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throwbacktictac··on Waymo self-driving car crashed when driver fell asleep and triggered manual mode
>> At a company meeting to discuss the incident, one attendee reportedly asked whether safety drivers were on the road too long, and was told that drivers can take a break whenever they need to.

I hope they also have reasonable mandatory breaks. It would seem that there is pressure to stay on the road as long as your peers. Which could lead to drivers not taking breaks when they should.

throwbacktictac··on Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill Road
How is the SEC liable? Is there some regulation preventing US investment houses from investing in the same manner?
throwbacktictac··on Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

I certain that someone has been exploited using shell pipes.

throwbacktictac··on What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)
Yeah, I agree. IMO the house's that she showcased as good looked quite boring to me.
throwbacktictac··on PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years
What sort of workloads does your company run? Are they MS Windows or *nix thin clients?
throwbacktictac··on Netflix and Amazon are struggling to win over Indian viewers
Can you elaborate on what you do?
throwbacktictac··on European regulators reject latest proposal by ICANN over its Whois data service
Nothing is truly free. You're paying for it in one way or another.
throwbacktictac··on Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale
I was curious about what problem was being solved too. I can't imagine what a chicken restaurant needs with a distributed k8's cluster.
throwbacktictac··on Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs
Absolutely! I can identify with the author of the Vice article. I worry that the liberalization of drugs will lead people that are "wired" differently to experiment and screw up their mental and cognitive skills.

Weed definitely changed me.

throwbacktictac··on Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B
I think artist will have to focus more on cultivating a strong fanbase globally and leverage it for merchandise and live performances. There is lots of money to be made being an idol.
throwbacktictac··on How Zilliqa built a billion-dollar blockchain startup in Singapore
Still have no clue what they do nor how they make money. I guess it's another coin.
throwbacktictac··on Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports to China
Yahoo/Oath owned/owns a significant chunk of Alibaba.
throwbacktictac··on How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries
Arrived in Singapore recently and I'm quite impressed with the public transportation system here. My base is the slow Metro transit in Los Angeles and the over crowded system in Manila.
throwbacktictac··on AT&T Launches WatchTV Skinny Bundle for $15
12-hour cloud based DVR sounds like a solution for an artificial problem. Do we really need a DVR for what's basically a on demand streaming service?
throwbacktictac··on Is Serverless Just a New Word for Cloud Based?
What is PFM?
throwbacktictac··on Desperate Coinbase customers turn to SEC with allegations of fraud
They do indeed use MongoDB for parts of the system. However, the transaction history and accounting is all stored in postgres.
throwbacktictac··on Facebook ordered to explain deleted profile
If they figure out who did it then let me know. I'd pay to get my old profile deleted.
throwbacktictac··on Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct
I always thought the slogan was odd. In my mind evil is the absolute negative end of the spectrum of good vs evil. Why not something more positive sounding like "Do good"?
throwbacktictac··on What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
They didn't claim to not be a business in the blog post. They are a non-profit business. They still need to earn money to pay bill, pay employees, etc.

"Being a non-profit means that the company has no shares. I don't own it. Hannah doesn't own it. Nobody owns it - it's an independent entity. The company makes money and pays expenses, salaries and taxes as normal - but there's no way for it to be bought or sold either in part (investment) or as a whole (aquisition). Any profit the company makes can only ever be reinvested, not distributed. We can't cash out. Ever. Also the entire product is open source and has no copyright. Anyone can do whatever they want with our code, for free."

throwbacktictac··on What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
After reading this comment I went to check for myself. However I believe the grandfather post still has a valid point. It's not "obvious" how to use the self hosting open source version.

However, I'm pretty sure a person that was really interested in self hosting would not have trouble figuring it out.

I don't necessarily think it's bad that they don't emphasize how to use the open source version. After all, it is a business.

throwbacktictac··on Cilium 1.0: Bringing the BPF Revolution to Kubernetes Networking and Security
Cilium lives below userspace which makes it perform better than istio. This article has more information about the differences from the cilium developer's point of view.

https://cilium.io/blog/istio/

throwbacktictac··on Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
I wonder what that says about people. I remember being extremely impressed/infatuated with Matt Damon's character in The Talented Mr. Ripley when I was 18 or 19. So impressionable I was!
throwbacktictac··on Snapchat launches Spectacles V2
If I had to guess I'd say, young dad plays with toddler while mom watches.
throwbacktictac··on OPPO Digital will gradually stop manufacturing new products
So that explains why there are so many OPPO and VIVO phone stores in Manila malls. I always viewed them as a crappy brands but I'm quite impressed to see that they are part of the second largest mobile phone maker.
throwbacktictac··on Elon Musk: Tesla Goes Bankrupt (April 1)
This is quite dumb of Elon. First, it's not that funny. Most off all it can be used against him and Tesla.
throwbacktictac··on Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California
Perhaps I drank too much of the LIDAR cool-aid. The woman was 2/3's the way across the high way - she didn't just materialize. What's the purpose of this 360 degree 3D map if the AI isn't using it to avoid a collision?
throwbacktictac··on Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California
But I think we should at least expect it to perform as well as a sober driver. I'm sure the woman would be alive today if there were a human driving the car.
throwbacktictac··on Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California
I don't understand why people say Uber is not at fault. 1.) The lidar system should have detected the woman with plenty of time to dodge her. The car could have manoeuvred to the empty lane to avoid the collision.
throwbacktictac··on Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists
Does it really go that deep? I was under the impression that the app cool only grok that you are a "friend" of you aunt.
throwbacktictac··on Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts
Their reason for multiple accounts seems to be due to API rate limiting imposed by aws? At least thats my understanding.
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