The web UI and pals are hosted by this cramfs container, so unless you want to bake a brand new container to fix the CVE, you are boned.
It's not that hard - especially if you're already know how to tinker with the web UI. Lift container off device, expand filesystem to a directory tree, do mods to tree, compact again. A few extra lines to type while doing your changes.
The universe simulator is a mess of spaghetti code and ugly hacks.
Marvel at the complexity of the macro-scale physics available in this application, but do not look behind the curtain. Be aware that certain boundary conditions - for example, extremely large point-size masses, recursive division of the basic set of subatomic particles, or investigating causality conditions on said particles - can cause unpredictable effects in your universe simulation that may require a restart and loss of existing saved state.
So no matter how badly you blow the presentation performance it doesn't affect your science mark; that's graded on the content you hand in.
Personally, I hate when the only way to get information is via a youtube video or presentation - I can read upwards of 800 words a minute, give me something to quickly skim through. Having said that, look at this in a different way - if I gave you a research paper that was scrawled on a napkin and covered in food stains, would that be OK? It's all about the information, right?
A presentation is about the efficient transfer of information in a particular way, and that's still an important part of many fields of study, and it still needs to be included and graded in subjects. Perhaps with more emphasis in English or Communications classes, but still, in STEM fields, you need to be able to get information across using a number of different techniques and public speaking is still one of them.
From what I understand of the whole certification process, in order to be approved you can either do a whole bunch of component testing and paperwork, or you can fly your rocket a number of times.
SLS is going the component testing/paperwork route, SpaceX is reducing the paperwork and flying their rockets.
What it does highlight is the flexibility in the process. The old-school space crowd can still do it their way with the paperwork and the new guys can just go fly rockets and in the end you can get two different and probably-safe rockets out of it.
XP was generally available in October 2001. XP SP3 was released in April 2008. Extended support ended in April 2014. If you really want to pay a large amount of money to Microsoft, you can continue support for XP today.
That most certainly was not the right way to nip it in the bud (unless you're Linus Torvalds)
Despite a lot of publicised blow-ups, they're actually pretty rare. If you look at all his interactions on LKML, Linus shows a lot of patience with new people.
He only really blows up if (a) you're someone he knows and you're pushing something or done something he thinks is dumb and you should know better, or (b) you're new and you haven't listened to something sensible he's given as an answer, a couple of times already.
If you pursue something with him in an intelligent debate, he's quite amenable to having his mind changed on things.
It's designed that way so that you can't accidentally flip active and neutral.
So, for example, if I have a desk lamp with a blown lightbulb and I turn it off using the switch in the lamp (which is a simple switch in series in the active line), I can poke and prod the exposed terminals in the lightbulb socket without risk of injury. If you have a plug that can be flipped, you can still turn off the lamp with the switch, but when it's off there will be now live power present in the socket because your plug is in backwards and you're now switching the neutral line.
Android has a pretty crappy method of managing who can get through that filter; if I include anyone from work in my contact list, they'll get through.
With an Android phone, in the "do not disturb" section in settings, you can set it so that the "Favourites" group is the only group that will ring through do-not-disturb. That's the group of people that you've starred in your contacts and they're the ones that show up first in your contacts list, above the normal alphabetical order.
Put your family and important people into that group, leave work as a normal contact.
I wouldn't put too much trust in physical handbrakes. They are designed to prevent a stationary vehicle from moving, and that's it. They're not designed to arrest a powered, moving vehicle, and odds are pretty good that you'll burn it out before you stop your car in those situations.
So really, the actions are the same as they have been for the last 50 years of driving. Avoid trying to turn the engine off as a steering lock might engage. Disengage the transmission if possible, and apply the brakes, once, in a single forceful manner.
Your car's brakes are very powerful and this can be shown by the fact that it takes 10 seconds to accelerate your car from a standstill to highway speeds, but only 4 seconds to bring it back to a halt - and a lot of that is limited by traction with the road.
Whilst lime plaster is a nice facade, you still need a means of structural support behind it.
So how do you build ten storey buildings, shopping centres, car parks, railway sleepers, bridges, stormwater pipes and a million other little bits of modern life without concrete? Are steel and other structural alternatives more resource-intensive than concrete over the whole lifecycle? That's the kind of questions I want to see answered, not a laser-focused hit piece on concrete.
Overhead wires are prohibitively expensive over long distances. For example if you use rail electrification costs as a benchmark, it works out to be about a million dollars per mile to install, and then there's ongoing maintenance of the catenary cable which does wear out from all that rubbing.
Apart from the poles and cabling above the road, there's also transformers, substations and etc that need to be spread along the route. In a city that's not really a problem, but long distance it starts to get difficult.
There is no "cooling trend". The current as it is today provides anomalously warm temperatures to northwestern Europe. If this current is fully disrupted, the UK and friends will end up having the same general climate as northern Canada. Along with northen Canada, it then will slowly warm in accordance with the generally accepted global rates.
Equally puzzling is how the bank managed to correctly flag that tiny charge as fraudulent.
It's the same as with Google's spam detection: you just see one transaction on your card, but the bank sees hundreds of similar transactions on hundreds of cards.
You can be driving in your lane and have stationary traffic in the next lane (eg. a turning lane). This is not a problem, they are not in your lane.
At the extremes of your sensing range, you see an object in that lane that is not moving towards you. In this case, at that distance a person pushing a bicycle across the lane is - generally - not really approaching you, not if you look at lidar. This is not a problem.
The person enters your lane wearing low-reflectance (to your LIDAR) clothing, pushing an object made of struts and spokes which also doesn't show up very well. Scans now detect an indistinct object in the distance moving into your lane without a defined shape, the bulk of which is only a couple of feet off the ground. Is this water spray or dust, or some other noise? Scans don't seem to indicate that it is particularly solid.
You approach the object at speed and lidar resolves it to be a solid object moving across your lane 20 feet away. This is now very much a problem, but its too late to do anything about it.
You can easily extrapolate all your emotional outbursts towards people as well. 16 pedestrians were killed by cars the same day that Uber killed someone. So:
EVEN ONE HUMAN DEATH IS TOO MANY OMG, better get rid of all the people driving! Look, people are fallible. You seem to think that there's an alert human being at the wheel for the entire duration of a journey and that is not the case, not by a long shot.
So it seems society as a whole has decided that cars are super convenient and we deal with death and mayhem as it occurs. Actually, we don't. We aim for "as low as reasonably practicable" and it's a moving target as technology and behavioural science advances. And I specifically mention behavioural science here, because if a single person had not made the decision to cross the road outside of designated crossing zones, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Personally, I think more separation and societal reinforcement is the way to go. It might be that you end up with "Automation lanes" in the centre of the road, away from people, buffered by human drivers. People might one day learn to only cross the road at designated crossings, and the road is reinforced as being a dangerous place, just like train tracks. Because it fucking is a dangerous place for pedestrians, no matter how much you squawk about how it should be like a pedestrian mall.
Doesn't matter a damn if it has a reaction time better than a human if someone steps out onto the road 20 feet in front of the car and you've got half a second to judge and react.
There are basic physical numbers at play here - the mass of the vehicle, the ability of the braking system in the car to scrub off speed, the conditions of the tyres, the road surface, etc. In those kinds of short-distance collisions, a computer will be able to reduce the speed of the car by a few mph over a person and that's it.
The only saving grace that a person has is the ability to read body language and judge that someone might step out onto the road. And even then that usually only results in a foot off the accelerator, and not yet placed on the brake.
Pretty sure those old clock radios had a timer circuit driven off the mains supply. When the 9V battery kicked in, it was a simple 555 oscillator set by a R-C combo. Which is fine if all you want is for the clock to be reasonably close to the right time in the morning as opposed to blinking 12:00 at 9.30am as you open your sleepy eyes.
It shouldn't be that much more expensive to use glass.
Did you even look at the link I provided?
It is a 270 degree lens and a 360 degree cap assembly, with the actual lens surface angled inwards about 20 degrees off vertical. It has a "shelf" at the bottom of the lens where the pollution sensors shine through. It has a plastic cap at the top, so you'll have to cap your sapphire lens assembly somehow, so you need to bond something to the glass. It is structurally robust - I can drop the 2kg assembly it on its head from a foot or two without damage.
It is very much an engineering decision, because you can injection-mould optically clear plastic very, very simply and very, very cheaply and in a normal environment I'd expect it to last ages.
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The web UI and pals are hosted by this cramfs container, so unless you want to bake a brand new container to fix the CVE, you are boned.
It's not that hard - especially if you're already know how to tinker with the web UI. Lift container off device, expand filesystem to a directory tree, do mods to tree, compact again. A few extra lines to type while doing your changes.
The universe simulator is a mess of spaghetti code and ugly hacks.
Marvel at the complexity of the macro-scale physics available in this application, but do not look behind the curtain. Be aware that certain boundary conditions - for example, extremely large point-size masses, recursive division of the basic set of subatomic particles, or investigating causality conditions on said particles - can cause unpredictable effects in your universe simulation that may require a restart and loss of existing saved state.
So no matter how badly you blow the presentation performance it doesn't affect your science mark; that's graded on the content you hand in.
Personally, I hate when the only way to get information is via a youtube video or presentation - I can read upwards of 800 words a minute, give me something to quickly skim through. Having said that, look at this in a different way - if I gave you a research paper that was scrawled on a napkin and covered in food stains, would that be OK? It's all about the information, right?
A presentation is about the efficient transfer of information in a particular way, and that's still an important part of many fields of study, and it still needs to be included and graded in subjects. Perhaps with more emphasis in English or Communications classes, but still, in STEM fields, you need to be able to get information across using a number of different techniques and public speaking is still one of them.
From what I understand of the whole certification process, in order to be approved you can either do a whole bunch of component testing and paperwork, or you can fly your rocket a number of times.
SLS is going the component testing/paperwork route, SpaceX is reducing the paperwork and flying their rockets.
What it does highlight is the flexibility in the process. The old-school space crowd can still do it their way with the paperwork and the new guys can just go fly rockets and in the end you can get two different and probably-safe rockets out of it.
XP was generally available in October 2001.
XP SP3 was released in April 2008.
Extended support ended in April 2014.
If you really want to pay a large amount of money to Microsoft, you can continue support for XP today.
It had a pretty good run.
That most certainly was not the right way to nip it in the bud (unless you're Linus Torvalds)
Despite a lot of publicised blow-ups, they're actually pretty rare. If you look at all his interactions on LKML, Linus shows a lot of patience with new people.
He only really blows up if (a) you're someone he knows and you're pushing something or done something he thinks is dumb and you should know better, or (b) you're new and you haven't listened to something sensible he's given as an answer, a couple of times already.
If you pursue something with him in an intelligent debate, he's quite amenable to having his mind changed on things.
It's designed that way so that you can't accidentally flip active and neutral.
So, for example, if I have a desk lamp with a blown lightbulb and I turn it off using the switch in the lamp (which is a simple switch in series in the active line), I can poke and prod the exposed terminals in the lightbulb socket without risk of injury. If you have a plug that can be flipped, you can still turn off the lamp with the switch, but when it's off there will be now live power present in the socket because your plug is in backwards and you're now switching the neutral line.
Android has a pretty crappy method of managing who can get through that filter; if I include anyone from work in my contact list, they'll get through.
With an Android phone, in the "do not disturb" section in settings, you can set it so that the "Favourites" group is the only group that will ring through do-not-disturb. That's the group of people that you've starred in your contacts and they're the ones that show up first in your contacts list, above the normal alphabetical order.
Put your family and important people into that group, leave work as a normal contact.
The payload, about as tall as a single-story apartment
They could have just said, "the 10-foot tall payload", but it seems that someone had a word count to reach.
Precision vs accuracy strikes again!
I wouldn't put too much trust in physical handbrakes. They are designed to prevent a stationary vehicle from moving, and that's it. They're not designed to arrest a powered, moving vehicle, and odds are pretty good that you'll burn it out before you stop your car in those situations.
So really, the actions are the same as they have been for the last 50 years of driving. Avoid trying to turn the engine off as a steering lock might engage. Disengage the transmission if possible, and apply the brakes, once, in a single forceful manner.
Your car's brakes are very powerful and this can be shown by the fact that it takes 10 seconds to accelerate your car from a standstill to highway speeds, but only 4 seconds to bring it back to a halt - and a lot of that is limited by traction with the road.
I believe that......
And I don't. Seeing as we're both not Google, our opinions on this topic are pretty much moot.
Whilst lime plaster is a nice facade, you still need a means of structural support behind it.
So how do you build ten storey buildings, shopping centres, car parks, railway sleepers, bridges, stormwater pipes and a million other little bits of modern life without concrete? Are steel and other structural alternatives more resource-intensive than concrete over the whole lifecycle? That's the kind of questions I want to see answered, not a laser-focused hit piece on concrete.
Overhead wires are prohibitively expensive over long distances. For example if you use rail electrification costs as a benchmark, it works out to be about a million dollars per mile to install, and then there's ongoing maintenance of the catenary cable which does wear out from all that rubbing.
Apart from the poles and cabling above the road, there's also transformers, substations and etc that need to be spread along the route. In a city that's not really a problem, but long distance it starts to get difficult.
There is no "cooling trend". The current as it is today provides anomalously warm temperatures to northwestern Europe. If this current is fully disrupted, the UK and friends will end up having the same general climate as northern Canada. Along with northen Canada, it then will slowly warm in accordance with the generally accepted global rates.
Equally puzzling is how the bank managed to correctly flag that tiny charge as fraudulent.
It's the same as with Google's spam detection: you just see one transaction on your card, but the bank sees hundreds of similar transactions on hundreds of cards.
And it is still accurate.
So, something in another lane crosses into yours,
Let's look at it from the computer's perspective.
You can be driving in your lane and have stationary traffic in the next lane (eg. a turning lane). This is not a problem, they are not in your lane.
At the extremes of your sensing range, you see an object in that lane that is not moving towards you. In this case, at that distance a person pushing a bicycle across the lane is - generally - not really approaching you, not if you look at lidar. This is not a problem.
The person enters your lane wearing low-reflectance (to your LIDAR) clothing, pushing an object made of struts and spokes which also doesn't show up very well. Scans now detect an indistinct object in the distance moving into your lane without a defined shape, the bulk of which is only a couple of feet off the ground. Is this water spray or dust, or some other noise? Scans don't seem to indicate that it is particularly solid.
You approach the object at speed and lidar resolves it to be a solid object moving across your lane 20 feet away. This is now very much a problem, but its too late to do anything about it.
You can easily extrapolate all your emotional outbursts towards people as well. 16 pedestrians were killed by cars the same day that Uber killed someone. So:
EVEN ONE HUMAN DEATH IS TOO MANY OMG, better get rid of all the people driving! Look, people are fallible. You seem to think that there's an alert human being at the wheel for the entire duration of a journey and that is not the case, not by a long shot.
So it seems society as a whole has decided that cars are super convenient and we deal with death and mayhem as it occurs. Actually, we don't. We aim for "as low as reasonably practicable" and it's a moving target as technology and behavioural science advances. And I specifically mention behavioural science here, because if a single person had not made the decision to cross the road outside of designated crossing zones, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Personally, I think more separation and societal reinforcement is the way to go. It might be that you end up with "Automation lanes" in the centre of the road, away from people, buffered by human drivers. People might one day learn to only cross the road at designated crossings, and the road is reinforced as being a dangerous place, just like train tracks. Because it fucking is a dangerous place for pedestrians, no matter how much you squawk about how it should be like a pedestrian mall.
Doesn't matter a damn if it has a reaction time better than a human if someone steps out onto the road 20 feet in front of the car and you've got half a second to judge and react.
There are basic physical numbers at play here - the mass of the vehicle, the ability of the braking system in the car to scrub off speed, the conditions of the tyres, the road surface, etc. In those kinds of short-distance collisions, a computer will be able to reduce the speed of the car by a few mph over a person and that's it.
The only saving grace that a person has is the ability to read body language and judge that someone might step out onto the road. And even then that usually only results in a foot off the accelerator, and not yet placed on the brake.
It's not "buffering" or a "slowdown", it's advertised as "evening speeds".
As if it's a perfectly natural thing to experience congestion during the evening.
I have the sudden urge to play simutrans.
Pretty sure those old clock radios had a timer circuit driven off the mains supply. When the 9V battery kicked in, it was a simple 555 oscillator set by a R-C combo. Which is fine if all you want is for the clock to be reasonably close to the right time in the morning as opposed to blinking 12:00 at 9.30am as you open your sleepy eyes.
Similarly, Wekan is nice - I use it to manage stuff at work, with slots for "Awaiting parts", "In progress", etc
It shouldn't be that much more expensive to use glass.
Did you even look at the link I provided?
It is a 270 degree lens and a 360 degree cap assembly, with the actual lens surface angled inwards about 20 degrees off vertical.
It has a "shelf" at the bottom of the lens where the pollution sensors shine through.
It has a plastic cap at the top, so you'll have to cap your sapphire lens assembly somehow, so you need to bond something to the glass.
It is structurally robust - I can drop the 2kg assembly it on its head from a foot or two without damage.
It is very much an engineering decision, because you can injection-mould optically clear plastic very, very simply and very, very cheaply and in a normal environment I'd expect it to last ages.