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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> Honestly, is cave-in such a big civilian problem that we need to prioritize it as a talking point at all levels? Considering (1) the number of people who are employed in mining occupations, (2) the frequency of serious accidents in min
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Making USB webcams that fit into the bezel of a laptop screen means they are basically universally terrible. In part this is because there really aren't many "native" USB imagers, almost all of the sensors are natively MIPI C
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> The ‘magic’ of the monodepth DNNs is exactly in their ability to learn what scale objects and scenery tends to be in the training data, rather than having to be modeled one object at a time. Yes, and for controlled industrial environme
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> because USB 3.0 is extremely difficult to make work from an EMI perspective running through a laptop’s hinges and lid Is that an issue with USB 3.0 causing interference on the 2.4GHz band and thus interfering with Wifi/BT antennas
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> This is still edge cases. Arguably, once you are working on a sufficiently complex and mature system with good-enough tooling and tests and development practices, these edge cases can come to dominate. I don't spend time debugging
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Other GPUs do have 3D texture support, but Nvidia does specifically use their 3D texture units for SDF interpolation in their simulation work. That's about as close to hardware-for-SDFs and well beyond "whatever hardware was devel
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> You wouldn't use monodepth for self-driving... If you look where a lot of the money has gone into monodepth, self-driving or driver assistance isn't too far away... Actually, I tend to think self-driving is one of the few pla
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Once you get to a complex enough system, sometimes a debugger just isn't enough. E.g. I have a multi-threaded and multi-process robot control system - I can't put breakpoints in the controller to debug why the robot misbehaves, be
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
The monodepth space is full of people insisting that their models can produce metric depth with no explanation other than "NN does magic" for why metric depth is possible from generic mono images. If you provide a single arbitrary
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
> This makes SDF amenable to implementation in GPU hardware, though to date no hardware has been designed specifically to accelerate SDF. This isn't entirely correct. Nvidia GPUs can perform interpolation on 3D textures, which is sp
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
A key operational requirement for any fixed US ICBM is that you can launch during and after an enemy nuclear attack on your silo fields (silos dispersed and hardened, redundant command links, etc) and penetrate defended areas protected by n
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Strategic weapons are tested regularly, except for the warhead. The Trident II D5 has had about 200 tests in the last 35 years. That's about the same number of test missiles expended as are actively deployed at any given time. While
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
The missile silos and control facilities are connected in a sort of semi-mesh topology, so any one cable break is unlikely to cause a communications failure. There are backup launch control interfaces available via airborne platforms (speci
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
These aren't necessarily conflicting assessments. The addition of the GSP to Turing and later GPUs does mean that some behavior can be moved on-device from the drivers. Device initialization and management is an important piece of b
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
That's not quite true, though. While there are no singular undefined instructions, there are sequences of instructions that can result in undesired/undefined behavior. Read through the published errata for modern CPUs, there will
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
I think you're giving the TBD a bad rap. Both were fundamentally obsolete aircraft at the start of the war for their primary role, and both were unsurvivable when used in that role. The Swordfish acquired a somewhat mythic representati
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
These mythical carriers did not exist in 1941 and could not have. An absolutely immense number of escort carriers were built by the US during the war, and contributed heavily to the outcome in the outcome in the Atlantic, but there's n
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
You are confusing the TBD Devastator with the TBF/TBM Avenger . The Avenger was a very capable aircraft, certainly the best carrier-borne torpedo bomber and antisubmarine platform of the war. The Swordfish did OK in the Atlantic s
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Actually, the F-104 aerodynamics were quite well-suited to the low-level strike mission. Small, highly-loaded wings reduce the effects of low-level turbulence. A dedicated low-level strike airframe like the TSR-2 has similarly tiny wings. W
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Every GPU vendor knows that actually supporting a reimplementation of CUDA for their hardware immediately signs them up for two problems: 1. Protracted lawsuits with the (now) second-most-valuable company in the world. 2. Any significant cu
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Automotive has much higher reliability requirements than consumer devices, and since solder failures are probably the leading cause of failures using *FN parts, they want to have effective inspection methods to ensure devices are assembled
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
Definitely. Prohibitions on land mines and cluster weapons are pure political theater. Mines and cluster weapons don't exist to be cruel, they exist because they work , and the collateral damage caused by their persistence after a con
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
There's at least one m.2 GPU based on the Silicon Motion SM750 controller made by Asrock Rack. Similar products exist for mPCIe form factor. Performance is nowhere near a modern iGPU, because an iGPU has access to all of the system mem
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
From yet another field where deterministic simulation is often a goal (robotics), the ideal is a simulation test system that is deterministic for a given initialization (e.g. a random seed) so that for an initialization that causes some err
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
The Apollo LEM, only craft that has ever taken humans to the moon's surface, weighted somewhere around 20,000 kg after landing. Since it only ever operated in space and lunar gravity, it could be built with a much higher mass fraction
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
While Norway is a very long country, the actual areas amenable to settlement and population density are relatively small. Population is overwhelmingly concentrated in a few metro areas in the southern third of the country, and the long nort
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
Airbnb customer service has basically always been terrible in cases like this. Some years back I had a host that simply stopped responding a few days before the reservation, and Airbnb would not allow it to be cancelled and refunded until c
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
The Java Card environment is quite limited, though, due to resource limitations. There have been several more-or-less successful attempts at running higher-level languages on microcontrollers, e.g. .Net Micro Framework and CircuitPython. In
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
This is basically what the Arm SBSA does (UEFI + ACPI) and essentially how all arm64 (and arm32) devices that support Windows work. SBSA doesn't solve the dismal lack of drivers for hardware in consumer devices, though, so just because
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by cpgxiii 3y ago
The classic GSG prohibition on exceptions has more to do with a lack of exception safety in their legacy code base than anything else. Promptly-crash-on-failure can be achieved by adopting a "don't catch exceptions" style, wi

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