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romaaeterna··on When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed
0%. This is entirely on the driver. He's someone who should spend a few years in prison, and then never be allowed to have a license again.

A foot on the gas overrides braking on autopilot and causes it to flash up a large message up on the screen that "Autopilot will not break / Accelerator pedal is pressed"

romaaeterna··on When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed
> So, for example, when a Florida driver on Autopilot drops his phone and blows through a stop sign, hitting a car which then hits two pedestrians, killing one, Tesla will claim “this driver was solely at fault.” In that case, a judge agreed that the driver was mostly at fault, but still assigned 33% of blame to Tesla, resulting in a $243 million judgment against the company.

His foot was on the gas though

Looking at this author's other articles, he seems more than a bit unhinged when it comes to Tesla: https://electrek.co/author/jamesondow/ Has Hacker News fallen for clickbait? (Don't answer)

romaaeterna··on Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
We know that diabetes causes some amount of dementia and that flowers cause no amount of bees. And so on. Your example is specious, and obviously so.
romaaeterna··on Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
Well, in some cases we know that they do.

Dementia is linked to diabetes. And diabetes risk is increased for African-Americans. And African-Americans live in high-pollution urban areas for entirely historical reasons.

So some amount of the causation here does go in the way opposite to what a person might naively suspect.

romaaeterna··on Eternal Struggle
An edge point's probability of being hit should be proportional to the length of every path leading to that edge point. An area closer to many short black paths and many long white paths will show black expansion (and vice-versa). So I suspect that any variation of the central line from a straight bisection of the circle should get hammered out over time.
romaaeterna··on Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history
titlos/τίτλος: Its singular Biblical use in John 19:19-20 (prb. "inscription") is separate from its later use in (heavily Latin-influenced) Byzantine jurisprudence documents, where it frequently gets used to label section numbers: ΤΙΤΛΟΣ Α´.
romaaeterna··on Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?
When evaluating the truth value of claims like this, consider a few things--

1. "Comply with Cease & Desist To Re-activate" is rather unlikely for anyone to program as a standard error message. It's also in a slightly different font from the previous part of the message. The following part of the message says "Update Failed"

2. The creator of the video (a rap video creator) could easily generate the situation by playing a YouTube video (that he created) on his screen

3. The letter (possibly based on a real cease & desist) has all of the information concerning the deactivation in a single paragraph, which would be easy to insert

romaaeterna··on Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market
Why couldn't he rent a boat?
romaaeterna··on 2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
> ...this person...

In the Phaedo, just before Socrates' death, Crito asks him how he would like to be interred. Socrates objects to Crito's confusion between Socrates the person -- the soul that will shortly be departing -- and whatever will be left over as the corpse.

romaaeterna··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Off-shoring much of the manufacturing of American consumer goods to an overseas competitor known for quality issues, and the growth of online retailers that do not police for quality or counterfeits, may have something to do with the overall trend.
romaaeterna··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
The class of drugs having a 2+ decade negative health effect greater than the negative health effect of obesity over the same period, without any obvious short-to-medium health effect, is likely to be small.
romaaeterna··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
Anecdotally, the dose required to maintain a stable weight seems to be lower than the dose required to lose weight. Most people tend to regain some weight when going cold turkey.

The safety profile of the drugs with diabetics, and the health benefits that come from the associated weight loss may make permanent use a net benefit for most people. There appears to be little, if any, "course correction" effect from taking it for short periods of time.

romaaeterna··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
The problem (not new with GLP-1s) is that people lose weight, get life insurance, and then regain.

The biggest part of that equation is regain part. Most people quit GLP-1s because of costs. Let's fix that.

romaaeterna··on Helm local code execution via a malicious chart
> You place malicious binaries outside the helm directory

No, helm is the one doing this part in the vuln. Chart.lock is made a symlink to some important file, and helm will happily write to it.

romaaeterna··on How to get started with Old English poetry
I read Beowulf to my kids (in Tolkien's translation) when they were 3 and 5. They really got into it, and seemed to pick up the plot without my explaining it to them. When Æscher was killed, my 3yo called out "Beowulf should have been there!" Epic poetry is concrete and visual, and doesn't ask much of a listener, compared to other forms of poetry. It's great for kids.

I've read them various poems from the Exeter book, but it's never been a success, even when I explain the answer. On the other hand, they're more interested in riddles now, so it might work.

I got them to sit through The Dream of the Rood, and my explanation of it, but it was a real stretch.

So for kids, Beowulf is best.

romaaeterna··on Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe
A friend was fired for calling Musk a Nazi in work chat
romaaeterna··on The cultural decline of literary fiction
Younger people don't read books as frequently as they did when I was young (pre-internet). Bookstores are flooded with junk, with the SEO-equivalent of publishing spam having won out on the bookshelves. Libraries are as bad or worse. Students do not pursue Greek and Latin and classical literature, and have no reference point of high culture apart from the distracting now.

And the English language has declined. English has always been a scraped-together, something-of-everything tongue. But jargon and abstractisms have killed expression. Meanwhile, French and German have eaten so many Americanisms that they're in terminal indigestion, and now the whole planet thinks and talks like a slightly below-average bumpkin American with a college journalism degree.

romaaeterna··on LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends
Nobody is setting up "privacy-friendly" frontends to track browsing data that they couldn't otherwise get without access to Google's/Twitter's/etc. logs? Because I think they are.
romaaeterna··on Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)
In Classical history, we've got a number of competing historiographers that we can compare with each other, and a large about of archeological remains. Our estimates of how wealthy any given period of the Roman empire was are based on numismatics, built artifacts, etc. In comparison, this sort of thing is just a wild claim taken at face value (also something not done in Classics).
romaaeterna··on Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)
Document-only claim without any archeological support means that I'm highly skeptical.
romaaeterna··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
This comment does not follow the context of the discussion.

Circling back up. Article author: Twitter might be untrustworthy and could bruteforce your keys. Use Signal.

Me: That's unreasonable. You also have to trust Signal.

Your answer just now: Why are people picking on Signal?!?

In fact, what the world really needs, rather than 3rd-party controlled encrypted messaging solutions like Twitter and Signal, is public apis for public key cryptography on non-trusted infrastructure, not tied to single groups. Everybody knows this. The reason that we instead have bodies like Signal -- a company that just so happens to tie every encrypted message to a real phone number and real human identity for no easily explained reason -- and the reason we have people who surely know better defending bodies like Signal in public, is an exercise left for the reader.

romaaeterna··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
I don't believe that is the case. You can turn your phone off and the Signal desktop client will continue to work just fine.
romaaeterna··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
They control the update servers. So it's possible to target a single user with a single build that no one else ever sees. What percentage of users verify every release?
romaaeterna··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
What exactly prevents them from doing a Windows build with an non-published change, signing it with the keys they control, and pushing it to an individual client through the upgrade servers which they control?
romaaeterna··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
Given that Signal is pushing new code updates all the time, isn't it trivial for them to push new binaries that harvest messages/keys/whatever-they-want?
romaaeterna··on Google is burying the web alive
Learn an ancient language and read nothing in English for 2-3 years. Once you come back to English, avoid anything after the 19th century.
romaaeterna··on Google is burying the web alive
As someone who remembers what the web was like 25 years ago, I have a feeling that they're burying a corpse.
romaaeterna··on Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?
Even asking the question would seem to indicate that respondents here, do in fact believe that the technology is good enough to drive people around day after day without my hands on the wheel. (It is.)

I don't know what the questions about texting are relevant to here.

romaaeterna··on Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?
Are they?
romaaeterna··on Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?
You: Autonomous driving is years away

Me: My Tesla takes me 20min to work every day without human intervention, and on long trips of hundreds of miles

You: This is illegal because it might kill someone

Call the police on Tesla, I guess?

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