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by phatskat 3y ago
I think that future is a long way off for lost places. We haven’t seen these really proven to be ready for most urban environments. We haven’t seen them perform well in randomized conditions (road work, emergencies, marathons, critical mass
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by phatskat 3y ago
> it should pull over, unless it can't reach the side of the road without hitting something or someone is trapped under the car. Or…insert how many other edge cases? There are plenty of scenarios where it shouldn’t pull over, aren’t
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by phatskat 3y ago
The problem is that the world is full of near infinite permutations of situations that will continue to prove difficult for these technologies. A group of pigeons, to most human drivers, is identifiable from any approachable angle, in vario
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by phatskat 3y ago
I’m guessing because Tesla uses cameras and everyone else uses LiDAR, right?
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by phatskat 3y ago
One problem is that the state taught them that it’s ok to lie, or at least that it’s ok to omit the full details. During the certification process for these self-driving cars, incidents of the cars “misbehaving” (for lack of a better term)
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by phatskat 3y ago
This is…probably right for some people, definitely not for me. > Rating - Individual metrics are summed up to the rating formula. This is a collective indicator of the quality of an employee's work. The rating is also presented in a
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by phatskat 3y ago
Exactly what I thought - that and Teenage Engineering’s POM-400
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by phatskat 3y ago
If you haven’t, check thrift stores and Goodwill’s auction site - I feel like I see red LED radio clocks in-store all the time.
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by phatskat 3y ago
> And that makes me think am i a bad programmer You’re not. We all need documentation and google, and anyone who claims otherwise will eventually shoot themselves in the foot. I’ve definitely given interview questions my best shot and ad
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by phatskat 3y ago
Project manager
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t have any suggestions, just wanted to pop in and share my dismay that there doesn’t seem to be anything quite like what you’re looking for. I started in plain HTML/refresh IE back in the day, and Dreamweaver (for all its many _m
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by phatskat 3y ago
Not as far as I recall (haven’t done OAuth in a hot minute) but the redirect URL is typically in the GET parameters or in the body of the request, neither of which is hidden from view. This issue seems to be that there was a secondary redir
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by phatskat 3y ago
What a bust. I miss Apollo and it’s what drove me to HN full time
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by phatskat 3y ago
There’s two “announcements” I see in the Reddit threads, and it isn’t clear which he’s talking about here: the internal announcement, from an hour before the public announcement. It’s pretty shitty if he sold after the internal, and still e
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by phatskat 3y ago
What is this in reference to? Sorry, OOTL on “post-launch embargoes”
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by phatskat 3y ago
> If you're choosing between a CRDT or something else like this for your centralized server, you're probably not thinking about things properly. I think that’s the point of comparing this to CRDTs - to show that there may be a
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by phatskat 3y ago
> Is there a difference? If you defund the police completely, isn't that basically the same as abolishing? It’s hard to believe you’re being genuine only because, since the beginning, “defund the police” meant reallocating funds to
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by phatskat 3y ago
> we have started defunding the police in many major cities Have we? https://youtu.be/3irrROBg7Sg?si=MRDyPOEC2q0SR13O
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by phatskat 3y ago
> people clearing out CVS with garbage bags daily. Citation needed
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t think they’re requiring officers to be hired to make sure the operator isn’t breaking the law.
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by phatskat 3y ago
> Compare this to schooling, where it's largely funded through the county, so the county often pays less in the nicer areas, knowing the job is easier. Most school funding comes through property taxes - it’s a nice way to avoid sayi
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by phatskat 3y ago
> That's chill, but it doesn't seem nearly as radical as the "abolish the police" slogan? What fraction of police calls have been replaced with mental health/EMT calls in these cities? Since we’re talking about d
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t have sources readily available but several programs across the country have reallocated parts of their police budgets to mental health crisis services, among other things, to seemingly good success. There are also places that tried
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by phatskat 3y ago
That’s a difficult hypothetical considering most of us don’t work in a capacity where we’re allowed to kill people.
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by phatskat 3y ago
They would have to do what any union does - leverage worker power. If the majority of Bandcamp engineers agreed to halt work until x demands are met, it would drive Bandcamp as a service into the ground. Tech workers also hold the keys to e
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by phatskat 3y ago
So I’ve been using Cypress on and off for a while at different jobs, and recently pushed for it for our front end E2E suite. Personally, it’s always been a breeze to use and rather straightforward. It took me a day to mock logins in our rel
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by phatskat 3y ago
You’re saying the same thing really - the only way other software engineers will “think you’re smart” is if they get it too, thus in group out group.
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by phatskat 3y ago
> Where I live, permits are "required" but very nearly unenforced Depending on where you live and who’s doing the building, I’d wager you could see more enforcement. Things like skin color and socioeconomic standing definitely
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by phatskat 3y ago
Well sure, that’s a completely different discussion though.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Honestly, I really enjoyed COD mobile when I played and was pleasantly surprised with the 3D on a phone experience. I’m interested to see what cool and unique things people will make with this :)

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