Enumerating all the narrow edge cases has proven surprisingly difficult.
but train tracks is not that kind of edge case, tbh, it's so vanishingly situational
Readit Newstriplesec commented on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other fuelarc.com/news-and-feat... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...
The numbers include all incidents where self-driving was active within 30 seconds of the crash, because of course they do. The meme that Tesla is allowed to simply bypass reporting on a technicality would be absurd if it weren't so voraciously spread by post-truth luddites. Look, if you want to dunk on Elon, I get it, but he does so many real shitty things that I would ask you to focus on those and not make shit up.
Guess what: Musk will probably get this rewuirement scrapped by his orange mate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...
triplesec commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg
The UK, outside of cities is largely devoid of bill boards a la the US. Milan is not "Europe" either!
I have driven/travelled across a lot, nearly all, European countries and the other one - the UK.
You do not get those huge screens on stilts anywhere that I have seen in Europe, that seem to be common across the US.
To be fair, I've only driven across about 10 US states. However, I do have Holywood's and other's output to act as a proxy and it seems that US companies do love to shout it from the hill tops at vast expense and fuck up the scenery with those bill board thingies.
Try driving around La Toscana and say Florida. I've done both, multiple times and I'm a proper outsider. I love both regions quite passionately but for very different reasons. FL has way more issues in my opinion but we are discussing bill boards so let's stay on task.
Billboards require power as well as the obvious physical attributes. They are an absolute eyesore and in my opinion should be abolished. Turn them into wind turbines and do some good - the basics are in place.
However. I know FL quite well. It has a lovely climate (unless it is trying to kill you). Florida man almost certainly invented air conditioning and FL man being FL man took it to the max when confronted with a rather lovely climate.
FL man is a thing and it turns out that CA Pres. can be weirder than anything seen before.
US - remember your mates, we remember you as is and don't hold you accountable for going a bit odder than usual for a while.
France seems to have the most, out of the European countries I have spent time in. But it's not like the US
triplesec commented on Garbage collect your technical debt (2021) ieeexplore.ieee.org/docum... · Posted by u/gfairbanks
"I'm confused. When I greenfielded this app, several thousand commits ago, I took half the time you've already spent on this feature. You said you were a senior engineer!!"
True story. Twice.
what was your response?
triplesec commented on Fighting an anti-doping finding lizzybanks.co.uk/2024/05/... · Posted by u/breathenow
It's basically every large organisation in the world. I've worked in enough now to understand they're all the same.
This is too glib. Some organisations do a a lot better than others, have better culture, responsiveness to evidence, and management.
triplesec commented on 300k airplanes in five years construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
Plenty of Teslas took fire while charging.
I kinda hate this "Chinese = crap" narrative, it's naive, it misses the forest for the trees.
Just because they are the biggest manufacturer in the world they also produce lots of crap, it's just statistically more probable that you gonna find lots of crap that's Chinese, but generalizing this over entire industries and all kind of products is just...naive.
It kinda reminds me of that documentary where a Chinese billionaire buys a plant in Ohio to make car glass and American workers looked like crap compared to their Chinese counterparts when it came to the craft, even though they did produce glass before already before the Chinese ownership.
It's the kind of narrative that people pushed on Russian army after their failures in Ukraine claiming huge incompetence and their incoming demise. Or when people were sure their economy was gonna collapse because this and that.
Just saying stuff doesn't make it true.
The longer we keep with those biases the more naive and vulnerable we'll keep being.
Quality control is a LOT lower in China than in the US, and that's even considering the US's bias towards industry in its legislation. This is why chinese electronics catch fire a lot more (than Japanese ones, for example, too).
There's a huge amout of corruption, and almost no regulation.
triplesec commented on An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/ohshit
But those who are the most likely to be affected i.e. older and vulnerable people would.
So in fact whether you wear one or not is far less relevant.
You misunderstand the utility of masks, where it is significantly more an infected wearer of the mask who protects others by their wearing. So, being infections before you have symptoms is the problem, which is why people should - as is standard in Japan, for example - wear masks in public whenever they feel unwell or feel a 'cold' coming on.
triplesec commented on An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/ohshit
Absolutely none of this has ever been objective, or even based in reality, let alone evidence, so I find it hard to care.
The issue was never about masks, but of two highly-polarized groups (few of them having any real knowledge on the subject) dehumanizing the other under color of Science™.
It was purposefully misunderstanding and sloganizing Science™ into simplistic, unscientific statements like "Masks work" and "Masks don't work" [for what? for whom? etc]. Objective science isn't sold as bumper stickers and lapel pins on Etsy.
It ignored completely and purposefully the two extremely basic and fundamentally different modes of operation: protecting the wearer from inhaling Bad Things (Masks Don't Work) and protecting people other than the mask wearer from what the mask-wearer is exhaling (Masks Work).
The Science™ on this hasn't really changed in any meaningful way, and the whole subject is tiresome. People who can't think past Mask Good or Mask Bad might think otherwise, but their opinions are perhaps even less valuable than this study.
Besides, if you're not a physician or have a PhD in maskology, how could you possibly begin to evaluate this evidence anyway? It's so very complicated and technical, see. You should be Trusting The Experts™.
Except the experts are mostly objective. However, the waters have been muddied in the public's view by anti-maskers, like anti-vaxxers. This is a real catastrophe of the pandemic.
triplesec commented on An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/ohshit
If the only possible way to get a mask to work is to apply it in perfect laboratory conditions, it's useless. Imagine if seat belts were that hard to use.
If masks were so effective, there would be good data somewhere out of like hundreds of studies done on them over decades. The truth seems to be that masks help somewhat with some pathogens spread by droplets, but airborne viruses can't be stopped by any commonly accessible mask. Even if the mask somehow works, an infectious agent can get in through your eyes. If you are facing a very deadly virus, you better have more than just a N-95. I don't care if you tape the damn thing to your face or double up, it won't be enough.
You are using a perfection fallacy, or black-and-white thinking here. That a significant number of ordinary peopple do not mask well or do not have / know of the correct mask to use doesn not make the masks or the process ineffective.
triplesec commented on An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/ohshit
For an up to date meta-analysis, see Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review (2024, Clinical Microbiology Reviews)
Thank you, I hadn't seen this yet, and it's a legitiately well-researched piece by medical scientists with methodological expertise and communicative clarity, which is not always the case.