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by janoc 7y ago
Sure they did. Except those watches don't need several cameras to track your movement without which the AR overlays aren't possible. Those cameras need video processing - that's big, hot and heavy compute capability somewhere
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by janoc 7y ago
Well, good luck for them. The problem is that unless they manage to pull some incredible technological feat, it won't really happen. Physics is a bitch, there are some real reasons why you can't make AR glasses thin and sexy like
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by janoc 7y ago
reviatech.com And we are only a small fish, there are hundreds of companies like ours. And re applications - have you tried to google? No, I really mean it. You complain about me being condescending but you have posted an obviously unfounde
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by janoc 7y ago
Then you aren't looking hard enough. Our company has more projects than we can take on, all for professional VR applications. Procedure training, safety training, risk assessment, ergonomics, medical applications ... There are ton of a
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by janoc 7y ago
Their problem hasn't been timing. Microsoft's Hololens has been on the market even earlier, with worse specs - and was flying off the shelves in the industry, because they have targeted it well and provided reasonable support for
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by janoc 7y ago
Why is everyone talking about the still vaporware Apple goggles when Microsoft is actually selling Hololens (a direct competitor to Magic Leap) for longer than ML is even on the market. Yeah, I do get it, Apple and all, but this is ignori
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by janoc 7y ago
The thing is - they don't really have much IP worth anything. They have filed a ton of patents for ridiculous stuff like that "wiggling" fiber idea (the fiber would need to reach ultrasonic speeds to get anywhere close to usa
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by janoc 7y ago
Sorry, but nobody has ever shown this safety aspect to be anywhere close to true. But everyone is taking it as a gospel. Musk said it, so it has to be true, right? Never mind that there are no independent data to support it available, excep
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by janoc 7y ago
That's not about "not being ready", the GPU really doesn't care whether the numbers it is multiplying are coefficients of a matrix or a bivector. The problem is that all libraries, drivers, etc. use matrices, quaternions
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by janoc 7y ago
Well, no different than any other tech where the community is an echo chamber full of fanboys. Linux used to be like that, especially some of its distros (uhm Gentoo?), cryptocurrency fans are like that, Apple users probably don't need
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by janoc 7y ago
Uh a privacy nightmare (giving out your identity to a random, unaccountable company to be able to play a game? Yay what a splendid idea!) and perfect recipe for killing the game, because now you aren't punishing cheaters but anyone who
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by janoc 7y ago
Plus this is easily gamed - most games where voting has been enabled just had storms of vote requests being generated. Some by butt-hurt snowflakes that can't handle better players but most by explicit trolls trying to cause mayhem, sp
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by janoc 7y ago
Well, the entire problem is that in the current situation the "below 200' AGL" is completely unenforceable. The same with the line of sight restrictions, not flying around airports, etc. That's why they are creating regu
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by janoc 7y ago
They likely targeted Kicad because the file formats are open and documented. Sadly another project designed by a software/AI guy who has little to no clue about the problem they are trying to solve. When all I have is a hammer everythi
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by janoc 7y ago
Mamma mia, this is so wrong and so bad on so many levels. So instead of fixing the borked captive portal (there are other ways of intercepting the connections not requiring messing with encryption) we tell users to disable encryption? Som
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by janoc 7y ago
Sorry but if someone thinks that throwing money at a software company with equally poor business fundamentals would work then they are completely deluded too. Even software companies fail and don't make much profit to speak of. Just lo
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by janoc 7y ago
That article seems to harp on the fact that it is "not-com bubble", basically that the companies are getting punished because they are not "pure tech/software companies". Quite a way to miss the point, IMO. As if de
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by janoc 7y ago
Your assumption how backdoors work is very limited/wrong, I am afraid. You assume that you actually understand the code well enough to identify the backdoor - e.g. as some sort of function that will bypass authentication when some secr
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by janoc 7y ago
And why do you think this isn't intentional? Spending money on people solving company's screwups costs a lot of money. For the company the size of Google or Facebook one client (or hundred) like this are peanuts, drop in the bucke
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by janoc 7y ago
True. And about as helpful as offering a coat to a dead man. It is not a problem that is retroactively fixable by other means than by what they are doing now. They could take Android closed source and put a restrictive license on it demandi
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by janoc 7y ago
That RAM costs both in terms of space and power/heat. Especially high-speed cache RAM. That would make the SoCs huge and expensive for no particularly good reasons. Also large caches need a lot of logic to ensure coherency between mult
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by janoc 7y ago
Sorry but that's just wrong. He is complaining about DSLs making things hard to read. That's not fixed by switching to another language or a package manager. That's purely a software engineering problem - nobody forces you to
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by janoc 7y ago
The problem with RedPitaya is extremely poor software support. And without that you have only an expensive brick. Worse, the board itself isn't open source, AFAIK, so even stuff like finding a schematic to get things done could be a ch
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by janoc 7y ago
Yes but the point is that it was thought this isn't something that was to be required - and had the system been correctly implemented (and handled by the crews), there wouldn't have been a problem. I don't think Boeing was in
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by janoc 7y ago
Yes, I should have been clearer about that as well. There are indeed two issues there - the lift of the nacelles and the thrust pitch-up effect.
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by janoc 7y ago
How do you "insert yourself in the loop" on a FBW plane when the computers conk out? There is manual reversion on an Airbus but it is very minimal - if you ever end up in a situation where that is needed you are having a very very
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by janoc 7y ago
Yes. Mentour mentions it in the video I have posted above. You unload the stabilizer by pitching down for a few seconds so that you can trim it back somewhat. However, that is not something you can do close to the ground (you lose altitude,
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by janoc 7y ago
This video by a 737-NG captain shows the kind of forces you get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOVlxJmow It is not MAX but the systems are identical. That's why it is so essential to recognize and stop the runaway
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by janoc 7y ago
Well, the "Stabilizer wheel - grasp and hold" item of the procedure doesn't necessarily mean the crew will be able to override it. That's the last ditch option on the checklist, when everything else has failed, even turn
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by janoc 7y ago
That's a red herring, the MCAS issue has nothing to do with the type rating. MCAS is not something the crew was even supposed to be aware of, even less trained on, so no effect on type rating at all there. What it may cause problem wit

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