> Will you also complain when enough Waymo cars start running on the freeways that a couple of them in a row can effectively enforce following distances and speed limits, for example?
In my state, that would itself be a traffic violation, so yes I would. The leftmost lane on an interstate highway is reserved for passing. An autonomous vehicle cruising in that lane (regardless of speed) would therefore be programmed in a way that deliberately violates this law.
Enforcement is its own challenge, whether robots or humans.
> The leftmost lane on an interstate highway is reserved for passing.
Sadly, in most states, this is not true anymore. Most of those laws have been repealed.
I was very pleasantly surprised when I was in Colorado that they had explicit signs saying that if you had 5 (I think) or more cars behind you that you were supposed to pull right and let them pass.
However, I wasn't really thinking about a Waymo cruising in the left lane but simply 4 or 5 Waymo's in the right lane going right at the speed limit with proper following distance. That's going to effectively lock the right lane to the speed limit which then means that even a single other car would lock the left lane to the speed limit as well. Basically, even a couple of Waymos in the right lane would drop freeway speeds dramatically.
I was under the impression these laws have become much more common over the past decade or two when they were a rarity beforehand. My home state (MN) for example didn’t have one for the first 15 years or so of me driving. Much to my chagrin after I learned about how much better life can be by spending time in a state (KY) where it was strictly enforced by both social convention and law enforcement.
Surprisingly it seems to even be moderately enforced these days even in Minnesota, which I’d have bet money on never happening since it’s a state pastime to play passive aggressive traffic cop for many.
Perhaps not the most trusted source on the matter, but at a glance it seems more or less the vast majority of states have laws that effectively “ban” slow moving traffic in the left lane from impeding traffic. Enforcement I’m sure will be all over the map - likely down to even a county level within individual states.
While I do wish all states were “purple” or above in that map, the situation seems largely up to how state patrol and other agencies want to enforce it.
I’ve seen it enforced now with my own two eyes in KY, WI, MN, and IL.
Shell scripts are a byproduct of the shell existing. Generations of programmers have cut their teeth in CLI environments. Anything that made shell scripts "no longer a thing" would necessarily destroy the interactive environment, and sounds like a ladder-pull to the curiosity of future generations.
Chase Private Client refunds ATM fees too. It's especially nice if you live in a location where a substantial fraction of Chase ATMs and branches are shuttered!
Sibling reply notes the "process" is the problem, amd I would second that. I would also like to add, it's perfectly possible to produce a high quality code base with poor practices. This can happen with very small, expert teams. However, certain qualities become high-variance, which becomes a hazard over time.
The risk is anything else dropping your connection while an interactive long-running process is going. You can nohup, or run inside something like screen/tmux,
You're not wrong, but largely in the virtualized world we live in, it matters less and less when you have a virtual console.
That said the sshd session you are connected on is still running the old executable until the service is restarted AND your session ends, so even if sshd gets upgraded, you should still be good to go.
If TikTok didn't exist, wouldn't you expect those Pro-Palestine viewpoints to appear somewhere else? The whole thing is unverifiable because we have no test/control, but it seems implausible that the platform was the only avenue for this particular speech.
> If TikTok didn't exist, wouldn't you expect those Pro-Palestine viewpoints to appear somewhere else
Not necessarily. It depends why they were primarily successful on TikTok, which we don't know. If it's because American platforms tend not to highly rank content that goes against the US's geopolitical ideology, then no, I wouldn't expect that.
Social media platforms rank content based on how profitable it is to them. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Maybe it would be unprofitable to resist censorship requests on behalf of US government, but the exact same pressure would be applied to TikTok.
If the pressure is a direct bribe, then TikTok could get in hot water with China for accepting that bribe. With a US corp, the US government can make any criminal liability go away.
Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo
This is the smoking gun of actual free speech violation rather than the US government banning a particular platform wholesale.
To be a first amendment violation this would technically have to involve the US government working to censor American's speech over Palestine. Functionally, though, this is a government censoring specific speech and feels very much like a free speech issue.
The companies themselves have free speech. It doesn't really matter how those viewpoints ended up highly-ranked on TikTok, it's their right to choose what they want to display, same with Facebook. And given what happened here, I don't expect Facebook to allow this stuff high-up even if they wanted to before.
Another thing we know is that the White House under Biden was pressuring FB and others to downrank anti-covid-vaccine content until a judge ordered them to stop.
Why exclude indentation? A block of code that is indented say... 5 levels deep at 4 spaces is missing 20 columns. If that loss of space gives the developer discomfort, it sounds like a healthy reminder about complexity. Every level of nested scope is additional mental context of "global" state for a maintainer. There should be (reasonable) pressure on the author to refactor towards less indentation/nested scope.
You can't have it both ways though - support hard line limits because the mere discomfort of long lines is insufficent to convince the programmer to refactor to something clearer, and then argue that the mere discomfort of the line limit including indentation should convince the programmer to refactor deeply nested code into something simpler. Which is it? Do we want to force limits with say a linter (80 characters of width max, 5 levels of nesting max) or let the programmer choose based on comfort?
I've had to implement things like an arbitrary-JSON formatter. Setting a fixed width including indentation doesn't work - there would always be (deeply nested) values you simply cannot print according to the rules (excluding, of course, strings which have their own difficulty). I kinda feel 80 characters excluding indentation works out ok in practice in a variety of settings.
Sure, excessive indentation is a code smell. But that doesn't impede the ability to read and track lines within a highly-indented block, which roughly follows the readability of prose and thus can use its numbers for comparison.
He fell off the rails when Trump was running for office. I remember being really disappointed to see the trading observations (and his own product advertisement) replaced by political rants.
> the government doesn't have to spend taxpayer money on countless r&d experiments
If you expect the government to make a tender offer on the largest market-cap companies, they sure as heck _are_ paying for r&d indirectly. And a lot more!
I think it's quite different. It involves money, but QE is all about monetary supply and interest rates alone. Buying entire companies comes with a lot more implications, like decision-making power over the organization. You want that for API keys, but do you want that across the board? Seems like regulation would be much cheaper.
Thanks for replying, today I corrected a misunderstanding i had about QE. I had previously believed they were buying and selling stocks (I misunderstood their usage of "Securities")
In my state, that would itself be a traffic violation, so yes I would. The leftmost lane on an interstate highway is reserved for passing. An autonomous vehicle cruising in that lane (regardless of speed) would therefore be programmed in a way that deliberately violates this law.
Enforcement is its own challenge, whether robots or humans.
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