Xylakant

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by Xylakant 5y ago
The ski bricks are standard technic skis. The chain saw and is found in the entire series of kits. The arrow shape plate is a very common piece in all space kits back to the 1980, though the usually were grey or black. Often used for wings
902.
by Xylakant 5y ago
I haven’t tried a kit of those three mentioned, only other competitors, but brick quality hasn’t been any different from Lego.
903.
by Xylakant 5y ago
Competitor brick quality is on par or better than Lego at least for some. You need to do a little research on which competitors use which brick producer, but for example the bricks I’ve had in the Mould King sets were absolutely indistingui
904.
by Xylakant 5y ago
I think it's fair to compare to the average driver. You may be not average by virtue of not being a teenager and not driving drunk, but you're not magically immune to being run over or crashed into by one of those. So even if a hy
905.
by Xylakant 5y ago
That’s exactly what the driver in front of you and behind you use as justification for being above the limit: I had to go with the flow of traffic. A self-perpetuating force that forces everyone to be too fast.
906.
by Xylakant 5y ago
The solution to that is not that everybody gets to ignore speed limits and point to a QZ article as justification. The solution is not that Tesla unilaterally decides that 10% more is fine, everywhere, all of the time. The solution is what
907.
by Xylakant 5y ago
It’s not the law that gets you killed. It’s the other drivers that disregard the law. And soon, the self-driving cars that disregard the law.
908.
by Xylakant 5y ago
I am willing to hold a computer to a higher standard, that’s the promise that gets made left and right for self driving cars. That they achieve a higher standard.
909.
by Xylakant 5y ago
Next week’s argument: “all first gen self driving cars are going 70 where 55 is allowed, we need to keep this setting.”
910.
by Xylakant 5y ago
Drive on manual then, if your computer is not clever enough.
911.
by Xylakant 5y ago
I’m not a computer, so that point is moot. (And yes, I don’t. Not deliberately, though it likely happens accidentally from time to time.)
912.
by Xylakant 5y ago
> Should every cruise control on every car with speed limit detection forbid the cruise/adaptive cruise to go above the speed limit? Certainly. Why should cruise control be set to above speed limit? Adaptive cruise control should re
913.
by Xylakant 5y ago
> Tesla also has an option to override the speed limit, you want to remove that too? Yes. The Alternative is to encode “break the law” in software and that makes for a very bad option. Stick to the law, computer.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> People generally drive the safe speed for the road they are travelling on. Can you substantiate that assertion somehow? People drive the speed that they feel safe with, but that is not necessarily true. It may be safe most of the time,
915.
by Xylakant 5y ago
How many miles are driven through the literal desert compared to where people are around? If anything, the speed limit in the desert could be adapted to local conditions, but not base the default rules on that exception.
916.
by Xylakant 5y ago
Can you describe the ruleset that would apply when it’s ok to speed? So that’s applicable to the software of thousands of cars?
917.
by Xylakant 5y ago
If you can create an all-knowing AI that can predict your the road conditions around a corner or beyond the crest of a hill, maybe. Remember, we are not discussing individual decisions made by people based on a current situation, but the de
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by Xylakant 5y ago
You are arguing that everyone should be moving faster. But we want everyone moving at the speed limit - building cars that intentionally break the speed limit will make the effective speed creep up. It needs to creep down.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Why would anyone want to pass you when you’re moving at the speed limit? You are at the speed limit and everyone passing you would be beyond the speed limit.
920.
by Xylakant 5y ago
But we want the flow of traffic to be at the speed limit, that’s why there is a speed limit. So more cars need to go slower, not more cars need to go faster.
921.
by Xylakant 5y ago
Why does the autopilot need to speed to be safe? When does “speeding to be safe” become “unsafe speeding”? 10 miles faster than the the one that you’re trying to overtake? What if they’re speeding by 10 already? Why is the speed limit not 1
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Note that deb packages are not usually signed unless something major changed in the last 5 years or so. The repository metadata is signed and contains a checksum of all packages. It’s all safe as long as you install from a repo, but install
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> The article also doesn't explore the downstream impact from moving to shared fleets, and how great that would be for the environment. I really question whether that will happen. Floating car-sharing does not seem to have affected
924.
by Xylakant 5y ago
The primary difference is that you usually have a contract with cloudflare that they host and serve your data on your behalf. A DPA would usually be part of the contract. Cloudflare also doesn’t mine the IP addresses that they gather as p
925.
by Xylakant 5y ago
My position on that is that clicking on “pay via X” constitutes consent.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The GDPR does not require consent for everything. It allows processing data that’s required to provide the desired functionality and payment processors would be covered (IANAL, to take with a grain of salt) You’d still need to mention that
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> > it’s technically not very hard to do so, and I quite like it > For the average user, it's yet another thing to click without thinking, just to be able to visit a page. And yet, they’re still protected: They’ll click on the
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I see quite a few web pages in Germany that do not load JavaScript or any other content from YouTube,Twitter, Facebook until you explicitly opt in. Basically, the content is replaced by a placeholder saying “click here to load external cont
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Fun bit of history: When Buell started selling their motorbikes in Germany, the motorcycles didn’t survive being driven large stretches on the autobahn - which lead to the famous recall party in Oschersleben where some of the factory team f
930.
by Xylakant 5y ago
In the town where I’m from in Germany, exactly this happened: a major bridge was unsafe - one of two major roads leading to the crossing of the river rhine. It was closed and torn down, replacement will take a few years. In Berlin, one majo

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