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  1. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh this is going to be hilarious. Please talk more. Let me go grab my popcorn.

  2. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The first amendment says that the government can't censor you at all.

    The government will allow you to setup a twitter clone and spew as much hate and rhetoric as you want. Stormfront forums do just fine as the government is prohibited from making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, ensuring that there is no prohibition on the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

    That is not what happens when Twitter deletes your account. Why is this such a difficult concept?

  3. Re:Where's the Mainland? on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any program design that isn't model-based?

    Simulink is the only one that I know of that does full code generation from models.

  4. Re:Where's the Mainland? on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    because that's a job for people in low-cost countries, turning their pictures into something executable.

    Um, No. Simulink does the C/C++ for you and does it better than 99% of the human coders out there.

    If you are still outsourcing Simulink -> C to a human you're wasting money and adding bugs.

  5. Re:Where's the Mainland? on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    And most cars on the road. And most heavy equipment. I'm reading these comments about "how it is" is hilarious.

  6. Re:And so it starts... on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Point to history when this hasn't happened before.

    We landed on the moon because we put a bunch of African American women sat in the back room somewhere doing calculations.

    We made it through 90% of humanity needing to farm because we automated the boring unskilled part. (Even parts that were so unskilled we had mules and horses do them).

    We'll be fine like we always have been.

  7. Re:Build your own on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 1

    LEGO Mindstorm has Simulink Support.

    They have cheaper home licenses. If your kid can play Minecraft, they can use Simulink. I could hand away half of my job to highschoolers if they knew Simulink. (Job search Indeed in any part of the country).

    For younger kids I really wish they still sold Capsela. My parents swear it's why I became an engineer.

    On the cheap end of the spectrum: Go to a thrift store. Buy a electronic thing for under $10. Take it apart. Google the chip numbers. (For some things it's a digital scavenger hunt to find a PDF of a part that has been out of production for 10 years). I started off, expensively tearing apart VCRs. You can usually find an old tower PC for $20.

  8. Re:Learning Hindi and Mandarin on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 1

    No one was ever passed over for a job because they knew 'too many languages'.

    I got the opportunity to work in Germany for almost 2 months because I had passable German.

    I flew over there. Made something. Trained everyone there how to use it and haven't had to touch it since. I wish I could train a H1B to do my job so I can do the next thing. I could honestly train a high school student to do 90% of the boring laborious parts of my day and concentrate on the other 10%.

  9. Re:I do embedded software on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    I always tell the new Engineers they don't really know CANape until they've read it in the original German.

    Trying to create a Python CFFI driver is a nightmare the only thing I have to go on is the .h file they include with an install. And one document. The only hit for multiple different function names.

    I have no idea who this sort of stuff is marketed towards but it's definitely not anything I've done in the last decade or so of industry.

  10. Re: They could always work elsewhere. on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've met a lot of people that have trouble wrapping their head around how I feel about unions.

    Unions are a glorious thing that have helped a lot of workers. I wish I had an engineers union like the Germans do that fight for all workers in it.

    The UAW one of the most corrupt, bloated, useless organizations I've ever had to deal with.

  11. Where's the Mainland? on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a cute, quaint little 'island' for developers in a tiny niche of the world but there is a lot missing.

    Where is the automotive and aerospace coders & developers that use model based design?. How about the EE coders that write the control algorithms for the power grid?

    This island should be renamed "Island of coders that code stuff for lay people". I've been programming and coding for the last decade and don't fit anywhere on this Island.

  12. As these technologies are applied to heavier and faster vehicles,

    This looks like a brand new startup that is trying to do everything from scratch, by themselves, this year.

    Look at what the Germans have been running around test tracks for 5+ years.

    Additionally take into account what sensors they have available for what that cheap vehicle costs.

  13. Re:How long before people grief it on Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe a wad of gum over a sensor or a plastic bag

    Put a wad of gum into or a plastic bag over human sensors and see how they do.

  14. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have it no other way.

  15. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I know

    I found the problem.

    if it is a rock swinging on a rope you had better stop

    I propose a game show. It's where millenials and grandma alike can show off their texing and driving skills. Tune in for which drive fails the week's driving courses.

    And to be fair, let teams enter AIs as well. Make it the "top gear human vs ai challenge".

  16. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 2

    They've been driving for around 10 years and can already drive better than humans have learned to in the last 100. I'd say that's damn good.

    Self driving cars and software is cumulative knowledge. You can't just hand off the knowledge of the best driver in the world when they turn 16. By 2020 it'll be no question of who is a better driver. Our 2016 Subaru is already automating "80% of the boring stuff" of driving. It'll keep lanes and come to a full stop when the human behind the wheel fails to. Germans have had the auto stopping technology working and working in Germany since 2012. Every rental car came with it because it saved that much in claims with German drivers.

    No one cares about the home car owner anymore. These are for Uber and Fleets. The F150 is the best selling truck in the US because of fleet sales. When companies can order a F150 that can drive 24/7 and is safer than the people that they can hire the entire industry is going to switch over. People are not profitable, corporations are. Look at who John Deere and Case selling equipment to. It's not the small town farmer. It's corporate farms that are going to buy their newest and most expensive AI tractors.

    Not saying personal car ownership is going away. There are still people that stable horses and own horse farms. The Amish didn't even pick up Electricity. You are going to be more than free to own your own car. I'm sure there are companies that will cater to you as well. The question is how much is it worth to you?

  17. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. This is just further automation of what already exists. At its root it's just a fancy flyball governor. This is just another place we shoehorned in PID controllers. They've been driving your cruise control, stability control and everything else for decades. All the technology in this is at least 50 years old, even the neural nets. It's just at a sufficient enough level to put in a car.

    Steam engines just had to be slightly better than mule trains. The automobile just had to be slightly better than horses. Automated drivers just have to be slightly better than human drivers.

  18. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    If history is to be any indication it doesn't have to have a 'high bar' it just has to be slightly better than the previous version.

  19. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know how confusing sandbags are when they are in the road.

    Agreed, people hit things in the road all the time. They should be removed from driving.

  20. Re: Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never driven with some of the people I know.

    Yes, some people shut down just like that. The thing with AIs is once one of them sees it, is trained how to fix it the next software update fixes everyone.

    With humans you have to continually train them around 16 on how to drive.

  21. Re:Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The people are still dead.

  22. Re:Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    using coal from a nation sending children down with hand shovels, pickaxes and a candle.

    Thank god our country never did that.

  23. Re:Band aid fixes on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody who drives north of the Mason/Dixon line knows that.

    Maybe come May. But they for get it all by November. We had a 40 car pileup yesterday.

  24. Re:Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 2

    How many humans went the wrong way down a one way street in the same amount of time?

  25. Re:Good for everyone. on Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The family of 35,000 people will probably disagree.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...