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PCChris commented on Promoted Add-ons Pilot blog.mozilla.org/addons/2... · Posted by u/ameshkov

1024core · 5 years ago

Mozilla makes a gazillion dollars from Google for being the default search engine. They get free labor from volunteers all over the world, being OSS and all that. So what do they need extra money for??

PCChris · 5 years ago

Mozilla files IRS form 990 ("Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax") annually due to their nonprofit status. This can be found at the bottom of their "State of Mozilla 2018" annual report [1] and contains some details about their financials (as of November, 2019 at least). The linked page itself also contains some information about how Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation are structured and operate.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/

PCChris commented on What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too gist.github.com/graninas/... · Posted by u/donut

throw149102 · 5 years ago

It seems strange to consider Haskell as dead when its motto was "Avoid success at all costs". Haskell wasn't popular in enterprise settings because it didn't want to sacrifice being a good language for being a popular one. Haskell was/is very successful if you base it on it's own terms. Now, that goal can be debated, it could be argued that an unpopular language is never that good because it is unpopular, but that's a different argument.

PCChris · 5 years ago

> it didn't want to sacrifice being a good language for being a popular one

I think this is the key. The motto that you mentioned is often clarified/refined as something like "avoid 'success at all costs'".

PCChris commented on Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why? duckduckgo.com/?q=vk... · Posted by u/ffpip

ISL · 5 years ago

Google returns: "About 782,000,000 results (0.45 seconds) "

PCChris · 5 years ago

If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.

PCChris commented on αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε justine.storage.googleapi... · Posted by u/Pneumaticat

DoreenMichele · 5 years ago

Why does the title font look pseudo Greek?

PCChris · 5 years ago

Because that's the name of the post/"format"...

> I started a project which called Cosmopolitan which implements the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε format. I chose the name because I like the idea of having the freedom to write software without restrictions that transcends traditional boundaries.

PCChris commented on Chrome Music Lab musiclab.chromeexperiment... · Posted by u/Sparkenstein

PCChris · 6 years ago

"Making Music but every sound is Chrome Music Lab": https://youtu.be/6t86lJ-N9jo

PCChris commented on Perl7 is a fork of values blogs.perl.org/users/leon... · Posted by u/lizmat

CydeWeys · 6 years ago

Wait, hold on. They're talking about Perl7. Is this the next version after Perl6, which is called Raku? Or is Raku already completely forked off and now they're talking about another fork of what remains of Perl?

PCChris · 6 years ago

They are talking about the next iteration of Perl 5. https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/

PCChris commented on German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving mobile.reuters.com/articl... · Posted by u/codechicago277

stetrain · 6 years ago

Actually I think the name "Autopilot" is the least troublesome part of the marketing.

Other car makers call their systems CoPilot, ProPilot, SuperCruise, whatever and I think the name matters less than the communication and details of using the system.

The main Autopilot marketing page shows a video of a Tesla driving itself, says the Driver is there for legal purposes only, and provides no other disclaimers about the limitations, or that the demonstration is of internal test software and not reproducible with consumer vehicles.

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

Actually using the car, the system is fairly clear about the need to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel, but it allows you to engage Autosteer in areas the manual says you should not (ie city streets) and does not clearly indicate what areas are good or not good for using Autosteer. SuperCruise only works on specifically listed highway segments, which limits its usefulness but also prevents these issues.

Also Tesla relies on the steering wheel torque sensor to determine driver presence. This leads to false negatives (my hands are on the wheel but not providing a turning force so the car gives an alert) and is easily bypassed (there are third party products that clip on to the steering wheel and provide enough weight to fool the system).

Competing systems (SuperCruise, BMW) use driver monitor cameras or capacitive wheel sensors to provide a better indication of driver attentiveness.

PCChris · 6 years ago

They do say on the same page you linked that "Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."