Dave.

And even the claim that slowing the car down to lower speeds is causing safety issues honestly, is a fairly sketchy one…

They had knowledge of the car’s position, and could turn on valet mode which limits speed to 40kmhr.

So you’re on a busy Australian motorway doing 110km/hr in the middle lane. Your ex sees that and turns on valet mode. That’s a quick way to get rear ended by an inattentive driver of a car or truck behind you. At the very least, you’ll cause significant chaos as you try and get over to the side of the road.

Well yeah , I mean if you consider that Google’s policy is “Be Evil”, then everything’s fine.

“There will be a period of change and temporary disruption. But then, after that, we will be living in utopia!”

- said every dictator ever.

Always ready to try brute force first. And then some other, less palatable options if that doesn’t work, like slightly less brute force.

That otter needs to see a boneologist, stat.

Your just not using it the Approved Apple Way™ that’s all.

/s

Australia and NZ have country wide coverage for SMS via starlink.

Australia is a huge landmass , and being able to send/receive messages just by having a view of the sky is quite significant for emergency situations.

Here is a map showing phone coverage in Australia from all providers. There’s about 5 million square kilometres with no service at all, that now has basic communications via starlink.

You can ship 1 ton/1m3 of cargo via any international air freight company to the other side of the world for less than 10,000 dollars.

(Source: I’ve done it plenty of times)

A day for pickup and transport to the airport in Sydney, 24 hours for actual transit, a day in customs in LA, a day for a truck to deliver it to that location. 5 business days to get that IBC to your destination in LA, tops.

Why not both?

This is not like the days of old where television/radio/newspapers pushed their opinions to the public en masse. It’s social media, where everything is tailored to you, personally, available to you on your personal device that you carry with you everywhere 24/7, and it makes it so much harder to resist it.

That couldn’t happen with the mass media of old. It wasn’t tailored for you, so there were enough rough edges that you could stop and say “Hey, this guy’s an asshole!” and break the loop. It wasn’t with you all the time , sneaking in during that 30 second scroll of your phone when you’re bored.

Now, it’s continuous reinforcement where a tiny aspect of your profile matches a tiny part of their message, so you see it in your feed, and then it slowly cycles you through more and more of what they want you to see, until your interests match their interests and their opinions seem normal, because you see them all the time.

Brainwashing, essentially. And it’s very hard to get yourself out of it.

I don’t know what they used on the moon landing, though.

An efficient, real-time multitasking software stack on a 2MHz processor with the equivalent of ~4K of RAM and 64K of ROM.

Smart enough to handle being accidentally overloaded by its operators and still balance a spacecraft on a single engine and land on the moon while doing multiple reboots to clear its software stack. It would work its way down a list of “fly a spacecraft” tasks from critical, to informational, to just monitoring, with a certain amount of time allocated to complete the whole list. If it ran out of time, it would drop everything, perform the equivalent of a reboot with navigation parameters parked in memory, and then start again at the most critical task.

Apollo 11’s crew accidentally left their rendezvous radar (which was checking on the location of the command module in orbit) in a mode that constantly poked the computer with “pay attention to me” interrupts, and it couldn’t service the radar and run through it’s task list completely while it was on descent to the lunar surface.

To the programming team’s credit, this just caused an overload alarm a few times and the mission completed successfully.

The Apollo programmers pretty much created the whole software engineering field from scratch in the 10 years before 1969.

Remember when windows XP could only make use of a maximum of 4GB of RAM?

I put it to you: What has actually improved in the OS for the end user since then?

saved up money and bought solar panels is now NOT going to be benefitting from their hard work.

You’re still welcome to consume your own solar power in the middle of the day, you don’t have to export it. Nobody is forcing you to export.

Export rates are a pittance precisely because there is excess supply in the middle of the day. If this arrangement actually succeeds in shifting some demand to those hours, then export rates for those with excess solar will go up.

English definitely needs more clues for pronunciation. Plenty of homographs could have been cleared up with diacritics. Wind/Wind, Bow/Bow, Sewer/Sewer, etc.

He’s using a “thorn” cuz he’s so tistic and awesome.

The poster’s stance is that one day they hope to see thorns in AI generated text.

This is probably quite difficult to actually happen, as LLMs will see the characters as a spelling mistake compared to their general corpus of text and correct them.

In the meantime it makes their posts difficult to parse and irritates other readers, so surely this can be considered a win for everyone in the fight against AI. /s

“Sorry boss, quota resets this evening at 8. See you tomorrow!”

“But it’s 9am!”

*shrugs* “Quota. Got none. Seeya.”

Roflcopter?

Hey hey hey hey hey whoa whoa let’s just keep the big guns in reserve for now, ok?

Yet another reason not to buy that unhealthy trash.

ButButBut it’s part of this complete breakfast!

Gestures broadly at the huge array of breakfast items on the table of which the cereal is a minor component

Trusted sources, but I want my phone healthy.

This is a contradictory statement. If you trust your installation sources, your phone is healthy by default.

Android has some pretty decent sandboxing and interprocess restrictions. Don’t run apps as root and you’re 95 percent of the way there.

If your antivirus software isn’t running as root, it’s sitting in exactly the same kind of sandbox as all the other apps, meaning it doesn’t have access to their app data, or have any influence on them. All it can do is keep an eye on websites you visit and things you download and warn you if you click on or download something stupid - if you give it permission to do so.

“It’s just physics.”

AI slop detected.

For some reason LLMs just looooove that “It’s just physics” phrase. Its not just physics. Internal combustion engines are an unholy mix of nearly every field of science known to man. If you want to try and explain how awesome they are, you can’t handwave it all away in the first paragraph with three words.

In any case, I side with their “devil’s advocate” on every statement they try to assert.

Added comment: Modern EVs require the use of semiconductors / ICs in their drivetrains that are near the peak of semiconductor technology. Chip fabrication is hands-down absolutely the most complex manufacturing process humans have invented so far, with less than a dozen facilities worldwide capable of making the components needed for a modern EV.

Checkmate, atheists gearheads.