wtf42

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I don't use Google Maps in Amsterdam [video](youtube.com)
2 points by wtf42 8mo ago|0 comments
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Yandex Releases DivKit, an Open Framework for Server-Driven UI(medium.com)
2 points by wtf42 4y ago|0 comments
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The Most Profitable Traffic Jam(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by wtf42 5y ago|0 comments
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by wtf42 5y ago
> What money do big companies need to raise? For example, to buy some company to improve their business. They can do that in cash or they can issue more shares, e.g. with their Beats acquisition. > On May 28, 2014, Apple officially an
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Why Walgreens Is in Trouble in San Francisco and Is Closing Some Stores(wolfstreet.com)
17 points by wtf42 5y ago|18 comments
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by wtf42 5y ago
Summary from nexthop conference page [0]: In this talk, we will discuss Facebook’s backbone, its evolution, and the motivation behind it. We’ll see what our current SDN backbone architecture is and how it addresses traffic engineering and f
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Unified Backbone of Facebook (nexthop 2021)(youtube.com)
1 points by wtf42 5y ago|1 comments
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by wtf42 5y ago
Accurate enough. Saint Petersburg has been registering daily temperature measurements and publishing them in newspapers since 1778 (in Delisle scale).
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Comparison of the Average Weather in San Francisco, San Jose, London, and Bogotá(weatherspark.com)
2 points by wtf42 5y ago|0 comments
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Red tides and other toxic species expanding across the Arctic (2018)(climate.gov)
2 points by wtf42 5y ago|0 comments
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New York State to Revolutionize Antitrust(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by wtf42 5y ago|0 comments
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by wtf42 5y ago
You just described Fair-trade laws[0] enacted during Great Depression and repealed around ~1971. Matt Stoller also described these laws in his book. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/fair-trade-law
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The Ultimate Guide to Inflation(lynalden.com)
1 points by wtf42 5y ago|0 comments
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by wtf42 5y ago
What you described is called "sick leave" in Europe and you are entitled to sick pay by law.
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Self-Driving Car. Moscow streets after a heavy snowfall (2018) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by wtf42 6y ago|1 comments
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by wtf42 6y ago
The part where they use lidar to handle condensation from car exhausts and heating vents is very interesting. It looks like it's almost impossible to detect pedestrians in such situations using only cameras.
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10M kilometers in challenging winter conditions(medium.com)
1 points by wtf42 6y ago|1 comments
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Pony.ai Team: Launching Autonomous Delivery Services to Support Our Communities(medium.com)
1 points by wtf42 6y ago|0 comments
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Robotic waiters and nurses drive China's unmanned economy(asia.nikkei.com)
1 points by wtf42 6y ago|0 comments
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Yandex Self-Driving Division Starts Testing Autonomous Delivery Robot(medium.com)
2 points by wtf42 7y ago|0 comments
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CppCon 2019: Constexpr Function Parameters(youtube.com)
2 points by wtf42 7y ago|0 comments
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by wtf42 7y ago
> data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models. I think you underestimate image sizes for modern AR/VR applications. For example, good quality light-field can take few gigabytes for one image. Al
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by wtf42 7y ago
This is actually great in so many aspects for companies. GitHub could even change the way companies handle open-source development (in the same way Uber changed taxi market). Instead of hiring (and keeping) full-time developer (and paying i
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How Boeing and FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system(seattletimes.com)
40 points by wtf42 8y ago|0 comments
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Boeing unveils its brand new 777X airplane(edition.cnn.com)
21 points by wtf42 8y ago|3 comments
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by wtf42 8y ago
BBC says it's the same modification of Boeing 737 MAX-8 as in Lion Airlines crash and both crashes happened a few minutes after take-off. So we have two crashes of brand new planes of a new 737 modification over half a year, wow! If th
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by wtf42 8y ago
It's not because of poor Oracle reputation, it's because of technologies. Oracle is losing database-related markets. 15-20 years ago Oracle was №1 in database-related technologies and everyone knew it. For that time they had almos
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by wtf42 8y ago
> Rides are often too short to context switch into doing anything useful. People on public transit usually use their newspaper / book / phone. Sometimes they miss their stop because they are too involved doing that. Have you us
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Yandex's Self-Driving CES Demo Comes Without a Human Backup(wired.com)
2 points by wtf42 8y ago|0 comments
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by wtf42 8y ago
It seems they have some 'safety level' constant they can control during their training process, so about half a year ago when they were preparing for public release they decided to change safety level constant from 0.99 to 0.999 a

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