Two notes on this as someone who works in the sector.

It’s “completely normal”, but only if you’re not having a full time driver for each vehicle, which is what the article sounds like… Then the vehicles wouldn’t be autonomous, they’d just be teleoperated.

And the second part, why is this an industry standard and why are investors ok with it? Imagine you have a product (robotaxi) that is autonomous but can’t deal with absolutely everything on its own (not even Waymo is that advanced). The key component that you need to build into the system is the ability to come to a stop safely, and be recovered remotely. Then these “teleoperators” can recover the vehicles if/when they fail, and given a sufficiently low failure rate, you can have one operator for each X vehicles. Even if this is more than “0 drivers”, having 1 driver per 10 vehicles is a massive cost saving. Plus zooming out and thinking of other things than robotaxis, there are sectors like mining where they don’t care (that much) about the number of drivers - their primary goal is to have the drivers away from a dangerous mine. They can save money from simplifying operations that way.

Oh this happened to me while we were having lunch in the kitchen. We weren’t close to the oven and we hadn’t even used it that day and suddenly bang!

Not disagreeing with you necessarily, but ADHD also fits the bill. I’m very much a happy person at the moment, I wouldn’t change anything in my life, yet I subscribe to what OP says. Games are too long, too boring to grab my attention long enough.

I managed recently to complete GTA V because I found the story hilarious, and I only managed that by skipping all side missions. That’s the only long / AAA game I’ve managed to finish in recent years.

What helps me is understanding that if I get 5h of enjoyment out of a game rather than getting to the intended 50h playtime, that’s also valid. 5h of fun also counts as fun and this is a game, not work, so there’s no pressure to finish it.

I’ve seen this claim recently and it’s rubbish.

Yes, if by “nothing” we mean writing next to no code, because they’re busy either:

• architecting software solutions, as they’re knowledgeable enough that they should be doing this instead of writing code
• understanding a lot of what is going on in components and/or the system so that when there’s an issue they say “oh, this is likely because of X” and the resolution takes days instead of weeks.

I.e. yes, there is a percentage of developers who we pile other tasks on and they don’t get to write code.

My experience is that the more knowledgeable developers get, the less code they write.

Then neurodivergent peeps are different - an Autistic dev might be super knowledgeable and happy writing unit tests because they don’t enjoy the uncertainty of large problems, or an ADHD developer might have a large system-wide view but write what seem like small contributions.

Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?

A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.

• Does this work with a UK plug socket?
• Do you offer shipping?
• When could I go and pick it up?
• Do you have any other matching lamps/etc?
• What types of light bulbs does it use?
• Does it still have manufacturer’s warranty?

I know this is only a comic… but he’s answering questions, just not the ones in the post!!

This sort of comment is one of the reasons people antagonise us cyclists. Sigh.

Oh wow, this is horrible. Wow.

I’ve gone through problemshared recently because

• it’s what my employer’s health insurance offers, so I didn’t have to pay
• it’s only so the friction was minimal

The process was super smooth and from first GP appointment to diagnosis it was about 2 months. I am pretty sure they are in the right to choose list because my partner has mentioned this before.

That’s the problem then, they should have hired some cloud experts if they’re selling a cloud-first service as a “game”.

IMO the only problem with it is calling it “Art”. Stock photos are also slop, except man-made. That, or the soulless corporate-style illustrations in PowerPoints are the sort of thing it replaces well.

Not the “I poured my feelings onto a canvas/film” actual art. AI images are in my opinion a tool just as valid as the next - just a tool, not art.

Alternative title: Giant Angel Causes Havoc After Too Much Mexican Food

With my current partner, we met “just” for a coffee at 11:30am. We got home at 7pm after said coffee, a walk, some drinks, dinner, and having had an awesome time.

Not to say I don’t agree with you - keeping at least the initial intention short and sweet gives an easy way out in case either person isn’t enjoying the date.

I fortunately come from a country where there’s actual left wing parties that I can vote for, so I understand the desire to go more left.

What I don’t understand from these posts is how voting for the far right, or voting for a party that essentially favours the far right, can make sense if what you want is to turn to the left?

Is the hope that the democrats will see they’ve alienated their base and turn more left, instead of now catering to what to them looks like a population that is more far right leaning than ever?

Is it that one of the seven independent parties that constitute 0.5% each will increase tenfold, gradually over the next 6 or 7 elections, and after 42 years of republican mandate maybe there’s an independent party that represents half of the population, and therefore is defacto the democratic party?

Or that by seeing how fractured the left is, the republican party chooses to remove gerrymandering and implements a system that allows a left coalition?

I get that the alternatives weren’t great but that someone can call themselves left leaning after not voting against a party that is anti abortion, anti LGBTQ, pro genocide, pro Russia… Just doesn’t seem logical to me.

The strategy is to break the ratchet by making it spin faster to the right!

What? Elections in Japan?

They are invisible, just like the “green” party in a bipartisanship. But you can pool them with the reds as that’s who they favour.

Non-american here, what does the werewolf represent? (Or is it just because it’s cool?)

My take is that best case scenario you’d arrive roughly at the same time you left.

If you have breakfast in London at 8am, then make it to the airport by 8:30, you’re at the gate at 9:30 after one hour of security and controls, and you’ve made it exactly at the time when boarding starts, which usually is 45 minutes before takeoff on most airlines. You take off at 10:15, arrive at 11:45 (which is 6:45 local time), then still have to go through half an hour of border control and getting out of the airport, and then another half an hour to get to the city centre and have a coffee.

You’d still arrive at about 8:30, but I don’t see the whole ordeal taking any less than 5 hours.

I routinely take a 1.5 h flight to visit my family and while I’m a fair bit away from the airport, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get door-to-door in less than 8 hours. 6 if we are measuring departures lounge to arrivals.

One of the best designs to ever come out of Renault and probably the best minivan ever (obviously in the context of its era, anything more modern will be quieter, more refined etc).

It looked futuristic, luxurious in the high trims (somewhat resembling the Range Rover in that picture), it was spacious… And full of functional features.

Being able to do this on a road trip to stop for lunch feels like such a nice feature to have: