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There is not ever going to be a takeover window long enough to allow the driver to read a book at their leisure. That would require tens of seconds for context switching during which the traffic is going to be changing behaviour.

How will the car detect a construction zone it can’t see yet with enough time to hand over to an inattentive driver?

I look forward to seeing this system in operation. I have significant doubts about the feasibility of its operational claims.

Don’t do that, you end up with the torture that is live imports.

Clear labelling about where they were grown, and where the butchering was done will go a long way towards helping people make informed decisions.

The statistics wrap rooftop solar into the “solar” mix so all those DIY/fly-by-night installers who don’t use safety equipment while working at heights and end up killings themselves make solar by far the deadliest energy source in terms of deaths per MW capacity installed.

The (reports are that) Russians are using civilians for target practise and hostages, not human shields.

Perhaps the entire point is false positives: if we throw you into a pool and you float, you are a witch. If you drown, you were probably innocent.

During LE-eBook reading sessions, the light-emitting device was set to maximum brightness and placed in a stand that held it at a fixed angle. This stand was placed on a table directly in front of the individual at a 30- to 45-cm distance from their eyes. Participants were allowed to turn pages on the LE-eBook, but were asked not to hold it while reading or make any adjustments to the settings. During the printed book reading sessions, participants were allowed to hold the book at any desired distance from their eyes.

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Note that maximum brightness on an iPad is intended for reading in direct sunlight.

Try setting the screen to greyscale. For me personally switching to greyscale immediateky makes the device less rewarding to simply look at. When it is colour I am mesmerised by the beautiful colours and end up reading the text without actually taking anything in.

The control group was allowed to use reading lamps and adjust lights and seating position to their liking.

It’s very easy to not be evil, just define yourself to be good and thus any act that you perform is a necessary part of propagating good on the world.

That you are questioning my status is evil by definition!

I have BBEdit, Reeder, OhMyZsh. What else do I need in order to actually do my work?

It doesn’t make sense to have a new app for Django development since there’s so much stuff that happens “under the hood”.

Is this ecosystem stagnant or mature?

You say tomayto I say tomarto

It’s time to stick a pin in the suburbia ponzi scheme and call this failed experiment done. Separating people from their place of work by a forced commute was a great subsidy for the automotive and petroleum industries, but that is over now.

Or just provide the infrastructure to charge 50 trucks at once, like we already do with massive fuel stations that have a dozen pumps and the driveways to handle the traffic.

The public sector has the government as an employer. Taxpayers are not the employer of the public sector.

Lobbying government is one of the functions of unions, regardless which sector they represent. Better pay and conditions don’t come from employers just playing nice.

Every application that supports colour already needs to support no colour for dumb terminals and pipes.

Not really. In this case there is also a huge serving of sunk cost fallacy: how will we cope if Tim leaves?

What unique value does Tim bring to Apple that someone else can’t? Apple has been missing Steve Jobs’ pedantic attention to detail for a while, perhaps Apple would actually be better off with someone else? But they aren’t going to try because they don’t want to spend the effort looking.

The multiple vaults are extremely useful to me since I only have to sync my work passwords with my work computer, not my entire password collection. There’s no reason for my HN, Reddit, TeslaFi or PlugShare account details to be on the work computer regardless how supposedly secure 1Password might be (I don’t own the hardware and I know it has surveillance software installed).

The safety of ciphertext stored in the cloud is entirely dependent on the lack of state level actors interfering in encryption research, cipher engine design, chip manufacture, operation of cloud hardware, and day to day safety of cloud operator employees.

The USA has been shown to be quite willing to violate all those conditions: NSA directly influencing cipher design, interfering with chip manufacture, seizing hardware wholesale, and engaging in “enhanced interrogations” in attempts to extract information.

The threat level of this state action is 100% because they aren’t going o spend all that time and money on these tools and not use them. They aren’t focussed on cracking your password, they just crack everyone’s because that is easier to automate (see prior discussion regarding weakening encryption to suit the tools the TLAs already have access to).

At least with my secrets stored on my hardware I have the assurance that the TLAs will need to be targeting me directly in order to obtain my secrets (much less likely than getting caught up in a dragnet).

Once you get banned from a subreddit, using those multiple accounts becomes “ban evasion”. Permanent ban from all of Reddit will follow quickly after.

Tall poppy syndrome.

In Australia we have a Dark Sky park at the Warrumbungles where the Siding Springs Observatory lives. IIRC we also have some of the radio-quietest parts of the Earth where the SKA is being developed.

I love the idea of making the whole country a Dark Sky park.

Some people are poor because the country they live in doesn’t have a Silicon Valley or oil industry to prop up artificially high wages.

Russians had leading rocket science for years. They don’t now, and can barely assemble a rocket that works. Why is that? Does that loss of capability apply to other fields too?

No, this lot have learned that there are zero consequences for being openly lazy and corrupt. They broadcast their intent to pork barrel and people vote for them because of that.

How can they afford to quit if they aren’t earning enough to live on in the first place?

You have that luxury because of savings.

Some of the proof that he faked his visa application is claiming he is vaccinated when he is not, and claiming he had not travelled in the week before boarding the plane when he had documented a trip to Spain while COVID-positive. The Spanish government is now investigating whether Novak Djokovic travelled to Spain illegally, so there’s more legal shenanigans waiting for him when he eventually gets home.

The reason none of this resulted in his visa being refused in the first place is that the Australian tennis folks are buddy-buddy with the Prime Minister’s folks, and the unofficial ministerial guidelines are that if there’s an event associated with government cronies then all stops are pulled.

Or that old prayer: Lord grant me the courage to change the things I can change, the patience to accept the things I can not, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Assuming you are able to plug your EV into a (bidirectional) charger during the day.

China is very good at copying others’ homework though, thus the plethora of BEVs coming to the world market soon.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chinese semi industry highly focussed on silicon carbide for automotive power electronics, with EUV being a skunkworks project taking place in Europe.

There are people who have no attachment to their kids and would happily use them as ammunition in personal conflicts, as cheap labour for their business, or as property to exchange for other goods.

Don’t assume that everyone else subscribes to your morality, ideology or “ethics”. It’s a brutal world out there and some people value power much more than you do.

Once it’s in the cloud, it’s already compromised.

Best way to keep a secret is don’t share it. Cloud storage is by necessity sharing the secret with the cloud server and everyone with access to it.