bonton89

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by bonton89 2y ago
If your human bus driver crashes you place all the blame on that guy, fire him and move on with your business. If your AI that is used to drive every vehicle your fleet screws up you're potentially looking at grounding the entire fleet
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by bonton89 2y ago
> Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ? Democracy, even a flawed democracy leaves the status quo power structure vulnerable to being changed by popular political action. Mass s
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by bonton89 2y ago
I'm not sure they really can leave whenever they want. I think once you're far down the education track you will probably feel like you're trapped into continuing even if you decide you don't want to do it anymore, becau
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by bonton89 2y ago
It is like when you start listing the insane things the CIA actually provably did and still end up looking crazy.
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by bonton89 2y ago
They'll just say it is a bug when it is turned on.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Not to mention all the dark pattern lying nag dialogs that will trick you into turning it on, or just wear you down.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Valve basically tried the later approach with the initial Steam for linux push which included steam machines and the steam controller. It did have some level of initial success but clearly had lost momentum and the developer support it had
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by bonton89 2y ago
I honestly think the problem can't really be solved because of the adversarial relationships involved. But if there was more than one search engine with significant marketshare maybe it would be easier to route around the problem.
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by bonton89 2y ago
You can just tax tires. And collecting the tax has the added incentives of being much easier to administer and not privacy invading.
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by bonton89 2y ago
The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Copilot still tells me I've commit a content policy violation of I ask it to generate an image "in Tim Burton's style". Tim Burton has been openly critical of generative AI.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Do they not numb you up for this?
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by bonton89 2y ago
> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things... I've not personally eve
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by bonton89 2y ago
Microsoft once sued a high school kid named Mike Rowe for trademark infringement for having a website mikerowesoft.com so anything is possible.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I can understand his feelings somewhat since it seems electric cars spearheaded this malicious idiocy but rest assured it is already here for ICEs and getting worse. Rejecting electric vehicles might feel like the only way to signal distast
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by bonton89 2y ago
I believe he's talking more about external 2.5" drives. Their low power usage means they can be run off a port with no need for an annoying wallwart. SSDs are definitely encroaching into this space but 2.5" HDD still have a c
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by bonton89 2y ago
Is there anything stopping an employer from pretesting you to avoid adding a potentially expensive employee to their roster?
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by bonton89 2y ago
Not recently but I recall an intersection where I used to let my car roll back down the hill a bit in neutral if no one was behind me to quickly trigger the light. I didn't understand the mechanism at the time, just that I could reliab
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by bonton89 2y ago
You could use Workstation Pro to directly assess VMs running on an ESXi server, so maybe the idea is to make company's more dependent upon the central infrastructure where they can squeeze. You could actually cajole the free player to
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by bonton89 2y ago
I think their ability to remain functional indefinitely in populated enemy territory without a support network and increased attack range are the broader implications here. But yeah, you probably could have them all get into position and bl
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by bonton89 2y ago
And 10 years from now when it fails it will be a $1200 repair.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I have a Subaru Outback and the back up camera is basically useless during the winter. I'll clean it before I leave in the morning and it will be covered in filth the next time I put the car in reverse. Even rain seems to cause it grie
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by bonton89 2y ago
I bought one of those well reviewed mirror dash cameras and it replaced the center rear view mirror. I hated it and returned it because this extra visual burden and couldn't understand why anyone liked these. When backing up out of a p
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by bonton89 2y ago
There's usually an attack defense asymmetry of effort on these things (attackers only need to win once whereas defenders need to always be right) so I can't really see it being anything but a net loss. The fraud detection will als
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by bonton89 2y ago
There's no way to disable the wifi on my LG smart TV either (any guides I've seen seem to point to a setting I don't have) although I've been meaning to pop the back panel and just yank the module which is on a card. The
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by bonton89 2y ago
Gas obsession is fascinating to me since it isn't even the main expense of owning a vehicle in estimation. One of the execs at my company that has since retired once spent 2 hours waiting to fill up his BMW when the local gas station h
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by bonton89 2y ago
People already do this, at least if they're smart.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I wish they'd just sell/rent little trailers with a charging engine on them you could take on long trips.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I never understand this argument. If feels like saying there is no reason to wear just a helmet in outer space because you'll die without a space suit anyway. Yes, there are other methods of fingerprinting that can track your with vary

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