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by II2II 3y ago
You are correct. Open source licenses, at least the ones I'm aware of, have no warranty clause. That said, it won't prevent people/businesses from asking/demanding a fix from the developer. It simply means the developer
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by II2II 3y ago
I'm not sure how that will solve the problem. Chance are the software would still be used in business environments and you would still have people asking for support on behalf of their employer. I have heard stories a plenty of busines
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by II2II 3y ago
> But it will kill statistically fewer people than you will. A post from another article claims that these vehicles have undergone 3 million miles of testing without causing death or serious injury. The annual loss of lift due to human o
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by II2II 3y ago
Driving condition matter since they vary from place to place. It matters for people, and it most likely matters for autonomous vehicles (either due to training data sets or direct programming of traffic regulations). To choose a mundane exa
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by II2II 3y ago
A cumulative 3,000,000 miles is nothing. The US Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimates there are over 3,000,000,000,000 miles of vehicle traffic per year.[1] The estimated number of fatalities is around 50,000. There is no way to ass
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by II2II 3y ago
You will always have opportunists. This article is not about that. The specific incident described by the article is about a car going through caution tape and getting caught up in a fallen overhead powerline. There's very little chanc
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by II2II 3y ago
The numbers they gave is more than a doubling, while they were quite clear about the limitations of their data. That includes not knowing how many AVs are on the road, which is something that the companies should be able to provide. Also lo
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by II2II 3y ago
My initial thought: figure out what constitutes a high value file, then target those. It is probably safe to state that virtually everyone is swamped in low value files, things like web browser caches, that any rate limit that doesn't
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by II2II 3y ago
I clicked on reader view in Firefox. It came up.
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by II2II 3y ago
> I wouldn't say "doing more" is better. I'd be happy if it did a lot less. I don't care about most of the big new features in windows. There are two levels of features here (maybe three) that we should consider:
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by II2II 3y ago
> Windows couldn't run for 2 hours without crashing every so often. That sounds like a Windows 3.1, where applications could easily take down the operating system. Windows 9x wasn't quite as bad. If I recall correctly, properly
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by II2II 3y ago
Using an older window manager is usually a case of installing its package and adding it to a file executed by your display manager. I don't have much love for the old window managers, but some of the newer ones are quite nice. As for t
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by II2II 3y ago
For those who are relatively new to X, it is likely very obscure. People seem to be using desktop environments these days, and desktop environments come with their own terminal application. Those seeking out replacement terminals would prob
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by II2II 3y ago
It's better to describe analog and digital electronics as a subset of electronics. For the most part, they look at different domains. Even though they are based upon the same underlying principles, the simplifying assumptions are diffe
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by II2II 3y ago
Except you run into a few problems when implementing that, especially for public schools. Proactive parents will typically want their children in good schools, regardless of their child's behavioural history. (This doesn't mean th
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by II2II 3y ago
> Software doesn’t make or break an organization. As someone who works for an organization that is on the receiving end of bad software, I can assure you this is not the case. There is lost opportunity, due to decreased productivity an
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by II2II 3y ago
Before I go into a rant, I will acknowledge that Apple did usability research with the introduction of both the Lisa and Macintosh, along with acknowledging that most popular GUIs being based upon the foundations they laid. ... but ... It i
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by II2II 3y ago
Those collectors have taken a high-tech brick (it depended upon a proprietary and defunct network to function) and transformed it into a vintage computer that many people are enjoying -- some from bootstrapping it and others from diving int
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by II2II 3y ago
I don't think it is Linux per se that is better as open source software. It seems to support a much more competitive market, which is something that busines seem to shun in their never ending lust for growth. And there are good checks
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by II2II 3y ago
You're absolutely correct on your assessment and it makes them sound absolutely ridiculous when you are on the other side of the fence. I have used Linux for decades and barely notice its issues. Every time I use Windows, all I notice
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by II2II 3y ago
That was my first thought when they mentioned how unique it was. But their claim of uniqueness is far from unique in the industry. Having grown up with computets in the '80s I have seen technologies come, the go, then come back again.
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by II2II 3y ago
Perhaps there is better integration with people's workflows. It is hard to tell without actually using it. Aside from that, it very much sounds like things I already do with separate web and mail clients.
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by II2II 3y ago
I would hardly call disabling a security feature in the settings or getting an authorization key from the vendor hacking into your own phone. These are features that allow users who (think they) know what they are doing do what they want to
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by II2II 3y ago
There is a lot of pressure to conform within one's peer group from a very young age. It is possible that "nurture" pushes men and women down these destructive paths rather than nature.
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by II2II 3y ago
Please don't take my excuses the wrong way, since I wish the performance in software reflected the increased performance of hardware, but we are comparing the performance of an operating system released five years prior to the CPU it i
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by II2II 3y ago
They're loading the toy applications that came with Windows 3.51 an operating system developed when 486's were common and first generation Pentiums were the bleeding edge, so around 100 MHz. (Also, using clock speed alone discount
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by II2II 3y ago
There was a time (the late 1990's) when Apple had relatively little access to the market outside of specialized stores and nearly zero control over how their product was presented to consumers. It wasn't so bad for maintaining the
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by II2II 3y ago
Based upon how I manage my system, Nix appears to be something that I could use productively. The problem isn't so much of them being able to explain what the tool is, but one of them being instilling confidence that it lives up to the
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by II2II 3y ago
The lawn mower is not a business. It is a piece of machinery. The business that designed the lawn mower can ensure the design is safe, at least within reason, through the proper engineering of the product and by instructing its users on the
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by II2II 3y ago
The article points out that it is too easy to create duplicate files. Part of that ties into what you're talking about. Part of that deals with how people deal with files (e.g. few people use versioning outside of software development)

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