twoWhlsGud

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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
Budget car buyers aren't driving the market - especially not the market for new cars. In the US income inequality has gotten to the point where most new cars are bought by upper income customers. And they want fancy SUVs. Budget car bu
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
I was there starting in 86 and I can tell you that at least some of the Lisa folks were still upset about how the project was treated. I think there's an argument that preserving the Lisa as a high end product would have made sense. Th
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
Which is one reason why I often still shoot with an actual camera and sometimes even with film. I have a lifetime of experience with common film emulsions and a couple of decades of shooting with digital sensors with limited post processing
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
If you have a corpus of documents you are working with (say thousands of pages of related standards docs), Notebook can be handy for doing targeted summaries of aspects of the docs with pointers back into the actual docs to the relevant sou
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Pro tip look for an industry that works for big capable customers that can defend themselves. Helps to create a structure of accountability inside a company that you can connect to as someone trying to have a positive career. Doesn't m
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Unfortunately, MAD likely requires that you can't let Putin have Ukraine. And if MAD fails, well then we're all screwed anyway.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Anti-lock brakes, if I remember correctly, had essentially no safety effect in the real world. Stability control, on the other hand, dropped single car accidents by something like a third. Perhaps you were thinking of that? Regardless of th
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
that is a very fun feature - reminds me of the excitement I used to have with new versions of software...
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
And especially if it generates bugs in ways different from humans - human review might be less effective at catching it...
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
And the internet has been taken over by bad actors (Meta, Xitter, TikTok etc) with the result that the public is swamped by lies and thus democracy and post Cold War peace is being replaced by global war and dictatorship. So refrigerators l
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
That was written when the effect of big tech's attack on the information landscape hadn't been digested yet. Now it's much more clear. The current future is correspondingly much more grim.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
I went to public schools in middle class neighborhoods in California from the late sixties to the early eighties. My teachers were largely excellent. I think that was due to cultural and economic factors - teaching was considered a professi
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Capitalism + ever more powerful cannabinoid drugs => problems. Many states (including the one I live in) are struggling to limit advertising, in particular.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
My Audi doesn't advertise its predictive cruise control as Full Self Driving. So expectations are more controlled...
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
On my phone in Seattle Verizon Wi-Fi calling doesn't work but FaceTime audio does.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Maybe. But it matters to me (and a lot of other folks given the continuing sales of boxes that run macOS, windows and Linux) that I didn't have put all my eggs on that ship (straining the metaphor a bit : )
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
And it appears to have resulted in a set of responses: https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/6ppd-quinone https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-develops-6ppd-q-water-t... https://www.ust
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Post News tried this and failed. Not sure why.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Three simple habits that have (anecdotally) cut down on colds for me: * wear a mask in crowded environments where showing my face doesn't buy me anything (I don't wear one at work, but do at the grocery store or airport) * wash ha
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
I think that for folks living in the West, Putin and his gang of cyber criminals is much bigger day to day threat than the NSA. So the fact that Durov is still alive (a couple days in a French prison is the least he has to worry about) make
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Try making that argument on the other side and come back and report how well it goes afterwards...
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
We test drove a Model Y in May. There were a lot of UI nits that annoyed me, but the thing that really stood out was the blind spot warning placement. Every other vehicle I've ever driven puts the visual indicator on the mirror somewhe
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
4th generation: wires are back so the car doesn't stop working every time it drives by a source of RF noise...
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Thanks for posting that - great read. And reading it took me back when I was lucky enough to take Richard Rorty's class (entitled something like Philosopy from Kant to 1900) my freshman year at Princeton. I remember the impact of his l
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
I agree with the exception of you being surprised that folks will spend 5000E on a road bike. Of all my discretionary purchases my custom roadbike might well be my happiest. A well fitting allroad bike can take you to the grocery store or u
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Unfortunately, that seems to include data regarding Tesla's FSD function, which renders it useless for actual comparisons between human driving and responsible implementations of self driving technology.
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
This is the aspect that makes me most excited about Waymo and the like –the prospect of no longer having to tolerate terrible driving because removing someone's license is akin to an economic death sentence. Fully commercialized, self-
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
At work, yes. However, it won't be long until the language you speak will become a feature of your ML driven consumer language service. There will likely be products that reflect your style/ identity/ whatever. And once you r
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Completely annoying. I can't imagine any legitimate reason for disabling paste, and I work in cyber security. (There are poorly thought out reasons for disabling paste such as trying to discourage bots, but those sorts of attacks can
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Yes, I don't understand how anybody who's ever ridden a bike in a major American city isn't super excited about high-quality self driving vehicles. The crazy stuff I see on a daily basis while out biking in Seattle (and stati

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