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When can I get this module in VCV? :)

In a taxi, the passenger is not the liable party.

Teslas aren't approved to operate as taxis, whereas Waymos explicitly are. I think that's the difference here.

There's a full bodycam video here[1] of an officer in Phoenix pulling over a Waymo. The driver's window gets rolled down and he gets connected via voice to a Waymo agent and they're able to discuss what was going on. Waymo then kept the car parked there and sent someone out.

I'm really curious what the full interaction was like for this SF Waymo. The QR code on the window just links to a couple phone numbers[2] which seems insufficient to me in the case where a car is merely ticketed but not formally pulled over.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1dvso... [2] https://waymo.com/emergency-response/

What is considered "high"?

The Rivian R1T's clearance goes up to 14.9 inches, and has a motor per wheel. Does it count?

I'm struggling to think of any mainstream big tech products that incorporated crypto at all. Besides some financial apps adding an additional tab for it.

What? The original Siri asked if the user wanted to continue their search on the web if it couldn't handle it locally. It was one of the last things from the Jobs era.

In this case it adds to their credentials

> I wasn't being unnecessarily negative.

And yet you ended up writing one of the most unnecessarily negative things I've read on here in a long time.

I work with the folks who built that! It truly was months of giddy passion on their part[1]. And it was such a joy to see in person.

Disclosure: I might not have worked on The Orb but I do work on Steam Deck and other projects at Valve.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/41180511...

That's like saying why should anyone at all make music, art, hire actors, etc., when A.I. will be able to do all of these tasks identically over the next couple years (partially already).

The human element is important. Because we're humans.

Programming in YAML (for Home Assistant automations) was quite... something.

I very quickly switched all of my logic over to vanilla JavaScript in Node-RED and haven't looked back.

I'm also somewhat avoiding Boeing planes these days (hard when you live in Seattle and almost exclusively fly Alaska) but just to nit, 777s don't have MCAS.

Does presentation "deck" not come from when presentations were piles of slide cards? A "deck" of slide cards? Resembling a deck of cards?

Do you also go into skateboard shops with this rant when they refer to their boards as decks?

Edit: Actually I don't care, this is just normal (and wrong) Internet Pedantry™ but I'm just taken aback by how out of place and violent it is!

This game just looks so good today. I know lots of folks already knew that games don't have to look AAA to be excellent, and the success of Minecraft really drove that idea home to the masses, but this game really stands out to me. It almost looks better and better to me as the years march on.

Who does, Kayak? The airline? I don't know about Kayak but that's not a thing with any airline contract of carriage that I'm aware of. In fact a lot of airlines explicitly say that their ticket does not guarantee particular equipment, seats, etc. Just that the airline will get you from the origin to the destination(s) in the cabin class you paid for.

I don't know, because these various startups don't pretend to have a cohesive vision/platform/ecosystem with each other, but that's exactly what Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc do.

I can't think of any apps or services that Apple has launched in the past decade and has since killed, whereas without even trying I can rattle off at least ten such projects by Google.

Well, I do now. I'm hungry.

Unrelated to the article directly, it's kinda neat that the site's text selection highlight color is randomized on every mousedown.

> No computer system, from the command line, has a command that allows you to "make_folder" but every system has a "make_directory" (mkdir) or "change_directory" (cd) and so on. If there is little to no difference, then why is this so?

But doesn't that prove the concept that they're the same thing? If they were different things, surely there would be a different command for creating a folder and versus creating a directory. But there's just one command, and nobody is going to make a command called `mkdirakafol` ("make directory a.k.a. folder"). Sometimes multiple names can mean the same thing.

Like, a "trunk" and a "boot" can refer to the same thing. So what you just said is like "my car has an Open Trunk button, not an Open Boot button, so surely those are different concepts."

I've fallen for xkcd 386...

What's the difference? When I select "New Folder" on my computer's file browser, it creates a directory. Your comment is the first time I'm hearing they're not interchangeable.

Is Fig still kicking? I worked on it a bit as an intern back in 2014, but Mercurial has also been on its way out of mainstream support over the last few years. It was a really neat project!

Inevitable sure, but sad.

"X times less" is actually a technically meaningless statement, but colloquially would mean 1/X. There's nothing to be gained by being pedantic over that

Hi fellow Alaska frequent flier.

So about that! There's this iOS app called Flightly that does a brilliant little hack where the app updates itself in (almost) real time on the "free messaging" plan. The way it works (according to a friend) is that their servers send your phone a push notification every couple of minutes from take-off until landing, containing some serialized info such as lat,long,alt,eta,etc. And then the app immediately swallows the notification and deserializes its content without you ever seeing it. The notification works because in order for Alaska to give you notifications at all for your messaging apps, it needs to give you access to _all_ push notifications as they all get sent over an encrypted connected through Apple's server and it can't pick and choose which apps' notifications it lets through.

I've often wondered if it'd be possible to pipe any sort of internet over notifications but I'm not sure if e.g. inline responses are viable, and also that'd probably be heavy enough usage of push notifications I'm sure it's violate someone's TOS.

> Why anyone thinks this is notable and not disappointing is exasperating to me.

Normally I'm the kind of person who has a bias against things not "fresh" but this one doesn't phase me in the slightest. I suspect it's because NY-style pizza re-heated in this matter (or even as next-day leftovers in a Hot oven) are damn good! Something about it, it comes back to life just perfectly to me.

In the typescript playground, the best way to see the output of any evolution number is to have it autocomplete a string literal!

Uncomment one of the PGunXX types that you want to see, then below it type this:

    const boardstr: PGun10 = ``;

Then put the cursor inside the two backticks and press Control+Space for intellisense autocomplete, and press enter on the first entry there. Then intellisense will put the computed board into a string literal, looking like:

    const boardstr: PGun10 = `............................................
    ........................xx..................
    ........................x..x................
    ..........x.x...............x......xx.......
    ........x...x..xxx..........x......xx.......
    .xx.....x...................x...............
    .xx....x....x.......xx..x..x................
    ........x.......x.x..x..xx..................
    ........x...x.....xxx.......................
    ..........x.x...............................
    ............................................`;

I wouldn't say avoiding others during a pandemic is agoraphobia, it's a rational response. But after a society has largely resumed dense public activities, it's only possibly a phobia if you've formed a personal preference to partake based on your own risk/reward tolerance yet find yourself anxious to do so.

Is this stereoscopic? I don't see any mention in the readme or demo video link but based on the description of hooking the compositor, unless it's translating rapidly for left/right eyes or the simulator gives left+right textures in real time, this would be monoscopic right?

The first Arduinos with that formfactor which supports shields are from around 2005[0]. The Uno wasn't the first[1], it was just a model line set up for that specific formfactor for consistency, since the name was changing frequently (e.g. "Arduino Diecimila", "Arduino Duemilanove", etc).

[0] https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/boards/arduino-serial [1] https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/other/arduino-older-boards