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Why is everyone so focused on heat when cosmic rays randomly scrambling memory is going to be a much bigger problem?

what if this is all _still_ part of his plan, and the happy meal is intentional, and he called the police on himself at the mcdonalds?

Nope, if it's one person, it's gotta be Szabo. Only person in the world who wouldn't cite his work would be himself. (If it's more than one person, of course it could include Len.)

I believe this means that the part's computer has the vehicle's VIN loaded into it with a computer that can only be purchased/used by a certified technician. If he was to buy a new part, it would have a blank VIN; and if he pulled one from a junker, it would have that car's VIN.

(edit: should also say, I think a VIN mismatch would cause the ECU to refuse to work with that part and shut down)

Don't the salaries at AppAmaGooBookSoft (sorry, patio11's spelling is canonical here) themselves include a risk premium that is incenting the people there to stay instead of going to work at a small company with the opportunity to topple one of them?

How do you model those risk premiums against each other? It seems like they should both go infinity in order to keep anyone from ever leaving anywhere.

Heh, saw this too, my whole office got a kick out of it:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2094740884_zpid/?fullpage...

LOL, I swear it feels like the answer to every "why is this weird computer thing this way?" question I see is "because we used to do it this way on punch cards."

Basically if you never read a particular block from your volume after you initialize it, AWS never moves it out of S3 into EBS.

This can cause bizarrely slow performance for database or other random-read applications when you fire up a volume from a snapshot.

The official mitigation is to literally read every block once and then your volume will perform the way you expect:

  sudo fio --filename=/dev/xvdf --rw=randread --bs=128k --iodepth=32 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --name=volume-initialize

ok, so what's the final set of coordinates then? searching that on google maps and putting the center point into savethedate.foo did not work.

do these somehow correspond to chess move notation?

Image name is base64 encoded: V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8 = Where have you been?

So, maybe where the chess pieces have been moved from?

ah interesting...like a maze! if we get a count from somewhere, we hop that many steps, and you end up at the exit at the bottom right.

You forgot to put "company" in quotes =D

I live 8 miles from work. "Limiting my range" from 200 miles to 150 miles between daily charge ups is irrelevant.

The data already gathered would indicate that your suspicion is wrong. Currently the US averages 1 fatality for every 89 million miles driven. Autopilot is at almost twice that with only 1 fatality. So autopilot already fails less often than a human.

Consider this anecdote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/756004029239472132

Then rethink if you really believe that this pedestrian deserves to be dead because you don't trust the data and the world-class engineers for which this is literally their job everyday.

If the energy is free b/c it comes from the solar panels on the roof of my garage, why do I care?

Can someone start an indiegogo to fund an independent photographer to take high-resolution photos of every utility pole in Seattle?? And then crowdsource inspection of them to identify the cameras?? I would surely contribute and participate.

If you want to "turn it's features on and off", then why does the Chromium team's stance of "extensions are the standard way to enable custom behavior"[0] not apply here???

This is a classic unfortunate case of using data from the masses to drive a bad design choice because it increases "usage" along an arbitrary axis.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729287

I don't think they support printers...yet.

Ahh, AutoCAD...the desktop app that pretty much _ruined_ me for all future applications. The first application that I ever used to actually create something new, before I even really learned to write code.

The beauty of AutoCAD was that it was designed for power users only. The learning curve was almost vertical...but to me, that's the true sign of a powerful application. Fortunately, I had a high-school drafting class and then took a class at my local community college...having a real-life instructor was invaluable. It was exclusively designed around a "one hand on keyboard, one hand on mouse" stance, but you could do _everything_ from that position.

Once I got over the the initial learning hump and most of the commands became second nature, I could work almost as fast as I could think. I was working on something like a 500Mhz PIII running Win98, and I cannot remember it ever lagging or crashing while I was working.

But the most important thing to me? Since it was a desktop app, it had 100% control over the keyboard and mouse inputs.

  No accidentally closing a tab or refreshing the page.  
  No browser updates f'ing with my right click menu.  
  No scroll-jacking.  
  No zoom-jacking.  
  No shortcut-key overlap with plugins (looking at you, 1Password/google docs)
  No input lag...EVER.

I miss that level of user/machine interface...Every. Single. Day.

I think his point is that when you watch anyone long enough, they become criminals. So if you watch everyone, everyone becomes a criminal.

I would _really_ love a collapse button that floats down the screen as I scroll, so I can hide an entire reply chain after I'm deep into it already.

Apple to FBI: "Here's an ELI5 on how the All Writ's Act is supposed to work"

I do not understand why no one is talking about this possibility. This is a much more terrifying option, the precedent already exists (lavabit), and it would enable a much broader application of different versions of FBiOS.

from that discussion, super informative details on how secure enclave is actually implemented:

http://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/2832533/#C...

Out of curiosity, how tall are you? I think he said a big part of the problem with minivans is that you can hit your head on the roof while trying to lean in to snap the buckles. With the falcon wing doors, the roof flips up too. Obviously if you are blessed to be average height, that may not be a problem for you.

As a tall person, I am excited that Elon is tall and getting them to consider the problems of not being average height =)

Actually, I was most curious about what happens when two Model X's park next to each other.

I think what jedberg meant was that if you are producing the electricity at a centralized place (like even a coal-fired power plant) you could theoretically capture carbon using massive scrubbers on the exhaust towers. Developing similar technology and installing it in all of the individual gas-burning cars would be near impossible.

My 2c: The real "secret plan" here is that converting us to electric vehicles paves the way to develop (and creates structural demand for) 0-emission ways to recharge them, like:

- resurgence of large nuclear plants

- self-contained micro-nuclear reactors that you could bury in your yard

- solar on your garage (paired with a Tesla Powerwall to recharge your car at night)