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811.
by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah, but is that a bigger risk than some dumbass in a truck blowing a red light and plowing into my door? Based on where Tesla is at I don't think it is. They're already reasonably below the median risk we all accept for driving
812.
by bdamm 7y ago
We know that, but also we ought to know that pushing through the hard problems by rolling out systems operating world-wide and interacting with real people is the only way forward toward improved safety, reduced mental slavery to the menial
813.
by bdamm 7y ago
The 1925 Ford Trimotor[1] had big beautiful picture frame windows. A silly comparison but if you've ever flown in one you'll know what I mean when I say they had a luxurious view of air travel. [1]: https://en.wikipedia
814.
by bdamm 7y ago
Compressing air isn't a very efficient operation, pumps usually have leak, spring compression, friction, and heat losses.
815.
by bdamm 7y ago
Well, you’re right. But there’s a bigger deal at play here, which is why does a junior lone dev have access to deploy randomly to the business critical services ? Is this what devops has become, carte-blanche access across the board? Someh
816.
by bdamm 7y ago
Mine; the filename is today's date: alias notes='nvim echo ~/notes/notes-$(date +'%Y%m%d').md' The format being markdown gives a good syntax clue to vim.
817.
by bdamm 7y ago
What's the point of a shell host if I can't log in to it?
818.
by bdamm 7y ago
fail2ban is saving my bacon right now.
819.
by bdamm 7y ago
There’s been some pack of the napkin research on this, and the conclusion is that a cyclist stopping at every intersection and then speeding up to 20mph vs a cyclist that doesn’t stop and just cruises at 20mph burn 500W vs 100W. Unfortunate
820.
by bdamm 7y ago
Huh, not sure what I was thinking. Sorry!
821.
by bdamm 7y ago
Deep in large cities (New York, San Francisco, etc) with all the RF reflections can actually be quite challenging for GPS. Challenging == actually terrible and everyone knows it. Off by blocks, and definitely no help at all for vertical loc
822.
by bdamm 7y ago
Waymo resolved this early on by encoding the human resolution into the action. Stopping as required by law, then moving forward slowly until the next action is more clear.
823.
by bdamm 7y ago
Looking at how much has happened over the last two months though it seems that they are on the verge of something big. I'm on pins just waiting for stop light and stop sign detection to be integrated into lane keeping. They're al
824.
by bdamm 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that the visualization is only showing highly confident classifications (not sure about the SUV/Pickup thing). Under the hood the algorithm is locating all kinds of objects that could be but are not displayed on th
825.
by bdamm 7y ago
They don't need to recognize what objects are as much as they need to compute the expected and predicted paths of those objects.
826.
by bdamm 7y ago
The point of the parent's comment was to sarcastically note that agents can plant CP and people like you will simply assume that the accusation is correct. It very well may not be. We simply don't know.
827.
by bdamm 7y ago
Interestingly, now that most of the chaff has abandoned /. it has somewhat returned to its original flavor, albeit a bit tainted. I'll not likely return simply because the conversation is a bit more grown-up here and I prefer the
828.
by bdamm 7y ago
It is a great lesson on why premature optimization can be a bad thing.
829.
by bdamm 7y ago
Yes, I think it is pretty clear that this social structure is the cause and at this point the only solution. Why the only solution? Generally I view the prevention of a strong global government to be a conservative issue and for better or f
830.
by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah, I'd almost give a kidney for a client with mutt's power and Thunderbird's rendering.
831.
by bdamm 7y ago
Israel is not Judaism. I don't like military action either but let's not get confused about what the target of the missiles were.
832.
by bdamm 7y ago
I have Facebook Messenger, Messages (iMessage), WhatsApp, Signal, Hangouts, Slack & Discord all installed on my iPhone. Why hold back?
833.
by bdamm 7y ago
I'm guilty of this at 14; this was the only way I could get away with late night BBSing since the fan was loud and other folks would be disrupted into halting my modem joy. Only when our EE neighbor saw my rig and sternly told me not t
834.
by bdamm 7y ago
Or put another way, we want relationships with our users. There's lots of ways that could play out, including money, but it's not surprising at all that a business wants to know who its customers and potential customers are. Next.
835.
by bdamm 7y ago
Using s_client makes what’s behind TLS human accessible, and for those of us that grew up in the age of telnet I get that desire. But in this age, we cannot be leaving unprotected web sites around, even static ones. It’s a matter of respons
836.
by bdamm 7y ago
“Let’s encrypt” has pretty much eliminated this problem.
837.
by bdamm 7y ago
It's all pretty silly really since almost nobody in the PNW has roots that go deeper than 3 generations.
838.
by bdamm 7y ago
The point that we can revisit forest management practices regardless of climate change still holds though. While yes we may be seeing more fires due to climate change, we also may be able to make it less of a problem in the short term. And
839.
by bdamm 7y ago
That's not guaranteed to be true. Leading the way on fostering new cleantech is a way to get ahead of the same cleantech industries elsewhere. The question is really how good can the timing be rather than if it's going to happen.
840.
by bdamm 7y ago
I agree with all but the last sentence. The Internet is not always correlated with a happier life and the Internet isn’t sure to educate the ignorant.

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