erobbins

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by erobbins 8y ago
That means 60% result from hitting them.. still seems better to swerve.
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by erobbins 8y ago
Demise of Facebook predicted on HN for the 835th time, this might finally be the one.
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by erobbins 8y ago
Advice like this is similar to telling a depressed person to just be happier.
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by erobbins 8y ago
> There's this belief that humans are horrible at driving, etc, etc. Until you run that math and realize, no, they're not. There's just a lot of driving going on. I've been hammering this concept for a while :) Unimpa
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by erobbins 8y ago
I had the same problem.. I kind of flopped and floundered around for a week or 2 before it just suddenly clicked one day and I was off to the races. Pointers are still my favorite part of C, but I struggle to explain them to new programmers
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by erobbins 8y ago
TC, almost certainly. Otherwise I need to quit and get rehired :)
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by erobbins 9y ago
Sure. As long as you can prove that you experienced retaliation due to your whistleblowing and not because you were late to work 2 times this year, and can afford to litigate it.
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by erobbins 9y ago
And unlike facebook, Equifax DOES sell/license your personal data to third parties. I worked somewhere that bought it.
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by erobbins 9y ago
I'm reconsidering it every day, believe me.
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by erobbins 9y ago
It's kind of culty here, but I don't think that's out of the ordinary for silicon valley. There is a lot of internal debate and discussion about things, as well. It's not a hive mind.
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by erobbins 9y ago
You don't think most humans would see someone crossing a flat straight road in an area with mediocre lighting? If that's true we should have thousands more deaths a year like this.
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by erobbins 9y ago
Undistracted, sober humans actually don't make a lot of mistakes. Distracted and impaired humans do, and when a mistake is made we can put them in jail. Who can we put in jail for software errors?
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by erobbins 9y ago
A straight road, in dry conditions, obstructed by an entire person and a bicycle with REFLECTORS on it, and the car doesn't see her? I think whoever wrote this code should be in prison, quite honestly, along with their entire managemen
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by erobbins 9y ago
When an unusual situation causing the autopilot to disengage happens in the air, you often have minutes of time to deal with and correct the issue, almost never less than 5-10 seconds. In a car, you're lucky if you have even a single s
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by erobbins 9y ago
What company? Asking for a friend :)
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by erobbins 9y ago
> Humans are terrible drivers. Compared to what? We have some evidence that computers can do better in tightly controlled scenarios (limited access freeways) but that's always been low hanging fruit. I think humans are pretty good d
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by erobbins 9y ago
Hi, me! I look around at my bigN and I see all these 20something people who just love what they're working on and are passionate about it, and I get it. I was the same way at that age. I just don't care anymore, tbh. I want to wor
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by erobbins 9y ago
How was the pedestrian?
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by erobbins 9y ago
I identify pretty strongly with this. I am good at what I do, but it's not my passion or my life. It's what I do so that I can have a life.
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by erobbins 9y ago
So maybe I'm missing something, but the graph of the "distribution of school tiers on interviewing.io" is nearly identical to the 1% line in the "where 25 year olds went to school" chart. Not sure how this is really
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by erobbins 9y ago
tells me a lot about the ethics of Google's leadership, also.
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by erobbins 9y ago
so I see "not apparent" in many replacement columns... which means the original is not deprecated at all, but still the only show in town.
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by erobbins 9y ago
I do. I have no interest in a self driving car. I hate being a passenger in a human driven car too. Give me control of my own destiny!
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by erobbins 9y ago
Wow, I totally identify. I like to joke that I've done "less with more" than anyone else I know.
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by erobbins 9y ago
I have been through 5 hurricanes in south florida, and always stayed put. Wilma was a strong 2/weak 3, and it was no joke. Afterwards there were trees uprooted everywhere, concrete power poles snapped like toothpicks. This storm's
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by erobbins 9y ago
Yeah that validates his point. If the arguably most highly trained vehicle operators around lose situational awareness and fail to recover after automation fails, what do you think will happen with untrained drivers?
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by erobbins 9y ago
Yeah, that's the problem. It's easier to be better than humans 95% of the time, but really hard for the next 4% and close to impossible for the last 1.
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by erobbins 9y ago
I'm still extremely skeptical about this. The inverse square law is a huge hurdle, power delivery rate has got to be minuscule. This isn't making a better charger, it's making better physics.
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by erobbins 9y ago
I work at FB. A LOT of us hate the open plan.
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by erobbins 10y ago
I work here (FB) and I completely agree. I can never keep the names straight.

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