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Slippery_John

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Slippery_John··on Elon Musk says Tesla’s autopilot is already “probably” better than human drivers
While this isn't Tesla's implementation specifically, there is indeed data that says self-driving cars are better than than human drivers.

http://www.vtti.vt.edu/featured/?p=422

Slippery_John··on Netflix is on Fire
Yeah, but you can VPN to wherever you want and access that country's catalog.
Slippery_John··on Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Perfectly valid. If it's difficult to read, it's difficult to use.
Slippery_John··on The Danger of E-Books
Put your calibre library in Dropbox or Google Drive. Get Calibre Cloud Pro to have a good-looking, easily searchable library on your device (you download from there as needed). Use Moon+ or some other reader to read the books. Calibre also has a server function (which Moon+ supports), but not everybody has a public IP to access their books everywhere.

These are all Android, but there's probably some equivalent on iOS. You will want to convert all your ebooks to a format that your reader supports, such as epub. There are extensions for Calibre that will strip DRM if you're into that.

Slippery_John··on AWS SDK for C++
No, WADL is XML. You can see some of the data files in the boto3 repository: https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3/data

It is somewhat similar in concept

Slippery_John··on AWS SDK for C++
Yes. I'm pretty sure most if not all of the official AWS SDKs are, with only a bit of hand-coded parts tossed in
Slippery_John··on Where to Go to College If You Want a High-Paying Job
Yup, Indiana is cheap as hell
Slippery_John··on Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
Tabs were one of the major reasons I switched over to Chrome. At the time, firefox resized the tabs as soon as space became available, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain. They don't do that anymore, but now they have the tab scrolling feature which adds a gui element if there are too many tabs. Thing is, once you close enough tabs, those elements go away immediately, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain.

Biggest reason I switched, which is still the true (though less so), is that Chrome takes up less screen real estate.

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