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Not from Ukraine, so I can't answer the questions. But it seems to me that Putin lies a lot. So who knows what the acctual terms he wants is?

You can inflict mass casualities with convential means, case in point, the Dresden bombing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...), in the second world war.

I wonder if this law is similar with legislation in other EU countries? My impression is that consumer legislation usually is. If it is. This might end up being EU wide in the future.

I can see a seat in the picture, so you would expect that driving it by hand to be a fallback. It isn't ideal, but might be a good enough solution for their user base.

I'm flabbergasted over the web3 term, and that anyone is using it unironical. The web2.0 term, went from something that was a bit awkward but ok in the beginning, to something that you want to laugh at people using. Then someone takes that, adds one to it, and thinks it's a good name for their tech?

Somewhere at the end of last century, start of this one. I personally gave up on playing games on non dedicated hardware. One of the main reason I did that, was that it was becoming clear that games, was shipped with something that looked a lot like a root kit or a virus, and if you didn't want that on you computer, you couldn't play games on it.

So for me, I went with a console for games, but a dedicated PC works as well. But from my point of view, a PC with games on it, that is security hazard, and should never run anything you want to keep private.

The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals is actually bringing a case on bad breeding to the courts in Norway (https://www.dyrebeskyttelsen.no/2020/11/23/norway-to-decide-...), its going to be interesting to see how that works out. If we are lucky, we might get some more sane dog breeding, and healthier dogs out of it.

That would be the baby schema effect. A lot of animals, us included, has infants with similar traits. These traits is then something that these animals recognize and influence their behavior. This is why we find babies, kittens, lambs and puppies cute. In cat and dogs this shows up as higher tolerance for bad behavior.

If they want to verify my age, that is fine. But I'm not fine with using credit cards, they where never meant for that and that is a hackish solution. Not a fan of photo id's either, I've used that once, and it was a ridiculous blast from the past. We have proper electronic id's where I live, so used that or nothing.

You can express things with macros that you can not with normal code. But with the advent of decorators and templates that gap has shrunk, and with C++ templates for example. It might almost be possible to do everything with templates that you can do with macros. That code might end up looking weird though.

> 1- I have never seen a language that made me wow. Like, to me, this whole concept of making a digital logic architecture do a task should be "solved" in a systematic/mathematical sense. Yet, whenever I read on criticisms of languages, people always talk about stuff like "Go doesn't have generators", "Rust macro is a mistake", "I don't like python's async story", "C's way of things is outdated" etc...

Math does have a lot of notations that express the same, but are used for different purpose, where some of those are better suited for solving some task than others. One of the simpler examples is polar vs cartesian coordinates. Where polar coordinates is expressed by angels and distance from a zero point. While cartesian we use the distance on axis from the zero point. Both can express all the same points, but some problems are easier to solve in one of those and some are easier to solve in the other. Coordinate system is definitely not the only place where you have this in math, and it is probably one of the simplest examples.

So math, and all it's different ways of being expressed is more of an example why we need different languages, and that programming languages matter. Than a counterexample of why languages shouldn't matter, and that we are fine with any one language.

> A classic example of why you really shouldn't be giving the government too much power, because even so-called "modern democracies" can and will go bad.

I'm not an expert, but I'm under the impression that Australia uses a "first past the post" / "simple majority" voting system. If that is true, calling it a "modern democracy" seems deeply misguided, democracy yes, modern no.

There is a non stated expectation of sleeping and it beeing safe. Sleeping in your Tesla with FSD on is not safe.

Every community or country has people who has no moral compass, and will sell anything to anyone as long as they don't end up in prison over it. It's getting clearer and clearer that the NSO management team is this type of people. Israel needs to have a look at fixing their laws. I'm hard pressed to see that it's in Israel's interest having their industry assisting Marocco spying on the French, or Saudi killing dissident.

In Norway, Tesla has since introducing the Model 3, added dual cables, where you can charge either your old style plug or your CCS plug Tesla. At all of their supercharging stations, while also expanding their network at a rapid pace.

I definitely do not get that what they have already done once, can't be repeated elsewhere.

My impression when it comes to fast chargers are that the most expensive parts of setting them up, is getting the power infrastructure from the grid to the station. Zoning might also be something that is time consuming. But neither of these have any impact on the plug to the car.

So maybe the current US Tesla charger network is Betamax, but retrofitting it to do both VHS and Betamax shouldn't be that hard, and they've done it once already, somewhere else. So I don't see the problem.

When I bought my Tesla. The only way to get active cruise control was to get the FSD package. Since I wanted active cruise control. I didn't have a choice.

20% is definitely a lot. But if you look at the estimates of the death rate in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge, they range from a bit over one million to almost three and a half in a population of roughly eight. So it does seem doable.

A blanket "the ML model's output is not at derivative of the input" from a legal perspective. Seems wrong to me, for some types of model sure that might right. For example if you train a model on recognition pictures of houses, then sure even if the pictures you used where copyrighted, the output of that model, wouldn't be. But that that generalize to one that created pictures of houses, and started outputing copies of the input pictures, that I would be surprised if was OK. So I'll agree that for some models the output isn't a legally derived from the input, but all, no I don't think that is true.

If running the data through a ML model, removes the copyright. Then we could always train models with specific input to remove copyright on that data, and we follow through on that. We could easily remove copyright on anything, and that would, if the courts upheld that. Be the death kneel for copyright. Can't really see that happening. But maybe that is just my limited imagination.

Someone should definitely tell J. K. Rowling about that. She might be in a position to do something about this, and she definitely needs something more useful to focus her unhappiness and frustration at.

A lot of the comments around Copilot seems to be under the impression that courts care about how you "write" your code. I think this naive at best, why would they and why would the law?

If you have a piece of code that would be infringing if you wrote it in Emacs. How can it not be infringing if it was written by VSCode and Copilot? I just don't see how any court would hand down such a judgment.

What I do think that Github could get away with, is not being liable for copyright infringement in my code if I used Copilot and it gave me some code that infringed. But that would just move that liability to me. Good for Github, not so good for me.

> Out of curiosity, how do we define license violation in that case? I, as a human being, have trained by reading code, much of which is covered by licenses that are somehow not compatible with code I'm writing. Am I violating licenses?

That depends, if you end up writing copies of the code you've studied then yes. You are on thin ice. Plagarization is definitely something that you can do with computer code. There have been several high profile cases around this in arts. As far as I can see it usually ends up being a question about how much of the work is similar, how similar it is, and how unique what was similar is. And added wrinkle in programing is that some things can be done in only one way, or at least any reasonable programmer will do it in only one way. So for example a swap(var1, var2) function can usually only be done in one way, and therefor you would not get in trouble if your and someone else swap function are the same.

I've been following the discussion about Copilot, and one issue that comes up again and again is that people seem to think that since Copilot is new, the law will treat it, and the code it writes differently, than what it would you or a copy machine. I think that is naive, my impression is that courts care more about what you did, not how you did it, and if you think Copilot can be used to do an end run around the law. Prepare to be disappointed.

So if Copilot memorize code and spits out copies of that code, then it is at best skating on thin ice, or at worst doing a license violation. If the code it is copying is unique, then it definitely is heading into problematic territory. I'm fairly sure sure someone in legal at Github is very unhappy about the quake fast inverse square root function.

It's not given that the cashier machines are the reason they are staying closed. Coop has a database that maps all items they sell to the corresponding price. What if they aren't sure about the integrity of it, and the possible offline copies that the stores have. That would be a very good reason to keep closed. After all, you wouldn't want to sell steak for the price of potatoes.

It isn't that long since i've seen Norwegian cashier machines running in offline mode. While Norway isn't Sweden. I'm under the impression that our payments systems are almost identical.

For these numbers to say anything about lack of interest in combating climate change. We would also need to know what people would answer if you switched out climate change with some other worthwhile cause. How many would want to pay 40$ for better firefighters, solve structural racism, water security in western states, or military veterans? Without something to compare it with, there is no context to say if the numbers are good or not.

I wonder if what this actually shows is that people don't like to pay taxes? Or that they think climate change should be possible to solve with the current tax rate with a reprioritizing of tax money?

The reason no one is doing a battery replacement program is that they don't make sense. The battery is the most expensive part, and main expense, in an electric car. When it's trashed The reasonable thing to do is replace the car. If you're worried about the lifetime of the battery in an electric car. Remember that it uses the same tech as your mobiles and laptops. But the charge, drain cycles of your phones battery cells are once a day. Still they are usable even after several years. But in a car, it's cells charge, drain cycles are going to be way fever a year. I do have friends with early Model S cars, and no one of them are complaining about range loss. I'm sure they must have lost some. But not problematic amounts. I do have the impression that early Leaf cars had a bit more problems with this, and that their battery care electronics where more primitive. But in fairly sure they've sorted that on the newer ones.

Volvo was putting out a press release (https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...) in 2012 about pedestrian airbag, so it's a thing.

I've been looking at the other comments on this article, and there is a couple of points that I haven't seen address by others that I think are pertinent.

1) What was it that Starlink wanted to beta test with customers? It might very well be that they shipped hardware with know environmental weaknesses, so not to hold up other parts of the project. While taking a hit on the reliability in edge cases.

2) We know that there are some dishes out there that have heat issues, but we don't know how many dish hardware iterations they have done. The failing dishes could very well be early prototypes that have know issues. Which are fixed in later revisions.

Generally speaking I don't see these reports as worrying. I've just come of 10+ years of working on SW on (indoor), embedded hardware. Having alpha and beta hardware with issues are common, you need some hardware to run your test and SW development on. Even if it is fundamentally flawed and you have to throw it away because of those weakness later. For those that only have experience of building software. What you are seeing here, is a view into the sausage factory, and just because it feels messy and doesn't line up with your expectations. Don't mean that they are doing it wrong.

America is a big country so there has to be some bad roads. But if we compare with Norway by percentage, or if you look at bad roads that are major or important roads, it is no contest.

Even the main three roads between the capitol (Oslo) and the second largest city (Bergen). Has parts that will give Lombard street a run for it's money.

I would love to see a Tesla with the yoke try to do Trollstigen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollstigen), that I'm sure would be hilarious.

I guess the yoke might work on American highways, and in parking lots your speed is low enough for a "bad" steering wheel to work well enough. But on the winding shit roads in Norway, this is probably going to be a really sad solution.

I had a look at Oslo, and it's suggested median salary for a software Engineer was almost exactly the same as the average starting salary for a STEM master degree graduate in 2020 (https://www.tekna.no/lonn-og-arbeidsvilkar/lonnsstatistikk/b...). That does not inspire confidence, but maybe they are better in other profession, or other cities.

So they have an asshole list of "funny" names. When they get caught they argue that most of the people they are racists towards are white, So it's fine? White people can definitely be racist towards other white people, you can easily find examples of that in Europe, so that is definitely a thing. As an ethnic Norwegian, I'm not impressed over doing the list in it self, and then doubling down on the racism towards us by pretending it isn't. That makes it way worse.