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> It needs to physically restrict the speed of the car.

There are situations, where it would be dangerous if you cannot exceed the speed limit. All cars in Japan are limited to 160 km/h, even though the fastest speed limit is 120 km/h, this to allow for situations where exceeding that limit is necessary.
We have a problem with third subsystems in the car checking that all security subsystem be present in order to start normal march (as opposed to "degraded mode" or just "off").

I have seen vehicles which worked with some security subsystems disconnected, and others that refused to work properly.

Plus, you have the issue of the method: "Welcome to your wedding: this is your wife, and this the complimentary gimp (should you want to dispose it, you have the onus)".

Plus: have you considered how much the complementary gimps (etc.) that come with the car inflate its price?
To me, reading code is more like looking at one of those pictures of a set of gears and then being asked whether “gear A turns anticlockwise or clockwise”. At least this is how it feels. It’s more like studying a mechanism than understanding language.
For insomnia and sleep problems, a good approach is to try out additional techniques from the lists in CBT-I (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy-Insomnia) treatment manuals. This is a well-studied, non-medication approach, with large parts that a person can learn independently.

A specific technique that helped me was to challenge the thought that "If I don't sleep for 8 hours, the following day will be ruined," as that was a common thought that kept me up. There are a couple of PDFs of treatment manuals online that list the techniques:

UNC School of Medicine: https://www.med.unc.edu/neurology/wp-content/uploads/sites/7...

United States Veterans Affairs: https://www.mirecc.va.gov/docs/visn6/Improve_Your_Sleep_Self...
In Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' there is a chapter where he describes his observations on 'how does it feels to go to sleep' as part of an essay for a class. This and other lectures/writings from Feynman gives cues to his technique and also the almost impish curiosity with which he approaches a problem. IMHO the best way to master or learn from him, is read/watch his works/lectures.
I know quite a few people, and I was once one myself, who simply keep to the limit. You can assert your right to drive only the speed limit, you have that.
I think Americans also use this word for "bullshit" strange enough
You are free to consume raw milk. You are not free to sell it to others. This seems reasonable to me - same as most food safety regulations.
Speed camera? Road diet/speed bumps? Or, y'know, having police enforce the law.
Indeed, we build roads that feel like you should go 45mph on them and then slap a sign that says 25 down and wonder why pedestrians die. US road design is trash.
Homogenization and pasteurization are different things. My local dairy offers cream-top non-homogenized milk; it's still pasteurized. (They also use a lower temperature, longer exposure process.)
To be fair, two thirds of the algorithm is writing things down, and in many cases just clearly formulating the question is enough to find enough gaps in your understanding to answer it as well.
No, that is called bias.
What? Do you just not care about safety at all or something?
Yeah, those are fair points. I was just surprised to see "you can't do illegal things without custom pricing." It's an interesting avenue.
I'm sort of sympathetic to that argument, but my observation has also been that most drivers are terrible at judging safe speeds for a given road. They go way too slow when they don't need to (a gentle curve on a highway) and drive way too fast for conditions at other times (a narrow twisty two lane road with blocked sight lines and blind driveways).
And where do you think many of those bugs come from? Usually utility code that isn't working in some edge case, those types of things can be easy to pull out and test in their own independent of the game
This is normally how it works, no?
That is the opposite of what I said.
Traffic stops (and domestic abuse) are some of the most dangerous things a cop does. Even if not dangerous, it's likely the things that get them the most abuse.

When something is dangerous or unpleasant, even if we are paid to do it, we will often hesitate to do it.
Why can't they communicate than then? BYOIP also costs nothing to produce.
Can you share some?
My UK 2017 Ford has technology that achieves this functionality, albeit not switched on by default and therefore also not unable to be deactivated by the user. It's fine, I guess?

The car has a camera that records speed limit signs as it passes, and shows the last speed it saw on the dashboard. I'm not sure if it's the camera or the built-in maps that allow it to distinguish between single carriageway and dual carriageway roads, which have different limits for the same signage, but it's pretty good at it. It does have GPS, but it doesn't seem to use it for limits in general driving -- that probably means it's insufficient for this law.

One may set visible or audible announcements, or even update the cruise control limited, based on the current detected limit. The downside of using a camera, though, is that as good as it is at picking up the right limits (and it is good!) it struggles with advance warning signs and also with some junctions on corners where the limit changes if you turn off.

On the other hand, if the audible reminder sounds when your speed goes above the limit then the obvious thing to do is to hit 85mph then not slow down and it won't bother you again :).
That's circular reasoning ("it's useless because it's useless").

If you haven't gained any insights from reading that content, maybe it doesn't apply to you or you don't know what you don't know.

> valuable inside the mega corp is actually dangerous outside when people take it as dogma and try to apply it.

mega corp or not, dogmatic principles are usually bad coming from anywhere. The SRE book contains insights that apply to startup, medium-sized companies and mega corps. It's not prescriptive for a reason.
> "Chess got undermined by the computers in 1997"

Has he checked how popular Chess is in 2024?
Humans watching CCTV cameras, maybe?
Three things missing so far from the discourse:

1. It all but eliminates plausible deniability for those fighting speeding tickets.

2. New drivers will certainly benefit from the additional alert, as they often have no idea they’re speeding.

3. The federal government has been moving in this direction for a while. It’s coming.
> this one falls for a very very common fallacy - spelling makes more sense when it "maps" to "pronunciation"

True. It's no wonder that many alphabetical writing systems are morpho-phonologic (English, French, Korean, Czech, etc.) instead if being phonetic, since they still works well evolving slower than the spoken language. Actually I can't think of any phonetic writing systems, most are phonemic at best.
Treating the most impactful ones is usually the best. The safest speed is zero, create that limit and no more accidents ever.
That is what I do, because politicians in my jurisdiction constantly talk about "law and order" and being a "nation of laws", in addition to much anti-immigration rhetoric.

I still get tailgated, honked at, and road raged. Often by a large pickup truck.
The article is nice and so on, but as someone who does not know much about photography.... how to know it is not sponsored?

Only disadvantage (fast shutter speed: sports and animals) was conviniently hand waved
Download the PDF and change the font.
Raw milk is often touted for its health benefits, including higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that can be destroyed during pasteurization.

Raw milk supports better digestion due to the presence of natural enzymes like lactase, which can help lactose-intolerant individuals.

It also contains beneficial bacteria that can enhance gut health and boost the immune system.

Homogenization, a process where milk is forced through small openings under high pressure to break down fat molecules and create a uniform consistency, is another step in milk processing.

This process alters the structure of fat molecules, which some believe impacts the nutritional quality and digestibility of milk.

Raw milk avoids both pasteurization and homogenization, retaining its natural separation of cream and milk, and preserving its original nutritional profile.
Pasteurization and homogenization reduces some nutritional content and alter the milk's natural state.

It’s the difference between cold pressed juices and the fake orange juice that has been heated millions of times and the manufacture re-adds vitamin C because the processs killed off its natural vitamin C
Relative speed difference is another key factor — arguably more important than absolute speed — but is more difficult to regulate.

When traffic on the highway is near a standstill you really shouldn’t fly down an open lane at the highway speed limit
PowerShell is amazing
Speed may or may not be the cause of accidents, but higher speed 100% makes accidents worse in terms of outcomes.

Sometimes roundabouts are found to increase accidents relative to four way stops, but they're still held to be an improvement because the accidents are on average much less severe.
Have you tried milk that has been flash pasteurized? Asking because I’ve noticed it’s been hard to find of recent and you mentioned a local dairy (which is usually more willing to offer alternatives depending on local market and resources). Recommend if you haven’t tried it! The taste profile gives a hint of sweetness while extending shelf life of the product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_pasteurization
This is a very interesting question.

When you plant a seed in a garden, there's many factors at play - is the season right? Is the climate right for that seed? Is the soil the right type? Are there pests or varmints roaming that might eat it prematurely? Etc.

The garden of thought has analogous factors: Is this a question your brain actually cares about right now? Do you have the background knowledge necessary to work it out? Is your brain calm enough to process that question? Are there distractions or anxieties that disturb the process?

That said, some people truly are stupid. I recently read John Cleese's autobiography, and he tells a story from when he was a Geography teacher...

There was a lad who he was teaching countries and their capitals. Even when given direct attention, the kid simply wasn't able to name any capitals whatsoever. He would smile and nod, giving no indication of difficulties... But he couldn't recall the info even after being told it 8 seconds previously. This particular type of data slid off his brain.

At the end of the term, the kid got one question right on the final exam, probably by accident. Cleese posted the paper in the teacher's room, attracting the comment from one teacher "The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it".

Perhaps that kid had a genius for engines or something, but he was never going to be able to understand geopolitics. He lacked even the awareness to know that he was stupid (at least about countries and capitals). He would never have asked if he was stupid, because he was truly stupid.

If your friend is ever curious about their intelligence, they're probably ok and can develop the skill of thinking like this.
Also a universal guilty verdict if you try to beat the ticket.
With WSL2, is there any objective reason to write new Powershell scripts in 2024? I am genuinely curious because I barely have used Windows these days and had some brief experience with WSL2.
I think you’re arguing with someone who isn’t here.

Nobody is endorsing the practices in TFA “because it’s Google”/in order to be like Google. Sure, people elsewhere make those claims all the time, and they’re wrong, but that’s not in evidence here that I can see.

The article does seem to come pretty close to universally applicable good ideas. Not because of where its author works, but because of the content.
General advice:

Stay in the second to right lane. Never go more than 7 miles over. After 10 miles over, the tickets get expensive, and the police have more of a reason to pull you over. 7 mph accounts for speedometer errors and makes you part of the pack but not the speediest.

Make your car look respectable; Like it's driven by a person who could contest a ticket.

If pulled over: Be polite but not obsequious. When asked, immediately admit to going 7 miles over as a matter of fact so you don't get tailgaters. You'll most likely get a warning.
What are the percentages?
Write Like an Amazonian (2018)
Sadly, any complicated technological solution appears easier than trying to reform and change the politically charged nature of American law enforcement.
US road design undoubtedly is hot garbage, but US drivers are trash too. Nobody's forcing anyone to speed through a neighborhood regardless of street design, following the posted limit so you don't mow down pedestrians isn't that hard.
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> they can decide what's best and should be done without any data, just based on feels.

The book is exactly the opposite of this. The Principles chapter alone talk about many things that involve actually dealing with numbers (SLO, measuring complexity, etc).
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> One in forty false positives still isn't bad for a system to automatically sift out wanted criminals.

It's an absolutely disastrous false positive rate when the consequences to those who are falsely identified are more than trivial.
A 0.1% edge is sufficient.
I always wondered why Microsoft didn't just clone something like Bash as close as possible. Powershell was different enough from UNIX that I couldn't get myself interested in it during my phase when I was using both Windows and Linux.
> Because that's what Google does

Your argument would be stronger if you could list a few cases like that latest high profile one where GCP deleted some enterprise customer's account. A single one won't cut it for "that's what Google does".
And not sit there by the side of a boring flat, relatively safe highway with a radar gun in one hand and a hamburger in the other one, pulling over mild mannered "easy targets" going 70 in a 60. Actually patrol neighborhoods looking for the drag racers and pull them over. Break up the massive "street takeovers." Catch the guys weaving in and out of traffic dangerously (even if they're staying under the speed limit).

Hell, if they handed out a $200 ticket for everyone browsing their phones while driving, they could probably fund their entire departments.
I agree that driver inattention is an issue.

That's why road redesigns that makes drivers less comfortable with high speeds are important. It makes them slow down and also become more attentive. People respond to the psychological cues of their built environment. Here's a YouTube short explaining it: https://youtube.com/shorts/MyT7F5zuOU4
There are parallels. You feed an LLM context data and then tell it what to focus on so it can pull relevant data.

Maybe the entire process isn't like feeding an LLM, but that step is. Relevance identification is an interesting part of the process. The LLM can do a decent job of making connections, but it doesn't know what is relevant. In the longer time frame of the thinking process, we constantly throw out data as irrelevant or identify previously unknown relevant data that needs to be added. It's a part of the process completely outside of the LLM.
for those curious about the neuroscience --

"stepping away from the keyboard" takes your Default Mode Network off the project like a burned-out employee that's just running it into the ground

when the DMN is highly active - fixating, ruminating - its focus is narrow and it's less likely to produce as many creative insights or dredge up as many relevant memories

if you make it less active - doing something else, letting your mind wander, shutting it off entirely with sleep or substances - it will keep trying to solve the problem, but also make farther-flung connections that might solve it

these connections can then be picked up and used more effectively by your executive and salience networks
So it's just another annoying fuse to pull. Along with OnStar and the cell modem.
Start making a backup plan
California government seems to be afflicted with a disorder in which they pass laws and add regulations to pretend to address problems without doing any of the basic things to improve governance and improve infrastructure that would obviously actually help address the problems. (e.g. enforce speed limits and distracted driving laws where they matter, not just on freeways)

It’s the same thing with the new income-based adjustments to electricity rates, which “helps reduce the burden of utility payments” without doing anything to address the fact that California has the among the highest cost of electricity anywhere. I don’t think the legislators think about this or care, because look! they are “addressing the problems”.

Will adding a require speeding bell in cars reduce car-related fatalities? Or just cause people to learn how to shut off or ignore the government-mandated bell?
In what other domain of law are people allowed to violate the posted law because of their feelings? The "flow of traffic" is just the sum aggregate of what all the drivers are feeling like doing given the current conditions, like the price of a stock is just the sum aggregate of what all the investors are feeling like doing given the current conditions. If that's how the US wants to govern speeding, then that should be the law.

Why is an appeal to authority wrong, when we are literally talking about the speed limit, which is a law posted by an authority? Obviously what is legal is not what is moral/ethical, but if the speed limits should be changed, that is a different conversation than if the law should be enforced.

What is the point of a law that is not enforced? I guess Americans are used to seeing a posted number and then having to do mental math to calculate what the real number is (prices). That feels literally insane to me. I feel like I am living in Crazytown, USA.
Oh, completely ignoring anything anyone from Google ever writes again? This is akin to the cancel culture which we all know is how society should work. /s
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> ...speed cameras seem like a solution that is easier to implement.

Nothing's easier than passing a law...which says that implementation is someone else's problem.

> GPS alone isn't accurate enough for this anyways.

Per article:

> If the system has conflicting speed limits in the same area, the higher speed limit is used.
BYOIP is reasonable, though I doubt anyone actually does legislation blocks by IP. Since like half of companies on the internet use Cloudflare or other multi-tenant infrastructure everyone is aware that you can't block an IP address and hit one target. The only thing I've seen is DNS blocks (both DNS protocol directly and based on TLS SNI).

FYI, we also fully block users from the US (due to regulations).

My problem here is mainly the unprofessional communication and huge mess of mixing "compliance" with sales, without giving any clear information or options. And then the removal of our account without warning while we were still talking to them.
Sorry, but if you‘re onboarded in a Sales Team you‘re at first getting small fry customers to get used to your Job. Cloudflare is massive and a complete no-brainer for 95% of companies. Not only that, she couldn‘t even land a single enterprise upcharge. Cold calls are hard, but upsells are much easier because companies are pretty much vendor locked with CF.

If you can‘t land a single customer in 6 months under these circumstances, you‘re likely just not a good fit.
I've had your site bookmarked forever (10 years maybe?). I admire your perseverence. You took on the work of tracking things like 'Tupelo, MS public library has posted a collection of farm equipment photographs from 1922-1935' and so forth without fail for years.

Glad I could help.
That's the second reason I avoid self-checkouts whenever possible, honestly. The odds of me being hassled because of some sort of surveillance messup or because I did something wrong at the checkout are substantially lower if an employee is the one ringing up my purchases.
There’s really a lot more to it than that. There is a notion of “polite mathematics” which is independent of the difficulty of the proof.

If every step clearly follows from the prior steps it’s rather immaterial how long the proof is. Similarly a short proof with enough rabbits can achieve a kind of incomprehensibility.
What situations is it necessary to exceed the speed limit?
Is it? Being on a constant drip of nootropic nicotine might be an important factor
I certainly agree speeding is not the sole cause of accidents...

But your conclusion is not supported by this -- if anything it encourages towards a similar result through technology...

Less people can speed.. less police officers would be needed to police 'just' speeding, those police officers would not be able to collect money for their local municipality.. and would be assigned alternative duties, or focus on wreckless driving (which could still generate money)
Bash has no access to Windows internals. Some parts of Hyper-V you can configure only through pwsh, there's simply no GUI there to do it.
I can't explain it briefly nor do I know what it is called, but it consisted of a series of weekly lectures from a psychologist who was good at this stuff. Then some homework in between, which had themes circling around decomposing complex feelings into more basic ones, mindfulness, communicating needs, etc.

It is easily the most adult-preparing course I have ever taken, but I really stumbled into it as part of something else and I wouldn't even know how to point other people in the right direction since I was not the one organising the whole thing.
Car manufacturers forget about their cars infotainment systems as soon as they sell them. I just drove home on a road yesterday that was totally missing from my Toyota's built-in map. Even if they offer a map update, it's probably already out of date and they probably charge for it. I'm sure the speed limit data is going to be equally fresh and easy to update.
Is it possible to switch back and forth between the written text and the audio, like Amazon's Whispersync? I prefer reading with my eyes when I can (especially on my ereader, so with pagination instead of scrolling), but I would love to be able to flip narration on when I need to set the book down to do something like wash my dishes, then pick the book back up when I'm done.

I've been looking for something that would let me synchronize Librivox recordings with Project Gutenberg epub files, but as much as I love the Librivox volunteers for their contributions, a lot of the recordings are such low audio quality that they're not fun to listen to. This would be a big step up, and there's no copyright worries for this use case because the works are in the public domain!
Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills.

I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how language processing works for general use, but that’s like saying diagraming a sentence isn’t speaking a language. Technically true but missing the point.
Feels shady that there is no concrete info on cost for founders or payouts for reviewers. Transparency here would boost trust and conversions.
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