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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
Sort of; accidents are the absolute core of the product. They are rare, but they are the focus of the design. By edge cases I mean scenarios like the lights going out in an underground garage; low vision due to colourful smoke or dust, or t
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
I work with programs approaching L3+ from L2, with the requirement that the system works for 99% of roads (not tesla before people start fixating on that). We find that the cases where lidar really helps are in gathering training data, park
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
Useful but not at all required. Camera + radar is sufficient for driving, and camera+ USS is fine for parking. Radar is just cheaper than the number of cameras and compute, it's also not really a strict requirement. Look at how the cu
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
Every study like this needs to adjust for common compounding factors; demographics, income, teaching methods, covid... Otherwise it's junk data, we have have no idea if lower performance is due to more migrants, more computers, less s
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
If I'm publishing something, I want maximum revenue. If I can guarantee repeat customers then I can make the reader the sole focus, but if I still have to maximise based on capricious trends and search indexing, then I'll probably
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
The problem is consistency, or maybe discovery... If I see a link to an article, or get it as a search result, I have no real way to see the quality of what I'm buying. With a subscription the assumption is the quality is consistent ov
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
I don't think it works out in practice; people voted based on identity but move based on economics. And identity is mostly upbringing... You don't get mostly neutral people moving around to the best system, you get opinionated peo
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by servo_sausage 8mo ago
By that logic making an area worse deliberately is a win for affordability.
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
The cost of avoiding public transport in NYC is massive compared to most cities... Living there, without the means to avoid public transport is something I would also consider insane.
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
Price helps a whole lot, I think more than you give it credit for. Driving is also an active thing, this also helps. We also police driving behaviour, in a way that nobody does for public behaviour. And no matter what I don't have to h
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
If you make a change in only one school, you end up with selection effects where interested parents move their children into (or away from) catchment areas based on vibes. Then you can't really measure outcomes, because the strongest p
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
Trains need well behaved people, otherwise they are shit. I don't want to hear tiktok or full volume soap operas blasting at some deaf mouth breather. I don't want to be near loud chewing of smelly leftovers. I don't want to
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
I see a whole lot more that end up at libertarianism as almost the default answer to "what philosophy most emphasis less government". It's a generational thing I think, you see public money being spent on junk, and laws used
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
Libertarianism doesn't mesh well with reality; the government doing less is part of it, but it also requires a way for people to efficiently protect their property. So you get to a point where mass surveillance is justified by the anti
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
Design of these safety features for euro cars generally aims to be invisible unless active. You don't "feel" the car in control.
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
The big wins I've seen with llm tools is in translation more than the actual code. We have been able to move our "low cost" work out of India to eastern Europe, Vietnam and the Philippines; pay per worker more, but we need ha
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
Kind of a false statement; on paper it was higher, but the exemptions were also significantly much bigger and more nakedly biased. So it's not like it was actually a tax on the wealthiest, more a targeted tool to apply state power.
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by servo_sausage 9mo ago
At a very large company at the momen: One of the things I've noticed is as translation has improved, C level preferences and political considerations have made a much bigger impact. So we will reduce headcount in some countries because
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
We have a significant number of problems related to housing; generally I would call it a demand side issue not a supply side however. My reasoning is we have a massive construction sector compared to other nations, with a relatively high pr
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
China is already doing abominable things; how people react to additional surveillance is always related to what the state is actually doing with that information. So a system that supports the abduction of polital rivals (an actual human ri
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
I think it's important to draw the distinction specifically between multiculturalism (the idea of allowing the nation to be just an economic zone containing multiple cultures), and nationalism (the idea that the citizens of a nation sh
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
Sure, I use and contribute to some; and participate in international groups. The key part for me though is the voluntary nature. I can participate as much or as little as I like, and my motivation to participate can be entirely individualis
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
You are trying to define the existence of multiple cultures inside a nation, as a reason why a unified national identity is an issue? You cannot remove the idea of a national identity without some way to prevent a unified group from forming
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
Nationalism as ideology gives a shared identity, that allows ideas like long term public infrastructure, multgenenrational plans, and efforts to advance the Citizens overall to take root. Why should I want affordable housing for citizens, u
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
Democracy requires that people view themselves as part of a singular group; we might all have different interests and priorities, so each citizen might want different policy, but the compromise to the majority should be something that'
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
The average gig worker here is a migrant, hard to see how that is protecting Australians.
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
It's not a long range vessel, but it should have a fairly long service life. Additional weight and complexity on a one off boat would be more expensive than a seperate much more standard solar and battery system on land. And you might
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
Same reason EVs rarely have solar panels; adds weight and complexity, making it more expensive than putting the panels somewhere less wet and salty.
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by servo_sausage 10mo ago
No, you need some kind of DC converter to regulate voltage, but no inherent requirement to go to AC. Lots of small camping and off grid systems do that. Although at the scale of a one off boat i would think it's cheaper to use the more