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by porphyra 2y ago
I think solar is a lot cheaper than nuclear, even if you factor in battery storage.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Krita is amazing but isn't it specialized for digital painting rather than general purpose image manipulation?
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by porphyra 2y ago
I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, al
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by porphyra 2y ago
I don't think either of those would work with a single 2D vector image.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Sounds very hard. For example, Rule 21.3 in MISRA C 2012 basically prohibits dynamic memory allocation (e.g. malloc, calloc, realloc, free). Implementing a browser with such restrictions would be quite misrable.
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by porphyra 2y ago
It takes lots of engineering effort to make things svelte. That makes it incredibly hard for "indie" phone makers to come up with something competitive in this regard. Likewise with price --- Android phones with similar specs can
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by porphyra 2y ago
And none of those shows a Cybercab. What's your point?
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by porphyra 2y ago
Didn't the unfortunate incident where it dragged a pedestrian happen because it tried to "safely pull over" while dragging her?
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by porphyra 2y ago
The demo is open to the eventgoers and lets you choose your destination. It's quite polished and a lot more advanced than "hardcoding to drive in a loop".
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by porphyra 2y ago
The back opens up to reveal a huge trunk that can store lots of luggage. They showed it during the livestream. Pic here https://x.com/sawyermerritt/status/1844583051449467202?s=46
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah and making 50 new cars that drive around is a lot harder than making a one-off prototype.
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by porphyra 2y ago
and a steering wheel i guess
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by porphyra 2y ago
> one detail that is clear is that existing Teslas won't be taxiing anyone, and Tesla will be the operator reaping the benefits Elon said you will be able to buy a Cybercab for under $30,000 and individual owners will be able to &qu
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Waymo car has a speaker that tells you to close the door lol.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Cruise had driverless robotaxis on the streets while they had 2.5 to 5 miles per intervention. [1] I think FSD 12.5 is way beyond that --- I drove over 20 miles yesterday with zero interventions. Also, having ridden Waymo in San Francisco m
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by porphyra 2y ago
Do you not see those driverless Cybercabs driving around without a steering wheel? At least that's a development that we haven't seen in the past 10 years.
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by porphyra 2y ago
They did post about the Robovan. While I agree regarding the tendency of media to use the word "recall" in a misleading fashion, I ctrl-f'ed and couldn't find it in the Verge live blog page that was linked to.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Looks very similar to the Volkswagen XL1, including the butterfly doors, the lack of a rear window, the color, the front and rear lightbars, and the overall shape and two seater layout. But I love it.
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by porphyra 2y ago
It was a medical emergency. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1844567949144883345
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by porphyra 2y ago
I do hope that LLMs learn more from the Asahi Linux team's code and their amazing blog posts, in order to provide better guidance for new systems programmers.
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by porphyra 2y ago
The M3 GPU is a lot different and has a bunch of new features like ray tracing, so the super talented team working on the Asahi Linux graphics stack might have a lot of work ahead of them to support the M3's GPU fully as well. God I wi
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by porphyra 2y ago
I really want to get the new Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura, which has Lunar Lake, is incredibly light at 980 g, and has a beautiful high resolution OLED display. But my 2018 Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6 running Linux is still alive and kicking
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by porphyra 2y ago
It has been running flawlessly on Proton for years. Here's one way to do it without having to tinker with Wine guts or whatever. 1. Install Steam using your distro's package manager, e.g. sudo apt install steam 2. Download battle.
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Zeiss ZX1 was an interesting foray into this direction: * nice big multitouch screen * on-device Lightroom for retouching * it's an android device But it didn't do very well despite its really outstanding image quality. (Maybe
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by porphyra 2y ago
British people like to use "boffin" for smart person, expert, scientist, etc. Indeed a funny-sounding word.
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by porphyra 2y ago
I was excited to read about cool hardware including a gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and disappointed that there were no pictures whatsoever on the blog post.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Red light at night "failure" [1] is a bit suspect: The car was already in the intersection but was blocked by the stopped car in front of it. When the car in front of it started moving, it moved too, which is the legal and cor
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Deepmind chess paper was also criticized for unfair evaluation, as they were using an older version of Stockfish for comparison. Apparently, the gap between AlphaZero and that old version of Stockfish (about 50 elo iirc) was about the s
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by porphyra 2y ago
I'm not talking about micro OLED. I'm talking about microled which is indeed made in small chips with VR and AR as the target market. For example the recently announced Meta Orion is said to use microled [1]. At the recent microle

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