eldaisfish

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by eldaisfish 7d ago
i don't think you fully understand how many edge cases there really are, and the full range of conditions people here expect autonomous cars or even driver assist systems to function in. As a very simple example, i sat my driving test
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by eldaisfish 8d ago
a better analogy would be a toyota hybrid, which is basically the same as any other hybrid car, except for the one issue of reliability. So yes, a toyota hybrid and a chevrolet hybrid should be exactly the same, but they are not, the price
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by eldaisfish 13d ago
You are not a transport planner and it shows. People in the US don’t magically “want” giant pickup trucks and pedestrian killing SUVs. They want cheap and practical vehicles, neither of which are available in large quantities. Notice how th
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by eldaisfish 14d ago
what i personally find most insightful about this website is how the techbro culture will do anything except consider the needs of the many. why bother with good transit when we can automate cars? why bother with copyright when we can just
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by eldaisfish 15d ago
For anyone curious, this is hyperbole that people of certain political persuasions love to mischaracterise. These were not "protests", they were a sustained attempt to appeal to the wrong level of government for policies of a fore
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by eldaisfish 18d ago
this tech bro utopia ALWAYS ignores relatively basic solutions. A great example is reliable, regular, and efficient public transit. We don't need self driving cars and all that mumbo jumbo. A bloody train, tram or a bus would solve mos
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by eldaisfish 19d ago
removing the cellular modem from a car can have several unintended consequences. The geniuses at hyundai refuse to let you operate the heating in some of their electric cars without an internet connection. Yes, you read that right - the onl
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by eldaisfish 20d ago
right now, i cannot even enable Backspace = go back on Edge. I am forced to use Edge on my work computer and i hate that this feature is gone. Not disabled, just gone. About enter to auto submit, i've been running into this problem mor
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by eldaisfish 20d ago
you are arguing against a strawman. Most reasonable people want support for both keyboard and mouse-based navigation. For example, why did Edge and possible chrome, remove support for Back via the backspace key? Literally, why remove someth
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by eldaisfish 28d ago
it is quite telling that wikipedia has pages upon pages documenting pokemon, but relatively limited context about maths or science, beyond what's in textbooks.
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by eldaisfish 1mo ago
All the data about India's demonetisation points to it being a complete and utter waste of time. The goalposts kept shifting and the whole aim was never clear. People died, please do not minimise their deaths. The absolute disaster of
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by eldaisfish 1mo ago
Why then are you trying to justify invasive hidden cameras in more places? Really, why not just use the existing solutions? This push for « convenience » is how we ended up with microphones in people’s most private spaces. I urge you to con
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by eldaisfish 1mo ago
but then you are not present, you are distracted by a computer. Just because that computer does not have a clunky monitor, doesn't mean that you aren't any less distracted. Some of the attitudes on this website, especially ones li
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by eldaisfish 1mo ago
I am an electrical engineer based in Ontario, Canada. I'm very interested in the energy transition, especially the shift to electric vehicles, electric heat and the opportunities this creates in the electricity sector. Looking for cont
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
this economic output comparison is brought up often, without proper context. During the time that the British were looting India, the industrial revolution happened. That also helped India's economic decline, as does the fact that toda
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
India's total exports are in the same ballpark as the Netherlands, a country with half the population of the city of Bombay. India may not be a poor country, but GDP doesn't capture the real state of india's wealth.
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
I see now why people downvote your comments. Please, if you do not understand the indian caste system, don't use that term, even in the context of a comparison. This is like comparing a balloon popping to a thermonuclear explosion. The
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
Most highway exits in Ontario, Canada and some part of the US have highway exit ramps where the right lane widens into two, one exiting and one continuing. The two lanes are not marked until the buffer before the exit. What you have is esse
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
would you say that a swiss german and someone from Hamburg have more in common than someone from Bavaria and someone from Helsinki?
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
these conversations are always incredibly frustrating. On one extreme are people who believe that white people are inherently better than black people because of some genetic inheritance. This is obvious nonsense. On the other extreme are t
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
Your argument ignores one important aspect - incentives. English is the global lingua franca, hence the incentive to learn English is incredibly strong. Outside of Germany, what exact benefit does the German language get you?
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
sad to see this downvoted because it is very much true. European society loves to pretend that they are these progressive, enlightened people. In reality, what they are is just better at hiding their racism and xenophobia. Your last point i
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
no, that's not true. The nation of Germany might not have existed, but the ethnic groups who would later define Germany very much did.
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
There is yet another angle that people don't like to discuss because it is uncomfortable. Every European nation state is built around ethnicity as the bedrock of society. This makes it nigh on impossible to integrate fully in these cou
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
i am curious - why are you not in favour of adding regulation? The point of most good regulation is to avoid consumer-hostile situations like this.
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
right, but back in the 90s, the onus of maintaining a working copy of any software was on you. Now, Sony simply reaches into you home and can deny you access to software/movies you "bought". These are not the same situation.
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
at least in Ontario, fines, starting at $ 25,000.
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by eldaisfish 2mo ago
Your latter point is legally incorrect. The protected term in Canada is “engineer”. If someone calls themselves an engineer without a P.Eng, that’s an offence.
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by eldaisfish 3mo ago
i strongly suggest you look this up before making claims like this. Nearly 60% of china's electricity demand in 2025 was met by coal generation.
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by eldaisfish 3mo ago
china is building coal plants because china has coal deposits. Please can you answer the question of where China is supplying its growing electricity demand? it is mostly coal or not?

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