You've always been at risk of other road users, but that is well understood when you get in a car and drive somewhere.
What's new, and on top of that risk, and not well understood is the risk due to drivers mis-using a half-baked feature named "autopilot" as if it's actually an autopilot, because Musk insists that it works when it clearly does not always work.
There's two levels of risk, Tesla owners taking themselves out, and then there is innocent bystanders being taken out.
It's pretty infuriating if you consider that we're all put at risk.
Goddamn, thanks for reminding me that my dim view of the general population didn't start with the introduction of facebook and discovering that the most most popular youtube videos/channels are.
Is it any wonder so many western nations can't handle even the basics of a pandemic or voting in non-populist idiots? Just look at their taste in music.
I’ve never had that problem, using a Buffalo drive station mini (which I upgraded the 2 SSDs without issue either), neither with Akitito thunderbolt 3 4-bay thing. Both products are discontinued though. People complained about the Akitito one disconnecting on Amazon, from memory someone said the cable was a bit loose. I used an Apple thunderbolt cable from the beginning (because someone left out the included cable and it was coming from the US to NZ over Christmas...) and I dunno if that plays a part, but it’s snug and I’ve never had an issue.
If you find PDF painful because you can't reflow text or edit it, newsflash: you are using the wrong format.
Industries that use PDF extensively: legal and printing. Neither of them want to be able to change documents.
To preempt: I work within printing, yes there are tools to hack into PDFs and make certain alterations or fixes, but it's to get you out of a bind only, it's not a normal healthy workflow.
Busses have to be one of the worst modern mass-transit options. Auckland NZ has bus lanes, so that is fine. But they are diesel. So they are noisy and polluting. Get two or three busses in a row and you cannot see past them. They block entire roads, and really, the have a low head count for the amount of space they take up. I'm not even speaking as a driver, I'm speaking as a pedestrian. Busses really suck.
I'm finding some of the disagreements under this comment frustrating. Movie people, please don't redefine what lossless actually means. If you find a way to encode say a cryptographic key, or a text document, say, your employment contact, through the codec and then retrieve it back and it comes back garbled or useless, it's lossy! It doesn't matter if you can't see a difference with visual data, it has changed the data. That is lossy. That is what lossy means. That is what it has always meant and that is what it always will mean. And if you try to change the meaning for a narrow context driven by marketing, well, words cease to have a meaning, don't they.
On the upside, if Facebook was the only company that could shadow ban, that would be a win for the rest of the internet, and a bit of an own goal for Facebook since the practice is pretty despicable.
Adobe should read this and understand it. Veteran users of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign get updates that change the default way of doing something and they don’t even provide a UI to change back. Don’t fix long-standing bugs, just change something that didn’t need changing.
That and the major performance downgrades to support unwanted features.
I was surprised by "The list of major changes to Windows in just two years, for free", - impressive. Although er, every single one of them is also on OSX and also has been for the last couple of years.
This is not so an idea of it's own. But, the thing that still wows me when I really consider it, is scales. I don't think people outside of this field ever really consider just how small and just how fast these switching machines are.
It used to amaze that a programmer of an 8-bit game machine in the early 80s would know how much time they had before a certain scan line was reached, what the computer would do while waiting for the TV to reach that point that is instantaneous to us.
I've seen transistor projects built up to make an 8 bit adder. The transistors taken to a higher level of logic gates. You flip switches and different lights go on or off. Then extrapolate that to a chip with a few thousand such circuits switching on and off many times a second, then extrapolate that to modern machines doing that with millions of transistors at nano scale at ghz, so that the simple act of switching circuits on and off results in say, voice recognition or AI, or drawing pixels to the screen or working out geometry for 3D graphics. The many levels of abstraction to get there.
You don't need fancy things, because just the most basic machines are actually pretty amazing, and then to think that they are just 'basic'. Then there is the networking of many of these machines just to send even a text message around the world and have someone get it seconds later (let alone millions of people doing the same thing at the same time). It's pretty ridiculous to think about, but we usually take it for granted or are completely unaware of just how complex this is. And so simple at the same time. It's surely humanity's greatest achievement.
I've seen the boiling frog analogy used on humans in regards to climate change... Knowing the frog had it's brain removed somehow makes it seem even more analogous than less really.
It pisses me off that MS would detect a browser and block it when they have done as much as they can do to prevent web developers from detecting IE/Edge for much the same reasons: that it's not up to the job and will cause a bunch of support calls.
I don't believe the parent is not saying that, they are saying these employers are using age as a metric but calling it 'skills'. In which case they better be able to explain what these supposed skills are.
A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on Coursera.
There is also a book (that I have not read) called "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" which I think was quite popular. It was not quite was I was expecting yet it was very interesting and enlightening.
Also, it's been mentioned, but Databases, by Jennifer Widom. Stanford.
Yes, exactly. You can sign up to Facebook, but you may not get the notifications you were expecting. You can even set up notifications via email or text message so that you don't have to log in to the site, but what you will get is a stream of of crap as a Facebook AI's feeble attempt to draw you back in to Facebook. But the notifications that you might actually want? Not so much. And even if you do they will be drowned in spam.
Also, in order to have got reunion messages from his school, he'd have to have 'liked' their page. It's kind of a dopey way to advertise a reunion really.
They are just preventing several potential headaches in their view. If I build something and I don't want end users to do X with it, I'm entitled to do that. If the user doesn't like it, the user can go elsewhere. Those are the terms I set as the vendor and you are free to not engage, you have other choices.
In short, you are still free to not buy their hardware.
He is not describing SJWs, which is a fairly modern concept and usually used idiotically by people who don't have the brain power to understand issue X.
He's talking about those that might describe themselves as moral majority. People that get described as SJWs are usually arguing against oppression. By contrast, oppressors will happily force their morals on others (but not always themselves) and tell you that it's for your own good. Usually backed by some religious doctrine.
I don't know what the problem is with implementing opt-in community block lists.
This gives blocking functionality, and offloads the responsibility to communities that users can subscribe to.
This I think was poorly communicated. I found it out by accident, prior to that it seemed like Siri had taken a nosedive. "Hey Siri...." waiting.... followed by the cancel tone or sometimes "Yes?" - then the cancelled tone.
Y'know, I'm quite comfortable with being told about flaws in my worldview. You just haven't not provided any so far. - But clearly you have something to say about it, I'd like to hear it.
Here's a starter: I don't think taste is subjective and those that do believe it is just haven't developed any (yet). There is no shame in that, the shame should be not wanting to extend yourself.
I'm not saying everybody has to have the same taste, clearly everyone can enjoy different things. But there is a clear difference between having taste (of some sort) and not having any. Ask any designer, visual artist, musician, or apparently, Linus Torvalds.
This is btw not meant to disparage the great-grandfather comment about enjoying music at all, it's started this discussion, but is not related to it.