Mawr

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by Mawr 1y ago
> Tell me why automated traffic enforcement cameras don't target them. Beyond the obvious lack of registration plates, it's basic physics. A fat guy on an e-bike is what, 100+30kg of mass? How fast do they go, maybe 35km/h
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by Mawr 1y ago
> Speeding mildly is usually a consequence of stupidly low speed limits. And you think the average driver is qualified to make that assessment on a moment-by-moment basis? Hell, I don't know you, but given the chances I'm gonna
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by Mawr 1y ago
Now think real carefully why you had to jump all the way over to Japan in order to be able to make your point at all. Cherry picking at its finest. Japan is very culturally different from the West and such issues are tightly tied to that cu
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by Mawr 1y ago
A meaningless statement unless you've tried a reasonable number of alternatives. As it is, you're just stating that you've grown accustomed to what your environment forces you to do, e.g. "I like breathing air". Goo
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by Mawr 1y ago
> I live ~33 miles away, round trio, from the nearest grocery store. So you've explicitly chosen to live far away from everything, in effect you've chosen to have to own a car. What bearing does this have on anything? > The
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by Mawr 1y ago
Yes, designing a city for cars will make cars the most convenient way to get around. That is part of the whole "americans love their cars" thing.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Super expensive and not very convenient if you have to go up/downhill all the time just to get anywhere.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Thing is, the world as is is optimized 99% for cars, so BAN CARS, while not reasonable nor correct, is a proportional reaction.
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by Mawr 1y ago
You're even safer in a low speed tank-to-tank accident. Which is the direction the car size and weight war is going anyway, after all "My family is safer in a massive SUV". Well then. Who cares about everyone else anyway. Peo
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by Mawr 1y ago
> * You are much safer being in a car when hit by another car than when not being in a car. This is something a lot of bike commute advocates sweep under the rug. They talk about how biking is overall safe, but then you ask them if they&
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by Mawr 1y ago
> Excellent safety, if you ignore Chernobyl, Fukushima, [...] Nope, it's all included, how could it not be? > Nuclear power rarely kills anyone, but when (not if) things go wrong, it tends to create a massive mess which costs bil
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by Mawr 1y ago
Profit is tied to the subsidies, so that statement by the CEO is meaningless. When you say nuclear was never cheap, what are you comparing it to? The impossible to compete with subsidization of coal plants? How can you compete with plants t
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by Mawr 1y ago
I watch accident videos, not crash videos. Pulling out/switching lanes while not looking is like 40% of the clips in the videos. It's a common, predictable driving scenario, nothing to get one's panties in a bunch about. He
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by Mawr 1y ago
> Then again, a whole new mode of accident, where the inebriated decide to step out of a moving vehicle and injure themselves that way. Why would they need to be in a self-driving vehicle to do that?
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by Mawr 1y ago
You mean, according to the unbiased Tesla, drivers using Tesla's FSD in the select areas and conditions it's allowed to operate in are 5x less likely to be in an accident than human drivers that operate in all areas and conditions
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by Mawr 1y ago
I watch a lot of car accident videos and I've seen that happen exactly once. Perhaps you mean the far more common scenario when the car in the next lane simply decides to merge into yours? Nothing about that is random[1] and the resp
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by Mawr 1y ago
Right, so you've created a dangerous scenario by speeding and by the direct consequences of your actions you're now forced to execute a dangerous manoeuvre of swerving. Maybe, just maybe, the solution is not speeding. > I agree
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by Mawr 1y ago
- Humans have awful reaction times, so the "AI" cars should fare 10-100x better. "split-second" is laughably slow to a computer. - How seldom these scenarios come up for human drivers is a huge disadvantage for them. For
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by Mawr 1y ago
Yeah and we should definitely leave deciding the appropriate speed to the drivers. Because, uh, throughput is important, got it. Is safety important? Who knows, but throughput definitely is!
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by Mawr 1y ago
> It doesn't care if you're going to lose your job if you're five minutes late. Good. I don't want my kid who's crossing an intersection to be endangered by an Uber driver that you paid $30 to go extra fast. Noth
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by Mawr 1y ago
The reason for that outcome was likely two-fold: 1. If your memes were analogies to the dry technical concepts, then the simple, easy to digest analogies were the key here, not the memes themselves. 2. Pictures are worth a thousand words.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Sure, but that's a different statement. " Micro performance optimizations are fundamentally brute force" - ok.
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by Mawr 2y ago
Advertising is easy, making the best program is hard. If you have the best program already, solving the advertising problem is a non issue.
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by Mawr 2y ago
I want to believe that but I've never seen any compelling concrete examples. Got any music that's way better than its popularity/recognition would indicate?
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by Mawr 2y ago
Yeah, sure, Newton "made up" the laws. Good one. For anyone curious, this is an example of the Continuum Fallacy [1]. Interestingly, that wiki page happens to use Newton's laws as an example: "For example, Newton's
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by Mawr 2y ago
> Where is inheritance? It's been widely considered as a mistake for about two decades now... > I couldn't even find a standard linked list. Even? If you need a linked list, then you have a 0.01% use case and shouldn't
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by Mawr 2y ago
> What's more, superficially at least, it makes more sense to believe in a supreme, essentially divine creator than it does to believe visibly enormous complexity deriving from a mostly unknown nothing. It can't make more sense
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by Mawr 2y ago
It's not as simple as "more features" == "closer to C++". Features are not equal to each other in terms of impact on language complexity. t-strings don't interact with anything else in the language; they, as yo
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by Mawr 2y ago
I'm guessing no existing functions will be extended to allow t-strings for this very reason. Instead, new functions that only accept t-strings will be created.
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by Mawr 2y ago
But you have to remember to call the right safe() function every time: db.execute(f"QUERY WHERE name = {name}") db.execute(f"QUERY WHERE name = {safe_html(name)}") Oops, you're screwed and there is not

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