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Comment Re:Oh, joy (Score 1) 40

Why do you think that will happen? The Waymo vehicles are all-wheel drive, and I think you can expect them to have good tires, probably even snow tires.

Lack of any visible lane markings during heavy snow storms is one reason. How well do those vehicles pick up the road edge markers on posts? Hope the automated vehicles will be kept off the roads in heavy snow.

Comment Re:Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 3, Informative) 183

No OS user has a problem with Linus being rough with people who try to push lousy code into the kernel.

Agreed, many systems running Linux are used in high reliability and safety critical applications. There is no place for crappy code in the kernel or important run time libraries, so we are definitely relying on people like Linus being tough on people who let problematic code into PRs.

Comment Re:How relevant are surveys? (Score 3, Insightful) 68

I agree with this. Too many surveys fail to actually give you a way to answer how you really feel about something. Either they are too coarse or don't allow you to choose "irrelevant" or "not applicable". There is also a theshold beyond which I will abandon a survey, either for the time spent or when they insist on asking those supremely annoying "variation on a previous question" to try and tease out some distinction about how you really think/feel.

Comment Re:Too little too late. (Score 1) 27

I've backed 18 projects. Of those the results were:
  • One failed to deliver anything
  • A second one where I didn't request a reward ended up with the funds being misused
  • A third delivered the hardware but only minimally functional software after the development team fell apart and the remaining developer did what he could to provide something
  • The remaining 15 delivered on their promises, most of them on time.

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