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As a formerly active “dedicated volunteer”, I’ll say that the anti-cruft fight is constant, daily, and mostly thankless, though the tools and processes have continued to improve. Having made the mistake of editing under my real name - pro-tip: use a nym unrelated to any other you use and...

Legal Eagle finally posted a bit about this case: View: https://youtu.be/2znwoOp2rw4?feature=shared And in it, at the 4:27 mark, is Elon Musk’s 2016 assertion that AEB is separate from “Autopilot”, but that with Autosteer running, the car should brake earlier. Of course, in this case, the car...

Ahhhhh… As someone long out of Linux (except for my biennial/triennial “damn it I KNOW how to do that in gimp” excursions), I couldn’t distinguish some of the bits of the Nazi apologia, and made the error of good faith in my casual skim. I gotta be more suspicious these days. Thanks.

I have been told by more than one high-end college professor (2 were tenured, full prof, named chair, the 3rd was a department head, and the 4th was an internationally known scholar, visiting from Berkeley) that a tiny number of credentialed scholars in math/logic/philosophy simply refuse to...

Ugh… The whole “‘paradox’ of tolerance” thing looks to be getting almost reached in the discussion I looked at, under the guise of “but free speech, and he follows the rules in developer forums”. I get that moral/ ethical choices with an actual cost - like not using the cool alternate...

Unfortunately, Tesla AEB will override braking when the accelerator is pushed “hard”.

There are two things going on here, and two types of braking that a Tesla will do. The first thing going on is Tesla marketing and the reliance of the public on it and the confusion it causes. Tesla is liable for people believing the marketing hype and not understanding how their cars actually...

“Joint and several liability” is not a factor here, though it would be if the driver had not settled; then, most likely, Tesla would be picking up where the guy’s insurance and assets left off. But he did settle, so….. The jury says the total compensatory damages are $129 million. But the...

No, just no. The driver (well, probably his insurance company) admitted fault and settled with the victims, years ago. He was done and out long before this case went to trial, nothing that happened here affects him, except the feeling of relief that he settled, and of remorse because he was...

To be clear, the accident happened at the termination of a toll road that had crossed the water from the mainland to the island of Key Largo. The road ended at the accident site after numerous warnings, with a speed limit at that point of 45mph. Besides blowing through the stop sign, the car...

That’s not strictly true in all US jurisdictions. In most jurisdictions, a speeding ticket is an administrative proceeding, and the only way out is to somehow prove an erroneous speed measurement, which of course is incredibly difficult. But in at least one jurisdiction, Texas, it’s a criminal...

Let the arms race begin!

The absolute quintessential case of this involves one Hunter Breckinridge, of Tulsa. He (and not his identically named female cousin) had a raging drug addiction years ago and had been cut off from family money (possibly due to his father’s raging alcohol addiction). He resorts to burglary to...

Considering “they” gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, I don’t much see how the award can be further tarnished, unless they drop it on Netanyahu, or Pol Pot posthumously. We’re probably still a bit too close to the events of Kissinger’s life for a truly dispassionate historical...

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I don’t know if the wider world has the newer - but not that new - type “product safety” bottle seal for beverages that we have here in “the best fucking country in the world yee haw™®©“, but no doubt it’ll make its way around the world, if we didn’t take the design from elsewhere in the first...

As soon as I officially retire - as opposed to farting around on ”projects” that have yet to see a return - I’m going to start on an “earworm” playlist that I’ll have them play at my funeral. Its good to be remembered!

One of the trivial ongoing battles in my life revolves around the fact that the flour and sugar canisters where my wife likes to keep them are out of line of sight, obscured by the cabinets above them, when I’m close enough to reach them. She of course can see them just fine and doesn’t “get”...

My niece had that, as the lingering sequel to a probably-viral nerve/brain infection and inflammation of some kind; the full-blown syndrome was terrifying, with intermittent paralysis, semi-paralysis, and/or incapacitating weakness on one side. After a terrifying initial onset, with rush to the...

All the recent pain scales I’ve seen have dropped that open-ended 10, and used activity-based marks, that break up the fiction that it’s some kind of linear objective scale, e.g.: 4-6 - can do tasks, with varying degrees of impairment or needing successively more focus 9 - barely able to...