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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't see why not being able to see lane lines would be a the problem, at least for the full-fat Waymo solution. My understanding is they are using lidar sensors to correlate their exact position in addition to GPS which can be accur
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a system fall over and be replaced. Systems don't fail and get replaced - companies do. Systems at profitable companies keep on chugging along. Occasionally someone suggests a major rewrite but th
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> The "Meetings" section might be controversial I can't really say I found it all that controversial. If I wanted to be controversial I'd say that most recurring meetings and any meeting with more than 5 people are a
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Surely this could be dealt with by accepting a "membership card" over NFC. I'm sure my dad has a token for the parking barriers at his place of work which can also take direct card payments. As an added bonus, when you have f
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Things like little kiddy rides and vending machines are able to take contactless payments (in the UK). I don't really see how this can be a valid arguement.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I know it's not quite the problem you are talking about (which would be dealt with by making normal contactless / chip and pin readers a requirement) – but I'd love to see a legal requirement that when your charge point can&#
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
For what it's worth, contactless is ubiquitous in the UK – the experience is almost always seamless. The only exception being the odd reader with the antenna in a stupid place (these have gotten less common over time) or when your bank
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The worst I've come across for this was taking the MG4 for a test drive. The whole thing felt like it consisted of programmer art (mismatched, inconsistent, ugly etc). I quickly found the windscreen misting up on a cold evening - and h
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't have a lot of experience in C or C++ but I wonder if this ever works in practice for a non-trivial codebase? I'd be really surprised if, without diligently committing to maintaining compatibility with the two compilers, it
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I'm mostly with you. In fact I've often wished that browsers did more things like that, for example cookie warnings. The cookie warning thing is a ridiculous misunderstanding of how things should work. The server doesn't stor
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
There are probably reasonable ways for the government to do this. Some kind of government run validation website where a user can generate a code to validate their age to each individual website is probably ok (in the UK we have a similar s
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Even if such programs exist and exceptionally talented people get filtered into them, it completely ignores the fact that there is still a huge disparity in outcome for people who are merely modestly above average.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
She's obliquely referencing Jacob Reese Mogg's sister who grew up in a Grade II listed home in Somerset, overlooking the medip hills. Her life experience is only slightly more relevant to the poverty crisis than the Salman of Saud
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In the US, the bad actor here is much more likely to be insurance companies who can tune their secret algorithms to make sure no one with a gene tied to an illness which blooms later in life can get affordable heath care.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> That's true in terms of what they seem like visually (which is maybe what you meant). Not true in the sense that most Gazans are not members of Hamas. Yes, sorry I didn't mean to imply that everyone is Gaza is a member of Ham
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Because it has neither the means not the ability to act as a government. They are restricted in their ability to build structures, import or export goods, ability to import fuel, even taxes are collected by Israel on their behalf (and somet
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
You can't compare what was essentially conventional warfare between states of vastly similar military capabilities and a fight between a gorilla force and a conventional military. I don't think an organisation which is internation
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> That said, the IDF has said it thinks it's killing 2 civilians per 1 Hamas fighter. This is a ratio that, as far as I know, is roughly in line with other conflicts by Western countries. The rate itself is fairly high but it's
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In a democratic election held before around half it's current population was born. Not that the results would likely be much different today.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I find it hard to imagine a future in which Israel allows a Palestinian state to have its own army of any reasonable capability. Almost as much as I find it improbable that such an army wouldn't be mobilised against Israel as soon as i
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Would Israel allow Gaza to have a conventional standing army? With barracks, heavy weapons and maybe airbases? Isn't it a bit silly to complain about their lack of adherence to conventional military practices?
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> If it cut my electricity bill in half it would take 10-20 years to break even. Presumably there is a useful life on your existing heating system. At some point it would need replacing?
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Of course LFP batteries, like in most Model 3s, are Cobalt free. It's not like electric car manufacturers aren't trying to improve things.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
When you say "side lights" you mean the indicators or what an American might call "blinkers"? There does seem to be a lot of innovation for innovations sake at Tesla. Like putting in a yoke style steering wheel but not a
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I feel her pain. My 4 year old girl asked really nicely to play "the flying game" (Microsoft Flight simulator 2020) the other week. I got her out of the bath and we were both looking forward to playing but it the downloaded a majo
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Come on dude. You got a scrolling desktop background. What more do you want in life?
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
My TV downloaded a 1.2GB update the other day. Things are out of control. Games are the worst. If you haven't started one up in a week you need to download an important patch - somehow using 6GB in the process. I'm pretty sure the
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I should probably read the article but it sounds like a great way of announcing the that you are attacking a server.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
There is a lot of in the office abuse too. Time shooting the shit with colleagues, popping out for a coffee or just goofing off in front of a desk. Probably half the comments on this very website were probably written by someone who was bei
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
How did that happen? Technically my job has a 3 day a week recommendation but it's completely ignored by everyone. The management tend to be older than most of our staff and as such have homes and families far out from the city centre.

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