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Why would I be, when I don’t have any standard for comparison.

How many human drivers did similar because the power went out?


Just stopped in the middle of traffic for no reason? Approximately zero.

I've browsed reddit long enough to know that human drivers don't just stop in the middle of traffic for no reason, they will stop in the middle of a railroad intersection, block a highway exit, reverse from a highway exit, drive into a highway exit in the wrong direction, drive into another vehicle, reverse into another vehicle, and spew fume at pedestrians and bikers, all the time.

Or at least frequently enough to supply multiple subreddits dedicated to these people.


A lot of human drivers blasted through intersections with lights that were out.

There were indeed accidents, and so yes, human cars were in fact stopped in the middle of traffic.


Except that sometimes you can’t. I don’t know if the Unifi router checks for this, but I’ve run into more than one network where the VPN conflicted with either the captive portal or the wireless network itself (and at least one in the DFW Admiral’s club that had draconian blocking)

Kinda weird you had to bring Stripe developers up where there’s pacemaker, and insulin pump, and ventilator developers.

Not really sure this analogy works since the usability of my house and everything in it is unrelated to having them. The house keys only make getting into my house easier.


You’d need a reverse osmosis system, not just he charcoal filters like that

And the condensate water from an AC evaporator coil is not anything like distilled water, dust/bacteria are also in it.


How is a persons behavior a positive feature for a car?


I mean, you just said it was.


It wasn't necessarily. You could redefine the "true meaning" of the training data such that it wasn't an addition operation but was actually some other one, with the same data, and then the generalization would be wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem


That’s the best part: RCS is an IP based messenger


But it's still tied to your carrier. I'd really prefer to keep my communication disconnected from my connectivity provider. These should be two completely separate services that I can manage independently. I just want my mobile provider to provide internet. Full stop. Nothing else. But of course they want to inject themselves into as much of my life as possible to make themselves stickier with a nice side of siphoning up more data.


Imagine a world where your ISP also separately provided an IRC messaging service. Why would you ever use that over actual IRC?

This is how I feel about SMS, and phone numbers too for that matter. They're still around for historical reasons, but if we started anew, I can't imagine we would build out that infrastructure separately from the greater internet, and if we would have, I can't think of a reason why.


Yeah I took a look at it: Google added the encryption extensions a full two years before the GSMA put them into the standard so it feels like their new chat app. Not to mention that it’s been around since 2007 and everyone started tailing about it when google started talking about it a couple years ago


I’d call basically anything before the mid 90s ancient, even though I was there and using it at the time, just because of how much of the way we use computers now has changed so drastically.


Amiga WB, Macs, Atari GEM, RiscOS... not that different.


How many of the operating systems that you listed remain as ways we use computers?

Even Macs were an entirely different codebase that didn’t even have memory protection or preemptive multitasking, which very much changed how you used it.


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