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I can purchase a self-driving Tesla at a reasonable price, in-line with other cars of the same class. I can't purchase a Waymo at any price.

> Mercedes Drive Pilot is classified as L3 which is better than Tesla or Rivian. "DRIVE PILOT can be activated in heavy traffic jams at a speed of 40 MPH or less on a pre-defined f…

> In the rear, it's almost impossible to access the manual release in an emergency. You have to pull out a floor mat and then pop open a panel that requires a metal tool to extract…

I know it's not exactly the point, but would you mind sharing what specific mic and headphones you went with for this? It can help to get a sense of what to look for to create a si…

The announcement said that the feature was pending FDA approval.

Interesting, I've never thought of running syncthing behind koreader. Do you use any particular plugin like [this]( https://github.com/jasonchoimtt/koreader-syncthing )? How do you…

> Besides I’ll be very surprised if SVB isn’t called JPM by 9 am Monday. It will be called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara (DINB) on Monday. https://www.fdic.gov…

A new book in the same series as The Little Schemer! Here's a preview of the first two chapters: https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-strai...

Nope, the valuation happens at the time of grant. So you are granted a number of shares valued at $X. Then you can’t sell those shares until they vest, by which time they may have …

If you're the kind of person who likes the ability to tweak your environment and get things set up just right for you, I'd recommend getting a Kobo and putting KOReader[1] on it. I…

Unfortunately Uber recently dropped support for their Apple Watch app.

That’s pretty standard text in tech patent. What exactly would it mean to file a patent “as a joke?”

I’ve been told by a dentist specifically not to brush your teeth after tea. Instead, swish your mouth with water and brush your teeth later. The claim is that the acidity of the te…

Is Snipd able to do audio transcription for private feeds? Private “podcasts” are my main way I listen to audio books. I tried Snipd last year and it seemed to struggle with privat…

I wonder if anyone has ever put a name to this viewpoint: "I don't intend to use it, nor do I intend to contribute to its upkeep, but I expect it to be available."

Fabien Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. He posts mostly about internals and implementation details of classic video/computer games, plus other tech like Git and USB. https:/…

I'm very much new with emacs, but maybe `avy-goto-char-2` is what you're looking for?

iOS has this with the photo album permission at least. You can select to only reveal a select subset of your photos to an app. I assume Android has something similar.

Thanks! It’s always interesting when someone posts some new portal of knowledge into a niche that I didn’t realize existed. Especially when there’s already a nice book summing up t…

> (Source: Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013. Recommended read if you're into that sort of stuff!) I’m very curious. How did you come across this book? It seems very niche.

There are no e-ink devices with backlights. It doesn’t make sense for the technology, which is purely reflective. There are plenty of e-ink devices (like Kindles) that have frontli…

I think the trick is to be configurable, but with high friction. Otherwise it's too easy to reconfigure away from the minimalism on the fly. I've thought about using Parental Contr…

The subscription fee of most magazines is only there so that they can present a "paying subscribers" number to potential advertisers. The assumption being that a paying subscriber …

A smartphone must be a phone first. A phone is large with a comfortable earpiece, has large easy-to-press physical numbers, and is plugged into the wall so it doesn't require recha…