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It's honestly insane when you lay it out, the Tesla Roadster (1st gen) was produced 2008-2012, it took them until 2017 to even announce a successor, aiming to deliver in 2020. Now the deliver date is 2023 assuming that 2022 isn't
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5y ago
Or maybe Apple is planning literally nothing, it just comes bundled as one of the plethora of functions that the Qualcomm chip can do because it's cheaper to make 1 design to do everything than to tape out more designs.
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5y ago
No, this paper is a review of other studies, and what I'm saying is it finds that there are quite a few problems with the studies they're reviewing - they point out that the smaller studies that show stronger results are actually
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5y ago
I think this headline is bad. When you read the abstract you find that what this is really saying is that there are essentially no studies that are fit for purpose to evaluate AI systems for breast screening in general and those that are th
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5y ago
Let's ignore the larger point (which is that this is just one of a million possible edge cases where autopilot could systematically fail), I could absolutely see Tesla just bodging in a "If you see emergency vehicle lights flashin
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5y ago
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacifi...
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5y ago
>For example, cs.opinion is no-holds barred and often both agressive and personal. Doesn't this just seem like a silly failure to live up to the principle? Be reasonable - except over here where everyone acts like arseholes...
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5y ago
There was a phenomenon that emerged (or maybe it didn't, maybe this speaks more about my age) in the Blair years in the UK, where there would be loud, repeated announcements of massive amounts of cash for various projects. How did they
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5y ago
I don't think anyone is really objecting to the concept that you could share ownership of a holiday place and share the ability to use it. That's not the problem with timeshares. The problem with Timeshares is that there is basica
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5y ago
Not only that but you're paying exorbitant management fees (they're gonna clean that sucker every weekened top to bottom whether you want to live there or not) and potentially putting yourself on the hook for ever increasing fees
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5y ago
It's stories like this that make me think we should just have a regulator who can come along and basically go "Nope, not Tech, just 'regulatory innovation', here's 5 new regulations that explicitly make this illegal
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5y ago
NFTs are worhtless. They don't solve a problem, in fact they create a problem. They're like any other form of verified ownership except that you can't do all the things you want to do, like allowing established 3rd parties to
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5y ago
Well that article is a lot less exciting than the headline would have you believe. John Carmack is going to fix up some of the crappy code in his 2012 Tesla because it's so bad he's decided to fix it himself. >Also, it’s a step
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5y ago
Well, congratulations to those NFT scammers, it finally paid off. They got their Whale. The entire game of pumping up NFTs to try and pass them off as a useful tool that'll see widespread adoption has finally paid out. This is a small
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5y ago
Because unions represent the broad will of a large class of workers, whereas companies like lyft and uber represent the broad will of a handful of investors most of whom don't even pay tax or live in California.
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5y ago
I think you're missing the point - which was to engage on the actual criticism and not just hand wave about "Oh lots of people said stuff". Sure, in any given case you can find someone making a bad argument on the internet, i
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5y ago
"This guy is a liar and no one took him seriously" isn't a great defence, is it.
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5y ago
I think we're judging them against what they claimed they would have delivered several years ago by now aren't we? This is the problem, a little bit of driver assist is great, Tesla are doing a great job. So are Volvo. The differe
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5y ago
I think it's just lazy to dismiss everyone's criticism as one thing. Sure, there are idiots out on the internet who are going to crap all over what anyone does for literally any reason. However, the people are criticising are actu
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5y ago
Every employer wishes magical AI would come along and replace all of their workers. It doesn't mean it's actually a feasible goal. To be honest, if you could build an AI to do what stitch fix does, it probably just devalues what s
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5y ago
That's if you beleive the scientists are there for the product instead of being there for the investors. I don't know about stitch fix but there's a lot of unrealistic "Oh we're going to automate away all our staffi
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5y ago
CSV is ubiqitous. That's a massive advantage. If you argue against using CSV you might make it less ubiquitous. You're never going to make anything as ubiquitous as CSV though and that's amply demonsrated by the fact that whe
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5y ago
I feel like I'm totally out of the loop on this. My understanding is that Apple scans for CSAM (as it legally is required to) when it uploads files to it's cloud storage. What's the problem and who exactly are you expecting
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5y ago
I think you'll find the young folks aren't the ones making these decisions. It's primarily equally old rich folks and their institutional shareholders, which are often large pension funds.
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5y ago
It's gotta be a concern right - Proof of stake stops in December, all the mining operations switch to the other coins and not only do you lose Eth profits but rewards elsewhere fall throguh the floor too.
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5y ago
So they say 12cents per kwh, they say they're mining ETH, according to [1] the hash rate of ETH on a RTX 3090 is max 150MH/s (realistically lower) at 300W. According to [2] that means 1 RTX 3090 is giving you about $350/month
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5y ago
It's certainly true that for a some mathematical problems memorizing the steps to the solution is often the most practical way forward (especially if you're planning on passing an exam), but there is definitely more to it. Most of
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5y ago
Using the blockchain we can create NFTs that guarantee the authenticity of tokens minted by your phoney Russian scam artists.
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5y ago
I think this is actually a great decision by the UK regulator. I'm not convinced it'll be effective, but I think it's the right move. You can't have the largest encumbent in a space start to hoover up its suppliers to th
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5y ago
Isn't USB-C much larger than lightning physically? That would be a good reason for the phone.
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