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by gruturo 2y ago
Thanks for the information! But my understanding was exactly in the direction of the issue you point out - the fundamental limit being the sensor size. A curved sensor would, by allowing a relatively thinner (due to fewer elements) lens ass
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by gruturo 2y ago
Partially off topic: What happened to the "non-flat" CCD / CMOS sensors which were going to enable awesome smartphone cameras, by allowing lens assemblies with far fewer elements and virtually no chromatic aberration? Thanks
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by gruturo 2y ago
This is terrifying. I routinely cross a bridge with a 30ton weight limit, which my car mistakes for a 30km/h speed limit sign. I would cause an average of 2 accidents per month if I suddenly slowed from 70 to 30 and the people behind m
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by gruturo 2y ago
Tracing thousands of developers across the planet and drafting contracts in hundreds of jurisdictions, including some where you don't even have a branch office or any kind of legal presence? Ugh. And what if one's from an embargoe
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by gruturo 2y ago
Enterprises don't go for RHEL because it's free software, yay freedom! They go for it because it gives a very stable, solid foundation. They don't want a fragile base layer prone to breaking every day of the week. This involv
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by gruturo 2y ago
Not really. According to diskprices.com, $99 buys you a 12TB hard disk (new, not used). Admittedly there's only 1 entry for that price, could be a dodgy vendor, but there's plenty of 8TB ones for <$100. Also there's a 16TB
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by gruturo 2y ago
> * The time required to charge an EV is just not acceptable for long-distance driving. It's just not. I can fill my 30 gallon V8 truck with gas in 5 minutes. The F-150 lightning takes TEN HOURS to charge. That's just not going
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by gruturo 2y ago
The substance of the article is true but yes it's sprinkled with debatably subjective opinions and comments and links to an identically-toned article ( https://www.autoevolution.com/news/volkswagen-lost-the-ev-re...
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by gruturo 2y ago
Let me hazard a guess - not specific to Volkswagen: Awful, slow, buggy, unresponsive, unergonomical, poorly-integrated, occasionally dangerous software, including the user interface, produced by a company culture that just won't change
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by gruturo 2y ago
As others said, it's quite wasteful and unnecessarily fragile to introduce Google Assistant (and the Internet itself) in the critical path, although this is just driving an automated test rather than a nuclear reactor, so, sure, ok. Bu
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by gruturo 2y ago
Always bet on text ( http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html and on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271 ) But really. Always, always bet on text. Chances are it'll work in 10000 years i
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by gruturo 2y ago
Thanks Jeff! I had read and promptly forgotten about StereoPi, I'll give it another look now that CM4s are no longer impossible to get. Regarding CM5... who knows (Probably you? :-) ) but given the loss of hardware encoding I'm ke
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by gruturo 2y ago
Did anyone have any luck capturing stereoscopic videos at any meaningful quality? This used to be only possible with the Pi Compute module (unobtainium for a very long time) but the Pi5 finally exposes both camera ports.... while also dropp
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by gruturo 2y ago
> If you say "repeat after me: [some string]" and the LLM responds: "[some string]", it hallucinated the string? Yes it's always hallucinating. The hallucination just often happens to be the answer you were looki
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by gruturo 2y ago
Aspiration + autocorrect?
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by gruturo 2y ago
> Aristotle calculated the size reasonably well Eratosthenes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Eratos... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_Ea...
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by gruturo 2y ago
And that's also why we remember it. It's from a time we used to remember phone numbers (smartphones weren't around, in many countries even normal cell phones weren't widespread yet, and even those had limited memory and
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by gruturo 2y ago
It's a combination of HN users self-selecting for certain traits, and ICQ typically having been used ~20-25 years ago when our brains were a lot more plastic. I'm not sure what I ate yesterday for lunch, but I just tried my old IC
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by gruturo 2y ago
> Also I hate hate HATE The Register's tone I find the snark refreshing compared to all the corporate drones using their carefully worded lawsuit-proof, passive-voice, non-committal, lawyer-vetted style. You must work in a very, ver
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by gruturo 2y ago
Especially as the Cupra Born (listed) is based on the same platform as ID.3 and ID.4 - maybe VW deliberately disabled this feature? Or is it just an omission?
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by gruturo 2y ago
I guess it takes more than a couple of days to organize things with an A list star, esp. if there's a studio recording session involved rather than just using existing material. This strongly suggests they weren't trying to get he
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by gruturo 2y ago
Besides from its official sequels, Frontier, and FFE (Frontier: First Encounters), plus obviously Elite:Dangerous, I encourage everyone to give a try to oolite ( https://oolite.space/ ) which is in many ways the closest to th
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by gruturo 2y ago
Hmm I wasn't on the Internet but was active on BBSes since '87, and shortly after on the worldwide X25 network (tymnet, telenet, datapac etc), does it count?
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by gruturo 2y ago
> Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perplexing how trends in the software industry can completely ignore what customers actually want. I initially read this backwards and thought you were lamenting that peo
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by gruturo 2y ago
Oh the good times in the Un*x lab (Mostly AIX, sigh) in my first year of Uni. Telnet (What? SSH in 1995-6? nah) to friend's workstation DISPLAY=0:0; export DISPLAY xwininfo -root -all *find some candidate window or control* xkill -id X
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by gruturo 2y ago
I have no idea if this is normal for a Rivian, but it sounds incredibly high. My Tesla M3 (LFP for the record, I doubt it matters) was parked in my garage for about 25 days while I was abroad and it lost about 2%. Not 2% per day, 2% overall
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by gruturo 2y ago
Because most of these (PHEV) vehicles have a completely laughable EV range. For many commutes you’d have to plug in every ${DEITY}damn time you get home and likewise in the office, every day. Good luck if you have street parking at home or
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by gruturo 3y ago
Hallucinations don't matter if you check the output before using it, at least as long as it still saves you plenty of time. Can it find 500 issues in a codebase, 470 of which are real? Good. Can it summarize a conversation and find who
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by gruturo 3y ago
Agree on that. The need of an AI rice cooker, an AI printer, an AI Juicero, is definitely questionable. Hopefully, eventually, this stuff will run out of money and we'll be left with what makes sense.
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by gruturo 3y ago
What if it isn't a bubble? I mean yeah it's overhyped, it's a bit _too_ easy to find capital as long as you slap the AI label on something, but the damn thing _works_ already, you can easily verify this by using it. Current L

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