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Mawr
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Comment #49218216
1. The past is not a predictor of the future. Driving towards a cliff has very positive results right up until a sharply negative one. 2. Energy does not require damaging the envir…
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Comment #49186825
> It's probably about right to compare the risk profile to motorcycle riding. I'd say it's probably not, many motorcycle riders deliberately choose a motorcycle because it's "fun",…
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Comment #49108281
Never get married, man...
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Comment #49105507
Knowledge is irrelevant. Idk why you'd think dust would be a problem too, that's also comparatively trivial. Health and safety is also a good one, lol. It all comes down to robots …
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Comment #49105389
I'd say it's at least two. Driving a car is fairly straightforward, the problems are all tractable. Can't imagine where I'd even start with automating the work of an electrician. E…
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Comment #49075848
Yeah, it would have been way better not to have an alarm, and instead make it appear like the car broke down. Could even maybe somehow actually break it programmatically.
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Comment #49075823
> When he finally provided a passcode, the phone appeared to restart. The defense motion states that "the screen went blank, flashed several times, and the phone appeared to restar…
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Comment #49031347
> A computer is "flying" the F-16 all the time anyway. It's a statically unstable aircraft. Ugh... I... Are you serious? Sure, in some sense AI is a computer and the fancy state ma…
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Comment #49011207
5 year olds on balance bikes are endangering pedestrians?
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Comment #48962277
I use it as a dashcam.
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Comment #48962107
Creating accurate assembly instructions is surprisingly difficult. To be able to create them, you have to know how to assemble the product, BUT that also means you've been blessed …
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Comment #48961733
Your statement is so broad that it cannot be true.
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Comment #48961703
Hahahah. Do you seriously just take random objects deep underwater and expect them to be designed to withstand that sort of an environment? Was the GoPro you bought rated up to tha…
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Comment #48953072
> and essentially reduce to a launch cost penalty. Are you arguing that all this is technically possible or something? The whole point is that the costs would dwarf the gains. > Yo…
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Comment #48942880
Idk, is it? https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc > Is it even generational yet? Is there any reason in particular it should be? Or are you just throwing random buzzwords around? Anyways,…
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Comment #48850996
Hilarious hysterical nonsense. Worst catastrophes? Pick any industrial accident with more than like 10 people killed and you've got nuclear beat. A single plane falls from the sky …
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Comment #48848726
It's a good thing there's nothing of the sort in TFA then? Quoting: "He moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head first into problems that he was not yet equipped…
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Comment #48848567
Those statements are all consistent with the publicly observable facts like this whole thing going from "I'm experimenting with this" to "this is merged into main now, yolo" within…
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Comment #48833570
> During communism movement within countries required a written permission slip And what does driving your car require if not a written permission slip?
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Comment #48801029
You underestimate the difficulty of designing a language by at least an order of magnitude. You've basically arbitrarily focused on a particular flawed design decision of a languag…
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Comment #48801001
> Zig, Go, and Python If you cherry pick, any position is possible to argue for. What is C and error handling? What is Java and value types? What is C++ and modules?
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Comment #48661087
Huh, better insulation works great though? The talk of double glazing is funny to me, this was becoming a standard like 20 years ago where I live. Nowadays new construction does tr…
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Comment #48633016
I don't know man, maybe read the rest of the comment? Are you serious?
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Comment #48592695
Those are all less safe than nuclear. It's a simple fact, look it up. All the places that can use hydro already do. Oh, and it's pretty damaging to the environment, it turns out. W…
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Comment #48592061
Apparently the hypothetical future humanoids, somehow ignorant of all prior history, who will, ignoring all warning signs, start eating as much of the waste as fast as possible, th…