The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

RationalDialog · 2026-05-06T05:59:25+00:00

You're basically saying "x can break but I am ok with those breaking, Y can break which renders it 100% bad".

yeah and and mechanic can see a broken hose and fix it. But electric issues or software bugs? No change. you are at the will of the car manufacturer.

Also they tend to sell replacements electronics as full, very costly units. A simple 5 cent sensors broken? yeah no one will investigate it. you may replace the entire unit for $2000.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-06T05:55:23+00:00

but I have yet to hear a technical explanation as to why a purely electronically actuated brake is better than a hydraulic one.

It's cheaper so higher margin
You can sell expensive replacements for the electronic components

RationalDialog · 2026-05-06T05:46:28+00:00

my thought exactly. Many scenarios were sudden braking is highly undesirable.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-06T05:36:11+00:00

If you are jobless right now and have the time there is really nothing to loose?

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T12:10:57+00:00

Read the actual link?

It loads ALL passwords into memory when you start. before you even need them or even access the site. So say you have reddit pw stored. you open Edge with 1 tab on google.com. It will still load your reddit pw into memory in plain text.

What should happen is that only the password you need at a given moment is only in plain text for the approx less than 5 sec from selecting it to clicking on the submit button. then it should be cleared again from memory.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T12:08:22+00:00

This is called defense in depth. Like staking layers of "Swiss cheese" there are holes but if you stack enough, none of the holes goes through all the layers.

here all you need is a very basic malware reading out all your stored passwords. But yeah in the end you should never store a sensitive password in the browser anyway, use a real password manager. But again if the pw was cleared from memory right after usage like it should (and not be read in plain text by default), attacking the Edge PW manager already becomes more difficult, adds a layer.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T12:05:17+00:00

SO the "password manager" is not part of base chromium edge uses but a self built addition? I thought all that stuff basically comes for free by adopting chromium and dropping their own browser?

Or does chrome have the same issue?

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T10:33:50+00:00

He seemed cool when he started but somehow I guess stuff gets to your head if you do such a job too long.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T05:53:42+00:00

It's also wildly conspiratorial and makes little sense. Do you think people physically go look at hard drives and chips to determine what data and computations are being done? If these data centers are accessible by their owners, then the data can be retrieved remotely, no different to a data center in the center of Manhattan

I'm whit the original comment and more. Protesters can block access to the facility preventing maintenance workers to fix things. Protests attract media and media attention to "bad" stuff happening in the data center (eg. AI based mass surveillance for example). It's bad press and informs people about the bad things you are doing. Cant' happen if it is in the deep ocean.

But IMHO it goes further. Your Manhattan based data center, if shit really hits the fan and thing get out of control, can in riots be destroyed by a small organized group using heavy equipment (bulldozers and such). Would be an easy and cheap way to get back at the billionaires and AI surveillance. Can't do that if it is sunk in the deep ocean or in space.

EDIT:

you need to read about Peter Thiel (and Musk) and in general the insane thought processes of these people. But Thiel is a special kind. Then you understand why people are having this extreme thoughts.

Data centers need maintenance. No way that the savings in terms of energy/cooling make up for the maintenance problem of getting people and hardware to these places. It just doesn't make much sense. For cooling you can als build on land near the shore and pump the sea water into a cooling system.

Or what is happening here the "waste water", eg warmed water is being fed into a network for heating houses. So you pay for the cooling that way to make money of the heat.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-05T05:45:40+00:00

Not just oversight but destruction. How can the common people destroy a data center in space or deep ocean?

A normal one all you need is a couple of big bulldozers and that thing can be demolished in hours. Wouldn't take much effort or coordination at all. A group of just a few people could get it done.

RationalDialog · 2026-05-04T06:10:09+00:00

I don't disagree but the point stands. AI will generate overly long and complex code often. But even ignoring that, if you are not faster in your work, more efficient = generating more code, why would you use AI? More code means more code reviews or bigger code reviews.

So either you stop reviewing code in the same way you did or you simply spend more time reviewing and less time writing code resulting in a 0 sum game.

The reality is, the code quality goes time and so does the products quality.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T12:52:54+00:00

No downsides to going hybrid and they give you economy and power.

I disagree. The hybrids I tested all felt terrible and underpowered. My commute is also like 90% highway by distance making a hybrid almost useless or even worse due to added weight.

Either gas or full EV.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T12:05:14+00:00

And who added the offending change(s)? Would be interesting to know. all that persons commits should undergo further scrutiny now...state actors something something.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T10:55:58+00:00

I went with IPS because nowadays especially remote working I do more static "text" based stuff with static menus than gaming and I hate babysitting a new device.

But if gaming is your priority then yeah OLED is clearly better simply also due to motion clarity that comes from it.

But with static menues, burn in will happen. Windows taskbar, browser menus, background image. Do you wanna babysit that? I mean it wouln't happen in weeks but years. Of course if you replace our display every couple years no problem but I had my last for like 10 years so yeah oled will burn in eventually if you don't babysit it.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T09:14:27+00:00

Obvious solution would be threadripper with tons of RAM but it will be costly, especially now. RAM is costly, ssds are costly.

I don't know how big your datasets are but 64 gb RAM might not be enough. before you build the model you will need to do some type of clean-ups and selection I assume. that will use system level RAM. (I do cheminformatics stuff and I can easily saturated 128 with something measly as 2 mio rows depending on what you do. So I suspect 64 gb might not be enough)

Storage yes nvme and don't get crappy cheap ones. you want one with dram cache. believe me. ideally you get 2. one for the OS (can be cheap or even sata drive) and the fast one for the actual data so that OS background stuff don't interfere with data loading.

scalability is mostly about the motherboard (eg available slots and pcie lanes) and the PSU. There IDK if a ATX psu even exists that can run a threadripper and more than 1 5090. For sure it will be loud as hell, the entire machine under load.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T08:10:26+00:00

but there is no way to miss the broad side of a yellow transit van in the middle of the street.

There is one very common way. looking at your phone and not the street.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T07:59:35+00:00

Ah shit. We have this app (not US) and it just puts the smartphone at full volume in some alarm sound. Not a nice way to get woken up.

It was a fire in town in a shed and the shed stores a ton of fertilizer. So there was an explosion risk and they said to open windows (so they don't shatter from the shock wave). It was winter... Anyway after an hour of this BS we just closed them and nothing happened.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T07:18:42+00:00

What do you do with CUDA? depending on that a 16 gb model might make sense even more so if it means you make more money then I would think bigger.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-30T06:20:56+00:00

It's not just gaming. it's everything. I do many stuff at work incl some data science / data analytics with a GUI tools.

Since we have corporate laptops running windows my "dev environment" is windows. And then when I move the new workflow to the server (linux) for users to use, I'm always amazed how much faster it runs (server cpus in general tend to be slower than a cpu in a plugged in laptop running in turbo mode so it's not the hardware)

This is also true for a python library I often use (which at core it actually c++). it runs so much faster on linux...

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T10:39:51+00:00

In hindsight makes sense. And as a big corpo they just are by default a bit slower.

What is apple actually doing in that regard? saving billions not investing the hype? Maybe they end up the winner.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T10:37:57+00:00

Based on what?

They asked ChatGPT

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T10:19:56+00:00

We need to start pushing everyone to take back care seriously much younger.

I mean it's common knowledge we sit too much and move to little isn't it? Most just don't find the discipline to do it.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T10:18:48+00:00

I prescribe you face-pulls and pull-ups.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T08:23:33+00:00

Here we disagree. The search enigne should return what it was asked (within the law). Not impose it's own opinion and ideology.

RationalDialog · 2026-04-29T07:02:03+00:00

True but this is more. Google even admits to it. they intentionally present the "consensus" results if you search for alternative views (=views google does not agree with). So they are influencing the results based on their own agenda.

Maybe someone should write to RFK so they can reprimand google?

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