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> You do know that Touch Screen got included in Cars due to government regulations right? The government mandated Backup Camera's and once you had to put in a screen to serve as display for the backup camera then it only makes since to use that screen for more and more things

Backup cameras were mandated in the US in 2018. Almost every vehicle on the market had a touchscreen years before that. The few vehicles I can think of that didn't yet have a screen as standard by that point got in-mirror camera displays to comply.

A government regulation that was announced in 2014 and took effect in 2018 had nothing to do with my 2015 Fiesta, which does not have a backup camera, having the same touch screen a 2010 model had.

Ford introduced MyFordTouch in 2010. Chrysler's Uconnect system came out in 2011, GM's various systems (CUE, MyLink, etc) in 2012, and of course the big daddy of stupid touch-focused designs the Tesla Model S came out in 2013. All of these were well established across entire lineups by the time backup camera regulations were being discussed.

The primary reason for the current state of automotive touch interfaces is entirely capitalism doing what it does. Touch interfaces are more expensive than a few buttons, but they can replace hundreds of individual controls and components that all have their own design, testing, and production requirements with one where almost everything about it can be changed on the fly. A model that offers options for heated seats as well as heated/cooled seats means you have three different sets of buttons for whatever panel those go in, three different sets of control boards, etc. With touch controls, as bad as they are to use those three variants are now effectively free to the manufacturer. They "cost" a few if()s in software.

Regulation is in fact the only reason this nonsense hasn't gotten even stupider. Tesla's new models have a set of hidden controls for drive mode selection and hazard lights, which are primarily intended to be controlled via the touch screen, because they are legally required to have something that would work without the screen.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-s-plaid-shifter/

Let me repeat that, Tesla does not want to have these controls, the only reason they have them is because regulation forces them to. Tell me again how the big bad government is ruining Tesla's freedom to do the stupidest things...
I suspect that once you start working in the field, there's no walking away. You will be a slave scientist. The cartls won't let you walk away from it.
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Definitely. Back when I was young something like half my school wanted to be a professional footballer. There was a period after that where lots of people wanted to be esports gamers. Tiktok is currently _the thing_ which has taken that spot, as far as I can tell.

I think there was a trend towards "I want to be a programmer, cos they get paid loads and have free food", but don't know whether that's still with us.

I'd blame this on a mixture of unfounded optimism and, for my generation at least, literally everyone offering the career advice of "Do what you love and it'll all work out great". Nonsense but sounded plausible at the time.
The prick culture at Google is entrenched. I (jokingly) blame Stanford.
> This is what happens when you let your job define your life.

This does seem to be at or near the root. This much pressure being put on the author is likely what is throwing them off.

But.

Assuming she lives in the US (seems safe based off of her work history)... your job kind of IS your life.

No job means no health insurance. No health insurance means one mistake (yourself or dependents) and it could be over. Once it's over, unless you have a personal safety net to catch you, you're just... fucked. You're fucked.

That's a lot of pressure, and it's so dumb that we couple something as crucial as healthcare to our jobs. Some corporate fat cats are laughing in their graves that they pulled this off.

I'm sorry author. I hope things pan out for you and your family.
True, but at this point their reputation is kind of burned for me. I'm not confident that if they have challenges come up with rp2040 production that they will be able to compensate quickly.
Presumably they were at one time a “rational actor”. Before the drugs.
Never liked ":x" construct since I started to use vi. Always used ":wq". Now realising, it had a hidden benefit. Good for me. <pats himself on the back>
> I don't get the "why", but the approach is fairly explicit -- and politicians get reelected while following it, so I guess it's what "the people" want.

Consider every time you have moved into a new place to live. What kind of research did you do and what factors did you consider when prioritizing multiple option down to the final selection?

It's possible you might say (since I don't know you) that you only look at price per square foot and do a sort based on that and take the cheapest option and that's that.

Most people don't do that though. They consider the neighborhood as a whole, nearby facilities, the character of the location (e.g. lots of 24hr pubs or quiet tree-lined street, etc). So the surroundings matter a whole lot to a lot of people. So people don't often want to go through the whole process of researching, selecting a place and moving to it, just to have the whole neighborhood torn down and redone in a different way a few months later. Might be better, but it's still different, so it doesn't check the same boxes they so painstakingly researched before moving.

So when you say you don't get the "why", it's just human nature. A lot of people want to settle into a stable-ish home, where things around it change slowly, not at a hectic pace that makes it seem not-home anymore.
Do you know how to do this? Also what would be the best software for live looping?
Perhaps you haven't already heard: Becoming an influencer is what a large portion of kids today dream of and fully expect to succeed at.

"The importance of school is secondary because I am easily going to become a rich and famous YouTuber or TikTokker."

Source: Many school teachers.
It’s especially sad because you can have both - a touchscreen that is only active when the vehicle is in park - and buttons for the other things needed whilst driving.

But cost savings and “muh futuristic Ironman UI”.
I feel the same way when I see these vehicles. All I can think about is how dated it will look in five years. However, it seems that the leasing crowd prefers to get rid of their cars in three years tops anyway which is a huge chunk of this market.
this is hilarious, after just 10 rejections,
it is normal to have thousands or at least hundreds of rejections compared to offers
I can’t agree more. I have delivered several solutions to local enterprises, with questionable UX, no SSO, p2p integrations. We made changes while implementing, after we signed contract. The only thing you should care is to solve their burning problem and find the person, who has that problem. The rest is easy, not necessarily fast though. It took one year to sign contract.
WSJ thinks we'd all be more efficiently served by a few very large breweries, all owned by InBev (Budweiser, Michelob, Stella Artois, Beck's)
> Once you have proper buy-in, you can likely move way faster than by trying to constantly side-channel things through existing processes.

I've noticed this as well. It's amazing how many road blocks an executive trying to save their reputation can clear for you.
It really amazes me how anti science this website has become.
Your reference is a link to your comment, not a video.
Therapy is like an expensive paracetamol. In fact, their prescription drug is more dangerous to health than paracetamol.
> an alarming trend of young people reading “harm reduction” material online and assuming they know the full picture of the risks of drug use

Is anyone attempting to harm-reductively try meth?
If there is selective pressure preventing spread, mutation would seem inevitable. Covid has mutated many times already. The question is will the mutations this selects for make a flu that is worse or will does it wall off all possible mutations with 100% (or close to) certainty?
I assume you must be joking, but for the avoidance of doubt - I'll just say that I don't consider it ill-mannered of me not to thank my vacuum cleaner when I've finished using it either!

Just because we interact with a machine with a familiar human language doesn't mean the 'social' norms for that interaction are or should be the same.
Captain of "no one should interfere with the inter workings of an nation" is now talking about having a World Government, ICC, and punishment for wrong interference

Make up your mind please? Or is your view just a standard anti-US position.
Author seems like they've been coasting and always found a way out when hard problems came up. This catches up to you.
We don't know if the author is male or female.
Data consistency is top priority.

Then flexible reporting.

Then security.

Then UX design.
We do not have the technology to make mental health care supermarket easy. Psychiatric drugs have NNTs in the dozens, terrible side effects, or both.

It's a fantasy because it has no chance of working even before you consider the enormous amount of resources it would require.

I strongly suspect the same about just letting people do copious amounts of legal drugs and then trying to fix addictions they develop.

Stepping in after the damage is done is usually both much more expensive and way less effective. Ounce of prevention and all that.
You are still confusing the means with the end.

It is not about what capitalism is about, it's about why society chose capitalism instead of other forms of economy.

That's why capitalism needs laws to tame it's worst excesses.
The point is that we should have a coherent policy in the US around how we treat drugs.

Either we should accept a certain threshold of danger around drug use and allow all drugs under that threshold to be used (with appropriate regulation), or we should not accept the use of dangerous drugs and should outlaw them.

Right now, US drug policy is that a fairly dangerous drug (alcohol) is not legal, while other clearly less dangerous drugs (marijuana, most hallucinogens, MDMA, etc.) are not legal. It should be changed to be a rational policy in which everything less dangerous than alcohol is legal or a policy in which alcohol is not legal.
This looks like YC as a SaaS. It could take off if it enough founders and investors sign up.
Usually poor ops hygiene, same really as PHP problems:

* Code runs as web server user
* Code is deployed as web server user, because web monkey doesn't understand unix permission (or alternatively chmod 777 everything for same effect)
* Code gets hacked, attacker can modify any file so they just leave backdoor in code

If you deploy code as different user attacker can still of course steal all the data but at the very least they can't modify the code that is running.

On top of that, a lot of poor security practices when it comes to qouting stuff. Perl had kinda interesting feature regarding that where in special mode (recommended for apps dealing with untrusted inputs) the variable was considered tainted [1] till something "cleaned" it by passing it thru regexp. So say taking argument directly from environment (so headers for web) or stdin and passing it with no processing to system() would trigger it.

* [1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec
Re 1, have you got a better plan? There's communism, are you suggesting that?

>2. "prices go up when demand is high" makes sense to incentivize more production and reward those that produce thing we need the most

Precisely, so why isn't Nike producing more? That is the issue. Again, scalpers are a symptom.

>A farmer getting more for their corn during a shortage makes sense, because we'd be hungry if it weren't for them.

One doesn't follow the other.

If a farmer gets £1 a tonne one year, why does it mean that them getting £10 a tonne the next mean that people won't go hungry. If there's a corn shortage, that implies there isn't enough, so people are going hungry. Further this seems to verging on a moral argument. If we go hungry if it isn't for farmers then that implies that the state should be stepping in to control their excesses, setting the price at £1 a tonne.

>Even artificial scarcity of luxury items can be interpreted as creating some value

And so can buying a good and selling it on for a higher price. Why does one person have the right to brag about owning a shoe, and not another, who just so happens to be willing to pay a higher price? Why is artificial scarcity acceptable, but creating a functional open market out of that not?

And a stock trader does create value. If a person can't buy stock and sell it on for a higher price, that stock is worth less, which means during an IPO a company can raise less money. It's not even clear to me if you could have PLCs at all, because eventually everyone dies, what happens to a company who is owned by a dead person(s) does it get taken over by the state?

If we were talking about actual necessities then I'd agree with you, although my solution would be to have Nike produce more, not hold people to ransom. But for trainers, a specific brand and model, let the free market function, it's the best we've got.
It is, also, hard to see how tool use in capuchins could be anything other than cultural transmission. I know how biologists are subjected to years of withering abuse for ever mentioning cultural transmission outside Homo, but the excuses have worn thin.

Cultural transmission outside Homo is everyday fact now.
Planks are the ultimate simple thing. Everyone can do it, at any age, at any level of fitness. Plank.

Just two minutes.
The keys have a password, so, yeah, if the machine reboots I need to ssh in. :-)
The only time it has happened to me, I saw a weird prompt and I understood right away.
I had almost forgotten than `:wq` was a thing
70% of Airbus A380 Operators Now Plan to Fly the Giant of the Sky Next Summer
How is that bad faith?
It's a technical enforcement of a commitment.
unless perhaps academia is lying to you
>It's interesting to note that as methamphetamine and amphetamine were more regulated in the 50s and 60s, it became more prevalent. Then in order to stamp out illegal production, the precursor chemicals were monitored. So what happens? Production becomes more dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

Methamphetamine wasn't the only drug being regulated in the '50s and '60s. The other stimulants, like cocaine, were restricted at the same time. But methamphetamine is by far the hardest drug to regulate, so its relative prevalence increases.

>Solution: Just make every kind of drug legal to produce, but regulate the purity.

This is suboptimal. Recreational stimulants are not all the same level of dangerous. (Which would be an incredible coincidence.) The better solution is to find the safer stimulants (possibly variants of methylphenidate) and allow those to be used recreationally, hopefully cutting into the demand for the really bad stuff.
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You didn’t have to hard-code database credentials into your app, though. That’s a design flaw, not a requirement of CGI.

Who passes non-sanitized or otherwise untrusted input to executables, any more than is necessary? Why do you (seem to) believe modern approaches to dynamism are immune when the bulk of user input still comes from HTML forms? How do modern web applications avoid input from untrusted sources?

Same applies to the directory layout of servers they were hosted on. That’s more a lack of server admin competence than a fault of CGI. Was far easier than configuring Tomcat to safely host Java web apps. I recall it being far easier to configure than WebObjects, PHP, Rails, etc.

CGI programs were far from the only form of web application effected by local security implementations. In my experience common gateway interface applications consist of fewer files than something written against Spring, WebObjects, or 99% of server side web app frameworks. Fewer files means less system configuration and less attack surface, no?

As to forking leading to DDOS, that was something that could happen to any forking server, which was pretty much all servers when CGI first came into existence. FastCGI helped address that issue.
Baroque was a particularly strong time for improvisation - Bach was more well known as an improvisor in his life time than a composer (or for his educational pieces which is what he was known for right after his death).

At music school I knew a few baroque improvisors, a good one on the harpsichord is one of my favorite music, really miss that.
That might work if drugs were as easy to stop than start. Addiction treatment has a very low success rate with high relapse rate, and its incredibly expensive per user. The best treatment remains not starting in the first place.
Found it

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32336808

It was in the book of 101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions.
I remember watching a documentary about Miles right before he released Tutu. The interviewer asked if he ever got nostalgic for the old bebop or cool jazz stuff he used to play. Miles paused for a long time, then he said I love those old tunes but they're in the past and I can't go back there. I got to keep moving.

I really respected him for that, but when I got to college the music program was so focused on the past. It looked like the only prof who was doing contemporary stuff was the percussion guy and I played trumpet. I got booed out of the room once for suggesting it'd be cool to mix jazz and hip-hop (this was 1989).

If I'd stuck with it I probably would have discovered all kinds of new stuff going on, but I followed what Miles said and got into electronic music.
It fails to explain why Japanese people who shower literally everyday don't lead
innovations...
Most people are still low wage or "gig economy" service workers. Which is a big part of why these escape-the-grind fantasies are popular and have been for generations. The problem is the world we've made not how people are trying to navigate it with hope in their hearts.
Federal income taxes in the US started around the beginning of the 20th century.
> People can get hurt, physically, financially, beyond repair by groups that take the software mentality into physical products.

Exactly. And in this case, the physical product was to be housing. We have building codes for a reason...
I forgot to add, some sites already use this. [1]

[1] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-R...
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So much misinformation here..

> Perhaps the only reason why flu is harmless is because we don't fight it?

The flu has been fought with vaccines for decades.

Still, it mutates constantly and the vaccine producers guess which strains will be dominant. Like s coin flip, they guess right or wrong. The topic of the article means that they may not have to guess.

> ...antibiotic resistance issues we are facing due to dishing out antibiotics...

Vaccines and antibiotics are two completely different things. One is preventative, other is for acute care of a bacterial infection.

> Other than very old and frail people it's stupid to vaccinate against something that harms 0% non-old and non-weak population.

Vaccine of a healthy person slows transmission to elderly and immunocompromised. And reduces the chances of feeling really shitty and missing school or work for several days.

It's sad to dismiss something because it doesn't benefit "me", without considering how it may benefit "us" as a community.
While definitely not basic, Sooperlooper[0] is a fantastic opensource clone of the old Echoplex hardware.

[0] https://sonosaurus.com/sooperlooper/
So it does exist in the US, but US citizens are exempted?
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We don’t really read by looking at individual letters. At least, once we become proficient readers. Instead we read words as shapes. If the shape is too far off from the pattern stored in our head, then we have to stop and actually look at the letters to read it.
Yes.

The “harm reduction” websites are full of information about things like: Dose ranges for beginners, what effects to expect at different dose levels, routes of administration, and so on.

This information is targeted at beginners or drug curious people.
"C is kinda a subset of C++" is close enought for any non language lawyer.

The author names C99 feutures that has been in GNU C89 since whenever.

I mean. C is whatever compiler you use. Some people just care too much about what ISO says.
It's like saying being a professional basketball player is not a viable career path because most people don't make it. The mere fact of it's exclusivity is besides the point.

Being a content creator/influencer is a viable career path. There are creators with disabilities, creators that never speak, creators that never show their face. Not everyone makes great money but for many people the money is enough.
The Antibiotic resistance issues were seeing are orders of magnitude less problematic than the deaths caused by bacteria pre antibiotics. And - the flu isn't 100% safe for non old and non "weak" - no clue where you got that impression from. The 1918 flu pandemic (the origin of the still circulating h1n1 strain) was among the deadliest pandemics ever exactly because it was most likely to kill yound, healthy people
The protein craze is not a marketing gimmick and your own article disproves what you say here
> Absolutely false, the market more than anything in human society has driven more wealth, and higher standards of living. If it incredibly ignorant to say the market is a "race the to bottom" backed by ZERO data or facts

A rational actor tries to maximize profits, and that involves either cost-cutting while minimally passing on cost savings; or disruption.

Disruption is what has driven wealth, but an unregulated market is terrible at encouraging risk taking.

The easier path is to make things cheaper (to
make), and the evidence is every off-shored manufacturing and industry over decades.

Now you’ll say that this cost increase is due to regulations; but the argument against that is even Chinese labor has become expensive and that’s simply due to a rising middle class. The market.

But like the US once had, they have the manufacturing knowledge and scale that we’ve foolishly given up a long time ago so US businesses can’t simply lift and shift.

To the point where I doubt our ability to wage a long-term war.
No author name? No post index?

What's the point of an anonymous block of text published on the internet?
I used to read quite a lot when I was in my early teens and this is one od two books that I vividly remember (other being Around the world in 80 days).
I sincerly believe that this idea of rebuilding civilization from grounds up was responsible for me getting into STEM and becoming who I am now.
Most of the introduction is inaccurate. C++ does its best to reintegrate all new features of C into C++ (not that C has anything much going on since 1999), and a lot of efforts are made to unify the languages. The only reason they're not unified is because there are a few irreductibles that are against it, but as written in the article, even Microsoft is in favour of just having C++ and no C.

The creator of C++ himself is saying C++ is a better C and his goal was for C to cease to be and be replaced. The reasons C is not a strict subset of C++ is because some features of C are outrightly dangerous and were changed in C++ for good reason.

Most of the new features of C these days are actually backported from C++, such as atomics.

Also the whole thing about how in C you should think in terms of modules rather than classes also applies to C++. OOP remains a bad paradigm regardless of the language.
And funnily enough some of the biggest C frameworks are dedicated to providing OOP in C (e.g. glib).
If you think BMW is bad now wait until you see what Mercedes and VW have been up to
Do you agree with fighting deadly diseases through vaccination?