but reading a book, napping or playing musical instrument (yup I did see this on I580 - she was playing a recorder) is probably ok?
No, it probably isn't. It might not have any specific legislation against it, but that's not going to stop you falling foul of one of the generic ones.
Now try something lower resolution, such as the majority of the images used to create web sites. PNG wins in quality and size every time.
Ye-es... that is what PNG is for.
JPEG is still the more convenient for photos.
Your reply is a bit like me extolling the virtues of a microwave oven, then you coming back with "Yeah, but now try putting a metal object in it. It'll explode! Microwave ovens are shit!"
JPEG is unacceptable at anything below 100% quality
Maybe for you personally, but that's just you, and you're an outlier. The vast majority of people find it perfectly acceptable, usually between about 60% and 80% quality, depending on all sorts of factors.
What's elegant about it? The kilo is "the only SI unit based on a physical object." That's not elegant at all.
And there isn't a direct relationship between the two, anyway. The litre is a measure of volume, not mass of a particular substance. They were related through the definition of the metre:
One litre of liquid water has a mass of almost exactly one kilogram, due to the gram being defined in 1795 as one cubic centimetre of water at the temperature of melting ice. Subsequent redefinitions of the metre and kilogram mean that this relationship is no longer exact.
As the software gets more refined and the edge cases are dealt with better, the car will be able to handle more driving situations. For example, "automatically stop at red lights"
What could possibly go wrong when a driver gets into a different car than normal?
or "keep going straight unless the driver indicates otherwise."
“I’m not arguing this from first principles. There are 40 years’ worth of examples.”
"...which I picked myself!"
Yeah, come on, automation has proven to be a winner in any domains as well. And I suspect the author would take care of those by quibbling over the definition of "full."
Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous
I think the author meant "selectively autonomous." "Never fully autonomous" implies there are things it shouldn't do by itself, rather than the author's wish that "the car does what I want it to do, and only when I want it to do it." What if you want the car to be fully autonomous?
What does he think "fully autonomous" cars will do? Force you to go to work when you actually want to skip and go to the beach?
That reminds me, though, not long until Thanksgiving in November-Facebook. Then I'll have to start thinking about buying Christmas gifts before the 25th of December-Coca-Cola...
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The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think
Don't tell me what I think. You don't know what I think.
You don't want to know what I think.
Eh, almost. Rhyming "headline automation" with "headline automation" might be considered a little unimaginative.
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware
It's been two days, there have been numerous posts pointing out the error, and you still haven't given a shit and fixed it.
You are simply bad at running a website.
How about if the autonomous car just stopped itself as quickly as possible in the case of an incident that it cannot handle?
What could possibly go wrong?
but reading a book, napping or playing musical instrument (yup I did see this on I580 - she was playing a recorder) is probably ok?
No, it probably isn't. It might not have any specific legislation against it, but that's not going to stop you falling foul of one of the generic ones.
How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto?
Maybe they're not. They're hardly going to tell you what they can't crack.
Now try something lower resolution, such as the majority of the images used to create web sites. PNG wins in quality and size every time.
Ye-es... that is what PNG is for.
JPEG is still the more convenient for photos.
Your reply is a bit like me extolling the virtues of a microwave oven, then you coming back with "Yeah, but now try putting a metal object in it. It'll explode! Microwave ovens are shit!"
JPEG is unacceptable at anything below 100% quality
Maybe for you personally, but that's just you, and you're an outlier. The vast majority of people find it perfectly acceptable, usually between about 60% and 80% quality, depending on all sorts of factors.
you open yourself up to slander lawsuits unless you can prove malicious intent.
So we can say whatever we're like, as long as we're being malicious?
I don't think that adds up...
There were at least 43 cases this year of shootings involving a toddler.
Someone needs to take that kid's gun away.
we should consider simpler and more plausible explanations (occam's razor)
Leave that to the scientists. This is the internet!
We barely need 1% of the sunlight that reaches our planet
If 99% of the sunlight reaching the planet was suddenly blocked, I think you'd quickly redefine what you mean by "need."
Most things need some sunlight to survive. So why would you block out all of the sun's light?
Think about it. Or Google it.
And how fast is it moving?
What's elegant about it? The kilo is "the only SI unit based on a physical object." That's not elegant at all.
And there isn't a direct relationship between the two, anyway. The litre is a measure of volume, not mass of a particular substance. They were related through the definition of the metre:
One litre of liquid water has a mass of almost exactly one kilogram, due to the gram being defined in 1795 as one cubic centimetre of water at the temperature of melting ice. Subsequent redefinitions of the metre and kilogram mean that this relationship is no longer exact.
There. It was inaccurate already.
The highest JPEG compression quality is visibly lossy and can't handle something as simple as a gradient.
Bollocks. And anyway, how often do you get pure gradients in photographic images, which is what JPEG is best at?
Now the difference between the file size of a lossy JPEG and PNG is negligible
What are you talking about? The difference in file size is arbitrary because you can set the quality of a JPEG to whatever suits your purposes.
With JPEG you get horrible colour blocks and banding artefacts. It ruins most pictures.
So set the quality a bit higher. You'll still beat PNG in filesize for photographic images, enough that pages will load visibly faster.
As the software gets more refined and the edge cases are dealt with better, the car will be able to handle more driving situations. For example, "automatically stop at red lights"
What could possibly go wrong when a driver gets into a different car than normal?
or "keep going straight unless the driver indicates otherwise."
Don't they sorta do that already? ;)
“I’m not arguing this from first principles. There are 40 years’ worth of examples.”
"...which I picked myself!"
Yeah, come on, automation has proven to be a winner in any domains as well. And I suspect the author would take care of those by quibbling over the definition of "full."
It could be worse.
Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous
I think the author meant "selectively autonomous." "Never fully autonomous" implies there are things it shouldn't do by itself, rather than the author's wish that "the car does what I want it to do, and only when I want it to do it." What if you want the car to be fully autonomous?
What does he think "fully autonomous" cars will do? Force you to go to work when you actually want to skip and go to the beach?
On the 20th of October Pepsi
How much did that pay to rename that?
That reminds me, though, not long until Thanksgiving in November-Facebook. Then I'll have to start thinking about buying Christmas gifts before the 25th of December-Coca-Cola...
Assume the smartest mind possible by the laws of physics has an IQ of 1000, and assume to make an artificial brain you need an IQ of 2000.
Or, alternatively, assume that none of that is true. Problem solved!
An essential "spark", shall we say.
No, let's not, because it's still nothing that can't be mapped and simulated.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is [...] impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Turing wasn't elderly, and he didn't just say it, he proved it.