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by jsolson 9y ago
Sure, sorry, I wasn't aiming to criticize the driver in the overall post -- my comment was solely aimed at the drivers described in the quoted passage from the prior comment :) For most vehicles, on most roads, opportunities to allow o
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> I'm not usually one of the slow drivers and I do get annoyed at the slow drivers when I can't pass them but I will still keep my distance and avoid trolling them with horns, lights or otherwise. The road is for everyone and s
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> I understand there's no way to avoid steep grades in the mountains. Sure, but your original post assumed he took the more dangerous route. The interstate through the tunnel is no picnic either, and I'd argue it's a tossu
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With you on this one -- I've got all of his major works in first editions -- Seveneves is the only one I actively disliked. It's probably the only one I'll never read again. Beyond being intensely depressing (near future enou
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by jsolson 9y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating the cost of doing that to a fleet of vehicles sold with the promise of being self driving capable with the hardware package on board.
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by jsolson 9y ago
The President and Vice President are exempted from conflict of interest laws. The reason for this is interesting -- the Constitution sets out the requirements for being president, so the concern was that the laws would be challenged as unco
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It's entirely possible they've overspec'd the compute in current vehicles. Give yourself 10-20x the compute you think you'll need, because the cost relative to that of the vehicle is still small. Optimize in future gener
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by jsolson 9y ago
OpenCores probably has something. I don't know about RISC-V, specifically. On a semi-related note, I was surprised at how little area the ARM Design Start Cortex-M0 took up out of an Artix 35T. FPGAs have gotten big and simple CPUs are
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by jsolson 9y ago
Two problems: 1) Typically shares are treated as ordinary income when they vest, so you owe tax on that no matter what you do (but the vest price becomes your cost basis). 2) Wash sale rules apply to grant vesting events, so if your grants
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by jsolson 9y ago
I find it interesting to think about virtualization on a spectrum with passthrough at one end and pure emulation at the other. Particularly when applied to I/O peripherals, if the bulk of the I/O can effectively be classed as payl
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by jsolson 9y ago
The current gen Xilinx stuff is pretty awesome. Digilent is even making boards aimed at the "maker" community: http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developmen...
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by jsolson 9y ago
You can get Arduino type boards for a few bucks on Amazon, which can be pretty easily turned into an ICSP programmer for arbitrary other microcontrollers. That helps a lot. Even just using it as an Arduino if you skip the "IDE" is
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by jsolson 9y ago
I think this sounds like what the GP is describing -- they price above market to seek a higher than market offer. That they aren't inundated by offers simply suggests that the demand isn't there to garner that sort of premium. The
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by jsolson 9y ago
I suspect anyone ordering top-bin CPU skus by the pallet-load has an ongoing program for evaluating performance-normalized TCO of at least a few candidate platforms based around a few candidate processors.
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Hand off to the secondary.
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The ordering systems works fantastically given the volume, Prime shipping is huge, and their inventory really is broader. The combination of (a) not needing to log in again to place an order (b) most things I'm interested in ordering
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by jsolson 9y ago
Note that, in addition to Neal's instructions, you may want to load virtio_net with napi_tx=true This makes virtio_net play more nicely with the qdisc layer. GCE requests moderately deep Tx queues 4096 -- without the module param you c
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by jsolson 9y ago
A related warning: your NIC driver can break the qdisc layer (or at least mislead it). Prior to 4.12 the VIRTIO Net driver always orphans skbs when they're transmitted (see start_xmit()). This causes the qdisc layer to believe packet
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by jsolson 9y ago
Yes, the Tesla would do that, at one point in Autopilot's history. Perhaps it still will, but for the past many months I have not had to disengage it in those types of scenarios, to the point that the car has reacted before I have, a
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The system as described is considerably weaker than what my previous generation Model S actually does . On a highway with a barrier and traffic I can basically leave autopilot engaged indefinitely without having to correct it. Perhaps Au
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by jsolson 9y ago
Risk. Area 120 has bounded reward, but the downside risk is measured entirely in opportunity cost. If your goal is a quick sale, the upsides may be comparable as well.
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One of the big things it glosses over is core counts... counting "servers" ignores that AWS has current-gen instance families with as few as 32 VCPUs in their largest instance type versus 128 VCPUs in the x1 family. If you look at
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That low tech limited screen time curriculum requires well trained (aka expensive) staff. Yes, it might have better outcomes, but it can't scale without an absurd investment that, so far, society has been unwilling to make. If you ca
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My observation is that the problems in software engineering tend to look simple until you actually try to build something larger than a toy. I gather that, if you have the relevant background in other engineering disciplines, the same decep
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If you have the degree of money to invest and you believe the expected the net return exceeds your other investments, you very well might make the bet. We are, after all, talking about hedge funds. How much variance are you willing to tol
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Ironically, Java, which does have both, has a clear and unambiguous distinction between the two.
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Having recently done some C development after a few years of exclusively C++, no, no thank you. I'll take my RAII and destructors, thank you very much.
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We're going with VAR-care and care as correct pronunciations of both, right? Asked as a native US English speaker.
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Google's util::Status and util::StatusOr are actually quite flexible. While the generic error space is recommended for most work (and really, rather a lot fits in that space), it does support the notion of other error spaces like POSIX
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I worked there for a couple years, and I still live in Seattle. If possible, I will not work there again. It was not a bad place, but it was also not a good place. It took leaving (which I almost didn't do) to realize that second part.

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