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by DrScump 8y ago
edge cases... haven't been big problems in practice Waymo doesn't acknowledge any "problem" that doesn't result in a collision. They don't seek input regarding such cases. Heck, most reputable truckin
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by DrScump 8y ago
Or properly merge. Or recognize proper behavior in right-on-red situations. Or prevent their "safety drivers" from stopping in traffic to pick up friends for joyrides.
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by DrScump 8y ago
All are Amazon affiliate links (colforkid-21).
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by DrScump 8y ago
Before the world stratified into random web forums, there was misc.fitness.weights.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Amazon affiliate links (tag kmer0c-20).
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by DrScump 8y ago
There was an attempt in the 60s Late 70s, I think (Carter administration). I remember those. As a kid I wondered, "will they put in kilometer-marker signs like the mile-marker signs on state roads?" (the small white ones
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by DrScump 8y ago
This always happens during low unemployment.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I can imagine a bad OTA update could someday result in some vehicles going rogue.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Not generally, but note that the Mars Climate Orbiter[0] was lost due to an SAE-Metric conversion failure: [0] https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf
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by DrScump 8y ago
To my knowledge, the first generation prevented infection from 2 strains. The second generation added 2 more. Eventually, Gardasil-9 came out, protecting against 9 strains. But these are all precise genetic vaccines that should not affect n
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by DrScump 8y ago
Every region is different. Goodwill of Silicon Valley, for example, has been highly rated by independent agencies like Charity Navigator.
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by DrScump 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood
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by DrScump 8y ago
USA law is uniform since Greenwood .
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by DrScump 8y ago
And SCOTUS disagrees with the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood
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by DrScump 8y ago
This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode[0] where a longtime professor, now considered obsolete by the younger Dean, is forced to retire and becomes suicidally depressed... until he's visited by ghosts of former students. Donald Plea
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Mainframes provide the lowest cost of ownership. First the efficient mainframe power and cooling requirements are much cheaper than equivalent distributed UNIX or Windows platforms." This makes no sense to me at all. For decades,
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Since mainframe computers are almost always running at 100% utilization..." That's essentially impossible, as either CPU or I/O will bottleneck first and be the limiting factor. As an operator, I used to make note of ho
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by DrScump 8y ago
Perhaps I should clarify that I was referring to OS/MVS JCL. MVT was before my time. By "environment variables" I meant the ability to tie a logical device name (at the program level) to a physical device (or instance thereof
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by DrScump 8y ago
JCL wasn't a user interface; only programmers used it. It was essentially shell scripting and environment variables.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Government shouldn't have this power... but it could make contractor compensation not tax-deductible (or, less so) to incentivize direct employment.
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by DrScump 8y ago
and cooks Once upon a time, Google treated such contributors well: https://blog.rongarret.info/2011/11/in-defense-of-google-che...
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by DrScump 8y ago
But Google takes it to an extreme -- roughly half [0] of their personnel are contractors. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-go...
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by DrScump 8y ago
The past 30 years of outsourcing has not reached such an "equilibrium".
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by DrScump 8y ago
Submitting this twice a day seems excessive. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=essen.ai
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by DrScump 8y ago
Blogspam of https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demand...
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by DrScump 8y ago
"How Tom Bombadil defied the One Ring using this one weird trick ."
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by DrScump 8y ago
My father loved that book.
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Journeys require endpoints. Otherwise, you're not Frodo, you're just a homeless guy wandering around with stolen jewelry."
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by DrScump 8y ago
CALTRANS after three decades of Republican lead budget cuts doesn't have the ability to safely oversee... Republicans have been in the minority in both houses and had absolutely no power in the CA legislature appropriations p
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by DrScump 8y ago
just being safer than humans is enough "Enough" for a statistician... but not if you're the one killed in an "acceptable" edge case that most humans handle fine.

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