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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I was in a collision with a cyclist once. He ran a red light and came out from in front of a box truck in a turn lane right in front of me on a road with a 45mph speed limit.

He was badly injured, but I was driving a sports car with a low, long hood, so the injuries were to his legs instead of his chest or his head. Large four wheel drive pickup trucks were already the norm in the area, so he was lucky in a sense.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because big players (other than StackExchange) never adopted OpenID where you could paste in an arbitrary URL for your identity provider.

Also, OpenID probably shot itself in the foot by using a URL instead of something shaped like an email address, which would have allowed a zero-effort upgrade for the user if an email provider also wanted to offer OpenID.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Candidates typically use a distinct version of the name in that case, such as "Daniel" instead of "Dan", or with a distinct middle initial included. A serious candidate does not usually want to be confused with their opponent.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is the latest among several incidents illustrating the need for better rules for how police interact with people in cars:

  • Police should not stand in the path of a car, especially to try to detain the driver. That's dangerous, and creates a pretext for violence.
  • Police should not shoot at cars because they believe the car is about to hit someone. The probability of hitting bystanders is elevated, and successfully killing the driver renders the car uncontrolled, not immobile.

Incidents where someone is continually trying to use a car as a weapon rather than to escape may justify shooting at the car, but they are rare.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The list: https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog

  • Immad Akhund - Founder & CEO, Mercury.
  • Turki Al Faisal Al Saud - Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia.
  • Reema Al-Saud - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
  • John Arnold - Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors.
  • Susan Athey - Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Peter Attia - Physician, Attia Medical. Author, Outlive.
  • Scott Belsky - Partner, A24 Films. Fmr. Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Product Officer, Adobe. Founder, Behance.
  • Nicolas Berggruen - Founder & President, Berggruen Holdings.
  • Scott Bessent - Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
  • Preet Bharara - Fmr. U.S. Attorney, New York Southern District.
  • Elizabeth Blackburn - Fmr. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Studies. Nobel Prize winner.
  • Sarah Bond - President of Xbox, Microsoft.
  • Cory Booker - Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate.
  • Rachel Brand - Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
  • Scooter Braun - CEO, Hybe America. Founder, Ithaca Holdings.
  • Pete Briger - Principal & Chairman of the Board, Fortress Investment Group.
  • Greg Brockman - Co-Founder & President, OpenAI. Fmr. CTO, Stripe.
  • Manuel Bronstein - Chief Product Officer, Roblox.
  • Peter Brown - CEO, Renaissance Technologies.
  • Thasunda Brown Duckett - President & CEO, TIAA.
  • Sophia Bush - Actress, One Tree Hill.
  • Mike Cannon-Brookes - Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlassian.
  • Cesar Carvalho - Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub.
  • Wences Casares - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Xapo Bank. Founder: Wanako Games, Banco Lemon, Lemon Wallet.
  • Julian Castro - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  • Bob Cialdini - Author, Influence.
  • Matt Clifford - Prime Minister's Advisor on AI Opportunities, U.K. Government. Co-Founder, Entrepreneur First.
  • Caroline Cochran - Co-Founder & COO, Oklo.
  • Matt Cohler - Fmr. General Partner, Benchmark.
  • Scott Cook - Co-Founder & Chairman, Intuit.
  • Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics & Director, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
  • Ted Cruz - Senator (Texas), U.S. Senate.
  • Adam D'Angelo - Co-Founder & CEO, Quora. Fmr. CTO, Facebook.
  • Mitch Daniels - Fmr. Governor, State of Indiana. Fmr. President, Purdue University.
  • Dan Driscoll - Secretary, U.S. Army.
  • Charles Duhigg - Author: The Power of Habit, Supercommunicators.
  • Steve Ells - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Chipotle.
  • Tim Ferriss - Author: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef. Host, The Tim Ferriss Show.
  • Marcos Galperin - Co-Founder & CEO, MercadoLibre.
  • Atul Gawande - Author: Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto. Fmr. Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.
  • Tom Goldstein - Partner, Goldstein & Russell. Founder & Fmr. Publisher, SCOTUSblog.com.
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Actor, 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Looper, Snowden.
  • Adam Grant - Organizational Psychologist, Wharton School of Management. Author: Think Again, Originals, Give and Take.
  • Severin Hacker - Co-Founder & CTO, Duolingo.
  • Jonathan Haidt - Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU. Author: The Anxious Generation, The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind.
  • Peggy Hamburg - Fmr. Commissioner, U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  • Sam Harris - Podcast Host, Making Sense. Author: Free Will, Lying, Waking Up.
  • Jim Himes - Congressman (Connecticut), U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Auren Hoffman - CEO, NQB8. Chairman & Fmr. CEO, SafeGraph. Founder & Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp. Chairman, Dialog.
  • Reid Hoffman - Partner, Greylock Partners. Co-Founder & Fmr. Executive Chairman, LinkedIn.
  • Rob Hur - Fmr. Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Bob Jain - CIO, Millennium Management. Founder, Jain Family Institute.
  • Bryan Johnson - Founder & CEO: Kernel, Blueprint.
  • Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia.
  • Gaurva Kapadia - Founder & CEO, XN.
  • Karen Karniol-Tambour - Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates.
  • Garry Kasparov - Fmr. Member, Russian Opposition Movement's Coordinating Council. Fmr. World Chess champion.
  • Neal Katyal - Partner, Milbank. Fmr. Partner & Supreme Court Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells.
  • Shahid Khaqan Abbasi - Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
  • Ezra Klein - Opinion Columnist, The New York Times. Founder & Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Vox. Host, The Ezra Klein Show.
  • Tarō Kōno - Digital Minister, Japan. Fmr. Minister of Defense, Japan.
  • Henry Kravis - Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
  • Jared Kushner - Founder, Affinity Partners.
  • Jason Kwon - Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI.
  • Leonard Leo - Co-Chairman & Fmr. Executive Vice President, Federalist Society.
  • Jon Levin - President, Stanford University.
  • Howie Liu - Founder & CEO, Airtable.
  • Joe Lonsdale - Founding Partner, 8VC. Co-Founder: Palantir, Addepar.
  • Micky Malka - Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital.
  • Stan McChrystal - Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
  • Neal Mohan - CEO, YouTube.
  • Lisa Monaco - Fmr. Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Wes Moore - Governor, State of Maryland.
  • Elon Musk - Founder & CEO, SpaceX. Co-Founder & CEO, Tesla Motors.
  • Demet Mutlu - Founder & CEO, Trendyol Group.
  • Vas Narasimhan - CEO, Novartis.
  • Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform.
  • Mike Novogratz - CEO, Galaxy Digital. Fmr. CIO, Fortress Investment Group.
  • Jim O'Neill - Nominee for Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Co-Founder, Thiel Fellowship.
  • Chamath Palihapitiya - Founder & CEO, Social Capital LP. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
  • Benj Pasek - Songwriter & Producer: La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner.
  • Daniel Pink - Author: Drive, To Sell is Human, The Power of Regret. Fmr. Chief Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.
  • Steven Pinker - Professor, Harvard University. Author: Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
  • Jared Polis - Governor, State of Colorado.
  • Jonathan Ross - Founder & CEO, Groq.
  • Robert Rubin - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury. Fmr. Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
  • Gretchen Rubin - Host, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Author: The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies.
  • Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah - CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
  • Will Scharf - Co-Founder & CTO, Oscar Health.
  • Mario Schlosser - Staff Secretary and Assistant to the President, U.S. White House.
  • Eric Schmidt - Founder, Schmidt Futures. Fmr. CEO: Google, Alphabet.
  • Dan Schulman - Fmr. President & CEO, PayPal.
  • Drew Scott - Co-Founder, Scott Brothers Global. Co-Host, Property Brothers.
  • Kim Scott - Author, Radical Candor.
  • Pete Shadbolt - Founder & Chief Science Officer, PsiQuantum.
  • Ali Siddiqui - Board Chair, OnZero. Fmr. Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
  • Barry Silbert - Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group.
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter - CEO, New America. Professor, Princeton. Fmr. Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State.
  • Charlie Songhurst - Board Director, Meta. Fmr. Head of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft.
  • Jens Spahn - Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.
  • Scott Stephenson - Chairman, President & CEO, Verisk Analytics.
  • Barry Sternlicht - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group.
  • Bret Stephens - Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize winner.
  • Lawrence Summers - Fmr. President, Harvard University. Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
  • Astro Teller - Captain of Moonshots, X.
  • Peter Thiel - Co-Founder: Founders Fund, Palantir, PayPal, Dialog.
  • Nick Thompson - CEO, The Atlantic. Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine.
  • John Townsend - Author, Boundaries.
  • Tom Tugendhat - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
  • Tim Urban - Writer & Illustrator, Wait But Why. Author, What's Our Problem?
  • Rick Warren - Author, The Purpose Driven Life. Podcast Host, Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
  • Strauss Zelnick - Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software.
  • Shivon Zilis - Director, Neuralink.
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Improved reliability is, ironically a major cause of this problem.

Buyers of brand new cars in the USA keep them for fewer than ten years on average. If most cars can go ten years without needing major repairs, the car manufacturer's actual customer is not strongly motivated to consider repairability in buying decisions. The second or third owner likely cares a lot, but their preferences don't matter very much to manufacturers.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

It seems obvious to me that there's a huge gap between a search result, which is a link and an excerpt where the operator of the linked site is clearly responsible for the content, and an AI overview, which mixes information from multiple sources with generated nonsense.

Google should absolutely be liable if it generates overviews containing defamatory lies.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They weren't going to let people have it that cheap for very long. The plan was to offer it on subscription plans for a couple weeks, then move to usage-based billing, which is much more expensive for a usage pattern that comes anywhere near the subscription limits.

Keeping a single instance of Fable busy for a full day would probably cost a thousand dollars at standard API rates, and some agentic coding workflows run many agents in parallel. Companies have just recently started to figure out that rewarding employees for how many tokens they use may be a waste of money, but Anthropic is hoping to cash in before they all do.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it's true that young software developers are mostly not productive, then employing them hasn't made sense for decades because staying at the same company for most of one's career stopped being the default some time around 1980.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Subaru XT (Alcyone or Vortex in some markets).

I owned one of these. The aerodynamics were great for a 1980s car. It even had purely mechanical flush door handles, which modern car designers could learn from.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago

The battery law is "so broad and so restrictive that it prevents the sale of this wonderful, jointly developed, U.S.-European product from being sold in the European Union..."

No. Meta chose to design e-waste.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

It's interesting to read this perspective. In the west, MBS is probably best known for butchering journalists.

 
  • Run native Clojure on Android
  • Develop over nREPL
  • Build for F-Droid or Google Play
  • Write UIs in a declarative DSL with reactive cells
  • Use device sensors as reactive cells
  • Use intent callbacks without wanting to smash your device with a hammer
  • Fast startup - release builds launch in under 2 seconds on a five year old midrange phone
 

This LED has popped up a couple times and sold out quickly. I think it's expected to go into full production, but for anyone who wants to try one now....

 

The LG 32G810SA-W.AEU is available to me for 400€, which is half its typical price. My important use cases are photo editing and software development. I will be calibrating whatever display I buy using a spectrophotometer.

Specs, but here's a quick overview:

Spec -
Diagonal 32"
Aspect 16:9
Resolution 3840x2160
Panel type IPS
Color gamut 95% DCI P3
Refresh 144 Hz
Contrast 1000:1
Brightness 400 nits
GtG response 1ms
Connectivity USB-C DP + PD (65W), HDMI, DP 1.4, 2xUSB-A (downstream), ethernet
Features WebOS, "HDR400" (fake HDR), FreeSync, G-Sync

In the short term, at least, I'll be running it from a Thinkpad P14s gen3 (AMD), which will drive it at 60Hz. PD is nice, but 65W is a bit weak, and my laptop will drain the battery under sustained load. WebOS doesn't seem like something I'll ever use, and from what I've read, all "HDR" anywhere near this combination of size and price is worthless.

I've been known to do occasional light gaming and watch videos on my PC, which would be improved by the fast response time, but I think color gamut, viewing angles, and contrast get priority in roughly that order. I'm not finding better contrast without either a much higher price or much worse color.

 

The article speculates about the gosling's survival; the family was photographed yesterday and posted to reddit.

 

A family member gave me an old convertible Chromebook, which I (of course) installed Linux on for the fun of it. It has convinced me there's a place in my life for a Linux tablet, though it's not quite the right device for me.

The Surface Go 2 seems about right with less size and more memory than the Chromebook, but I figured I should ask if people like anything else. Here are some preferences:

  • 500-600g weight seems about right; the Chromebook is 1100g and that's a bit much
  • 10" or so, 3:2 or 4:3, nothing more oblong
  • Pressure-sensitive stylus support
  • Expandable storage - an SSD I can swap without a heat gun is ideal, but an SD card slot will do
  • Headphone jack
  • x86-64, not ARM
  • 8gb RAM
  • $100ish for used B-grade
 

My Opus BT-C3100 smells like magic smoke and looks like this. I suppose I could change these resistors and it might be OK, but I could also buy things.

I'm looking for 2-4 slots; it should fit protected 21700s; it shouldn't have a noisy fan that runs all the time like the Opus; USB-C input is preferred, but not required.

I'm broadly aware of what's on the market, but I want to know if you love or hate yours.

 

For background, it's hard to make a flashlight that works well on both AA batteries (0.8-1.7V potential operating range) and 14500 Li-ion batteries (2.8-4.2V operating range) given that white LEDs need about 3V.

For a long time, companies would make lights designed for AA using a boost driver that increases the output voltage, do just enough so it wouldn't burn out with excessive input voltage, and say that 14500 size Li-ion was "supported". Max output would, indeed be brighter, but low modes were usually far too high, and the flashlights could easily damage batteries that didn't have over-discharge protection.

The Skilhunt M150 was one of the first lights to do a substantially better job. Using a Li-ion battery, it sent the power through a variable-output linear regulator so both battery types could have reasonable modes, and it would shut off to prevent over-discharge. Several competitors use a similar approach today, but linear regulators are inefficient; they just turn the excess voltage to heat.

The ideal solution is either to use a higher-voltage LED configuration and boost the output voltage for both battery types, or to use a driver that can both boost (increase) and buck (decrease) voltage efficiently. The Emisar D3AA is the only light on the market doing AA/14500 with a high-voltage LED configuration (three in series for ~9V), and I believe the new M150 will be the first one using the buck/boost approach (though it's possible Zebralight has done it in the past).

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