buggy6257

Adding an anecdatum here to match a sibling -- Google maps has become a bit of a joke in my family. It consistently does everything it can to avoid putting us on major highways despite not having that option checked. It has taken us on crazy back-country roads constant going 25mph in deer season in pitch black to save us 1 minute rather than putting us on the highway. If we get back on the highway, it just tries to route us back onto the country road as soon as physically possible.

Apple Maps may have less data and thus not always be up to date, but in the 6 months we've been using it since I got a new iPhone, it has never once steered us on a path we didn't expect. Every time we get in the car we can choose to use my phone or my wife's and we always pick mine for that reason.

Just to put an anecdatum -- I have a 2020 Subaru Forester, and it has physical buttons for everything BUT infotainment. Media etc is in a touchscreen, but climate controls, wipers, etc -- all are still physical buttons.

(disclaimer: no idea what effective altruism is about)

You seem to believe that "truly good" causes have a requirement to have "influential backers" behind them in order for you to consider doing them. That seems like a pretty silly way to decide what things are good/bad to do -- People did the same thing with FTX when Matt Damon's commercial aired, and look how that ended up for them. Maybe just research concepts for yourself and decide what's a good idea rather than waiting for a celebrity or rich person to tell you it's worth doing. Chances are, things celebrities tell you to do are the things LEAST worth doing.

I clicked this wondering if someone had made some fantastic new contraption using Dwarf Fortress. Still a very interesting read, but slightly disappointed :)

This article was not too long for me. It was too self aggrandizing, too void of any real topics and just repeating the same argument over and over with no evidence to speak of to back up their points. Wait isn’t that exactly what they complained about at the start? Hmmmm.

The new CEO (John Jay Ray III) was the one put in charge of Enron to clean up that whole mess. I don't think anyone doubts his legitimacy at this point, so there would be no need for him to be on the defensive. He was placed here specifically for that reason, I think.