have panics say "WHAT HAPPEN ?"
Yeah I’ve had a couple conversations with friends about this in the last year. They tend to see this as a negative thing (the pressure to always be creating _something_), but I’ve never been convinced by their arguments. I think I look at one’s relationship to value production as a fairly romantic venture that sates some poorly understood desire to leave the world in a better place than you found it. They tend to say this is just because I’ve grown up in a capitalist economy and there is no innate value to producing new things. For some reason that just doesn’t feel right to me.
DNS is also inherently distributed. This should make it resilient to all of the most common outage scenarios, and is likely why AWS offers a 100% uptime SLA for Route 53.

I'll be interested in the post-mortem from Azure on this one.
HoloLens 2–Pricing and Options
I agree and disagree. I think people should have the absolute right to repair and modify their devices, with or without an existing warranty. However to support that activity while forcing companies to honor the warranty feels wrong. It's like saying here, I screwed it up, now you fix it for free.
I do not want voice control anything.
I wonder if this DNS outage will cause data lose like the last one....

The entire "heres free ELA credits for Azure, please please Mr Sr Director/CIO use Azure" seems to be working, but then they go and do stuff like this.
Shares in Beyond Meat up 163% on first day of trading
Probably referring to panic and recover.
I can confirm that, at least in my career so far, the management and technical tracks have never been completely equivalent -- even when great effort was spent trying to make them so.

Very high-level IC roles are possible that are roughly equivalent to VP or SVP management roles. However, these are often extremely few in number compared to high-level management roles. They often come with a title like Technical Fellow or just Fellow. In a large company, there might be 100 VPs for every 1 Fellow.

A mid-level manager is also often afforded more organizational perks than a mid-level IC. For instance, while private offices in general are in short supply across the entire industry, a mid-level manager is much likelier to have one than any IC is regardless of title.
As someone who knows struggling addicts with good housing who would otherwise be homeless, yeah, housing does absolutely not fix the problem. It's so complicated.

Nihilism and a lack of a reason to care about getting better. Drugs offer a cheap escape from their grim view of reality. No friends who aren't addicts, so it's normalized.

A criminal record blocking gainful employment. Court mandated treatment programs that prevent people from moving away from their deadend town and self reinforcing social circle of addicts. Court mandated treatment that's forcing them to spend all of their time around other addicts, who only have drugs in common and thus have their relationships built on the shared interest in drugs, preventing them from participating in anything that would lead to a more productive social circle.

Their criminal record might mean that by an enormous margin the most lucrative thing they can do, and perhaps actually their only realistic hope of financial independence, freedom, and an escape from their miserable reality of barely scraping by spending most of their time doing things they hate, is to sell drugs, which is self reinforcing their environment.
What is tiring me out about all this "technology improvement" in airport check-in is how confusing it is and how often it changes.

There is no one clear process anymore.

Last week I went to board a flight and checked in using the phone app. At the airport I needed to get a baggage ticket so I used the machine there for that, but it basically had me go through the whole check-in all over again. On top of that the first machine errored during the step to pay the baggage fee so I ended up doing that again with another machine.

Afterwards I went to drop off my bag and was told the tag was not "active" and I'd have to go to the desk.

What the hell is the point of any of these electronic options if at the end of it all I still have to wait in line for an agent, stand there while they "mmm-hmmm" at their computer and avoid eye-contact with me for 5 minutes just to finally scan the tag I had printed and attached myself?
Does this statistic actually have meaning?
Wasn't this always expected to happen following the prolific height of baby boomers, and their offspring who had a higher infant mortality rate than previously?

I know I'm mostly focused on developed world, but baby boomers are now 65+, their children have exited the child-bearing/rearing age and many had only 1 or 2 offspring.
Those children are yet to begin having children of their own and as people are having children later in life, there is a somewhat expected lull.

I have a sneaking suspicion as AI becomes prominent and if we are able to convert those capabilities to giving us more free time and a higher quality of life, this trend will reverse dangerously quickly.
R7.RS
true but using [] fixes that, and they can be added by tooling
Well, you have to hit a no-show. Gives you maybe another two order of magnitude. And the article might be written even if the misidentification was resolved before the flight leaves.
Rust parallelism for non-c/C++ developers
In 4-5 years tour range is half if rated. Half that in winter. Should get you to the grocery store :)
What's your false negative rate?
Both accounts???????

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Last time I got a new car the dipshit at the dealership was trying to get me to pay more cuz the car I wanted had a touchscreen. I told him I'd pay more if he'd take it out and put in one with buttons. Car consoles are such a gimmick...
You should go spend some time in the South Pacific then. And talk to the locals about the impending devastation of their countries and entire way of living.

Or how about go spend some times in hurricane or snow affected areas around the US which have been devastated by the increasing instability of our climate.

Most of these people would kill for a stable climate and some low frequency noise.
The only thing that the constitutional right to freedom of speech guarantees is that the government cannot arrest you for what you say.

It doesn’t give you the right to continue using someone’s platform as a megaphone if they decide you’re an asshole.

Being banned from Facebook doesn’t mean that these people no longer have the right or ability to spread their message. They can use another platform, or make (or host!) their own website, or print and distribute literature, or go stand on a street corner with an actual megaphone.

Facebook is not the government, and— agree with it or not— they can decide who uses their platform and how.

(For the record, I’m not a fan of Facebook.)
They shouldn't "blithely step into these very complex issues" but I'd argue they have a moral and societal responsibility to address them seriously and responsibly somehow. I think this means spending money on teams with the linguistic and cultural skills to be able to understand complex and disparate cultures, and empowering those teams to be able to act to enforce rules around content. I think it also means having some sort of overarching ethical policy framework coming from the leaders of the company to shape those rules and guide the teams.

Doing this properly would be complicated, messy and expensive but if Facebook is going to be part of our society going forward I think its something they will have to deal with somehow or some other change will be forced upon them.

As I write this I realise that perhaps the ruthless arithmetic of a publicly traded company whose business model is web advertising, with shareholders to endlessly appease is probably by definition an entity that is fundamentally unable to make the above choices in the same way that I couldn't just decide to breath underwater.
I'd settle for just #1 and a 3.5mm TRS aux in (which was the standard for about 10 years prior to the new touchscreen phase).

I'll give a little praise for Toyota here though. The 2015 Corolla had a row of terrible low-quality touch buttons on either side of the touch screen[1] but the latest model has replaced all of those back with real buttons and two real knobs[2]! Maybe the tide is turning...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/A63ESpX.jpg
[2] https://i.imgur.com/9FQF7oh.jpg
They were fairly cheap to begin with. A new battery is like 6k so that’s s big chunk of the price drop. If you can deal with old battery though you are golden.
You speak of toxic modern culture while telling people they should not appreciate being who they are...
One more reason to not buy a new car I guess. Nothing like a latency ridden touch screen that some autist designed.
This could make wsl much more usable. Having always to maintain both windows & ubuntu versions of all my development tools and libraries is one of a couple of substantial Windows frictions that recently drove me to trying to live f/t in Linux again.

I guess the 'development services' running separately in the wsl/container/vm would have to be entirely VS code specific, which is a pity. It would be great if JetBrains could do something similar as the last time I looked their wsl support was OK in places but pretty patchy.
https://www.focusatwill.com/ is the website where you can hear some of the samples.

I personally find that continuous live sets help me focus, and now I've got a whitepaper to prove it! Kidding aside, if this effect is real, then that's fantastic. If it only works for EDM fans, then I'm ok with that too.
Wow, I just assumed it was megawatts peak per day (which would be a much less impressive win over coal).

Maybe that book should have been called Physics for Future Presidents (and Current Journalists). Broaden the market a bit and do us all a favor in the process.
Why does it matter what people were doing before?

they don't have any power, only the current president. Claiming Obama did it, and Obama was Jesus, so it must have been good, sounds really strange coming from the group who claim Obama is the antichrist
So that next time chatmasta comes back, you know when he left. Otherwise how do you know how long he stayed in the country, and therefore how many days he should be allowed on this next visit? Currently, I assume the countries without exit controls have access to the entry databases of the destination countries, so they forego exit controls as redundant.
It would help for costs, which is what you mentioned above.

I know from when I was healthy individual in my 20s, that I tried to avoid doctors visits as much as I could - even though I had killer coverage (90-95%).

I still paid premiums (well my company did) but I simply didn't go.
Has anyone here tried their food? Is it available in the UK at all?
I could see A/B testing with minor variations in style and appearance too, optimizing for CTR.
Sure, but again, you're talking about stuff that's way beyond the original issue, which was simply about calling the cops on somebody who happened to be smoking (either tobacco or marijuana). You're not going to create a world where no one smokes, or at least it's not very likely. But you can still influence your children to not take up smoking. Of course you can't guarantee that they won't, but parental influence certainly plays a role. Looking back on my own life, I'm pretty sure my parent's instruction and attitudes play a role in my never choosing to take up smoking (which I was exposed too regularly, as my maternal grandfather was a smoker), heavy drinking, recreational drugs, etc.

We shouldn't fetishize poverty and the culture of poverty.

Agreed, and nowhere did I suggest that we should. There's a big difference between accepting something and fetishizing it. And by accepting I don't mean "embrace as normative or desirable". I just mean, "don't treat people who engage in this behavior as sub-human".
But they have your photo after they take it, and the CBP verifies for them who you are. From this information transfer, the airline can replicate the CBP database entry for each person that it takes a picture of... In the long run, they can build a facial recognition database of everyone who flies. Am I wrong about this?