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by scottbez1 10mo ago
Yeah, the correlated risk with AVs is a pretty serious concern. And not just in emergencies where they can easily DDOS the roads, but even things like widespread weaknesses or edge cases in their perception models can cause really weird and
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by scottbez1 10mo ago
This doesn’t seem that crazy to me - a broadly applicable coordinated OTA zero day applied across cars during US rush hours has the potential to result in likely hundreds of thousands of deaths in a few hours if safety critical systems like
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by scottbez1 10mo ago
Flashing can be easy, sure. Compiling that binary, including library management, is not, unless you’re using something like micropython. CMake is not hobbyist/student-friendly as an introductory system. (Arduino isn’t either, but platf
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by scottbez1 11mo ago
None of those bullet points are contradictory though? They are all completely aligned with a policy reducing non-essential public exposure, with a tiered approach for transport that limits public exposure where better alternatives exist.
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Lock-in usually just refers to a situation where switching costs are (perceived to be) higher than the net benefit, within some reasonable payoff period. It can include things like high cost to extract data, but it can also include things l
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Dropbox recently broke (accidentally or intentionally) hosted images/thumbnails from their Paper docs product (which they're quietly but noncommittally killing off) and that was a good wakeup for me to stop trusting hosted storage
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by scottbez1 1y ago
On the topic of small LED panels, Jason of Evil Genius Labs has been making some really small LED panels [0] with addressable 1mm x 1mm LEDs (yes, individually addressable AND only 1mm on each side!). Fitting 128 onto a 1" circle is
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by scottbez1 1y ago
The last point I think is most important: "very subtle and silently introduced mistakes" -- LLMs may be able to complete many tasks as well (or better) than humans, but that doesn't mean they complete them the same way, and t
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by scottbez1 1y ago
RPi's toolchain situation is awful for beginners/hobbyists. CMake and non-manifest-versioned toolchains are a huge barrier to entry. I'd love to use the hardware but have given up multiple times because I'd rather spend
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Here's an excellent video from Juan Browne around the challenges that wires present to aircraft operations [1]. Some of these are human factors for manned aircraft, like seeing a wire but then forgetting it's there, but one of his
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by scottbez1 1y ago
This was years ago when I was younger and had more free time. I called SFMTA traffic directly (you learn the menu tree quickly). It varied but I want to say it usually took between 20 minutes to over an hour, including multiple callbacks to
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by scottbez1 1y ago
In some ways, yes, though not in many cities like SF, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, etc. But it's also a chicken and egg problem: often transit is not viable or is too slow precisely because everything is devoted to cars. The SF Van Ness BRT
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Yep! Market rate for private parking, and offering subsidized short-term commercial parking (which generally has broader societal benefit than private parking) with appropriate safeguards for abuse would be great!
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by scottbez1 1y ago
In commercial loading zones! We've allocated the color yellow for this in SF. If commercial drivers petitioned SFMTA to convert more private parking spaces into commercial zones I'd be signing petitions and backing them in their g
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Yeah, they ignore SF311 reports by policy. I've managed it by flagging down an amazingly helpful parking control officer that happened to be in the area, or else by calling and reporting an obstruction of traffic (not mentioning the bi
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by scottbez1 1y ago
It caused him problems because he didn't think the law applied to him, and got charged a lot of fines due to those violations. Incurring higher costs than revenue is a common cause of business failures.
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Is it ridiculous to ticket someone who parks in the middle of Market St if there's no sign that it's illegal? No. Driving a car is a privilege, and a dangerous one at that, which requires a competency test. It is not unreasonable
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Your last point is one of the most frustrating things with unprotected bike lanes - drivers will endanger bicyclists for no real gain when they park in the bike lane because the car lane is also still blocked! Somehow they prefer to block 2
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Generally to keep streets safe to drive on, and pleasant to live near. In particular, SF receives very little rainfall for most of the year, which means that leaves and debris easily accumulate rather than being washed away at regular inter
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Agreed, and it provides important revenue for transportation projects and helps keep our streets clean so I wouldn't want SFMTA to adjust that focus as-is. I just wish we had proper (read: higher, accounting for real negative externali
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by scottbez1 1y ago
The DMV is unfortunately wrong about this, with an invalid interpretation of CVC - the DMV handbook is NOT the law (it's a simplistic layman's interpretation), and is not a valid legal defense. That said, in SF proper it's ab
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Incredible work. I'm disappointed to see so many of the leaderboard items are street cleaning tickets. I get it - street cleaning are "easy" tickets to write in bulk, and therefore efficient ROI for PCO time, but they're
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by scottbez1 1y ago
The sad thing is I think Google keeping Chrome is actually likely the better of two possible bad outcomes... Anyone else interested and willing to pay the true value of owning the entire Internet ecosystem is almost certainly going to look
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by scottbez1 1y ago
This is entirely unsurprising. It's been clear that Google has been into their Android duopoly-abusive stage for a while now, with more and more of their Android changes moving into GMS or non-AOSP Google apps (like camera, messages, l
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by scottbez1 1y ago
This used to be true but was adjusted with a correction to the internation postage rates. These days things like AliExpress have stopped using local postal delivery and instead use their own local logistics partners for last mile delivery,
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Absolutist stances like this generally lead to undesirable outcomes as technology advances and changes the scale-per-dollar practical limitations of surveillance, which is exactly my point around our need to adjust how absolutely we conside
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Having no expectation of privacy in public used to be a reasonable stance when there was a real time+money cost to extended surveillance, which meant that you still had a moderate amount of privacy unless someone was willing to personally t
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by scottbez1 1y ago
This statement "Tesla and Musk are very good about privacy and leaving control with the user" is pretty clearly false [1]: > between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system som
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Clamp meters are completely safe. The only risk is if you DIY your power cable so you can clamp one lead, but that's not necessary if you just buy an AC line splitter plug. And those often come with the hot looped around so you can get
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by scottbez1 1y ago
This is such an odd statement. Just because it's electric doesn't mean there's no concept of efficiency. Large EVs are pretty silly for exactly that efficiency reason - they may have "400" miles of range, but they d

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