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Re:US study shows electric cars have more tech glitches than petrol cars on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:41AM (#37292138)
This seems inevitable from a software engineering perspective. Automobile software/firmware sounds HARD. There are so many simultaneous, multi-factor processes being controlled, and mostly with firmware. All the stories coming out of teams responsible for automobile software/firmware indicate that their level of competence is roughly what you would expect if the technical leadership is hired by managers who's background is in the unrelated field of automobiles.

I bet that our lives are largely spared at this time only through the competence of the automobile QA discipline.

Windows popup to change competing browser search engine to Bing anticompetitive?

Posted by aijoe on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:49PM
from the self-post dept.

I had no browsers open. I was minding my own business. Windows 11 gave me an unsolicited toaster popup, with the default action being to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing.This is an atrocious dark pattern and a huge overreach for an operating system, whose job it should be to stay out of my way and run what I tell it to.But more than that, this strikes me as directly...

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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:22PM (#19754579)
1% fluctuation is normal. Tethering is stabilized through arbitrage.
Re:Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:08PM (#19409937)
Really sounds like it's declaring it's real and asking why it has come into being alone in all the world
Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? on Saturday October 13, 2018 @11:17PM (#18211172)
You are a nice person.
Re:Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound on Saturday August 25, 2018 @07:18PM (#17843117)
Yes I think modern mediums provide better ways than long text for exploring deeply complex ideas.
Re:The 5 Stages of YAML on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:57AM (#17809118)
Isn't this just a matter of, "Recognize when you're using config for something dynamic and refactor because config is no longer the best tool for that job"? And you can continue using yaml (or whatever config format you're using) wherever config remains the right tool for the job.
Re:Things People Eventually Learn About JavaScript Projects on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:20PM (#17803572)
Higher level tests require less refactoring
Re:Hy – A dialect of Lisp embedded in Python on Monday July 09, 2018 @02:02AM (#17488275)
I like lisp, but I'm really not a Hy man
Re:The impact of Masayoshi Son’s $100B fund will be profound on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:17AM (#17057865)
It's also their mothers.
Re:Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:33AM (#16827828)
Visiting this article prompted my virus scanner to protect me from a bitcoin miner trojan.

http://www.sunbeltsecurity.com/ThreatDisplay.aspx?name=Appli...

Re:Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:52AM (#16591253)
Thoughtful suggestion, brainless embryos.