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by jblow 11y ago
Bad calculation. One auto hacker can shut down all vulnerable cars simultaneously .
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by jblow 11y ago
If it were not demonstrated under real conditions, the car companies would just say "this was a fake test not representative of real-world conditions, isn't that true Mr. Journalist?" and the journalist would have to admit th
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by jblow 11y ago
Given that cars get recalled all the time for "this one part is kind of flimsy and might break 3% of the time", I am not sure why "some guy in China can drive your car off a cliff" is not grounds for an immediate and ful
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by jblow 11y ago
I don't think you understand. Anyone in the world can do this. Right now. Any time.
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by jblow 11y ago
I bet that if someone who knew what they were doing decided to optimize that, you'd get the cost WAY down, possibly almost to zero. (If you are using std::string, that is your problem right there). But the very important difference her
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by jblow 11y ago
With capacitors you can also get the charge into the cells a lot faster, possibly. Also there are issues of energy density, overall weight, etc.
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by jblow 11y ago
I recommend against using SSAO. It makes games look bad (and kind of cheap), because the results do not look much like the way light really behaves. If you want your rendering to have nice lighting, there are all kinds of preprocessed globa
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by jblow 11y ago
They have been hiring way too fast for way too long. The beginning of the end is years ago, at least.
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by jblow 11y ago
I drive an expensive car. I've also put 40x the cost of the car into a company in order to pay people their salaries. The expensive car barely registers as noise on this budget. If I had to lay people off, that would still be true.
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by jblow 11y ago
As recently as four years ago, the rhetoric was "there's no infrastructure for electric cars, building one is totally infeasible, therefore elextric cars will never work." Now the rhetoric is "waaah, the charging station
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by jblow 11y ago
Graph does not appear to be inflation-adjusted.
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by jblow 11y ago
From a newly-created account, no less... sigh.
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by jblow 11y ago
Did you miss the fact that they are not only a car company any more?
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by jblow 11y ago
Yes, it's a tough life, but people actually pick that life because other options are tougher (for example being a rural farmer somewhere). It is true that we should care about conditions in factories such as these and work to improve t
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by jblow 11y ago
If you ever run a company you'll know that job creators exist. I had a bunch of money. I could have kept it locked in a box somewhere. Instead I decided to pay a bunch of people to help make something cool. Yes, that's a transacti
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by jblow 11y ago
And this leads to code that is either too complex, too inefficient, or both. I mean it's fine if you are competing with Python or something ,but if you actually care about perf this is never going to work. But of course anyone wanting
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by jblow 11y ago
All AI articles are equally vacuous. I have not bothered to read them for at least 10 years now.
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by jblow 11y ago
This has actually been in Microsoft's C compiler for along time, too. (The one that is mostly only C89). It is an embarrassing situation really.
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by jblow 11y ago
It is a reasonable point that organization is important but I have to disagree about "most important". The most important skill in software development, by far, is managing your own psychology.
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by jblow 11y ago
Any reply like this, that does not consider the differences between recorded music and photography of human subjects, is neither thoughtful nor genuine. There is some kind of a point here, but it's ruined by the author's lack of p
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by jblow 11y ago
I disagree completely. I am not a physicist but I make video games which has the same kind of constant grounding in applicability. (We are always dealing with running physical systems, it's just that they are simulated.) The week I lea
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by jblow 11y ago
From my perspective, a valuable service that Uber provides me is to get rid of the hassle and annoyance of tipping. Of course, for this to be done well they need to pay the drivers enough that tipping is not necessary.
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by jblow 11y ago
FizzBuzz is not about the modulo operator. You can write it pretty easily without it, in several different ways. If you can't figure out how pretty quickly, you're not a good programmer. Sorry. It is even kind of reasonable to jus
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by jblow 11y ago
In many performance-programming situations you are subject to constraints that prevent use of a general solution or else makes use of a general solution massively inefficient. For example, your data structure is on the GPU and your data is
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by jblow 11y ago
I have no idea what the job was. But my point is this is not a bureaucratic gotcha question. If you can't do this task, you don't really know how to program well. Sorry but that's just how it is. It's like failing Fizz
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by jblow 11y ago
Maybe you're just not doing serious programming. Most people I know implement data structure searches quite often. If you're writing scripts, or JS code for web pages or something like that, then maybe you don't use CS stuff,
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by jblow 11y ago
I am dismayed by the way all the reactions on Twitter are piling on with outrage and/or relating similar experiences. Inverting a binary tree is pretty easy. It is not quite as trivial as FizzBuzz, but it is something any programmer sh
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by jblow 11y ago
I flagged your comment and downvoted you. If a Wall Street worker feels unduly stressed, that person can easily quit and work a nicer job; it is only greed holding them there. A poor person working multiple part-time jobs probably hasn&#x27
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by jblow 11y ago
This is not at all true. For example, in new age communities, "triggered" is used very frequently to mean that someone's personal ego wires have been tripped -- and in fact the reason the word is used is because it's und
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by jblow 11y ago
As someone who runs a small company, I agree with this 100%. You don't want to be that guy.

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