I don't see how a light dusting of snow would cripple a car equipped with lidar and GPS. What ability does a human have which it lacks, that would be critical in this situation?
Consider that existing self-driving systems like Tesla's can cope with reflections off the road and a lack of road markings (not too uncommon in Europe), and it only has cameras.
Seems like a self driving car would have no problem with snow.
Any reasonably designed system would come to a stop, or just refuse to start the journey if its vision was badly impaired. With street signs and traffic lights at least part of them will be visible, and the car will have a map and GPS to help identify junctions.
So in the worst case the car just refuses to move, and you can choose to take over manually.
I knew this already because logically, if the Enterprise D only needed one baryon cleaning sweep in a seven year run there can't be that much of it. 4% sounds about right.
People don't vote "the way Facebook tells them to". Facebook posts normalize extreme views and make candidates like Trump seem like a plausible, even good idea. It's the power of peers and large numbers of others appearing to confirm your biases and fears.
Check the recent Brietbart email leaks. They detail this strategy of normalization in detail. It's why the opposition tried to de-normalize Trump, and why they even now keep repeating "this is not normal".
Some of us think that Putin wanted an idiot to weaken the US. He has been trying to weaken the EU as well, e.g. Brexit.
Note that I'm not saying that Russia caused those things by itself, merely that they did a lot to encourage and assist the side that they perceived as weakest.
The amount spent is a red herring as well. Political campaigns have rules to follow. Russia has far greater ability to post what it wants, especially on the fake accounts pretending to be ordinary citizens of the West. I don't have an exact figure for the power of a campaign adverts vs. a viral meme, but I know which one is much cheaper.
The name for this kind of thing is "populism". Everyone who disagrees with you is part of some group, "leftists" in this case, and of course those groups are all awful so you should instantly dismiss what they are saying and assume they are trying to destroy your way of life.
The impenetrable stupidity part is designed to give Reddit conspiracy theories an air of respectability that they don't deserve. Talking seriously about them as if they were credible helps others with their confirmation bias and mental partitioning needed to swallow the red pill.
Thanks for your post, and I for one will miss you.
I think he means the hardware vendors, not the OS vendors. You can buy plenty of hardware that claims to work on Linux, and if it doesn't you can just return it as defective. On BSD you are largely on your own.
The page on how to contribute (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/index.html) is certainly a lot more helpful than the ones for other big OS projects like KDE and Gnome.
I've been meaning to try TrueOS for desktop out. Anyone tried it?
Their web site doesn't inspire confidence (scrolling is broken), so I might just try FreeBSD. Been about a decade since I last used it...
My standard distro test is to install Chromium and see if the mouse wheel works properly. I've found you can usually tell is a desktop distro is crap by how much effort they put in to making basic input devices work.
I'm not disagreeing that she doesn't appear qualified, but "diversity hire" is one of the least likely explanations. Nepotism seems far more likely. It's very common at C level.
Check Damore's twitter feed. All the claims that he was only interested in science and reason are undermined by the stuff he has posted since.
It seems like there are real consequences to the current US government policy. As well as increased pollution, health damage and deaths, it's shifting money from clean generation to dirty.
There are likely to be international consequences too, especially to Paris, as other countries put requirements in place that make US companies less competitive.
You had better hope that individuals fighting the government on this are well resourced, but it's going to cause some degree of pain no matter what.
Since when did merit have anything to do with public perception?
Self driving cars are going to kill people. It's inevitable. When that happens people won't carefully consider the statistical evidence and conclude that they are still safer, they will want to know who is getting sued. Armchair engineers in Slashdot will want to know what idiot didn't consider that corner case or accidentally typed a comma instead of a decimal place.
Naturally, they are going to prepare for this and get all the PR in place to put a positive spin on it.
You answered your own question there. Employers seem to have an attitude that you shouldn't get a big pay increase because if you were worth that much your previous employer would have paid you more. They also like to pretend it's an indication of market rate.
Of course if it's a massive pay cut that's fine, market rates etc.
The stupid thing is that this just punishes loyalty and encourages people to change jobs every few years just to get salary bumps.
120hz is good for sport and hyper realistic images. The reason not to go higher is technical limitations of transmission and displays, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
For broadcast you are probably screwed, but NHK will be making high quality streams available if your local channels want them. Not H.264 encoding, I'm not sure if they have decided yet. This will be ready for the 2020 Olympics.
The Pirate Bay is probably your best bet. Someone will post a.ts file.
I certainly notice that cinemas showing 4k images look crap. 4k isn't even as good as IMAX, a technology from the 60s.
You also miss the point about HDR. It's not just to display a wider range of colour at one time, it's to allow screens that can't produce the full range (i.e. all of them) to adjust the backlight automatically depending on the scene being shown.
Some TVs can even vary the backlight differently for different areas of the image. Still not as nice as my plasma but getting there.
You can. De-cap the chip, use a microscope to photograph it and computer vision software to compare it to your design files.
People have done it for older chips, e.g. decoding ROMs visually or just trying to figure out how something works. With a modern process you will need more expensive equipment due to everything being smaller, but it's far from impossible to do.
Power consumption is certainly an issue with 8k, as it having powerful enough equipment to edit it. That's one of the main reasons it has taken so long to arrive. The cameras took a long time to get down to usable sizes, and they had to change the way filming was done because for example manual focus is basically impossible.
For computers the sweet spot for me is 28"/5k. Good amount of physical space, exactly double the standard HD resolution for perfect 2x scaling. For 24" monitors 4k is exactly double the common 1080p we had before.
One of the benefits of 8k is that with 120Hz support there is no need for "motion estimation" and interpolation. That gets rid of all the artefacts and allows the director to choose suitable settings for their preferred look.
I have some 32" 720p displays and they are fine for TV. Of course, the "HD" TV channels aren't full HD 1920x1080 anyway, and over-compression makes them look pretty bad, so for broadcast 720p is okay.
Slightly odd reaction to feel "evil" at only having 720p... But still, I'm glad we have 4k because even though I'm sticking with my old 2k TV, it's great for computer monitors.
This entirely misses the point of 8k. It's not just a resolution bump, it addresses multiple use-cases:
- Very large screens / projectors - Computer monitors that people typically sit much closer to - 120Hz native for ultra smooth, realistic motion - Much higher dynamic range and more accurate colour rendering - Comfortably exceeding the capabilities of your eyes in all situations
If you want a perfect picture, like looking out of a window, this is what you need. Most people haven't even seen 8k in real life, and when they have it's often on an early model TV that doesn't support the full colour range or 120Hz.
8k is supposed to be the ultimate, the final form of 2D television. NHK, the people behind it, skipped over 4k because it's just a stepping stone to perfection. If anything is to blame here, it's 4k being a half measure and 8k not arriving quickly enough.
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I don't see how a light dusting of snow would cripple a car equipped with lidar and GPS. What ability does a human have which it lacks, that would be critical in this situation?
Consider that existing self-driving systems like Tesla's can cope with reflections off the road and a lack of road markings (not too uncommon in Europe), and it only has cameras.
Seems like a self driving car would have no problem with snow.
Any reasonably designed system would come to a stop, or just refuse to start the journey if its vision was badly impaired. With street signs and traffic lights at least part of them will be visible, and the car will have a map and GPS to help identify junctions.
So in the worst case the car just refuses to move, and you can choose to take over manually.
I knew this already because logically, if the Enterprise D only needed one baryon cleaning sweep in a seven year run there can't be that much of it. 4% sounds about right.
People don't vote "the way Facebook tells them to". Facebook posts normalize extreme views and make candidates like Trump seem like a plausible, even good idea. It's the power of peers and large numbers of others appearing to confirm your biases and fears.
Check the recent Brietbart email leaks. They detail this strategy of normalization in detail. It's why the opposition tried to de-normalize Trump, and why they even now keep repeating "this is not normal".
Some of us think that Putin wanted an idiot to weaken the US. He has been trying to weaken the EU as well, e.g. Brexit.
Note that I'm not saying that Russia caused those things by itself, merely that they did a lot to encourage and assist the side that they perceived as weakest.
The amount spent is a red herring as well. Political campaigns have rules to follow. Russia has far greater ability to post what it wants, especially on the fake accounts pretending to be ordinary citizens of the West. I don't have an exact figure for the power of a campaign adverts vs. a viral meme, but I know which one is much cheaper.
The name for this kind of thing is "populism". Everyone who disagrees with you is part of some group, "leftists" in this case, and of course those groups are all awful so you should instantly dismiss what they are saying and assume they are trying to destroy your way of life.
The impenetrable stupidity part is designed to give Reddit conspiracy theories an air of respectability that they don't deserve. Talking seriously about them as if they were credible helps others with their confirmation bias and mental partitioning needed to swallow the red pill.
Thanks for your post, and I for one will miss you.
I think he means the hardware vendors, not the OS vendors. You can buy plenty of hardware that claims to work on Linux, and if it doesn't you can just return it as defective. On BSD you are largely on your own.
The page on how to contribute (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/index.html) is certainly a lot more helpful than the ones for other big OS projects like KDE and Gnome.
I've been meaning to try TrueOS for desktop out. Anyone tried it?
Their web site doesn't inspire confidence (scrolling is broken), so I might just try FreeBSD. Been about a decade since I last used it...
My standard distro test is to install Chromium and see if the mouse wheel works properly. I've found you can usually tell is a desktop distro is crap by how much effort they put in to making basic input devices work.
I'm not disagreeing that she doesn't appear qualified, but "diversity hire" is one of the least likely explanations. Nepotism seems far more likely. It's very common at C level.
Check Damore's twitter feed. All the claims that he was only interested in science and reason are undermined by the stuff he has posted since.
It seems like there are real consequences to the current US government policy. As well as increased pollution, health damage and deaths, it's shifting money from clean generation to dirty.
There are likely to be international consequences too, especially to Paris, as other countries put requirements in place that make US companies less competitive.
You had better hope that individuals fighting the government on this are well resourced, but it's going to cause some degree of pain no matter what.
Since when did merit have anything to do with public perception?
Self driving cars are going to kill people. It's inevitable. When that happens people won't carefully consider the statistical evidence and conclude that they are still safer, they will want to know who is getting sued. Armchair engineers in Slashdot will want to know what idiot didn't consider that corner case or accidentally typed a comma instead of a decimal place.
Naturally, they are going to prepare for this and get all the PR in place to put a positive spin on it.
Mayer destroyed Yahoo, and is now being considered to destroy Uber. I don't see a down site to this.
You answered your own question there. Employers seem to have an attitude that you shouldn't get a big pay increase because if you were worth that much your previous employer would have paid you more. They also like to pretend it's an indication of market rate.
Of course if it's a massive pay cut that's fine, market rates etc.
The stupid thing is that this just punishes loyalty and encourages people to change jobs every few years just to get salary bumps.
Do you have one shred of evidence that she was hired because of her gender? Even the smallest hint?
"His name was James Damore."
Check out his Twitter feed. He's not the martyr you think he is.
120hz is good for sport and hyper realistic images. The reason not to go higher is technical limitations of transmission and displays, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
For broadcast you are probably screwed, but NHK will be making high quality streams available if your local channels want them. Not H.264 encoding, I'm not sure if they have decided yet. This will be ready for the 2020 Olympics.
The Pirate Bay is probably your best bet. Someone will post a .ts file.
I certainly notice that cinemas showing 4k images look crap. 4k isn't even as good as IMAX, a technology from the 60s.
You also miss the point about HDR. It's not just to display a wider range of colour at one time, it's to allow screens that can't produce the full range (i.e. all of them) to adjust the backlight automatically depending on the scene being shown.
Some TVs can even vary the backlight differently for different areas of the image. Still not as nice as my plasma but getting there.
8k finally exceeds the resolution of IMAX. The colour quality and frame rate are better, and of course HDR didn't really exist when IMAX was created.
Why would they throw away such a useful tool on such a relatively trivial thing?
Yeah, those. They are hard to get hold of outside China. Seems like a trip to Guangzhou is required.
You can. De-cap the chip, use a microscope to photograph it and computer vision software to compare it to your design files.
People have done it for older chips, e.g. decoding ROMs visually or just trying to figure out how something works. With a modern process you will need more expensive equipment due to everything being smaller, but it's far from impossible to do.
Power consumption is certainly an issue with 8k, as it having powerful enough equipment to edit it. That's one of the main reasons it has taken so long to arrive. The cameras took a long time to get down to usable sizes, and they had to change the way filming was done because for example manual focus is basically impossible.
For computers the sweet spot for me is 28"/5k. Good amount of physical space, exactly double the standard HD resolution for perfect 2x scaling. For 24" monitors 4k is exactly double the common 1080p we had before.
One of the benefits of 8k is that with 120Hz support there is no need for "motion estimation" and interpolation. That gets rid of all the artefacts and allows the director to choose suitable settings for their preferred look.
I have some 32" 720p displays and they are fine for TV. Of course, the "HD" TV channels aren't full HD 1920x1080 anyway, and over-compression makes them look pretty bad, so for broadcast 720p is okay.
Slightly odd reaction to feel "evil" at only having 720p... But still, I'm glad we have 4k because even though I'm sticking with my old 2k TV, it's great for computer monitors.
This entirely misses the point of 8k. It's not just a resolution bump, it addresses multiple use-cases:
- Very large screens / projectors
- Computer monitors that people typically sit much closer to
- 120Hz native for ultra smooth, realistic motion
- Much higher dynamic range and more accurate colour rendering
- Comfortably exceeding the capabilities of your eyes in all situations
If you want a perfect picture, like looking out of a window, this is what you need. Most people haven't even seen 8k in real life, and when they have it's often on an early model TV that doesn't support the full colour range or 120Hz.
8k is supposed to be the ultimate, the final form of 2D television. NHK, the people behind it, skipped over 4k because it's just a stepping stone to perfection. If anything is to blame here, it's 4k being a half measure and 8k not arriving quickly enough.