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Ah. Since I unfortunately see reckless Tesla drivers trying to hurt others on a near daily basis I didn’t realize it was a joke. These things would definitely be safer if they failed more.

How is it safer not to be able go steer at all rather than being able to steer with effort? Unless it fully disables motion that just seems like it’s worse because you could be, for example, in the middle of an intersection making a left turn and suddenly unable to get to a safe place.

He only made it into power due to the support of the political elite. The Republican Party had some opposition but most of them embraced him as the path to power and their media figures backed him early and hard. One thing to remember is that the upper quintile covers a huge range of different...

Has anyone seen reliable current discussion on these crossover events? I’ve seen some speculation that It’s wild animals but also some that It’s from feeding “poultry litter” to livestock, and that latter case feels like it should be easier to stop if it was confirmed.

I think the big question there is what Musk and Murdoch do. The Republicans have spent the last few years purging party members who don’t follow their direction and the thing keeping everyone in line now is the threat of Musk turning funding and the right-wing hate machine formerly known as...

I’d also note that this is a non-trivial expense on its own. I used to work for a very well-known university which came close to losing ALL of their federal funding due to audit failures because their internal record keeping wasn’t able to establish that the money was correctly spent. They...

31 stations completed, with 890 more in progress: https://driveelectric.gov/news/q4-2024-nevi-quarterly-update It’s also worth remembering that it wasn’t anything like 4 years: the law itself only hit 3 years in November and since it went through the states they had to then act. Ohio was the...

It says a lot about how Wall Street pressure overrides judgement. Misinformation on Google search is nothing new but they changed it so it reflects on their corporate reputation instead of seoscum.com.

Yes, it's definitely a challenge but at the very least you could make it harder to get a prefix than register packages (e.g. an individual developer only needs to do that once in their career rather than every time they create a new package) and potentially that could also be tied to some kind...

What PyPI is moving towards for Python packages is signed, verifiable builds where the package listed on the PyPI site is linked to a specific build and commit in your repository. That allows you to audit what was built and could allow you to automatically notice that the package is based on...

Yes, there’s no doubt there will be an election - even Russia has those - but fairness is a different story. They’re pushing voter ID laws claiming a mythical wave of illegal voting so it’s likely that the effort will revolve around disenfranchisement: make it hard to get registered, give people...

A lot of people want this to be true but it’s only true to the extent that people contact their representatives and fight to keep it true. VPNs are easy to identify and block – yes, even the ones whose marketing falsely claims otherwise – so consider that they’re going to join forces with the...

She could be talking to every reporter she knows about the destruction of the federal government is causing problems for her constituents, and making it harder for businesses in her district. She could be involved in the legal efforts to push back against the illegal acts, especially where the...

The big American tech companies are used to competing with each other: everyone speaks English, goes to the same conferences, and most of them have offices in the Bay Area or at least the west coast (some Seattle or San Diego, etc.). Tons of people have job-hopped between the same companies...

Yeah, this is a little tricky because there is a real benefit to the owner if they retain a stolen car’s location and you probably want to keep that for some period of time in case someone comes back from vacation to learn of the theft, but that’s a couple of weeks rather than years. This is a...

Let’s try that logic in a different context: how many cases of violence or fraud by police do we need to disband every police department in the country? No program run by humans will be perfect in every instance, but that should mean we fix them rather than burn it all down.

Tons and tons of self-hosted systems get breached, too: I’ve seen everything from being years or even decades behind on patches, to running Remote Desktop with a weak password so someone could check it from home, to an admin having a bunch of browser extensions on a server, to vendors telling...

I would also note that it’s about what you don’t do: assume that someone is the best candidate because they look the part - sometimes the young dude with the cool laptop stickers just isn’t as good as the middle-aged Afghan woman even though her accent is a little different, and it’s important...

Yes - we ended up with a model Y in November when the rental company was over-committed and it was … okay. The fittings were at the level of our Subaru when that was new, but nothing reached the luxury level and there were multiple things where you could tell the plastic would break and need...

You remind me of the guys I knew in high school who thought putting a watermelon-sized exhaust and yellow tape on a Honda Civic made it a sports car. “Chip tuning” is disabling safety and durability features – you certainly can get slightly better performance if you don’t care about longevity of...