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As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance

Even people who do take photos often would probably gladly sacrifice some image quality to loose that massive thing on the back of the phone. The thinness of the phone almost make it look worse as long as that camera sticks out like that; like a huge watch with a thin strap or something...

Seems that we focus on all the crazy stuff Trump is doing, just like we did the last time he was president, depressing stuff. All of it.

Later I found out that it was indeed real.

Wow, we do learn something new everyday :-)

The effects were so good for their time as well, a semi-forgotten gem that film.

..near death accidents on sets of The Abyss

What a great movie that is! Who can forget that rat breathing liquid oxygen (or whatever they called it), and the water creature making her face to say hello. It seems sort of forgotten now (perhaps it's just me?) compared to other good films from the same era.

Sigourney Weaver trained to hold her breath for 6 and half minutes in her 70s!

That is crazy. It seems Kate Winslet broke Tom Cruise's old record while filming Avatar 2; over 7 minutes(!) in her case:

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-beat...

Fully agree. He must have been itching to use the term "chart junk" :-)

the animation adds no additional information.

No it removes information; to be able to focus on one period at a time as it evolves.

Seeing a "living graph" of how something evolves is different than seeing the graph fully drawn statically, that cannot be considered chart junk IMO.

is that it discourages from collecting superfluous data

Wouldn't that require some kind of actual policing? Here (in Norway) at least, police does not use any of their time trying to access random data systems looking for personal info stored in violation with GDPR. This is not something anyone fears, so as long as you say you are OK, you are OK.

Big companies have a real incentive to act.

The company I worked for was almost as big as they come here in Norway (handled extremely sensitive personal information also). We are full of clown tech companies here as well (just like your 'Epic Health Journals' etc.). These kind of companies cannot comply with these types of rules, they cannot even make their own systems work properly.

A bit like complaining that fraud is hard because of those pesky police officers. Yes, this is the intention.

GDPR did not lead to any actual changes for the company, except they set up a fancy web-page about how serious we where about GDPR. That's the intention?

Many companies cannot possibly remove the info GDPR demands, as they barely know they have it, and they will use minimal efforts to fiddle with this stuff. From what I saw, GDPR is just another example of legislation, that looks good on paper; and the intention is certainly good. But no real change followed; at least where I worked.

Yes, it has tons of regulation which at least from my experience is very difficult to implement. I used to work for a company that basically barely knew what info they stored about anyone; and they also had long relationships with tons of clients. It was virtually impossible to follow GDPR in that company, but for some reason they wanted to show everyone that they were "best in class", since they handled a lot of financial info etc. It basically just ended up with some fancy web-pages proclaiming that we were serious about GDPR, but nothing else materialized.

The cookie-banner just seems like a very strange "security" measure; but GDPR seems very strange as far as I can tell. It was sparked by the "forget me" campaign a few years ago I guess, and most people probably agree with the intent, but it has led to very strange set of rules.

(GDPR) is the best-known European standard. After all, it’s hard to miss the opportunity to reject cookies on European websites. But there’s far more to data security.

We should not be bragging about that "security", those cookie pop-ups are just a pointless annoyance. At least I guess we can all agree that there is far more to data security :-)

The guy has his blog going since 94. What a legend!

This is what we come here for!

Exactly, it's a very quick way to get an overview. Just by looking at how many developers have been working on things + their frequency of committing code is very helpful. Tons of files appearing at once is a quick give away that something is either copied from another project, or some massive "technology" (read: library, framework) is added; which can be hard to maintain unless the stuff being added is very mature.

It certainly isn't an alternative to actually digging into the repo and find out what has happened. But I wanted to find out something about:

1. How many developers have actually been working on this stuff

2. Has the guy who set up the wire-frame actually stepped back

3. Are there more developers doing stuff, then what we get the impression of, based on the weekly Teams meetings

All of these questions could be answered in 1 minute by starting 'gource' + increase the speed of the visualization for the past year. I was afraid that this newly hired consulting company was pretending to use less resources then they actually did, in order to sink their hooks into our company, which I could see instantly that they had been doing. I could also see that the "big gun" setting up the wire frame for the project, had not really been taken of the project at all, but had been helping some of the jr. devs all along. Something that would have taken some digging with 'git log' or 'tig'..

It is super useful. We started a project with some hired consultants about a year ago. Did not engage much with that project, but when I was recently asked to get back into the loop and find out what these people had been up to, a quick view of the 'gource' visualization was all that was needed in order to know who was doing stuff, and how much they had been working on it etc. At least I knew who was just attending the meetings, and who was actually coding and so on :-)

the less technical managers have been bozos AND bad at management

The golden combo.

I was saying the system is doing a best efforts action just in case there is dust or snow or other debris there which there sometimes is

I guess that could be the case; but they do seem quite random.

I'm guessing they have birds in Trondheim.

We do, mostly seagulls where I park my car :-) But you're not dry wiping away anything they produce, that takes a good scrubbing.

I haven't tried the roller for the wiper

It makes the experience fully controllable from the steering wheel using one hand, which is very good. One light press on the left stalk, and the menu pops up down on the left corner on the screen where you can roll to your preferred setting. I hate having to go into menus on the touch screen while driving.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-A5C33F3...

You're preaching to the choire

is showing a robot at the event failing miserably at picking up a small bag of chocolates

Luckily that's not one of the dirty or dangerous jobs it will soon take over :-)

That's for safety if a flake of dirt or dust lands on the front window right over where one of the cameras are, it will do a wipe and try to get rid of the thing

Not that dry conditions. I live in Trondheim, where it rains/snows well over 200 days a year, so it's not wiping off some dry dust of the camera area. It just starts wiping the clean window in perfectly fine weather. At other times it rains quite a bit and it does not come on.

The software update to soft click the left stalk to engage the wiper menu via the left steering wheel roller is a nice quick fix for these situations, so they are doing something.

I think "this guy" just has some weird obssession with Elon Musk.

It seem the whole planet has this obsession :-)

with matrix-led's the high-low has been solved very well. It used to be bad and now it's almost perfect.

Yes, it works much better on my new Model Y (2024) than my old Model S (2014). But they didn't really solve the original problem, i.e. detecting oncoming traffic vs. street (or other lights) up ahead. The matrix led's darken these areas in any case, and neither street lights or oncoming cars complain of course. But it does not fill me with much confidence.

Wipers, dunno, they used to be really bad but I have not noticed the issue in the past few months, maybe they have done something.

Then that software update has not come to Norway at least, here they still start wiping in dry conditions, and fail to detect actual rain; so they need to be manually started all the time.

there are phantom breakings in the exact same spots this and other teslas have driven thousands of times.

Isn't this the problem with AI though? We've taken something we don't fully understand (neural networks) and applied them. We can give them a lot of training data to the point where they seem to be able to do stuff on their own. But when they fail, we really cannot do anything besides adding new nodes to our network and add more training data, and hope for the best. We cannot really say what went wrong, and fix it.

showing a low-speed, closed-course theme park ride in order to build confidence around Tesla’s progress toward actual real-world driverless capability is almost too childish to call a fraud

This guy has lost confidence in Musk's promises.

I never really understood how Musk can claim to be so close to full autonomy when these cars clearly struggle with basic things using the exact same system that supposedly drives by itself. Automatic high/low beam or detecting rain does not work very well. You wold think that a system that cannot detect oncoming traffic (high/low beam), or actual rain has some other problems when it comes to self-driving.

custom app.

That is always the worst experience. The most painful apps always require you to spend another 7 minutes after installation; typing in and verifying your credit card information... That has to be the most convoluted paying experience.

I was almost shocked when I rented a Hertz car (via IKEA), that everything was done through a website. The website asked for permission to use the phone camera to take pictures of the car etc. and off we went. Such a good experience compared to fiddling with a new app..

I think you misunderstood. Never meant the author of the article copy-n-pasted anything. Not the commenter that I "commented" on either. CSS had grown into something a bit too complex for its own good.

kelnos> This seems like a bit much. More than a bit much.

I just said that web-design, either done by programmers with zero design experience, or by designers with zero programming experience lends itself towards copy-n-paste (from different resources online). I.e. many people copy-n-paste stuff they don't really know much about in order to make their website look decent. If the underlying technology is complex and difficult to understand, this can lead to an unholy mess that (most likely) developers will have to unwrap.

Moving work from JS to the browser’s native, polished, tested implementation with optimized performance is the right thing to do.

Of course, not disagreeing with that. It is just done in a way that is complex and cumbersome IMO. CSS is often handled by people with very little programming experience as well. I have worked for companies which gave me HTML templates, and CSS files, and my job as the developer was basically do add dynamic behavior by fetching stuff from their DB and looping over some data here and there to fill out lists/tables with actual content. To me that was very pleasant; but the guy handing me the CSS and HTML templates, had zero programming experience.

I think webdesign already is a copy-n-paste bonanza, where people find something they like, and copy it; if it gets very complicated as well. Developers are often last resort in terms of finding out why something does not work, and I fear complicated CSS after a few rounds of copy-n-paste is going painful to unwrap.

You said what we were all thinking. There was a lot of debate when CSS introduced these animation properties; I didn't have too strong opinions about it. But is has morphed into something rather complex...

Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux?

Hmm

I've had a Tesla Model S for quite some time now. It cannot reliably adjust the high beam / low beam nor the windshield wipers. Those problems seem a bit easier than full self driving.