I came for this comment. Was not disappointed.

Boeing needs to focus on it's core business right now, instead of dreaming up flights of fancy. As a company, they appear to be falling into the shitter (likely a long process, and we're finally seeing the end results). Do they need a more serious wake-up call than what they've had?

I don't doubt the trend. Just the headline.

I'll give 10:1 odds that a few years from now, we'll get accusations that SF's chosen AI systems are biased against people of color. This feels like the mayor is just shifting responsibility to some hand-wavy magic technology, which will conveniently get blamed when it fails to produce results.

Well, maybe. The car was accelerating from a full stop, so most drivers / cars wouldn't be going all that fast. But your point is well taken that if the cyclist only had minor scratches, the car came pretty close to avoiding the accident. I still believe we're going to see a massive reduction in road deaths once most cars are driving autonomously.

It also is multi-channel, and can loop seamlessly.

There's a pretty simple way for this to shake out. If it ends up being highly unpopular, people will stop going to restaurants that don't offer a more traditional option. It's not like there are no competing restaurants you can choose among. The one point I'd raise as a sticking point is the issue of privacy and security. Customers should not be put at unnecessary risk if they don't wish to use a third party app that requires too much personal information. You should be able to pay as easily as with any other digital transaction.

In China, WeChat has such a monopoly on the market that pretty much everyone pays using it, or so I've heard. Maybe at some point we'll see one or more digital payment apps rise to the top here in the west, which will in turn make this sort of thing feel a more friction-free. But until that happens, many people are going to respond to having to use some unknown app with less than enthusiasm. I know I'd probably nope out of that.

Cable companies used to believe they could increase prices with impunity as well. You can do that for a while, but eventually, a competitor comes along and steals your unhappy customers.

I see a number of Dunning-Kruger drivers in this thread. This was apparently at night, in the rain, in an unlit area, and on a route the driver was unfamiliar with. There was no barricade or warning that anything was wrong. In those conditions, I think it's a bit disingenuous to blame this on the driver in any way. That bridge was a deathtrap waiting to happen.

As a side-note, I also know from personal experience how !@#$ hard it is to get a change through to Google Maps. The name of the park across my house was listed incorrectly. I tried for many years to get Google to update the name. Finally, the city took over management, and had an official website with photos showing the name of the park. So after well over a decade of trying (once every few years), I got the name of the park changed appropriately. I can only imagine the request to mark this bridge as broken was met with the same responsiveness.

Are you serious? Anyone roughly fifty years old was born before the internet, cell phones, smart phones, commercial rockets, electric cars, self-driving cars, home computers, videogames (mostly), flat panel TVs, AI chatbots (well, good ones). 4K or 8K resolution is now standard. VR and augmented reality glasses are here. These days many people never have to step foot in most any store unless they want to. Working remotely from home with video conferencing is a thing. Cable TV is dying, and on-demand internet streaming is here. Car reliability has doubled or maybe even tripled. If you don't see any technological progress, you're not even trying. None of that stuff was around fifty years ago.

The article indicates strikes "decay." It would clearly be untenable if they were permanent. There also seems to be a review systems, so hopefully false positives will be minimal, but we'll see. It's important to make sure these sorts of systems can't be weaponized. Overall, seems reasonable.

The only WTF I immediately noticed is that cheating only merited one strike, same as swearing, while hate speech got you three strikes. Seems like cheating should be at least three strikes. Why so lenient on that?

Lol, if this is what you imagine the problematic behavior is actually like, you're dreaming. You've got to ramp it up by 100x or so. Racist slurs, homophobic rants, constant insults and trolling, deliberately interfering with your own team's play. I don't know too many people who get all that upset about a random cuss word.

Do you play any online games? Without moderation of some sort, it can quickly get incredibly toxic. There are too many people who can't resist taking advantage of a no-consequence environment to troll others.

This is perhaps the first time in my life I've wished for a space mission to fail.

Russia can go fuck itself while it's busy raping Ukraine and destabilizing the world's food supplies. There are no excuses for what they've done - only transparent lies and propaganda. And anyone who is ignorant or dishonest enough to swallow Putin's spooge can go fuck themselves as well for being part of the problem.

I wouldn't call Russians "Europeans" when discussing this with anyone in an EU country, especially in central Europe or the Baltic states. To them, Russians are not Europeans - certainly not these days, and probably not for a very long time to come. They barely acknowledge Russians as humans any more. I'm not sure those of us in the west/US can understand their hatred of all things Russian right now, unless you're paying particularly close attention to the war. They're busy tearing down Soviet era monuments and even renaming streets, cities, and landmarks that bore Russian names.

I don't agree with isolationism or protectionism. But we need a collective realization that we shouldn't be providing additional capabilities to an enemy state. Economic investment and cooperation HAS NOT WORKED to help bring China any closer to democratic ideals. If anything, they've grown more belligerent and authoritarian as they've become more prosperous. It's a failed experiment - we just need to wake up and admit it. Why in are they still granted Most Favored Nation status? It's insanity. They remain highly protectionist themselves, with massive barriers to their own markets for foreign companies. I see no reason we should continue subsidizing their industries, or allowing them to simply commit industrial espionage en masse with near impunity, as they've done for decades.

Previously, we invested because of the cheap labor and lack of regulations. Now, we continue it because we're dependent on those capabilities we helped bootstrap. It's going to be painful, but we need to wean ourselves off of our dependence on exclusive Chinese supply chains.

People bitch about "bloat" in C++. I call them "features". And what's nice is that C++ doesn't really force you to use any of those features in particular. You can go right on creating C-style procedural code if you like, all the way to utilizing all the newest whiz-bang features. C++ is a multi-paradigm languages, so you can pick and choose among both features and styles.

Personally, I greatly appreciate the improvements that have been made in the past twelve years. They've made the language a lot safer and easier to use, IMO.