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ebg13··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
> Can someone explain how is Pro faster than Air with same CPU?

Active cooling.

ebg13··on My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
> Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.

It is! Until you try to secure it. Then it isn't.

ebg13··on WD SN850 delivers the best performing SSD we've tested
> Almost half the speed

And 1/3 the price. If you bought it because it was on sale, doesn't that mean you're at least somewhat price sensitive? I don't think you should feel bad about your purchase.

ebg13··on WD SN850 delivers the best performing SSD we've tested
> What's the endurance of these devices?

It says in the article.

ebg13··on Let the Incarcerated Vote
Law and morality aren't the same. Maybe you find it appalling to harm others? But plenty of crimes don't harm others. So how do you feel about the rest?

And if enough incarcerated people and non-incarcerated people collectively believe a thing, what makes the beliefs of the non-incarcerated special given that the beliefs are the same?

By what we can assume is your reasoning based on your dismissal, if two thirds of the entire population believed that a thing should be legal but half of them were incarcerated for doing that very thing, the final third should be able to hold the incarcerated third hostage despite being significantly in the minority on the issue. That's highly irrational.

ebg13··on Why That Autonomous Race Car Crashed Straight into a Wall
MATLAB's Stateflow toolkit is actually excellent for robotics engineering. Without more information, that MATLAB declaration in the article could mean many things.
ebg13··on Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
If you consider the rules for human defensive driving as gospel, the safety side of this problem seems to go away. Defensive driving doesn't act based on predictions of what external agents _will_ do, which may have regional variation. It identifies what external agents _could_ do, which does not have regional variation, and engages accordingly with rules and physics e.g. by making sure that the vehicle always has a safe escape path if it needs to stop abruptly or swerve to avoid a collision.
ebg13··on VPN by Google One
> Privacy and security is core to everything we make.

Is this Poe's law in action?

ebg13··on Facebook Q3 2020
Do we have accurate estimates for how many of them are real and unique people?
ebg13··on The ungentle joy of spider sex
Likely not because of extreme popularity. Publishers almost always switch very quickly from hardcover to only printing paperback editions because the market isn't willing to pay the additional cost. It's worse for weird scifi novels because the market is small, so the hardcover run for this was probably tiny.
ebg13··on FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
We can easily reconcile the two by recognizing that profit doesn't have to be money and that terrorists definitely profit from fear (otherwise they wouldn't do it). Everything we do is for profit, even if that profit isn't measured exclusively in dollars.

We can further reconcile them by saying that the entire mechanism for extracting money from the ransom victim is by making them afraid. In this case, afraid of losing their computer systems.

ebg13··on Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
Ok, but so what? Do you care about sharing with people (accomplished) or about getting karma points?
ebg13··on Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot
> > even CR agrees that tesla's autopilot outperforms supercruise

> where?

In the section titled "Capabilities and Performance".

ebg13··on Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot
I think they will reconsider adding LIDAR at some point. It's just another sensor after all, and fusing another sensor would be great because having more different sensing modalities is usually better. But their performance is still better than any of the other commercial options even without it.
ebg13··on Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot
If your idea of safety is explicitly that it should be disabled in the places where most traffic fatalities occur (rural roads + intersections) due to rampant human negligence, then I think you should reconsider your definition of safety.
ebg13··on Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot
According to the charts and descriptions in the article, it literally doesn't. The article shows Tesla firmly in the lead in capability/performance and ease of use and that Cadillac just nannies the driver more and turns itself off completely when not on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access, which is antithetical to making the world safer because it's only active away from where people currently die by the thousands due to human negligence.

CR's idea of goodness is that autopiloting should only ever be allowed on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access. Since Cadillac's only works on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access, they get high marks. But that's not better performance. That's worse performance with a geofence to hide the details.

> “Active driving assistance systems should only be able to be activated in low-risk driving environments, void of pedestrians and tricky situations, such as intersections and complicated traffic patterns,” Funkhouser says.

But this ignores the fact that most traffic fatalities happen from human negligence in the places where Cadillac's Supercruise explicitly disables itself, rural roads + intersections. If Cadillac's system only ever activated while parked in your garage they could give it a 10/10 for safety, and it would not make the world safer.

ebg13··on The Need for Touch
That's an irrationally fearful idea of danger. I don't want to eat broccoli, but that doesn't mean eating broccoli is dangerous.
ebg13··on The Need for Touch
> STIs are a real danger.

This is basically false and fear mongering.

Herpes has zero consequence for the vast majority of people who have it. Most of the rest just get mild discomfort once a year or every few years. It's so common and harmless that doctors won't even bother testing for it unless you make them.

The connection between HPV and cancer is real but reporting on it overstates its significance. Your risk of developing HPV-related cancer is less than your risk of getting murdered (very low). Also there's an effective vaccine against the most oncogenic strains. If you're worried, get vaccinated.

HIV still sucks, try not to get it, but transmission isn't that easy and, while treatment used to be very expensive, we have cheap and effective post-exposure prophylaxis and the price now for the generic form of standard treatment is less than $100 per year, and life expectancy with HIV is now nearly normal.

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are cured by a single dose of oral antibiotics. Syphilis is also cured by antibiotics.

ebg13··on How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
I would argue that Apple card is actually a significantly different and better experience purely by virtue of being able to cycle the number at will. I no longer have to worry about the safety of handing my card number out over the phone. I no longer have to wait for a new card if the old number gets compromised. I no longer have to deal with completely inept new card processing agents who fail to actually send the card to the right address while I'm traveling after half a dozen tries and they keep just sending the damned thing to my house which they know I'm not at.
ebg13··on Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
> I suggest that we should give merek the for profit monopoly, but allow for non profit manufacturing. If another organization wants to make the vaccine but not derive profit from the process, let them.

Not-for-profit manufacturing would have to be done by the government itself, wouldn't it? Otherwise, what other entity would and could actually pay to set that up?

ebg13··on We studied what happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
> show your best

> It is not about not liking someone because he is not manly enough with a cat in his hands...It is about a multitude of unconscious factors

Unconscious factors like thinking that a man with a cat isn't manly or "best".

ebg13··on We studied what happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
Anecdotally, I was once told many years ago by a woman on a date that men are supposed to like dogs, not cats, because something adjacent to "dogs are for boys and cats are for girls". The date went well, but I did not follow up.

So, I see truth in their assessment, but I strongly question their conclusion.

> if heterosexual men are looking to get a match, it’s probably a good idea if they save showing off their photos with their favorite felines for the first or second date

Or you might not want to build a relationship with someone who thinks that owning a cat isn't "manly", and this becomes a good filter.

ebg13··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
Is there any chance that someone could sue them for filing illegitimate claims?
ebg13··on iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective)
This is content-free blogspam.

It looks like all of this user's past submissions are too?

ebg13··on Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency
> since the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time

Assuming for the moment that this is true...

Even something that is secretly lawful can be entirely immoral and only doable if kept hidden from the public who would otherwise object. The whistleblower's responsibility is to the public, not just their organizational superiors.

It's unhealthy to believe that the law dictates ethics.

ebg13··on Halide Mark II
Are there meaningful benefits from using Halide for people who don't want to shoot RAW or manipulate their photos in Lightroom? Articles like e.g. https://fstoppers.com/apps/why-you-shouldnt-waste-money-came... say I shouldn't bother.
ebg13··on GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production
If it helps, I don't think Teslas should accelerate that quickly either.
ebg13··on GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production
> Converting a large gallons-to-the-mile ICE to an emissions-free electric drive train shows a willingness to cannibalize a previously successful marketing brand

The marketing brand for Hummers is girth and power, male sexual machismo in car form, and that isn't changing at all. Nobody evaluates their proxy phallus in terms of fuel consumption. They do it in terms of manly things like horsepower, towing capacity, and taking up a lot of space so that the whole world notices you. Electric vehicle marketing has been all over the "MOAR POWAR!" angle from the very beginning. There's zero reason for a car to accelerate to 60MPH in 3 seconds, but here we are with every electric tank advertising that it flies like a bullet.

ebg13··on NYC’s new digital subway map
Given how unusable the site is in Safari and Firefox on macOS, probably because it was written by someone who should not have been tasked with writing it. :\
ebg13··on NYC’s new digital subway map
Map performance is nightmarishly bad on my 2017 15" MBP. Dragging the map ranges from completely unusable in Safari 14 to janky as shit in Firefox 82 to mediocre but at least functional in Chrome 86.

The log is filled with CORS violations and requests to example.com.

This is not good.

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