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And in places where bikes need license plates? Or let's say everyone switches to a bike. Do you think Flock would say "oh well, I guess we can't track them anymore" and close up shop?

>transit

Even if they still let you pay with cash, there's cameras all over there too. Maybe not automated tracking through a third party that removes the need for warrants... yet.

So that leaves "walk", which even if feasible, is something Flock already advertises tracking of as a feature. This isn't a "car tracking" issue, it's a warrantless mass surveillance issue. You may think it's only for the drivers you despise right now, but it will come for you too.


It seems to be the opposite near me. There's a few well off neighborhoods that I've noticed have cameras all over, but the area near my work where there's new piles of broken glass every morning has nothing (not that I want more surveillance, but it makes the intent clear).

The neighborhoods that are less well off I spend less time in, so maybe I just haven't seen them, but usually surveillance there seems to be in the form of parking lot camera trailers.


> Said deputy selects and overfits data from systems like this to obtain a warrant against said individual.

Or no warrant at all, the chief just wants to stalk his ex: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...

> A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city official and a report released this week by the agency that oversees police certifications.

> Nygaard’s reasons included “suspicious” and “missing child” and “drug investigation” and “drugs” and “narcotics investigation” and “suspicious activity” and “drug invest” and “drug use,” according to the KSCPOST order.

> Nygaard won’t face any charges, but he did lose his police certification.


I'm surprised they couldn't even come up with the <progress> element.


Some did. Not enough.


> I can't get anyone in an interview to answer this. I never get sftp,scp,rsync,email,usb,nas or s3 buckets/gsutil. Nothing. Nope.

They literally don't respond at all? To be fair, I'd presume it's some sort of trick question, but a few follow-up questions (how big is the file? are there any security/privacy/etc rules involved? is there something else unusual about the computers (and are they local "machines", cloud VMs, etc)?) would resolve that quickly. Here I am practicing brainteasers and leetcode and I could get ahead by knowing you can send a file in an email.


Yes, but that's not a novel part of this. We've been able to do that for a while (a long while if you count binocular or time-of-flight vision systems).


Yeah, I tried it in Copilot and it's fast, but I'd rather have a 2x smarter model that takes 10x longer. The competition for "fast" is the existing autocomplete model, not the chat models.


Why wouldn't you want the option for both?

I haven't used Copilot in a while but Cursor lets you easily switch the model depending on what you're trying to do.

Having options for thinking, normal, fast covers every sort of problem. GPT-5 doesn't let you choose which IMO is only helpful for non-IDE type integrations, although even in ChatGPT it can be annoying to get "thinking" constantly for simple questions.


I have the option for either, but it's an option I'll never choose. My issue with Copilot wasn't speed, it's quality. The only thing that has to be fast is the text-completion part, which Grok isn't replacing. The code chat/agent part needs to focus on actually being able to do things.


> Until they go back home

Many international students want to stay in the US after graduation. Getting the visa to allow it is the hard part, they're forced to go back. The "profoundly stupid" part is putting so much effort into giving someone a world-class education and then demanding that they don't use it for the betterment of our country's economy.


I think they're okay, except for Disk Utility. The old icon had an out of date image of an HDD, but why would you associate an Apple logo with disks? It's not like it only works on drives sold by Apple. The wrench part is fine, but the nut is all wrong.


This approach is how I prefer to use it too. I write, it gives feedback, I revise based on which parts I thought it was right about. If I don't want to read raw LLM output, why would I make anyone else do it?


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