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Let's go! Love the idea. Like the analog to bone conduction earbuds. Just please don't turn into WisprFlow where they route the voice metadata, unbeknownst to many, to a third party partner who stores and mines it for who-knows-what. Good luck fellas.
> the dispatcher who greenlit the cab driver to go full speed ahead after the train control system on that track had crashed even though they knew that another train was reporting that it was unable to restart and get going

Apologies in advance for what may be a pedantic and possibly dumb question, but is there a failsafe or guardrail against such forced errors?

Is there an international consortium for best practices in high-speed train control? Surely there are countries that have good systems in place, or have benefited from knowledge-sharing. I have to believe these train systems were built with outside help and then organic improvement or the opposite. Spain, talk to them.
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:42PM (#50293919)
Here's a dual-axis graph, revenue $ left axis, % share of revenue right axis.

https://www.pasteboard.co/yCGoS8kxEy7Y.png

Google Cloud clearly on positive acceleration for revenue share.

Re:If IPv4 Were Land on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:22PM (#50293630)
The scrolling scaling-controller on the map is genius. I wish more maps would add this dynamic ability to scale the logical size when there is a considerable ratio delta to the land size.
Re:JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:57PM (#49810317)
It's helpful metadata, what's wrong with it? Dashboards at work do this.
The output style and verbosity with Opus 5.5 is a very big improvement over Opus 5. I predict Opus 5 will be a version with a sudden churn.
Re:How do Traffic Signals Work (2019) on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:50AM (#49797904)
I'm sure AI can figure this out better than a human can. Obvious and empirical, we certainly haven't figured it out or optimized it, with all the engineers that CalTrans has. How often have we been in a four-way controlled intersection and the green is on for the empty side. There's no way that's impedance matching, it's more like Good to go boss, call it a day. There's no incentive to modernize traffic light control because it's public works and there's no capital profit motive for it in the same extent as private. I would not advocate privatizing it either because that will bring different consequences. The hero will be that new young Caltrans engineer who's grown up in the AI generation and will probably be fed up with the legacy technology.
Quite easy. They were moved like this:

https://youtu.be/YpNuh-J5IgE

Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:05PM (#49650168)
Today I learned another definition of skeet.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:24PM (#49634586)
> "is it better in day to day life"

Speak to a carpenter or construction worker from any country with the metric system. Measure anything by simple powers of ten and simple decimal shifts makes life so much easier. Quick, what is half of a yard-length beam less 12 1/16"?

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:15PM (#49634447)
Craig F with his constant foot-shuffling...
I want to thank the author for this. The difference is night and day. It's not just for adhd, it's just a really practical output in general.

To get it to fully work though, it has to be asserted at every turn in the session. That reminder in the skill is negligible in tokens but uses extra nonetheless. I hope the scientists at Anthropic can figure this out, it's not simply an output style flag.

Re:The Luxuries in Life on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:13PM (#49579691)
A clean place to live with minimal clutter opens room for time to enjoy other things. Labor Day and Memorial day are milestones for assessing your hoarding. Or you could just rely on the season change as a reminder.
Were they really caught off guard or is it a long-term play by Apple who knows that consumers may just want machines capable of local models. Build-or-buy (subscribe) options. I for one would get a Mac Studio over a DGX Spark because you get a general Mac machine as a bonus. The big news is Apple being caught off guard by Nvidia buying Hugging Face. That should have been Apple's.
Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:41PM (#49481114)
Spent 20 seconds on it.
Ok, does anyone have a list of these new tires that I can source from Costco?
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:02PM (#49350896)
Yup, same sentiment here. Thank you
Re:The coolest use for the Vision Pro on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#49103206)
You’re missing the difference between a feature and an application of that feature.
When attaching the offline artifact as an email attachment, say in MS Outlook, will Outlook strip or block the attachment because it sees an HTML file with JS? Anyone encounter email attachment issues?
This is so cool. And it's as simple as telling Claude about the skill: https://bento.page/
Goodbye Salesforce Tableau
Re:GPT‑Live on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:24PM (#48834656)
I do not fully understand the complexity behind achieving full-duplex but I hope this sets the bar for Anthropic to follow. Turn-based simplex is yesterday.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Chamath Palihapitiya was a tome of SPAC heyday.
Re:A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:37PM (#48678886)
What is your origin story? How did you end up doing this and how can I do the same?
Re:Local Git Remotes on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:26PM (#48330130)
Nice. Claude likes it, especially when the AI detects PII and knows by policy to halt the commit to cloud but not local.

> A related trick worth knowing — one git push can fan out to two destinations:

git remote set-url --add --push origin ~/bares/<repo>.git # add a 2nd push URL # now `git push origin` writes to GitHub AND the local bare repo

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