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Comment If a car is completely autonomous (Score 1) 110

In the future, if a car is completely autonomous, with some people predicting no steering wheel or option for manual driving then the liability should be with the manufacturer, just as you would not prosecute a passenger in a cable car if it crashed. While it is still "driver assist" and people may need to take control then they have responsibility still.

Comment Re: Who is at fault? (Score 1) 110

And then the UK has immoral laws that don't put people on the hook for becoming knowledgeable about the consequences of their actions.

I don't think you understand JonnyCalcutta's comment. If there is serious negligence or risk then it is manslaughter. If it is something like someone getting confused at a junction, someone runs out into the road at a moment when the driver is distracted by aircraft noise, or someone from a country that usually drives on the right turning into the wrong lane when coming out of a US airforce base, etc. it is death by dangerous driving.

Submission + - Is "learning to code" good for everyone. (bbc.co.uk) 1

Chrisq writes: The BBC has an article What can we do to get more women into coding?, where a journalist decides to " find out how easy it would be for a woman in her 30s, to learn to code in Python.".

Now some of the issues that she describes are something I would never have considered an issue, for example:

The adult class was challenging — you had to really want to learn to code in order to stay engaged.
If you make mistakes in your code, it just doesn't do anything. But when it works, there's not much pay-off — just some lines on a screen.

and

I also found the step change from learning Scratch [a Children's programming language] to Python similarly jarring in the children's toys — you suddenly go from colourful blocks to an empty screen with no handholding.
So, what could help bridge this gap from fun games for kids, to more professional level complex coding?

For most programmers the payback is what is happening; your program might just print one number, for example the nth factorial or prime. I don't see this as a man/woman thing, just a way of looking at things, I work with a female programmer who is quite happy to work on back-end systems that only produce a line of JSON as output or even only change database entries.

Is this idea that there should be a course that will teach any woman (or man) to be a productive programmer wrong? Or am I looking only at a certain type of programmer, and people who value pretty feedback over getting processes working could pursue a career as developers?

Comment Re:Miserable article (Score 1) 127

the time you save commuting will be spent working from home 10-12 hours a day.

Stuff that, when my day finishes my day finishes. I have a work and personal mobile with different numbers, and whereas my manager does have my personal number she does know that it is for emergencies only - the only time she used it was a text asking if I could start an online meeting first thing next day as she had to miss it.

Comment Re:Returned to office in September ... (Score 1) 127

So what?

I'm vaccinated and boosted. Wear a mask at work. At this point, I value the social interaction and sense of normalcy more than I value a 0% chance of getting COVID. If I get it, it is what it is.

But I'm working with mostly-vaccinated people in a city that has a 90% adult vaccination rate, so I'm not too worried. I'm done with being stuck at home.

What we don't know yet, but should do in the next few weeks, is the death rate for omicron in those who are vaccinated. We already know that the infection rate is high among those who have been double vaccinated with half of hospital admissions in the UK now being people who have had the two jabs. Until we know that I'm working from home, though I admit it's easy for me as I enjoy it; an hour and a half each day not spent commuting plus I can walk my dogs in the countryside in my lunch break. I know people living in city-centre apartments who find it very difficult.

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