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When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

SCU Buzz | The Southern Cross University Podcast
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ICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago

Christian Arabic intensive course at Westminster College, Cambridge (UK), 6–15 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134628/christian-arabic-intensive-course-westminster-college-cambridge-uk-6

40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. I’d assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
#frogger #atari2600

Ahhwm almost forgot that it is #MountainMonday ! So I quickly discarded my previous idea and share another photo from Saturday's #hiking adventure.
I was a bit surprised by the chill wind at the top but I had a great day. The best is that it was also quite some training for my legs a…

Somehow I must emit a signal identifying me as a person with helper syndrome. Was just on my way to grocery shopping and saw an old lady with her shopping trolley and a walking cane pausing in a passageway. I would walk past her but she spoke up and asked whether I could help her drag her trolley a bit.
Of course I could. I helped her get home safe and carried her trolley all the way to her door.
What always puzzles me is, why do people ask me? There were plenty of other people…

New on blog: "How we incidentally uncovered a 7-year old bug in gentoo-ci"
"""
“Gentoo CI” is the service providing periodic linting for the Gentoo repository. It is a part of the Repository mirror and CI project that I’ve started in 2015. Of course, it all started as a temporary third-party solution, but it persisted, was integrated into Gentoo Infrastructure and grew organically into quite a monstrosity.
It’s imperfect in many ways. In particular, it has only some degree of error recovery and when things go wrong beyond that, it requires a manual fix. Often the “fix” is to stop mirroring a problematic repository. Over time, I’ve started having serious doubts about the project, and proposed sunsetting most of it.
Lately, things have been getting worse. What started as a minor change in behavior of Git triggered a whole cascade of failures, leading to me finally announcing the deadline for sunsetting the mirroring of third-party repositories, and starting ripping non-critical bits out of it. Interesting enough, this whole process led me to finally discover the root cause of most of these failures — a bug that has existed since the very early version of the code, but happened to be hidden by the hacky error recovery code. Here’s the story of it.
"""
#Gentoo

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Sofia Kourtesis:
🎵 Corazón
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CoreWeave closed down 16% after its CEO admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ closed down 10% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/coreweave-stock-core-scientific-delays.html

CoreWeave CEO won't say if Core Scientific caused data center delays, both stocks plunge
CNBC's Jim Cramer noted data center delays at sites in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina tied to Core Scientific.