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by nexuist 5y ago
Airlines have historically been cash poor. It's extremely difficult to make an airline profitable, and demand fluctuates wildly due to weather, oil prices, world conflicts, etc. "If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billi
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by nexuist 5y ago
I am an ignorant prick, and if the powers that be had chosen to exploit poor people mining uranium instead of poor people mining coal 40 years ago, we would have avoided billions of metric tons of CO2 and saved millions of poor peoples&#x27
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by nexuist 5y ago
Great job moving those goal posts when your original premise was called out. What exactly do you want France to do in Niger to atone for their sins? Build infrastructure, fund businesses, make deals with their government? In other words, yo
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is it though? I remember injecting <php> tags in the middle of JS scripts to fill out variable values. I'm sure someone somewhere was using PHP to inject conditionally dependent JavaScript onto their page. Is that much different
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by nexuist 5y ago
PHP got ridiculed for years for doing all the things all the other popular frameworks are coming around to support now. Server side rendering is particularly hilarious because it's like: oh, you're compiling .jsx files to .html no
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by nexuist 5y ago
Why is it always the free software people who are the most judgemental about what I do with my software and who I trust with my time and money? AWS and Microsoft never gave a shit about what other vendors I'm in bed with. I like your G
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by nexuist 5y ago
You can build a physical server for $500 once. Relying on proprietary hardware and registering to some service, that may "upgrade" to premium tier anytime, is pretty off-putting.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Huh, TIL (and relevant username). Thank you for the correction. I noticed the article says they only admitted fault for the second crash, do you know what happened with the first? Did Boeing admit fault for that too?
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by nexuist 5y ago
> Can we be sure that the average driver who has received no special training in the matter will be able to take over from an autopilot in a split second when driving at high speeds? The beta system controls for this by only allowing in
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by nexuist 5y ago
It is for unprecedented and should be discussed. I just don't buy into the kneejerk reaction of getting this off the roads ASAP when we know drivers use FSD to drive millions of miles a year and accidents are not common at all. It show
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by nexuist 5y ago
The name is stupid and should be changed, but I also don't want people to be absolved of responsibility because they bought into marketing. "But they said the ship couldn't sink!" Doesn't matter, you're still o
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by nexuist 5y ago
Nobody should be using driver assist technology if they're not ready to accept the consequences it may get them in. We let teenagers buy sports cars despite being totally incapable of understanding the risks that 300+ bhp brings. I don
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by nexuist 5y ago
From my perspective, everything went right here. The software screwed up, it alerted the passengers that a collision was going to happen, and a human driver quickly took over and avoided the accident. Is this not what we should expect from
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by nexuist 5y ago
The pathfinding algorithm is separate from the object detection neural network. It's possible for it to incorrectly identify paths going through solid objects, however, I would hope they have dumb code to detect that the path is invali
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by nexuist 5y ago
The solution is to cut off industrial and commercial sites first, which draw the most power anyways, and keep residential zoning online as much as possible. The economy can take a break for one day.
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by nexuist 5y ago
As an Albanian myself I have yet to meet anyone who thinks Albania isn't European who also actually lives in a European country.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Cynicism is obedience. We can and should beat this.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Computer science evolves in a circle. Analyzing data for meteorological predictions was one of the first uses of a digital computer; it just wasn't hip at the time and involved 0 pandas.
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by nexuist 5y ago
As far as I'm aware stone doesn't erode in space, so we could always just laser in bumps on a stone and read it like a CD. The primary concern then becomes avoiding getting hit by micro debris.
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by nexuist 5y ago
> Apple allows “free apps” that are entirely ad-supported, never giving Apple a dime (aside from $99/year), yet they are consuming infrastructure Because Apple doesn't give them a choice! Android developers can host their own a
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by nexuist 5y ago
How is open access to information not a fundamental human right? Do you believe in a society where people can't find out about things? If you don't, then you believe in the open access of information.
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by nexuist 5y ago
This has been a reality since Sputnik, it's not really a recent concern. The obvious solutions are: - Test at night - Test with clouds overhead - Test indoors Once the aircraft takes off or lands hiding it is easy. It's just for t
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by nexuist 5y ago
Because there are still needs to test secretive aircraft and technology? Just because everyone knows about its general location doesn't mean everything that happens within its borders is known. There's most likely useful work bein
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by nexuist 5y ago
The numbers are off because it is a private company. They have $150M in disclosed assets, the true number may be magnitudes higher and probably is if the company can cough up $320M on a dime. Unless you have insider trading information th
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by nexuist 5y ago
Oh, I didn't think you were calling them stupid! That's part of what I mean as the culture shock - that Westerners will respond to being told they're doing something stupid as if it was an insult to themselves, and not an ins
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by nexuist 5y ago
By these standards a brick is not "perfectly safe" because someone might get hit by one if it gets thrown out of the Empire State Building.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Some of this is probably culture shock. Dan grew up in Russia and immigrated to the UK. Russian engineering material is usually very direct. If you do something stupid, then it will say what you are doing is stupid. There is no thought towa
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by nexuist 5y ago
How is React even supposed to know if this is the last render for a component? If the user changes the state, isn't React obviously going to re-render the component?
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by nexuist 5y ago
> They insert ads into music playlists, they often skip more than one track, they don't truly shuffle music, and they also add a ton of frustration with buffering and connectivity issues into the simple process of listening to musi
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is that fair? Why can't you develop software for the hardware you purchased? How is that different from the argument against Apple's App Store? > Those aren't general-purpose devices So if Apple sold an "iPad Gaming E

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