Range of 400km from a 56kWh battery. 2 passengers. Scale up, a small passenger aircraft with 1MWh battery seems quite reasonable. At a modest 300W/kg That's about 3,300kg, not at all excessive for a small passenger aircraft.
Hmm, I'm not really buying it. He was fired because while some of his points were not that unreasonable, some of it clearly was and demonstrably created a hostile environment.
Still, I expect we will hear more about this when the court case starts. Doubtless both sides will put forward more detailed arguments and much more evidence.
Leaks through caching are a common issue. Another example would be thumbnails in JPEG files. A lot of cameras add them to the JPEG file to make browsing thumbnails faster. When the image is edited in Photoshop, say to redact something, the thumbnail remains untouched.
The only solution is to encrypt everything and strip all metadata/hidden data when saving.
Plenty of other addictions are considered genuine medical problems, so why not gaming? It has many of the typical attributes of addictive behaviours - it rewards continued use, creates feelings of joy and has a built in feedback mechanism.
We also know that some developers have studied addictive behaviours in order to incorporate them into their games, particularly "free to play" mobile ones but these days everything seems to have loot crates (literal gambling) and the like.
Mostly, you just have to consider how you sell ideas.
Okay, but Damore complains that conservatives feel that they can't express themselves and have to keep quiet for fear of reprisal. What specifically does he, or anyone for that matter, think they are not allowed to say but should be?
Perhaps because I said that his conclusions are still right for all practical purposes, he just focused too much on one factor as to why.
Yeah, anyone who suggests he was wrong gets modded "troll". Someone is very concerned about enforcing the narrative that he was right and is the victim in all this.
To my recollection, he mainly opposed efforts that simply brought in more diverse workers, without changing the job itself.
One of his recommendations is to "[s]top restricting programs and classes to certain genders or races" and "reconsider making Unconscious Bias training mandatory for promo committees", both things which are considered to be effective. I suppose how important those are relative to the rest is debatable but the rest are not that great either.
Consider his suggestions to stop alienating conservatives. I'd like to hear an explanation of what exactly that means in practice, because the only examples I've seen mentioned are things that would clearly be unacceptable in almost any company. Things like expressing the view that some people's marriages are not legitimate or as valid as others, or that some people should stick to traditional gender roles. What conservative values and ideas are actually oppressed at Google that it would be beneficial to hear?
Perhaps he just means the appeal to biology, as I know some people consider "science" to be a conservative thing now since they believe that progressive attitudes on things like gender are not scientifically justifiable. However, it's already well established that such views are simply incorrect and biology does not support them.
Genuinely ask yourself which is more subversive to a male-dominated industry, token diversity outreach or completely rethinking the structure of power within an organization?
The latter, but that's what Google is attempting to do. In fact Damore complains about it a lot, saying that it creates a hostile environment for conservatives.
At this point all police witness evidence should be discarded unless there is corroborating video evidence too. The police can all wear cameras and be careful not to "lose" the footage.
If you want an easy solution then Amiga Forever packages up the WinUAE emulator, the ROMs, a launcher, pre-installed OS images and a bunch of other goodies.
For most games you just double click on their name in the launcher and play.
Democrats are mostly just keeping quiet at the moment, letting Trump ruin his own chances. They have the endless scandals, the lack of progress on key election promises, the tariffs that will soon bite American workers, the Mueller investigation...
All they have to do is shut up and not create any problems of their own for a couple of years, and Trump will still be ranting about Crooked Hillary and fake news.
Google is obviously trying to push social justice with the way they delete and demonetize YouTube videos that have otherwise benign content, including two transexuals that committed the crime of not being left leaning, and two black ladies that were guilty of the same crime.
But they also demonetize lots of left leaning channels. And there are plenty of popular, highly profitable far right channels too, such as Carl Benjamin.
This narrative that Google persecutes the right is demonstrably untrue.
So why doesn't progressive California together, with progressive San Francisco (and its surrounding progressive cities) force progressive Google to start hiring on more diverse talent?
Because the issue is not just problem can not be solved that way. There are issues from pre-school to retirement, and Google have actually done quite a lot to help such as providing free educational resources. Mandatory diversity reports for large companies helps create an incentive and an observable metric, while accepting that beyond the headline number the issue is complex and won't be solved quickly.
It's not AI, they just scan the text with some Javascript that looks for keywords. It actually works reasonably well, e.g. when someone asks if a particular time and date is okay it suggests "yeah, that's fine" or "no, how about the day after?"
The idea is to save you time with canned responses to common subjects, not to really understand you in any way.
Inbox does try to figure out which emails are "important", but only by looking at which contacts and threads you often read and reply too. Just some statistical stuff, no AI.
Gmail hasn't been using email content for advertising since last year. They still do the same kind of filtering that all email services do - spam, malware, phishing, illegal images.
Are there any free email services that don't do any processing of message content at all? Certainly no large ones that I know of.
I use the smart suggestions occasionally, when I just need to acknowledge something or give a simple affirmative/negative response. Especially on mobile it saves some annoying typing.
Honestly, I don't understand why people are so offended about the little suggestion bubbles that take up a tiny amount of space, are easily ignored and are occasionally useful. Why does their mere existence annoy people, when they have no effect on usability?
You know why some TVs have a dedicated Netflix button? Because that's what customers want - a TV that shows Netflix.
30 years ago if you had tried to sell a TV that didn't get half the most popular channels it wouldn't have sold well. These days if you try to sell a TV that doesn't have Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and YouTube it won't sell very well.
Also, if you really really want a dumb TV, just buy a smart TV and don't connect it to your network. I guarantee that will be cheaper than buying some specialist luddite brand.
Because Facebook isn't designed for you, someone who wants to read every inane post in chronological order. It's designed for people who don't dedicate that much time to Facebook and perceive it as low quality because of all the dreck between interesting stuff.
I wish you were right about that. By the way, I was thinking more of the murder of Ian Tomlinson.
At first the CPS declined to prosecute, then was forced to but he was found not guilty. For whatever reason juries seem unwilling to convict police officers even when there is very clear evidence. Finally the Met was sued and paid an undisclosed sum to the family, and admitted that Tomlinson's violent murder had been "unlawful".
Yeah, there are still regular releases on the Amiga. This one does look exceptionally nice, it has to be said.
It's an interesting time for Amiga (and C64) developers. Back in the day, pre-internet you had to rely on books and, if you were lucky, text files posted on BBS systems to learn about the system. If you owned a disassembler or monitor cart you might be able to look at other people's code and figure out how it worked.
Now not only is all that knowledge online and searchable, but you have extremely good emulators that allow you to see things like DMA slot allocation per scanline, stuff that was barely understood back in the day. On systems like the Amiga one of the biggest challenges is memory bandwidth management, which is far far easier now when you can examine it cycle-by-cycle in an emulator.
I wish I had more time to do Amiga coding. I've got ideas I had 25 years ago that I want to try out now, as well as new ones. I was thinking that it might be possible to get 8 channels of sound with reasonably low overhead using the blitter, for example.
His main actual sin that I saw was that seemed to be leaning to heavy on claims of the difference between genders being biological, when we are much better able to measure the cocktail of nature and nurture.
Yeah, that's basically it. Interesting that we said the same thing and you were modded "insightful" while I got "troll".
The authors of the studies he cited have publicly refuted his conclusions. That's bound to come up in court. He is going to have a hard time justifying his position as rational and science based when the scientists whose work he is relying on contradict him.
But the memo is still quite readable if one operates under the assumption that traditional management and business structure is garbage that is heavily biased in favor of "rugged invididualism"-type affluent men.
Yes, although he also seems to think that Google is the opposite of that at the same time... But in any case, the suggestions he makes are sometimes in line with what Google is actually trying to do, namely change the culture and make the environment less hostile. But he also opposes programmes with a proven track record of fixing those issues, because of reverse-sexism.
It really seems like he wrote that memo with little understanding of historic efforts to address these problems or of the decades of study done around them, which resulted in rather fundamental mistakes and him dragging up a lot of long debunked ideas that are now exclusively used by genuine sexists. It's a shame he didn't do more research... His selection of sources looks very much like the result of a google search for papers supporting his established view which he then skimmed rather than trying to carefully understand in context.
I find it hilarious that people think companies like Intel would spend $300,000,000 on "virtue signalling" and have it welcomed by shareholders because apparently that's more important to them than the short or long term profitability of the company.
On the other hand I see a lot of virtue signalling Slashdot posts complaining about virtue signalling and SJWs.
Are you really arguing that what happened 10,000 years ago when the physical differences between males and females were important to survival has some kind of relevance to doing an office job today?
Uber, the company known for having an extremely toxic, sexist work environment and for trying to silence victims of sexual assault is "an extremely SJW company"?
I'm not even going to bother with the rest, it's so divorced from reality and carefully cherry picked. This being Slashdot, it will only get modded "troll" and "flamebait" anyway.
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Let's look at an actual, working aircraft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Range of 400km from a 56kWh battery. 2 passengers. Scale up, a small passenger aircraft with 1MWh battery seems quite reasonable. At a modest 300W/kg That's about 3,300kg, not at all excessive for a small passenger aircraft.
Hmm, I'm not really buying it. He was fired because while some of his points were not that unreasonable, some of it clearly was and demonstrably created a hostile environment.
Still, I expect we will hear more about this when the court case starts. Doubtless both sides will put forward more detailed arguments and much more evidence.
It's a prototype, and not the only one. Siemens is developing one (which suffered an unfortunately fatal accident a week or two ago).
Obviously there will need to be improvements in battery technology, just like there were for cars.
Leaks through caching are a common issue. Another example would be thumbnails in JPEG files. A lot of cameras add them to the JPEG file to make browsing thumbnails faster. When the image is edited in Photoshop, say to redact something, the thumbnail remains untouched.
The only solution is to encrypt everything and strip all metadata/hidden data when saving.
Plenty of other addictions are considered genuine medical problems, so why not gaming? It has many of the typical attributes of addictive behaviours - it rewards continued use, creates feelings of joy and has a built in feedback mechanism.
We also know that some developers have studied addictive behaviours in order to incorporate them into their games, particularly "free to play" mobile ones but these days everything seems to have loot crates (literal gambling) and the like.
Ugh, I've got a mod stalker again. Whipslash, are you seeing this?
Mostly, you just have to consider how you sell ideas.
Okay, but Damore complains that conservatives feel that they can't express themselves and have to keep quiet for fear of reprisal. What specifically does he, or anyone for that matter, think they are not allowed to say but should be?
Perhaps because I said that his conclusions are still right for all practical purposes, he just focused too much on one factor as to why.
Yeah, anyone who suggests he was wrong gets modded "troll". Someone is very concerned about enforcing the narrative that he was right and is the victim in all this.
To my recollection, he mainly opposed efforts that simply brought in more diverse workers, without changing the job itself.
One of his recommendations is to "[s]top restricting programs and classes to certain genders or races" and "reconsider making Unconscious Bias training mandatory for promo committees", both things which are considered to be effective. I suppose how important those are relative to the rest is debatable but the rest are not that great either.
Consider his suggestions to stop alienating conservatives. I'd like to hear an explanation of what exactly that means in practice, because the only examples I've seen mentioned are things that would clearly be unacceptable in almost any company. Things like expressing the view that some people's marriages are not legitimate or as valid as others, or that some people should stick to traditional gender roles. What conservative values and ideas are actually oppressed at Google that it would be beneficial to hear?
Perhaps he just means the appeal to biology, as I know some people consider "science" to be a conservative thing now since they believe that progressive attitudes on things like gender are not scientifically justifiable. However, it's already well established that such views are simply incorrect and biology does not support them.
Genuinely ask yourself which is more subversive to a male-dominated industry, token diversity outreach or completely rethinking the structure of power within an organization?
The latter, but that's what Google is attempting to do. In fact Damore complains about it a lot, saying that it creates a hostile environment for conservatives.
At this point all police witness evidence should be discarded unless there is corroborating video evidence too. The police can all wear cameras and be careful not to "lose" the footage.
If you want an easy solution then Amiga Forever packages up the WinUAE emulator, the ROMs, a launcher, pre-installed OS images and a bunch of other goodies.
For most games you just double click on their name in the launcher and play.
Democrats are mostly just keeping quiet at the moment, letting Trump ruin his own chances. They have the endless scandals, the lack of progress on key election promises, the tariffs that will soon bite American workers, the Mueller investigation...
All they have to do is shut up and not create any problems of their own for a couple of years, and Trump will still be ranting about Crooked Hillary and fake news.
Google is obviously trying to push social justice with the way they delete and demonetize YouTube videos that have otherwise benign content, including two transexuals that committed the crime of not being left leaning, and two black ladies that were guilty of the same crime.
But they also demonetize lots of left leaning channels. And there are plenty of popular, highly profitable far right channels too, such as Carl Benjamin.
This narrative that Google persecutes the right is demonstrably untrue.
So why doesn't progressive California together, with progressive San Francisco (and its surrounding progressive cities) force progressive Google to start hiring on more diverse talent?
Because the issue is not just problem can not be solved that way. There are issues from pre-school to retirement, and Google have actually done quite a lot to help such as providing free educational resources. Mandatory diversity reports for large companies helps create an incentive and an observable metric, while accepting that beyond the headline number the issue is complex and won't be solved quickly.
It's not AI, they just scan the text with some Javascript that looks for keywords. It actually works reasonably well, e.g. when someone asks if a particular time and date is okay it suggests "yeah, that's fine" or "no, how about the day after?"
The idea is to save you time with canned responses to common subjects, not to really understand you in any way.
Inbox does try to figure out which emails are "important", but only by looking at which contacts and threads you often read and reply too. Just some statistical stuff, no AI.
Gmail hasn't been using email content for advertising since last year. They still do the same kind of filtering that all email services do - spam, malware, phishing, illegal images.
Are there any free email services that don't do any processing of message content at all? Certainly no large ones that I know of.
I use the smart suggestions occasionally, when I just need to acknowledge something or give a simple affirmative/negative response. Especially on mobile it saves some annoying typing.
Honestly, I don't understand why people are so offended about the little suggestion bubbles that take up a tiny amount of space, are easily ignored and are occasionally useful. Why does their mere existence annoy people, when they have no effect on usability?
You know why some TVs have a dedicated Netflix button? Because that's what customers want - a TV that shows Netflix.
30 years ago if you had tried to sell a TV that didn't get half the most popular channels it wouldn't have sold well. These days if you try to sell a TV that doesn't have Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and YouTube it won't sell very well.
Also, if you really really want a dumb TV, just buy a smart TV and don't connect it to your network. I guarantee that will be cheaper than buying some specialist luddite brand.
Because Facebook isn't designed for you, someone who wants to read every inane post in chronological order. It's designed for people who don't dedicate that much time to Facebook and perceive it as low quality because of all the dreck between interesting stuff.
I wish you were right about that. By the way, I was thinking more of the murder of Ian Tomlinson.
At first the CPS declined to prosecute, then was forced to but he was found not guilty. For whatever reason juries seem unwilling to convict police officers even when there is very clear evidence. Finally the Met was sued and paid an undisclosed sum to the family, and admitted that Tomlinson's violent murder had been "unlawful".
Yeah, there are still regular releases on the Amiga. This one does look exceptionally nice, it has to be said.
It's an interesting time for Amiga (and C64) developers. Back in the day, pre-internet you had to rely on books and, if you were lucky, text files posted on BBS systems to learn about the system. If you owned a disassembler or monitor cart you might be able to look at other people's code and figure out how it worked.
Now not only is all that knowledge online and searchable, but you have extremely good emulators that allow you to see things like DMA slot allocation per scanline, stuff that was barely understood back in the day. On systems like the Amiga one of the biggest challenges is memory bandwidth management, which is far far easier now when you can examine it cycle-by-cycle in an emulator.
I wish I had more time to do Amiga coding. I've got ideas I had 25 years ago that I want to try out now, as well as new ones. I was thinking that it might be possible to get 8 channels of sound with reasonably low overhead using the blitter, for example.
Explain to us how they are going to build 58GW of nuclear capacity in the next 18 months, starting from scratch.
His main actual sin that I saw was that seemed to be leaning to heavy on claims of the difference between genders being biological, when we are much better able to measure the cocktail of nature and nurture.
Yeah, that's basically it. Interesting that we said the same thing and you were modded "insightful" while I got "troll".
The authors of the studies he cited have publicly refuted his conclusions. That's bound to come up in court. He is going to have a hard time justifying his position as rational and science based when the scientists whose work he is relying on contradict him.
But the memo is still quite readable if one operates under the assumption that traditional management and business structure is garbage that is heavily biased in favor of "rugged invididualism"-type affluent men.
Yes, although he also seems to think that Google is the opposite of that at the same time... But in any case, the suggestions he makes are sometimes in line with what Google is actually trying to do, namely change the culture and make the environment less hostile. But he also opposes programmes with a proven track record of fixing those issues, because of reverse-sexism.
It really seems like he wrote that memo with little understanding of historic efforts to address these problems or of the decades of study done around them, which resulted in rather fundamental mistakes and him dragging up a lot of long debunked ideas that are now exclusively used by genuine sexists. It's a shame he didn't do more research... His selection of sources looks very much like the result of a google search for papers supporting his established view which he then skimmed rather than trying to carefully understand in context.
I find it hilarious that people think companies like Intel would spend $300,000,000 on "virtue signalling" and have it welcomed by shareholders because apparently that's more important to them than the short or long term profitability of the company.
On the other hand I see a lot of virtue signalling Slashdot posts complaining about virtue signalling and SJWs.
Are you really arguing that what happened 10,000 years ago when the physical differences between males and females were important to survival has some kind of relevance to doing an office job today?
I had to bring the signature back. This is a new level of SJW panic ridiculousness.
recent Uber data (an extremely SJW company)
I... What?!?
Uber, the company known for having an extremely toxic, sexist work environment and for trying to silence victims of sexual assault is "an extremely SJW company"?
I'm not even going to bother with the rest, it's so divorced from reality and carefully cherry picked. This being Slashdot, it will only get modded "troll" and "flamebait" anyway.