As I mentioned to someone else, writing code for control systems and error handling is inherently wordy especially when it has to be able to prevent shutting down in as many fault cases as possible. It’s a lot easier to write lean code when you can handle a failure by simply printing a failure code.

They should’ve bought Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi already has most of the manufacturing equipment and design processes already in place.

Google and Apple should leave the physical design and manufacture to the actual automakers just like the actual automakers should have let Google and Apple create their infotainment suites years ago. This is a smart move.

And now let us pay tribute to the only good thing to come out of the EA/Porsche partnership

Patchwork of state regulations?

I’m curious: Has anyone ever analyzed his speech patterns to see at what cognitive level he’s functioning? It doesn’t sound like he’s thinking or speaking at a college level, but more like 6th or 8th-grade levels. Is that why he’s not taking the security briefings? Are the concepts involved too complex for him and his…

That’s a little inconvenient way to deal with what is, after all, a convenience feature.

It would be easy to design a fob-car scheme that wouldn’t be susceptible to MITM, since at the time the fob is originally paired with the car, a password could be exchanged that is never transmitted in the clear again, wouldn’t rely on certs. Using a nonce and a hashing function would be sufficient, you wouldn’t even…

The infuriating part of this story is that the Obama administration sat on their hands while they knew this was happening. We needed Obama, seated at his desk on prime time television, addressing the nation and alerting us that foreign powers were manipulating our election in an unprecedented way. Who cares about how…

I always thought that since most truck nut fanatics likely bought their truck to compensate / enhance their own genitalia, the truck itself represents a giant penis , and therefore the truck nuts are usually installed in the correct position at the base . In fact , I assumed the owner was just using the nuts to make…

This isn’t income tax, it’s sales tax, which is the same for everyone (unless you can avoid paying it). You or I can’t avoid paying sales tax because the cost of doing so would outweigh the benefit. I’m not about to lay out $500+ per Delaware Corp to build up a veil to avoid it, and no “normal” person would either. So…

You’re fucking kidding me, right? You have to pay taxes because it’s the law. And you know why you pay taxes? To pay for infrastructure. Like roads. Police. The fire department. Defense. The fucking military. If you make more, you pay more. That’s how the system is supposed to work. It’s not a fucking maze that only…

My dad has to do the same thing with his Shih Tzu. My Lab/Boxer has a fat enough meat head that his collar doesn’t come off. My Roommate’s pug can back out of his collar, but he’s old, slow, and doesn’t run off anyway.

Pretty sure that’s a crossover, bro.

That’s fair, though Washington is a pretty small town. There are lots of pretty successful people here that are married to other pretty successful people. I agree that nepotism is a big problem, but where the family ties are only tangential (here, there is *arguably* an issue only when it comes to funding/oversight…

I’m pretty sure Trump saw the word “Urban” in the title and said “Carson’s black, give him that one.”

I have never wanted to be a politician, I only wanted to be a scientist, but dammit, things like this make me wonder if I could get into politics. We have science idiots governing our country’s science programs.

Expanding cities isn’t exactly the worst image when it comes to environmental destruction though. I was expecting to see videos of rainforests being burned or something similar. The title is entirely misleading.

What you’re listing are the charismatic problems; the ones that evoke immediate and visceral emotional reactions. While calling it “destroying the earth” is overly dramatic, the expansion of cities is still a very real problem for a whole host of reasons. Development is never without environmental costs, from first…

Building density is one of the best ways to accommodate growth in an environmentally sustainable way.