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I use Strongbox, which is based on Keepass.

I’m satisfied. It’s actively maintained and reliable.

Fine, but if we are to lower the threshold from perfect to some mistakes, then this category of error needs to he empty. Phantom braking is in a less severe category, as it is manageable. In this case, I think the driver or following car could’ve escaped an accident.

The paramount issue here is that the software isn't operating as intended. Reckless driving and distracted driving are compounding issues to that major concern. Rather than dismissing the accident as possible with a driver fully in control, distracted and reckless driving are great reasons why we shouldn't entrust auto-pilot software to public consumption yet.

Enough is enough. Stop using the public as testing grounds for software development and marketing defunct wares. If tech is meant to bring us the utopia we all need but don't know we want, the least that these companies who exploit public space can do is to get some ethics before someone does die. As if it isn't enough that a multi-car pile up won't ruin some people's days and waste so much time dealing with insurance, why are we expected to put up with this in the name of "progress?"

I also don't accept the argument that human are imperfect drivers, so it's OK if Tesla's shit software is placed at the hands of experienced drivers. People are not good at driving, and that's exactly why we don't need to enable our stupidity in a high-speed death box. Even if someone is a good driver, the tendency to relax when you are told that you don't need to be totally poised for action is a great way to delay response time, so I'd expect this to happen 99/100 with the best drivers in the world. In a situation with a relaxed driver, there's no humanly possible response time that's going to prevent this crash from happening.

Tesla ought not proffer software that is anything less than perfect and expect the public to fill in the holes. It's clear that drivers today are less patient, more distracted, and less competent all while embattled with environmental distractions. And as if it isn't hard enough to monitor 360 degrees, now I need to focus on which kind of car is in my area? In some places, it's not even possible to avoid this kind of collision. I can only imagine what would happen on I-40 in Raleigh or I-95. That's truly frightening.

I drive a Tesla and actually really enjoy the car, but I still get phantom braking issues, albeit the car does not fully brake and change lanes. Thank goodness I turned all of those features off. And that leads me to think that Tesla knows they have kinks to iron out. With all the data that they collect, they must have known accidents like this could happen and still put their product out. I want to see criminal charges, fines, and a Congressional investigation leading to legislation.

What's the price of a life, Mr. Musk? Would you put your kids in one of your cars, turn on auto-pilot, and expect them to make it from Point A to Point B each and every time?

Your comment is the same low-quality and trite drivel that makes Reddit the contest hall for minimal effort shitposting. Why do you need to import it here?

About 15 years ago, we had a great brewery that changed the game, and it felt like all of a sudden, there were so many options and relatively little difference between them. There are only so many IPAs with so many hops that a brewery can make. That got old quickly, but I still look fondly upon the days of cracking open a tall boy of Surly Furious.

I threw up my hands and chose a brewery that was local and reliably high-quality, and I suspect many consumers will feel overwhelmed with choice and short on time to peruse the dozens of offerings at their beer purveyor. I wouldn’t advise anyone to try to hop into that sector with dreams of making it big.

The first movers got a great deal by tapping a fresh market and forming early consumer followings. Those days are over. Consumers don’t need to have an allegiance to a microbrew because it’s so easy to get now, and unless your brew is God’s very own nectar, your business will be tenuous.

Some of the biggest names sold out to The Enemy (i.e. AB InBev), like Goose Island or Wicked Weed. They got rich, and then their product went to shit. I’m fairly certain I got formaldehyde poisoning from a Devil’s Backbone IPA bender (another AB InBev casualty). So in support of my body, please make great beer — just don’t quit your day jobs.

(Sorry for the two awful puns. I swear they were unintended but I left them in anyway after groaning.)

The real problem here is not seeing that nature doesn’t draw arbitrary lines in the soil. What affects Utah will make its way to California. Keystone ecosystem disruption is very bad news.

You make a good point, but perhaps that one “their own” is at the helm can make a difference in ensuring trust so as to break the prisoner’s dilemma (see point 6 in the executive summary).

I don’t see why being a farmer is implicitly linked to waste.

Sure he has farm interests in mind, but farmers will be among the first to really feel the affects of a dying lake ecosystem.

Interesting transition towards games as a platform. Call of Duty Modern Warfare is kind of doing this too. There are games within games. Destiny is doing this too with expansion packs and making the base game free. They are enormous IPs, and I can see how Eidos might see how adding modules might be profitable and easier to service until they have technological potential (like a new or improved engine) to use for a new game.

Every damn day I try to be mindful of my state of mind.

I will exercise, do breathing exercises, talk through things, write, make arrangements to sleep more the following night, or just call it a day before it even really starts. Sometimes I don’t have the luxury to end early or run, but I will then try to do a little meta reflection about the situation and assess what needs improvement and or can be done on the spot to cope.

Yeah DOs in the US are quite similar to an MD, and MDs aren’t ashamed to call them colleagues. However, I know from experience in France that I wouldn’t expect the same care or treatment as a DO in the US. A chiropractor here might be more of an apt comparison to osteopaths in France, though it’s bound to fail in some places.

I feel that. As someone who’s going back to med school well out of undergrad, I have no doubt that even with good MCAT scores, I’m still going to need to be lucky to find the right med school who will appreciate my atypical profile. I feel like I’m competing with teenage prodigies for coveted spots.

The kafala system isn't going anywhere so long as we can't tell these countries to take their oil and drink it. The same thing (i.e. "sponsoring" someone by capturing that person's passport and forcing low wage labor for any hope of retrieval) happened to those enslaved workers in Qatar, and then the Qatari women had the nerve to brag about how liberated they were -- that there was no housework to which they were shackled. Hmm, I wonder how many other problems they can outsource to the exploited world's poor?

Buttigieg has gotten involved, and based on that, I sense a Congressional hearing is in the works. This debacle has affected way too many people at the worst time of year for it to escape public vivisection.

Seems kind of assbackwards to start baking in ray tracing to the smallest device. Is there some advantage to this?

Adding ray tracing to an iPhone screen as “overly ambitious” is one way of putting it. On that size display, is it even impressive to the user? Are devs going to design to that capability? I just don’t see the point when a lot of desktop users aren’t in possession of nice enough graphics cards to enable ray tracing.

I often get irritated by formulaic instructions for "strong" passwords when creating an account. I use a respectable password manager, so everything is unique and at least 10-15 characters with some numbers and symbols mixed in. Occasionally I use DiceWare. God forbid I don't include a number or use upper case, lower case, one of five symbols, but not th#t one! The worst is when I cannot copy and paste in both text fields. I don't even know what the assumption is there about end user behavior, but it's quite frustrating.

I know these practices must be reduced to the lowest common denominator, but perhaps websites need to allow minimum entropy and not force rules unless the minimum entropy isn't met. I don't know much about implementing, but people are so lazy that all these different rules and schemes are turn offs from better security practices.

Not to mention the point of public procuration is to bolster nascent industries. USPS must’ve identified something Oshkosh was willing to provide something special.

I take your point, but arguably the optics of burning up every last drop of fossil fuel are worse.

That stuff is delicious.

I know.

It apparently is Bing.

I’m also curious if anyone knows how to deal with people who have this condition. Scientifically or anecdotally.

Thanks. This article confirms what I have long suspected of my mother-in-law. I knew she was a narcissist, but I didn’t associate the full-blown tantrums directed mostly at my partner as part of the disorder.

I see teenagers driving these things because I think they have such low horsepower that they don’t require the regular class of driver’s license.

Libre Office. Not so sure that it integrates very well with cloud services, though I’ve not tried. It’s a bit of a step back from collaboration on a Google Doc. However, for basic functionality, I’m quite fine with word processing on Libre Office.

I'd expect better from Nassim Taleb. He's lost the thread on this one.

Good for them. Not that it's bad to talk about it, and we have the BBC, The Guardian, and other investigative journalists to thank for bringing this out into the light for the past decade, but the time for action was actually a decade ago when the stories were breaking,[1] when it became clear that migrant workers were dying from heat stroke. There are probably other insidious practices, but funny thing is the public was not talking about it. When did football as an establishment grow a conscience? Has it really? When did it become fashionable to talk about FIFA's corruption? Are we prepared to actually dissolve that organization in a vat of acid and start from scratch?

But really, what the hell took us so long to get fired up about this situation? Does it really take beer sales to get people invested in human rights abuses? It feels like the controversy is just another batch of rotating clickbait that will get flushed down the memory hole in a few weeks, and the systemic rot will remain.

For me, the entire sport lost a lot of its glamour when the amount of money involved came to the fore. Most clubs vying for the Champion's League trophy are too big to fail now, and with it comes all the problems of economic institutions. The advertising, the scandals, the enormous egos of players and coaches alike. It's gross. In France, the national team's coach was asked why the team flew in private jets from Paris to another city in France when the high-speed trains would have sufficed. It could've been a good PR opportunity for the country since these athletes -- no, people -- are revered. The coach scoffed and joked they would row to the next tournament abroad. These people are detached from reality, and it is because society elevated these personalities to demigod status. Football has become simply one more utopian refuge of escape.

I remember the sport in a purer form from 20 years ago. Maybe that is nostalgia, and maybe I'm foolish for remembering the innocent form of the sport. Sure, the biggest European clubs were already approaching billion dollar values, but now it feels filthy and sick. Clubs are like mercenary squads, and the sport feels like a convenient advertising and money-laundering vehicle for oligarchs and authoritarians.

1- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/07/s...

You are absolutely right. I think these companies have only gotten away with the business model because the scooters seem to have less maintenance costs or are cheaper to replace. Many bikeshare companies pulled out of Paris because people were so hard on them and some have been pulled out of the Seine. Newer companies have entered with e-bike rentals and there’s still the public bike share program, but they’re expensive, which must be a discouraging factor for their abuse and helps the company recoup maintenance costs.

All the elegance of a bicycle is removed to make room for the indestructible design so as to be viable for public rental. And still they have flat tires, grimy chains, and shoddy brakes. They’re also so heavy, which makes commuting further than a few kilometers a slog unless they’re electric, and those are expensive.

I suspect that people are dissuaded from alternative transport for this reason of disrespect for common space and property. The metro is disgusting and sometimes dangerous, and the rental bikes aren’t a great alternative.