You do realize that you are just re-implementing 10-15 year old tech without the quality control, well-defined limitations and user experience research that made these driver assists actually work?
And then top of of that, you're calling your amateur-hour driving assists "a self-driving car". How the hell do any of you even have have a driver's license, still?
The value of being a part of NATO seems at best fluid with the current US president. That means that your NATO membership might not be as valuable as you thought it was. I'd even go to say as far as saying that Denmark and Norway are being complacent in case they depend on the US for reinforcements - with Trump at the helm.
On the other hand we all know that Trump will be gone by the next US election.
(Besides the current context I am incredibly frustrated with Sweden's unwillingness to join NATO. And just when were gaining some momentum to join, Trump goes and does his thing.)
So-so. I watched it. Enjoyed parts. Mostly cringed through it.
But just like the Danish/Swedish Netflix series "The Rain" in a similar genre the writing was painfully bad at times - I think this is what stopped it from being popular.
There's been a quite generally raised awareness of the importance of civil resilience here in Sweden the past two years. The perceived threath of a Russian invasion (or perhaps more likely network-based sabotage) has been the cathalyst of this.
Being a "prepper" has gone from being seen as border-line psychotic behavior to "being a responsibile citizen". As long as you don't go over-board and try to prep for more than 4-7 days lack of electricity/water/food - then you're still seen as suspicious. Small steps.
There was also this campaign just a week or two ago - every household received a leaflet telling them to prepare for any incidents that stop public services:
This stuff used to be standard operating procedure when I grew up in the 70s/80s - all this stuff was printed in the annual phone directories that everyone receieved. After Soviet collapsed we stopped doing it though.
There's also been an unusually large number of outages of networked systems in Sweden the past two years, all over the place. Things like ATC systems, banks, media/cable tv distribution systems. Perhaps the official, public explanations are true (typically some kind of "human error" or "software update problem"). I suspect there's an adversary who is not very shy.
I guess this solidifies the more and more common view that Apple's thought leadership is something from the past.
A few years ago, the messaging was along the lines of "just wait, this will just be a temporary pain - Apple is just being brave and taking the industry leader role as usual".
That Nobel Peace Prize for Obama was just so wrong. It was a Norwegian (Not Swedish) small celebrity/exposure hungry group of elderly people who abused the power of the brand for their personal gain.
(Liberal-minded americans downvoting this: please think twice. Not everything that seems to go against your instincts is downvote-worthy if you don't know the details. In this case the details matter.)
Very well put. It's important that we recognize the history that led us to where we are, even if it's not a super beautiful history.
I remember this particular period relatively clearly. There was intense debate everywhere, it was the most polarizing issue for a very, very long time. I was on the dove-side of the debate. I remember having some extremely heated debates with "hawks" (all online - these hawks somehow just disappeared after the invasion when it it got more and more obvious that there actually were no WMDs...).
Ok, in plain words, please try to justify why a gaggle of XYZ lang devs should be able to effectively silence a topic they think goes against their personal agenda by pressing the "flag" link once per user?
I don't to see how this kind of binary treshold-based flagging makes any sense in a healthy discussion environment. I've seen it being abused so many times now.
That flagging scheme of yours allows a subgroup, in this case likely C# devs whose careers are aligned with the success of Microsoft to very efficiently silence any dissent. I don't think this is something that has caught you by surprise, so why do you allow it?
I think he's a psycho (could be a good thing, wait) who cares about two things:
a) Tesla making enough money to make Space X work
b) Being able to establish a colony on Mars, using Space X
I think he's super honest about the Mars stuff. I also think he's being super deceptive about the Tesla stuff. Is that ethical or not? I don't know. From his larger point of view (risk of earth annihilation vs a bunch of rich americans dying in Tesla failures)... who knows.
This is the new standard on HN. People can bury news if they are organized. I agree that this is madness. I have seen the moderators defending this kind of behavior (with "it's out of our hands" type reasoning), which frankly makes me shake my head and wish for a HN successor.
Once you have a sufficiently large group of organized followers - in this particular case pretty much all of the "career C# developers" (there's a lot of them) chimed in by flagging posts that got negative traction to the whole Github-MSFT thing.
Edit: Your post was just flagged by the career microsoft people. Let's regroup at https://www.reddit.com/r/hnresistance/ (I just created that subreddit).
It's interesting to see the HN reaction to this. The last time the EU fined Google a huge amount of money for anti-trust reasons the general sentiment here was that it was just socialist Europeans taxing American companies trying to make an honest living.
I guess Google is a lot less popular now compared to like two years ago.
I've just started using the Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV 4k. It's web-based and frankly horrible. And not just horrible because of the technical constraints imposed by having to target a web runtime - there are some serious, glaring beginner type UI anti-patterns in the UI.
Is this experience indicative of what I can expect with an Amazon TV device? (I suspect so.)