eluvinar
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- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 1 month ago:
There’s a good chance the limitless autobahn is actually part of what makes German numbers so good
There’s a chance, but I don’t think you argued why would it be a good chance.
It just requires stricter training and policing, stricter TÜV and for people to always check their mirrors before switching lanes.
Changing lanes and overtaking are always some of the most risky moments. It’s always going to be much much safer if everybody drives the same speed vs. if you have to dodge because people are going 250 km/h for lulz. If you have the stricter training and policing, you still can improve safety by introducing speed limits.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 1 month ago:
There’s always assholes and they are always making it do bad things, so the distinction isn’t even there. If you don’t plan for assholes using the tool to try and do bad things, you’re making bad technology
- Comment on Calculatable 7 months ago:
But it has been changed a lot?
The most basic immediate execution four operation calculator might still look the same, but that’s because it’s a very simple thing and you can’t really get much wrong. For scientific calculators the UI has changed lots. As have the requirements. It used to be a specialist tool used to do thousands of calculations daily. RPN and stuff like that made sense for people who could easily get back weeks of training in just a few years of being slightly more efficient while working. Now we have the natural order delayed execution thing, because the calculators are mostly for students. Who need the UI to be as easy to grasp as possible, because they won’t ever have to do enough calculations to benefit from a faster but harder UI. That doesn’t mean any of those approaches to UI is better or worse. Some things require instructions and making everything idiot-proof shouldn’t ever be the ultimate goal (check out modern computing for why!).