As I suspected, this crash happened on the Angeles Crest Highway.

https://ktla.com/news/local-ne...

"Multiple media outlets reported that Vince Zampella was in a Ferrari that hit a concrete barrier while driving on Angeles Crest Highway and subsequently caught fire. The California Highway Patrol, in a statement to KTLA, was only able to confirm the incident took place on Sunday at 12:43 p.m. at mile marker 62 on Angeles Crest Highway. "

Angeles Crest is a windy mountain road (one lane in each direction) popular with motorcycle riders and car enthusiasts out for a drive. Elevation goes up to 6000ft. You'll also get hard core cyclists doing the hills as well. This is the main road for access into the Angeles National Forest. There have been sections that have been washed out and repaired over the years. They finally reopened the entire stretch (there was a section out that cut LA off from the high desert) earlier this year:

https://www.sfgate.com/la/arti...

"A roughly 10-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway, which runs roughly east-west through the national forest for over 60 miles from the wealthy suburb of La Cañada Flintridge to the small mountain town of Wrightwood, reopened with little notice on Friday after being closed for several years. Before the surprise return on Friday, the portion of the two-lane highway had been closed since the winter of 2022-2023, when “relentless storms” collapsed roadways, caused rockslides and damaged retaining walls, according to Caltrans.

Angeles Crest Highway (also known as State Route 2) connects Interstate 210 with State Route 138, providing access to ski areas, hiking trails and picnic areas along the way. But for the past few years, areas along the closed stretch of roadway were inaccessible, and Southern California residents were required to drive in a giant circle along busy urban and suburban freeways to reach recreational opportunities near Wrightwood on the other side of the closure. "

just install Windows on it.

If they overpower the humanity trying to stop them from doing those things, yes.

Putting bean-counters as heads of tech companies almost always fails. It Killed Yahoo, the titan of the early web.

AI seems to be feeding the bloat habit instead of trimming it. It's becoming an auto-bloater.

Very few in the industry are interested in parsimony. Devs would rather collect buzzwords for their resume rather than try to trim out layers and eye-candy toys. It's kind of like letting surgeons also be your general doctor, they'd recommend surgery more often than you really need it.

The principles of typical biz/admin CRUD haven't really changed much since client/server came on the scene in the early 90's. Yet the layers and verbosity seem to keep growing. An ever smaller portion of time is spent on domain issues and ever more on the tech layers and parts to support the domain. Something is wrong but nobody is motivated to do anything about it because bloat is job security.

YAGNI and KISS are still important, but is dismissed because it reduces one's resume buzzword count. The obsession with scaling for normal apps is an example of such insanity: there's only like a 1 in 50k chance your app or company will ever become FANG-sized, yet too many devs want to use a "webscale" stack. You're almost as likely to get struck by lightning while coding it. They patients are running the asylum.

Humans, you are doing CRUD wrong!

Only micro-movements are necessary to avoid most space junk*, using tiny "cold" thrusters which are not enough to serve as a rapid-response spy-probe. High-end spy probes probably have lots of fuel and big nozzles.

Don's spy-probe: "Hey Xi, look, my nozzle's bigger than yours!"

* If they have short notice to swerve, then small engines are probably not good enough, but that situation is probably not (yet) common enough to justify carrying large thruster systems.

...hide his farts.

There's like a dozen different ink cartridge gimmicks HP uses to fuck over consumers. In my case one had to press a "confirm" prompt every time one printed if the color cartridge was past an alleged expiration date even if I was only printing in black-and-white.

HP used to have a good reputation, then seemed to turn evil on a dime. Was there a board meeting where they had a "let's be evil" vote and it passed?

With our luck a bubble burst will also put a manufacturer out of business, meaning less choice and higher prices in the end. It would allow oligopolies to get oligopolier. The rich have the means to wait out slumps for advantage.

...Hydrazine nozzles are probably the simplest technique, being it doesn't need ignition, but are not as powerful as ignition-based path adjustment mini-rockets.

Maybe the speed and degree with which military satellites maneuver has increased of late? They probably can't tells us without having to kill us. You ask first!

end up inadvertently copying the bursting also.

I suspect these X-clone adventures are subsidized in multiple ways just as AI, batteries, and solar was.

LLMs cannot reason. None of them are "smart."

That would be my question. Who is fronting for this guy when he's required to go into the office?

Just their luck the AI bubble pops as they finish, and there's a glut on chips on the market.

Brown university has plenty of cameras, it's just that the perp was wrapped up like a burrito, making it hard to see his face.