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The one in NK is doing that only to his own country. Trump is destroying the whole planet by withdrawing from the Paris agreement and then by strong-arming other countries to do the same. If we haven't already passed the tipping point Trump's actions will make sure we do, destroying all hope.

Trump is even using Tariff threats to strong-arm other countries to retreat on their climate goals [1]. If the Supreme Court agrees that the Trump can do this then that means we have a dictator — one that will do way more harm than the one in North Korea.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate/trump-internation...

> I'd be at fault even if it was the FSD that failed

Unless you're driving a Mercedes with Drive Pilot [1], in which case Mercedes accepts liability [2]. Drive Pilot is not FSD yet, but presumably as it acquires more capabilities Mercedes will continue their policy of accepting liability.

[1] https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot

[2] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...

The point is to not overengineer. This is not about ignoring scale, or not considering edge cases. Don't engineer for scale that you don't even know is necessary if that complicates the code. Do the simplest thing that meets the current requirements, but write the code in such a way that more features, scale etc. can be added without disrupting dependencies.

See also: Google engineering practices: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/looki...

And also: https://goomics.net/316

I have taken lots of rides in Waymo, and it has always been smooth. So it is possible. The problem with Tesla is that its CEO lays down dogmatic rules, such as humans only need eyes to drive, so his cars will only have cameras, no LiDAR. He needs to accept that robot cars cannot drive the way humans do. Robot cars can drive better than humans, but they have to do it in their own way.

Not just that, a human would have stopped for the school bus as required by law. So the errors are (1) not stopping the car for the school bus, (2) running over the kid, and (3) not detecting that it ran over a kid.

> In the annotated video played for the jury, the vehicle detects a vehicle about 170 feet away. A subsequent frame shows it detecting a pedestrian about 116 feet away. As McGee hurtles closer and closer, the video shows the Tesla planning a path through Angulo’s truck, right where he and his girlfriend were standing behind signs and reflectors highlighting the end of the road.

So the Tesla detected the vehicle and the pedestrian, and then plans a path through them? Wow! How bad is this software?

It wasn't communicated properly as it says in the story. It is typical engineer reaction to question the reading comprehension ability of the readers.

It seems every IDE now has AI built-in. That's a problem if you're working on highly confidential code. You never know when the AI is going to upload code snippets to the server for analysis.

But that's not how it works in most large organizations. The person who has the authority to make the decision is not necessarily an SME in all of the areas they have to make decisions. Rather, they rely on SMEs to do the investigation and then... communicate properly.

Oh I thought you were talking about NASA and the Columbia disaster. The PowerPoint slide was poorly designed, as it says in the story. The problem was not PowerPoint though. You could summarize it using a PDF, and it will still have the problem if key issues don't grab attention.

Are you saying NASA decision makers graduated from India?

When it comes to disclosing hacks, standard practice is to disclose a limited hack first, then when the hoopla dies down, disclose that the hack was "worse than previously thought".

See: https://circles.page/5680a56b5c28af0998656e09/Hacks-worse-th...

> As an engineer, that slide looks completely reasonable to me.

Then you shouldn't be in charge of communicating highly technical subject matter to decision makers, especially if lives are at stake.

Would it be better if you sent them a PDF document instead? There seems to be an assumption here that if you send the stakeholders a larger volume of information they will take the time to read it. Is that a valid assumption?

Disagree. KISS is for bigger things like architecture. Exposing an enum instead of a simple bool is a good idea that will save you time later. The only time to not do this is if you're exposing internal info, i.e., breaking encapsulation.

I have been using a Raspberry Pi 4 (8 GB RAM) as my NAS for nearly 5 years. It is incredibly reliable. I run the following software on it: Ubuntu 64-bit, Samba, Jenkins, Postgres and MariaDB. I have attached external hard drives through a USB hub (because Pi does not necessarily have enough power for the external hard drive). I git push to public Samba folders on the Pi, and trigger Jenkins, which builds and installs my server using docker in the Pi.

This model can manipulate an image (alter or add objects) without distorting it. This is a threat to Photoshop.

After acquiring Macromedia in 2005, Adobe integrated Flash into several of its products, including Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. This allowed embedded Flash (SWF) content in PDFs, which contributed to increased installer size and complexity. Flash support was eventually removed in the early 2020s after Adobe officially ended support for Flash Player.

Adobe also embedded a JavaScript engine in Acrobat to support interactive PDF features like form validation and automation. Both Flash and JavaScript introduced significant security risks over the years.

While Flash is no longer supported, Acrobat Reader still includes JavaScript functionality, which remains a potential attack surface. In contrast, lightweight PDF readers such as Sumatra do not support JavaScript or Flash, offering a smaller and more secure footprint.

Your main complaint is that browser-based applications are slow? If so you should be able to name some web apps that you think are slow and would benefit from being rewritten as native apps.

In my opinion, native macOS apps used to be awesome, but when Apple switched to flat UI they removed one of the chief attractions of native apps: better look & feel.

Some people prefer native apps. Some people prefer web-based apps. Native apps are not automatically better -- there are web-based apps that work better than native apps.

> The web is the worst application platform ever created

That's an extreme position. Today no one is making native Windows apps because the web has defeated native apps on Windows.

Yes and no. SQLite can handle a small number of users. It locks the entire database while writing to it, so it can't support a large number of concurrent users.

Those who prefer web-based interfaces can try Visual DB: https://visualdb.com/sqlite/

Right... so he could also, for example, decide that Starship will only take MAGA astronauts to the moon. And that's why taxpayer funds should not be used for developing Starship.

No one thought Musk would abuse his ownership of Starlink either, but in 2022 Musk personally ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite coverage over key parts of Ukraine. Supposedly he was motivated by concerns that a successful Ukrainian advance might provoke a Russian nuclear response. He is not a head of state, but gets to make such decisions? (FWIW he later denied intentionally turning off Ukraine's Starlink terminals).

SpaceX is a private company, but a significant part of the funding for the development of its Starship spacecraft, especially for lunar missions, comes from U.S. taxpayer money via NASA contracts.

The Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed. If controlled by a maniacal megalomaniac it could be turned into a powerful weapon. Hopefully that won't ever happen. But it raises the question: should a private citizen ever be in control of such powerful technology whose development was funded by taxpayers?

China has undeniably emerged as a global leader in renewable energy technology, thanks to its massive investments in solar, wind, and energy storage systems. However, despite China’s dominance in manufacturing and scaling renewable technologies, the world—especially when it comes to cutting-edge innovations—still tends to follow the trends set by the U.S.

The United States plays an outsized role in shaping global technology trends. If Saudi Arabia wants to delay the shift toward renewable energy, its most effective strategy would be to shape U.S. policy.

Right, our energy policy is practically being directed by Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

https://democracyforward.org/work/uncovering-trumps-ties-to-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-franchis...

But can it generate self-signed certificate for intranet use? Often on the intranet you want to encrypt traffic, to prevent casual snooping using Wireshark.