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The restrictions on pickup/dropoff locations (if any) might have more to do with road conditions. Cruise might not be comfortable with their cars stopping in certain places.
Does anyone actually know a real "5g causes corona" person? I've seen them at marches, that's about it.

They didn't strike me as being normal people taken in by misinformation - instead I figured they had some sort of mental issue like schizophrenia or whatever.

I think that most people massively overstate the amount of genuine crackpottery that exists and instead just resort to calling people they disagree with or are uncomfortable with conspiracy theorists.

As an example, the article lumps in "masks are a control mechanism" with "5g towers cause coronavirus".

The UK government explicitly states that their nudge unit believes in the use of masking as a way to remind people that coronavirus is about. It is being used as a control mechanism, that's incontrovertible fact - it's probably also useful for reducing the spread of coronavirus (but perhaps not for total happiness).

It's not even a conspiracy because it's out in the open.

By contrast the 5g stuff is obviously mental and makes no sense at all.
> The real genius of Framework is that it doesn't even have to be the Framework company manufacturing your favorite keyboard, it's just a standard form factor.

Not sure how that's useful as the form factor doesn't really allow for a 7-row keyboard, or full-sized arrow keys. Which is a real missed opportunity in my opinion: a laptop (any computer, really) is primarily a device with inputs (keyboard, touchpad) and outputs (display) so naturally you want those to be as good as possible (and if there isn't a 99.9+% consensus on what that means, modular/configurable) as that's what you'll end up using for hours every day. Why compromise on a single "pretty" layout of physical keys?
> I am pretty sure longer than Chrome has existed.

Longer than even Firefox has existed. Multi-profile support has been there since the Netscape days.

http://www.kwom.com/setup/Communicator_winC.html
Exactly. I don't get the hate. We are so privileged in the software industry to have people on our backs all the time offering us work that it makes me kind of sick when people take it for granted.

Sure, some recruiters will waste your time, but a lot of them are quite good at their job. It's literally their job to matchmake workers and employers. You don't have to be an asshole to them for reaching out.
Yeah, they’re not trying to solve the same thing?

I think Tesla is right that to solve it for real you need to solve the general case which can’t rely on high resolution maps.

The city cab case is smaller and can, so the cruise approach makes sense for that use case. It’s just narrower.
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> It's not just software that is dominated by white men. Law, medicine, construction, management at corporations. Not just white men.

By what metric is software dominated by white men? Are we counting Indians as white?
Its the list of non-goals that just so happen to be features that I rely on for my livelihood that drive my reaction.
Also interesting how Scottish postboxes don't have the cypher EIIR for the present queen, as she is not considered II by many Scots, and the boxes would be repeatedly vandalised/blown up. I believe though that Churchill introduced legislation that all future monarchs would be numbered as the higher of the two kingdoms, so a future James would be the VII.
Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.") may well apply here. It could just be a bug.
Article doesnt load for me but from (1)

> Why Are Landlines Being Phased Out?

> The technology is obsolete and spare parts for the product are no longer produced.

...

> When Will the Landline Shut Down?

> The plan is to close all landlines before the end of 2022.

Seems quite the aggressive timeline. I wonder what equipment exactly they cant get parts for or why they didnt upgrade before - or if its just a cost cutting measure?

(1) https://www.tusass.gl/en/landline/
Was looking for this comment. In McNamara's reflection, a tenant he called out was to understand the enemy. US didn't understand the Viet Congs motivation for fighting the war (freedom from colonizers) whereas the US viewed the war as a larger Cold War. This is the same as what happened in Afghanistan that we didn't learn.
PerhPs a smaller firm like this can’t optimise the battery though because it’s too capital intensive to do so?
Er, so?

My 20 year old Civic will allow me to drive 70mph in a 20. Why shouldn't it? It's my car.
Does the McNamara Fallacy have any application to our response to COVID? I often hear pundits of all sorts, medical doctors, epidemiologists, politicians, CDC scientists, etc, make statements such as "the data shows this" and "the data says that" and then follow up with "therefore the science says we must all do such-and-such". I hold a rather narrow, rigorous - maybe closed minded - opinion of what is 'science' (so to me 'social science' is an oxymoron) thus I have a degree of skepticism when data analysis is relied on to heavily for making conclusions that are then called 'scientific'.
Wordle will be free forever because you can right-click to save the whole game
Check out the "Sticky Windows Container" add-on.. it makes the container of the left most tab the default for that window. It's a pretty decent way to manage multiple default containers.
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lvalue not mutable reference, got it. I'm surprised there are contexts where one is fine but the other is UB, but I understand the rule.
Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus
It's still vaporware for now, but next year GM is supposedly going to start selling a system that will allow true hands-off self driving on highways. It will be interesting to see if they really deliver. The claims seem to be well beyond what Tesla currently sells.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37886786/general-motors-u...
Does this have any QM implications?
Will they start shooting rockets when it gets foggy ouside now?
I feel like the process is broken in a looooooooooot of ways, but I can't feel that a low % of job offers relative to the # of interviews is necessarily a sign of brokenness?

For most software development jobs, I feel that collaboration is important and those sorts of interviews, when done well, are probably one of the least-terrible ways to get a feel for it.

Of course, there are also plenty of cases when this sort of interview is not ideal. Not all development jobs require collaboration. And there are brilliant developers who just don't interview well. Etc.

In the end, though, you won. Entrepreneurship is tough but ultimately I love it more than working for others. It's your life, why work for others if you can help it?
Hi.

“Looks better” only works in regard to justification when one is admiring a page overall. However, that's not how people actually read text. They look at words in lines, and at that time uneven spacing keeps tripping the eye up. I know this argument, but there's no way around this discussion, and that's all there is to say about it (so far). Nicely looking bricks of paragraphs won't make the eye glide smoothly over the holes.

Page layout programs spend some CPU time on fiddling the hyphenation until the spacing is even. Browsers can't afford to do that, afaik (not sure about currently, but that was the situation a while back). Moreover, from what I vaguely heard, the HTML specification defines paragraphs in such a way that browsers don't even have the freedom to fiddle the paragraph height—something about the height being the minimum for the text on hand, or something like that.

Even if you insist to keep justification on desktop (though I personally can see the holes clearly)—for the love of good, please disable it on phones. It's just a mess there.
There's also Elasticlunr which is based off of lunr.js and is what mdBook uses

http://elasticlunr.com/
Capacity factor for wind at sea (North Sea at least) is typically above 40%.

So nuclear can be at most a factor of 2.5 better. Given how cheap wind is, you can easily overbuild a factor of 2.5 and still be cheaper than new nuclear.
I've been using Waze this whole time
Yes, NFS shares can be (auto)mounted on OSX. It works well if you don't require authentication in the protocol. I have some devices setup this way on my LAN and the only "tricky" part is making sure your uids/gids align with the file perms on the server.
> What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger?

Not risking kidnapping, sexual assault, etc.—or even just “this person won't shut up”—from the driver.

> Is it cheaper?

Eventually, though perhaps not initially.
Tesla Shares Have Depreciated Because the Stock Market Is Tired of Promises
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I appreciate the recommendations!

Roots reggae was the only music I played my baby was in the hospital. So much so, I actually created a Spotify playlist of all of the songs we jammed together to.

Let me know what you think
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qp5AfSmmKLwefGyaJfLxP
It will more restrictive because they haven't mapped all streets.
> NodeJS API are traditionally not promised based

...and that's part of why this is great news. Node APIs are the avocado colored appliances of the JS ecosystem.
I think they will be that dumb. Or rather greedy.

(Is there a term like hanlon's razor for "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed"?)
> Never give first numbers

I disagree: the first one who gives a number is able to anchor the negotiation around their preferred outcome; it's much harder to negotiate up from a lowball number than the other way around.
It’s not serious at all imho. People roll stop signs all the time, it’s part of driving culture. If you feel obligated to obey the letter of every driving law you could have turned it off in settings.

Tesla also has an option to override the speed limit, you want to remove that too?
A missile design may evolve to have the original missile to intelligently decompose,upon detection, into multiple smaller missiles each with a randomized target and path. The parent missile could focus on reaching as close as possible to target rich area with stealth and upon inevitable detection, unleash smaller missiles with randomized paths. If the cost of missiles keep going down, I can see aggressors firing several of these to maximize their probability of a successful hit.
Who defines "inappropriate or unacknowledged"?
Got a source for that? I searched around and couldn't find anything with him saying that.
A zero-fee digital currency that every business in the currency zone accepts and that enables instant payments and transfers is pretty much all I want.

I honestly don't understand why we don't have this yet. (euro area in my case). The entire private payments sector just seems like a rent-seeking industry to be honest. If a digital dollar/euro is disruptive to the private banking sector than honestly that just shows that they're not offering much in actual value.
Why China’s Semiconductor Industry Remains Behind
How about the network stack? Is the VM can talk with other VMs from other browsers.
> imports from coal burning Czech Republic and nuclear powered Slovenia.

I'm a Czech hence biased, but hey we've got two nuclear power plants! (and yes the Austrians hate them)

According to Our World in Data [0], Czech Republic is 15% nuclear while Slovenia is 18% nuclear. We both have different primary sources of power (Czechia coal at 37%, Slovenia oil at 39%). I take offense at your statement "Czechia coal Slovenia nuclear"!

If it weren't for Austria, we'd likely have more nuclear and less coal. We wouldn't have knoedel and schnitzel though, so perhaps it evens out.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/czech-republic?cou...
> I currently work 4 full time SWE roles

How many hours per week is that?
>I will believe it when I see it. Focusing that much light on a small moving object, through layered and moving air, with an intensity to burn through metal would be an achievement. Burning through enough of that metal to degrade a falling rocket (as opposed to during boost phase of flight) is even harder.

it's been working 20 years ago. it's just systems were too big. you needed 2-3 tracks to supply energy to laser system, and there were delays between shots.

>For all the talk about cost reduction, have a look at what realworld laser armor costs. Painting the nosecone of a rocket white, or coating it with reflective foil costs next to nothing but is remarkably effective.

doesn't work. nosecone it's small part of rocket, laser will target midsection probably. reflective foil won't help either as it needs to be designed to reflect specific wavelength of laser iirc
Organic Maps is the open source fork of Maps.me. It's very similar, but better maintained, and has less shady stuff
If you can reduce the cost of a car trip to fuel + maintenance + depreciation, you are providing a very compelling alternative to private car ownership. It will change everything.
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VPNs provide confidentiality and integrity while accessing untrusted networks if configured correctly. There are other networks than FAANG that are untrustworthy.
Parent just means "chat plus X", I think. Chat plus video. Chat plus rooms. Chat plus bupbupbup.
Generally it's not enforceable but plenty of people don't know how contract law works.
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If you are on Windows and your Firefox profile got borked, try ShadowExporer to restore the profile version that still worked. Also check if File History is on and has a copy of your profile (those two are separate features). Then check if you have image backup enabled.
Waze is owned by google.
The paragraph remains accurate but more funny if "rolling stop"* is replaced with "oxymoron",

so "“Tesla Removes oxymoron from Assertive Driving Profile”. Tesla added oxymoron to make the car behave more human like. NHTSA said no, so Tesla removed the feature."

* TIL: rolling stop
Not heard of Zap Pow! Checking them out now. I just replied to a post below, but I'll do it here too, I created a Spotify playlist of roots reggae I played to my lil girl while she was in the hospital.

It's full of my/our favourite roots, and includes most of those artists!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qp5AfSmmKLwefGyaJfLxP
no. a billion dollars wasnt invested to socialize transportation. ultimately it may be more, if there is value in not having to interact with the smell of a fleshbag
I strongly dislike the trend of doomer climate articles providing the reader no information on how to act. We're facing the largest threat to humanity in history. One that requires large reforms to how we live our life to secure a comfortable & biodiverse world for future generations. (Notice: I didnt say liveable world, humans will still be around past 2100, but I rather have a world with less extreme heat, thanks. I would also like if my grandkids could ski too.)

I am involved in the climate movement, I know what to do, but imagine how hopeless an average reader might feel after seeing this headline. They might come to wrong conclusions such as "oh I better eat less fish!" No! Get your government to do something. Their carbon footprint is far greater then any one individual.

Feels like a moral wrong to throw this terryfying information on to a readers lap & provide them no ways to take action.
You’re talking about humans, not machines. What you have control over is how cars and humans behave on impact. You don’t have control over what your neighbor does when they walk. Are you perfect? You never get distracted? For those unique scenarios, do you rather be hit by a lifted f350 with a madmax inspired bumper or you rather have a chance of surviving your mistake?
Watch out, Here Maps has the Facebook SDK malware embedded in it that will call home to Zuck on every app launch (at least) and send a device fingerprint and persistent identifier.
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Or you solve for a subset of highways in a subset of weather conditions. That would be more useful to a lot of people than city cabs which exist today (with human drivers).
The Rule of Midwits
A market done correctly can cannibalize another market, and that's very much a bad thing when you own both markets. You want to attempt ventures that can get new customers, rather than moving a subset of customers onto a platform where they will spend less money. Forcing people to upgrade often makes more money. Capitalism doesn't optimize for efficiency, it optimizes for revenue.

Small companies are a great tool to squeeze out market inefficiencies. Just look at EVs, which have been useful for decades and only recently seen companies spending large amounts of money on them as a (formerly) small company was laying the marketing groundwork.
This is why you now how people claiming "Speech is violence" and even "Silence is Violence"

They want to expand the definition of violence just like they have many many many other terms
Users aren't aware they are using Google Maps?
When will economists embrace the quantum revolution?
> even if Twilio sends something at 10am it might not be sent by Verizon until 11am. This absolutely impacts off-hour SMS sending.

Suppose my business is software for restaurants to notify customers their table is ready via text. How would I mitigate this?
I was in Vietnam in a Naval Support Group. I had conversations with army officers that had combat experience and learned that since no statistics were collected about dead civilians all the dead were counted as enemy soldiers - and everyone from the top down knew it.
nobody owns a car because its cheaper than other forms of transit. and if you want to be cheauferred around by an ai instead of taking a bus, you will pay for it.
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That generator is gone but https://www.qrpicture.com/ works and does basically the same thing.
> General Motors is adding another tier to its hands-free driving technology with its new Ultra Cruise system that it claims will work in 95 percent of driving situations.

This seems to be exactly what I mean. They admit that their system can't handle the 5% of edge cases, and market it appropriately. This is not a full self driving car.
People are also killed or injured by drivers all of the time, too. Remember when the selling point of AVs was that they’d reducr the ~40k / 300k Americans so impacted annually? Telling manufacturers that it’s okay to ignore laws if it gets you there faster will have the opposite effect.
I work around 40-50 hours per week. Most of the teams that I work on are pretty low performing and the actual work involved isn't too bad. I try not to submit anything early when I'm finished.
> I wish they'd start by standardizing something equivalent to "extern C" in Swift

There is the unofficial (but very relied upon) @_cdecl, if you're OK with needing to update your code if/when that eventually gets standardized. That attribute will take care of the calling convention difference for you.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/ReferenceGuide...
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