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eurleif··on Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: Report
Is this LLM output? It's not supported by your source, which only says that activating the hazard lights is permissible, not that pulling over is impermissible. In fact, your source says: "We note that Subaru indicates that when the driver is unable or unwilling to take control of the vehicle, the system will bring the vehicle to a stop. A vehicle system that stops a vehicle directly in a roadway might, depending on the circumstances, be considered to contain a safety-related defect, i.e., it may present an unreasonable risk of an accident occurring or of death and injury in an accident."
eurleif··on Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: Report
HW4 vehicles with recent FSD software will pull over to the shoulder, activate hazard lights, and stop if the driver becomes incapacitated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKFlQz0qNwU

But the OP says this driver's car was model year 2020, which makes it HW3. All versions of FSD for HW3 (including 14.1 lite, the latest version, which came out after this incident) will stop in the lane with hazards on: https://x.com/JonBbC_TechGeek/status/2086347029018501183

eurleif··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
With all due respect to Steve, under 1 minute isn't that impressive. You can get there just by doing the beginner's method (a handful of different move-sequences) rapidly. The people who really study Rubik's Cube algorithms in depth can do it in a few seconds.
eurleif··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
>melatonin should be consumed in doses an order of magnitude smaller than the smallest available dosage.

It's available on Amazon in doses as low as 100mcg: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJL2GTC Are you saying this because you believe the correct dose is on the order of double-digit mcg, or because you're under the impression that the lowest available dose is single-digit mg?

eurleif··on Apple is getting this wrong
>They now admit that their outside lawyers emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names—only after we brought this to their attention.

I find it bizarre that they felt the need to specify "Asian". What does that have to do with anything?

eurleif··on Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
Netcraft confirms it...
eurleif··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
You seem to have the restrictiveness backwards? The MIT license (uutils coreutils) is less restrictive than the GPL (GNU coreutils), and the AGPL is more restrictive than the PostgreSQL license.

And it doesn't violate the PostgreSQL license to license the rewrite more restrictively. That's part of what makes MIT-style licenses less restrictive than the GPL or AGPL: they allow for more-restrictive relicensing.

eurleif··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
The GP seems to be describing "auto hold", which is a different feature from hill start assist, and is newer and less prevalent.
eurleif··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
I had to drive a rental car for a bit recently, after getting rear-ended, and I was shocked to discover that it defaulted to recirculation mode every time it was turned on, regardless of whether you'd turned it off the previous time. I felt light-headed in it a few times before I realized I needed to manually turn recirculation off every time. Horrible behavior, and I don't doubt that it's responsible for many accidents.
eurleif··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
>In Florida, driving up through Georgia, the billboard advertisements start 200 miles away.

There's even a billboard 979 miles away in Arizona: https://stock.adobe.com/images/eloy-az-nov-23-2024-buc-ee-s-...

eurleif··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
It looks like the "Skin Damage Over Time" chart is the same information as the timer.
eurleif··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
It would be useful to have an option to change the time of day, rather than always using the current time; e.g. for planning at night what to do tomorrow.
eurleif··on Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
To go even deeper into the weeds: this is only true of "simple" requests[0]. Requests that aren't "simple" always require preflight approval. This is based on which requests a <form> or link could already create without approval; since the dawn of time, <form method="post"> could submit a potentially-destructive request, and sites needed to protect themselves against that via XSRF tokens; so CORS could allow submiting the same class of requests without preflight approval, and not introduce any new attacks. But there's no <form method="delete">, for example, so CORS would have created attacks against previously-secure sites if it had allowed DELETE requests without preflight approval.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/COR...

eurleif··on Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
The part you may be missing is that cookies exist.

User visits A.com, types in their username and password, and a cookie is set in their browser. The browser will send that cookie back to A.com with all subsequent requests, and A.com's server will use it to enable access to the user's account.

Now the user visits B.com, which makes a request to A.com/private_user_data. The user's cookie is sent with this request, so A.com will respond with (and B.com will receive) the user's private data without the user consenting to this at all (not even in a "misguided" way).

eurleif··on Court Records Should Be Free
At least within the federal court system, binding precedent is already freely available. Only circuit courts and SCOTUS can create binding precedent, and the opinions of those courts are freely available on their respective sites, outside of PACER. E.g., here's the 9th circuit: https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/decisions/opinions/
eurleif··on Omarchy Is Not A Distro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
eurleif··on On The <dl> (2021)
Proposal from 2016 (closed): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/588
eurleif··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
Have you looked into using an unofficial ONT instead of the one supplied by your ISP? See: https://pon.wiki/guides/install-the-8311-community-firmware-...
eurleif··on Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
>Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho

Is it? I can't find a trademark registration on the USPTO site.

eurleif··on PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
The part that would violate guarantees in JavaScript is not function objects being kept alive longer, but function objects which should be distinct not being so.

    function foo() {
        return function() { };
    }
    console.log(foo() === foo()); // This must log `false` in a compliant implementation
eurleif··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
The linked Google policy states:

>We won’t give notice when legally prohibited under the terms of the request.

The post states that his lawyer has reviewed the subpoena, but doesn't mention whether or not it contained a non-disclosure order. That's an important detail to address if the claim is that Google acted against its own policy.

eurleif··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

    Running 100,000 `SELECT 1` queries:
    PostgreSQL (localhost): 2.84 seconds
    PostgreSQL (Unix socket): 1.93 seconds
    SQLite (in-memory): 0.07 seconds
    SQLite (tempfile): 0.06 seconds
(https://gist.github.com/leifkb/b940b8cdd8e0432cc58670bbc0c33...)
eurleif··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
The original claim being discussed is about the overhead of an in-process database vs. a database server in a separate process, not about whether SQLite or PostgreSQL have a faster database engine.
eurleif··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Because it doesn't make a difference, because `SELECT 1` doesn't need to touch the database:

    Running 100,000 `SELECT 1` queries:
    PostgreSQL (localhost): 2.71 seconds
    SQLite (in-memory): 0.07 seconds
    SQLite (tempfile): 0.07 seconds
(https://gist.github.com/leifkb/d8778422d450d9a3f103ed43258cc...)
eurleif··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Looks like the overhead is not insignificant:

    Running 100,000 `SELECT 1` queries:
    PostgreSQL (localhost): 2.77 seconds
    SQLite (in-memory): 0.07 seconds
(https://gist.github.com/leifkb/1ad16a741fd061216f074aedf1eca...)
eurleif··on California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files
>A blatant violation of both the first and second amendment.

That defense didn't do too well in another case: https://www.courthousenews.com/third-circuit-backs-new-jerse...

eurleif··on Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
A very long time ago, I had the idea to set up a joke site advertising "SpamZero, the world's best spam filter", with a bunch of hype about how it never, ever misses spam. When you clicked the download link, the joke would be revealed: you would get a file consisting of `function isSpam(msg) { return true; }`.

Apparently that's not a joke anymore?!

eurleif··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
The documentation doesn't make this entirely clear, but I think these are two separate things: the original `edit` command which is built into Windows 11 (and has been built into prior Windows releases), and a replacement written in Rust that can optionally be installed.

Note that my link is dated 2023, whereas Wikipedia says that Microsoft Edit was first released in 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor

eurleif··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
If you're ok with a TUI instead of a GUI, Microsoft's documentation says the `edit` command is still around in Windows 11 (I don't have a Windows 11 machine handy to verify this): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
eurleif··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
Here are the results I got with slight variations to the prompt to ChatGPT 5.2. Small changes can make a big difference: https://i.imgur.com/kFIeJy1.png
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