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by codeka 7mo ago
People aren't setting Teslas on fire? Where do you get that from? https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/01/tesla-pr...
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by codeka 8mo ago
> One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish When you literally live on the farm where the cow is milked, there is less benefit to pasteurization, yes. Unless you want us to live like the Amish, then
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by codeka 1y ago
> one involving Waymo Are you referring to the one where a Waymo, and several other cars, were stopped at a traffic light, when another car (incidentally, a Tesla) barreled into the traffic stack at 90 MPH, killing several people? Becaus
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by codeka 3y ago
> The article notes that the data is incomplete, but that only means that there are more incidents than the graph shows. But what it doesn't note is where the data is incomplete. If they started actively looking for incidents in M
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by codeka 3y ago
If you care about absolute numbers, then you need to compare it against human-caused incidents too. If there's 100,000 human-caused incidents then AVs going from 3 -> 300 isn't even a blip.
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by codeka 3y ago
Sure, but the point is, they're doing it.
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by codeka 3y ago
> full self driving cars are a reality Full self driving cars are a reality. Waymo is giving 10,000 trips per week with nobody behind the steering wheel in SF and Pheonix.
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by codeka 3y ago
It was the right decision not because it was made of cardboard, but because it "fluttered". If it had been full of bowling balls and just thunked to the ground, it would not have been the right decision to just drive over it.
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by codeka 6y ago
> And in some circumstances four-way stops flow more traffic. There's no way that's true, is it? What circumstances would a four way stop sign allow for more traffic flow than a roundabout? I'm pretty sure it's pure
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by codeka 6y ago
It's fairly well-known that the Tea Party was basically funded by the Koch brothers, right? I assume you've read things like [1] which go fairly deep into how they funded and organized pretty much all the "grass roots" a
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by codeka 7y ago
The exact same problem exists with volunteer-maintained maps. In fact it's even worse there because at least with a commercial map, quality is basically correlated with where the users are. With a volunteer-maintained map, quality is c
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by codeka 8y ago
I don't even understand the benefit of 100.00% uptime, over 99.99% anyway? I mean, I probably spend more time in a parking garage with no internet available to me at all, than google spends being down in any given month. I mean, I unde
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by codeka 8y ago
None of that really matters if Mars is on the other side of sun from Earth. You'd need relay satellites to direct the signal around the sun, and even at the speed of light that's going to take tens of minutes, one way. As the pare
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by codeka 8y ago
What makes you say that? See, eg https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/google-search-engine-chi...
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Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment(media.volvocars.com)
121 points by codeka 8y ago|126 comments
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by codeka 8y ago
But they don't have to ask for access to all your pictures. You can ask Android to show the standard picker, get the one picture you've selected and that's it. Or you can do it the way FB does it, by asking for permission t
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by codeka 9y ago
They send each other checks. Actual piece-of-paper checks. To their credit, they've got it to the point where I can take a picture of the front/back of the check with my smartphone, upload the photos to my bank's website and
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Valve is not VAC banning you for having a linux username 'catbot'(np.reddit.com)
12 points by codeka 9y ago|3 comments
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LastPass’ Authenticator app is not secure(medium.com)
116 points by codeka 9y ago|113 comments
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by codeka 9y ago
Why is it only the server's service that you get to pay what you feel like? This steak is nice, but it's not $17 nice. I think I'll just pay $14 for it. These new tires for my car don't ride as well as the old ones. I th
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by codeka 9y ago
That's still not even close to Google's repository: "The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Google's entire 18-year existence. The repo
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by codeka 9y ago
I thought it meant that Google et al are all trying to solve the "pizza in San Francisco" problem (i.e. trying to find local businesses) and not trying to solve the problems that people are actually turning to maps for, because &q
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by codeka 9y ago
That possibility always exists, but it's hard to see how it could be worse than the half a million deaths per year that is currently attributed to mosquitoes.
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by codeka 9y ago
Potato/potahto, really. Good luck getting a visa next time if you've ever been "denied entry". Really, for non-Americans the best advice is just don't go in the first place. Second best advice is just comply with bo
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by codeka 10y ago
I had the same problem with someone signing up for an Apple ID with my email address. I even tried calling Apple to get them to cancel the account, but they wouldn't let me because I couldn't answer any of the security questions o
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by codeka 10y ago
Google Play Services won't give an app any more than that app has permissions for. If you request location updates from Google Play Services, for example, but your app doesn't have the fine-location permission, you won't get
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by codeka 10y ago
Well you still need to trust that Google/your device manufacturer isn't simply reading everything on your device's screen.
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by codeka 10y ago
Yeah, I found I needed to set up some keyboard shortcuts for controlling mute/volume levels, but other than that it's been pretty set-and-forget (timezones not being a problem on a desktop). The time I spent setting those things u
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by codeka 10y ago
> The first option I tried was an i3 based desktop. However whilst I wanted to like tiling window managers I decided it wasn’t for me. It took me a week or so to get used to i3, but once I did I can't see myself ever going back. I&#
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by codeka 10y ago
I've been using Visual Studio Code on Linux to do some TypeScript development. It's actually pretty nice, and works really well in a general JavaScript environment (npm, etc).

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