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Grazester commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
testfrequency · 2 days ago
Since Waymo is very reliable in LA and SF, you will be just fine in NYC.

Your grid system is far less of a challenge than the amount of hills, twists, narrow streets and low visibility back streets in California.

I genuinely think the most complicated challenge for Waymo in NYC will be…winter snow and ice.

Grazester · 2 days ago
What snow and ice? We don't get much of that anymore. That was actually the last thing I am worried about here. I really want to see how Waymo does with NYC drivers and obstacles(double parking on block where sometimes you have to pull in your mirrors just to get by(if you even take the chance instead of just laying on your horn). In some neighborhoods it can be so annoying.
Grazester commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
kingkawn · 2 days ago
SF traffic is but a single speck of nyc
Grazester · 2 days ago
Traffic? The issue half the time in NYC is the drivers. I can't compare it to SF since I haven't been there in a while but I still thought it was not as congested to compared to NYC.

NYC has a greater population and also has a greater number of registered cars compare to SF however.

Grazester commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis   statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays
alsetmusic · 4 days ago
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Grazester · 4 days ago
Funny you said that. I have not heard a phone ring around me in a very long time. Between 2004-2012 that's all you heard in public. In the latter part of that, music ringtones just wasn't a thing any longer. It was the generic iPhone ringtone
Grazester commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
taco_emoji · 4 days ago
Pixel has had face unlock since at least Pixel 7
Grazester · 4 days ago
Only the pixel 4 had face unlock that used IR hardware instead of camera nonsense that isn't as secure or reliable.

Edit. It seems like pixel 7 and up includes something that's more secure

Grazester commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
bscphil · 4 days ago
Best phone I've ever owned and it's not close. Every phone since then has been a compromise, to the point that (in a sunk cost fallacy kind of way) I've just quit caring about phones and just buy whatever the cheapest available unlocked device is. I run them into the ground (way past the end-of-service date) because I know the next one is going to be worse.
Grazester · 4 days ago
The Nexus 4 was a nice phone but I thought the battery life was bad and it also ran hot.

My Moto-X was truly next level. It was oled and could do always on display that didn't need to power the blacks pixels on the screen. It was the first phone to do this. It has voice recognition for unlocking (getting info that you couldn't when the phone was locked). First to do this too since I believe it uses dedicated hardware at the time. It also knew when I was driving to unlock the phone for voice commands also. It was small.

Grazester commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip   hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
transcriptase · 5 days ago
Imagine if the crazies were right and the Covid vaccines actually did have RFID.
Grazester · 5 days ago
Then we would now have to wear tinfoil suits instead of just hats.
Grazester commented on How we built Bluey’s world   itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel
paradox460 · 20 days ago
Peppa just feels like one more of those random grab bag of terrible kids shows. There's no comfort like bluey has, no quiet episodes. It's just noise for the children, with rather dumb, flat characters

My kids will watch it, if someone like Grandma or the neighbor put it on, but their attention wanders. Bluey? They stay locked on for the entire duration of the episode

Grazester · 19 days ago
How old are your kid? I would argue Bluey is for an older audience. A 3 year old can never fully appreciate Bandit.
Grazester commented on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming   deprogrammaticaipsum.com/... · Posted by u/secstate
linkage · 20 days ago
Java is more akin to the Corolla. Utterly insipid (by design), lacking in refinements compared to competitors like the Mazda3, and made for people who just see it as a way to get from point A to point B.

PHP is the Hyundai Elantra of programming. It used to be popular because of low adoption costs but was the butt of jokes for a long time because of its questionable design and poor reliability. But like the Elantra, it has come a long way and is actually decent these days.

Grazester · 19 days ago
Long gone are Days that the Corolla was bare bones and even then it was better than what the Mazda 323 had to offer
Grazester commented on Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games   android-developers.google... · Posted by u/ingve
mapt · a month ago
As a user not involved in android or linux development: I don't care. Fix it. You just don't break the entire ecosystem of unmaintained apps for a 3% performance improvement.

We maintained win32-x86 executable compatibility for decades. Keeping things working might require some sort of emulation layer, and it might impact performance substantially, and that's fine. I can accept that.

"Everything just stops working" is not an option for a real operating system. I don't expect to put my workshop tools away and wake up in the morning to find the toolchest manufacturer sent them to the landfill because they didn't efficiently fit their new drawers.

One of the areas that Android is common in that I couldn't possibly recommend is home automation. Your light switches are 50-year purchases. Odds that the app based light switches are working in five years are 50/50... Compound odds of longer are miniscule.

Grazester · a month ago
Is anything industrial is going to be built on Android. There are no ATM's, no manufacturing CNC machines etc. One my say everything that runs on Android is throw away. It is only recently Samsung and Google started to aim at 7 year life spans. At 7 years for an industrial piece of equipment, I may not have even paid it off as yet, then again is the software on these things even updated?
Grazester commented on Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh   omc345.substack.com/p/fro... · Posted by u/lightningcable
paxys · 2 months ago
Nokia Lumia phones launched a year before that.
Grazester · 2 months ago
What I was getting at is that the Windows phone wasn't revolutionary to include this as op was implying, certainly wasn't saying that the Nexus 4 was the first.

u/Grazester

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