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by staktrace 4y ago
I've found that one of the more subtle cons to thinking in public is that you become more attached to the opinion you have expressed. I'm not sure if that's because you are forced to defend it more vigorously or just because
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by staktrace 5y ago
This is a good point, and I agree. If there was a close call you can't actually say for sure if it would have been a collision without the software.
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by staktrace 5y ago
I get what you're trying to say, but if anything, you're just making the case for Tesla software. Consider that there is a range of drivers, from "good" to "bad". If most drivers go decades with zero collisions
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by staktrace 5y ago
> So if something appears in your path, the right course of action is to accelerate into it? You mis-parsed what I said here. My sentence was probably too long. Let me try using shorter ones. Say you are driving. Suddenly a squirrel appe
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by staktrace 5y ago
It does work, yes.
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by staktrace 5y ago
There's been a number of occasions where I would have been in an accident had it not been for the software saving me. Obviously it is possible that one day the software will result in an accident that would not have happened had I been
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by staktrace 5y ago
Self-reply to add: despite (occasionally) experiencing phantom braking and my wife once experiencing the "loss of power" scenario due to a defective drive unit, I'm still very happy with the Tesla overall. In my experience it
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by staktrace 5y ago
To reply to your first question: if the car decides to emergency brake, you can still override it by pressing the accelerator. In my experience, the braking that happens is "hard" but no more hard than you would do yourself if som
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by staktrace 5y ago
Your experience is not universal. In my case the combination of me+software is certainly safer than me alone, and also less taxing for me.
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by staktrace 5y ago
Try looking at about:support to see if there are any third-party modules (antivirus etc. loaded). That has been a cause of problems like this in the past. More likely on Windows and I saw you're running macOS, but worth a shot.
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by staktrace 5y ago
This is awesome! I just wrote a blog post along the same lines ( https://staktrace.com/spout/entry.php?id=883 ) and I would like to join forces with you. Let me know if there's anything concrete I can do at the mome
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by staktrace 5y ago
(Second tip: get to know people, and let them get to know you, well enough to ask for advice)
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by staktrace 5y ago
First tip: don't ask for advice from people who know nothing about you. The less context people have about your specific situation, the more generic and less useful their advice is going to be.
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Rust 2021 edition entering public testing period(blog.rust-lang.org)
2 points by staktrace 5y ago|0 comments
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Catchment Area(neil.fraser.name)
2 points by staktrace 5y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 5y ago
https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/03_how_ln_work... is a reasonable explanation of you're interested in the technical aspects.
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by staktrace 5y ago
I think there's probably some middle ground here. Like say the national economy is 100% on Bitcoin and then as long as they have a balanced trade with other countries (i.e. no long term trade deficit/surplus) they can deal with th
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by staktrace 5y ago
Network size is a virtue too. Specially for things that benefit from network effects!
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by staktrace 5y ago
Maybe you should try to actually read up on what the lightning network is before you argue against some ill-informed strawman version of it.
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by staktrace 5y ago
You argue it is stable by arguing you never need to convert it to fiat. If your economy is running 100% on Bitcoin it doesn't matter what the exchange rate to USD our any other currency is. (Note I'm not actually arguing this is t
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by staktrace 5y ago
Note: this is from April 2020.
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Slack is optimized for Firefox version 520(miketaylr.com)
1 points by staktrace 6y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web(palant.info)
178 points by staktrace 6y ago|63 comments
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by staktrace 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem statement. But it seems to me that you are using (and paying for) N units from your regular provider. And then your community solar operation is selling S units to the grid and giving you a monet
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by staktrace 6y ago
> In statistical terms the answer is yes, Not actually. Statistics from a larger population "cannot" be used to predict outcomes from a smaller subset or individual from the population. ("cannot" in the sense that you
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Data Science Is Hard: ALSA in Firefox(chuttenblog.wordpress.com)
5 points by staktrace 6y ago|2 comments
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by staktrace 6y ago
To me your comment seems based on a misguided idea of what Mozilla is about. I recommend reading https://civilityandtruth.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-f... for some good background.
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by staktrace 6y ago
Pull to refresh has been implemented, but still needs some polish before being released. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9766
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by staktrace 6y ago
I wrote a tool to do the opposite thing: allow writing "shell scripts" using Rust. Still early days but https://github.com/staktrace/khaki is where it lives.
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by staktrace 6y ago
FWIW, as a Mozilla employee, I think this is one of the best summaries I've read of the state of Mozilla.

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