Mawr

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by Mawr 9mo ago
Pfft. Hold my beer: https://youtu.be/Q9WNnJprwzU?t=48
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by Mawr 9mo ago
A more typical question would be whether landing on water would be a better idea. The answer is always no — it is always better for an aircraft to land at an airport. Always. The most core reason is that airports are designed for airplanes
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> making it default is often a huge waste of $ for problems you/most don’t have. It's the opposite — knowing the exact spec of your program up front is vanishingly rare, probably <1% of all projects. Usually you have no clue
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by Mawr 9mo ago
But you can group them into categories that can all be handled the same. For example, a child darting from behind a vehicle is a line-of-sight issue. To fix that, you program the car to handle situations with obstructed vision, which will h
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by Mawr 9mo ago
So you say, with hindsight. Regardless, what you would do is irrelevant. The question is: what would the ~average driver do? If you tell me the average driver goes <=14mph in that situation, I'm gonna look at you funny.
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> I suspect that a waymo will out-react a human basically 100% of the time, and apply full braking force within a few 10s of milliseconds and well before a human has even begun to move their leg. Correct. Human reaction time is at its ve
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Does physics work? If it does, then these physical obstacles work too. Go ahead, try to drive faster than 10mph through a roadway narrowed so much it's barely wider than your car, with curbs. And yeah, I'm describing a place in Lo
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by Mawr 9mo ago
It is, but it's laughable to suggest it's happening anywhere. Our world is dominated by cars. You likely can't see it precisely because it's so normalized.
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> There must be a happy medium somewhere in between. """ - Gavin, you know our shameful history of worker suicides. Since the renovation? Not a single one. - Not even one? Ok. But there's gotta be like, a middle groun
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> and the safety story for pedestrians and bike users with them is decidedly not great as well. The what now? Seriously, what in the world are you talking about? Roundabouts are heaven. They physically force drivers to slow down when app
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by Mawr 9mo ago
1. Your argument is that cutting off a rotting limb is good. Obviously it is, but I'd rather not have a rotting limb in the first place. I want a healthy, revenue-generating limb. 2. Waymo has been offering a driverless taxi service fo
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by Mawr 9mo ago
If you think it is, take your hands of the wheel and close your eyes. Fall asleep at the wheel. Not willing to do so? I guess your car isn't really driving you everywhere. Your view on how stocks work is interesting as well — you rea
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> Bikes are an incredibly segregating means of transport. A bike costs on the order of a few hundred dollars; there's essentially no barrier to entry. Comparing them with cars on this metric is laughable. Must be 18 or so and able b
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> A 40 ft bus 2 axle bus with 80 passengers [...] If instead those 80 passengers each drove alone in a Kia Niro EV Bzzzt. Wrong, unless you literally have a bus that goes from A to B without stopping. City buses do not carry "x pass
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by Mawr 9mo ago
You don't need any specialized knowledge, just pick the one that looks "cleaner" and "neater" than the other. It's sufficient to look at something as basic as the arrangement of cables on the left. The crooked
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Let's not. The Xth percentile speed is not an appropriate measure for a few reasons: 1. Humans are not generally capable of sufficiently accurate long-term low-incidence risk assessment. Meaning, you irrationally value potentially gett
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Oh, but you see, when Mr. Musk said: 'In a post on X.com, Musk said Tesla "started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car. Congrats to the Tesla AI team!"' He really did mean "in the car&q
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> and frankly at parity with Waymo in the autonomy space. Waymos have been driving around autonomously for years; meanwhile Tesla taxis have a human in the car ready to activate a kill switch at all times. Therefore, your statement is ob
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by Mawr 9mo ago
"Save the planet, buy a car!" Brings a tear to my eye.
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Driving isn't realistically a personal choice. Roadways designed for cars extend from every single point in the country to every other. The support for alternative methods of transportation varies greatly by area, but is generally poor
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Go generally takes the "eh, good enough" approach ;)
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Kind of, but Go isn't memory-safe in the face of concurrent data races.
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> When it appears faster, it boils down to library quality and algorithm choice, not the language. That's a thin, thin line of argumentation. The distinction between the ecosystem and language may as well not exist. A lot of improve
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Well, so long as he says so...
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Waymo operates without a safety driver. That's a slam dunk right there. No, some edge case that made the cars fail safely during a power outage doesn't compare. If that's the best you can come up with, you've got nothing
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> But there are massive unsolved problems like the waste from fuel processing, processing the spent fuel, who can be relied upon to run these things, who can be trusted to regulate them and the failure modes of accidents. Despite there b
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by Mawr 9mo ago
The only knee-jerking here is this: "When it takes five times as long to figure out how a function actually works". Don't be surprised by receiving low quality responses when you start off the discussion with ridiculous hyper
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> other languages more modern than C > When in Rust A language newer than Go isn't just "more modern than C".
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by Mawr 9mo ago
> The noise this pattern introduces inhibits reading and rapid comprehension. Nonsense. We don't read letters, nor even words, we see patterns. if err != nil {} is easy to skip over visually.
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by Mawr 9mo ago
I have tons of examples of drivers not running into objects.

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