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Comment Re: Ban or tax them (Score 1) 48

Whatâ(TM)s odd to me is that the Brits already have a solution to this, theyâ(TM)re just not deploying it. British councils *love* giving people 63 wheely bins for them to sort increasingly difficult to identify waste into. Why not just give out a container for people to put waste batteries/battery containing devices in? Alternatively, do the same as most councils do with glass, and put a big metal box in a fairly central location to contain them until the bin men come and empty it?

Comment Re: Meaningless statements? (Score 1) 219

Yeh, but heâ(TM)s also skipping right past âoecomputers can keep track of far more variables than humans.â Watch a Teslaâ(TM)s screen while itâ(TM)s in self drive and youâ(TM)ll observe it tracking 10s or even hundreds of cars exact position and speed. A tesla is already significantly superhuman in some regards. Where itâ(TM)s not is in decision making.

I mean, itâ(TM)s fine to make the argument that âoewe want as much redundancy as we can because weâ(TM)ve not found the place where more redundancy doesnâ(TM)t make things significantly betterâ, but thereâ(TM)s also a question of whether not perfect, but significantly better than human acceptable if it means that we donâ(TM)t have ugly, non aerodynamic bumps with lidar systems in them.

What theyre really arguing is âoeour system canâ(TM)t be made to perform well enough without lidar, so youâ(TM)d better accept the big bumpsâ.

Comment Re: Survivable crashes are now rare (Score 2) 63

Survivable crashes are the norm. Itâ(TM)s a commonly cited fact that youâ(TM)re far safer in a plane than a car. Whatâ(TM)s much less commonly cited, and even less intuitive is that thatâ(TM)s still true even if you assume youâ(TM)re going to be in a crash.

Letâ(TM)s take a look at this years crashes with more than 20 people on boardâ¦

- May 3. 767 hit light pole on landing, barely counts as a crash.
- Mar 22. Bombardier CRJ-900 hit an ARFF vehicle on the runway. 2 pilots killed, all passengers and cabin crew survived.

Comment Old man yells at clouds (Score -1, Troll) 40

I get the wish to avoid changing your process, and Iâ(TM)m sure Linus puts a lot of thought into how he does things, but I think heâ(TM)s very likely yelling and shaking his fist at the clouds here.

I think anyone whoâ(TM)s worked in a professional setting is going to know the value of code review. Having a tool that can easily give you an extra, high quality code review is incredibly useful. No matter how skilled Linus is (and he undoubtedly is), I think heâ(TM)s daft to overlook such powerful tools.

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