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usea··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
That's just blogspam about how amazing and wonderful the other report you linked is. It's somehow even less credible than tesla.
usea··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
> Even normal collision avoidance systems cannot easily detect a semi truck sideways, because semi trucks and trailers in NA aren't required to have side skirts and protection bars.

This sentence seems to be saying that skirts and protection bars are the reason that self driving cars cannot see these vehicles. Is that really true? Is it a conclusion you've come to on your own, or is it some kind of research or something? It seems like the crux of your whole post, but is absent.

usea··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
Although I do think google will probably follow through with their support claim, at least in some technical way. I also believe you're completely correct about this point. It's a small sample, but I've told around 8 people over the years about the support life of various nexus and pixel phones specifically (in casual conversations with job interviewers, coworkers, and strangers about our phones). Zero people have already known about it. The most common reaction is that I am just mistaken, they would never do that.
usea··on Google will retire Gmail’s Basic HTML view in January 2024
This might be a reasonable view for very specific market fragments. Like if your market is only rich city-dwellers in California or something. But for the general case, it's absolutely false. People struggle with connectivity and bandwidth all day, all over the world.
usea··on Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]
It's a youtube persona. One of the most effective ways to increase your chances of success in modern media is to be loud and emotive. It's way past trend phase and is now endemic on all platforms among content creators who hope to have any younger viewers.
usea··on Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report
They're giving it away for free. There's not an implied contract that says you have to look at the ad to see the website. The website is free. They ask you to watch some ads voluntarily. It's not wrong to refuse.
usea··on An open letter to our community
If you're working on strategy at Unity in good faith right now, I think you announce like they did rather than having the CEO take accountability. Because I think the CEO apology strategy depends on the CEO's ability to convince people he's sincere and contrite. That's a tall order under these circumstances.
usea··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
I'm not passing judgment on the victims of this practice. We should be regulating it, instead of allowing companies to abuse people.
usea··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
Yes. They sell items via loot boxes where you don't know what you're buying until you've already opened it. It's gambling. Distributing purchases this way is well known to increase spending and hurt people. It's why they do it.
usea··on “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)
To be clear, my answer is wrong or at least misleading. 30 million is the approximate number of game pass subscribers (not including core). When I posted this I missed the word "streaming." Apparently the game streaming service is now a higher tier of the regular game pass service, but that's kind of a technicality. 30 million people are not using their streaming service, afaik.

Thank you to the people who corrected me.

usea··on “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)
Reportedly over 30 million users.
usea··on Dire warnings about Libya dams went unheeded
Limited resources is the mechanism through which many projects are mismanaged.
usea··on Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments
Hiding the fragments is like hiding your password. Of course they get the original if they have the fragments. That's the purpose.

You could always encrypt the file before splitting it.

usea··on Shining a light on the digital dark age
Just yesterday I went searching for a memorial page for someone who died in 2005. It's still been maintained ever since then, and I was grateful to read through it again.

Even a single-file website with 2 photos can be important to somebody. Thanks.

usea··on Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
A similar concept is whether something is a "tool" or not.

Tools are things that you use to accomplish tasks. They behave predictably, and you can become skilled in using it more effectively.

Non-tools are things that try to adapt to you. They're optimized for first-time users, or to create an "experience". You cannot go fast with them, even with familiarity. They don't act in your best interests.

A hammer is a tool. Excel is a tool. Google search used to be a tool, but it's been more non-tool for the better part of a decade.

Sometimes people want non-tools. It varies with person and task. But in general, long-term users tend to prefer tool-like uses.

usea··on Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end
As a system designed to give tesla control over your property, I think it worked correctly.
usea··on Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end
> what should Tesla have done differently?

They shouldn't go after people based on bad information. A poor internal process is not a license to do whatever you want. They made up a lie, believed it, and used it as justification to hurt someone.

usea··on Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’
You owe it to yourself to better understand the plight of those around you. Your experiences are far outside of the norm in the US.
usea··on TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
Yep. It's javascript, not typescript. Moreover, I think the post is only trying to convey that they like dynamic typing.
usea··on AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating
I've had teachers try this method with me and determined I was cheating when I was not. I don't believe in it.
usea··on Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar
> They're breath mints, not candy.

Based on what? I think they're definitely candy.

usea··on My Netlify account has been suspended, I don’t know why?
You're owed the truth and protections under the law.
usea··on Firefox address bar
you can make another keyword search for your search engine, and use that instead of a naked search. like: "g hn firefox address bar"
usea··on Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
> that perception quickly became reality
usea··on Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
Are you saying that (in your experience) young men who seek emotional support become weak and ineffective? Or am I misunderstanding what you've written?
usea··on NVD Damage Continued
If the scores really mean that little, then the service is doing more harm than good. Spreading lots of false information is not better than nothing.

Obviously this comes down to how often they're wrong and by how much.

usea··on I'm afraid I can't do that: Prompt refusal in generative language models
The things it says aren't based on knowledge or truth. It doesn't even know whether it can download things, much less can it tell you the truth about that capability. It just says words.
usea··on Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
This is definitely a feature. It's intrusive, obvious, and has been around for a long time. It creates friction for users of old reddit with plausible deniability.
usea··on Coinbase Sued by SEC for Breaking US Securities Rules
> If people think Crypto should be banned, make the case.

The lawsuit under discussion is literally making the case that it's illegal.

usea··on Coinbase Sued by SEC for Breaking US Securities Rules
> ANy normal thinking human realize the one enforcing rules, must obviously also tell what rules are ok or not

I do agree that things should be this way. In some countries, it is much more clear. In the US, it is very much not like this. Nobody can list everything that is unlawful. You can only pay for opinions.

It sucks, but it's not some unique quirk or the SEC or whatever.

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