Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 1y ago
If you're drinking milk in the quantities many guys drink beer, it's going to fatten a lot more than just your liver.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Long has been. Best bit of career advice I ever got, back in the 90s: "Get really good at the help system". (At the time, it was MSDN DVDs).
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I got to six figures by assuming that a human taxi driver makes maybe $30-40k at a guess, and an autonomous car can work 24/7. 6 figures is $100k minimum. So yeah, right now they'd have to be at ten cities x 300 cars each to hit 3
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
How do we resolve the observable tension here with the fact that self-driving cars are operating right now, relatively successfully, in ten or so major American cities? Not a billion dollar business yet, maybe, but 300 cars generating five
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Makes sense - but I'm still not clear on why it would need to be humanoid in form-factor or indeed self-contained/autonomous and not a more flexible, mobile, multipurpose robot-arm-like-thing? Like is there any particular reason f
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I can see that for the factory floor, but there's no particular reason for "it" to be "humanoid". It's basically a robot arm with mobility at that point, and if you need more than one, just have more than one r
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
(a few specific towns, which have done various things to smooth operating conditions for Waymo.) It's useful, don't get me wrong, but when Waymo can handle Cairo and Rome, I'll consider it a solved problem.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
And yet if you look at the public health statistics for the things _actually_ crippling children for life, "other people on bikes" are a very long way down the list - at least in most places; I don't know if Paris has a speci
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It's really not, because speeds are so much lower - and injury is, by and large, related to kinetic energy which is the _square_ of speed. OK, cycling at 50km/h in a city is dangerous and stupid (if you're even physically cap
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
And, well, a lot of people _can't_ have their own speed bubble. Most of us, for quite a bit of our lives - when we're under 18 for a start, and over 75ish it isn't really a good idea (yes, I know, no viable alternatives for a
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Until you're the only adult in the car, driving along the motorway, and one of the kids in the back starts crying / gets car sick / needs the toilet when you're 15km from the next services. Granted, train toilets with a
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
-10deg winters are certainly going to put a stop to much walking or biking, regardless of whether that's Celsius or Fahrenheit. Not much of Europe ever gets that low though. Edinburgh occasionally overnight, but it's rarely below
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Architectural preservation. Which may not be all a negative thing, but central Paris is low-rise compared to Manhattan, Berlin or even central London.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Yes, this will be the road racer guys (it is mostly guys) screwing up while descending an Alp or Pyrenee. Split-second safety margins and if you get it wrong on a 60kph descent - or someone else gets it wrong, or you suffer a mechanical fai
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
And social policy. You have too many people wandering around in a psychological state one negative interaction away from an incident that could easily escalate to murder. Such people exist in every country, yes, but fewer in most places.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I'm from the UK, one of your wealthier allies. We can't afford to buy or operate B-2's. Not sure who could.. Taiwan? Saudi? Israel?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I'm curious what you mean about the nature of the population? Age? Ethnic makeup? Urbanisation? The population is older, less white, more in cities, fewer kids, but I'm not sure what any of that has to do with our water consumptio
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
This is efficient if you actually _need_ hundreds or thousands of units. Which was clearly the case in WW2. And _might_ be the case if the confrontation with China is proxy wars. Hundreds or thousands of spare units (of tanks, AA, helicopte
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
They don't object to London subsidising their "rural" lifestyle and paying their pensions though. I despise these people.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
CPR is mostly an emergency intervention to keep someone critically ill (from trauma or other acute medical emergency) alive long enough to get them to the ER. If someone needs CPR at all, the chance of being able to fix the underlying cause
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Are the imprinted patterns then inherited, though?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
There's no particular reason to use RGB for this kind of machine vision - cognition problem either. Infra-red of a few different wavelengths as well as optical light ranges seems like it'd give a superior result?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Autonomous vehicles are an interesting subset. Even though the system rules and I/O are tightly constrained, they're still struggling to match human performance in an open-world scenario, after a gigantic R&D investment with a
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
And the roadways (later, rails) on which it operates. Meanwhile, entire civilizations in South America developed with little to no use of wheels, because the terrain was unsuited to roads.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
IMO what's needed is less per-app sandboxing, and more per-context. Think user accounts but for task classes. If I'm doing development work, I want to be able to chain together a Frankenstein of apps, toolchain, API services and s
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Depends how they're influxing. If they're seizing our homes and land by force and taking over our government, sure. But as far as I can see, they're working for the NHS, running restaurants and shops and so on, and buying&#x2
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Half true. You can switch to the mode of not needing to go halfway around the world (or even just across the country) so often, because efficient information flows allow you to accomplish vastly more while mostly staying relatively local. S
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Has any country succeeded medium-term in increasing its birth rate? AFAIK quite a few have tried, but if people don't want to have babies, it's difficult to change their minds about that - short of allocating a pretty big chunk of
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Won't happen for broadly the same kind of reasons interstellar travel won't happen. Lab-grown organs is doable, but the brain and spinal column just aren't modular in that way. In-place system renovation and targeted replacem
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Yes, this! A few Pakistanis moving in down the road doesn't stop British people practicing British culture. The reason they don't can be summarised as laziness and ignorance. "The pub got turned into a mosque", maybe it

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