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There are reasons more than a million people die on the roads every year, but that number only cracks a thousand for commercial aviation in particularly bad years. Most of those reasons are that all aviation incidents and accidents are analyzed to inform how the industry operates, but for road accidents we just shrug and say, "people die in accidents, whatever can we do?"

There was one accident, but it was a pallet of batteries on a cargo plane that killed the crew.

Aviation rules are written in blood. Everything you snidely dismiss actually happened and people died/came close to dying, so the rule was added.

In some countries, Whatsapp is pretty much the de facto town square. Friend groups, family groups, event planning, customer support for businesses (though now it's just talking to shitty AI bots), all on WhatsApp. You can't beat the network effects any more. One understands why Meta paid 19b for it.

There is no common 2 second rule, afaik. There is a 3 second rule, which is probably why they feel too far apart to you.

It is good for Google, not Android users.

How so? Switching from an Nvidia card to an AMD one I am now able to upgrade my kernel whenever without getting a blinking cursor after reboot. How are in-tree drivers worse than whatever Nvidia does?

You are selecting the subset of AI that generally makes sense and is useful. A lot of the things you mention (captioning, autogenerating APIs from code, etc) were solved problems, even before generative AI.

Very few billionaires earn their fortune just "in America". Buffet definitely didn't.I live outside the US and pay thousands of dollars a year to American companies for goods and services, as do many of my friends. The insular separationist view of the global economy is daft and short-sighted.

A better question is why anyone should bother to take their time to read something that's not worth yours to write. This goes for most of AI output, honestly.

It's not the source of the funds, it's that the government grant wanted to force a change of how the foundation does things, especially inclusion and outreach efforts.

MN Negotiations are two sided, what do the democrats get in exchange for this?

> his success is built on his charisma.

Print out one of his speeches and read them. His success is built on backlash against the shock of seeing a black president.

That's the point of insurance.

There is a wide gulf between "I don't like this person" and "this person's whole existence should be a crime".

Uv allows you to lock versions too. And creates a .venv inside the project which, I guess, is similar to the node_modules directory.

My exact reaction when I visit front-end-land. It always surprises me that you can't just leave a project alone for some time, get back to it and continue where you left off. There are always a couple of days of getting the thing to work again, then figuring out how everyone is doing things now, because apparently that has to change every few months.

Your code editor should respect the .editorconfig of the repo you are editing, so yeah, trivial.

> Those photoreceptors have relayed this information across a nerve to neurons in your brain which receive this encoded information and splay it out to an array of other neurons.

> Each cell in this chain can rightfully claim to be a living organism in and of itself. “You” haven’t directly “seen” anything.

What am "I" if not (at least partly) the cells in that chain? If they have "seen" it (where seeing is the complex chain you described), I have.

But people spending money is the economy.

This implies cloud infrastructure experts are cheaper than bare metal Linux/networking/etc experts. Probably in most smaller organizations, you have the people writing the code manage the infra, so it's an "invisible cost", but ime, it's easy to outgrow this and need someone to keep cloud costs in check within a couple of years, assuming you are growing as fast as an average start-up.

Brexit talking point. Just move on.

Pitfalls of comparing flows with stocks.

There are quite a few more Android phone makers than Samsung.

The README has an ad at the top.

Yeeeah, nope.

Can it drive in downtown Delhi or Nairobi? On unpaved roads on safari? Onto and off a flatbed truck for transport? Through a lightly flooded town?

No, it can't drive "anywhere a human can".

And now some people will have read his comment but not yours, and this will be anti-renewable energy propaganda forever.

5% odds of screwing up my taxes and going to jail through no fault of my own is a horrible proposition.

Because we are counting people's wealth in significant fractions of a trillion dollars and young people around the world cannot afford homes no more?

But you too can hire seniors in the future who were juniors trained "somewhere else". This is the kind of shortsighted selfishness that's ruining most things.