I had the same experience. I was disappointed.

Hi Dave, I just wanted to say that I applaud this response. No excuses, just ownership of mistakes and a plan to fix them.

This is leadership.

Seconded. Already breathing easier as well.

Also, a good example of the sort of attitude we've come to expect from WP folks, and from which the sudden Pro-plan changes departed.

Leadership doesn't mean lack of mistakes, therefore comes with damage control work.

He is taking responsibility and taking action, and he did so in a clear and straightforward way. A good example of leadership.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

Sounds like you’re a programmer to me!

You should write a screenplay. I’d watch that movie!

It sounds similar to the premise of Altered Carbon. Great book and so-so Netflix show.

There's a bad Arnold movie along these lines - The Sixth Day.

I think he applied to work there and was rejected, as opposed to applying as a student.

Thanks, that makes more sense. Totally misread that. The blog post was buried at the bottom didn’t make it that far.

I think it is unfair to generally state 'Apple still refuses to take accessibility issues seriously' because the one issue you care about most isn't addressed to your satisfaction.

I think you'll find that generally speaking, Apple cares a lot about accessibility.

I agree, apple has done great with things like VoiceOver.

There is other stuff they can do, like a toggle to disable temporal dithering. Or actually test their devices with people with binocular vision dysfunction.

Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.

Snow Crash needs a movie

If any of his books need a movie (or HBO series), it is probably Cryptonomicon. Even more relevant now than when it was written with the rise of crypto currency.

It's a perfectly fine book as it is.

Agreed. I'm horrified by how Hollywood would bungle it. I've always been glad that Snow Crash and Neuromancer have stayed out of the movies.

There’s an HBO show in development now. I’m looking forward to it!

Lavabit?

It’s possible that she wasn’t sleeping and instead may have been experiencing a medical emergency like heart attack or stroke.

I remember a story in Germany the other way around were a Tesla driver detected a car on the highway with an unconcious driver. He set himself in front of the other car, braked and stopped slowly until both cars came to a halt. Both insurances did not want to pay for the damage (voluntarily induced damage and such crap) and Tesla paid the bill for the Tesla driver's repair. [1]

[1 German]: https://www.waz-online.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Tesla-ueberni...

Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle.

> Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utility truck in front of the Jeep and allowed it to essentially crash into the back of his vehicle so it would latch on, according to bridge officials. He then "slowly and safely" guided the Jeep across the bridge's southbound lanes and brought it to rest in a safe area, away from the flow of traffic.

edit: This was pre-divider, so a runaway vehicle on the GGB could have made quite a mess by crossing into oncoming traffic.

This sounds nice but you should NOT stop on a highway. This could've killed both + whoever slams into them.

People die all the time even when stopped on the emergency lane (you should really step over the barrier to be safe).

So you suggest doing nothing? Letting the car continue until it leaves the road at the first corner? Potentially causing a head on if there is no dividing barrier?

Tesla driver did the right thing, and is a hero in my books.

Call the police, stay nearby with warning lights perhaps? You could even take the middle option and slow them down to a safe speed.

It's an extraordinary situation, there are no well-proven answers here.

It is however well proven that stopping on a highway kills people, if they had caused a pile-up this would be a very different story.

Its baffling to me that you and others (downvoting) are so convinced that this was a safe action because the outcome was good this time.

It's not a safe action. But it's also not safe to do nothing. I think the driver made the right call (and with the benefit of hindsight it was in this case.)

Doing nothing would have resulted in a high speed accident with certainty of 1. This could have involved a head on or left wreckage on the highway. The driver took a chance on a risky intervention and it paid off.

Sometimes it can still be the safest thing to do. It sounds like that was one of those times.

That was mentioned in the article.

In 2007, a Piper Seneca plane crashed into a condo building in Richmond, BC, Canada. Right over fairly busy intersection, too. The elderly pilot had a heart attack or something.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/1-dead-2-inj...

Literally my first thought

He shot a woman in the face:

That’s when 13-year-old Ian pulled the trigger and shot her right in the face. The outcome could have been fatal. “It blew out all the bottom teeth and the gums on the lower left side of my mouth,” she said.