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Why does it matter if fleet response sit in Manilla, Miami or Milan? Surely what matters is the architecture: > The Waymo Driver evaluates the input from fleet response and indepen…

The remote assistance (fleet response) team cannot directly control the car: > The Waymo Driver evaluates the input from fleet response and independently remains in control of driv…

Have you considered using a power on delay relay? There are many for refrigerators that feature a ~5 minute delay and are quite affordable ($6[0]) [0] https://www.scandifurn.com/pr…

Similarly, I learnt PTC Pro/ENGINEER (now Creo) in university and have tried to learn SolidWorks, Tinkercad, Onshape and FreeCAD but never found them as usable or powerful as ProE.…

Hive is more complex and less constrained than Onitama (bigger decision space). We tried Hive when my eldest was 6 and it was beyond them. We tried it again a few years later at 8 …

I disagree. You can teach a 4-year-old the moves each chess piece can make, but expecting them to absorb strategy, or to visualise 2+ moves into the future is an unfair burden. The…

That box on your TV would have been a Nielsen box which sat on your TV and was connected to your landline. It didn’t collect anything automatically: every time you turned the TV on…

eventually they’ll go to (pre-)school/daycare[0] and you’ll get some time back. it gets better. [0] at least, they really should. kids need to socialise with others their age

KPH receiving station is 45 miles north of San Francisco, without bridge traffic you can make it in a little over an hour. My father-in-law was an engineer in the navy and loved se…

Upper Story’s Turing Tumble and Spintronics are solid favourites in our house too. Weaving a graphic novel into the instruction / tutorial book is a brilliant tactic which really h…

see also: * Frank Sinatra - _In the Wee Small Hours_ (1955) * David Bowie - _The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars_ (1972) * The Who - _Quadrophenia_ (1973)…

Another great small budget movie is Primer (2004). It has one of the biggest Budget to Box office multiples I know of: ~120x ($7k -> $841k)

Set your alarm for February 22nd so, 47 days to go.

iMessage supports attachments up to 100Mb and groups of 32 participants. It’s certainly more resource intensive than 140 byte SMS.

> In the AI space it's unclear what/who they could buy They bought the most promising AI startup in the world for $650m and failed to integrate it or make use of it until ChatGPT w…

Airbnb was open plan (it still is, I’m just not there anymore). They also have an amazing Food team who would occasionally, randomly, bake treats for us (this is relevant, I promis…

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Nationalising the corporation would delist it from an exchange, preventing stock sales.

I got access to Waymo recently and it is astoundingly good, it has replaced Uber for me (in SF). I suspect it will be some time before we can get insurance policys for privately ow…

I can’t imagine time delay will make a gunman happy.

Knowing that a vendor you selected is mishandling your users data and doesn’t care to secure their systems is unacceptable. Time to find a new vendor, as your continued usage of th…

Would Mr. Bean[0] have been sued? > Even though Mr. Whistler was perfectly aware that his mother was a hideous old bat who looked like she had a cactus lodged up her backside he st…

It was quite spectacular. I hear they spared no expense.

What’s the test for “has never been made and is totally new”? If I look at a photo of Prince and then using that image as reference create a new silkscreen painting is that fair us…

This feels like it can’t be true. Who do they sell them to, and why?