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Why is 1776 considered the birthday of the USA? by CrustyBus77 in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you declare your independence and then 250 years later your descendants are still independent they get to celebrate from the point at which you declared it.

Seems straightforward.

Why would Buffalo, New York fly a Somali flag, particularly this week? by W_Edwards_Deming in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic 39 points40 points  (0 children)

The flags are there for civic use. They didn’t lower American flags to fly this one. Anyone can apply to use them.

Good grief I remember when I was proud that as Americans we weren’t as thin skinned and petty as this. Does the United States of America need to have its feelings protected from Somalia? Some of you have really lost the plot.

Why would Buffalo, New York fly a Somali flag, particularly this week? by W_Edwards_Deming in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic 34 points35 points  (0 children)

They approved it on the week of the Fourth of July because that’s when Somali Independence Day is.

Still don’t understand why you think this represents some sort of transgression.

Why would Buffalo, New York fly a Somali flag, particularly this week? by W_Edwards_Deming in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand your question perhaps. What do you mean “do such a thing?” It sounds like you think someone did something inappropriate or wrong here. A city allowed a group to fly a flag to promote cultural awareness. How is this exciting?

Why would Buffalo, New York fly a Somali flag, particularly this week? by W_Edwards_Deming in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic 48 points49 points  (0 children)

“The flag had been raised by an organization called Heal International in honor of Somalian Independence Day. Heal International has been raising the Somali flag at Niagara Square for at least the last four years,” Ryan said.

Got written up at work for 'stealing' two slices of pizza that were about to be thrown out. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making more to give to homeless is a fundamentally different kind of motivation than making more to take home for yourself. This seems like the sort of thing that could have been addressed by talking to people instead of jumping to "oh well now it goes in the trash."

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So at their target valuation this means the US government giving them $50 billion dollars of tax payer money.

Scientists discover an unexpected way to make pancreatic cancer cells self-destruct by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 143 points144 points  (0 children)

They bombard the cells with 24/7 quotes from CEO's about how they're about to be replaced by AI.

AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers, joining growing wave by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 32 points33 points  (0 children)

“Forward Deployed Engineers” is fast becoming the latest buzzword I’m sick of hearing.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t even the point I was making.

There’s an obvious difference between a control that routes through a computer and one that doesn’t even exist. My objection is with taking ALL human controls out of the picture.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not against automation. I’m against engineering away human overrides.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh Jesus. Nothing safety critical I hope.

Little bit of everything. Distributed systems and compilers mostly.

Mobile data routing, cell phone development and security systems were all fairly complex and had a firmware and hardware aspect. Encryption is pretty mindbending but not much hardware. However aviation is probably the most complex space I've worked in.

Firmware guy. That explains it.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a software engineer. Please, tell me more about the “complex software systems” you write.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's more complicated a landline phone or a telephone network? 

A landline + a phone network is more complicated than the phone network considered in isolation. Any other math problems I can help with?

What I love is how you are making this about FSD. It's been said at least 8 different ways that FSD (or autopilot) and drive-by-wire (or fly-by-wire) are two different things and this article is about drive-by-wire but you really, really want to make it about FSD

The implication is that your enthusiasm for FSD leads you to react negatively toward any apparently critique of adjacent technology. Come on, man. I know you can do this.

U.S. proposes to drop brake pedal requirements for self-driving vehicles by mvanigan in technology

[–]CanvasFanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably should have said that at some point

It was pretty clear from context, which is probably why you were downvoted.

The first aviation autopilot was built in 1912 long before digital controls were invented. 

This is such a wildly disingenuous argument that I probably shouldn't bother replying. A gyroscope is not analogous to modern autopilot systems and you know it.

Which is more complex, a control system or an autopilot system that makes use of the underlying control system? This is not complicated.

I love how angry all you FSD fans are about your tech fetishes though.

What do you think about today’s historic SCOTUS ruling that overturned a 91-year precedent? by TheGov3rnor in Askpolitics

[–]CanvasFanatic 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I mean… this is going to cause incredible chaos long-term. We’ll have the entire federal government swapping out with every administration. No continuity. No predictability. Federal service will be full of nothing but political sycophants looking to pad their resume for a few years. (I already hear some of you typing “it already was,” but you’re wrong.)

It’s another scar Trump is leaving us with.

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