cameldrv

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by cameldrv 7mo ago
That seems unusual to me. It’s common at smaller airports, but for a big one like LaGuardia I’d think tower and ground would be two different controllers, even lateish at night like this was. I know there has been a staffing problem for c
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
This is almost universal in aviation. They always talk about the "accident chain." Essentially everything that can kill you with one mistake is illegal through training and operational requirements and engineering and maintenanc
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
Yes but we now have very detailed topographical maps of the moon, and the GNC systems are way better. I expect they will carefully choose the exact landing spot and hit it within 10m or so. Certainly it lacks the heroism of eyeballing a g
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
I once saw a presentation I think from one of the Argo ai guys with a greatest hits reel of the long tail of driving. One of them was a stake bed truck with a bunch of pigs in the back, and the back gate opened up and the pigs were falling
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
The RTB thing has been around for over a decade at this point. What I’m not sure about is what’s being sold by car companies. I know they sell the data to insurance companies. I’m curious if the government can manage to get it as well co
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
It's not clear to me that the radar is necessarily a separate constellation. SpaceX hasn't said a whole lot, but for example, SpaceX sells "Starshield" comms to the military, which uses the Starlink satellites for commu
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
There were a lot of protests over the Iraq war when Congress was voting on it, but Congress hasn’t had a role this time. Who would the protesters be trying to influence?
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
I think also underappreciated is that Starlink can be used for purposes other than communication. It's already physically capable of acting as a giant radar, and SpaceX has gotten a missile tracking contract, and the E-7 wedgetail rad
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
No but it’s very good. Just upregulating an already existing system is the sort of thing that can evolve very quickly if there’s a big benefit to survival.
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
This seems too good to be true. Respiratory infections kill and debilitate a lot of people. If cranking up the innate immune system all the time reduced illness with no downsides, you'd think evolution would have done it already, but
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Likewise, I used to live in Germany, now in California, I used to get a fairly steady stream of old friends in town to visit, but not anymore, they essentially to a person refuse to come to the U.S.
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Especially living that far north, they're going to find out next winter why we do the whole DST thing. It seems to be something like the Measles vaccine where you just have to have a big outbreak every once in a while so that the cult
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Since corporations are people, presumably you’d arrest Waymo.
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Me too but it died when ads became the currency of the web. If the reason the site exists is to use ads, they’re not going to let you use an user agent that doesn’t display the ads.
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Perhaps, but there would be tens/hundreds of millions of people like me who didn't vote for Trump and don't like him, but would be absolutely enraged beyond perhaps anything in this country's history if another country b
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
The problem is that your friends probably don't post much to facebook, and so they'd show you that, and you'd get to the end and find something else to do, so they have to bulk it up. There is a "friends" feed that
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Digital cameras are much worse than the human eye, especially when it comes to dynamic range, but I don't think that's all that widely known actually. There are also better and worse digital cameras, and the ones on a Waymo are v
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Humans have driven innumerable species to extinction without even really trying, they were just in the way of something else we wanted. I can pretty easily think of a number of ways an AI with a lot of resources at its disposal could wipe
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Even if it doesn't allow you to resolve the ambiguity, knowing that there is an ambiguity is extremely valuable. Say the lidar detects a pedestrian but the camera doesn't. Which one do you believe? Well, you propagate the ambig
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Doing a closure up to 18k feet is common because that's where class A airspace starts, i.e. you need a clearance to go there, you can't just fly around VFR wherever you want. The airspace above 18k might not be officially closed,
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
IMO this is a huge piece of it. People want to have it all, and things are structured where in order to have a decent income, you have to go to college. Then to pay off your loans and make it worthwhile you have to work a number of years.
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
I saw a CATL presentation where they were hyping a hybrid lithium-sodium pack. Their version of sodium ion could charge/discharge faster than LFP, and handle lower temperatures. The hybrid then gives you a nice combination of feature
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
It goes with the cube in terms of power, but with the square in terms of energy/distance, which is usually what you'd care about.
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
I think that for an average person a few years ago, probably there’s nothing meaningful they could have done. For a smart VC with some money and with some knowledge of biology and willing to put in some hours, and with a disease that is “on
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by cameldrv 8mo ago
Even though I really like postfix from an elegance standpoint, and I use an RPN calculator, IMO it's harder to reason about subexpressions with postfix. Being able to decompose an expression into independent parts is what allows us to
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
Statistically 9 crashes is enough to draw reasonable inferences from. If they had the expected human rate of 3 over the period in question, the chance that they would actually get into 9 accidents is about 0.4%. And mind you, that’s with
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
That’s an incentive to reduce risk, but if you empirically show that the AV is even 10x safer, why wouldn’t you chalk that up as a win?
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
In the context of an oligopoly, normal pricing pressures break down, especially in real world conditions where price fixing is rampant.
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
I dunno, if the Apple Watch said he had a vo2max of 30, that probably means he can’t run a mile in less than 12 minutes or so. He’s probably not at all healthy…
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
A lot of the theoretical underpinnings about why capitalism is a good system are based on the law of one price. Especially in the context of an oligopoly, being able to price-discriminate on such an individual level leads to really bad out

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