He's not a cunt per se, just someone who makes a spelling mistake for an otherwise perfectly normal phrase.
Now the type of person who derails a good technical discussion to abuse someone for a spelling mistake on the other hand: cunt/knt/ nounvulgar slang - an unpleasant or stupid person.
A cyclist ceases being a cyclist when they are pushing their bike. Which is what was being done according to the police chief:
Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."
After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."
Did she dart out between two cars right in front of the moving vehicle?
No but close enough: Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."
After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same.
Once or twice for the computer. Probably about every 20 seconds for the brain. Seriously if you think you can pay attention to one thing for more than a minute without your brain freezing then I suggest you donate it to science. We could all learn a thing about it... if we pay attention long enough.
Musk's marketing tweets don't count as a scientific study.
Fortunately Musk's marketing tweets are not the source, but rather just the distribution. In the meantime the NHSTA has flat out sided with Musk's marketing tweets when it investigated the Tesla decapitation incident. You're safer on the highway in a Tesla with autopilot on than you are taking the wheel yourself. They backed that up with numbers.
Like Obama the executive branch keeps getting more and more audacious with these executive orders.
You mean like how Obama has issued the lowest number of executive orders of any president in the past 125 years (corrected for length of sitting term)?
If they did, they might all want to be "more equal" (deservedly or otherwise).
The ones fighting for equality are those people who are not equal with the top. i.e. people always talk about the work they do right now in the role they currently have and conveniently ignore experience and value that people bring.
Work like a robot doing the assigned task, get paid like a robot doing the assigned task. But people are not robots and they offer different value. Fundamentally the problem is that low-paid workers do not acknowledge this, and that some HR systems don't reflect this.
however two people with same job title responsibility and workload should be paid the same
You are ignoring experience, excellence, and versatility of an employee. Paying them all like the lowest common denominator is a good way to watch your knowledge walk out the door.
It's simple. They did not have effective enough radar for collision avoidance. It's that simple.
There's nothing simple about it. That's why incident investigations take time. But good work, you jumped to the same conclusion Slashdot did in the previous Uber crash. Only last time it turns out that the AI and sensors were right and the safety driver doing something is what caused the crash.
then why are we bothering with autonomous cars if they can not offer improved safety for everyone involved?
Before you ask that question ask one more fundamental question: Is this very rare example of an accident a proof that AI is less safe than a human driver? That wasn't a question by the way, that was food for thought.
the main one being how come the safety driver didn't prevent the accident.
Given Uber's previous accident with self driving vehicles I would take a step back and ask firstly if the safety driver *caused* the accident before asking why he/she didn't prevent it.
And WHY should I have to use a specific BROWSER to gain system-wide PDF support?!?
You don't. You wanted to know why it wasn't natively in there, and now you're complaining at the potential native solution that MS would offer (Edge is the native PDF renderer in Windows 10)
All this leads me to my original point: Thank Christ the ball is in your court to install something and you're not shipped with a default turd.
The greed of a few has, thankfully, nearly killed the HEVC codec
Killed it where? Maybe on the distribution back end of Youtube and Netflix, but it is a very real part of the system behind the scenes in Apple, and MS. That is mostly driven by hardware companies, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD all support various forms of hardware encoding for HEVC but are limited to decoding only for VP9 and AVC. This also becomes a default in things like video streaming of gaming sessions in Windows.
Right now hardware encoders for HEVC are dime a dozen, but hardware encoders for the other formats are rare and expensive.
I want to see HEVC die too, but before I do I want to have a native hardware encoding alternative for it. Someone getting their panties in a twist should not cause me to have to drop my frame rate from 130fps to 8fps.
The caveat there is that this breaks a lot of PDF files out there, is incompatible with anything protected, and isn't that good with embedded content (e.g. a font to render a different language).
On a server I'd rather be forced to make the choice of what software opens what filetype than rely on my vendor shipping something broken by default to eliminate attack vendors. Just don't ship anything at all.
Mind you, who opens PDFs on a server, and how do you even get them to display in an 80x25 text mode console.
WTF is wrong with Microsoft that I can attempt to open a PDF in MS Server 2014, and it STILL can't handle it natively?!?
That's easy to solve, just install the MS app store on your critical server and install Edge, then everything is handled natively by MS's OS bundled apps.
Or maybe you're an idiot for wanting this bundled on a server, doubly so from an MS package. Absolutely EVERYTHING should be opt-in on a server, including what happens when I click on a file (that is after I choose to install a GUI).
Bury sensors underneath the road at intersection, so left turn lights and in some cases straight-through lights are only triggered when there are actually cars which want to go in that direction.
Achieving exactly the problem I described? You've now taken a few impatient cars and caused them to bring the primary traffic flow to a stop for the duration of a light change. Precisely this is the problem.
Anyhow, the premise in the summary (I haven't RTFA) is just wrong. Of course traffic apps increase traffic backups in the spatial dimension. But they decrease backups in the time dimension.
Except they don't, not for the whole travelling group. The only way that would be achievable is if cars were able to separate and re-enter from moving groups without cost. But there is a cost, specifically the changing of the lights (in my and your example) which creates a huge inefficient gap, or the fact that slow steady traffic travels more efficiently than stop start traffic (the result of someone zipping through a merging lane as per my first example).
2 alternate routes to a destination are only more efficient and effective if those routes do not merge in a congested area. That is not the case for the vast majority of scenarios as city planning already does it's best to ensure smooth continuous flow. The time it is more efficient is if there is an accident or other obstruction and there are multiple paths around it.
contrary to you belief that last minute mergers are asshats
Re-read what I said. I did not describe a last minute merger. I described an inpatient asshat jumping out of a lane to get several cars in front. Zipper merging traffic is more effective when the total volume of the road is required to merge, not when a continuous stream of slow moving traffic uses it to leapfrog achieving no additional throughput all the while turning steady traffic into start-stop traffic.
They spent money flying the teacher to Singapore. Would a better use of that money be buying more computers for the school?
No. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for his life. Now it's not quite like that, but in many cases bringing the issue to the surface can do far more good than a single donation.
Case in point, MS gave him a laptop and a ticket to a Microsoft event to meet others. Since then the school has received several computers both new and old.
Marketing is more valuable than a donation. Kind of like when stories were coming out where Apple gave a guy an iPad after his wife told him to return it because it was too expensive. That had nothing to do with that one guy or that one iPad.
It doesn't even need to be that. It could be his own street, in small quiet suburbia, once safe to let your kids run around on has now turned into a highway. Google tells me to do just that every day, rather than drive the 700m further to go down the highway it takes me through a school zone where I can run slalom between cars and kids.
Just because people are using the information that's available to them? Perhaps the government should start planning transportation according to smart people instead of sheeps. Madness, to accuse people of selfishness when it's obviously lack of planning that's the problem.
Not quite. It's a problem that isn't solvable by some government design, but only solvable through some very strict control of actions (road rules and we all love those).
Consider someone who's unhappy that the traffic is doing 50 in a 60 zone and there's a free lane to the left that is ending. He jumps in, goes to the front and then merges back. Selfishness for using the infrastructure when what he has done is cause a brake-light wave to propagate through the traffic behind him making it worse.
The same applies to short-cutting. Taking one of those shortcuts often may end you on a sensor light that otherwise wouldn't impede traffic. The solution to that is either to put in dead-end streets (piss off everyone) or put in place "local traffic only" rules (piss off people who are anti-government and think just because they pay taxes they can do what they want).
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It's not a perfectly normal phrase.
Oh I get it. You weren't commenting on his spelling, you're just clueless.
He's not a cunt per se, just someone who makes a spelling mistake for an otherwise perfectly normal phrase.
Now the type of person who derails a good technical discussion to abuse someone for a spelling mistake on the other hand: /knt/
cunt
nounvulgar slang - an unpleasant or stupid person.
Yeah that fits the definition just fine.
A cyclist ceases being a cyclist when they are pushing their bike. Which is what was being done according to the police chief:
Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."
After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...
Did she dart out between two cars right in front of the moving vehicle?
No but close enough:
Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."
After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...
One, it's not a lense, it's a lens.
Agree in principle, but not in practice. https://www.merriam-webster.co... (look under "variant")
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same.
Once or twice for the computer. Probably about every 20 seconds for the brain. Seriously if you think you can pay attention to one thing for more than a minute without your brain freezing then I suggest you donate it to science. We could all learn a thing about it ... if we pay attention long enough.
Musk's marketing tweets don't count as a scientific study.
Fortunately Musk's marketing tweets are not the source, but rather just the distribution. In the meantime the NHSTA has flat out sided with Musk's marketing tweets when it investigated the Tesla decapitation incident. You're safer on the highway in a Tesla with autopilot on than you are taking the wheel yourself. They backed that up with numbers.
Yeah the Netherlands is better. The same laws along with the missing porn and sex.
It's like Britan with real beer and hookers.
Like Obama the executive branch keeps getting more and more audacious with these executive orders.
You mean like how Obama has issued the lowest number of executive orders of any president in the past 125 years (corrected for length of sitting term)?
If they did, they might all want to be "more equal" (deservedly or otherwise).
The ones fighting for equality are those people who are not equal with the top. i.e. people always talk about the work they do right now in the role they currently have and conveniently ignore experience and value that people bring.
Work like a robot doing the assigned task, get paid like a robot doing the assigned task. But people are not robots and they offer different value. Fundamentally the problem is that low-paid workers do not acknowledge this, and that some HR systems don't reflect this.
however two people with same job title responsibility and workload should be paid the same
You are ignoring experience, excellence, and versatility of an employee. Paying them all like the lowest common denominator is a good way to watch your knowledge walk out the door.
It's simple. They did not have effective enough radar for collision avoidance. It's that simple.
There's nothing simple about it. That's why incident investigations take time. But good work, you jumped to the same conclusion Slashdot did in the previous Uber crash. Only last time it turns out that the AI and sensors were right and the safety driver doing something is what caused the crash.
then why are we bothering with autonomous cars if they can not offer improved safety for everyone involved?
Before you ask that question ask one more fundamental question: Is this very rare example of an accident a proof that AI is less safe than a human driver?
That wasn't a question by the way, that was food for thought.
the main one being how come the safety driver didn't prevent the accident.
Given Uber's previous accident with self driving vehicles I would take a step back and ask firstly if the safety driver *caused* the accident before asking why he/she didn't prevent it.
And WHY should I have to use a specific BROWSER to gain system-wide PDF support?!?
You don't. You wanted to know why it wasn't natively in there, and now you're complaining at the potential native solution that MS would offer (Edge is the native PDF renderer in Windows 10)
All this leads me to my original point: Thank Christ the ball is in your court to install something and you're not shipped with a default turd.
Let's all jump to conclusions. Don't disappoint me now. We should be at the root cause with all the information within the next 5 minutes.
The greed of a few has, thankfully, nearly killed the HEVC codec
Killed it where? Maybe on the distribution back end of Youtube and Netflix, but it is a very real part of the system behind the scenes in Apple, and MS. That is mostly driven by hardware companies, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD all support various forms of hardware encoding for HEVC but are limited to decoding only for VP9 and AVC. This also becomes a default in things like video streaming of gaming sessions in Windows.
Right now hardware encoders for HEVC are dime a dozen, but hardware encoders for the other formats are rare and expensive.
I want to see HEVC die too, but before I do I want to have a native hardware encoding alternative for it. Someone getting their panties in a twist should not cause me to have to drop my frame rate from 130fps to 8fps.
That's what OS X/macOS/iOS supports.
The caveat there is that this breaks a lot of PDF files out there, is incompatible with anything protected, and isn't that good with embedded content (e.g. a font to render a different language).
On a server I'd rather be forced to make the choice of what software opens what filetype than rely on my vendor shipping something broken by default to eliminate attack vendors. Just don't ship anything at all.
Mind you, who opens PDFs on a server, and how do you even get them to display in an 80x25 text mode console.
WTF is wrong with Microsoft that I can attempt to open a PDF in MS Server 2014, and it STILL can't handle it natively?!?
That's easy to solve, just install the MS app store on your critical server and install Edge, then everything is handled natively by MS's OS bundled apps.
Or maybe you're an idiot for wanting this bundled on a server, doubly so from an MS package. Absolutely EVERYTHING should be opt-in on a server, including what happens when I click on a file (that is after I choose to install a GUI).
Bury sensors underneath the road at intersection, so left turn lights and in some cases straight-through lights are only triggered when there are actually cars which want to go in that direction.
Achieving exactly the problem I described? You've now taken a few impatient cars and caused them to bring the primary traffic flow to a stop for the duration of a light change. Precisely this is the problem.
Anyhow, the premise in the summary (I haven't RTFA) is just wrong. Of course traffic apps increase traffic backups in the spatial dimension. But they decrease backups in the time dimension.
Except they don't, not for the whole travelling group. The only way that would be achievable is if cars were able to separate and re-enter from moving groups without cost. But there is a cost, specifically the changing of the lights (in my and your example) which creates a huge inefficient gap, or the fact that slow steady traffic travels more efficiently than stop start traffic (the result of someone zipping through a merging lane as per my first example).
2 alternate routes to a destination are only more efficient and effective if those routes do not merge in a congested area. That is not the case for the vast majority of scenarios as city planning already does it's best to ensure smooth continuous flow. The time it is more efficient is if there is an accident or other obstruction and there are multiple paths around it.
contrary to you belief that last minute mergers are asshats
Re-read what I said. I did not describe a last minute merger. I described an inpatient asshat jumping out of a lane to get several cars in front. Zipper merging traffic is more effective when the total volume of the road is required to merge, not when a continuous stream of slow moving traffic uses it to leapfrog achieving no additional throughput all the while turning steady traffic into start-stop traffic.
They spent money flying the teacher to Singapore. Would a better use of that money be buying more computers for the school?
No. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for his life. Now it's not quite like that, but in many cases bringing the issue to the surface can do far more good than a single donation.
Case in point, MS gave him a laptop and a ticket to a Microsoft event to meet others. Since then the school has received several computers both new and old.
Marketing is more valuable than a donation. Kind of like when stories were coming out where Apple gave a guy an iPad after his wife told him to return it because it was too expensive. That had nothing to do with that one guy or that one iPad.
There's so many old PCs getting trashed with literally no technical problem.
FTFY.
And people wonder why the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Ignorance.
The world is going to hell? That's an interesting thought given that other than the environment, the world and our lives in it have never been better.
It doesn't even need to be that. It could be his own street, in small quiet suburbia, once safe to let your kids run around on has now turned into a highway. Google tells me to do just that every day, rather than drive the 700m further to go down the highway it takes me through a school zone where I can run slalom between cars and kids.
Just because people are using the information that's available to them? Perhaps the government should start planning transportation according to smart people instead of sheeps. Madness, to accuse people of selfishness when it's obviously lack of planning that's the problem.
Not quite. It's a problem that isn't solvable by some government design, but only solvable through some very strict control of actions (road rules and we all love those).
Consider someone who's unhappy that the traffic is doing 50 in a 60 zone and there's a free lane to the left that is ending. He jumps in, goes to the front and then merges back. Selfishness for using the infrastructure when what he has done is cause a brake-light wave to propagate through the traffic behind him making it worse.
The same applies to short-cutting. Taking one of those shortcuts often may end you on a sensor light that otherwise wouldn't impede traffic. The solution to that is either to put in dead-end streets (piss off everyone) or put in place "local traffic only" rules (piss off people who are anti-government and think just because they pay taxes they can do what they want).
It is selfish. We are selfish.