What I feel to be a common denominator for Trump, Thiel/Musk, and MAGA types, is that they are the people who "otherwise wouldn't have been chosen" for one reason or another. I've had stupidly engaged in a pointless argument with MAGA type people on some anonymous forum, and what I slowly realized is that a lot of them fail to hide having an okay picture of the actual reality when absolutely cornered and pushed hard, with the caveat that the chances for them getting any win whatsoever by embracing some alternative, conspiracy, false narratives is above zero, whereas the same for not doing so is at very most zero. There have been news reports of Bill Gates and Elon Musk both having engaged in quite some reprehensible acts on some island, but Gates would still always come first on headlines whenever they would be in a photo together. This would be contrast to how media universally reports Musk throwing the Nazi salute(which is the worst I've seen in any media that unironically makes me wonder how a real neo nazi would pause, exhale, say "you know," and shut up in German on camera reviewing it), which do yield a bunch of single name headlines. They would not have a chance of getting dopamine hit standing straight on both feet and looking straight ahead uttering all the correct words. Destroying everything that gets in the way to end this their "suffering" seem like the goal to me.

I mean, there's a very succinct and less nice word for that group of people that begins with the letter in the middle of the logo under the crown for the Dutch royal airline, but that word doesn't feel like it captures the verticality of this phenomenon.

comma openpilot do its thing by faking stock self driving unit talking to actuators over the in-vehicle network; a modern car is like a bunch of Pi on a LAN hosting microservices, but on a car specific network standard, usually the one called CAN bus, instead of the 802.3 we're familiar with. The manufacturer stock units is usually a camera unit integrated CPU sitting behind a hump behind the rearview mirror. comma devices tap into the cable going in there, sending out fake commands to other computers handling cruise control, brake, steering, blinker... etc.

This can break two ways: some communication standards like FlexRay are harder to tamper and fake, or some newer cars have tightened security clearly in response to comma doing its thing too well, many following the new EU cybersecurity standards which require commands to be signed and/or each of those Pi-like modules to be crypto paired against each others.

I think Stellantis car always had the first of those two issues of having something difficult that are not strictly anti-hacker hostile architecture. But could be both or I could be wrong altogether. The comma devteam seem to like 2015-2019ish hybrids from such brands as Honda, Subaru, Hyundai and Toyota for the presence of the remote control features in the actuator modules && lack of security getting in the way.

The stump om the base works as a 2 axis tilting joystick, and the stem of the ball works like its own 2 axis XY sliding pad with extra push/pull plus twist axes. There's a wire through the stem of the knob to get the readings. Together they capture the whole 6 axis deflections for the knob.

Trackballs OTOH is just rubbing a mousepad rolled up to be a ball to operate a Magic Mouse while charging.

Therefore the cheapest way to do ball twist is to just put two sensors and use the error as the twist amount. You could use a singular high resolution highspeed camera pointed at the ball instead, but that won't be the cheapest way to do it.

Japanese users are angry when system chooses Chinese fonts over Japanese, Chinese users apparently suffer with a font mishmash of Chinese and Japanese all the time like a mid-word capitalization. The official sanctioned solution is to just commit a genocide and nuke the offending language out of the system or to attach IVS to every Japanese characters which is like zero padding every single characters by a byte or two.

It's really putting everyone in pain and making absolutely no one happy, which sounds like what a good compromise tends to be, but LLMs seem to be struggling with there being multiple completely separate language families sharing codepoints but not character shapes or syntax. I've seen a smaller LLM model use made up verbs spilling over from the other language. I believe ML guys don't like datasets that do that kind of things. Same apply to image models.

There has to be a reason why it happened(as to why Unicode suddenly started insisting it has to fit inside a 2^16 total chars or whatever).

But that logic usually align perfectly with the texts of laws. Those laws aren't supposed to be adult pedos beating and correction laws. They're not pedo soft landing laws either, they are supposed to be parts of younglings protection laws, globally. Technically that should be all that matters. So there's that.