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yes, the long tail of difficult event is exponentially more difficult to handle. That's why I said above that people "feel" it is ready but it is nowhere to be even close to ready.…

If you drove with a very very bad driver that crashes every 50k miles (average is every 500k miles), you would have exactly the same feeling and you would also be tempted to take a…

100 Miles literally don't matter. Even 1000. On average accidents happens every 500k miles. Are you ready to have your tesla drive FSD with you sleeping in it for 500k? You are let…

100% and even if they might not "replace" a senior or staff SWE, they can make their job significantly easier which means that instead of requiring 5 Senior or Staff you will only …

This i what is so tricky with Self Driving. People "feel" it is almost there because most of their rides are mostly ok. However to make a system truly driverless you need to master…

I worked in this industry. No, FSD is not almost there. Not even close. What matters is the long tails of events. You might "feel" it is almost there because it gets it right 99.9%…

Weird jumping to conclusion How do we know this is to seek revenge, and not just a way for the other elephant to attempt to get some water as well?

exactly this. Working with a couple ex-google and ex-facebook. Without failing every meeting we hear at least once "At Google/Facebook we used to ..." for something that is complet…

Ah, another one of those infamous 2018 blog posts on "why I quit Google". And those blog posts absolutely always start by telling you that the engineers at Google are the smartest …

Large companies fail in spectacular ways all the time. Google is super successful because they tapped into the biggest cash cow of all times. Not because the employees are somehow …

Good luck proving that your data was not deleted. GDPR and CCPA etc made it easy to send a request for deletion that will most probably be a frontend gimmick. How much effort are t…

Exactly this. Especially for a currently failing company that got an incentive to NOT delete your data (because that's the only value they still have).

common advice is to never connect your smart TV to the network. Only use the HDMI inputs.

I would rather say that it is easy to have zero drama when most of the committers come from a single large companies.

Ah yes Deloitte. Always there to sell the latest hype technology.

you only need that if you have multiple adversarial parties that all want to commit to a shared immutable history. This is a use case with a single source of truth (the DMV). So ag…

lol

So no different than a database. Why did this need to be a blockchain. The information comes from a centralized database anyways