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by wepple 3y ago
If it’s wildly overdue and only a fraction of what was promised, it’s a significant failure as a product. It might be a great achievement if it hadn’t been hyped up well beyond what has been released
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by wepple 3y ago
To clarify: I too am not excusing Boeing and think they’re likely a hot trash mess that deserves to have C-levels lose their heads with no golden parachute (or maybe their punishment should be a Boeing-produced parachute)
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by wepple 3y ago
Along with the very low actual incident rate, grandparent comment also suggests a certain degree of functional organizational coherence which is often wildly missing at large organizations If you ask 50 people at Boeing what happened, you m
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by wepple 3y ago
This seems like a way to accelerate the move to electric. If you’re giving up the V8 sound and RWD driveline, might as well go electric and get oodles of torque
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by wepple 3y ago
It’s the worst of both worlds You have to assume an unappealing photo of yourself you posted in your youth is stored somewhere forever And, things you actually want to be stored forever and be retrievable when useful, probably won’t.
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by wepple 3y ago
I take it one more step: if you step across any of my personal lines, I will stop doing business with you where feasible. For example: - I unsubscribe from your mailing list. But you have another, slightly different one, so I must unsubscri
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by wepple 3y ago
Agreed. I actually get ads for “start your own drone-based deer recovery business”; this reinforces the idea that you need to stay legal in your state.
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by wepple 3y ago
This is a big part of it Same reason many areas (eg Alaska) allow you to fly into a hunting area, but not hunt the day you land. Otherwise you could use the plane for locating and/or driving animals fairly precisely
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by wepple 3y ago
I started scrolling that article to read, and not far into it, 100% of my (mobile) screen was ads. I’m not interested enough in what the article is trying to tell me to put up with that.
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by wepple 3y ago
> Maybe larger companies have their own infra for this, or have redundancy in place (e.g. their own GPS devices)? Modern trucks have cell modems tied to a private APN that are used for updating vehicle firmware & doing telematics. Th
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by wepple 3y ago
I was just saving folks a google, as I had no idea what the acronym was. I propose rill-hiff until someone who actually know what they’re doing shows up!
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by wepple 3y ago
People would 1000% complain if a search for “skilled scientist” was 90% white men, even if that tracked completely true to statistical reality.
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by wepple 3y ago
Is mastodon a success? I agree federation is the best strategy (I have a blog and HN and nothing else), but twitter seems to still utterly dominate Add in a really significant requirement for cheap compute, and I don’t know that a federated
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by wepple 3y ago
rlhf: Reinforcement learning from human feedback
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by wepple 3y ago
Can we trust the media and congress to distinguish the two? So many platforms have come under fire for “supporting” a theme, when all they’ve done in reality is provide media hosting services for user generated content, and %0.001 of bad co
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by wepple 3y ago
At the same time, nearly daily there’s a “google did a bad thing” post on HN front page. Can’t win I guess?
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by wepple 3y ago
> big tech could just follow the rules. It's not that hard. The EU can create new rules out of thin air with arbitrary timelines to implement. It wouldn’t characterize it as “not that hard”.
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by wepple 3y ago
Prioritization of work (security) Feed in a collection of docs about applications in use at an organization including their user guides; summarize what the capability of each application is; identify what capabilities are high risk; priorit
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by wepple 3y ago
5) is the killer app for me. I don’t really search to discover or learn any more, at least not to satiate curiosity. I chat with an LLM
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by wepple 3y ago
I don’t know that they’d have the skill or patience for this. If you’re running cables to other rooms, they’re not going to start tracing wires everywhere (to potentially find the wire connected to a router anyhow)
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by wepple 3y ago
As I understand it, the US system is pretty poorly set up to deal with things related to the internet, so wire fraud is often the go to. Happens often with hacking as well.
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by wepple 3y ago
> He’s not being harassed by the swatters.
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by wepple 3y ago
+1 my cars are relatively easy to keep track of (modern), but I own ~15 smaller engines that all have specific timelines and requirements. Currently using a google doc with a section for each. It has no built-in reminder capability
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by wepple 3y ago
This is really useful context, but doesn’t entirely invalidate my point, right? We should reduce one type (possibly the most urgent), and then move on to solving the next?
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by wepple 3y ago
This seems to be pretty wildly left out of the gas->electric push then? I’m not saying it makes electrification less valuable, but rather the push for electric has very much been sold as “solving” emissions (with some minor debate about
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by wepple 3y ago
They mention Zero Trust, yet you can gain access to applications with just a single bearer token? Am I missing something here? There’s no machine cert used? AuthN tokens aren’t cryptographically bound? This doesn’t meet my definition of Z
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by wepple 3y ago
> What a pity so few in the Western world can experience the delights of their own self-locomotion being sufficient to their daily needs .. Most countries do indeed have cities and high-population areas that support this, and many folks
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by wepple 3y ago
In general, I advocate for the people to have freedom against any negative and controlling centralized power. Government and corporates both.
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by wepple 3y ago
I’d argue the latter would indeed be a challenge for Apple, but also a significant part of the threat toward a country
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by wepple 3y ago
It’ll never happen, but how wonderful would it be for a major international company to simply withdraw from a country that manages to push through crazy rules?

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