The chaotic nature of these images, full of local minimas, makes me intuitively think that genetic algorithm approaches to optmizing hyper parameter searching are better suited than regression-based ones.

Auto manufacturers don't have the skills to design or implement good UX, and they don't have the leadership with the skills required to hire the people with the right skills.

or rather: their customers don't care and keep buying what they churn out anyway, so they have no incentive to change

I feel like the pretty massive consumer support of Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, to the point where supporting it is sometimes used as an explicit marketing element, is a sign to the contrary.

When they're all enshittified like this, what are you going to do? Be the one person without a car? That'll show 'em!

We'll find out soon enough, won't we. Or at least GM will.

Dark Mode doesn't hurt my eyes. Light mode does. "Something something science". Whatever.

I believe 48V would be used since 50V is the maximum voltage considered "safe" for humans. This is also why USB-C goes up to 48V.

It works the other way too. Low voltage is not really "safe", we can just tolerate the risk most of the time. Soak your hands in some saltwater & then grab 12 volt rails, it'll hurt like hell.

“Lick a 9V” is usually how I phrase it. Not the best feeling in the world.

The fragility I think is the main concern here, like you said. I hate when I have three 12v, 8 pin connectors on my GPU. I would be ecstatic between that and a small connector that catches fire if it's not perfectly 100% seated and strain relieved.

I had this effect laying on a rooftop as a teenager watching a meteor storm. The meteors were streaking in straight lines across/through the sky. The illusion of the "dome" of the sky was broken, and my senses were directly telling me that Earth is hurtling through space, and these things are zipping by it. It was an almost physical sense of mind expansion.

AI Whisperer is totally going to be a job

I think the correct title would technically be "Destructively interfering the hype from the facts of quantum computing"?

Suggest editing to "wimped out" instead of using slang for female genitalia as an insult

NGL I was expecting some kind of database designed for operating on tor

This overstates the difficulty of crowd-sourcing expert consensus. Even if two percent of experts are saying "!X" about the pandemic, then yes, that's still a lot of people and it's easy to find one to counter mainstream opinion "X". However, if you filter inept science journalism, populist narrative, etc., and listen to experts in relevant fields, it's pretty easy very early on to identify the 98%-ish consensus.

The 2% of "everyone" who doesn't know the earth is round, doesn't really impede the reliability of everyone knowing the world is round. Likewise, the "what every expert knows" (maybe not futurist prophesying, but at least about what is true today) is accessible, useful and pretty up-to-date.