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tape_measure commented on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica techcrunch.com/2026/01/29... · Posted by u/voxadam

ProAm · a month ago

Still relies on an actual driver.

“The event occurred when the pedestrian suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle's path. Our technology immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge from behind the stopped vehicle. The Waymo Driver braked hard, reducing speed from approximately 17 mph to under six mph before contact was made,” a statement from Waymo explains.

tape_measure · a month ago

"Waymo Driver" is their term for their self driving software.

tape_measure commented on When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/tape_measure

tape_measure · 2 months ago

I'm submitting this based on the current top item "North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names" [0].

This accident was traced to a manager transcribing "inorganic absorbent" as "an organic absorbent". A more serious example of the need to have competent people with domain knowledge in the room and empowered when documents are written.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492161

Posted by u/tape_measure 2 months ago

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tape_measure commented on Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution' bbc.com/news/articles/c24... · Posted by u/1659447091

viccis · 3 months ago

FYI "factoid" means it's an incorrect piece of information passed off as a fact.

tape_measure · 3 months ago

In fact, your comment is a factoid (in your meaning or the other replies' interpretation)

tape_measure commented on GPT-5 leaked system prompt? gist.github.com/maoxiaoke... · Posted by u/maoxiaoke

minimaxir · 7 months ago

It's interesting that it uses a Markdown bold for emphasis for important rules. I find that ALL CAPS both works better and is easier to read, and as a bonus, more fun.

tape_measure · 7 months ago

WORDS IN CAPS are different tokens than lowercase, so maybe the lowercase tokens tie into more trained parts of the manifold.

tape_measure commented on Starlink Gets FAA Contract cnn.com/2025/02/25/busine... · Posted by u/colinprince

tape_measure · a year ago

Interesting how the article only quotes part of the statement, leaving out "the FAA has been considering the use of Starlink since the prior administration to increase reliability at remote sites, including in Alaska".

tape_measure commented on History of CAD shapr3d.com/blog/history-... · Posted by u/nill0

tape_measure · a year ago

I'll have to work through the 650 pages.

I use CATIA v5 every day, first released in 1998. It's sharp and crusty and huge, but does everything (with the right license).

tape_measure commented on Show HN: Periodic Table and Wordle = Elemendle elemendle.com/... · Posted by u/lyl_003

tape_measure · a year ago

3 guesses! It would be fun to have other properties like melting point as hints.

tape_measure commented on Google URL Shortener Shutdowns This Year t.ly/blog/google-url-shor... · Posted by u/TimLeland

tape_measure · a year ago

Now this is viral marketing...

tape_measure commented on The trailing dot in domain names matter lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29... · Posted by u/Damin0u

tape_measure · a year ago

Adding this dot used to be a way to bypass the paywall on nytimes.com. It's been fixed in the last 2 years or so.

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