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Claude does clearly stupid things, even under auto mode, that no human would reasonably do. I had a sustained 500mb/s ingress to my machine that turned out to be a background "find…

Tesla just released an infuriating update which adds an incomprehensible number of UI nags to start self driving, despite there being a hardware lever that already does so. There's…

In Australia (at least 15 years ago) you sit your exams and get a score. The universities then set a minimum score for each program based on expected enrollment and capacity. If yo…

I have no problem with people driving cars. I just don't want to subsidize them. Get rid of street parking, add congestion pricing. Set road taxes such that they actually cover the…

I work in self driving and strongly agree with this. I may have had some of the coolaid, but I genuinely believe that self driving cars are the only thing that can pry Americans fr…

Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.

I work in the US and every year I take 17 days off over the July period which works out (with another company holiday) to be 4 continuous weeks. The first year I did it I told my m…

Sorry, but I giggled at this. A well designed urban environment would have no cars.

Conversely, if this is indeed true motivation and management has accepted it, kudos to them. It sounds like the engineers said that the situation is untenable and this is the cover…

I think LLMs are really bad at writing tests. In the good old days you invested in your test code to be structured and understandable. Now we all just say "test this thing you just…

> AI statement: I didn't use AI to write this article (details). Meta, but thank you for including this and suggest even putting it at the top of your articles. I'm now off to both…

I work on the mapping team at Zoox (self driving) and we have c++ roles at the entry and mid levels. Requires onsite in the Bay Area though. Charles, if you're reading and would li…

The MacOS window manager is so bad that I've resorted to three monitors plus the built in screen. Two monitors have fullscreen terminal emulators and the last has the browser. The …

I learned sed back in the day to show off. I wish I'd invested that effort in learning perl oneliners instead. For whatever reason I picked up enough awk along the way, and now tha…

S2 has this property https://s2geometry.io

I have HW3, but FSD reliably disengages at this time of year with sunrise and sunset during commute hours.

Zoox | Full Stack Software Engineer | Bay Area | Hybrid (3 days) https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/d4a324c6-8186-435f-a102-1ac7a69ab... I'm an engineer on the HD Mapping Team at Zoox (aut…

Disclaimer I work for Zoox, but here is us crash testing https://youtu.be/597C9OwV0o4

I'll jump. I've been meaning to set up a bi-weekly dinner for hacker types who live mid peninsula, specifically near San Mateo. I have a group of 4 or so in mind and have a good pl…

The world of homogeneous coordinates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates ) is magical and extends beyond just points and lines to conics. The Multiview Geometry…

Yes, people have done this

Haha nice, hanging in there by a thread

Thanks for pushing this, I've never gone beyond "zero" shotting the prompt (is it still called zero shot with search?) As a curiosity, it looks like r and q are only ever used as r…

Hahaha thanks, I never noticed that. If I ever print it out and frame it I'll be sure to fix it

It's been a long time, but here is the writeup https://blog.chatfield.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-elli...