jmcdiesel

Seems like it would be near instantaneous, right? As soon as the leader brakes, the brake lights would be on (speed of light essentially) ... the following car would recognize that, along with radar/lidar type technology. I would imagine the reaction time would be nearly instant...

Then the distance between the cars that they should hold should be calculable by enforcing braking performance on the automated cars...

Assuming its enough, a simple 2 carlength rule would 1) give enough distance to stop and 2) allow for merging easily (second car would slot into place, following cars would slow slightly to make the gap again) ...

Forgive my absolute ignorance on the topic - I genuinely don't understand this environment even though I'm interested, so please don't take this as a stupid or inflammatory questions...

Why are these publishers needed? What service do they provide these days? It seems their role is similar to publishers in other media (TV, movie, music, etc) that can and have been replaced due to the distribution ease of the internet. Aside from a distribution platform, what do these publishers provide?

There are non-rational things like animals, kids, and adults with their face in their phones to watch for, so it will never be fully rational...

However, the fact that the computer in the following car can detect instantly that the front car is slowing, it can react instantaneously and (theoretically, with similar braking distances) the following car would stop exactly the same distance (give or take a few inches) from the leading vehicle as when they were driving at speed...

Yet you assume they are negative...

So many of the comments here have to do with "his position keeps changing"

I'm not defending Trump personally - but as a concept, lets dig into this a bit.

So someone gets into a position of gaining a vast amount of knowledge over a short period of time from experts and consultants...

Do you expect that their perspective hasn't shifted, or that they will stick to their guns no matter what?

Because that's politics as usual - ignoring new evidence an voting/acting in a manner to support your original stance... never changing (especially drastically)

But isn't the way it should be just this - that new information should inform your decision and, if you're open minded, you should consider changing your stance if the new information supports it?

I'd take someone who changes their mind with new information over someone who sticks their fingers in their ear when information that opposes their viewpoint comes to their attention. Even if their decisions are in disagreement with me, their ability to change their stance says that they are at least making those decisions as opposed to having those decisions decided by what party label they strap on their chest...

After making some simple <If> <Loop object="">, etc custom components.... I've wondered why they don't exist in react by default, or arent the common pattern.

They are very readable... maybe people just dont like the "logic" in a tag... i guess... whatever, made for some really readable code...

> Busting your ass to get ahead is an American exaggeration at this point. In general, most employees just get by

Exactly my point. Now imagine an entire country full of nothing BUT that. Imagine no Elon Musk driving electric cars forward, or space travel.

Answer me this question about what you perceive as the ideal system: Why would you remove a system which rewards effort, and replace it with a system that rewards everyone the same, regardless of effort.

"What's most frightening to me is the pretense of personal property rights. It hangs out in the back of most people's minds, encouraging them to resist communal ideals like universal basic income and true public healthcare (at least in the US). So, once something incredible happens, like a house fire, cancer, unauthorized government seizure, etc., we're left to fend for ourselves when these issues would be minor if we were all working together."

While that's a great utopian idea ... it never works in practice, and it turns out pretty horrible.

Because you have to justify why someone should work hard to contribute, or why anyone should work harder than the next guy... if the outcome of doing as little as possible to get by is the same as the outcome of busting your ass every day - everyone will do the former and society would stagnate pretty quick...

As much negative weight people put on property, ownership and just about everything anti-socialist/communist ... its the system of reward for effort that drives innovation. Profit drives change.

Is this supposed to be ok?

"Plenty of times through school I heard complaints of "When will I need this in the real world!" and numerous comments online complaining about education (particularly arts and social science curricula in university) not preparing people for jobs."

Both of these are correct - and they corroborate my point. The skills taught, they don't prepare you for a real world job - they teach you to stay in line, as few questions, and do what you're told. Thats what you need to be tought to work in a factory or plow a field... or stand behind a cash register.

They don't prepare you for "good" jobs... they prepare you for menial jobs. If everyone came out of high school with real knowledge and real skills, nobody would run the cash register at the gas station for minimum wage...

Yep. Education isnt the goal, menial job placement is. Its cynical, but also true, that an educated populous would grind America to a halt, because we're reliant on people doing a lot of menial jobs... and educated people dont do those jobs...

Well, cheating is only to be expected in a system that puts a score/grade on the pedestal.

The point of school (American school, at least) isnt to learn, its to get a good grade. When the goal is a number, than 'cheating' is simply trying to achieve the goal.

If the goal was to actually learn, the "cheating" that you see in schools would become "collaboration" - much like in a workplace with quotas and ridiculous metrics, people will cheat the system - in a workplace who values output quality first, you end up with collaboration between employees to reach that goal...

The problem is - 90% of us went through the school indoctrination of "the grade is the goal" ... and carry a lot of that mentality out into the work force.. and at worse, many of them start companies and align their business goals for their employees with that same standard..

Showing my screen is one thing... I prefer a collabedit or something similar... I work on a MacOS computer... so even when apps are closed, notifications still show. I set my messages notifications to show the full message... including images... so even with Messages closed, if my wife SMS's me, it shows on my screen. I dont want to have to go shut off notifications for an interview process... and i shouldnt have to.

There are plenty of tools to share the code view in many IDEs.. there are sites and services dedicated to this. To have access to my entire desktop, INCLUDING control of my mouse/keyboard and installing software... I would have a hard time telling them not to go fuck themselves... because the level of disrespect in treating an adult like a child student is so high its painful...

The moment they wanted access to my screen...

I would have terminated it. I'm not a privacy nut, but I am a respect nut... and if your level of respect for your engineers allows you to enforce such a ridiculous policy of "testing" in the interview process, well, you don't have much respect for the engineers... or their time, or their own privacy (on their own machine).

I wont work for a company who installs "screen watching" software on your machine. I wont work for a company who middle-man's the SSL cert. I wont work for a company who drug tests. (I smoke MJ, but a lot of companies state MJ doesnt fail, but I still refuse to take a drug test, its principle)

We aren't cattle. When you're treated as such in the interview process, you can strongly infer that you will be treated as such in your position.

VR Room. Boom.

My laptop is my work area. When its open and doing work tasks, im at work. When its closed, im at home. Both of those times can be in the same physical location.

The male english sample sounds like dragon speech from 10+ years ago, and the female sounded more robotic than others I've heard...

I don't see (or hear?) the advance here...

Its true then. A failed test on production code means IE isn't supported. If its allowed to go to production with defects for IE, then IE support can't be claimed...

Preact is fine..

But... its entirely impractical... it supports NO IE (only edge) ... its easy to make a small, fast lib that doesnt have to handle IE at all..

As with seemingly ever problem over this last few years, this just comes back to the same basic problem. Entitlement.

People feel entitled that your library works the way THEY want it to work. They are entitled to feeling that changes you make should agree with THEIR project workflow. They feel entitled to complain when its not exactly what they want.

Entitlement is going to be this period in time's label...

If speed (editor performance) is key, then VIM ... jump the first learning curve... and feel free to use neovim or the mac gui for neovim (https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app)

When it comes to actual editor performance, you dont get much better than VIM or Emacs... either of which perform well enough to load GB size files and not die on their face...

Your question is answered by another question. Why does more than one font exist?

Not in today's entitled world. People don't have the time to fact-check for themselves... we need to make sure that everyone can just consume whatever information with no effort on their own part to think about or verify said information. We're entitled to that, right? From a private company? Right?

Simple.

In America, you're not expected or even allowed to be completely responsible for your child's safety. You're told what to do and what not to do (no matter your own educated experience)... the state knows best, don't you know?

Thats kinda the point... with the vast array of languages out there, that are performant and powerful and very well established, why should anyone suffer through the learning curve? what value does the language offer to make that worth the effort?

So basically... another safe space... because everyone feels entitled to only feel good feelings and never have to deal with harsh people...

Yeah, it seems like a step back in readability... It's not at all intuitive and once I figure out what its doing, I can't find a reason for it.. Lisps are hard to read, but there are at least a few reasons for the syntax (not that i like them) ... This just seems... weird and unusual for no reason...

Im in agreement... im saying if someone has been using it for years... and it works for them, they might not care whats in it...

"So GNU's gesture is almost purely symbolic"

Yeah... and pedantic. And childish. I support free software, I commit to open source projects, I love just about any form of Linux and I prefer OSS when its as good as proprietary (sometimes it is... like blender... and sometimes its crap in a bucket... like GIMP ...)

I think my aversion and disappointment comes from the fact that, like PETA, this group and the RMS brigade are very much the public face of a movement, but a movement that doesn't need a single face... but regardless, they are the what outsiders see, and when you turn every piece of software into a political statement, you end up hurting the cause.

There are people out there who will, through some sick twisting of the mind, treat animals poorly or not care about actual animal abuse because PETA has been the face of the animal cruelty movement (or GreenPeace, another great example of this effect, I'm sure it has a name) ... even though the cause is good, and there are good organizations (ASPCA)... the annoying, loud, politically charged reactionary groups like PETA, GreenPeace, GNU, RMS/FSF ... those groups turn people away from free software...

Maybe I'm ranting more about the politicalization of software... maybe its all tied together and one and the same... I just know that I've heard plenty of people say they don't use Linux because it doesn't have X application, or X drivers... when it really does, but the common distros don't include them because they aren't in-line with their political view of the situation...

Case in point - I had a friend who was recently trying to be all organic and stuff (like, crazily) ...

He got mad because he came home with a jar of peanut butter that was organic.. and natural... (and delicious) but he was actually upset because the oil separated... like, actually upset, and wanted to take it back, and did not want to eat it... he thought it was gross...

Yeah... natural is gross and processed is good... 'Murica