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  • If it's radar based it should be very reliable. The big issue is camera based stuff. Cameras can't measure much, only colour and brightness. From this everything is inferred not measured. Inferring things isn't inherently bad, but the errors need to be accurately known and considered. They probably are, it's just they are not weighted correctly relative to cost.

  • In the UK pedestrian car collisions are falling, despite increased amounts of cars and distances walked. In the US pedestrian collisions are at high.

    I don't think it's the safety features in cars that matter here. Similar features are going to be present in the UK as the US. People in the US are buying bigger and bigger trucks. They also have less walkable cities (this could also improve in the UK). They should be taxing larger vehicles more. Get them off the road, they have larger blind spots and greater injury on impact.

  • If there was serious investment in green energy. There would be large spikes in power, to have reliable baseline to power the grid. This excess power needs to go somewhere. Hydrogen seems a good solution. It takes free electricity and turns it into a sellable product. One that can be sold at a much higher cost than storing the energy in a battery and selling it back to the grid. It may be able to ease natural gas transitions as well.

    The big issue is no country is taking low carbon power generation seriously. Toyota is assuming governments will be responsible now. EVs are being sold because performance, running cost and individuals environmentally attitude is better. Hydrogen requires governments to change their attitude.

  • That's just how humans are. The average rating is 7. If it was perfectly even it would be 5. But it isn't. We are objective or rational when we're asked to put a number to our personal opinion.

  • Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.

    The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.

    This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.

    Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.

    The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it's was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don't care, they'll sell anything to the highest bidder.

  • The big advantage of those three is you have it pre-installed. Pre-installed with forced defaults in very powerful.

    I see people using edge, never realising that they're using edge. Asking to install very expensive office 365 suites for very simple documents and power points. Word can't even display text properly, most people don't notice because they don't know any different.

    Linux needs a better Ubuntu. One all the Linux users can easily recommend. That manufacturers can be confident shipping on laptops.

    Once that hurdle is cleared. The user has Linux pre-installed, the manufacturer provides all the necessary drivers. Linux is often easier to resolve issues with. The settings are clearer and better laid out, dependencies are better and easier to manage than windows. Solutions are easier to find and implement, they also don't change unexpectedly.

  • How people rate things is skewed. 5 really means there isn't anything redeemable about it.

    For someone to mark below the midway point it tends to be because they are offended or upset about it. At that point a quality rating isn't appropriate, it should be 0.

  • Cameras and AI aren't a match for radar/lidar. This is the big issue with the approach to autonomy Tesla's take. You've only a guess if there are hazards in the way.

    Most algorithms are designed to work and then be statistically tested. To validate that they work. When you develop an algorithm with AI/machine learning, there is only the statistical step. You have to infer whole systems performance purely from that. There isn't a separate process for verification and validation. It just validation alone.

    When something is developed with only statistical evidence of it working you can't be reliably sure it works in most scenarios. Except the exact ones you tested for. When you design an algorithm to work you can assume it works in most scenarios if the result are as expected when you validate it. With machine learning, the algorithm is obscured and uncertain (unless it's only used for parameter optimisation).

    Machine learning is never used because it's a better approach. It's only used when the engineers don't know how to develop the algorithm. Once you understand this, you understand the hazard it presents. If you don't understand or refuse to understand this. You build machines that drive into children, deliberately. Through ignorance, greed and arrogance Tesla built a machine that deliberately runs over children.

  • The West is significantly richer than most other countries. The countries outside the west that are also wealthy have deep trade connections with the West. These connections may be so that China may consider them effectively 'the West's - Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore etc.

    China tries to expand it's trading partners outside the West with its belt and trade initiative. But that's expensive and controversial. As it often involves corruption and abuse carried out by Chinese businesses. It doesn't appear as bad as 1800s colonisers, but in light of today's sensibilities China often comes out badly.

    It's still wise to build connections with growing economies. Often because the population is large and is set to become larger. However, China's aggressive posture has destroyed relations with one of it nearest and largest growing economy India. India's relations with the West isn't great, it currently goes between Russia and the West. I think mainly to ensure advanced weapon supply in the event of escalations with China.

  • It's a nice aesthetic choice in macos. They got rid of the icons, I always thought the order was clear. It's like a car clutch closes the engine from the wheels, brake slows the car (minimise) and accelerator maximises.

  • So many things are ads now. Most 'reviews' and 'news' are ads, even when they're not payed directly their pushed by algorithms that favour those advertising. Even if you avoid them most people you interact with aren't.

    You'll never see their effect if you truly believe your impervious to them.