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by mulmen 2y ago
Why would turning on the heating require cell service? If you’re out of key fob range do you really need to pre-heat the car? The only possible use of cell service is for infotainment and even that’s questionable in a world of ubiquitous c
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by mulmen 2y ago
Both of those altitudes seem extremely low. I’m not familiar with this incident, can you provide more details?
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by mulmen 2y ago
> in the battle between scrappy underdog and centralized sellout tech, the sellouts are Winning by what metric?
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by mulmen 2y ago
Without biological reproduction wouldn’t the evolutionary outcomes be different? Cyborgs are built in factories, not wombs.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Depends on how you define smart. Dogs definitely have larger brains. But then humans have even larger brains. If dogs aren’t smarter than rats then the size of brain isn’t proportional to intelligence.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Nobody has a right to an audience. > Also, I'm from Europe. Which court should I go to when I infringe on an american dub copyright for a japanese cartoon, exactly? Well the copyright and the site are American so probably America.
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by mulmen 2y ago
As always the Postgres docs give an excellent explanation of why this is the case: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.ht...
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by mulmen 2y ago
Very little of corporate software development requires any computer science knowledge. Most of us aren’t on the bleeding edge of anything. We need programmers who understand mature (aka boring) technology. Corporate software developm
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by mulmen 2y ago
The time served can’t be undone but the incarceration can.
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by mulmen 2y ago
The 13th Amendment doesn’t change incentives. The existence of amendments proves that the Constitution can evolve.
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by mulmen 2y ago
When the engine gets large enough you have to rethink the controls. The Model T had manually controlled timing. Modern engines are so sensitive to timing that a computer does this for you. It would be impossible to build a bigger engine
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by mulmen 2y ago
I'd love a chronological feed but if you gave me a choice I'd get rid of lists in SQL first. > select * from posts where author_id in @follow_ids order by date desc SELECT post FROM posts JOIN follows ON posts.author_id =
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by mulmen 2y ago
I think we both agree Uber drivers aren't the worst drivers on the road but your assertion is that Uber drivers are professionals and so somehow better drivers than the average. But they aren't. They're actually average d
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by mulmen 2y ago
But it does suck because drivers are expensive. Seattle is struggling to find drivers. It's a constant battle to identify the most used routes and keep them staffed but that's why there's not a critical mass of riders to pa
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by mulmen 2y ago
That’s a completely different question though. Horses were banned from railroads too. You tried to establish self driving cars as a threat to human driven cars using horses as an example. Highways were invented for cars. Horses were never
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Tell that to Dublin Bus. Some routes are more or less unusable due to ridiculously high numbers of stops; there’s one in particular near me which has 37 stops over about 4km. Sounds impractical. > There are large parts of the suburb
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by mulmen 2y ago
> I routinely walk considerably further than that for groceries, in less time. On a route including a steep hill. Not everyone has or wants to spend that kind of time. Especially when it’s not necessary and the weather is bad. I’m hosti
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by mulmen 2y ago
Yes, the last mile is walked. That’s the problem. It’s not practical to put a train station or bus stop at every corner. This is why cars exist everywhere. If those cars can be automated they can be shared even more efficiently than Ubers a
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by mulmen 2y ago
In my city the cost of labor is very much a limiting factor. Robot drivers will open up transit options that aren’t practical now.
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by mulmen 2y ago
My Waymo ride went through a construction zone without trouble. I don’t know how much mapping it needs or how they keep it current but it’s not constrained to ideal conditions.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> It's unclear to me why Californians need to make such trips with any significant frequency, Because they’re both between Los Angeles and San Francisco. > and it's certainly not what I'd normally think of as "publ
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by mulmen 2y ago
Why the dig at the Space Pen? Robot drivers rely heavily on GPS which was made possible in part by the Space Pen.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> The existing parking infrastructure is not going away because of self-driving cars. The exact same argument could've been applied to the car sharing programs that already exist. Why would the existing infrastructure not continue t
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by mulmen 2y ago
Why the pop quiz? You’re not my professor, or even my TA. Just say what you mean.
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by mulmen 2y ago
That’s 1.5 hours round trip by foot and 15 minutes by car/e-bike. And I have to carry my groceries so I’m limited on how much I can buy. If there was a robobus I would absolutely take that option.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Ok but they only need one parking space and even it can be time shared. They don’t need the same parking infrastructure we have now. Buses also need a place to park and get maintenance. Self-driving allows locating the parking in more dis
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by mulmen 2y ago
> And it doesn't even occur to you that the problem is the poor infrastructure? It has occurred to me. > Do you honestly think that the optimal solution here is just to keep waiting for some trillion dollar corporation to be able
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by mulmen 2y ago
My Waymo ride was in LA. They aren’t operating on freeways there yet. Maybe this is one of the challenges. Apparently they do operate on freeways in San Francisco so maybe someone who has taken a ride there can share their experience.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Well Uber drivers don’t have any special qualifications. That’s kinda the point of Uber. Is there any reason to expect them to be safer than the average driver?
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by mulmen 2y ago
I was thinking more of the Reagan years but you’re right that the boomers didn’t start the war on drugs. > One should regularly examine one's prejudices. Yeah that was my point too.

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