Robots.txt is too simplistic. If it allowed, say, permissions like "can index but no snippets or direct image links" it would help here. It was never designed for this kind of thing.
The other issue is sites that licence images from people like Getty. If Google links directly to the image then the accompanying copyright notice might not be displayed. Getty can't really stop its customers using the images they licensed, but they can demand Google ensures that the copyright notice is shown.
So what are your options if this bug caused a boot loop? If the character gets too your home screen somehow, say via home screen notification, you can't boot the phone to install updates.
Unicode is broken, and most Unicode apps are even more broken.
It's time we replaced Unicode. Make 32 bits the only encoding. Ditch all combinational characters. Separate out all merged languages. Create some solid libraries to handle it an convert UTF8/16.
With Unicode you can't even reliably tell how long a string is. Most software that claims to support it is buggy as hell. Programmers can't be expected to become language experts.
"... self driving abilities in other cars. The ProPilot system in Nissan Leaf is actually pretty good, but you have to push the steering wheel too often. After just five seconds. And also the ProPilot, it was, I mean, I could handle the turns 'okay', but, well, the ProPilot is designed for motorways only..." (stops to pay attention to the road) "... But you know, the ProPilot system in the Nissan Leaf, for some reason, when we're doing like a right turn like this, it tends to go too much to the centre dots. But when it does a left turn like this, a left bend, then it does it pretty nice. But, um... again, you know, it was only designed for motorways, not for like two lane highways like Tesla can. So... overall, I mean, I've tested the systems - I haven't tested the systems for BMW or Mercedes or Infinity or whatever... but at least the systems I've tested, Tesla is the best. And I've read reviews of other people testing the other systems from Mercedes and whatever, and.... very consistent, you know, every time, Tesla wins the Autopilot tests. So, Tesla is considered to be the, Autopilot... I mean, Autonomy level 2.5, whereas the other ones, like the Leaf, or Ionic, is like... level 2. Or maybe even a weak level 2, it depends on which car it is.
Right, that's pretty much what I said. It's more limited, but it's reliable. The Tesla system lets you get away with a lot more dangerous driving, like taking your hands off the wheel for a relatively long time, or using it on local roads where it tends to have rather sudden disengagements (or the driver feels compelled to grab the wheel).
For me I'd use it on motorways, when going some distance. Until they get to level 3 I'm not really interested in anything else. Obviously if you like using it on local roads or whatever then that's a big selling point, but I can only tell you how I'm making my decision.
The biggest issue with ProPilot for me is the lack of updates. I'd probably wait until at least V2 to see what they change before deciding if I can live without updates or not. They really need to update the centre screen too. The software seems to be different to even the standard Nissan stuff, I guess to add in the EV bits, and I actually preferred the old version. Functionality was the same, just a better skin... Which tells you how old it is, apart from map updates the whole thing is at least 6 or 7 years old now.
At least the new one has Android Audio so I can use Waze on long trips. I heard that you can use Waze in a Tesla via the web browser, although the built in nav looks pretty good.
Heh, you know what I get zero ping-ponging, no "will it won't it" worries with? Autopilot;) Again, I'm confused by your experience. I can't deny your experience, because it was yours, but it doesn't match with mine - or apparently that of most reviewers.:)
Following the forum threads it seems that they improved the ping-pong issues a hell of a lot around October. Might have been the V40 update from memory. My experience was from before then so I'm interested in trying it again. I really need more time with the car... Keep finding little things, like there is no speed sensitive volume control and the auto lane change doesn't check for a space (at least on AP2, not sure about AP1). It feels very "beta", stuff being improved all the time, which I'm kinda up for.
Hey, I'll give the Leaf credit on the 360 degree view - that is a neat feature Tesla lacks:) Although to be fair, I like how Tesla gives precise distances to vehicles near you.
Yeah, the cameras are not perfect and I'd actually like both cameras and ultrasonic sensors given the choice, but the cameras are pretty essential. I don't know why Tesla didn't put an extra camera on the front to make 360 possible, it seems like an odd omission. I guess on the 3 it might spoil the clean front, but the X and S should be able to hide it pretty well.
I watched that video yesterday. He seems to confirm what I was saying - it's not as capable as autopilot, in that it works on fewer roads and doesn't have things like semi auto lane changing, but what it does do it does extremely well. There is stuff it has that Tesla does not too, such as 360 degree cameras and auto-park that takes advantage of them.
I was at the dealer again today so they could fix my 30kWh Leaf after they broke it during servicing somehow... Servicing is a total rip off, by the way, considering the report sheet basically says "we topped up your wiper fluid", but then again I looked at Tesla and BMW EV servicing prices and they are no better.
Anyway, I tried out their new Leaf demonstrator. Keep in mind it's been about a year since I tried AP2 but ProPilot seemed a lot more confident and relaxing. Zero ping-ponging, no "will it won't it" worries coming up to corners. Couldn't really test truck lust or how it handles things like roadworks.
I really want to drive a Model 3 now. In many ways it's a great car, but I have a few worries about it. For example, to change the TACC distance you have to go to the touch screen and tap options, tap Cruise Control and the tap the +/- buttons. Even changing the wiper settings is swipe + tap. It might be fine, but what I read is basically the same as other cars: the auto mode works great for some people, and needs manual adjustment for others.
The other issue is the lack of 360 degree cameras, which I've got really used to now. The M3 is fairly large too, although not as large as the X than I am leaning more towards because of the controls. It's hard to say how low the M3 is without trying it too - the S is lower than I like for getting in/out, but so are most saloon cars.
Has Tesla stated why the M3 has so few controls? Is it Apple-style courage or are they trying to drive cost out?
Treating property as an investment is what makes it stupidly expensive.
I've noticed that in countries where property doesn't last as long people view it as a depreciating asset. Some parts of Europe are like that, people don't want to live in old apartments or houses. In Japan the buildings only last max 50 years anyway and get torn down for replacement regularly.
Because people see houses more like cars, slowly losing value and getting closer to the scrap heap, they stop wanting property prices to increase and start demanding that they are more affordable.
I dunno, the X seems noticeably slower than the Pixel 2 in many regards. Especially where RAM really helps like keeping the camera app in memory all the time for speedy access.
In sensible cities you have all the stuff people want to visit built around public transport hubs. The railway station, for example, is often also a shopping centre and near to office blocks in Japan and some parts of Europe. In fact in Japan the retail attached to the station keeps the train tickets cheap and the service very high quality.
Google is using Easylist, the same blocking list that uBlock and most others use. The only difference is that Google only enables blocking on sites that they have determined contain abusive ads. The determination seems to be a distributed thing, based on user's actions and reports. That's usually how Google works for stuff like malware warnings, they don't want to be doing manual checks.
I don't really buy the idea that they will start blocking everything but their own ads. Apart from getting them severely punished by regulators (the EU isn't afraid to hit them for billions of Euros) the same argument could have been made 10 years ago when Chrome launched with malware protection. Google could have marked Firefox as malware, same as Microsoft could mark Linux ISOs as malware in Windows Defender. It just doesn't seem to be an issue, probably because of the previously mentioned consequences.
I'd be more interested in local news if the local newspaper didn't just print fluff pieces and hyper-partisan bullshit. There is real corruption in my city, for example, but it's not investigated or reported.
What sets the US apart is the inequality. Parts of it really are like a 3rd world country, with decaying and abandoned buildings, grinding poverty, low levels of education and high levels of violence. But other parts are prosperous and world-leading. Healthcare is another good example of this divide.
So it really depends how you measure a country. If you only look at the best bits then the US is near the top, if you look at the aggregate for all Americans it's less favourable.
I like print magazines with long, in depth articles and tutorials. Unfortunately there are very few remaining that have anything like that any more.
There is value in that kind of magazine/book. The internet is great but unless you pay someone to write something comprehensive and have it reviewed and corrected then you are going to have to rely on crap like Stack Exchange and the half baked answers post on there.
Prime example, show me a good alternative to books/magazines for learning DSP coding or FPGA development.
For me it means designing and simulating circuits, or developing firmware and apps. The basic command line stuff that comes with the OS isn't great for that. Does it even include a text mode PCB layout tool?
The main issue with having little RAM is that you end up waiting as apps reload after being forced out. Even within apps such as the web browser some parts might get swapped out, e.g. background tabs.
The next biggest influence on phone performance is flash memory speed. Samsung is king, but other phones are quite good too. iPhones are competitive.
It's Coke's manufacturing process really a secret or even particularly innovative? They are far from the only big beverage manufacturer, and much of the technology is made by industrial process experts rather than developed in-house.
I can't really see much of a barrier to a western company simply hiring some ex-Coke employees and learning their "secrets". The thing that stops it happening is the vast amount of money required to set up a factory and distribution network at that scale, and the difficulty of entering an already saturated market.
The Chinese are actually very advanced in distribution, so these days it's often the west learning from them. But really this idea that everything has to be kept secret or will be instantly cloned is silly - if your business can be cloned and replaced that easily then it has bigger problems, most of them coming from local competition.
It's ironic that they don't see the parallels when US companies use broken encryption standards created by the NSA, or are at the mercy of secret National Security Letters. At least the Chinese government doesn't try to hide what it's doing, not that I'm condoning it.
I used to love coming in to work early, because I could dos about posting on Slashdot while no-one else was around, and then knock off early and post on Slashdot from home for a few extra hours ever evening.
Then I realized I can just post on Slashdot all day at work on no-one seems to notice, so I only get up just in time to roll in to work right on time.
I'm starting to think that Geekbench scores for the iPhone are bullshit. The A11 Bionic has 2 high performance cores, but somehow out performs chips with 4 high performance cores. Yet iPhones don't appear to be any faster than Android phones, and in fact they are often quite a bit slower in real world use due to having only 2GB of RAM.
Even if Apple has somehow managed to get >2x the performance per core, Geekbench seems to have little relation to real performance.
People don't want chat rooms. Chat rooms hide content and writing requires more effort than just tapping "like". Typing on mobile sucks anyway, and I'm betting you wouldn't like the emoji.
People don't want file transfer. 99% of the files that get transferred are just viruses and anyway no one uses files any more, they keep their photos on Facebook and their phone.
By the way, where is this army of millions of SJWs carefully checking and approving every comment? Do you have any idea how many Facebook posts and tweets are made every day?
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Robots.txt is too simplistic. If it allowed, say, permissions like "can index but no snippets or direct image links" it would help here. It was never designed for this kind of thing.
The other issue is sites that licence images from people like Getty. If Google links directly to the image then the accompanying copyright notice might not be displayed. Getty can't really stop its customers using the images they licensed, but they can demand Google ensures that the copyright notice is shown.
So what are your options if this bug caused a boot loop? If the character gets too your home screen somehow, say via home screen notification, you can't boot the phone to install updates.
https://twitter.com/MalwareTec...
Can you update via USB without wiping the phone?
Unicode is broken, and most Unicode apps are even more broken.
It's time we replaced Unicode. Make 32 bits the only encoding. Ditch all combinational characters. Separate out all merged languages. Create some solid libraries to handle it an convert UTF8/16.
With Unicode you can't even reliably tell how long a string is. Most software that claims to support it is buggy as hell. Programmers can't be expected to become language experts.
"... self driving abilities in other cars. The ProPilot system in Nissan Leaf is actually pretty good, but you have to push the steering wheel too often. After just five seconds. And also the ProPilot, it was, I mean, I could handle the turns 'okay', but, well, the ProPilot is designed for motorways only..." (stops to pay attention to the road) "... But you know, the ProPilot system in the Nissan Leaf, for some reason, when we're doing like a right turn like this, it tends to go too much to the centre dots. But when it does a left turn like this, a left bend, then it does it pretty nice. But, um... again, you know, it was only designed for motorways, not for like two lane highways like Tesla can. So... overall, I mean, I've tested the systems - I haven't tested the systems for BMW or Mercedes or Infinity or whatever... but at least the systems I've tested, Tesla is the best. And I've read reviews of other people testing the other systems from Mercedes and whatever, and.... very consistent, you know, every time, Tesla wins the Autopilot tests. So, Tesla is considered to be the, Autopilot... I mean, Autonomy level 2.5, whereas the other ones, like the Leaf, or Ionic, is like... level 2. Or maybe even a weak level 2, it depends on which car it is.
Right, that's pretty much what I said. It's more limited, but it's reliable. The Tesla system lets you get away with a lot more dangerous driving, like taking your hands off the wheel for a relatively long time, or using it on local roads where it tends to have rather sudden disengagements (or the driver feels compelled to grab the wheel).
For me I'd use it on motorways, when going some distance. Until they get to level 3 I'm not really interested in anything else. Obviously if you like using it on local roads or whatever then that's a big selling point, but I can only tell you how I'm making my decision.
The biggest issue with ProPilot for me is the lack of updates. I'd probably wait until at least V2 to see what they change before deciding if I can live without updates or not. They really need to update the centre screen too. The software seems to be different to even the standard Nissan stuff, I guess to add in the EV bits, and I actually preferred the old version. Functionality was the same, just a better skin... Which tells you how old it is, apart from map updates the whole thing is at least 6 or 7 years old now.
At least the new one has Android Audio so I can use Waze on long trips. I heard that you can use Waze in a Tesla via the web browser, although the built in nav looks pretty good.
Heh, you know what I get zero ping-ponging, no "will it won't it" worries with? Autopilot ;) Again, I'm confused by your experience. I can't deny your experience, because it was yours, but it doesn't match with mine - or apparently that of most reviewers. :)
Following the forum threads it seems that they improved the ping-pong issues a hell of a lot around October. Might have been the V40 update from memory. My experience was from before then so I'm interested in trying it again. I really need more time with the car... Keep finding little things, like there is no speed sensitive volume control and the auto lane change doesn't check for a space (at least on AP2, not sure about AP1). It feels very "beta", stuff being improved all the time, which I'm kinda up for.
Hey, I'll give the Leaf credit on the 360 degree view - that is a neat feature Tesla lacks :) Although to be fair, I like how Tesla gives precise distances to vehicles near you.
Yeah, the cameras are not perfect and I'd actually like both cameras and ultrasonic sensors given the choice, but the cameras are pretty essential. I don't know why Tesla didn't put an extra camera on the front to make 360 possible, it seems like an odd omission. I guess on the 3 it might spoil the clean front, but the X and S should be able to hide it pretty well.
I watched that video yesterday. He seems to confirm what I was saying - it's not as capable as autopilot, in that it works on fewer roads and doesn't have things like semi auto lane changing, but what it does do it does extremely well. There is stuff it has that Tesla does not too, such as 360 degree cameras and auto-park that takes advantage of them.
I was at the dealer again today so they could fix my 30kWh Leaf after they broke it during servicing somehow... Servicing is a total rip off, by the way, considering the report sheet basically says "we topped up your wiper fluid", but then again I looked at Tesla and BMW EV servicing prices and they are no better.
Anyway, I tried out their new Leaf demonstrator. Keep in mind it's been about a year since I tried AP2 but ProPilot seemed a lot more confident and relaxing. Zero ping-ponging, no "will it won't it" worries coming up to corners. Couldn't really test truck lust or how it handles things like roadworks.
I really want to drive a Model 3 now. In many ways it's a great car, but I have a few worries about it. For example, to change the TACC distance you have to go to the touch screen and tap options, tap Cruise Control and the tap the +/- buttons. Even changing the wiper settings is swipe + tap. It might be fine, but what I read is basically the same as other cars: the auto mode works great for some people, and needs manual adjustment for others.
The other issue is the lack of 360 degree cameras, which I've got really used to now. The M3 is fairly large too, although not as large as the X than I am leaning more towards because of the controls. It's hard to say how low the M3 is without trying it too - the S is lower than I like for getting in/out, but so are most saloon cars.
Has Tesla stated why the M3 has so few controls? Is it Apple-style courage or are they trying to drive cost out?
2% isn't going to help much when the Meltdown patch just hit you for 50%.
According to TFP they used data from over 100,000 people, and adjusted for various factors such as the nutritional quality of the food.
Treating property as an investment is what makes it stupidly expensive.
I've noticed that in countries where property doesn't last as long people view it as a depreciating asset. Some parts of Europe are like that, people don't want to live in old apartments or houses. In Japan the buildings only last max 50 years anyway and get torn down for replacement regularly.
Because people see houses more like cars, slowly losing value and getting closer to the scrap heap, they stop wanting property prices to increase and start demanding that they are more affordable.
Mueller is a liberal, doing his job because he is butthurt that Trump won... After Trump appointed him.
People in the office are looking at me because I LOL'ed.
I dunno, the X seems noticeably slower than the Pixel 2 in many regards. Especially where RAM really helps like keeping the camera app in memory all the time for speedy access.
I'm starting to think that apple's secrecy is causing them not to test stuff properly.
If all ad supported services went away tomorrow there would be riots by Friday. Bread and circuses, remember.
In sensible cities you have all the stuff people want to visit built around public transport hubs. The railway station, for example, is often also a shopping centre and near to office blocks in Japan and some parts of Europe. In fact in Japan the retail attached to the station keeps the train tickets cheap and the service very high quality.
Google is using Easylist, the same blocking list that uBlock and most others use. The only difference is that Google only enables blocking on sites that they have determined contain abusive ads. The determination seems to be a distributed thing, based on user's actions and reports. That's usually how Google works for stuff like malware warnings, they don't want to be doing manual checks.
I don't really buy the idea that they will start blocking everything but their own ads. Apart from getting them severely punished by regulators (the EU isn't afraid to hit them for billions of Euros) the same argument could have been made 10 years ago when Chrome launched with malware protection. Google could have marked Firefox as malware, same as Microsoft could mark Linux ISOs as malware in Windows Defender. It just doesn't seem to be an issue, probably because of the previously mentioned consequences.
It doesn't matter how many times you call it fake news, Mueller is not going to stop investigating.
I'd be more interested in local news if the local newspaper didn't just print fluff pieces and hyper-partisan bullshit. There is real corruption in my city, for example, but it's not investigated or reported.
What sets the US apart is the inequality. Parts of it really are like a 3rd world country, with decaying and abandoned buildings, grinding poverty, low levels of education and high levels of violence. But other parts are prosperous and world-leading. Healthcare is another good example of this divide.
So it really depends how you measure a country. If you only look at the best bits then the US is near the top, if you look at the aggregate for all Americans it's less favourable.
I like print magazines with long, in depth articles and tutorials. Unfortunately there are very few remaining that have anything like that any more.
There is value in that kind of magazine/book. The internet is great but unless you pay someone to write something comprehensive and have it reviewed and corrected then you are going to have to rely on crap like Stack Exchange and the half baked answers post on there.
Prime example, show me a good alternative to books/magazines for learning DSP coding or FPGA development.
But what work are you talking about?
For me it means designing and simulating circuits, or developing firmware and apps. The basic command line stuff that comes with the OS isn't great for that. Does it even include a text mode PCB layout tool?
The main issue with having little RAM is that you end up waiting as apps reload after being forced out. Even within apps such as the web browser some parts might get swapped out, e.g. background tabs.
The next biggest influence on phone performance is flash memory speed. Samsung is king, but other phones are quite good too. iPhones are competitive.
It's Coke's manufacturing process really a secret or even particularly innovative? They are far from the only big beverage manufacturer, and much of the technology is made by industrial process experts rather than developed in-house.
I can't really see much of a barrier to a western company simply hiring some ex-Coke employees and learning their "secrets". The thing that stops it happening is the vast amount of money required to set up a factory and distribution network at that scale, and the difficulty of entering an already saturated market.
The Chinese are actually very advanced in distribution, so these days it's often the west learning from them. But really this idea that everything has to be kept secret or will be instantly cloned is silly - if your business can be cloned and replaced that easily then it has bigger problems, most of them coming from local competition.
It's ironic that they don't see the parallels when US companies use broken encryption standards created by the NSA, or are at the mercy of secret National Security Letters. At least the Chinese government doesn't try to hide what it's doing, not that I'm condoning it.
I used to love coming in to work early, because I could dos about posting on Slashdot while no-one else was around, and then knock off early and post on Slashdot from home for a few extra hours ever evening.
Then I realized I can just post on Slashdot all day at work on no-one seems to notice, so I only get up just in time to roll in to work right on time.
You think I'm joking.
I'm starting to think that Geekbench scores for the iPhone are bullshit. The A11 Bionic has 2 high performance cores, but somehow out performs chips with 4 high performance cores. Yet iPhones don't appear to be any faster than Android phones, and in fact they are often quite a bit slower in real world use due to having only 2GB of RAM.
Even if Apple has somehow managed to get >2x the performance per core, Geekbench seems to have little relation to real performance.
People don't want chat rooms. Chat rooms hide content and writing requires more effort than just tapping "like". Typing on mobile sucks anyway, and I'm betting you wouldn't like the emoji.
People don't want file transfer. 99% of the files that get transferred are just viruses and anyway no one uses files any more, they keep their photos on Facebook and their phone.
By the way, where is this army of millions of SJWs carefully checking and approving every comment? Do you have any idea how many Facebook posts and tweets are made every day?