Waymo's self-driving cars work by having an extremely detailed 3D map of the area in which they are driving (important details like the height of the curb are included). With such a detailed map, self-driving is easier. You don't have to do object recognition of things like stop-signs, you know where they are. If there is an unknown obstacle detected, the car can stop. It doesn't have to distinguish between pedestrians and trees, because the trees are all mapped out.
If Waymo wants the car to leave that small, well-defined area, then they have two options: map the whole world (at a much, much higher quality than Google maps), or develop new algorithms for self-driving cars.
I'm with you mostly, but I remember how badly the news stations treated "unpatriotic" dissenters. Noam Chomsky's interview on TV (him opposing the invasion of Iraq) was one of the most disrespectful interviews I've ever seen. Also, my level of respect for Chomsky went up dramatically, because he has courage in his convictions: he doesn't follow the crowd.
Given that Google now competes against traditional news sources, expect to see plenty of stories (in the traditional news sources) about how awful Google and Facebook are, and that they should not be in the news business at all really.
I can't speak for Pizzagate people particularly (because I don't know any of them), but this sort of conspiracy theory is common all throughout America. A few of my Facebook friends think that the unusualness of this shooting (and it certainly was unusual) implies that it was a government plot. When Bush finished his second term, I knew plenty of intelligent liberals who were worried that Bush was going to overthrow the government and cancel the election.
My point is, when I've dug into these conspiracy theories, people who share them tend to have some combination of believing they are true, combined with hoping they are true.
Like, I really hope moped Jesus was spotted on I50, but my actual belief is low.
Here's a graph that I think is really telling [statista.com]. The size of the market for vehicles with an average selling price of nearly six figures is vastly smaller than that for vehicles with an average sale price in the ~$35-40k range - and the tax credits on the latter far more meaningful to their buyers. Yet both the Model S and Model X still outsell the Bolt and Leaf in the US.
I don't know how to interpret that. What does it tell you?
That might be true. A few years back, Apple changed the way monitor calibration works, reduced it so all you can do is change the "target white point." The rest somehow happens automatically or something, I don't know.
Unless you press "option-shift" when you open the calibration tool. Then you get the full calibration tool. "Option-shift." Good luck figuring that one out. Hooray for intuitive UI!
Mandiant had sent an undertrained team without the expertise it expected from a marquee security company...
No, that is exactly the level of competence I expect from a 'marquee security company,' specially several years after they've been bought out by a large corp.
You'd expect about the same level of quality that you'd get from a development team at Oracle.
It's coming!
OSes don't really pay the bills anymore. Windows specifically is a small portion of Microsoft's revenue, (less than 10%) that Microsoft has less and less of a reason to keep working on it.
Rallying to get people fired without a coherent replacement plan is a waste of effort. Maybe you'll succeed, but then what? Someone else will take his spot, and nothing will have changed.
The real core of the problem is lack of choice in internet providers. Instead, we should look at places where internet choice has won (places like like Utah or Vermont), figure out what they did right, and do that at a national level.
IF you focus on getting a plan across, sometimes the person you wanted to fire will be the one who ends up implementing it (and trying to take credit).
You need either a monolithic architecture or a performance hit to do certain common user-based operations (what if someone plugs in a USB stick? what if they unplug it while it's being read and something else is waiting?
Well, I definitely wasn't making an argument that there is a shortage of CEOs.
I think there's an analogy to NFL quarterbacks. Because there is competition between companies, you want to have a better CEO than your competition. For example, if K-mart had gotten a better CEO, maybe they would have beaten Walmart (I don't know, but there is definitely that perception).
So every NFL team wants the best quarterback, but there is only one best. There are a lot of really, really good quarterbacks, in fact every quarterback in the NFL is really really good, but most of them are going to lose. CEOs don't typically lose as badly as this Equifax guy, but I think there is something of the same principle there.
If someone with an understanding of the unix way came along, figured out the problems systemd is trying to solve, and implemented them, then you would see a system without all the poor architectural choices of systemd. The reason systemd has trouble is because the developers don't understand the unix way.
The Linux kernel has such a strong commitment to backwards compatibility for user-land that they don't really need LTS. Upgrading the kernel should never break things.
However, these Android manufacturers are modifying the kernel source code, and often in sloppy ways. Because of that, it's more difficult for them to upgrade to a new kernel.
Obviously that's a poor design decision, but poor design decisions mean the code is also probably sloppy, meaning they've dug themselves into an even deeper hole.
The other problem is, if you want a CEO with a proven track record, then you're looking for someone with enough money to retire and never work again (otherwise he/she didn't prove their record). Somehow, you have to convince that person to come back into the workforce and not sit on the beach enjoying life. How do you do that?
Either pay them a lot, hire a psychopath, or both.
You think that money in your bank account is ‘‘in your pocket’’ and will be treated differently by the bank when spent using a credit card than using a debit card
I don't know what kind of lousy laws you have in the EU, but in America, credit card companies can't just take money from your account, even if you owe it. Sorry you live in a lousy country where they can do that.
It loads its computer program into RAM using a completely hardware implementation driven by ground control with the CPU reset line asserted for the whole time. Once the program is loaded, the CPU is allowed to start.
I'm not sure what you mean here, but it sounds really cool. Could you clarify? Plz?:)
Yeah, if you have a commuter vehicle, there are no downsides to making it electric. It's quieter, gas mileage is better, and performance is better. Once the price is right, you won't even need to ban combustion cars, people won't want them.
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Waymo's self-driving cars work by having an extremely detailed 3D map of the area in which they are driving (important details like the height of the curb are included). With such a detailed map, self-driving is easier. You don't have to do object recognition of things like stop-signs, you know where they are. If there is an unknown obstacle detected, the car can stop. It doesn't have to distinguish between pedestrians and trees, because the trees are all mapped out.
If Waymo wants the car to leave that small, well-defined area, then they have two options: map the whole world (at a much, much higher quality than Google maps), or develop new algorithms for self-driving cars.
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I'm with you mostly, but I remember how badly the news stations treated "unpatriotic" dissenters. Noam Chomsky's interview on TV (him opposing the invasion of Iraq) was one of the most disrespectful interviews I've ever seen. Also, my level of respect for Chomsky went up dramatically, because he has courage in his convictions: he doesn't follow the crowd.
Given that Google now competes against traditional news sources, expect to see plenty of stories (in the traditional news sources) about how awful Google and Facebook are, and that they should not be in the news business at all really.
I can't speak for Pizzagate people particularly (because I don't know any of them), but this sort of conspiracy theory is common all throughout America. A few of my Facebook friends think that the unusualness of this shooting (and it certainly was unusual) implies that it was a government plot. When Bush finished his second term, I knew plenty of intelligent liberals who were worried that Bush was going to overthrow the government and cancel the election.
My point is, when I've dug into these conspiracy theories, people who share them tend to have some combination of believing they are true, combined with hoping they are true.
Like, I really hope moped Jesus was spotted on I50, but my actual belief is low.
While Google and Facebook could be rating sources for reliability, and truth.
They're all unreliable. Every single damn one of them.
Here's a graph that I think is really telling [statista.com]. The size of the market for vehicles with an average selling price of nearly six figures is vastly smaller than that for vehicles with an average sale price in the ~$35-40k range - and the tax credits on the latter far more meaningful to their buyers. Yet both the Model S and Model X still outsell the Bolt and Leaf in the US.
I don't know how to interpret that. What does it tell you?
I'll check it out, thanks.
That might be true. A few years back, Apple changed the way monitor calibration works, reduced it so all you can do is change the "target white point." The rest somehow happens automatically or something, I don't know.
Unless you press "option-shift" when you open the calibration tool. Then you get the full calibration tool. "Option-shift." Good luck figuring that one out. Hooray for intuitive UI!
These attacks have been known for a while, and are not hard at all. All you need is a radio that is stronger than the GPS signal. It's been demonstrated multiple times at DEFCON, and there are youtube videos that show you how to do it with a hackrf radio (for example, if you want to move to a particular place while playing Pokemon Go).
Wikipedia suggests that Russia spoofs GPS whenever Putin is in the area.
Give it ten years. What do you predict?
Mandiant had sent an undertrained team without the expertise it expected from a marquee security company...
No, that is exactly the level of competence I expect from a 'marquee security company,' specially several years after they've been bought out by a large corp.
You'd expect about the same level of quality that you'd get from a development team at Oracle.
It's coming!
OSes don't really pay the bills anymore. Windows specifically is a small portion of Microsoft's revenue, (less than 10%) that Microsoft has less and less of a reason to keep working on it.
It would have been better if you'd actually given an example.
Rallying to get people fired without a coherent replacement plan is a waste of effort. Maybe you'll succeed, but then what? Someone else will take his spot, and nothing will have changed.
The real core of the problem is lack of choice in internet providers. Instead, we should look at places where internet choice has won (places like like Utah or Vermont), figure out what they did right, and do that at a national level.
IF you focus on getting a plan across, sometimes the person you wanted to fire will be the one who ends up implementing it (and trying to take credit).
You need either a monolithic architecture or a performance hit to do certain common user-based operations (what if someone plugs in a USB stick? what if they unplug it while it's being read and something else is waiting?
Motherfucker, read what I linked to which addresses your point. You have no clue what the unix way is, and are an ignorant ass for even talking about it without doing a bit research.
Well, I definitely wasn't making an argument that there is a shortage of CEOs.
I think there's an analogy to NFL quarterbacks. Because there is competition between companies, you want to have a better CEO than your competition. For example, if K-mart had gotten a better CEO, maybe they would have beaten Walmart (I don't know, but there is definitely that perception).
So every NFL team wants the best quarterback, but there is only one best. There are a lot of really, really good quarterbacks, in fact every quarterback in the NFL is really really good, but most of them are going to lose. CEOs don't typically lose as badly as this Equifax guy, but I think there is something of the same principle there.
The issue with desktop systems is they need to be responsive in ways which violate The Unix Philosophy or are bogged down by adhering to it.
This is a horrible misunderstanding of the unix way.
If someone with an understanding of the unix way came along, figured out the problems systemd is trying to solve, and implemented them, then you would see a system without all the poor architectural choices of systemd. The reason systemd has trouble is because the developers don't understand the unix way.
Which distro is best for: Developers
Video Editing
Games
etc.
The problem here is that most distros are great for Developers, but there are none that are great for video editing, games, music editing, etc.
The Linux kernel has such a strong commitment to backwards compatibility for user-land that they don't really need LTS. Upgrading the kernel should never break things.
However, these Android manufacturers are modifying the kernel source code, and often in sloppy ways. Because of that, it's more difficult for them to upgrade to a new kernel.
Obviously that's a poor design decision, but poor design decisions mean the code is also probably sloppy, meaning they've dug themselves into an even deeper hole.
The other problem is, if you want a CEO with a proven track record, then you're looking for someone with enough money to retire and never work again (otherwise he/she didn't prove their record). Somehow, you have to convince that person to come back into the workforce and not sit on the beach enjoying life. How do you do that?
Either pay them a lot, hire a psychopath, or both.
There is no way that this craft could be made safe enough for people to trust it. First accident, and no one wants to use it anymore.
Every form of travel ever had the 'first accident.' There are accidents all the time with airplanes. Somehow we still manage to get on them.
You think that money in your bank account is ‘‘in your pocket’’ and will be treated differently by the bank when spent using a credit card than using a debit card
I don't know what kind of lousy laws you have in the EU, but in America, credit card companies can't just take money from your account, even if you owe it. Sorry you live in a lousy country where they can do that.
It loads its computer program into RAM using a completely hardware implementation driven by ground control with the CPU reset line asserted for the whole time. Once the program is loaded, the CPU is allowed to start.
I'm not sure what you mean here, but it sounds really cool. Could you clarify? Plz? :)
Yeah, if you have a commuter vehicle, there are no downsides to making it electric. It's quieter, gas mileage is better, and performance is better. Once the price is right, you won't even need to ban combustion cars, people won't want them.