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I often engage it on city streets, esp. when I’m tired, because it does reduce the stress of driving for me.

Last winter, when I was driving a lot on Spain highways, I really missed something like FSD or even a simpler Autopilot in my rental car.

Not the grandparent, but I have Tesla Model 3 2019 with HW version 3.

Thanks - that might indeed be the case. What I'm referring to in my original comment is FSD Beta, which drives mostly by itself but requires constant driver attention (hands on the wheel, eyes on the road).

"what most cars have these days" (emphasis mine)

I was partly responding to this comment: "Their software feels years behind what most cars have these days.".

I think it's the other way around - the best software offered by conventional manufacturers (the best they can offer) is years behind Tesla's.

I'm reading all the comments criticizing FSD, and I honestly feel like we watch two different movies. My Tesla drives me from home to work, or from work to a downtown restaurant (granted, all within Silicon Valley where they probably have most of the data), mostly without my involvement. With the latest version, the car is occasionally too hesitant, and - very rarely - confused (e.g. by a railroad traffic light next to a road), but that doesn't subtract much from the experience.

I don't know of any other driving assist system that get anywhere close to this. Every time I tried fancy rental cars (BMWs, Audis, Mercedes) with the latest and greatest driver assist, it's feels like a joke.

What am I missing?

Length of the earthquake is proportional to its strength.

I haven’t tried myself yet - we are still under 2TB

Something like this? https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-turn-an-old-ipad-int...

You can get 4TB, although it’s a bit cumbersome: https://appleinsider.com/inside/icloud/tips/how-to-get-4-tb-...

Here is GPT-4 answering your question:

“When Sally returns, she would look for her ball in box A, as that is where she left it before leaving. Sally is not aware that Anne moved the ball to box B while she was away.”

You are both right: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/7930.2S_Chg_...

It is no Q, but I really like Wolfram Language for its expressive power. Look for example at this solution[1] for problem 8 - highlights the fact that Parts 1 and 2 are essentially the same.

[1] https://twitter.com/vkryukov/status/1600726415778775042

On the contrary, it’s a very, very good news for an average Joe. Every sufficiently advanced technology starts very expensive. Then capitalism and progress do their job, and it becomes available for masses.

The path to “make it cheaper” is generally easier than the path to “make it possible”.

Respectfully, I disagree with that premise. That clearly hasn’t happened with OpenSage, Maxima, or half a dozen other old open source computer algebra systems, many of which were around as long as Mathematica.

If the open sourcing a system works as you describe - why haven’t those system received even a tenth of a polish that Mathematica has, over all these years?

I have my answer: because, even with all its warts, producing something of Mathematica quality requires tremendous coordinated efforts of hundreds of highly qualified professionals who need to be tightly coordinated.

If you try the “next best thing” - a few core enthusiasts plus a large number of users who do occasional contribution you can get to (an impressive) quality level of the above mentioned alternatives, but not higher.

How about defining you own PlotTheme and setting $PlotTheme in init.m? It’s been supported since version 10, I believe.

I’m a big, big fan of Wolfram Language - as a recreational mathematician and programmer, there is nothing else I would rather do my explorations with.

As always in these discussions, I expect many people will start complaining about how expensive Mathematica is, and how Stephen Wolfram is very shortsighted with his pricing, and how open sourcing it would truly unlock all the potential of the system.

And I seriously doubt this point of view. Open sourcing is not a magic dust that automatically makes everything better. While it works in some cases, it doesn’t work in others - and not having a competitive open source mathematical system is a prove of that.

Hiring people to develop and evolve complex algorithms, on work on improving the UI and making it work on three different OSes, or curate and maintain the knowledge library, takes a lot of effort. I’m actually surprised they don’t price it higher!

Disclaimer: And yes, I live in a developed country, so $250/year for a personal license is not a substantial cost for me. I’m sure that somewhat biases my position.

Facebook did offer you two ways to recover: a) provide your driving license or credit card (a reasonable offer, IMHO) and b) reaching out to your three friends online.

I agree that in b), it sucks that once chosen, the 3 people cannot be change (although I kinda see the security angle of it), but what else would you want Facebook to do if you lost access to your email?

I highly recommend “The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking” by Barbara Minto.

It will change the way you think about communication, especially in a business context.

I’m a very happy ReMarkable 2 user, and I have pre-ordered it more than a year ago which means I don’t have to pay anything.

Yet I think the linked page is an example of a terrible marketing: instead of highlighting the benefits of the premium service, they are emphasizing how horrible your user experience will be if you don’t buy one.

Regardless of your stance on their pricing action, that’s a grave marketing mistake. I hope they will fix that.

Found it: just click on the comments’s time, and you will see the “favorite” option underneath the link.

Where is that favorite button? I have never seen that functionality.

Not a lawyer, but “steal customers from your competitors” is a really bad framing - see a recent discussion on how Google (or any big company, really) educated people to never use such words.

What are some of the advantages of using MeiliSearch as opposed to, say, FTS5 in a SQLite database?

I know I will regret asking it… but what’s the modern way of starting playing DF?

Peter reformed Russian army, build an effective navy, won a few wars, and founded St. Petersburg, among other things.

As I tried to point out, a mere fact that someone is suing someone is not enough to conclude anything about which side is right; that’s why I was asking someone who seemed to have more context.

I’m not sure why people are reading too much into my honest question.

Thank you, this is important context I was not aware of, although to be fair, these events happened 10 years prior to the new case.

You may well think so, but I was asking an honest question. I don’t think it’s distasteful to doubt any allegations, esp. when missing some context, in this case, 10 years old judgement against B&H.

Could you please clarify what do you think is horrible? Anyone can sue anyone in the US, for any reason, and allege a lot of bad things. It also true that cost of litigation is often much, much higher than a settlement - e.g. the 3 employee suing asked for $200k in damages, which I assume is just an opening offer. A reasonable lawyer can easily cost upwards of $500/hr, and require many, many hours of work even if the process never gets to the court.

My close friend is been sued for ridiculous reasons by ex-partners. It already costed him $750k in legal fees,and although he is very likely to win the case, it’s expected to take another 2 years before the case is resolved, at which point he will be allowed to file for recovering his costs (easily anothe couple of years).