An excellent point, but you're dramatically undercounting. Really, pretty much everybody falls in this category due to climate change. In this I include both you and myself.
Every item you buy, pound of meat you eat, flight taken, gas tank filled is like we are the cats, and we are quickly choking ourselves.
If you have a good driving record you could just rent a truck twice a year for $30-$50. Higher utilization of a shared vehicle is more efficient both cost and energy wise.
No one mentioned what is probably one of the biggest reasons for bloat from the apps of the big tech firms over the last 10 years: Machine Learning Models using Deep Learning. If machine learning models are included with the app as opposed to the cloud it will add up. Even the most compressed of these models comes in at 10-30 MB. Add one for photos, one for search, one for voice, and one for some other as application specific model. At this point you're already pushing up to ~100MB right there and you haven't even started writing your program or including any images!
This is done for several possible reasons such as quicker response time or so things keep working without an internet connection.
"IBM (IBM, +0.44%) says it has come up with software that can divvy those tasks among 64 servers running up to 256 processors total, and still reap huge benefits in speed."
Everything in this description is stuff you could do with open source code like TensorFlow 6 months to a year ago. More details are needed to call this a "breakthrough". Have they published a paper?
...that led to the holocaust? The caption of their reference image could be used for either denial or recognition. Words matter. I'm not sure Facebook should be making those judgments so perhaps it could be right that they don't make prior decisions on there things.
This is the line for you? Sexual harassment is cool, stealing business plans who cares, following reporters in god mode ain't no thing, greyballing a-ok, but charging wealthy people more... *oh my, no way*!
What many people don't realize or account for is the overhead and risk incurred by tracking and securing large quantities of cash, which can be up to 6% of revenue and is ultimately tacked on to the cost of goods. Cash is very expensive and time consuming once all factors including labor management and counting are added up. Those fees to payment processors can actually save time and money, reduce accounting complexity, and minimizes the opportunities for either theft or people putting their hand in the till.
That said, there are many valuable reasons for cash to exist.
You forgot, for example, social and medical services. Considering an aging population they have excellent growth prospects and would be beneficial for those with the jobs and for those who receive such services.
The total number of meals people eat *at restaurants* is not always the same, by lowering costs more people could start eating out, bringing in more business to the restaurant industry and more jobs to those who work in it. Plus more free time for those who enjoy the meals.
Having worked on fully autonomous wheeled systems the requirements of the train system you describe sounds like a pleasure to work with because it is pretty well constrained. For the position problem you describe I recommend a properly tuned Extended Kalman Filter to automatically "calibrate the wheel diameter over the miles". It can even incorporate the intermittent GPS data to boot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are alternative methods to this that may be worth consideration as well but this would be a good start. For more consult your friendly neighborhood robotics motion planning and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) textbooks, and research papers if you want the latest. I'm sure considering train requirements more proven technology that has been rigorous enough to make it into textbooks would be preferred.
We didn't stop at 2 nuclear bombs, we stopped at 2053. If you haven't seen it yet this video illustrates the history of atomic bomb detonations perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Presumably, they are trying to separate dropping nukes on people from dropping them elsewhere. The key difference here is that for every kiloton of carbon released into the air there is a quantifiable economic benefit, and that same carbon "hits" everyone with its negative effects as it circulates through the atmosphere for many years later.
I will agree that both are discussed as human actions that could harm the entire world. Beyond that, the differences in time scales, deployment scale, costs, and benefits of releasing compounds that cause climate change versus detonating nuclear bombs and are so dramatic that the comment isn't useful at any level beyond a nice sounding catch phrase.
Its odd, how in your gun toting utopia, the USA, which has regular gun massacres, I'm aware of very few - if *any* instances of one of the concealed carry heroes actually stopping a massacres by shooting the nutter.
Probably because they realise that when push comes to shove - they aren't John Wayne (who was a draft dodging coward anyway), but rather pants pissing blowhards hiding as best as they can.
There was just one a month or two ago at Pittsburgh's western psychiatric institute. Someone simply walked into a lobby and opened fire. Two dead and seven injured before an officer shot and killed the shooter. How many would it be if everyone else in the area was unarmed?
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/breaking/two-dead-seven-injured-in-western-psych-shooting-221520/
On the other hand how many would it be if the shooter was unable to obtain a gun?
Food for thought.
100 attempts may be small enough to stop a random computer or hacker, but it may not be low enough to stop your buddy who figured out part of your password while you were typing and wants to play a prank. That is one reason the limit needs to be pretty low.
This sounds like it belongs on thedailywtf.com. So would anyone who writes copypasta look good according to these statistics? Would people who write short, carefully considered, effective, reusable code look bad? This type of application has the effect of forcing people to start optimizing their code to maximize the metrics, rather than working to produce an excellent product.
I worked this summer at NASA Ames on an internship, particularly designing a control/power system for an arm thats to be mounted on K-10. The reason they used Red Hat Linux is because it is the system they use throughout the Ames base on the regular linux desktop machines, and it probably allows them to consolidate some maintenance without dealing with multiple distros. Also, its not designed to be space-ready, its basically a test bed for developing software and effective techniques for operation, that would be later translated to space ready rovers.
In response to other comments: yes, there is an older version called K-9, which is actuall more designed to look space ready although K-10 is far more useful as a test bed. Additionally, in the coming months there is a new version K-11 being developed.
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An excellent point, but you're dramatically undercounting. Really, pretty much everybody falls in this category due to climate change. In this I include both you and myself. Every item you buy, pound of meat you eat, flight taken, gas tank filled is like we are the cats, and we are quickly choking ourselves.
If you have a good driving record you could just rent a truck twice a year for $30-$50. Higher utilization of a shared vehicle is more efficient both cost and energy wise.
No one mentioned what is probably one of the biggest reasons for bloat from the apps of the big tech firms over the last 10 years: Machine Learning Models using Deep Learning. If machine learning models are included with the app as opposed to the cloud it will add up. Even the most compressed of these models comes in at 10-30 MB. Add one for photos, one for search, one for voice, and one for some other as application specific model. At this point you're already pushing up to ~100MB right there and you haven't even started writing your program or including any images! This is done for several possible reasons such as quicker response time or so things keep working without an internet connection.
"IBM (IBM, +0.44%) says it has come up with software that can divvy those tasks among 64 servers running up to 256 processors total, and still reap huge benefits in speed." Everything in this description is stuff you could do with open source code like TensorFlow 6 months to a year ago. More details are needed to call this a "breakthrough". Have they published a paper?
...that led to the holocaust? The caption of their reference image could be used for either denial or recognition. Words matter. I'm not sure Facebook should be making those judgments so perhaps it could be right that they don't make prior decisions on there things.
This is the line for you? Sexual harassment is cool, stealing business plans who cares, following reporters in god mode ain't no thing, greyballing a-ok, but charging wealthy people more... *oh my, no way*!
What many people don't realize or account for is the overhead and risk incurred by tracking and securing large quantities of cash, which can be up to 6% of revenue and is ultimately tacked on to the cost of goods. Cash is very expensive and time consuming once all factors including labor management and counting are added up. Those fees to payment processors can actually save time and money, reduce accounting complexity, and minimizes the opportunities for either theft or people putting their hand in the till. That said, there are many valuable reasons for cash to exist.
Well except that the US thought they invented most of it though often they copied it from the British then over time improved and extended it.
You forgot, for example, social and medical services. Considering an aging population they have excellent growth prospects and would be beneficial for those with the jobs and for those who receive such services.
The total number of meals people eat *at restaurants* is not always the same, by lowering costs more people could start eating out, bringing in more business to the restaurant industry and more jobs to those who work in it. Plus more free time for those who enjoy the meals.
It is a commonly discussed fallacy where people think they represent the market. You may buy twice as many when the overall market declines.
Having worked on fully autonomous wheeled systems the requirements of the train system you describe sounds like a pleasure to work with because it is pretty well constrained. For the position problem you describe I recommend a properly tuned Extended Kalman Filter to automatically "calibrate the wheel diameter over the miles". It can even incorporate the intermittent GPS data to boot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... There are alternative methods to this that may be worth consideration as well but this would be a good start. For more consult your friendly neighborhood robotics motion planning and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) textbooks, and research papers if you want the latest. I'm sure considering train requirements more proven technology that has been rigorous enough to make it into textbooks would be preferred.
We didn't stop at 2 nuclear bombs, we stopped at 2053. If you haven't seen it yet this video illustrates the history of atomic bomb detonations perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Presumably, they are trying to separate dropping nukes on people from dropping them elsewhere. The key difference here is that for every kiloton of carbon released into the air there is a quantifiable economic benefit, and that same carbon "hits" everyone with its negative effects as it circulates through the atmosphere for many years later. I will agree that both are discussed as human actions that could harm the entire world. Beyond that, the differences in time scales, deployment scale, costs, and benefits of releasing compounds that cause climate change versus detonating nuclear bombs and are so dramatic that the comment isn't useful at any level beyond a nice sounding catch phrase.
Perhaps that means we should change how a word will be interpreted in a court of law?
I doubt that is what happened. Nonetheless, if it did and cryptocurrencies continue to succeed, they will change it.
In United States you are allowed to record other people out in the open due to your First Amendment rights.
Its odd, how in your gun toting utopia, the USA, which has regular gun massacres, I'm aware of very few - if *any* instances of one of the concealed carry heroes actually stopping a massacres by shooting the nutter.
Probably because they realise that when push comes to shove - they aren't John Wayne (who was a draft dodging coward anyway), but rather pants pissing blowhards hiding as best as they can.
There was just one a month or two ago at Pittsburgh's western psychiatric institute. Someone simply walked into a lobby and opened fire. Two dead and seven injured before an officer shot and killed the shooter. How many would it be if everyone else in the area was unarmed? http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/breaking/two-dead-seven-injured-in-western-psych-shooting-221520/ On the other hand how many would it be if the shooter was unable to obtain a gun? Food for thought.
100 attempts may be small enough to stop a random computer or hacker, but it may not be low enough to stop your buddy who figured out part of your password while you were typing and wants to play a prank. That is one reason the limit needs to be pretty low.
This sounds like it belongs on thedailywtf.com. So would anyone who writes copypasta look good according to these statistics? Would people who write short, carefully considered, effective, reusable code look bad? This type of application has the effect of forcing people to start optimizing their code to maximize the metrics, rather than working to produce an excellent product.
That link seems to go to a detroit redwings blog... the word robonaut isn't even on the page. http://www.freep.com/article/20101208/BUSINESS0101/101208039/1318/GM-robo-astronaut-visits-in-Warren
If your kid is visiting websites which could give him viruses, then you really need to keep an eye on him.
I didn't turn on the internet filter once when I let my little cousin do some browsing, and he ended up with the flu for a week.
Absolutely. Ars is a bit of an Apple fansite.
Ironic, considering how ars was considered a PC fansite that gave no consideration to Apple only a few years ago.
Windows 7 is backwards compatible!
The K-10 rover runs on 20x 95w li-ion batteries, I think it takes around 8 hours to run out of power
I worked this summer at NASA Ames on an internship, particularly designing a control/power system for an arm thats to be mounted on K-10. The reason they used Red Hat Linux is because it is the system they use throughout the Ames base on the regular linux desktop machines, and it probably allows them to consolidate some maintenance without dealing with multiple distros. Also, its not designed to be space-ready, its basically a test bed for developing software and effective techniques for operation, that would be later translated to space ready rovers. In response to other comments: yes, there is an older version called K-9, which is actuall more designed to look space ready although K-10 is far more useful as a test bed. Additionally, in the coming months there is a new version K-11 being developed.