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  • This is misleading and dangerous rhetoric.

    Autonomous vehicles - actual autonomous ones, not Tesla bullshit marketing “self-driving” - are already significantly safer than human drivers. Yes, they are limited to certain conditions (they don’t handle inclement weather very well yet) but the point is that they are already improving safety over human drivers.

    Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

    Additionally, once autonomous vehicles become the standard, you will see a dramatic shift in how the insurance industry operates.

    Think about it: if I’m not the one driving, why would I be the one taking on liability? I wouldn’t. The manufacturer would. Suddenly, the insurance industry would be targeting vehicle/software producers instead of individuals. And anyone who chooses to drive themselves anyway? They would almost always be liable by default. Premiums for drivers would skyrocket and this would be a huge disincentive to getting behind the wheel in the first place.

    Don’t. Let. The. Perfect. Be. The. Enemy. Of. The. Good.

    We all lose out. And it costs lives.








  • Ayyyy awesome! Glad to hear you’re getting full speeds now!

    I’ve personally run into this before, when I got my first gigabit connection. Definitely took me a long time to track it down, and required someone on SmallNetBuilders forum telling me about it haha

    With a gigabit connection, you shouldn’t really need QoS, unless your upstream is getting saturated (since I don’t think the coax gigabit providers offer symmetric up/down). But if you do, you’ll want to get another device to do it, or use more simple approaches like just capping throughput per device. If you don’t already have a homelab server, a recent Raspberry Pi should be able to handle it (and then you’d also be able to set up PiHole and other fun self-hosted services)


  • Issue 1: Don’t use the speed test on your router. Use OpenSpeedTest on your desktop browser. Router hardware isn’t made for this type of function and can often pass traffic (using hardware acceleration) faster than it can decode packets (using the CPU, required for speed tests).

    Issue 2: test at off-peak times of day. Last mile for ISPs can get congested and limit actual speeds

    Issue 3: Disable QoS, detailed traffic analysis, or other packet-inspection tech on your router. These often require passing the packets through the CPU which can limit max throughput. Check to be sure that “hardware acceleration” is active if possible for your router (sometimes called “cut through forwarding”). This can impact WAN <=> LAN traffic by not LAN-only as it needs to be bridged in a way that LAN-only traffic doesn’t.



  • neatchee@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlAbout 90% of all problems
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    8 months ago

    It’s a charicature. I’m not laughing because I think it’s real (which would be kind of mean, anyway, since I’d just be laughing at someone screwing up). I’m laughing because it’s relatable to real experiences many people have had, and because of the added commentary about software development.

    Your hyperfocus on reality in media, and failure to see the comedy for what it truly is, is far more cringe than the video 😉

    EDIT: it’s like asking why people laugh at the obviously fake stories stand-up comedians tell because they’re made up. Like, yeah, no shit, that’s not the point.



  • Ado has a crazy range of styles in their music too; it’s very hit or miss for me. This one needs to have me in the right mood heh.

    Some tracks worth checking out that have a different style:

    And while it’s much more similar to the OP track, no Ado song list would be complete without her most famous song and the one that shows off her vocal creativity and flexibility the most:

    The range she has in her voice is truly impressive. Interestingly she has no formal vocal training and learned everything emulating sounds from other musicians and especially vocaloid tracks.

    She also writes almost all her own songs and is heavily involved in the mixing and production process

    Oh, and she’s only 22, but has taken Japan by storm



  • neatchee@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzstars & sharks
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    This is only sort of true, unfortunately. Polaris is a two-star system: Polaris Aa and Polaris B.

    Polaris B is much older than sharks, by several billion years.

    Polaris Aa appears to be younger than sharks, at a measley 50 million years old, compared to sharks’ 420 million years

    HOWEVER it is unclear whether Polaris Aa is actually that young. Scientists believe that, based on some contradictory findings, that measurement may be inaccurate if Polaris Aa is formed from two different stars that merged. In that scenario, the model we use to calculate star age would no longer work and could give wildly inaccurate estimates of the star’s true age

    TMYK