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by fergie 2y ago
AI can give suggestions, but it can't actually deploy working software into the real world. For the foreseeable future there is always going to be a human who says "yes, lets spin up that elasticsearch cluster that costs 50k a mon
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by fergie 3y ago
Right, but SF actually seems to be back-pedalling on them. They seem to work better in Phoenix, but similar areas (car-centric urban sprawl) are a fairly limited market. Also- if I am wrong and robot taxis become super successful- would tha
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by fergie 3y ago
Robotaxis seem like a risky investment. Even if the tech gets nailed (and at the moment it struggles in urban environments), will legislators ever allow them? Most EU cities have legislation in place to curb traffic growth which robotaxis f
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by fergie 3y ago
Musk seems to be dropping sensible but boring projects that would sell well globably (low cost compact car, semi-truck) in favour of magical technology that may or may not materialise, and if so may be legislated against outside the US (rob
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by fergie 3y ago
Apparently the brake overrides the accelerator, so if you keep your calm, you can come to a stop.
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by fergie 3y ago
The classic answer to that question would be to move to a more Scandinavian model.
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by fergie 3y ago
Probably Mister Carwash (the franchise organisation) is leasing out locations to its franchisees, in which case the whole business is absolutely about real-estate.
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by fergie 3y ago
Clicking start leads to "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." apart from Safari, which serves me up a frozen game. Console errors complain about "THREE.WebGL
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by fergie 3y ago
It might be part of a disinformation campaign- a mostly correct document that includes some intentional inaccuracies or falsehoods.
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by fergie 3y ago
I'm going to stick my neck out here: Sometimes Cormac McCarthy is a bit _too_ minimalist. Sections of his prose can be sparse, ambiguous and difficult to follow, the ending of Blood Meridian being the classic case in point.
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by fergie 3y ago
Glad to see more awareness of this type of thing
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by fergie 3y ago
Mate, "muck spreading" is still totally a thing.
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by fergie 3y ago
Practical question: How do you browse and search in mailing lists without Google Groups?
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by fergie 3y ago
Possibly "desktops"? -> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sa...
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by fergie 3y ago
Wow- 23 year emacs veteran here and you just taught me about desktop-save-mode. Thanks!
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by fergie 3y ago
Agreed. It seems to have something to do with the mainstream medias intense need to shame poor people.
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OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff(theguardian.com)
55 points by fergie 3y ago|46 comments
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by fergie 3y ago
Its from the 1500s. The Falkirk Tartan dates back to the Roman era (although is arguably not a tartan).
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by fergie 3y ago
On a related note: this guy has the coolest workstation setup -> https://taylor.town/my-battlestation
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by fergie 3y ago
Two observations: - "serverless" is a really bad name for these systems. As is often commented, some variation of "somebody-elses-server" would be better. - Cost wasn't mentioned in the article, but the cost of rent
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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban(theguardian.com)
11 points by fergie 3y ago|9 comments
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by fergie 3y ago
Can anybody ELI5?
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by fergie 3y ago
I'm surprised they didn't say anything about the lack of real buttons, knobs and stalks...
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by fergie 3y ago
> Like any economically rational entity, your employer is going to respond by… A weak argument that can be made about any general improvement to worker pay snd conditions. Its clear that societies that encourage workers rights have the s
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by fergie 3y ago
"there is no escaping that the entire dot-com era was a disaster for IT/CS in general and for software quality and Unix in particular." Strongly disagree. We need to get back to the utopian ideals of the early web where norma
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by fergie 3y ago
Big respect to anybody who makes a thing. I have seen a new task manager every year for the last 23 years. I feel like there may be something here that is cool, but its difficult to see what it is. In a couple of sentences- why should we ca
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by fergie 3y ago
Not sure if I am super-hyped about a sky full of autonomous robots (presumably) working on military and intelligence stuff.
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by fergie 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by fergie 3y ago
"Working-class and lower-middle class people tend to be very fun-oriented when they are young, but age out of it more quickly, into passive TV watching and its surrogates" Citation needed.
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by fergie 3y ago
Thanks!

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