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by jandrese 1y ago
From what I've seen the burned cars are Waymos, which have their own set of issues and the burning is probably more opportunistic than related to the protest in general. People have been protesting Waymo for years now, obstructing the
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by jandrese 1y ago
> In multiple Democratic-leaning areas, Kamala Harris’s name was reportedly missing from the top of the ballot entirely. Voters said they couldn’t even find her name to select. These same areas had high support for Democrats like Senator
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by jandrese 1y ago
IMHO skeuomorphic design had a few wins, but also plenty of losses. Sometimes the real world interface is just not as intuitive as it should have been. But I'm 100% behind you on "make buttons look like buttons" and "do
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by jandrese 1y ago
So now every engineer has to record how many hours each day were spent doing "software development" vs. "software maintenance"/"overhead"/"etc..."?
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by jandrese 1y ago
That seems too exploitable to pass muster in the court. If you release Beta 0.0.1 of your software after 2 months of development then spend the next 5 years getting it up to version 1.0 that's clearly a development effort not a mainte
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by jandrese 1y ago
On one hand this would be simply amazing, on the other hand it would have been a total security nightmare that makes early Javascript look like a TPM Secure Enclave.
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by jandrese 1y ago
As if the billionaires won't simply go "F that noise, more money for me!!!" Ethical concerns are way down the priority list for most AI focused companies.
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There is already mass adoption of drones, the AI stuff is only lagging behind slightly.
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by jandrese 1y ago
This is only a few days after the massive drone attack in Russia. Only a matter of time until we have drones smart enough to dodge bullets (or at least dodge out of where guns are pointing) while flying at breakneck speeds being controlled
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by jandrese 1y ago
Thanks. The banner on the linked website offered no hints whatsoever. After digging through a couple blog posts: > While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain. They ran out of money.
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by jandrese 1y ago
There are also ambiguous edge cases that can't be answered until someone is audited and the IRS and the Tax attorney hash it out in court. For example I installed Solar panels many years ago and read the exact wording on the Solar Tax
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Is there a post somewhere explaining why they are shutting down? Did they just run out of money? Was it being run by a single guy who is tired of maintaining it?
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It's not portable because nobody else adopted it. Had DOS and Unix also embraced the concept this would be a solved problem. Microsoft does actually have something on NTFS that works similarly, which is how Windows knows when somethi
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by jandrese 1y ago
I still think it is a shame that Unix never adopted the concept of the resource fork from Macs. Having a pair of 4 byte fields that denote file type and associated program is so much better than reading the first few bytes of the data and
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by jandrese 1y ago
If you have a downward facing camera you can track your movement like an optical mouse by just watching the terrain. Error will creep in, but you only need to fly a few kilometers till you find something that looks like a strategic bomber.
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by jandrese 1y ago
> which will get me 90% of the way there This is roughly my experience as well. The AI is great at the first 90% of the work and actively counterproductive for the remaining 90%
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by jandrese 1y ago
> Law enforcement sources said they turned up multiple Polaroid pictures of the victim being tied up and tortured. It is so convenient when criminals collect evidence against themselves.
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by jandrese 1y ago
> But why would we want robots to use an interface (especially a modern controller) heavily optimized for human hands; that seems like the definition of a horseless carriage. Elon's response to this is that if we want these android
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by jandrese 1y ago
The article handwaves over why the chip wasn't a success, which makes my first thought of "how much did each chip cost" all the more relevant. This is such an uplifting story until you think about how the 8086 is just about
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by jandrese 1y ago
Costs are also high for solar installers in the US. It is a relatively dangerous job (on par with roofers) which makes health insurance premiums unaffordable. The permitting process is also quite onerous in a great many localities, involv
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by jandrese 1y ago
I thought the majority of SGI's contribution was braindead management decisions that caused the good engineers to leave and form nVidia.
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To make this easy, there was no overlap between when 640kb was common on PCs and when nVidia existed as a company.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I would say nVidia made their own luck. A lot of their success can be attributed to their management never losing sight of the fact that the software is just as important as the hardware. Both drivers and CUDA are key to nVidia's suc
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by jandrese 1y ago
Looking at the icons now I feel the ones where Microsoft put the icon on top of a row of horizontal lines are hard to read at a glance. The lines make the icon visually busy. Probably not so bad when you are on a 640x480 display and those
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by jandrese 1y ago
That experience when you start playing around with circuit design and are shocked at just how many transistors it takes to make a simple latch. Now think about doing that with bulky and hot vacuum tubes and you quickly realize that you can&
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by jandrese 1y ago
Sadly there is no chance that machine did anything close to rendering those printouts. The Bendix has about 8kb of memory and no random access storage so rendering even a single room using raycasting (instead of the BSPs that Doom uses) is
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by jandrese 1y ago
Especially on LTSC hosts. I had a very Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no! Anyway..." moment reading the headline.
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by jandrese 1y ago
2005 was Pentium 4 era. For comparison: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1075vs5852/Intel-Pentiu... That's about a 168x difference. That was from before Moores law started petering out. For only a 5x sp
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by jandrese 1y ago
Honestly it behaves like the interface is some Electron app that has to load the visual elements from a little internal webserver. That would be a very silly way to build an OS UI though, so I don't know what Microsoft is doing.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's hard to ignore the labor costs to repair things like hand tools. For someone doing it for themselves it's not an issue, but when it is your day job it can be a lot harder to do the repairs without driving the price of the to

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