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  1. Re:Careers at Uber? on Uber Planning Fleet of Food Delivery Drones 'As Soon As 2021' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term.

    When I rideshare I always chat a bit with the drivers, and ask them how they like the job. Based on these conversations, I can assure you that few of them are planning on a long career with Uber.

    So? Few janitors, burger-flippers and garbage-men planned a long career in their respective fields too. Doesn't mean that most of them are not stuck there with no choice after a few years.

  2. Re:The SJWs Are Already Attacking The Project on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    SJW is the abusive narcissist's derogatory term for "person stands on the side of decency."

    Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most SJWs self-identify as SJW?

  3. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sqlite is one of the most widely distributed and used libraries in all of software. It has larger penetration than Linux, is more ubiquitous than zlib.

    I think they have the karma to burn on this.

  4. Re:Ban humans now on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    Once computers can drive better than people (which has happened already or will happen very soon)

    Not only has it not happened, it doesn't look like it will in my lifetime unless all humans are off the road.

  5. It does, however, keep you from being shat upon by passenger pigeons.

    Aren't they extinct?

  6. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ...regardless of what he believes or not...he's separated from God for eternity...even Pascal believed it was better to be wrong than separated for an eternity...

    That's only true if your god exists. Seeing as how your god is one of thousands, how sure are you that you're believing in the correct one?

  7. Re:Complete nonsense on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Sue is rich not because she got $10k, decided that was enough and stopped. She's rich because she was already charging Frank and George the highest prices she could.

    If she's already charging as much as she could, now that they have more money she can charge them more.

  8. Re:You're thinking teachers on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mozilla is hurting because browsers are incredibly complex beasts and they don't have nearly as much money as they used to.

    They have less money because they have less market share. They have less market share because they have an inferior product. They have an inferior product because they spent too much effort on virtue-signalling.

    Mozilla hurting is a result of their self-politicising, them virtue-signalling is not a result of their low market share, it's a cause of their low market-share.

    They're still doubling down on the madness with their Rust language. Companies (like Mozilla, and others) will probably learn only very late in the game that technical-minded people don't like extremist politics injected into their products.

  9. Re:who actually uses Crypto??? on The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who actually uses stocks to make everyday purchases such as toilet paper, food, gasoline, etc., not just for impulse buying Lamborghinis or South Bay real estate? Same argument.

    You appear to be in violent agreement that BTC isn't a currency. I'm not sure that that is waht you intended.

  10. Synthetic mystery meat is not something people are going to accept overnight even if all the evidence says it's great - which isn't likely to happen.

    We don't care what the evidence says it is, we care how it tastes. Lots of synthetic food is more popular than natural food; this would not be the case if people cared about synthetic food.

    If the synthetic meat tastes good people will eat it. If it's cheap as well it'll all but drive out real meat, leaving real meat meals as a sign of conspicuous consumption.

  11. Re:It's time for a trial & make roads safer on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If she's not visible in the video, then she's not visible to human eyes either.

    Incorrect. Lots of things are visible to human eyes that are invisible to the camera. The fact is that she was visible for a good 8 seconds or so - you can look up the findings in the official reports and what Uber had to say about it themselves.

    Uber themselves say that she was visible for a long time. Why are you disputing what they say?

  12. Re:What keys map to joystick? on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    Took me a while to figure that out. It's 0 key on your numpad for the fire button, numpad arrow keys for movement. Have to turn numlock off first.

    That didn't work for me, however, pressing f12 brings up the emulator config, and selecting "hardware/joystick" then setting "joystick 1" to "numpad" worked for me.

  13. What keys map to joystick? on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    Sitting there with river raid on screen, but nothing starts the game.

  14. Re:It's time for a trial & make roads safer on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus she stepped in front of the car when it was only feet away.

    No. She was visible for a full 8 seconds or so on the road before the impact.

    The poor quality video released makes it seem like she appeared out of nowhere, but an old lady crossing the road pushing a bicycle does not cover 2.5 lanes in 2 seconds.

  15. Re:Rape legalized, thank you Conservatism! on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Actions speak louder then words. Has the Republican Congress tried to fix the civil forfeiture thing? How about the President through executive power?

    Did a Democrat congress try to fix it? How about a Democrat president? After all, actions speak louder than words...

  16. Re:Waymo is not Uber on Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't trust those cars one bit until they have been shown to be able to handle freak situations in a reasonable way.

    That statement should apply to both self-driving and human cars: No human-driven cars should be allowed on the road until humans have been shown to handle freak situations in a reasonable way. Sadly, this is provably not the case.

    Humans are a few orders of magnitude better than the numbers that waymo posted for there cars. Typical humans go 100s of thousands of miles without needing an intervention. Waymo cars (according to their own data) need an intervention every 5600m or so.

    So, yeah, humans may not be perfect, but according to the numbers they're a hell of a lot better than the best SDCs available so far.

  17. Re:Why was it ever on the Play Store? on SuperSU, a Popular Root App For Android, Disappears From Google Play Store (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    - A confused iOS user

    You repeat yourself.

  18. Re:Everyone should just come out at women... on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's already been decided that gender is self-identified. Anyone (like you) wanting to make it dependent on circumstances is free to argue in court that the way it is now must be changed./em.

    Like I said if it's so simple, try it on a judge without a lawyer. Let us know how it goes.

    This is how it currently is; if you think a judge will find differently you're free to try it in court. You want it changed, you go to court and change it.

  19. Re:Everyone should just come out at women... on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to make self-identity contextual?

    What I want is immaterial. It's how the law will be interpreted that matters. If you think it's so simple, then take it in front of a judge and I'm sure you'll win. May as well represent yourself: if it's as simple as you seem to think then you won't even need a lawyer.

    It's already been decided that gender is self-identified. Anyone (like you) wanting to make it dependent on circumstances is free to argue in court that the way it is now must be changed.

  20. Re:Everyone should just come out at women... on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "I identify as a woman" has already been in front of multiple judges, ya moron./em.

    Not in the context of this law it hasn't ya moron.

    You want to make self-identity contextual? Go for it. I'll grab the popcorn.

  21. Re:Everyone should just come out at women... on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... No really. Just say "I identify as a woman".

    Game over.

    I think you should definitely try to get this in front of a judge.

    "I identify as a woman" has already been in front of multiple judges, ya moron. A person is who they identify as.

  22. Re:Easy prevention: if (10 == variable) on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    I've started preventing that by habitually putting the variable on the right side. If I accidentally use = instead of == I'll get a syntax error. It makes that bug impossible by just changing an arbitrary habit.

    if ( 10 == variable )

    I used to do that until compilers started issuing warnings for assignments in conditional expressions; now I simply use the extra braces so that the compiler *KNOWS* that that construct was intended.

  23. Re:printf() may not work for multithreaded problem on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    A few years ago I had an issue in a multi-threaded program where using printf()'s caused the problem to go away. In order to track the problem down, I ended up writing messages to a buffer in RAM, and dumping the buffer to stdout after the problem occurred.

    Similar story, except that the processor would reboot, clearing all the variables I stored leaving no opportunity to grab all the diagnostics.

    I examined the map, determined what the last address was, added an interrupt handler on the clock that logged the stack pointer ~250/sec (only needed to log the pointer if it was smaller than the existing one) to determine how much margin I had and used that little space between maximum stack and variables to write my diagnostics to.

    Once I had determined the smallest stack address that got used, I wrote my diagnostics into that margin between the stack and the bss. To make sure that the values wouldn't be overwritten on processor startup I could not use actual variables, I had to use a pointer variable that pointed to those ten bytes I could write into. At startup the bootstrap code would grab whatever was in that memory, chuck it via i2c onto another processor, clear the ten bytes, and then proceed with normal bootup.

    When booted from cold that memory held nothing, when rebooted the memory was not cleared (because power was not removed) and thus I had my diagnostics from the previous execution.

    And yes, I found the bug with the help of the diagnostics (don't recall what it was, but that isn't important).

  24. Re:He really is old, isn't he? on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Instrument everything? Printf is your friend? The guy is talking about something of a few dozen lines of code, and he doesn't simply use a debugger to step through the problematic code? WTF LOL

    You're a moron; many problems don't show up under the debugger.

  25. Re:This would make all Open Source untenable. on Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If I understand this correctly this would be built in poison pill and destroy Open Source as we know it.

    If a company/individual wanted to seriously harm an open source project they would make significant contributions to a project that becomes integrated and built upon and then at some point announce they want to rescind their contributions and thereby destroying the project.

    This is real, which is why almost all FLOSS projects ask for copytright assignment, not for a compatible licence from each contributor.