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by cameldrv 3y ago
Regardless of whatever the current fatal accident statistics are in the U.S., being able to build a robot that drives that far in traffic without killing anyone is an incredible technical accomplishment. The progress over the past ten year
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It seems difficult to argue that Meta can copy every ebook in existence to train a model, but then other people cannot copy the resulting model.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I've just got to say I'm so impressed with both Waymo and Cruise. Last year they did 4.5 million miles put together in California with zero fatalities. This is an incredible achievement.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It's not just whether you are infectious but whether you will become infectious. Hardly anyone cares about covid anymore, but a year or two ago, people would often take a test before they, for example, stayed over at a relative's
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by cameldrv 3y ago
What I don't get is why can't the browser just maintain a list of accounts that it knows work with the non-resident key? The username is not secret information, so why does it need to be held in the key?
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I wonder if there’s a way to teach Calculus in a more practical way. I use the principles of Calculus constantly in many aspects of my job, but I don’t think I’ve ever done say, integration by parts professionally. Understanding deeply wh
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This is a great point. This works in my company because we have this, but without it I agree accurate estimation is impossible.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Equally broadly, there's huge pressure to report positive results. If the incentive structure were even tilted a bit to make reporting negative or ambiguous results less career-damaging, we would see much less of this. I don't t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Software does not have to be wildly unpredictable if you do good estimation work up front. Being good at this is very important if you work for clients that have a specific budget or are doing fixed bids for software. The main thing is th
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by cameldrv 3y ago
> Myself the truly distasteful part is the use of neotame (a follow-on to aspartame) on animal feed, to get animals to eat feed that they normally would not; for instance, if the feed is rancid or otherwise in a condition/taste that
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by cameldrv 3y ago
People like electricity, meat, and travel a lot. Just because it’s a strategy that would work doesn’t mean it needs to be done that way.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The 737MAX definitely has a bad record, but this data is somewhat out of date. Very roughly speaking, The MAX has been back in service for 1.5-2.5 years depending on jurisdiction. Boeing has produced 1196 of them. A typical narrowbody fl
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by cameldrv 3y ago
A small airport I used to fly out of switched to an aboveground tank when the old underground one was found to have a leak. The permitting and construction costs for an underground tank were much higher with double walls and I believe sens
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The FAA has a tiered framework of safety regulations based on the relationship of the passengers to the flight that makes sense to me: Tier 1: Scheduled airline service -- Passengers generally can't choose the model of aircraft and mig
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This is fine but I expect to get my share of the tip pool.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The plane in question is a -200LR which has the GE90-115B engines at 115 klbs of thrust. The numbers on that variant are OEW 145t and MTOW of 347t.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Of course it's not designed to. It certainly has enough thrust to be able to do it. The empty weight is 145 metric tons, MTOW is 347. With no cargo and a light fuel load, the T/W ratio would be the same as a normal takeoff. Th
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by cameldrv 3y ago
What a nightmare. I wonder if they're looking at getting it somewhere more hospitable on a single engine.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They do have the right to sell the stock. If too many of them do, the stock goes down, and essentially everyone at the company (especially the executives) take a pay cut. The executives aren't even just thinking about their own pay.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Now that everyone has N95s from COVID, just wear one of those, problem solved.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes image codecs are a user space thing, but a Mac or iOS app probably loads images using the Swift Image or UIImage class and passes it a filename, and then these same objects get passed to the display widgets to render. If the UI toolkit
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Musk did not publicly endorse high resolution radar until recently, and using high resolution radar is not a unique feature of Teslas. Waymo currently has 5 high resolution radars on their cars.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Specifically, in Arizona, water usage is: [1] * 72% Agriculture * 22% Municipal * 6% Industrial [1] https://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They do very in width, but with a proportional font that’s true even with ASCII text. What grapheme clusters tells you is how many times you have to press the arrow key/backspace to get to the beginning of the string.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
IMO drones should yield to manned aircraft. Currently, there are defined rules about rights of way for manned aircraft. However, even a manned aircraft that has the right of way is going to do everything they can to avoid a collision, bec
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I’ve also experienced time showing down in a life or death situation. The funny thing is, it’s seemingly impossible to know whether my subjective time slowed down or I just remembered it that way. It makes sense that your brain would remem
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Windows used to have hinted fonts that respected the pixel grid. OS X used antialiasing. As a result, Windows looked much sharper, but chunkier. For creating media that was going to be rendered to print, the Mac approach was better, beca
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Donations to religious organizations were about 28% of donations in the U.S. If you excluded all of the charitable donations to churches, the U.S. numbers would still be more than twice as much as Germany. Also, while a large part of the r
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by cameldrv 3y ago
In my experience it is the opposite. Americans give about 3x as much per capita to charity as Germans, for example. In continental Europe generally you will also see strong anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments expressed in casual,
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Politically though if those houses are uninsurable, if there is a big fire, the government will bail the homeowners out, so it’s effectively zero cost fire insurance.

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