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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> With autonomous vehicles, they're asking how to interface with them politely. Like if they signal one to stop and it's not stopping, here is a phone number to call where someone can gracefully shut it down. As opposed to just
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Tesla has tons of videos on YouTube from users showcasing similar technology As you know, Tesla's technology 1) lacks lidar and 2) is not targeted towards driverless operation (yet). The AV industry isn't in a place where it&
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> What happened is that a student of this system ended up working for the Internet Archive and thought the symbolism employed by Stalin and Mao would be just the thing to use to promote the essence of western liberalism A lot of usage of
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The legacy manufacturers are pretty invested in the self-driving space at this point though, no? Cruise itself is owned by Honda and GM, among others. I believe waymo has similar investors. I think we'll see a situation more like nicot
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> to the point they suggest that drivers need to place both their hands on the wheel so officers don't become spooked, it's reasonable to ask why companies get deliberate procedures. I don't understand. Isn't "p
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Even if they arrive 1-2 years later than Waymo/Cruise It's tough to anchor Tesla's arrival based on the rest of the industry's progress. Cruise and Waymo are heavily dependent on Lidar; Tesla is solving a fairly dif
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. That makes way more sense. BTW, you seem to have been reading TFA as some sort of snark. It's a pretty well-established bit of internet jargon that's (at least in my experience) more winking than aggress
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Per TFA, they're limited to 30 MPH and will not have safety drivers. And obviously the launch is conditioned on regulators' belief that the system can handle reacting, to a degree of safety that's similar to human drivers: ot
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Agreed, I'm getting whiplash from how quickly I've found myself on the "actually this isn't that terrible" side of every Apple thread.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> "keeping harmful, intentional disinformation away from people" This is begging the question though. It's assuming that "harmful, intentional disinformation" is 1) well-defined and 2) always going to be determi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Sure, and long before Covid, that was a valid (and much-expressed) criticism of them, as well as a general criticism of using non-federated platforms. But expanding explicitly into deciding what users are allowed to see and express to each
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, I hear you, that's certainly possible. But I'm not reasoning top-down from liberalism's unpopularity, but rather bottom-up from the inability most people have to grasp the components I mentioned. Some of them are much
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> In the short term, I don't see how we force them to host actively harmful content without recategorizing their role in society. This recent flip from "Facebook et al aren't doing enough, put the screws on them" to &
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> 2020-2021 has shown me that most people happen to be 'fair weather fans' of civil rights. This is always how it's worked. The idea that protecting the rights of your enemies can be salutary relies on too many complex con
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This article is more than just "Facebook is bad". It's proposing a specific phenomenon the author thinks it's noticed, and digging into what may be behind it.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Would the segment of users who respond to content-free posts like these have much of a reaction to a comment saying that? I don't mean that as a snarky dismissal, but a sincere question. I know that plenty of people, especially among
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> admit it, tabs are fragile and a pretty weak implementation Could you elaborate? I don't have a personal opinion here and have only worked in orgs that require spaces, but I'm not familiar with the criticisms of tabs.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, that roughly matches my understanding as well, which is why I was curious what the actual criticism of your comment would be, in case you and I are both missing something. From the fact that even that neutral curiosity was downvoted, I
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'd love to hear from the downvoters of this comment, of which it appears there are several. The comment reflects my understanding too, but I'm not an expert on study design/statistics and would like to know if there's s
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's the thing: both of those views are compatible with my perspective. Contempt for the user may be in the interest of any given user, just like forcing your kid to eat vegetables instead of ice cream all the time is. But forcibly s
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What are you referring to in particular? I've never had anything be broken, in 15 years of exclusive Linux use. Though I don't share the confidence half this thread has that my experiences are universal, so I'm curious what y
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This isn't a "lately" thing. In 2007, a friend of mine postponed his Windows updates often enough that the machine just restarted to install updates _in the middle of the day while he was using it_. This wasn't a glitch
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's not about access to information. It's about removing the possibility of being confused for a spokesperson of Google's. This is in contrast to comments you see here like "hi, Ben Foobar from [company being discussed]
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Your framing bothers me because it implies there was no alternative No, I went out of my way to emphasize that I wasn't saying this: > I won't go as far as claiming there was no way to avoid them as a society , but as a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Are they doing it just to be contrarian? If they continue to avoid the widely-used standard, they reduce the likelihood a consumer will buy their overpriced first-party peripherals. This hardly even counts as nefarious: it's openl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Why feed the trolls? It's plainly obvious to everyone here that "charge X with Y" doesn't by default include special adapters or connectors.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The unpopularity seems a little shortsighted. I have no clue where my Galaxy S's included phone charger is, because using USB-C means I already have a dozen appropriate cables sitting around. I think at the moment I use the charger fro
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I dokt fully understand the dynamics here, but are those complaints independent of the issue being fought out between Apple and Epic? Ie, couldn't Epic still be engaging in "undercutting and delaying releases" whether or not
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The difference between the two mindsets you describe is not that events have changed our expectations: it's that the former was a kid's fantasy and the latter is an adult's reality. Any informed, serious adult at the time cou
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> But anyway ROT in itself is a pretty stupid idea anyway, usually just done for show. How do you figure? It feels like the simplest way to handle eg spoilers in a universally portable and widely-recognizable way.

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