"On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 17.1. Among the various fixes was a patch for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42846, which prevented the privacy feature from working. Tommy Mysk, one of the two security researchers Apple credited with discovering and reporting the vulnerability (Talal Haj Bakry was the other), told Ars that he tested all recent iOS releases and found the flaw dates back to version 14, released in September 2020."
prompt: write a short essay as a scientist which is better, celsius or fahrentheit
partial answer which some faulty reasoning about precision:
First, the Celsius scale is based on a more intuitive and logical reference point. The Celsius scale sets the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and the boiling point of water at 100 degrees, whereas the Fahrenheit scale sets the freezing point of water at 32 degrees and the boiling point at 212 degrees. This means that the Celsius scale has a smaller unit interval, which allows for more precise temperature measurement.
Perfect. This kind of junk is going to litter our collective knowledge bases for years. It looks just good enough to be authoritative, but is fundamentally incorrect.
Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 366 of 366 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twitodon.
Was a bit surprised that it found 5 matches (out of 1659 people I'm following). A bit inconvenient that I can't just see these matches though, but have to download a CSV file first.
Slightly off topic: I am the owner of a Tesla, and until recently a 2021 model 5 series BMW. The 5 series had 'keep your lane' and 'follow' functionality, and I've been absolutely flabbergasted that this functionality made it on production vehicles. It would give up in the middle of basic turns in the road in such a way that it tried to turn you straight into the divider. It was comically bad, except that it wasn't funny.
The Tesla (not a fanboy btw) is miles ahead in this regard.
Suggestion: the planet is dying. While I applaud your move to an EV, understand that your want for a new vehicle every couple years has an absolutely massive carbon footprint.
To anyone reading this comment: please buy used and understand that most problems with cars can be fixed economically by someone with a bit of knowledge.
> The 5 series had 'keep your lane' and 'follow' functionality, and I've been absolutely flabbergasted that this functionality made it on production vehicles. It would give up in the middle of basic turns in the road in such a way that it tried to turn you straight into the divider. It was comically bad, except that it wasn't funny.
Could that be deliberate to keep the driver attentive? I have a Honda with similar functionality, and it will just completely disengage if the driver hasn't adjusted the steering in 15-20 seconds. It also has automatic emergency breaking that deliberately will not prevent a collision, it will only slow you down. The effect of their decisions is that long distance driving is easier, but it's impossible to even try to let the car drive itself.
AFAICT it was totally random. I would keep my hands on the wheel at all time but even then it felt very surprising. After a couple of times I never engaged it again, except for couple of times to show others how ridiculously bad it all was.
A lot of the comments (not all) really personalize the issue by using Jeff Bezos as the villain, when it's the system and laws that have allowed him to capture so much wealth that is the problem. And IMHO, that's the part that needs addressing, by putting a progressive tax in place.
Jeff's not the enemy - he's been amazingly successful within the rules that we as a society have made. Some of these rules are oppressive and bad and we should fix them.