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Hmm, I think I might have conflated the two. Thanks!

Everyone hates null but (in database land, and arguably in other programming) it just means “no data.”

(As an aside, I found the characterisation of null as being a “billion dollar mistake” to be unfair. Those who don’t acknowledge null are doomed to reimplement it, probably poorly, or to have the unknowns in their logic remain unknown unknowns.)

Maybe I’m just not pure enough but I find the whole concept of proof by counterexample to be elegant, and I don’t see why proving that something must be true is superior to proving that it can’t be false.

Google figured out a system to sell access while keeping your privacy.

This would be the new Google’s definition of privacy, ie. only you and Google have access to your private data.

The new Google does not, of course, have a word (nor hence the concept) of data to which Google does not have rightful access.

I wonder if this is related to the way bright stripes can be a migraine trigger?

Yeah this $100k system with all its expensive add ons is there to push a single button.

“You can no longer certify aircraft of this design as safe” seems a reasonable response to a design flaw causing multiple crashes. My question would be whether the design flaws have been addressed. If not, then allowing them to keep making and certifying them does turn the whole exercise into a piece of theatre. Unfortunately, it’s a totally believable decision for some bureaucracies.

Employee Role: Blameable Component.

You're using one of the streams for yourself. :P

Oh, right, more like a car-flavoured docking station? That does sound better, it relies on the car for less in terms of functionality so it should be more consistent and futureproof.

standardized port (and perhaps a wireless standard) for a combination of video output, audio output, touchscreen input, and charging, with optional standardized sensor inputs

So a web browser loading a page off the phone? :)

Plug one of every combination of vendor, model, OS, and config into the car and check if everything works. That’s what would be required to actually ensure functionality.

It’s an indictment of business attitudes towards customers. It’s not the software’s fault, the software is doing what it was supposed to. The fault lies with the organisation that decided that’s what it should do.

Living in Australia where it gets hot and also kinda cold, having seats that are both heated and vented is awesome. Cold? Seat gives you a warm hug. Hot? Seat blows cool air to cool itself down after being parked, and to stop you getting sweaty.

Heck, almost everything is available for free on YouTube.

They’re both executing unknown code, but hopefully the ftp site here is at least a trusted one, and if you feel paranoid you can verify the archive’s hash to help verify it hasn’t been monkeyed with.

Also the archive probably won’t go and fetch a bunch of other scripts and run them (probably…) while doing so is usually the script’s primary purpose. So you’re not just trusting the people who published the script, at the time they published it. You’re trusting them and everyone they trust to still be good actors now.

That’s different to it being the standard way to install self-published bundles of scripts from all over the internet.

I’ve never got my head around how it’s apparently the done thing these days to just copy a bash command from a website and run it (sometimes with sudo! O.o ) to install software. I somewhat naively hope that this is because everyone is pushing single purpose VMs for that kind of install, but really I know better.

Where I live, I’d spend it on increasing parking availability at train stations, and/or run a lot more local buses that do a small (few kilometres) circuit around the station and ferry passengers to/from the station. Taking a bus to the station currently adds an unreasonable amount of time to the journey. It doesn’t matter how good trains are if I don’t live near a station and I can’t get there.

…those who understand binary? ;)

So you’re code switching to incorporate AI-specific ‘vocal fry’ in order to better communicate with it?

That’s not just mimicry. It’s insightful. And it just might work. ;)

Is this the new “China can’t manufacture a ball point pen”? (Which I strongly suspect they can do at this point. :)

So very roughly a 300kW spotlight pointed at a relatively small area (wild guess at around 1km^2, anyone done the maths?)

Edit: A 5km diameter spot illuminated from 600km altitude.

We must stop it, for the sake of the kittens and the puppies.

Neutrons have a magnetic moment.

Wait, what? Huh, I have some reading to do. Thanks! :D

I thought neutron stars generally had a shell or crust of iron, which generates a magnetic field (as metals do) if the neutron star is spinning.

I’m reminded of the hierarchy of controls in machine safety. If you can’t eliminate the hazard, or substitute a less hazardous thing, then engineering out the hazard (like Rust did) is preferable to a procedural control (“git gud at engineering”).

Seems reasonable. After all, spicy ramen is probably also more dangerous when introduced directly to the bloodstream. ;)

In my old house we sprayed for spiders and ants, and a few weeks later there were cockroaches everywhere. I guess it was just a coincidence. >.>

What, like with guns? Never!

Yeah, the TLA (three-letter acronym) space is vastly overcrowded and most TLAs are overloaded. This goes double for TLAs (two-letter acronyms). :P

Maybe there’s more PCB designs on the internet than there are pelicans riding bikes? ;)