Right. So we'll have people driving along the highway in their self-driving cars, and then suddenly the car will see something it can't handle and... stop in the middle of the highway, where you'll then have to put down your smartphone and figure out where you are and what's going on and drive through it. All before someone slams into the back of you, or the other dozen 'self-driving' cars now stopped in the road.
No, we're just sick of the hype that 'OMG! Self-driving cars will be here tomorrow! Google cars have driven themselves a billion miles without a crash!'
But, yes, they do need to be at 'an insanely advanced stage' before they're ready for use. Automated cruise control is likely to be available in the mass market within ten years, but it's a huge step from there to a car that can drive from A to B through town without human intervention, and anyone who says 'oh, if the car doesn't know what to do, it will just hand control back to the driver' is a moron.
The cost of this approach has always been performance.
Uh, no.
Sure, in the specific case you cite, that's correct, because grep can easily count the number of lines it outputs. In the general case, however, you'll find a pipe is probably faster, because the two processes can run on different cores.
1. You need to redesign it to not need a fairing to protect it during launch. 2. Provide an abort motor which can launch it at several gs away from the exploding booster. 3. Build wings strong enough that they won't be torn off when you're boosting away from an exploding booster at Max Q, said booster probably no longer pointing 'into the wind'. 4. Design your launch trajectory so you can now turn around and return to a runway somewhere.
Which will be simple, right?
Hint: you might want to look at the excitement the X-20 guys went through trying to make it abortable.
We could learn how to play nice with this very comfortable spaceship that just popped up out of nowhere.
Says some hippy who has no clue about the real world.
Yeah, maybe we could all go and live in little hippy communes after 99% of the population magically vanish, but, in the real world, we have to get off this rock before some wacko starts spreading the new geneticlaly-engineered super-plague they knocked together in their garage. We'll be lucky if we have decades, let alone centuries.
Nope. NASA are building The Precious, sorry, SLS, and no-one else will ever have the money to use it. Heck, NASA probably won't ever have the money to use it, since there are no funded missions that need it.
As I understand it, the Dragon will continue to fly on Falcon 9, and Boeing's Powerpoint Spaceship can theoretically fly on Atlas, Delta or Falcon... if it's ever built.
While not always bug-free, automotive embedded software is a hell of a lot better than desktop or phone shit.
You've never read the third-party analysis of Toyota's ECU software, have you?
The exciting part about driverless cars comes when a bug is found. Suddenly you have millions of cars to upgrade, and would be liable for every death the bug causes until they're upgraded.
Yeah, that document is scary. It implies that the accelerator control task could crash, and the rest of the software wouldn't even notice. If the throttle is open at the time... oops.
You'll be awaken by the car beeping to tell you that it has stoped to avoid something in front, and by the horn of other driver, angry that you've stopped in the middle of nowhere.
Or by the car behind smashing into you, because they weren't looking where they were going, and your car is stopped on the highway.
No. At some point the airlines will start charging the idiots for the cost of diverting the flight (I'd guess it's at least $100,000 by the time you include the costs of moving other passengers to other flights after they're delayed), and then the idiots will stop being idiots.
Comparing *any* object, you want to use equals(), there's no "probably".
Except small Integer objects are usually cached, so == works. Except if someone manually created a new one.
This is one of the most retarded things about Java. Certain types work with == and certain instances of certain types work with ==, and others don't. I've had to fix a ton of Java bugs which happened because someone accidentally used '==' when they meant to use 'equals'. It really is at the bash-your-head-on-the-table level of stupid design.
Not much use for one when you live in your parents' basement because you can't afford a house, and commute across the road to flip coffee in Starbucks.
Sounds like you just aren't smart enough to properly utilize that which you're given. Your talk reeks of privileged trust-fund baby with only half an education.
I believe the term for this is 'projection'.
If I was a 'trust fund baby', I'd be buying a $150,000 Tesla as a toy to impress my friends for a few days.
In other words, they're stagnant because only the fanatics have bought them, and the rest of us don't want them unless they're at least as convenient and cheap as a gasoline car.
I get about 30mpg around town, fill up with gas about once a month if I'm just doing town driving, have to drive at 40 below zero for two or three weeks a year, and make half a dozen five hundred mile highway trips every year. I have precisely zero reason to buy an electric car with current limitations and prices.
But, still, the franchise laws seem stupid and just another example of government pandering to business. I'd love to see Tesla get them kicked out.
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Right. So we'll have people driving along the highway in their self-driving cars, and then suddenly the car will see something it can't handle and... stop in the middle of the highway, where you'll then have to put down your smartphone and figure out where you are and what's going on and drive through it. All before someone slams into the back of you, or the other dozen 'self-driving' cars now stopped in the road.
That'll work.
No, we're just sick of the hype that 'OMG! Self-driving cars will be here tomorrow! Google cars have driven themselves a billion miles without a crash!'
But, yes, they do need to be at 'an insanely advanced stage' before they're ready for use. Automated cruise control is likely to be available in the mass market within ten years, but it's a huge step from there to a car that can drive from A to B through town without human intervention, and anyone who says 'oh, if the car doesn't know what to do, it will just hand control back to the driver' is a moron.
Spoken like someone who's never used one.
One of my girlfriend's friends had a Windows Phone. As soon as the contract was up, she replaced it with Android.
I've never seen another one out in the wild, so I'm guessing that's why no-one else has never used one.
The cost of this approach has always been performance.
Uh, no.
Sure, in the specific case you cite, that's correct, because grep can easily count the number of lines it outputs. In the general case, however, you'll find a pipe is probably faster, because the two processes can run on different cores.
Uh, yeah.
So, now:
1. You need to redesign it to not need a fairing to protect it during launch.
2. Provide an abort motor which can launch it at several gs away from the exploding booster.
3. Build wings strong enough that they won't be torn off when you're boosting away from an exploding booster at Max Q, said booster probably no longer pointing 'into the wind'.
4. Design your launch trajectory so you can now turn around and return to a runway somewhere.
Which will be simple, right?
Hint: you might want to look at the excitement the X-20 guys went through trying to make it abortable.
We could learn how to play nice with this very comfortable spaceship that just popped up out of nowhere.
Says some hippy who has no clue about the real world.
Yeah, maybe we could all go and live in little hippy communes after 99% of the population magically vanish, but, in the real world, we have to get off this rock before some wacko starts spreading the new geneticlaly-engineered super-plague they knocked together in their garage. We'll be lucky if we have decades, let alone centuries.
It's everything the Shuttle should have been (second time's a charm).
Completely unable to perform a launch escape, you mean? The shuttle did that, already.
Nope. NASA are building The Precious, sorry, SLS, and no-one else will ever have the money to use it. Heck, NASA probably won't ever have the money to use it, since there are no funded missions that need it.
As I understand it, the Dragon will continue to fly on Falcon 9, and Boeing's Powerpoint Spaceship can theoretically fly on Atlas, Delta or Falcon... if it's ever built.
And at current flash prices, your 20TB SSD would only cost $10,000.
To be fair, that's less than we were paying for 128MB RAM drives in the 90s.
Uh, no. Helium is one of the most common byproducts of nuclear decay. We just call it 'alpha particles'.
Except it could have been done for less than the cost of adding the bike lanes, if the city actually cared about traffic congestion.
While not always bug-free, automotive embedded software is a hell of a lot better than desktop or phone shit.
You've never read the third-party analysis of Toyota's ECU software, have you?
The exciting part about driverless cars comes when a bug is found. Suddenly you have millions of cars to upgrade, and would be liable for every death the bug causes until they're upgraded.
Yeah, that document is scary. It implies that the accelerator control task could crash, and the rest of the software wouldn't even notice. If the throttle is open at the time... oops.
You'll be awaken by the car beeping to tell you that it has stoped to avoid something in front, and by the horn of other driver, angry that you've stopped in the middle of nowhere.
Or by the car behind smashing into you, because they weren't looking where they were going, and your car is stopped on the highway.
The rigtht way to do capitalism, as opposed to the way it's generally practiced in the US, with the cart in front of the horse.
That's 'cause Musk isn't an MBA.
Some days, I honestly think the MBA must have been a Soviet plot to destroy the West.
No. At some point the airlines will start charging the idiots for the cost of diverting the flight (I'd guess it's at least $100,000 by the time you include the costs of moving other passengers to other flights after they're delayed), and then the idiots will stop being idiots.
Actually seem to think they can stop technology that anyone can build in their garage.
Next they'll be trying to claim that I can't use my flying car as a taxi.
Comparing *any* object, you want to use equals(), there's no "probably".
Except small Integer objects are usually cached, so == works. Except if someone manually created a new one.
This is one of the most retarded things about Java. Certain types work with == and certain instances of certain types work with ==, and others don't. I've had to fix a ton of Java bugs which happened because someone accidentally used '==' when they meant to use 'equals'. It really is at the bash-your-head-on-the-table level of stupid design.
Uh, no. The reason it's scarce is because they've been sending it to Africa.
Millenials like myself do not care for cars.
Not much use for one when you live in your parents' basement because you can't afford a house, and commute across the road to flip coffee in Starbucks.
Sounds like you just aren't smart enough to properly utilize that which you're given. Your talk reeks of privileged trust-fund baby with only half an education.
I believe the term for this is 'projection'.
If I was a 'trust fund baby', I'd be buying a $150,000 Tesla as a toy to impress my friends for a few days.
They do it all the time. Look at Iran's F-15s, which became little more than scrap metal when the US government banned sales of spare parts.
In other words, they're stagnant because only the fanatics have bought them, and the rest of us don't want them unless they're at least as convenient and cheap as a gasoline car.
I get about 30mpg around town, fill up with gas about once a month if I'm just doing town driving, have to drive at 40 below zero for two or three weeks a year, and make half a dozen five hundred mile highway trips every year. I have precisely zero reason to buy an electric car with current limitations and prices.
But, still, the franchise laws seem stupid and just another example of government pandering to business. I'd love to see Tesla get them kicked out.
Did they fix the right-click menus randomly stopping working? Because that's the about only thing I really care about in Firefox as it stands.
Every new release seems to come with a new UI and new bugs.
But you forgot: '... with a rocket'.