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by fastball 1y ago
I already explained this. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and by focusing on LIDAR (the cost of LIDAR itself, spending valuable onboard compute on processing and fusing LIDAR data, etc) you are by necessity leaving fewer resources f
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by fastball 1y ago
Dealer-Client privilege.
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by fastball 1y ago
This is the nature of the civil court system – it exists for when parties disagree. Why would a defendant who agrees a case has merit go to court at all? Much easier (and generally less expensive) to make the other party whole, assuming the
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by fastball 1y ago
Fair, I mentioned how roads are built, but I really meant "the entirety of human wheeled transport is built around human sensing capability". But roads matter too. For example have you ever driven through a small Italian town wher
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by fastball 1y ago
Roads were not built for LIDAR. Building a system that only requires the same sensing that humans use is a system that will work anywhere (if it works). As soon as you buy into LIDAR (or any other non-human sensing mechanism) you introduce
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by fastball 1y ago
Google is your friend. While there, please try to find the record of Elon saying he wants more subsidies, as presumably you'd also like to see the record of that.
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by fastball 1y ago
I literally rebutted that context. Waymos are not safe autonomous driving today, they have caused various safety issues in the era of "today". I didn't include "today" in my original comment because none of the avai
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by fastball 1y ago
"today"? Are there not humans on the road today? There have been a number of safety issues with Waymos, certainly too many to describe them as the one true safe option, today . Entertaining a No True Scotsmen is a bit of a silly
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by fastball 1y ago
> the only true safe way An unsubstantiated claim given that there are many, many safe human drivers who have neither LIDAR sensors nor hyper-accurate pre-mapping at their disposal.
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by fastball 1y ago
At this point, Tesla's FSD is almost certainly more "baked" than the vast majority of software you've ever used. The amount of engineering and compute time that have gone into it are colossal. That said, something being
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by fastball 1y ago
Elon is on the record many times saying there should be 0 tax credits for vehicles.
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by fastball 1y ago
The community exists. You don't need to give money to people who are clearly bad with it in order to continue building that community.
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by fastball 1y ago
https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radio...
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by fastball 1y ago
Storing nuclear waste is a solved problem.
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by fastball 1y ago
Whose fault is that?
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by fastball 1y ago
Also: "below 0C my pipes might burst" Or: "below 0C my plants might die" Or: "below 0C the pond will start to freeze over"
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by fastball 1y ago
Are you not doing that already? I go line-by-line through the code that I wrote (in my git client) before I stage+commit it.
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by fastball 1y ago
I believe you are wrong about AI-generated images as well.
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by fastball 1y ago
A prompt can be as little as a sentence to write hundreds of lines of code.
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by fastball 1y ago
I think water freezing without salt is much more common than freezing with it. For example knowing the freezing point of water is useful for setting your fridge/freezer temperature.
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by fastball 1y ago
Both scenarios require learning, only one scenario requires constant back-and-forth conversion, which in turn introduces opportunities for mistakes and confusion. Here is another example: I schedule a meeting with my co-worker in London. I
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by fastball 1y ago
Yes that is marginally better in Farenheit, but centering on the freezing point of water seems more useful overall. Then you'd also end up with the coldest spots on earth never being less than -200C and the hottest spots never being mo
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by fastball 1y ago
Because timezones require conversion/coordination by either you or the other party every time. Conversely learning when your Australian co-worker or uncle gets off work (in UTC) must only be done once. e.g. You learn that Uncle Steve i
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by fastball 1y ago
Imo the best system would've been Celsius with double the precision, e.g. water freezing still at 0ºC but water boiling at 200ºC. That way you have the "human livable" range kinda between 0-100, which feels very intuitive. An
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by fastball 1y ago
Seems to me that standardizing the entire world on a single time is confronting and managing the complexity of the world. The existing system is more inertial and political than practical. "Noon is when the sun is at its zenith in yo
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by fastball 1y ago
Browserless is not free for commercial use.
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by fastball 1y ago
Honestly I think this is a feature not a bug. This is going to sound elitist, but if you can grok Python but can't grok Rust then you probably shouldn't be writing ecosystem tools for Python anyway.
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by fastball 1y ago
Parsing is not IO and clearly an area you can get much better performance in-program.
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by fastball 1y ago
The claim is that it will reduce corrosion by 3x. If corrosion of rebar is the primary bottleneck to bridge longevity, a 3x longer life seems like a reasonable claim. Of course in practice if this rebar is used in a bridge you might start t
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by fastball 1y ago
Supernotes too!

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