I've had it trigger twice. Once for something minor, reversing I didn't see post sticking out of the ground. The car stopped so suddenly I thought I hit something and when I got out and looked I saw I was just 2cm (that's less than an inch in freedom land) from a post. The other time was on a highway where the car two in front of me drifted to the shoulder and hit a stalled vehicle, and then spun into the car in front of me which ended up sideways and AEB stopped me about 10cm (less than a foot) from the hitting that guy's passenger door. ... And then I got rear-ended, fortunately gently.

Glad I don't live near you. I prefer to live around people who understand that the modern cars are safer (for both occupants as well as people outside of the car) than ever before. We need less dangerous idiots like you out there.

The number of people who died in my street this year is 0. So we don't need to do anything and everything is safe. It's great when we can write off human life by simply cutting statistics down to the point where it becomes irrelevant.

In other news I've never been in an accident in my car so why should any of my passengers need a seatbelt. The data is clear, it won't make them any safer.

Nope. Firstly, if you're swerving the car won't be able to lock on to the thing in front of you and won't engage AEB. Secondly you can't flip a car by stepping on the brake no matter how hard when your wheels have already lost traction. Thirdly, this has nothing to do with swerving. You're already about to be in an accident.

AEB is a common feature in virtually every mid and high end card sold for the past decade. It's saving far more lives than it is causing accidents. But if you're in a situation where you end up swerving then no computer is going to help your horrendously bad driving. Slow down, stop tailgating, and take a defensive driving class to learn how to use your car properly.

What algorithm failure? AEB has been a common feature of many cars for nearly decade now.

Wait... you can double click deb files? *mind blown*. No literally. We often mocked windows about the ability to execute a privileged task based on file name. I honestly never tried this just assuming it wouldn't work.

Re-read what Daily Kos was saying. They were talking about *their* First Amendment rights in the second part.

And no the First Amendment does not protect an anon commenter from a civil discovery process. It protects them against persecution from the government. This is already well established in law.

Indeed I am, and I hoped that you would recognise this, because it points to the core issue that it works just fine the only thing holding you up is American perception of an unsolvable problem.

Studies have shown that after as little as 2 hours of driving a minimum of 15min break is required to prevent you from driving as poorly as a drunk driver. Are you special? Probably, studies have also shown that more than 90% of men (lower for women) *think* they are above average and better than the studies have proven they are. How much will a car accident or death eat into your vacation time?

It's not a fucking race. You don't need to scoff down your cheeseburger and coke from behind the wheel because your precious vacation needs an extra 30min at the destination. Chill the fuck out.

Indeed. See my first point. You have a local problem. But the reality is there are plenty of people in America doing long road trips on EVs. Going into the desert, yeah not going to work. Going into the remote forest, or outback hillbilly land? Yeah burn some diesel. But just like all Americans you think that if something isn't 100% it works for 0%. The reality is most Americans can do their holiday road trip in an EV just fine. You do already have quite a good charging network.

I did. But the fact of the matter is one or two installations doing a dodgy is not some reflection of the industry. I've been involved in the engineering of more flare gas recovery systems than this article even talks about.

Yes, it's called a ground flare. That's their purpose. That has been their purpose for 100 years now. The oldest one of these I've worked on was built in the 60s to replace the 1920s flare because they were getting neighbour complaints. They also have significantly higher capacity than a general flare so if you have something like an Ethelene cracker then you will almost need to go this route.

This isn't new or nefarious.

The discussion is only safety flaring. That is why you flare, it's the singular reason these systems exist. Releasing hydrocarbons into the air is Bad (TM). The industry has been going through a concerted effort to replace atmospheric vents with flares for decades now since it turns out it's not a good public image to blow up your own facility and kill people.

No. Smart != necessary away connectivity. When my internet goes down my thermostat still controls each room independently, it still runs on a schedule, it still can be controlled from a master unit upstairs. Oh noes my phone can't connect, whoop de fucking do, the loss of a single feature doesn't make it dumb. The same is applied to all my other smart devices. So I can't turn my lights on by shouting "Hey Siri", but they are still network connected to other devices, the movement sensor can still trigger the lights via a Z-wave connection, heck if I wanted to I could still get the downstairs lights to flash when the washing machine is finished (no don't ask, I haven't done anything with the washing machine, but the point is these systems do have locally isolated smart function that is *not* dependent on the internet.

Congrats on gaslighting about half of all internet users. Did you just offer a solution? No. This post brought to you from behind CG-NAT which is the only thing available at all in my country from any provider unless I start a business.

So your solution to not wanting to depend on company A is to be dependent on company B? Got it. Thanks for all your wisdom.

(or, less derisively)

Most of the time, the "need" for a specific version of a library, or even to have a library that is out-of-tree or out-of-distro, comes from less than correct programing practices, where a codebase relies on a depreciated library, a library that is excluded for some other very specific reason, or because a distro does something unusual with the way user data gets stored, and they want to hard-code locations (instead of abstracting, and then using the abstractions in their code.)

These are all programmer failings, and are not REAL reasons to use snap or flatpack.

If you have had to create some library, or create some special expansion to a library, and you need to ensure that this does not collide with a distro-provided one, then .appimage is the correct method.

Pretending that your application needs to download half a literal linux distro worth of dependencies just because you dont want to change your practices or refactor your codebase when the rest of the world has moved on, is arrogant, and stupid.

In the case of cannonicial pushing snaps, I would be apt to see them as 'just the messengers'.

However, the real source of the missive (*application creators*), are pushing the message out of an abundance of arrogance, that has been growing steadily over the years.

Namely, the following sins:

1) my time is infinitely more valuable than yours.

2) the assurances that my beautiful software runs exactly the way I intended it to, trumps any and all concerns you may have about the way your computer runs, DEAR USER.

3) if I cant have it my way, you can have the highway! (Nevermind the fact this is GPLed FOSS, and I legally DO NOT have authority to pull this stunt.)

snap and flatpack provide nothing .appimage does not provide, in a superior way.

They dont really have a legitimate reason to exist. Users clearly do not want them, and go out of their way to not use them. Instead of taking the hint, the app makers just doyble down on the arrogance coolaid, and the distro is happy to oblige.

The results are shittier package management, more convoluted containers that dont actually in practice provide any extra security but sure as fuck mess with normal retention of user settings or permissions, slow as fuck opetation, and a generally shit experience.

But hey! The app maker is 100% sure the exact font they want is used!

A warm salute to another Mandrake/ Mageia user. Back when Ubuntu came onto the scene, I did extensive comparisons and between Mandrake, Ubuntu and SuSE it was give and take on which was easier to use. Ubuntu just always had better marketing. Mageia still does it for me. Not sure which way I'll go if it stops being okay, I'd want a nice kde friendly distro, with options of all DE...

Sounds good, let's see it IRL. How much usable energy per unit of battery weight?

Don't know about weight, but you can buy 18650 cells using Na-Ion right now. They have the power capacity and curves of LiFePO4 cells at the moment.

The key part is that we have tons of sodium, unlike lithium, and a lot of it is already in ion form. Earth's lithium supplies are limited, while sodium supplies are basically limitless, and thus, it's stupidly cheap and unlikely to rise due to its abundance.

Sodium batteries are very similar to lithium, since it's in the same group (one row down) so the properties are similar. Hopefully that means enhanced sodium cells are soon as they apply the advancements made to lithium batteries to sodium batteries.

But you can apparently play with them today. A video on a YouTuber playing with them - https://youtu.be/s6zcI1GrkK4

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.