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541.
by mwint 4y ago
Side topic, are ice cubes for drinks a significant use of power?
542.
by mwint 4y ago
Probably the issue is that access to water (for cooling) correlates highly with access to water (for human civilization).
543.
by mwint 4y ago
Not every crash is physically avoidable _given a time constraint_. When you're a millisecond from impact, there's nothing you can do. One second, there exist many cases where there's nothing you can do. 10 seconds before impe
544.
by mwint 4y ago
Set a timer and watch it count to 10s. It’s a long time. Remember, people fall asleep while driving cars pretty regularly. I know people who have fallen asleep driving on the freeway, woken up in the median, and just guided the car back o
545.
by mwint 4y ago
”Wrong way down an express lane” is super contrived. Those are the kinds of clear cut issues that self driving is guaranteed to be better at than humans.
546.
by mwint 4y ago
On the contrary, I’d challenge anyone to find a non-contrived example of a crash that is unavoidable with 10 seconds of warning. Driving off a 1600 foot cliff does not count.
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by mwint 4y ago
Correct, this is what I’ve observed too. It’s stunning to me that the big tech companies - Amazon comes to mind - aren’t writing colleges big checks in exchange for “produce us people who can function in real life teams”.
548.
by mwint 4y ago
10s is basically an eternity in car time. Pretty sure I could wake up from a nap and boot my brain enough to drive in 5s or less. A car going 80mph can stop in around 4s.
549.
by mwint 4y ago
Apple Watch auth is slower than Touch ID, but faster if you’re using an external keyboard that doesn’t have build in Touch ID.
550.
by mwint 4y ago
Real question: Who would hire him? I'm not really familiar with the job market for felons.
551.
by mwint 4y ago
> shouting "fire" in a crowded theater ... was an analogy in a Supreme Court case from more than a hundred years ago, that was overturned nearly 50 years ago. Good reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/national&#
552.
by mwint 4y ago
Wow, I always thought I had abnormally early memories, but nothing like this. Do you have these memories only from being very young? Or are the glimpses there from infant up to now?
553.
by mwint 4y ago
Genuine question from a non-economist: in the absence of the US stock market, what dynamics would make this disastrous?
554.
by mwint 4y ago
Is there not a fundamental difference between Tesla and MAGMA-type companies? MAGMA, and the industry in general, produces software. Software doesn’t care about its location, and you can “touch” the product you’re working on from home. Tesl
555.
by mwint 4y ago
What’s “reputation” mean on GitHub? If it’s “valid looking commits to valid-looking repos”, it’s very trivial to fake that. You can fake the timestamps, too.
556.
by mwint 4y ago
Either concern will get you pilloried in a roughly equal manner.
557.
by mwint 4y ago
Pragmatically, I’d rather have that person contributing under an known account, which people can vet as the see fit. The alternative is not that the person is banned from GitHub. The alternative is they make a new account, under a new nam
558.
by mwint 4y ago
Don’t worry, this time it’ll work! I think they’re up to around 800 days to slow the spread.
559.
by mwint 4y ago
This is false, the iPad has both zoom-in[0] and increase font size[1]. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/zoom-ipad9a245e3e/15.0/... [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad&#x
560.
by mwint 4y ago
Leaves you vulnerable to people who can see your screen, but aren’t you. Trusted input should only be accepted from already-trusted input devices.
561.
by mwint 4y ago
> international building codes Oh please let this never become a thing.
562.
by mwint 4y ago
Flying is often slower than speed-optimized road trips for medium drives, once you factor in all the extra time spent not in the air: Logistics to & from airport, security, buffer time so you don't miss flights, possibly renting a
563.
by mwint 4y ago
Side track, but what circumstances/choices lead to spending most of your time at AirBnB’s?
564.
by mwint 4y ago
It’s comically obvious they didn’t do ten seconds of research about how EV roadtrips work in a non-Tesla. This sentence proves it: > “Should we just drive straight through to New Orleans?” I finally ask desperately, even as I realize I’
565.
by mwint 4y ago
They probably don’t have enough power to do this. Inter-corporation politics get pretty nasty.
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by mwint 4y ago
Man, if they had been building stuff instead of propping up their stock price they could have done crazy stuff. They could have built a factory in Texas bigger than the Pentagon by now. Oh well, too bad they’re not building stuff.
567.
by mwint 4y ago
Where are these GM robotaxis? Last I checked they were showing Sandy Munroe tech that disengaged on “tight curves” on the interstate.
568.
by mwint 4y ago
Importantly, the carriers need the iPhone more than Apple needs the carriers. AT&T losing their iPhone privileges would hurt them far more than Target or Walmart would from losing their PlayStation privileges.
569.
by mwint 4y ago
Apple has way, way more clout with retailers than Sony, simply because Apple can live without its retail partners. Sony definitely cannot.
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by mwint 4y ago
In Sony’s defense, they have much less of a direct-to-customer channel than Apple does. They’re at the mercy of their retail partners (which they don’t directly control) to fix this problem.

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