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by ralph84 3y ago
I don’t see any scenario where Apple doesn’t own the UX. They’re certainly not going to leave that to legacy automakers any more than they left the mobile UX to legacy phone makers. Maybe they buy a startup automaker like they bought PA Sem
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by ralph84 3y ago
Why not? There are active noise cancellation systems for airplanes and cars where the distance between the speaker and the ear is much greater than in this case.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The answer to “why can’t we do things China does” is we decided a long time ago that we value environmental and worker protection more than China does.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Yep, MCAS was an “engineering solution”. Hopefully this time they’ll at least document their “engineering solution” for the people who have to fly the damn thing.
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by ralph84 3y ago
It’s not FUD, it’s reality in California where even off-peak electricity is over $0.40 per kWh. People buy EVs in California because they’re a luxury good, not because they save money on gas.
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by ralph84 3y ago
No. Decelerators and deals that pay $0 are demotivating and unnecessary. You can achieve the same net effect by properly setting OTE and quota without the demotivation.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Most people who wasted $millions setting up Hadoop didn’t have data sets larger than could fit on a single machine.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Waymo is level 4. SAE calls out “local driverless taxi” as an example of level 4. https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
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by ralph84 3y ago
The police exist to protect those in power, not solve the problems of the commoners.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The company is literally run by a McKinsey consultant. How is anyone surprised?
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by ralph84 3y ago
> The time saved … is not worth the additional risk The time saved is most definitely required for certain airports to maintain their current traffic levels. So we would need a study to understand if the economic impact of the reduced tr
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by ralph84 3y ago
It’s not broken per se. Charging different customers different prices based on their willingness to pay maximizes profits. Heck even Sourcehut does it, but they don’t require interacting with sales because at their pricing they don’t have e
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by ralph84 3y ago
I don’t know where this idea that driving in SF is easy mode comes from. No one who has actually driven in SF would say that. Yes it doesn’t have snow, but it has rain, zero-visibility fog, lots of pedestrians and cyclists, heavy traffic, n
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by ralph84 3y ago
Your iPad has flash memory and a battery. Both are consumable items that wear out over time.
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by ralph84 3y ago
New Mercedes-Benz EQ models can be easily had for 20-30% off MSRP. Yes, this is partially due to MB setting the MSRP unrealistically high, but it’s indicative of the broader market for EVs right now.
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by ralph84 3y ago
China, Japan, Korea, US, and Canada make up more than half of the worldwide EV market and none of them use CCS2.
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by ralph84 3y ago
They are operated by and for the elite. Sociopaths are overrepresented in the elite.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Checks and balances are essential to the American way of government. Law enforcement should have to follow the Constitution, which means dealing with the check of obtaining a warrant. If the reason is really that compelling you’ll have no p
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by ralph84 3y ago
Families earning a living wage don’t buy ads or subscriptions from the NYT.
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by ralph84 3y ago
I lost track of how many times the article uses the words “could” or “potentially”.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Sure, Lufthansa can make up whatever rules they want for “safety”. Safest would be to not venture 7 miles above the arctic at 500mph at all. But if their rules are obviously in conflict with the standard operations at an airport, it’s on Lu
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by ralph84 3y ago
No, Lufthansa should not be dispatching flights to arrive at SFO at the busiest time of night if their pilots aren’t prepared to do the approaches everyone else is doing. This isn’t a foreign vs. domestic carrier thing. British Airways, Air
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by ralph84 3y ago
Until grandma gets a call from a nice gentleman at “Google tech support” who walks her through the process.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Compliance isn’t about preventing problems. It’s about identifying risks and determining who is responsible for mitigating those risks and who is on the hook for damages if the risks aren’t sufficiently mitigated.
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by ralph84 3y ago
You can debate the definition of big tech, but among the companies Google has underperformed in the Pichai era are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, TSMC, Broadcom, Adobe, AMD, and Netflix.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Google has underperformed all of big tech except Meta since he took over.
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by ralph84 3y ago
How does Sundar Pichai still have a job? Isn’t he ultimately accountable for turning Google’s state of the art AI research into multiple bungled attempts at commercialization?
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by ralph84 3y ago
Visual approaches are not non-precision approaches. They’re visual approaches. Lufthansa wasn’t denied the ILS, they were put in a hold until separation could be created. The same thing happens every day at airports all over the world. The
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by ralph84 3y ago
Cool story, but of course the SFO ATIS specifically mentions visual approaches when they’re in use. In fact it’s night VMC right now and the current ATIS says: > SIMULTANEOUS CHARTED VISUAL FLIGHT PROCEDURES IN USE. LNDG RWYS 28L, 28R h
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by ralph84 3y ago
Lufthansa shouldn’t be scheduling flights to arrive at night if their pilots are unable to perform the approaches everyone else is performing.

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