Merely exercising state powers is not authoritarianism. There are other necessary aspects that must exist. If a popularly-elected government orders a curfew that is not necessarily authoritarianism.
It's a semantic argument, but I generally agree. I'd say authoritarianism is an extremist endpoint on a spectrum. It's become a dirty word for obvious reasons, but I'm using the term in a relatively value-neutral / non-pejorative sense.
Here's a don't: don't bring some BS document for the fired person to sign. They have no reason to do so and shouldn't feel pressured to execute something like a non-disparagement agreement, unless it comes with a big checks stapled to it.
I could have and maybe should have added that. Totally agree. They can take it home and review and you should send it digitally anyways so they have a copy.
The backlit display on the Tesla 3 is wayyyyy too bright for night driving, even at its lowest backlight intensity and in night mode. It is like they intentionally ignored all available human factors research. Tesla is not alone here. Many automakers these days have too-bright interiors for night driving.
I've been turning the dash light intensity almost all the way down for 30+ years. They've always been too bright. If the Tesla is as bright as you say, it would literally be undriveable for me at night. (No screens or touch in either of my 18-20 year old vehicles)
At least in the US models of the Fit there's no difference in the interior trim levels. I think part of the confused nature of this discussion is that Honda never shipped the touch-only dashboard that this article is talking about in the US market. The Fit and as far as I have seen every model Honda sells in the US has always had real knobs and switches for the climate controls. The touch climate controls were available in Japan and elsewhere.
For the 2016 year model, the base model has a volume knob but the higher models do not. The 'USA interior' link above seems identical to the Non-USA link vs audio volume knob not being there.
This is what the dash looks like for models with the knob (could only find 2015 lx but looks identical to 2016 lx):
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Why do I need my camera to have GPS? In what situation would I be equipped with a camera and not my phone, which certainly has a GPS? This seems like the same instinct that makes OEMs put mobile modems in laptops, as if I would ever have my laptop but not my phone to which to tether it.
Because you would want your photos to be geotagged.
Also, whenever you are starting a sentence such as "In what circumstance..." and making blanket assertions, it's better to take a step back and question if other people's circumstances are radically different from yours. That's what good product thinking is about.
Not everyone carries a phone, let alone a smartphone.
Not everyone wants to.
Geotagging pictures is a very important use case for a professional photographer, and relying on the user to provide GPS through another device is not advisable.
Also phone location services may not work very well without a cell signal, and not everyone takes photos only within range of a cell tower.
> This seems like the same instinct that makes OEMs put mobile modems in laptops, as if I would ever have my laptop but not my phone to which to tether it.
A cellular radio in a laptop gets access to better antennas and a vastly larger battery than what's found in a smartphone.
Thanks. I am familiar with why you want location data in photos. I am not familiar with any justification for why this data cannot be acquired from my mobile.
It possibly could be done in real-time using Bluetooth but I doubt it would be reliable and remember that higher end cameras might be writing out images at maybe 6+ frames/second. Alternatively you can make a point of recording a track on your phone (which tends to be hard on the battery life) and then syncing them up later. But, as someone who has done this, it's a pain in the neck.
Geotagging on my X-T3 with the Camera remote Android app is very reliable to be honest. And you don't have to query the phone at the same rate as you're taking pictures, it's perfectly sane to assume the same location for 5-10 seconds during a burst.
Fair enough. Though I'm not sure I'm convinced that, today, you're not just better off putting a GPS receiver in the camera. GPS is a bit hard on battery life but with the bigger batteries in these cameras, I'm not sure that's much of an issue. (And of course you can turn it off.)
Depends. MILCs are generally pretty hard on battery and keeping a constant GPS lock would exacerbate their generally poor "active standby" (camera turned on with the viewfinder or LCD active) battery life. On the other hand, my smartphone, using both GPS and augmented network location services can instead very quickly acquire a lock when needed with minimal battery usage only when needed. And it also has a way larger battery, and the system is generally more optimized.
Reading the blog post (haven't read the paper yet) makes it sound like this technique might apply to fuzzing. If this thing seeks out and exploits novel states in a large state space, that's the kind of direction you want in your fuzzer too.
Building houses in factories doesn't really solve a big problem. We're actually really, really good at building on-site. Just look at the experience of Factory_OS and their building that was "built in 10 days"[1]. While it may be the case under a narrow interpretation, it's also the case that the project spent a year in site prep, 5 years in planning and permitting, and six months after "building" it they are still detailing and finishing and are another 6 months away from occupancy.
The second sentence of your linked article says that it was pre-assembled and just needed to have the pieces fitted together on-site. It also says constructing it normally would've taken a year
My apologies, I thought you were making a point that building is fast even without pre-assembly in a factory. I see that you actually mean that the everything else takes several years, no matter how quickly the building goes up. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
> The Dymaxion House was completed in 1930 after two years of development, and redesigned in 1945. Buckminster Fuller wanted to mass-produce a bathroom and a house.
Zoom is a wall-to-wall security disaster. When my company switched to it about a year ago one of my colleagues showed me how to force any Zoom room, anywhere on the planet, in any organization, to join our meeting. I just don't think it was architected for privacy and security, and you can't add those things later, so you should be prepared for a years-long trickle of this kind of news.
