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3y ago
You can do that with synchronized video cameras and AI inbetweening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsY0sKH3nG4&t=4s
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The challenge here is cost. You need 20-40 perspectives at ~$1000 bucks each including the camera body, lens, trigger system, remote download, and output pipeline. So a hand built cost optimized system will cost $20k - $40k in hardware. Ope
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Generative AI still needs time to mature before it will have a massive impact. It's just hard to from a company around a product that changes on a week-by-week or even day-by-day basis. The only companies winning big in the immediate t
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Nor does GM understand ticketing nuances or optimized route costs. (discount cards, demand-based pricing). This is a big problem in cities without integrated fare systems. In many places, 3rd party planner apps are a must.
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Or even having publicly documented probable risk of forgoing blast-mitigation measures in their launch permit. Debris flew well outside the approved range.
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Aerospace Development 101: RULE 1: DON'T REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST RULE 2: DON'T FAIL IN UNEXPECTED WAYS The slow flight termination system was especially terrifying: What should have been an unzip-boom was more like a slowl
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US train companies are allergic to capital investment. Essentially no electrification, limited double tracking, passing sidings too short for the 2 mile+ freight trains, and essentially no alignment upgrades to increase running speed. Then
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[^1]: http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/ [^2]: https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
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4y ago
They can try, but no guarantees.
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Edited parent. USD Coin is managed by a consortium called Centre, which was founded by Circle and includes members from the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Circle used SVB.
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USDC is managed the Centre consortium, which was founded by Circle and includes Coinbase as a member. Circle held around $3.3 billion in Silicon Valley Bank, leading to a run on USDC which resulted in it trading for as little as $0.95 on so
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4y ago
If any part of Hersh's claims are true, which I doubt, the U.S. Senate and House U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will demand immediate classified hearings with DoD & IC since this was done all wrong. If they don't
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4y ago
I'm more interested in the survival rate of non-hardened low earth satellites -- most of which are not engineered to survive severe geomagnetic storms. Heck, a good solar storm could knock GPS out for a day or two -- what's the e
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Furthermore, communicate why the function is disabled. Nothing is more frustrating than knowing a function existents but not knowing the conditions required to enable it.
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Apple might have made a deal with one or more major h.265 patent holders that discourages them from fully supporting av-1, similar to how Google pays apple nine digits a year to keep Google search default in the Apple ecosystem. Court actio
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THIS IS FALSE ALMOST EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IF DISCOVERED, CAN RESULT IN CRIMINAL AND/OR TAX PENALTIES. In general, it’s not legal to be an unregistered digital nomad unless you have the right to work in the country you are in. If
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BYTE is a Chinese company: it is co-managed by the CCP by definition and the CCP can and has been able to override the company leadership at anytime it sees fit. Investors knew about this risk from day one and knew that any invested capital
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https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/vi... Section 1.7.4.1
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A merchant can't discriminate, but the payment processor, credit card network, or issuer can under several conditions including "an immediate fraud threat." Virtual credit cards being used to violate contracts could very well
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And even then, we are decades away from a commercial design due to the large number of engineering challenges needing to be solved. The next major milestone is getting a plasma gain of > 5, where helium-4 interactions become the dominant
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Nah, the NSA doesn't need to bug your car. All cars after 2016 or so come pre bugged with an OnStar/StarLink/BMW Assist Remote/etc Telemetry System continuously sending data over 3G or LTE. Conveniently, the manufacturer
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4y ago
It would be a good idea to enable this before going though any border controls. Doubly so for countries that require apps to be installed before entry/upon entry/after entry. ArriveCAN (Canada), Mobile Passport Control (USA), WeCh
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If you are a US Citizen or Permanent Resident, Border Patrol cannot prevent you from entering the United States. They can, however, detain you for up to 72 hours and confiscate the locked device if they have "reasonable suspicion"
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4y ago
Not really an issue under most usage scenarios. x86 suffers mostly from the cost and complexity of the decode unit. Once decoded instructions are cached, the performance penalty mostly disappears.
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Modern x86 processors use about 10% of their power budget for instruction decode (translate variable-length x86 machine code into one or more fixed-length microcode instructions and remap registers). The primary modern benefit of this setup
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4y ago
Location: Beverton, OR (USA) Remote: Yes, currently leads multinational remote team Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Robotics, Hardware, IoT device engineering, sensor fusion, systems engineering, PCB engineering, Python, H
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The problem is that the people at the bottom of the pyramid have no idea how crypto works or the risks involved. Seems to me that defining crypto as an Unregulated Security would be a good first step, allowing only "Accredited Investor
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It was supposed to be cash without the burden of nation state oversight. Instead, it turned into a giant casino ecosystem of unregulated securities involving more and more layers of abstraction (exchanges, stable-coins, NFTs, bundled transa
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The answer is probably yes for both questions. These crypto and loan contracts are typically very complex and involve many classes of crypto and physical assets involving many 3rd parties. Therefore it's going to take awhile to untangl
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5y ago
/s dupe, already submitted
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