mhermher

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by mhermher 8y ago
I find the "humans can do it with eyes" argument pretty weak. Humans also have brains, which are doing most of the heavy lifting. With something like LIDAR, you're shifting more of that heavy lifting into the sensors, so that
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by mhermher 8y ago
I think the difference is that the hobby is the thing you do , not the act of buying itself. I have a probably un-utilitarian hobby of building/upgrading maintaining my desktop computer. But still, the hobby is the building/upgra
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by mhermher 8y ago
Maybe from Panasonic, the same company Tesla gets theirs from.
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by mhermher 8y ago
Sure, they're driving demand for essentially free movie tickets. I imagine it's not that hard to do, and not necessarily the kind of demand the theaters are interested in. And theaters already offer discounts at off hours to drive
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by mhermher 8y ago
Groove music. Had like a couple months heads up before it was shuttered. There might be others, but that is the one I remember.
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by mhermher 8y ago
So can I run Crysis on my TI calculator? I'm sure whatever platform/language is running on it is Turing Complete. I think you missed the point that the brain is also hardware.
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by mhermher 8y ago
Humans also have human brains, which are much more important to driving than eyes.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Well, Tesla bailed out SolarCity to the detriment of Tesla shareholders and that turned out ok for them (Tesla management) it seems like.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Not sure what the other guy meant, but this article goes over the differences in how Tesla reports gross margin: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4153659-just-say-no-teslas-... To summarize: 1. Tesla’s Calculation Igno
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by mhermher 9y ago
You can make a statement, you just can't leak information from the investigation to the public. They could have talked broadly about autopilot and what you should and shouldn't do without divulging the details of this specific cas
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by mhermher 9y ago
From what I remember, no. I think play services is a separate license which is also free, as long as you sign something called the Open Handset Agreement (or something like that), which basically forces OEMs to follow a bunch of rules about
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by mhermher 9y ago
Aside from the Google issue, I think honestly the biggest thing is that MS was still charging OEMs a licensing fee where Android wasn't. They eventually let go of the fee, but it was too late. I think that killed WP more than anything.
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by mhermher 9y ago
not an expert, but aren't the output nodes thresholded to make a decision? How far you are from the threshold might be interpretable as confidence possibly?
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by mhermher 9y ago
Because they lose money and need to borrow more? But in any case, regardless of why they have it, whether they keep expanding or not: they need to pay back that debt and they won't have the money for it. It's as simple as that. Do
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by mhermher 9y ago
So you haven't read it then. It is indeed to survive, as in in order not to run out of cash. Their biggest liabilities being debt payments coming up.
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by mhermher 9y ago
The required hardware is too expensive to make it commercially feasible.
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by mhermher 9y ago
MS lost a shit ton of money pushing Xbox before it became profitable. Don't think valve has the will or even the resources to do the same honestly.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Well, maybe providing an API with fallback (which let's say incorporates those hacks.) is the path towards incremental adoption. Maybe that is the big news here.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Agreed. Honestly, you could visit some of the old HN threads and at least see a ton of skepticism. If HN commenters can find reasons for suspicion, then how could a journalist not? Isn't that their job? Or are they just PR mouthpieces.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Yes, possibly, and we have lightly considered it in the past. It is a really difficult process though, and I am not sure we really wanted to wait some indefinite amount of time and go through all the difficulty of the process. Maybe that wa
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by mhermher 9y ago
Don't have kids yet, but my partner is pregnant now. I know I have wanted kids for a while, but I think it really kicked in in the last year. I have thought about why we both kind of felt that way. My best guess is that I have reached
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by mhermher 9y ago
Sure I can agree with that. OP's comment seemed pretty out of place though, almost like a google-whataboutism. What about Facebook? Well, yeah, if that is the kind of counterargument, then we can ask "What about...?" a millio
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by mhermher 9y ago
That's not even what this article is about though. What does political discourse have anything to do with this?
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by mhermher 9y ago
The car in front needs to react earlier. He/she should have seen it early enough to make it safe, no?
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by mhermher 9y ago
There doesn't have to be. It could just pass references to memory addresses of the object, or even just a copy of the raw binary data. If both the passer and the receiver understand the class of the object, then there is no serializati
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by mhermher 9y ago
Compiled code generally runs faster than plain-text interpreted code, even with no compiler optimizations. How about those tools? The whole point was that text parsing is an additional overhead that will make things slower. It's trivia
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by mhermher 9y ago
Same. Recently I had to do some web work and it is so daunting. Any tutorial for a given technology asks you to use a bunch of other tooling dependency that you don't understand. It's just mixed up dependencies everywhere even for
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by mhermher 9y ago
The store is an orthogonal issue to UWP, which can exist independently of the store.
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by mhermher 9y ago
If you turn "I only have sex with women" into "I only have sex with white people", suddenly it sounds pretty offensive. Can we judge those two statements equivalently? It's not a good argument at all.
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by mhermher 9y ago
Maybe you misunderstand how these cars work. They are fully electric if you want them to be. You never have to put a drop of gasoline in them if you don't want. Does that make sense? They're not hybrids in a way that the Prius is

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