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> Is he really a nuclear lobbyist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger

> Does that make anything he is saying not factual?

it's a smell test - burden of proof goes up
Gorbachev is played by a Swedish-Danish actor as well.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399770/
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In the same spirit, but in the blue-collar band of the wealth spectrum, This American Life camped out for 24 hours at a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple and recorded the conversations of people who happened to be there. The episode is a gem.

24 Hours at the Golden Apple (November 2000)
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/172/24-hours-at-the-golden-...
Yeah the rotary dial for Android auto is very intuitive, shame they are not keeping it around, touch screen just seems much more dangerous
I am curious, are Katyn massacre memorials tend to be vandalized, say with Communist symbols?
Aren't you just drawing another arbitrary line?

It doesn't sound authentic in English, but its fine that they didn't speak in his native accent even though it wouldn't be authentic?
If you want to sell cars, then sell cars. If you want to sell shares at an inflated valuation, sell a "physical mobility app", as the buzzwords will help you land the sort of investors that prefer hearing a story over fundamentals.
If we keep pushing bogus information with enough frequency, slowly it will build up the intended belief and eventually it will be perceived as true. I think your situation was a perfect example of that though it hadn't materialized to the last stage.
I'd suggest you read https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-f..., especially chapter 2: Are traditional monarchies better places to live?

The most hilarious counterexample is the part about "the dictator of Burma" who was obsessed with the number 'nine'.

The saddest is the time King Leopold was the private owner of Congo.
Given a LiDAR of a sufficient range, freeway driving is a solved problem. Google did it in 2013.
You might be able to use the 1Hz IRIG H code from WWV and WWVB to discipline a crystal oscillator to get a clean 10MHz.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe double star as an infix operator would be interpreted as multiplication of a dereference:

X ** Y

would be parsed as

X * (*Y)
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I use Android Auto in my car, and the only complaint I have thus far is the occasional misinterpreted input.

Often, what I intend to be a tap will be interpreted as a swipe by the display. I suspect this can be attributed more to the cheap touchscreen hardware in my low trim model, than the software in Android or to the concept of touch screen interfaces.

Just as with the older analog controls, there will be good implementations and cheap implementations. It's not productive to compare well engineered, premium, apples to cheap, mass market, oranges.
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The guy has literally been commanding in an expert capacity the treatment of Chernobyl victims, for years. Your sense of smell is defective.
Recommended why, and by whom?
Oh, I totally agree that a lot of smaller services (including most of the cable / TV companies) stopped building apps. IMO it’s only worth it for global services because smart TV apps are far more heavily used in Asia and Europe.

The client I worked for (a big US cable provider) killed all their smart TV apps when they realized they were spending ~$500k a year on a bunch of apps that were being used by maybe 3,000 people a month. They do continue to support apps for external devices like Roku and Fire TV.
> Anyhow, the people and their horrifying decision making processes are the real enemies presented in Chernobyl, in my opinion.

And to me that's actually the best argument against nuclear reactors being "safe". We may have better technology, but we don't have better people or organizations, not really. To the victims, it does not matter whether the mismanagement was due to political careerism, greed and corner-cutting, or just laziness.

For an example look at what can happen without any external event in the nation that invented Six-Sigma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident#In_...
In particular, this concrete show was praised for realism and details, so people do.

Other then that, yes people are influenced by narratives in stories and often take them as broadly "that sort of thing happened". That does not mean this particular dude is about to tell truth, but nevertheless fact checking of fiction is cool and good thing when it happens.
Anyone who wants high mean low variance career should become an accountant or a dentist: the payoff is vastly better, and it takes a comparable amount of intelligence.

This low variance attitude is why we can't have nice things. We have more "scientists" alive now than at any time in human history, and it is boring and useless with virtually no downstream results.
But AEB as a fallback for when humans fail to anticipate the hazard well enough to avoid the need for emergency braking altogether falls very much under the purview of the OP's statement that "a human paying attention assisted by a computer paying attention" is the safest option.
This hits the sweet spot for me as well. I think CarPlay is the best all-screen interface I've seen, but having to touch the screen is borderline useless. Even the most minuscule bump in the road usually results in a miss-touch for me, whereas with a wheel as you say you can just glance at the screen, count the number of ticks you need to turn the wheel and be confident you'll get it right. When stopped I might use the touch screen because it's faster, but the wheel is still more convenient I find.

At this point I never use the car interface if there's CarPlay available (I usually rent cars.) The only exception is for changing car settings, which unfortunately is not exposed through in CarPlay it seems.
I can understand being upset that firefox removed support for non-webextension extensions, but I can't really understand someone who evidently chose to remove the webextensions support themselves and then complains that some extensions stopped working.
That sounds like a complaint to address to whomever designed that bus route, not to the drivers on the route? I'm sure the drivers don't enjoy that maneuver. (and sure, sometimes that's going to be unavoidable for any particular route...) Frankly, you sound a bit like an automobile driver, complaining about interstates and cutting across four lanes. On a bicycle it's easy to observe, plan ahead, and avoid the maneuver you've mentioned. For one thing, it always occurs in the same place! Also, it's great to be cycling behind a big vehicle as it vacates a lane: you've got first dibs on the free space.
PHP with modern frameworks is good. And very easy to deploy.
Not sure if you're trying to support his point or refute it, but those scroll wheels are a great example of physical controls done right.
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> One thing that might not be obvious - this controller is just below the steering wheel and you press it from the back side. It's almost invisible and it feels very natural.

True.

Another thing that might not be obvious is that they are fixed on the steering wheel, so they are always in the same position relative the your hands, just like the gear levers in a modern Formula 1 car.
The progression towards evil as it became more of a monopoly.
no my sense of smell is not off: Michael Shellenberger and Robert Gale are two different people
Do you have a citation for this? I've never heard of using British English as a proxy for a foreign language. Instead, I always assumed it was because there are a lot of popular British actors, and if portraying non-English speakers, there's no good reason to "fake" an accent (so they just use their native accent), as was the case with "Chernobyl".
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I own a 2014 Mazda 3, brilliant car. The touchscreen firmware is a pain to update every year while servicing it. When I bought the car it came it the GPS hardware pre-installed however I was supposed to buy the maps separately for about $500. I didn't see the point in this as for that money I could have bought a new iPhone at that time and have various navigation apps. I also praise Mazda for the decision. In the 5 years since I own the car I probably actually used the touchscreen 20 times as usually I change songs or radio channels from the steering wheel button. Buy a Mazda, you won't regret it :)
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If you're interested in trepanation, there's a fascinating documentary from the late 90s called 'A Hole in the Head' about people performing self-trepanation. Cooky for sure but I've been fascinated ever since. It has made me wonder what percentage of ancient trepanations were done purely for the mysticism of piercing something which shouldn't be pierced.
Dunno why you were downvoted. I worked with a guy who literally used his GPS every morning for months to get from the same hotel to the same job site. The route consisted of something like three turns. One of which had a big sign clearly advertising the exit.

Some folks would be incapacitated if GPS was out for long enough.
Just a few points:

1. Addressing (and reducing) major causes of road accidents and fatalities such as impaired and/or distracted driving (alcohol, drugs, sleep deprivation, inattentiveness, fiddling with phones, radios, touch screens, etc.) would make a tremendous difference, and automated driving systems and sensors could potentially intervene in such situations without necessarily being online all the time.

2. Inattentiveness and distraction caused by (over)dependence on automated systems (as in jets with autopilot) could become a major hazard. This is already a problem with road designs that minimise driver engagement by removing obstacles to traffic and designing roadways entirely for cars (compare European style traffic calming to US style widening of lanes and rounding of corners).

3. As mentioned above, infrastructure and urban planning practices are major issues, both in terms of maintenance and design. Automating passenger cars may improve safety in some respects, but perpetuating the dominance of individual motor vehicles (and the vast infrastructure outlay they require) as the dominant mode of transport is probably the wrong approach. Gradually transforming urban planning and design to promote mass transit, reduce commuting, and accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic would generally reduce the need to use cars in the first place. One difference between traffic death statistics in countries like Germany and the US is that virtually everybody has to drive long distances on a daily basis in much of the US, with few if any alternatives, and urban sprawl encourages lengthy detours to travel trivial distances between fully separated residential/commercial/industrial zones, whereas e.g. in urban Germany, there are many alternatives, and driving is not a necessity (compare death rates per capita vs. per km driven). In Germany and much of Europe, driving is and has always been a privilege, and one that requires a degree of skill to earn, whereas in the US driving is viewed more or less as a right, something everyone does and has to do on a daily basis, i.e. it's easy to get a license and you only lose it for serious infractions, and even then penalties for driving without a license (as many people do!) are comparatively minor.

What I am getting at is that the best way to tackle road safety and environmental problems is to gradually abandon the passenger car as the dominant mode of transportation. Hybrid automated/human-operated vehicles could be a great improvement in the short term, but using bikes would be better in the long term. Freight transport might be another matter though.
The problem is that the show is historically accurate, the lady that lost her baby said in an interview by Svetlana Alexievich[0] that she was told about the danger of contamination from her husband.

The show was not meant to be a PSA for or against nuclear power, it's a historical fiction and for that it is as accurate as it can be. The story is mostly about propaganda and lies.

[0]:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/apr/25/energy.u...
> CSS on the other hand has always been the studious, well-behaved kid who always stays polite and never makes a rash decision

This is such a strange picture to paint!

CSS has always been the dim-witted kid. For a long time, it couldn't do math. For a long time, it couldn't have varibles. For a long time, it did not have a reasonable syntax for page layout. Its rules have global visibility (if we don't consider shadow DOM). And those vendor prefixes! This is one hell of a kid!
I know a couple of devs who still work with PHP but it's certainly not as popular as it was 10 years ago.
I have used uMatrix for quite a while and honestly it's a huge pain in the ass. I wind up just opening a different browser for certain web pages
You miss the point entirely: he acknowledges that touchscreens work. But he points out that they work by visual feedback only, and that this denies an enormous part of our tactile senses. In an ideal world, we would not have to choose between tactile and visual.
That means they would need to use new cones with transponders. Yes, it's more expensive, but also way more reliable.
During Iraq we offered evidence, including from international sources, proving beyond any doubt that Iraq was developing WMD. We even had published video of "mobile biological weapon laboratories" and information from informants who were literally working on these exact things but secretly feeding us intelligence.

As you [hopefully] know now - it was all fake. There was no WMD, there were no mobile biological weapon labs, there was nothing. The evidence was all fake. The footage we claimed was bio weapons labs was of trailers that produced hydrogen for usage in conventional artillery (as Iraq said all along). Even after we invaded and knew the labs were benign we constantly lied. Rather than repeat our neverending stream of lies, Wiki has them nicely cataloged here [1]. Our ultra secret inside source who revealed his remarkable tale after achieving refugee status in Germany, was actually a Taxi driver in Iraq who knew nothing and had no connection to the government whatsoever, but was apparently a great con man - or, more likely, was an idiot we knew was lying but gave us more "evidence" we could use to achieve the goal of starting a war we wanted.

And this was not just American intelligence. This was American, British, German, and more. Intelligence agencies pursue their own goals and will happily lie, fake, and manipulate people and society to achieve them. We're now aiming for war with Iran. At the same time that Japan's prime minister decides to visit Iran, Iran in an unprecedented act decides to attack a Japanese tanker? Look, our five-eyes intelligence agencies are here to give you all the hot evidence for something that makes no logical sense whatsoever, yet conveniently gives the US absolutely every thing it could possibly want. Amazing isn't it?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory#Disc...?
FWIW, Amazon seems to scrub reviews about counterfeits once they become aware of them. I got a counterfeit item and when I complained about it, I linked to a review that showed exactly the differences between a real and a counterfeit version. After Amazon sent me a replacement (which was also a counterfeit, despite assuring me it would not be), that review was nowhere to be found. There were dozens of other reviews talking about fakes on that item. I did not initially read them because I was replacing one I lost.

I've been an amazon customer for more than 10 years. I buy from them a lot. I will still buy from them. It doesn't mean it's not a problem.
No idea why you keep hearing that: Failure to meet your reduction goals does not equate an increase in pollution.

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...
Not in the CR-V they didn't. The entertainment system is an underpowered Android tablet.

Lots of questionable decisions like the keyless lock system not locking if the tailgate was closing as you walk away, there being no way to turn the car off but leave the radio or AC on, and the engine cutting out as you try to drive off if you started it via remote start.
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Did you mean Atyme?
Outrageous! Exploitation is for businesses only; who do those wage slaves think they are?
I like that approach for those reasons but it really needs care to prevent abuse – e.g. disabling inputs unless the car is in park. Too many manufacturers do the equivalent of putting a bowl of ice cream in front of a child and saying “we told them not to eat it”.
I've been looking for a plaintext format for formulas that is both a markup language and a logical encoding that can be evaluated. AsciiMath seems focused on the markup part, but I had never heard of it before and it looks promising for those purposes.

Combining it with Markdown to replace LaTeX is a great idea. I love LaTeX but there are many pain points.

Needing both latex and pandox installed for this to work does seem like it kind of goes against the idea of a simple format to replace the bloat of latex.
Which is also expensive. In Canada, it's 12$/m, but in includes original shows, YouTube Music, and a bunch of things I would never use. I would gladly pay a couple bucks a month to remove ads, but the fact that it's more expensive than it needs to be and includes so much more than I care about makes me not want to.
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Hunt is under the impression that he has a right to force Web clients to consume content like he wants to after it has left his server. This is, of course, not how the Web works, and he should know better. There is no point in getting upset about it and then writing a blog entry. Content blocking is a direct consequence of past abuse. He must understand even though he thinks he does nothing wrong, the bar of acceptability for people who subscribe to content blocker update lists – after past abuse – is: no distraction at all.
Having a peace of mind without advertisement intruding into it is a human right. I would be glad if someone could find for me that article making that legal argument.
I think your assessment is spot on. CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm driving. The only car interfaces I like that aren't CarPlay are all buttons and dials, i.e. pre smart phone era cars, and even then only a handful really made sense to me.
These effects add a lot of latency (several pictures) so they are no good for general purpose computing, specifically gaming (hence the "game" or "PC" mode on the TV).
And yet I don't see a single self driving car for sale.

Given sufficient energy we can create anything because E = mc^2, but we have yet to actually produce enough energy to create whatever matter we want.
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Please, stop share fakes written by Michael Shellenberger[0] on HN!

[0] http://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposin...
>I've seen implementations without touch, and they're much, much less useful.

What, exactly, are you doing with your infotainment system that requires so much use? I mean, I agree, CarPlay and Android Auto are nice, but I'm only playing music and using the navigation, both of which can be done easily without the fancy software.

>Most of us are used to being able to adjust the AC without looking

It's not merely that we are used to it, it's the entire purpose of the tactile interface: allowing you to adjust things while keeping your eyes on the road.
Well, it uses the exact same pdf parsing library that e.g. Evince uses.. so if you ever open untrusted PDFs in a normal viewer, this will expose you to the same danger (maybe less since it only extracts text). But yeah, if there was a nice safe PDF library written in pure Rust I would of course link against that.
I can only speak for myself: but it seems to me that most people aren't against advertising, only the magnitude of advertising and the tracking that goes with it.

AdBlock should be about making the internet tolerable again instead of the cesspit it's slowly becoming, but it's exasterbating the problem.

Troy made a step in the right direction.
The animals were really shot and realocated people from Czernobyl area were discriminated (avoided) for that very fear. Men who helped to mitigate disaster were seen as not too good partners to have kids with.

Whether they were actually readioactive or not, people often assumed they are and acted accordingly.
> Want to use a semicolon on this line, and not one on the next? Go for it! Not the best when you want to write something production worthy.

What do semicolons - or braces, for that matter - have to do with production worthiness? Style inconsistencies do not cause bugs. Poor CSS rules do.
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The claim that external exposure to radiation does not make you radioactive is true in most cases. However, Chernobyl is not most cases.

First, I'm not sure you can claim that people working during the disaster would only suffer external exposure. There was a reactor core on fire, there was probably plenty of isotopes in the air that would have been breathed in and possibly taken up by the body.

Second, neither alpha, beta nor gamma reaction will induce any significant amount of radioactive in materials that are exposed to them. And under normal circumstances, that is all you would be exposed to. But this was, again, an exposed reactor core. There might very well have been a significant amount of neutron radiation present, which does in fact induce radioactivity.

So the claims of the article are way too strong for this very, very exceptional situation.
Or a wifi connected kettle or toilet that pre-heats pre-commercial or delays tank re-fill respectively.
You can control AC though the touch screen, which is mostly convenient for the passenger. The driver can also control the AC with a scroll wheel on the steering wheel.
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Your example is essentially an instance of of "touch screens can replace the <tactile input device> in contexts where one does not benefit from extra feedback from touch", which is true but not exactly surprising.

I would say that in a car, being able to navigate an interface without ever taking eyes of the road is a very clear example of a context where tactile feedback adds a lot
And less likely to be stolen when the cones can be tracked.
If we could somehow standardise on the panel cable, like the one used in LG OLED Thin and Samsung. Then the panel maker concentrate on making better panel. While we get a choice and more competition of "Smart".
sometimes developer performance is more important than the server performance. A lot of sites serve less than a page per minute.
Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
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The interstate itself is an infrastructure burden that's there forever. Somehow we find a way to pay for it, no? Painting lane markers costs $X/mile, right? This would take the cost to $(X + x)/mile where x is the cost of the transponders. Nobody said self-driving cars would be cheaper, just safer.