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yawaworht1978··on San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears
So can I sit in one and do that coast to coast trip and watch tv and sleep meanwhile?

I remember there was a promise of some coast to coast trip, what happened there?

yawaworht1978··on San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears
Well, but where is the software?

What is the cut off point for those who believe in musk's empty promises? 2 years? 5? What if it doesn't materialize and the first car nears end of life?

Is the "ownership" transferable?

At what point can someone say "not delivered as promised"?

It seems like Tesla is investing more on promotion and marketing than the right thing, while others simply work on a solution silently.

Wouldn't be surprised if Tesla won't be the first to market with fsd.

yawaworht1978··on San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears
Fully agree, there are simply too many factors, all I know, a fsd shouldn't hit stationary vehicles.

Besides, i don't even see the value proposition for fsd other than commercial trucks maybe.

If people want to be driven around, maybe a taxi or public transport would be more economical and better for congestion and the environment in general. Not sure what people want to do while being driven in a fsd car. A human to human discussion is already possible. Watching a movie? Read a book? Sleep? All these are not practical in a driver's seat.

yawaworht1978··on San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears
Tesla fsd has many parallels to Theranos Edison device.

They don't share the data. They don't work as promised. They charge investors up front for what is essentially vaporware. They advertise the ware can or will be able to do much more than it currently does. They both put peoples health at risk.

At least Tesla has a proper usable product, an electric car.

Good on sf to raise concerns, too many other governments are just looking away.

yawaworht1978··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
I am a bit surprised the Chinese government didn't secretly force the miners to collaborate for a 51 percent attack or more to kill it off, it would likely also destroy altcoins and the whole ecosystem.

But maybe someone from China can chime in and explain how serious the enforcement of these bans will be. I have seen countries with all kinds of laws, none ever enforced.

yawaworht1978··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
I do not remember when a Chinese ASIC miner ever shared something while I was mining with a laptop.

Network shares the load but winner takes it all, i thought.

yawaworht1978··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
And what about mining?

When will this be truly enforced?

yawaworht1978··on Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
They don't push for stricter marketing regulations or more oversight regarding fsd.

I have seen mentions of repairs here, just read a report from insurance companies recently. Tesla's or electric vehicles do not burn more often than other cars. The repairs are 10 percent more expensive and some of the repairs require electricians(not necessarily from Tesla). Conclusion was, if something breaks, it's really expensive, like some high voltage cables can easy cost 7k. I think Tesla gets too much negative press on this matter.

yawaworht1978··on Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
Another instance of Musk not believing in the free market.

The other instances is when the companies take government money and contracts.

It appears he only wants to keep governments out when it suits him, like exploiting employees.

yawaworht1978··on Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
I have always wondered if google can see the YouTube, Gmail passwords, not from the database,but you can see your own passwords in the browser in plain text and since all the apps are theirs, a keylogger would be impossible to detect.

Another thing is, do they have a back up of data from the Myaccount. Subdomain that users delete.

Still I trust google and amazon more than Microsoft and apple and Facebook. Just me personal view, I could be totally wrong. The ones I trust are simply more open about data storage and have less dark patterns and clandestine TCS. But yes, wide spread Gmail usage will make google see many things and they will collect a lot of data. Probably even more delicate data than what Facebook gets to see.

yawaworht1978··on He escaped the dark web's biggest bust, and now he's back
This has to be running with the ok of the government as a collection pot or he got the truncheon treatment and spit out all the passwords and the government is already running the platform.

Or he's just plain naive: "To avoid the risk of his PC being grabbed while he's logged into AlphaBay, DeSnake says he also shuts it down entirely every time he steps away from it, even to take a bathroom break"

This will be equalized by a discreet truncheon treatment.

yawaworht1978··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
Does this include apple?

And I hope they will all be forced to use the same voltage/quality.

Same should be done for laptops, most ridiculous company in this regard is Asus (other than that, i love the products).

yawaworht1978··on Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware
Facebook is the in plain sight backdoor for the 3 letter agencies, no fine that will shut them down will ever be issued by any US court so long they collaborate.

This is like wrestling on tv, but with legal entities.

yawaworht1978··on TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do
Well, to do the exact same trade, they would need to place the trades at the same time. What they are doing is coming late to the party. Like these altcoin telegram channels, by the time the operators say it's still pumping, they have already placed the sell orders.

But this could have another cascading effect, if the tiktokers followers do the same after them, the price might go up in the cryptocoin space, but not on the stock market.

yawaworht1978··on Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector
I think it often comes down to personal preference from a consumers view. The second best food experience i have had was a Hilton evening buffet, the best was a Marriot a la carte dinner, by far. The Michelin rated restaurants I felt don't come close. But I am not a big foodie or expert, but all i know a lot of this is pretentious marketing, who's is to guarantee that the meals will be the same when the inspectors are not there? And there are many food places who never "enroll" into such programs.

There was once a degustation event for wines where all the so-called experts went to try wines with closed eyes and they could tell apart the cheapest off the supermarket shelf bottles from the "best".

Eat what you like, not what someone else tells you is good.

yawaworht1978··on As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)
This is a great and admirable move, maybe later you will need to hire staff, but you will know the users concern etc and you can train the next people, this is extremely valuab. Many companies go with live chat, horrible faq pages, email or phone support for the high value segment. Anyone would like to have some algorithm do as much work as possible, which is fine, especially for giant companies. However, the ones with the run off the mill Salesforce back office but no phone support(too expensive)are commiting a grave mistake in my opinion.

Most companies SOP/procedures get very complicated, unmaintainable, lots of link rot and high turn over rates for support staff makes sure that support quality will take a large hit sooner than later. Email cases often go between departments , always sitting in a waiting queue, and maybe the customer needs to reply as well, IE , resolution time is very long. The customers think it's automated bot emails, at best compounded template emails. It's not personal, people do not read or understand emails.

Often, a call can resolve a case or at least make ensure that the customers concern is well understood and the customer understood what it takes from his side. And guess what, they will feel like privileged, speaking to a human, this builds trust.

And nobody is saying you need a massive inbound call center or a third party provider.

Just at least try some outbound calls for difficult cases at least.

yawaworht1978··on Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses
You know these kind of aggressive under the alcohol or party drugs people who will start a fight with zero hesitation if they think someone looks at their partner? If these individuals just think you are filming them or their partner or families, this will end ugly.

This depends on the location and culture, but I have seen people having a gun stuck in their face for a single wrong look.

This is just one of the many, many potentially disastrous outcomes, not even mentioning the smart glass users with malicious intent.

yawaworht1978··on Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses
Malicious actors could just place them on a balcony near an ATM, this whole thing is a terrible idea as far privacy goes. Massive infraction.
yawaworht1978··on Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
Wait, why did the steering wheel and the car swerve right here? Because the pedestrian that was passed or because the one waiting to cross? And wasn't the drivers intent to drive straight ahead?
yawaworht1978··on Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
The difference is the student driver will learn within a few more dozen hours and be fit for the road, Tesla no silver lining on the horizon.
yawaworht1978··on Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
Ok so there's no value for a transaction, but rather for a block. However,many miners compete for a block, is this accounted for or is the number an average for the winning miner?
yawaworht1978··on Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
One bullet point says: "On average Bitcoin generates 272 g of e-waste per transaction processed on the blockchain."

So transactions on exchanges are less wasteful?

A deposit from wallet to exchange generates the same pollution?

Or is it "only" mined transactions? Does the transaction size matter?

yawaworht1978··on Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
But I read from that guy mike Hearn , the early Bitcoin dev that it's like a reverse search. They check the csam database and compare to what is in your files, sounds good at first, but, big concern is...what if governments start to add other, unrelated data to get rid of people who cause political friction and other undesired elements as per their government policies?
yawaworht1978··on Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
Have they ever explained why the csam would be implemented? Apple bends just fine if the government is powerful enough and the marketplace is big enough, see China.
yawaworht1978··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
I don't know, if a military goes rogue, they'll go for the gun owners first. I don't know how many of the contributors here have been to the army, but if you have been, you will know that some shotguns and guns won't go far against military arsenals. It might help a bit against police forces, but military? Forget it. To even compete with a military force, you need coordination and logistics.

And this is one of the reasons why I am against civilian gun carriage:

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b9b/49f/034f952656161db66b95...

I am in Europe and have lived in some LATAM places where everyone, everyone carries a gun or has a couple of them at home, the law be damned. It's a bit better in the US, as the poverty in the US is not as widespread, but I believe a peaceful society should be without guns, police can have them, military can have them. If that don't work, you need a revolution or run away anyway, and a Glock won't do much there.

yawaworht1978··on Deno 1.14
This is my first day obviously, but what I can see are the following interesting syntax, bare server.

   const server = Deno.listen({ port: 8080 });
   console.log(`HTTP webserver running.  Access it at:  http://localhost:8080/`);

    // Connections to the server will be yielded up as an async iterable.
    for await (const conn of server) {
     // In order to not be blocking, we need to handle each connection individually
     // without awaiting the 
    function
  serveHttp(conn);
}

     async function serveHttp(conn: Deno.Conn) {
      // This "upgrades" a network connection into an HTTP connection.
      const httpConn = Deno.serveHttp(conn);
      // Each request sent over the HTTP connection will be yielded as an async
      // iterator from the HTTP connection.
      for await (const requestEvent of httpConn) {
       // The native HTTP server uses the web standard `Request` and `Response`
       // objects.
    const body = `Your user-agent is:\n\n${requestEvent.request.headers.get(
      "user-agent",
    ) ?? "Unknown"}`;
    // The requestEvent's `.respondWith()` method is how we send the response
    // back to the client.
    requestEvent.respondWith(
      new Response(body, {
        status: 200,
      }),
    );
  }
}

Everything async await. There is an option to use a library, but it's to be deprecated,the native option is stable. Interesting import code:

    import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@0.105.0/http/server.ts";
So, Deno supports typescript out of the box or just plain JS. Deno doesn't support npm packages, imports are done via url. There is a window object, for whatever that's supposed to be used. Runs sandboxed, access to filesystem etc runs on permission basis. Access to the browser API without installing anything else. Packages are cached, this was very annoying in nodeJS.

Sounds and looks pretty damn good.

yawaworht1978··on Deno 1.14
Thanks for that,Oh dear, I was secretly hoping for something as easy as a new package.json. A quick look around, I found this: Opine attempts to solve this by completely porting ExpressJS over to TypeScript in Deno, making changes only where the Deno APIs dramatically differ from Node.

Will give it a try, really curious how importing works and all.

yawaworht1978··on Deno 1.14
I have 2 projects all in node, using express. Is there an easy way to migrate it? What happens to all the imported modules and dependencies? Can I still use express in Deno the same way?
yawaworht1978··on What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
I had both a full day on site JS programming(css optional) and a 20hr take home reactJS exercise besides all the precious onboarding stuff, pretty crazy effort, for both parties, time is money. For one I had to take a day off, the other i did over a weekend.

Another thing I have realized, all the jobs valued php and bit SQL more as basic knowledge for web dev than any nodeJS/MongoDB even if it's just front end, they want some back end understanding. Had some nodeJS things that generated all the front end via express , including chat module and sign up/log in flow, but either it was overlooked or not valued, any 5 minute to do list or crud with anything front end JS seemed more important. I suppose few dare to touch the node ecosystem and nosql databases.

And the most recent one asked me if I can do their front end in react(really overkill, no need), told them I'll do it in vanilla JS, but nope, he insisted on react and that was the end of the story. Was for a MVP and would be the sole dev for a while.

I have found in general that speaking to hr is not useful, if you get past that and a senior dev (not a manager or product owner) interviews me, it would be a good experience.

yawaworht1978··on What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
I work in a FAANG and have a handful of German people on the team. They had to consent to have the former employee even called. Whether or not it was done , I don't know, but the new company can do it if the new hire consents to it. And the consent request was on a yes or yes basis.
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