> The market never lies.
I suppose you weren't paying much attention in 2008.
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I suppose you weren't paying much attention in 2008.
It's just so unintuitive and trying to teach it in a "here are some good shortcuts that will save you time" way was a near-total waste.
vim is the closest any editor comes to interfacing directly with my brain. Once you learn to make your neurons fire in the right way to move the cursor to the right spot, it's easy and there's no better way to edit code. Describing the neuron firing order to someone else, though, is futile.
It's like learning to to use your fingers to pick something up for the first time as a kid: you just have to try enough times until it sticks.
There is no information in these charts about the test scores of those admitted.
Just because something is difficult to automate doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
"Free" shipping can easily turn into $6-$12 if you're not careful at checkout.
Making NPR display its funding sources for all to see is a good thing (although "state-affiliated" was not the right label). Not making other high profile accounts do the same is pure hypocrisy.
My dad had an early-80s Ford pickup when I was a kid. The cylinder in its ignition switch was broken in a way that you could hop in, turn the ignition switch, start the truck, and drive away -- all without a key. The ONLY thing preventing extremely easy theft was a few tiny pins in a lock cylinder.
This is an extreme case, but it illustrates how easy it was to steal cars before modern theft-prevention: bypass the mechanical lock to connect a couple wires together, and drive it away.
This was exactly my thought. If the headlights, and any other easily access CAN bus wiring, were properly isolated from critical security ECUs via a properly configured gateway, this attack would be impossible.
For me, it's more that these crimes he's accused of really pale in comparison to other things we've seen Trump say and do, like the two things he was impeached for.
This isn't a parking ticket, it's misusing campaign funds to help get oneself elected president.
1. What is the ultimate AI are we trying to eventually build? 2. What are the consequences if we eventually succeed in building such an AI?
For me, the answers would be
1. A general AI that would equal and surpass human intelligence. 2. God only knows.
Will we get there? Who knows. We do know, however, that the consequences are great enough that only a fool would not at least attempt to prepare by putting some safeguards in place beforehand.
That being said, mechanical controls are superior for tasks that need to be done while driving: I'm thinking wiper and A/C controls in particular, with mirror and seat adjustments being slightly less important. I fully expect Tesla to start adding a few more hardware controls as other manufacturers learn to market this as a value add over Tesla.
Maybe I've been driving the wrong cars, but I don't expect to be able to feel around blindly to find the right button to press (although, to be honest, that does seem like it'd be doable with this Kona design). I do expect, however, to be able to glance at the button panel and quickly get a fix on the button location so that I can look back at the road while my fingers to the rest. This design would certainly enable the latter.
When I canceled a subscription to a local paper (Dallas Morning News), their policy said I had to call to cancel. Instead, I sent an email informing them I was rescinding authorization to charge my credit card.
They initially responded stating that I had to call to cancel my subscription. One more email reminding them that charging my card without authorization would be credit card fraud turned out to be enough to have the phone call requirement dropped.
I have since found that Java itself steers developers in this direction and this type of naming is actually quite natural when working with Java.
That being said, I still find it really amusing. Kudos to the person who made it
https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/index.html
~2% chance of an infection leading to hospitalization sounds pretty bad to me.
> This is objectively a worse experience than I grew up with (and it costs a whole lot more too.)
This is objectively wrong. Inflation-adjusted Nintendo console launch prices have been trending downward since the 80s. Games are cheaper too. I remember saving up to spend $40-$50 for NES games in the early 90s, which would be in the $100 range in today's dollars. That's significantly more expensive than the $60 first-party Switch games today.
I doubt the accuracy of this statement. But I'll make a largely-unsubstantiated claim of my own, nonetheless: for-profit agriculture has substantially increased the cost of for-profit healthcare by focusing on high-profit foods that are highly processed and addictive instead of foods that are actually good for us to consume.
I remember having a domain my parents' had registered for their business. My parents forgot to pay the bill on it one year, and the registrar (don't remember which) bought it up, and wanted some huge "fee" in the hundreds of dollar range before giving it back.
It's akin to the overdraft fees banks charge: charging ridiculous prices for a "service" the customer didn't even ask for.
I was even blissfully ignorant to the existence of these social features in Google Reader until this moment.
I expect we'll start to see some backlash where major new NFT projects build more safeguards into their contracts to try and reel back in some of the control the marketplaces have gained.
Some of problems I've had with Google Maps recently:
- Routing gives me weird bypasses that aren't necessary and often actually add time to the trip. I've started to not trust the routing.
- The UX when searching for places is extremely difficult to navigate, especially when trying to use map view instead of list view
- planning a route _without_ asking for directions is near impossible because many street and landmark names are not displayed
- Landmarks are drowned out by the overwhelming clutter of business names (paid ads)
- Maps are sometimes wrong in my area and I have no idea how to get them fixed.
I've started using OsmAnd for most of my mapping needs lately, and it's better in almost every way _as a map_. The only major thing it's lacking for me is traffic-aware navigation.
> Following the logic you're laying out, I don't think it's the defense of truth you're advocating for; it's social harmony and stability. Basically the ideals favored in the Chinese model -- which censors true things and false things equally, depending on their social impact.
This is a straw man. The original comment made no such argument. From the comment you're responding to:
> ... I desperately do not want further injury or violence to occur spurned by incorrect speech on the facts of reality.
1) this could ever be a significant enough amount of Bitcoin mining energy to make Bitcoin "carbon neutral", and
2) if it ever did become a significant source of energy for Bitcoin, it would likely also be viable for other uses, eliminating the carbon offset argument
I'm not doubting that you can put a cheap and inefficient boiler generator on top of a methane flare and label it "green energy."