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I don't know much about GM's Supercruise, but I'm still in the camp that Tesla's Autopilot is dangerous and irresponsible.

More specifically, I'm against anything less than L4 autonomous self driving cars.

You want "kind of works" with a self driving system?

I think the idea is that "force" sounds like Uber is doing it without a prior arbitration agreement. "Enforce" sounds like Uber is doing it after an agreement with drivers. The latter is what is actually happening.

It's a small difference but it matters. The power difference is a separate issue between employers and employees is a separate (important) issue, though.

The software to see if it's in a valid state is trivial. But like the other commenter said, it's probably just calibrated to a "start" position.

I don't know about OP's environment, but the larger the codebase, the less feasible running every test locally as you go becomes. You run relevant tests locally as you go, but depending on the change it might take a long while to run ALL tests that could possibly be impacted.

It's not about distance for me, really. It's about availability and convenience of fuel. Gas stations are EVERYWHERE and it takes 3 minutes to fuel. Electric fueling stations require route planning, and takes 30+ minutes to fuel.

For people who can get away with charging at home & work, it's fine. For people like me who do stuff like 170 mile trips to Tahoe often, I won't be able to have an electric car without "range anxiety" any time soon.

What about just cleaning? i.e. wiping down with non-antibacterial soap.

I know viruses are not bacteria, so I'm a bit off topic, but still interested.

Didn't Facebook just get yelled at by everyone for having too much information available via the API? I don't think it's fair to be upset that they started to lock down their APIs after that issue.

If someone has physical access, isn't it considered compromised anyway?

That ingredient list is missing the "secret ingredient" that your parent post is talking about, so nah.

99.9999999999999999% of radio waves we get from the rest of the universe is absolute garbage. There would be some kind of pattern with purposeful radio communications. Recognizing purposeful radio communication is a much easier task than interpreting the data. But we don't need to interpret the data to know it came from someone/something we should go and check out, because it could be intelligent life.

While I'm also excited about fake meat, the impossible burger isn't close.

Impossible tastes as if you took low quality meat, pureed it, took all the fat out, made it into a patty, and then froze it. Sure, you could trick me into thinking its real meat, but not high quality meat.

And of course, this is completely different than creating a steak or something.

Unless you have some kind of special insight, why would you not just go with the flows of the overall market and invest in index funds? Seems like a good default when all options are technically unknown.

Or they fuck up, prick themselves with epinephrine, and die (or at least not have a very good time).

We're already not free to walk around without papers for certain activities. Entering a bar, buying restricted substances (including some medication!), driving a car, leaving and entering the country, etc. None of that means we're in some totalitarian dictatorship.

I've seen plenty of elections come down to 100s of votes. To me this seems like an attack vector we shouldn't ignore.

Besides, we already have the concept of provisional ballots if people end up not having or forgetting their ID.

But again, I don't think we're ready for all this. A half-assed solution would be very bad, and I don't trust the current system to handle this in a partisan way.

I don't think forgetfulness has a political bias

So I still think we should have Voter-ID, but I don't think we're ready for it yet.

My arguments for:

First, don't people have to register to vote in most places? I don't see how bundling your Voter-ID acquisition with registering to vote would be bad.

Second, a valid state ID should be enough to vote even with Voter-ID. This DRASTICALLY reduces the number of IDs we need to handle.

My main argument against not doing it right now:

We'd need proper funding that we're not going to get in the current political climate. A half-assed solution would be BAD.

I agree with the infeasibility of switching out batteries, but saying it isn't necessary? 30 minutes is a /long/ time. It takes like 2 minutes to go from 0-100 with gas.

Why? There's going to be 6.2 million of them. Who's going to want to buy them? And more importantly, who's going to go through the trouble of keeping them and selling them for any kind of minor profit?

> This is so weird, why would anyone redeem them?

I'm confused, you would keep it?

It's just a buy-one-get-one-free campaign.

For the SF locals, it's usually democrats vs democrats, so party affiliation doesn't really matter. Because of this, inucumbents are much more easily voted out of office on the supervisor level (which is where this is coming from).

So... vote when you can!

I think the idea is that it's still a local business that handles it. And it's locals who are hired to prepare the food, just like a local restaurant.

Curiosity has had wheel problems going back to at least 2014, so I wonder if the slower speed is partly due to that.

Who are the people that actually care about all this? I've yet to find anyone who cares that someone leaves early or stays late or stays just for the meal or whatever. The only thing people seems to care about is, very reasonably, output.

This is true for the 3 big tech companies I've worked for (which is the topic of this thread). Sometimes I get in at 10, sometimes 7. Sometimes I leave at 4, sometimes 8. I've yet to have someone comment on my schedule.

Yet I continue to see people say stuff like "oh free dinner is a trap! ahh!" "A gym on campus? Oh don't fall for it!" I don't get it.

I have problems in a lot of languages copy-pasting code (why are the line numbers being copied!?), but yes this is another problem for this specific language.

The indentation should be almost the same as any other language. Unless you have an aversion to consistent code-style.

Python whitespace was only annoying for me years ago when it still had trouble handling tabs and spaces in the same file, and you would run into literally invisible bugs. I haven't run into that in a long time, though.

I'm pretty happy with mine. Ports were annoying until tech caught up (yubikey was awful until the usb-c version came out, for example).

My esc key has been caps-lock for the past like 6 years, so that isn't an issue. (HIGHLY recommend this either way)

I don't use the touchbar too much (just like I didn't use the f bar too much), but the sliding action for volume control and a few others is nice.

They never claimed democracy wasn't the best we have right now.

It should be understood by the employees. I joined a Big-whatever company because of the stability. If I was going to join a small startup, I'd be aware of the instability.

That doesn't mean it isn't bad to lay people off in a startup; it's horrible. And it means the founders did something wrong (hired too many people, didn't have a good business model, etc).

But it should be understood that the entire company can disappear in 6 months if its a new startup.

Yeah and for last mile lines it makes complete sense, no problems there. It just seems crazy that a utility pole holds a massively important link between two cities. But I guess that's just how it is.