Baked goods, coffee, and chocolate sounds as close to hope as one can buy.

Does that happen? I’m pretty impressed Google Photos can recognize photos of my kid from across many years (which also creeps me out).

Most of the bugs that make it to production are where the code seems totally reasonable, but someone misunderstood how systems interact, or what really happens in a corner case. AI is great at making reasonable looking code. It’s terrible at… understanding.

Me today: And make sure the tests pass. AI: Great, the test cases are all updated! Me: You didn’t actually run then. AI: Perfect! You’re absolutely right, I will run the tests now.

Missing link? Or I’m just clicking badly (Boost/Android).

In April, her 23-year-old son, Connor Lopez, was riding his motorcycle in Elk Grove when an oncoming car made a left turn and collided with him.

Lopez, a piano teacher, died in the roadway. The district attorney’s office charged the driver, Harjit Kaur, with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter — alleging that her failure to yield to oncoming traffic caused the fatal crash, court records show.

She said she was talking to police and one of the officers kept referring to the case as “low-level.” “She took my son’s life, but that’s how they’re seen — low-level,” Lyman said.

It really highlights something someone commented on another post: that we all suppress the knowledge that we’re driving two-ton death boxes. Like, it’s easy to say “she just made a turn without checking carefully enough,” and hard to rectify that with “she killed someone, however unintentionally.”

If people could focus as much on climate as on AI.

And a screen small enough that I can reach the whole thing with my thumb — I have very large hands (and pockets) and find my phone very awkward to hold.

And no AI features.

Very nice tonal rendering and scene!

I think the door would most naturally be the composition’s focus, but it’s very dark and the bright window just above it takes attention away.

Why is this better than the scripting environment in other CAD systems? I’m particular, I looked a bit at https://openscad.org/ previously, though didn’t make much headway modeling the thing I wanted.

Why is a language-level approach better than just an API in an existing, popular language?

A bit more technical detail from greencarreports. I was wondering if 800v charging necessarily implies anything about motor voltage, and apparently it’s “sometimes”.

GM’s GMC Hummer EV, for instance, runs at 400 volts, and each layer of its dual-layer battery pack operates in some ways as an individual pack. In 400-volt charging, the packs are connected in parallel, but for 800-volt charging a switch allows them to be connected in series—like the cells in a long, multi-cell flashlight—to take advantage of the higher voltage.

That 800-volt “trick” permits the Hummer EV pickup, with its 205-kwh battery pack, to charge at 350 kw and gain nearly 100 miles of range in 10 minutes—despite its 400-volt system and its inefficiency compared to other EVs.

Anyone know what the stuff headed NW is? Pyroclastic flow on the ground? Different altitude / wind direction carrying ash?

The impact of handle shape is negligible next to tire size (the 19" and 20" tires many EVs have reduce range) or lack of rear wheel cowlings. I read an article about it recently related to people dying in Teslas + EU legislation, but can’t remember the source.

Also, from the article:

The company hides the door handles to improve aerodynamics, a common feature on high-end electric cars, but one that’s about to be banned in China due to safety fears.

To save a click:

in its Enterprise product that can be exploited to treat new users as administrators or for privilege escalation.

The issue is only exploitable when SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) provisioning is enabled and configured.

So self-hosted Grafana / locally managed users is unaffected.

Maybe it’s time to properly erase and eBay my box of old HDDs?

…nope, still only $30 shipped for a refurbished 1TB WD or Seagate drive.

I am annoyed by Christmas before Thanksgiving, but the change doesn’t seem that egregious, just avoiding the case where it could be a week later than usual:

in 1863, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln established the last Thursday of November as the official date for Thanksgiving to be celebrated each year. Following this tradition, every president thereafter declared a general day of Thanksgiving to be observed on the last Thursday in November. However, in 1939, during the Great Depression, November had five Thursdays, and the last one fell on November 30, which left little time for the Christmas shopping season. To address this concern, in August 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to break from tradition and issued an executive order declaring that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on November 23 instead of November 30.

Also it didn’t work:

A 1941 Commerce Department survey found no significant expansion of retail sales due to the change.

Yeah, maybe I’m being more particular about terminology than I should, given how loosely it’s used. I was saying the cars aren’t using genAI / LLMs, which seem to be the crux of the other (undesirable to me) advertised future developments.

But of course ML / computer vision are expected as major parts of self driving.

There it was at 69 upvotes… but I did have to give it another.

There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.

The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.

The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.

Article.

Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there’s no dumb model available).