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majormunky··on Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep
Huh, this happened about a mile from my house.
majormunky··on I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
So that experiment ended up being people that knew about the device, in the description of your linked video he explains what happened.
majormunky··on NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot
It feels a bit odd for them to say, autopilot could not have been used in that area. "In a reconstruction using a similar Tesla, the agency found that Autosteer was not usable on that part of the road, meaning the Autopilot system couldn't have worked." Whose to say that Tesla didn't update something between the crash and when the NTSB tested autopilot in that area? I don't think they did do that, but are there any safeguards in place to detect that happening?

Its one thing to say that a car cannot do something because of a physical issue on the car, vs some software that can be updated or have bugs that haven't been caught yet.

majormunky··on Goldman CEO warns remote work is aberration, not new normal
I was more guessing that these people have a bunch of money tied up in commercial real estate and they want people out and about again.
majormunky··on USPS Selects Oshkosh Defense for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Fleet
I thinks easier to pull back into a loading area and get access to the spot where your putting packages at (that part sort of sticks out farther).
majormunky··on Ask HN: What technically allows the M1 to perform better?
I think part of it is having chip people being able to work closely with the people writing software for it. I remember something about the M1 chip being able to do simple things like releasing an object and it taking much less time than on x86 as an example. https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1326238434235568128?s...
majormunky··on Doing Python development under Mac OS
Python development on a Mac works pretty well if you install it from the installer that you get from python.org, at least it has in my experience.
majormunky··on Tesla FSD Beta 8 tested for self-driving performance in snowy conditions
I think the AWD helps a lot more with starting out. My old FWD car (no snow tires) would not be able to stop at a stop light that was on an incline and then start again without spinning the tires forever. The same thing with my Subaru (AT tires) and there’s no slip at all.
majormunky··on Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug
I had sort of thought this was by design, all the drives are sharing the same amount of free space. If you were to use some of that, it would then show less available space. I think it’s called space sharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System
majormunky··on 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
Firefox has something like this called containers. The best example is one for facebook, where any call to any facebook servers only works in the facebook container. It has similar setups as well, Work, Home, Commerce, etc.
majormunky··on Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers
> If you raise the price of labor, people (both companies and individuals) buy less labor.

If people are making more money, they are spending more money

majormunky··on Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
I think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.
majormunky··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
"Sparks from their welding work ignited a supply of fireworks, which had been stored next to the ammonium nitrate cache."

Huh..

majormunky··on RFCs: A 50th anniversary dive (2018)
I'm right in the middle of reading "Where Wizards Stay Up Late", fantastic book if anyone is interested in how the internet came about.
majormunky··on Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments
As I sit here waiting for my new ultrawide alientware monitor, should have been here Wednesday, now its Friday. Somehow they thought that going from Whitefish, Montana, to Kennewick, WA, and then to Troutdale, OR, was faster than just stopping in Spokane, WA.
majormunky··on Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
lockpickinglawyer is also a great channel
majormunky··on New Mac Pro
Or, an i7 version and just call it “Mac”
majormunky··on Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
I had the same message a few days ago. I have family premium, so, I checked the family invites, and, there were 3 unknown invites that I hadn’t seen before (they hadn’t accepted them yet though). It seems odd that I wouldn’t get an email saying that a family invite was sent out.
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