I wish I could give you an actual solid answer but I’m not a lawyer. My suspicion is that if Boeing could kill 346 people with their 737 MAX negligence without anyone going to jail, then

• The people responsible for the self driving car software
• The people in Waymo who collate the evidence for why it can go on-road
• The legislators reviewing that evidence and approving it

Would have little to no legal consequences except if there is a very obvious negligence, like what happened to Uber. In this case this resulted in,

• negligent homicide for the person legally driving
• suspension of autonomous vehicle testing which led to shuttering the whole division

But it’s a different one as there was a driver “monitoring” the system. I don’t know how it would pan out in a driverless case to be honest.

Oh weird, I don’t get a paywall at all. Maybe because I’m in Europe?

Polestar sells something for a similar price and better quality, and without awkward associations with a billionaire nazi.

Easy. Waymo specifically, because over 22 million miles, they have demonstrated that they have about 7 times fewer crashes with injuries than human drivers. (0.4 collisions with injuries per million miles, compared to 2.78 for human drivers).

I don’t work for Waymo and I have no particular interest in them “succeeding” but I don’t have reason to believe this data is fabricated - NHTSA has tight grips on reporting of every single incident and even disengagements of the autonomous system.

These things are not a Tesla with an inexpensive sensor suite and a deceitfully marketed advanced cruise control.

Great western railway operates like this, offering you a “mystery seat” regardless of whether they’ve sold 120% of the seats in the train.

I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don’t understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said “Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!”

Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?

Except you haven’t, that’s the point.

If you don’t get to the train early, you have to stand. That’s how British trains work. People who get to the train will see many seats unreserved saying “Seat Available” on the overhead sign, regardless of whether they’ve reserved a seat.

So someone who hasn’t clicked “reserve a seat” on the booking process might sit on that, while you stand in the hallway.

The ticket literally means “sorry, you don’t have a seat assigned”.

Ah I see. I understood you meant that bigger RAM modules aren’t available in the industry so apple couldn’t add this even if they paid more, not that we as customers couldn’t spec a phone however we’d like. That makes sense now.

What do you mean couldn’t pay for more? There are plenty of sub-$200 android phones with 8GB of RAM, and 12-16GB are fairly standard on flagships these days. Asus ROG Phone 6 is rather old and already came with 16GB what, three years ago?

It is definitely doable, there only needs to be willingness. Apple is definitely skimping here.

No

The tango was quite special, not only did it do freeway speeds but it could do 150 mph, 0-60 in 3 seconds, and had 800 hp and a price tag of >$300k. They didn’t make many. It was weeeeeird.

I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack camp because having more options is always better, but I don’t think this is a valid argument. All the devices I find on a daily basis have Bluetooth. For rarer things that you don’t deal with daily such as planes, a £10 Bluetooth dongle provides way better quality than the garbage entertainment system in an airplane can provide anyway, while taking just as little space as a 3.5mm jack’s cable does in your pocket.

Yeah it does. I mark notes with #review (again, this is an obsidian-specific workflow purely because it’s the app I use), and then go through the notes with that tag, tidying them up and also looking for interesting things. Obsidian has a graph view which shows your notes as interconnected notes, which I look into and try to find disconnected notes to link them to something else. I find it quite rewarding and relaxing.

If you end up having to go through the route of electric trash, I’d recommend buying a phone that is

• used
• tiny

So that you’re not buying something new, and so that you can use it as a “key fob”.

For example, there was the palm phone in 2018 or so which was a massive flop because it was small and underpowered. Unihertz devices could be another good alternative. Also older, smaller Xperia phones - a 2018 flagship would cost peanuts and be way more powerful than you actually need to run a key fob app.

What has helped me is taking notes. I use Obsidian for note taking (I don’t mean the app itself is the solution, just the one that works for me).

When I’m out and about I take notes whenever I think of something “oh, I should probably look into this book!” Or “make an app to do X and Y”.

When I’m at home and I have nothing better to do I tidy up my notes. Sometimes doing this is an entertainment in itself, and sometimes this reminds me that I wanted to watch a certain movie and it’s a great day for that.

I rarely get bored anymore because I capture the fleeting ideas I get through the day, and I’d need years to carry them all to fruition. On a given day reviewing my notes I might be interested only in 1 out of 10… But that’s still one idea that keeps me busy and entertained, and then it’s also something fulfilling because I’ve chosen it mindfully, unlike scrolling tiktok endlessly or watching whatever slop Netflix’s algorithm force feeds me that day.

I’m not technically NT but I have ADHD and I don’t have problems picking up this sort of neurotypical social cues.

When I interview people myself, I’m extra wary of catering to ND people, and for questions like this, I phrase them very carefully to mean what I want to ask:

“Why do you want to work for us? I’m sure there were other jobs out there that would result in a salary, but what made you apply for this one specifically?”

I make clear in the conversation that I want to know their motivation, their alignment to the specific role, and not the fact that they need money to live. I already know that! So I tailor the questions to give me exactly what I need even if the person is, say, autistic and takes things in the most literal way.

This post has, however, made me realise that in the job posting I have open right now, I’m going to add a note in the vein of “this is a wishlist of all the things the ideal candidate would have, but we acknowledge nobody is ever a 100% perfect match - feel free to apply even if you only meet some of the criteria as you might be more qualified than most applicants”.

Donut county and Untitled goose game. Neither is that long (DC is particularly short), but both were super funny and enjoyable.

Racists, intolerant people are by definition people who have broken the tolerance social contract. This means they’re no longer bound by it, and there’s no need whatsoever for anyone to tolerate them. :)

Great for him! He better get digging (or swimming) then. We’ll pay when we feel like it, just like he did for twitter’s offices.