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So use Rust instead, Godot supports bindings via FFI: https://godot-rust.github.io/

I wont claim it works flawlessly, but you don't have to use GDScript or C# to program Godot.

You can also use C++, Go, Java, Typescript, Zig, Scala, Kotlin and Swift: https://github.com/Godot-Languages-Support/godot-lang-suppor...

Fair enough, so then how fast would a semi-attentive driver stop?

The comment I originally replied to makes the claim a human's brain wouldn't have even responded fast enough to register the child was there. That's going WAY further than how Waymo is claiming a human would have responded.

I don't see how that's a more reasonable assumption that a human driver actually being "fully attentive", and I'm not sure Waymo's definition of that term is the same as what you're using.

> A human driver travelling at the same speed would have hit that child at exactly 17 mph, before their brain even registered that child was there.

Not sure where this is coming from, and it's directly contradicted by the article:

> Waymo said in its blog post that its “peer-reviewed model” shows a “fully attentive human driver in this same situation would have made contact with the pedestrian at approximately 14 mph.” The company did not release a specific analysis of this crash.

Sounds like it's about the precession of the equinoxes and the new "Age of Aquarius".

True words aren’t eloquent;

eloquent words aren’t true.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 81

That poll doesn't say they're happy with their health insurance, it says they're at least somewhat satisfied with the coverage. You'd see very different results if you asked about health insurance prices.

The problem is the cost.

I assume they mean:

<script><a href="/honeypot">Click Here!</a></script>

It would fool the dumber web crawlers.

Advent of Computer Science Advent Calendars, Day 2

Essentially, repurposing fracking as a method for energy storage.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> If the agent works on the user's data on the user's behalf (ex: vibe coding), then I don't consider jailbreaking to be a big problem. It could help write malware or things like that, but then again, it is not as if script kiddies couldn't work without AI.

Tricking it into writing malware isn't the big problem that I see.

It's things like prompt injections from fetching external URLs, it's going to be a major route for RCE attacks.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10/22/prompt-injection-to-...

There's plenty of things we should be doing to help mitigate these threats, but not all companies follow best practices when it comes to technology and security...

Soon we'll have a system where students use AI for homework and teachers use AI to grade it. I'm sure it's already happening.

I see an enormous threat here, I think you're just scratching the surface.

You have a customer facing LLM that has access to sensitive information.

You have an AI agent that can write and execute code.

Just image what you could do if you can bypass their safety mechanisms! Protecting LLMs from "social engineering" is going to be an important part of cybersecurity.

Same

    ! [remote rejected] feature/ui-improvements -> feature/ui-improvements (Internal Server Error)

Edit: One minute after posting this it's working again.

It's almost certain NTP is what's synchronizing time on your system right now.

And yes, they're separate from the NTP Pool Project, which runs the actual servers, but the Network Time Foundation supports the software that billions of devices run on.

Never mind, they keep upping the max every time they reach it. Now it's an $11,000 goal...

Some of the comments here seem overly negative and critical.

They support billions of devices and are only asking for $4,000 in donations per year.

I've talked to biologists who think the idea is just new-age hippy nonsense.

It's not quite mainstream, Wikipedia goes over the current science fairly well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network

There's a theory that's been going around for a while that trees were using mycelium networks to communicate via electrical signals. Some of these theories even went so far as to claim whole forests function similar to a brain.

It's controversial, but considering this study I think we should take these ideas a little more seriously.

I believe that part of why Google is so invested in Chrome is this very thing. They don't want users to have more control over cookies and tracking via the browser.

One of the first things people would do if they really had control over their browsers is start blocking Google Ads. Google realized this early on, it's a huge potential threat to their main source of revenue, so they launched Chrome to influence, and eventually dominate, the browser market.

Google doesn't want users to have more control when it threatens their bottom line. It's part of why they've been trying to block ad-blockers.

> _what motivates our leaders to allow surveillance in the first place_

Surveillance makes their jobs easier, so there's a kind of natural tendency towards authoritarianism. We've known about this for a long time, the 4th Amendment was created to put limits on government surveillance.

If you're wondering why the government would allow private businesses to spy on everybody when the government itself isn't allowed to, that's because this allows for the government to effectively bypass the 4th Amendment. The government spying on everybody is against the Constitution, but a private business spying on everybody and selling the data to the government is "legal".

Is something wrong with Substack's CSS, or is that abomination of a scrollbar intentional? It's not just this site either, I see the same thing on Substack's homepage as well.

True from an industry perspective, but they're very much competitors in the hobby market.

Arduino offered tiny, inexpensive, easy-to-program computers and dominated the hobby space at first. This lasted for a few years, but then they started getting competition. The ESP8266 offered comparable performance at a fraction of the price, while the Raspberry Pi was about the same price as an Arduino but way better performance. Hard to compete when other companies are selling better hardware for a lower price.

Google's ad engine, also featuring search results somewhere on the page.

I had a company try to sneak in a non-disparagement clause when they were purchasing media rights from me. They immediately removed it when I said it was ridiculous and I wasn't going to sign.

If you're not allowed to criticize a person, you're in a cult. If you're not allowed to criticize the government, that's authoritarianism.

Being able to speak freely is supposed to be one of our core values, and when a business asks someone to forfeit that right, it's a sign there's something seriously wrong. You don't require someone to never speak ill of you unless you're planning on doing something they might speak ill about.

By my moral compass, the very act of requiring someone to never publicly say anything bad about you is itself unethical. It's psychopathic behavior, not something that should be normalized.

I was wondering if it makes the cement weaker, but it looks like the bacteria actually make it stronger.

> At 3 days, EAM-containing samples exhibit increased overall porosity compared to the control, indicating an initial disruption in matrix densification. However, by 28 days, this effect diminishes, suggesting that hydration and subsequent microstructural stabilization mitigate the early porosity increase. Further analysis of pore size distribution (Figure 2F) shows that EAM incorporation leads to an increase in middle and large capillary mesopores, whereas coarse mesopores decrease, indicating a shift in the microstructure toward a more refined network. Despite these microstructural modifications, compressive strength measurements (Figure 2G) show that EAM incorporation does not compromise the structural integrity of cement. At 3 days, samples with higher EAM content exhibit a reduction in strength. However, by 28 days, strength recovery is observed, and EAM-containing samples exhibit a slight improvement compared to the control. This enhancement may be attributed to the formation of additional calcium carbonate, which contributes to matrix densification and mechanical reinforcement.

I looked into this a little more, and these were the final two provisions of the Patriot Act, so the did law expire.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean a whole lot, as many of the provisions live on in the USA Freedom Act.

> In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives, and as such, the law has expired.

The wording is confusing. Two provisions expired, not the entire Patriot Act.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250306093943/https://www.nytim...

There's a certain species of ape that takes offense at this, and doesn't like to think of itself as a "fish".