> Humans are such terrible drivers. Most of them don't want to drive. They want to get a private chamber to wheel them around while they look at their phones.
Many of them can't even stop looking at their phones even when piloting their private chamber. It frankly frightens me far more than robots driving.
> keeping just 50 trucks charged annually uses as much electricity as a decent sized town.
Doesn't fueling a diesel require the same amount of energy? What's worse, a diesel is expelling the byproducts of that energy use right where people live.
It should be noted that aviation is in fact an industry that started off as quickly as AI, but the regulating bodies decided very early in the industry's history that safety is paramount to technological progress. That is why airliner crashes are big news: they are rare events. Progress was deliberately stalled until the technology could be made safe - and today flight is safer than even transport with wheels on the ground or a hull in the ocean.
I think that aviation is the perfect model for how to reign in a dangerous desired technological development.
> I can see some nuance to this one. Flock is intended to be searchable by law enforcement, not Joe Average. Tracking cops and then publishing that information is not exactly the same as turning Flock back on the Flockers.
The fine article mentions that 3% of the queries against the database are from local law enforcement.
> I feel that's like saying there's "nuance" when the police choose to pull someone over because--unlike the other car--they didn't have a "I Donated To Cops" license plate.
That's not unusual at all. Here is New York parking enforcement ticketing cars who are not participating in a specific activity, while disregarding other double-parked cars that are participating. He even explicitly states that the policy is to allow double parked cars, so long as the driver participates in the desired activity:
As per the statement on camera by the NYC parking enforcement officer, those who double park in order to pray in the mosque are permitted. All other reasons are not.
> Just swapping the key caps is not enough. The keyboard also has to swap the scan codes it sends, since the code for Alt is the same as the code for ⌥, and the code for ⌘ is the same as the code for ⊞.
Alt and ⌥ are on the same location on the keyboard, likewise ⌘ and ⊞ are on the same location on the keyboard. So it seems that just swapping key caps should be enough to get proper support.
Another surprise was discovering that Ctrl-J adds a newline in Claude Code. I'm fairly certain this is a feature of the environment, not CC, but it works everywhere I've tried it. KDE Konsole on Debian.
In fact, without some fairly new (and poorly supported) extensions, it's impossible for an application running in a terminal to distinguish between ^J and a "real" press of the return key. The same goes for tab vs. ^I, Esc vs. ^[, and so on.
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