xthexder @ xthexder @l.sw0.com

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I've been able to get demos of autopilot in one of my friend's cars, and I'll always remember autopilot correctly stopping at a red light, followed by someone in the next lane over blowing right through it several seconds later at full speed.

Unfortunately "better than the worst human driver" is a bar we passed a long time ago. From recent demos I'd say we're getting close to the "average driver", at least for clear visibility conditions, but I don't think even that's enough to have actually driverless cars driving around.

There were over 9M car crashes with almost 40k deaths in the US in 2020, and that would be insane to just decide that's acceptable for self driving cars as well. No company is going to want that blood on their hands.

That doesn't sound like a self-driving car to me.

The driver's tweet says it kept going, but I didn't find the full video.

Whether or not a human should stop seems beside the point. Autopilot should immediately get the driver to take back control if something unexpected happens, and stop if the driver doesn't take over. Getting into an actual collision and just continuing to drive is absolutely the wrong behavior for a self-driving car.

I had to double-take since in Python a common alternative to trick ? treat : notreat is (trick and treat) or notreat

But I don't think this translates to overlapping circles very well. "trick implies treat" is only defined inside the trick circle, outside is undefined if treat is true or not.

I'm not going to draw a diagram, but here's the "truth table" for A implies B:

    
A, B, A -> B
N, N, undefined
N, Y, undefined
Y, N, false
Y, Y, true

  

But DO rotate your passwords if you suspect they've been leaked. Or every 5-10 years probably couldn't hurt either. The thing that has a much bigger effect is using unique passwords for every service. And if you have a password manager, resetting 1 password after a leak is trivial.

I don't think that matters, since when bruteforcimg a passphrase it's more like using whole words as the characters (or tokens) in the password. If there's 7776 possible unique words, it doesn't matter what characters are in the words at all. Just how many password combinations are used.

Side note, this is assuming words without character replacements. If you consider variations with A->@ or B->8 there ends up being significantly more possible unique "words"

What are the chances of everyone interested in this project already having a tablet? I don't own any, and I certainly wouldn't be going out to buy one just to test running Linux on it. I do have multiple old phones I could turn into development test devices however. Anything is better than nothing.

I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that's okay.

Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it's a waste of time collecting data that's just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.

By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: "The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down"

People don't use Kelvin when referring to seasons. Sure, there's plenty of ambiguity if someone says it's 32° out without specifying the units, and you can infer from context, but that has nothing to do with Kelvin starting at absolute zero. Saying "degrees" immediately rules out Kelvin as a unit.

What? What context? The scale is the same as Celsius which is derived from the properties of water. And 0K is when there is absolutely no heat energy in the thing being measured. There is no context where this is not the case.

I'm explicitly arguing that you can separate the two. I can perform a completely independent experiment in my house.
For example:

• I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes.
• I then measure how long my stove takes to boil that water.
• I can then record these results to inform my future cooking and water boiling experiments.
• Proper use of the scientific method may also attempt to measure atmospheric pressure, water contaminants, and other factors that may affect the result.

I don't have to publish the results anywhere or even talk with another person, yet I've still used the scientific method. I'm not a professional scientist, but I am an amateur one.

I'd agree for the result to be useful to society, the science should be published. But science can still be useful to an individual without sharing. I use the scientific method regularly in my daily life for mundane things, and often it's just not worth the time to communicate to others because the situation is unique to me. I write it down for myself later, which doesn't make the science any less valid.

I'd argue the scientific method does not have to include multiple people at all. All it is, is the process of coming up with a hypothesis, designing an experiment to check that hypothesis, and then repeating while trying to control for external factors (like your own personal bias). You can absolutely do science on your own.

The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science. You can come up with better hypotheses by reviewing other people's science, but that doesn't mean when a flat earther ignores all current consensus and does their own tests that it isn't still science.

There is however over 200 Cybertrucks for rent on Turo. I guess all the owners got bored of them already.

I also got my first computer around then. I saved up for ages and bought the first gen Intel MacBook with an Intel Core Duo (2 cores, no hyperthreading). I still have that laptop somewhere... It blew my mind it could run Windows, and Windows laptops couldn't compare at the time.

I envy your world, free of American politics.

If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there's some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn't have to be related to hitting things either. It's easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you're holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.

I've done basically this in the past by encrypting a text file with GPG. But a real password manager will integrate with your browser and helps prevent getting phished by verifying the domain before entering a password. It also syncs across all my devices, which my GPG file only worked well on my desktop.

Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.

That's kind of a wild takeaway... Personally I like not having to grow my own food. And a huge amount of efficiency is gained with large scale farming compared to small farms or personal growing.

Unsustainable subsidies aren't okay, and we should strive for more environmentally friendly farms, but farming itself is not one of our problems.