skgoa

28 ms·

241.
by skgoa 9y ago
You get that impression because the article focuses on the problems at the bleeding edge of progress that have seen a lot of improvement right at this time. There are lots of problems that had been solved before and there are lot of problem
242.
by skgoa 9y ago
FB definitely adds much more value to my life than HN or reddit.
243.
by skgoa 9y ago
Overall I agree, but NoScript not working anymore directly resulted in me having to kill all Firefox processes when an ad stopped me from closing a tab by constantly opening new alert windows.
244.
by skgoa 9y ago
I mean, if you use GCC does recklessly optimize away (some) security/safety code. This is one of the reasons why we don't use it for code we ship. I work in a safety-conscious industry, where an overeager compiler can literally ki
245.
by skgoa 9y ago
... I feel stupid now.
246.
by skgoa 9y ago
It's definitely a better situation than an attacker being able to steal your fingerprint off a glas or other everyday object. Copying a fingerprint requires very little skill.
247.
by skgoa 9y ago
Because you might not want to expose your internal addresses to the wider internet for a variety of reasons. Security, variability, compatibility with IPv4 clients/subnets etc.
248.
by skgoa 9y ago
During the conference call, Musk himself said that CapEx in Q4 could be as high as in Q3.
249.
by skgoa 9y ago
This is going to have little impact on actual Bitcoin. 98% of futures trading is speculative. I.e. it's almost entirely traders betting against each other. The CME is basically a Casino that used the price changes in commodities and ot
250.
by skgoa 9y ago
Yes, exactly this is the case.
251.
by skgoa 9y ago
The stock price has dropped by $64 since the start of the week BTW. It was at $325 when I checked earlier today and came from a high of $389.
252.
by skgoa 9y ago
The point would be that the stuff we would use to explore/colonize the solar system would be made on the Moon with a relatively low investment in stuff having to be send there to set up the base and mining/production process. Idea
253.
by skgoa 9y ago
A lot of the parts in every car, produced anywhere in the world, are shared with other models from other manufacturers. That's perfectly normal. Like e.g. "german", "french" or "american" cars, many "
254.
by skgoa 9y ago
That's how I have always viewed this. There is no reason why a civilization would blast out EM waves in a 360°*360° sphere at incredibly high energy levels indiscriminately forever and ever. Instead what we have seen right here on Eart
255.
by skgoa 9y ago
Defense spending isn't supposed to be a direct subsidy, but the DoD does sometimes blatantly choose one product instead of better competing products based on industrial concerns. E.g. that tanker buy where Airbus won the competition, b
256.
by skgoa 9y ago
Only final assembly of the planes that are sold to US airlines will be done in Mobile. In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a relatively low number of finished sections that were produced somewhere else. So a l
257.
by skgoa 9y ago
My actual knowledge of the industry says that it's both. The metalurgy, production prcesses etc. are very very intricate and the inspections are also very very intricate.
258.
by skgoa 9y ago
It is true as far as we know. However: * Boeing is guilty of the same, selling hundreds of both the 737 and 787 far below production costs to be able to compete with Airbus' 320 and 350. * Slapping such a massive tarif onto the CSeries
259.
by skgoa 9y ago
There is huge demand, but the higher purchase and operating costs of the 320 family compared to the 737 family and C series make the 319 uncompetitive.
260.
by skgoa 9y ago
Thing is, science and technology marches on. Advances in engine tech, aerodynamics, composite materials, electronics etc. make the CSeries much cheaper to operate than the 737. Airlines across the globe have seen this value advantage. Hence
261.
by skgoa 9y ago
> It seems likely that the A319 is dead and Airbus will rely on the C300 for that segment. That's because the A320 was bigger than the 737 from the start. This means the 319 (and the 318 to a much higher degree) was heavier for its
262.
by skgoa 9y ago
> How many automotive companies saw Tesla become an actual disruptive threat and then spent tens of billions on self driving and electrification? 0. You have fallen for the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy. Tesla was not the
263.
by skgoa 9y ago
> Tesla [...] are truly innovating. LOL
264.
by skgoa 9y ago
It is obvious. This is pure PR for OpenAI. They are not doing anything that hasn't been done to death a decade ago.
265.
by skgoa 9y ago
That's the standard MO with pretty much any big piece of software. Other than security updates, you really don't want to take the risk of becoming the one who finds the inevitable bugs.
266.
by skgoa 9y ago
I almost always write the major steps as comments (beginning with 'TODO:') first and then do the implementation once I'm satisfied that I know what a good solution looks like. Over the years I have had the misfortune to disco
267.
by skgoa 9y ago
Pretty much everyone working on AI/machine learning wishes Musk would just stop talking/tweeting.
268.
by skgoa 9y ago
Not to rain on your cirklejerk, but Daimler was an early investor in Tesla and has assisted on the Tesla S. E.g. the driver-assist stalk that is used to control Autopilot is the exact part from the S class.
269.
by skgoa 9y ago
There was nothing secret in that article. Everyone is doing it. E.g. BMW won an industry innovation award for their simulation work years ago. Yes, right around the time when Google were still just driving around in a parking lot.
270.
by skgoa 9y ago
Well, there are two big factors why this happens: * Most big companies simply won't need that very specialized know-how for longer than the project duration. So it's better to just overpay a bit for the duration of the project and

More ›