Let's skip Tesla in this discussion merely on an assumption of total incompetence. What about BYD or Volkswagen? There has been plenty of discussion of using private cars as taxis and so why shouldn't a BYD or VW car have a taxi mode where the drivers controls disconnect and the car gets you where you tell it to take you.
What I want is a mode I can put a normal car I own into where it will be " *exclusively* self-driving." from some time to another time. E.g. "don't let your driver drive you until mid day tomorrow at the earliest and require a breathalyzer test even then". That means a bunch of things like it being able to take you to the nearest hospital if needed, it understanding who is allowed to command it and which places you want it to be able to go to. I'm not in the habit of getting blind drunk and when I do drink I tend to get even more careful than when not, but things know a number of people who kind of lose control unpredictably when drunk and make stupid decisions. I've seen them insist on driving home when beyond what's safe. I'm absolutely convinced that once drunk and needing to get home they will override any protection that will stop them and that self driving will 100% encourage that even if it's not designed right, so if it's going to be allowed for some of us I think it needs to be completely safe for those other people.
Following up on this, I'm not sure if that person could have made a difference, but not turning down a dedicated flood warning system in 2021, free from the Federal government and dedicated to exactly this specific case could definitely have helped.
Well, my meaning was that I had the half bottle before the journey, probably at a friend's place. But yes, I think the key is that you should be able to take responsibility away from yourself completely. The car should become like a taxi, that accepts destinations only and then gets you there.
You're supposed to have both hands clenched tightly on the wheel (at 9 and 3)
It's not self driving until I can have a half bottle of wine and get into the car knowing a) I will get home b) I and others around me will be safe and c) know the Police will be fine with that.
Probably barely aware of what enriched uranium is and would have difficulty working out why you can use more highly enriched uranium in subs than civilian reactors.
Yeah, that is interesting and difficult because the weather center did raise alerts. They did contact the local authorities. Hopefully in some of the lawsuits or inquiries that happen following this someone will raise precisely what that guy would have done, whether the same thing was done and, if not, why not.
I lived for a while in Fairbanks, AK. Battery storage doesn't last long enough when the sun don't shine for months.
quoting from a page about the local climate
The windier part of the year lasts for 4.7 months, from 8 November to 31 March, with average wind speeds of more than 9.9 kilometres per hour
it sounds like you could be golden.
The combination tends to work well.
True as long as you have good grid connectivity so you can ship wind power in from a distance, which China is also building. Dealing with these variable sources is getting better and better. Storage over 24 hour periods and possibly even weeks also seems to be moving towards being a solved problem with new technologies coming online. Find a mineshaft or a hill, lift a weight from the bottom to the top, then store it nearby. Lower it down when you need energy back. Alternatively, pump water out of an underwater concrete dome or pump water up a hill and so on. It's also possible to convert iron oxide into iron powder that can later be burned for energy. That's all before you start talking about more expensive but convenient solutions like batteries.
China will now have a vast amount of energy that they can start testing those solutions on as well as finding industrial processes that can run intermittently when there's super cheap energy available. That converts this from a tactical gain into a strategic one. Once those industrial processes are mostly based in China they can keep learning to optimize them at scale in a way nobody else will be able to.
When we look back in 30 years time at what caused America to fall, energy prices, spending too much on nuclear, and failure to compete in renewable energy is my best guess.
Okay, I found Cyberax's other comment with this link - https://www.kxan.com/weather/w...
According to the NWS Austin/San Antonio website, the office is already short two meteorologist positions currently listed as vacant. The positions of ‘lead meteorologist’ and ‘meteorologist’ remain open. Separately, NWS Austin/San Antonio have a vacant ‘electronics technician’ position.
Since that office did actually issue an alert, I'm not clear yet what is claimed to have gone wrong also in that article
Ensuring ample and timely warning to the Central Texas counties covered by NWS Austin/San Antonio is among the chief responsibilities.
Was there a direction that the office should have contacted but failed to? I haven't seen any evidence of that.
it's weird then that other camps in the area evacuated
Do you have a link for that? I searched google and didn't find that stated so easily.
Your link does not work and I cannot find the same story. Could you please link to the original article, even if it doesn't work. I think it's the pressreader service which is breaking this.
Snopes statement https://www.snopes.com/news/20...
Although Trump's cuts did affect staffing at the two weather service offices in charge of the affected area, an agency spokesperson told Snopes via email that both offices were fully staffed at the time of the floods.
This doesn't refer to open source developers, but business doing development/test.
These can often be exactly the same thing. You are doing business development and you maybe have a proprietary module or maybe even just a small proprietary configuration. The rest of what you do is entirely open source and you either release yourself or contribute back to upstream. You actively want to avoid having more unneeded proprietary code because you don't profit from selling the code. In this case, CentOS was doing the heavy lifting of making your use of RedHat count as properly open source and allowing you to put things out to the community which then maintains your code, saving you vast amounts of money.
The fact that RedHat has become FOSS hostile means that it becomes more and more likely that you are going to have to take responsibility for maintaining compatibility with other distributions instead of just relying on the community to do it for you. For a business developer that should just simply rule RedHat out at the first hurdle of choosing an operating system.
Centos was taken over by Red Hat, they've essentially killed that distro.
Rocky linux and Alma linux (and in some cases Scientific Linux) are the new CentOS.
Rocky aims for close to full binary compatibility if you need perfect RedHat Compatibiliy, for example you are developing solutions for RedHat
Alma aims for full ABI compatibility if you need to run software that Runs on RedHat with maximum long term stability guarantees. The Scientific Linux guys started recommending Alma as a replacement.
Those are the things to use if you have been using RedHat up till now and need to remain compatible. Nobody should be doing new installs or setting up new systems on RedHat. They have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and customer hostile.
All base security updates are free for multiple years. You can use Flatpak apps instead of Canonical's app store and then you are free. Alternatively use Mint which doesn't have the app store in the first place. Perfectly happy with all of Ubuntu, Mint, Alpine, Gentoo and NixOS communities in my experience though YMMV.
"How many teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "FIFTEEN!! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?"
