The difference being that in a plane an alarm goes off and you have several seconds, maybe minutes to figure out what the problem is and do something about it. You also have a human co-pilot checking your work and taking turns watching over what is happening.
If Autopilot was like that (level 3 autonomy, driver doesn't need to pay attention and has 30 seconds to take over when it needs to disengage) it would be fine. As it is, you have to be constantly alert and ready to take over in a fraction of a second.
That's an unrealistic burden to place on the driver, human beings are not good at that.
The reason Tesla is interesting is that they are the only manufacturer with a large number of level 2 Autonomous vehicles out there. They were the first, and their system is a lot more lax than others on terms of enforcing driver attention.
What is better about running Firefox with those plugins compared to running Chrome with those plugins?
Chrome has better security and performance. Firefox has a few built in privacy features that Chrome needs add-ons for. There isn't much in it really, mostly just which UI you prefer.
I'm glad Mozilla is politically active. They have done a lot to improve the internet, especially regarding privacy and security. With the W3C the way it is and Google/Microsoft having corporate interests we need someone like Mozilla to advocate for our interests.
I find salary expectations are the hardest part. I've had a few recruiters encourage me to interview for stuff after I told them my minimum salary requirements, only for the interviewer to bring it up and say their range ends 30k below my absolute lowest.
I always tell them that I explained this to the recruiter so they know who to blame for wasting everyone's time.
I'm not on LinkedIn but have found StackOverflow to be okay. Their main site is toxic but the recruitment section is okay. Ignore all the developer story crap, it seems to be aimed at graduates with no work history on their CV or something.
When looking for a new job I always put on my CV/profile not to call me during office hours. It's a great way to filter crappy recruiters who don't read beyond keyword matches.
They know that all they have to do is the same thing as Google (no personal data sharing, just fully insulated targeting on behalf of advertisers) and envelope it in the reality distortion field. Useful idiots will do the rest.
Multiple cameras do make sense for phones, because they have very limited optics. Being so flat it's difficult to do things like moving lenses or variable apertures. So the solution is have two different cameras, one with a wide angle lens and one with a narrow one, or one with black and white sensor for detail and one with colour.
Problem then is you have to pick what cameras you want and can't change. Apple might try having 3 so they have more options.
Personally I prefer Google's "computational photography" system that uses one camera. Aside from working better anyway it can potentially work with cheaper cameras so that even low end phones can have good results. Also works on the single front camera if you are in to selfies.
They must be doing well out of the options they sell, which are often mostly software. Autopilot is pure software, and full self driving isn't even available for years but you can pay them thousands of dollars for it now.
Bioweapon defence mode is a cheap HIPA filter and software switch. The performance modes are software.
This is the same argument that Uber uses to avoid providing any employee benefits or rights. Like Uber, these people are an essential part of the business model and YouTube has things like premium accounts that they are key to selling.
At least in Europe courts have made it clear that they are entitled to some benefits.
Recently a major UK bank, TSB, botched a migration and people couldn't access their money for more than a week.
Thing is, even you go cash only, your employer won't be able to pay you and many places don't even take cash (online only accounts). If you want to buy a house with a mortgage the bank won't give you the money in a suitcase. And now you have to keep track of your balance manually too, and remember to make all those recurring payments every month or services start getting cut off and your car gets repossessed.
What do you do when your source code reveals an API to some licensed module which is not itself open source and you are under NDA not to reveal its details?
Offer the open source code owner some cash to licence it for you? If it's worth something to you it makes sense.
The main issue limiting adoption is not really cost - you can get used EVs really cheap, and they are a great buy because there is very little to go wrong with them and they need next to no maintenance. The issue is lack of charging infrastructure.
Norway has got it right. Chargers everywhere. Simple operation, no stupid phone apps or subscriptions required. If someone asks for a charger outside their home the local government just does the whole street.
The Gigafactory alone won't be nearly enough, but fortunately there are plenty of others being built around the world. Korea, China and Japan are all ramping up output.
We use their paid version at work. It's okay... But lacks some basic features, like a way to organize your 300+ repos in some sensible way.
Honestly if Microsoft spur some development of the site it would be welcome. The industry seems to have stagnated a bit - all the rivals like GitLab and Bitbucket are pretty much clones of GitHub and while they have some interesting features there isn't really anything radically different.
Web hosting is so cheap now, and Cloudflare offers free caching services that will prevent you getting Slashdotted or DDOSed.
Turns out web hosting is too hard for most people though, they prefer stuff like Wordpress and Instagram that makes it easy to just post stuff. It's the age old trade off of autonomy and freedom vs. convenience and getting the bar low enough for people to participate.
For example take "state's rights". When the federal government banned same-sex marriage opponents of same-sex marriage were all for setting that policy at the national level. As soon as that changed it became a "state's rights" issue, because they knew a lot of states would ban it.
Other examples include citing security as a reason to keep Muslims and Mexicans out. It plays to everyone - the bigots know what you mean and understand the outcome is what they want, without having to admit it to themselves or anyone else. The moderates just have to go along with it because who else are they gonna vote for?
They wouldn't be entirely true though, as those phones get security updates from Google. More accurately, there is no guarantee that Samsung will supply any updates. They might, but probably not.
Will they still might be forced to offer updates. The court ruled that they can't be sued over future actions, but in a year or two they will be past actions and could be dragged back to court.
Every country steals tech. The French were notorious for bugging Air France flights and doing state level industrial espionage. A lot of early nuclear tech was stolen by the US from Britain. European and US car-makers "adopted" a lot of Japanese tech to make their vehicles more reliable, after accusing the Japanese of copying them.
Now China is filing a lot of patents. They are really leading with electric vehicle tech, for example. A lot of European and Japanese manufacturers that missed the boat are turning to them now while their own domestic suppliers try to catch up.
This is just the way of the world. Everyone steals from everyone else, countries that were developing eventually start leading in some areas. Korea used to be a source of cheap labour, now they are leading manufacturers of memory, displays, batteries, phones, some kinds of software...
If anything, I much prefer the Chinese attitude towards patents and IP to the American one. They get on and innovate without worrying too much about rounded corners and vague, obscure and never-used patents. And actually the west isn't that different - we just waste more time and money looking for trivial variations to get around patents and IP.
I worked on a sensor product that three short sampling periods. I asked why not just use one longer sampling period and it turned out it was to get around a patent that covered the complex detection algorithm, and was of no benefit.
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The difference being that in a plane an alarm goes off and you have several seconds, maybe minutes to figure out what the problem is and do something about it. You also have a human co-pilot checking your work and taking turns watching over what is happening.
If Autopilot was like that (level 3 autonomy, driver doesn't need to pay attention and has 30 seconds to take over when it needs to disengage) it would be fine. As it is, you have to be constantly alert and ready to take over in a fraction of a second.
That's an unrealistic burden to place on the driver, human beings are not good at that.
The reason Tesla is interesting is that they are the only manufacturer with a large number of level 2 Autonomous vehicles out there. They were the first, and their system is a lot more lax than others on terms of enforcing driver attention.
What is better about running Firefox with those plugins compared to running Chrome with those plugins?
Chrome has better security and performance. Firefox has a few built in privacy features that Chrome needs add-ons for. There isn't much in it really, mostly just which UI you prefer.
I'm glad Mozilla is politically active. They have done a lot to improve the internet, especially regarding privacy and security. With the W3C the way it is and Google/Microsoft having corporate interests we need someone like Mozilla to advocate for our interests.
I find salary expectations are the hardest part. I've had a few recruiters encourage me to interview for stuff after I told them my minimum salary requirements, only for the interviewer to bring it up and say their range ends 30k below my absolute lowest.
I always tell them that I explained this to the recruiter so they know who to blame for wasting everyone's time.
I'm not on LinkedIn but have found StackOverflow to be okay. Their main site is toxic but the recruitment section is okay. Ignore all the developer story crap, it seems to be aimed at graduates with no work history on their CV or something.
When looking for a new job I always put on my CV/profile not to call me during office hours. It's a great way to filter crappy recruiters who don't read beyond keyword matches.
They know that all they have to do is the same thing as Google (no personal data sharing, just fully insulated targeting on behalf of advertisers) and envelope it in the reality distortion field. Useful idiots will do the rest.
Multiple cameras do make sense for phones, because they have very limited optics. Being so flat it's difficult to do things like moving lenses or variable apertures. So the solution is have two different cameras, one with a wide angle lens and one with a narrow one, or one with black and white sensor for detail and one with colour.
Problem then is you have to pick what cameras you want and can't change. Apple might try having 3 so they have more options.
Personally I prefer Google's "computational photography" system that uses one camera. Aside from working better anyway it can potentially work with cheaper cameras so that even low end phones can have good results. Also works on the single front camera if you are in to selfies.
2x is what you need to avoid losing money on each sale. It has to include unknowns like warranty costs, manufacturing issues and so on.
It's pretty standard to use 2x when costing anything in industry. You want to add a â5 widget to the car, you assume it will add â10 to the price.
A used Leaf, couple of years old with low mileage. A similar Zoe.
They must be doing well out of the options they sell, which are often mostly software. Autopilot is pure software, and full self driving isn't even available for years but you can pay them thousands of dollars for it now.
Bioweapon defence mode is a cheap HIPA filter and software switch. The performance modes are software.
This is the same argument that Uber uses to avoid providing any employee benefits or rights. Like Uber, these people are an essential part of the business model and YouTube has things like premium accounts that they are key to selling.
At least in Europe courts have made it clear that they are entitled to some benefits.
Google doesn't make much from hardware sales. They mostly do it to drive the tech forward and push Android development.
Recently a major UK bank, TSB, botched a migration and people couldn't access their money for more than a week.
Thing is, even you go cash only, your employer won't be able to pay you and many places don't even take cash (online only accounts). If you want to buy a house with a mortgage the bank won't give you the money in a suitcase. And now you have to keep track of your balance manually too, and remember to make all those recurring payments every month or services start getting cut off and your car gets repossessed.
Thought this might be a joke but it's modded "insightful".
Even when Google does the right thing, somehow they are still evil.
What do you do when your source code reveals an API to some licensed module which is not itself open source and you are under NDA not to reveal its details?
Offer the open source code owner some cash to licence it for you? If it's worth something to you it makes sense.
The main issue limiting adoption is not really cost - you can get used EVs really cheap, and they are a great buy because there is very little to go wrong with them and they need next to no maintenance. The issue is lack of charging infrastructure.
Norway has got it right. Chargers everywhere. Simple operation, no stupid phone apps or subscriptions required. If someone asks for a charger outside their home the local government just does the whole street.
The Gigafactory alone won't be nearly enough, but fortunately there are plenty of others being built around the world. Korea, China and Japan are all ramping up output.
We use their paid version at work. It's okay... But lacks some basic features, like a way to organize your 300+ repos in some sensible way.
Honestly if Microsoft spur some development of the site it would be welcome. The industry seems to have stagnated a bit - all the rivals like GitLab and Bitbucket are pretty much clones of GitHub and while they have some interesting features there isn't really anything radically different.
Web hosting is so cheap now, and Cloudflare offers free caching services that will prevent you getting Slashdotted or DDOSed.
Turns out web hosting is too hard for most people though, they prefer stuff like Wordpress and Instagram that makes it easy to just post stuff. It's the age old trade off of autonomy and freedom vs. convenience and getting the bar low enough for people to participate.
The phrases Trump and his ilk use are euphemisms.
For example take "state's rights". When the federal government banned same-sex marriage opponents of same-sex marriage were all for setting that policy at the national level. As soon as that changed it became a "state's rights" issue, because they knew a lot of states would ban it.
Other examples include citing security as a reason to keep Muslims and Mexicans out. It plays to everyone - the bigots know what you mean and understand the outcome is what they want, without having to admit it to themselves or anyone else. The moderates just have to go along with it because who else are they gonna vote for?
E.g. how ooloorie claims to hate identity politics, but also loves labelling people and using this assigned identity to denigrate them.
They wouldn't be entirely true though, as those phones get security updates from Google. More accurately, there is no guarantee that Samsung will supply any updates. They might, but probably not.
Will they still might be forced to offer updates. The court ruled that they can't be sued over future actions, but in a year or two they will be past actions and could be dragged back to court.
Every country steals tech. The French were notorious for bugging Air France flights and doing state level industrial espionage. A lot of early nuclear tech was stolen by the US from Britain. European and US car-makers "adopted" a lot of Japanese tech to make their vehicles more reliable, after accusing the Japanese of copying them.
Now China is filing a lot of patents. They are really leading with electric vehicle tech, for example. A lot of European and Japanese manufacturers that missed the boat are turning to them now while their own domestic suppliers try to catch up.
This is just the way of the world. Everyone steals from everyone else, countries that were developing eventually start leading in some areas. Korea used to be a source of cheap labour, now they are leading manufacturers of memory, displays, batteries, phones, some kinds of software...
If anything, I much prefer the Chinese attitude towards patents and IP to the American one. They get on and innovate without worrying too much about rounded corners and vague, obscure and never-used patents. And actually the west isn't that different - we just waste more time and money looking for trivial variations to get around patents and IP.
I worked on a sensor product that three short sampling periods. I asked why not just use one longer sampling period and it turned out it was to get around a patent that covered the complex detection algorithm, and was of no benefit.