whoisthemachine

Some smaller sites (for example local restaurants) will recommend chrome, but Firefox still works just fine for me.

I agree, my original post did not imply this transition would happen quickly, I think transitioning to automated vehicles will rely more on society changing, so at least one generation from the youngest today... and as far as requiring people to get automated cars, if they're safe enough, it will be like outlawing drunk driving, ie you're infringing on others right to live if you don't use an autonomous vehicle. The corollary is that right now there should be laws strictly controlling the use of autonomous vehicles.

Very good points... intuitively, rail seems safer (and simpler to automate?), but your points have changed my mind... Now I wonder though, how do modern roller-coasters stop so suddenly? Magnetic breaks?

My only thought was rails truly require little intelligence for autonomy, and require less maintenance (or at least less involved maintenance), but just doing some armchair engineering...

> and traffic will get a lot worse once people are ok with sitting in bad traffic and watching Netflix

This one could go either way I think, traffic might actually improve once autonomous driving is the standard.

I also kinda-sorta hope that if autonomous driving takes over, that cars end up gaining the ability to switch onto and off of rails, I think this would be the ideal end-state... people still maintain the ability to move independently of each other but we have the improved safety of transport on rails.

This is a better looking version of what Java and C# have had for a long time (kudos to the author for that!), is that the inspiration for this tool?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/window...

https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/

I saw the author mentioned in another comment that they found themselves peeping inside type declaration files "too often". While I do often use sites generated by the above tools to discover new API's that suit my needs, diving into the actual code using a good decompiler is still my first move, as it is often cheaper than seeking out the documentation online, and it will show me the actual implementation as well. So in my opinion there is no shame in looking inside the declaration files!

Quantum mechanics are a little dense for me, but assuming the laws of entropy have not been broken, I think this means a more efficient "concurrent" charging process, as opposed to sequentially charging. Perhaps current "parallel" charging differs in approach to this new process.

> Earlier methods to charge a quantum battery involved a series of charging stages one after the other. However, here, the team instead used a novel quantum effect they call indefinite causal order, or ICO. In the classical realm, causality follows a clear path, meaning that if event A leads to event B, then the possibility of B causing A is excluded.

I don't blame the authors for interpreting this as causality being broken, as most programmers know how difficult causality is to think about once you have concurrent processes in play.

Interesting! I've used Linux Mint for the last 5+ years (and am using the Xanmod kernel, which is on 6.6), but have always been Pop OS curious. This increases my curiosity, I may have to give it a go on my laptop.

https://xanmod.org/

I think folks should go easier on this developer... The revert commit is always available, and sometimes products do gain unnecessary baggage that just slows down future product development. Kudos for trying.

Looks great! According to one article, those changes just hit shore last month in kernel 6.6, so it's likely not in most os distributions yet.

https://tuxcare.com/blog/linux-kernel-6-6-is-here-find-out-w....

The article headline prefaces this with "Opinion", perhaps the headline here should as well?

Those pesky backends are so annoying, so why don't we just put a backend on every client?

I agree it is. A fitting return volley would be to insert a note in the documentation along the lines of "derivative implementations of curl may have important differences from the documented implementation. Please refer to the derivative implementation's documentation for any behaviors that don't appear to conform to curl's implementation".

You have forgotten Bonzi Buddy.

The XBox business started under him as well. IMO he was great at diversifying MSFT, but so-so at driving improvements in its core products at the time (Windows and Office). Perhaps this was just a leadership style thing, and he was hands-off on existing products in a way that Bill Gates wasn't (I think there was even news of Bill Gates sending nasty grams about poor Windows releases after he had officially stepped down).

More of a 500 class error on the rocket however.

Yeah basically only useful as cargo lift and maybe as mobile medical facilities.

Agreed, the only disaster situations I can think of where an airship might have use are earthquake and war zones, which are often hard to reach by vehicle or plane, and may have calm enough weather to support an airship.

From TFA:

> Brin runs a separate non-profit, called Global Support and Development, that has already carried out such missions by sea, in the Caribbean, Latin American and the South Pacific. It originally used Brin’s own superyacht to ferry medical personnel to the scene of hurricanes and other disasters, and recently launched a purpose built vessel capable of transporting dozens of medical staff and full-size shipping containers.

Maybe the intent is to reach areas inland that are inaccessible by plane, automobile, or helicopter?

A weird synonym for "Desperately".

I haven't worked with GTK, but I can agree that Win32's APIs are also a mess, affected by decades of layers of compatibility. The WinForms API, however, still tends to be quite nice.

Agreed, one of the API's that has undergone superfluous changes that are hard to reason about. My favorite one is `service.stopForeground(...)`. It used to take a true/false which meant either remove the notification or not. Such control coupling is a questionable design decision in the first place, but then the API was morphed to now to take a tri-state flag that, from what I can tell, means essentially the same thing as the old boolean flag, but let them avoid fixing a bug in old behavior. For over a decade, it seems that no one has stopped to ask why notifications and service foreground state are coupled so in the API in the first place.

[0] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service#... [1] Control Coupling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_%28computer_programmi...

At least for me, I've used ChatGPT for areas where I don't really have much experience doing it nor get much out of learning how to do it better, especially if 100% correctness isn't necessary - writing job reqs/descriptions has been the best use so far. I use ChatGPT as the idea mill and take the best sounding ideas out of it and manipulate it a tiny bit for my purposes. In that sense, it makes me more "productive" because I don't need to spend so much time on a task like that and I can spend more time on a task that I have more expertise in, ie, programming.

Well if Linus had worked with any android apis, he wouldn't be the least surprised by completely illogical APIs coming out of Google (or making once completely logical APIs illogical).

Almost certainly there are quite a few different firmware and software engineers working there now, but I agree, and I recall that one thing AMD and ATI had in common even before the merger was being strong on hardware and weak on software.

Ah I see you must have lived (or live) in a country where it or was (or is) legally required to get the vaccine? I would agree then - there's a clear moral hazard with forcing people to get a medical treatment against their will.

Maybe I'm not tracking the argument. Are you saying that because we can't completely model the body's response to a drug or immunization through to the body's eventual death, we shouldn't trust it or use it?

The comparison you made was not accurate. We have a pretty good handle on the science of how the body builds up immunity to pathogens (most lay folks can tell you something about white blood cells). I think a more apt analogy would be prop planes are to dead virus vaccines as jet planes are to mRNA vaccines. And I do think we were jumping into jet planes fairly quickly after inventing them, because at that point we already understood the principles of flight well, jet turbine engines were just another mechanism of delivery.

Luckily there's always more of it!

And then if you click on "Expand" (after clicking on the click which makes it smaller), it is restored to its original size.