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by ripe 3y ago
I was going to say exactly the same thing. This is precisely the issue with UX-led processes. When you're dealing with very hard engineering problems, you really don't yet know enough to be designing a product. I think it's v
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Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat(nytimes.com)
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Behind Apple's Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns(nytimes.com)
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Government Agencies Clash over How Much to Regulate Self-Driving Cars(caranddriver.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
NYT article by David Yaffe-Bellany: Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world. Now his empire has collapsed.
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Crypto YouTuber BitBoy Lost His Marriage, His Followers, and His Lamborghini(nytimes.com)
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Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography(robotsinplainenglish.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
Two similar cases the article looks at: 1. Universal Studios v. Sony, 1984: your VCRs are letting people copy our movies. 2. Authors' Guild v. Google, 2005: your Google Books are reproducing our copyrighted works. In both cases, the la
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by ripe 3y ago
I like the site, but it could use a few pictures. I am trying to figure out what my missing part is called, but the mini blinds section is just a series of paragraphs.
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Why Is There a 'Strand of DNA' on Massachusetts License Plates?(wgbh.org)
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The Ars Guide to Time Travel in the Movies(arstechnica.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
From the article: "An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software."
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A Whistleblower Creates Headaches for Tesla(nytimes.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
I like these terms, and the illustrations are excellent. Only a couple of comments on some of the earlier ones: > Yoda conditions... ""if tall is the man" Should be "if tall the man is". Also, in the Egyptian bra
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Subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language(bbc.com)
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Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93(nytimes.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
> signed sizes are an extremely surprising abstraction break that are just asking for disaster. Bjarne Stroustrup wrote a detailed memo advocating for signed sizes: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/d
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by ripe 3y ago
If the material isn't important to me, then maybe casual listening will work. But if I need to follow closely and understand, then audio is terrible. If I miss a word or mis-parse a sentence, I can't rescan. I would much rather re
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‘Robo-Taxi Takeover’ Hits Speed Bumps(scientificamerican.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
> Document mishandling sometimes resulted in essentially nothing (Clinton, Biden) and sometimes warrants and raids (Trump). Apples and oranges. Trump got raided because he refused to cooperate with the document investigators. And the onl
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Special Counsel Obtained Search Warrant for Trump’s Twitter Account(nytimes.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
Have these robotaxis really reached the "plateau of productivity" now? The article doesn't say whether these ventures are profitable yet, or at least whether their losses are decreasing to zero. How do their operating expense
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by ripe 3y ago
I like simple Makefiles. Keeping them POSIX compliant makes them portable, including on cygwin-type environments on Windows. I used this tutorial: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/08/20/
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by ripe 3y ago
As my boss used to say, "well, now you're being logical." The LLM true believers have decided that (a) hallucinations will eventually go away as these models improve, it's just a matter of time; and (b) people who compla
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by ripe 3y ago
"In Big Tech's wasteland of planned obsolescence, praise for the defiant joy of flippers and steel", By Rae Hodge, Staff Reporter, Salon. From the article: "The physicality of pinball, like that of all arcade games, is t
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Pinball is of the body: why modern tech can't recreate the world under glass(salon.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
One thought that occurred to me, regarding how to stop this kind of data being available: First, a question: how does the government (or any buyer) determine that the data they are buying is genuine? Second: Assuming that there's reall
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by ripe 3y ago
> Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today Wonder why you can’t buy these L4 cars. No Level 4 cars are commercially available in the US. [1] What you are describing are pilot programs propped up with a huge, e
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by ripe 3y ago
Not the poster you're responding to, but I am finding it very hard to use Firefox on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop consistently ever since it started prompting me to install the snap version. The snap wouldn't install, I couldn't fi
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by ripe 3y ago
Thank you for summarizing! This adds a lot of color to the headline. I was imagining a framebuffer-based GUI.

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