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by ddol 7mo ago
Why does it matter if fleet response sit in Manilla, Miami or Milan? Surely what matters is the architecture: > The Waymo Driver evaluates the input from fleet response and independently remains in control of driving. Waymo tell us that
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by ddol 7mo ago
The remote assistance (fleet response) team cannot directly control the car: > The Waymo Driver evaluates the input from fleet response and independently remains in control of driving. https://waymo.com/blog/2024&#x2
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by ddol 1y ago
Have you considered using a power on delay relay? There are many for refrigerators that feature a ~5 minute delay and are quite affordable ($6[0]) [0] https://www.scandifurn.com/product-p-328426.html
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by ddol 2y ago
Similarly, I learnt PTC Pro/ENGINEER (now Creo) in university and have tried to learn SolidWorks, Tinkercad, Onshape and FreeCAD but never found them as usable or powerful as ProE. The constraint system, 2D sketch tool and assemblies w
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by ddol 2y ago
Hive is more complex and less constrained than Onitama (bigger decision space). We tried Hive when my eldest was 6 and it was beyond them. We tried it again a few years later at 8 and it clicked, has been part of our regular rotation of gam
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by ddol 2y ago
I disagree. You can teach a 4-year-old the moves each chess piece can make, but expecting them to absorb strategy, or to visualise 2+ moves into the future is an unfair burden. The following are much better perfect information games for ki
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by ddol 2y ago
That box on your TV would have been a Nielsen box which sat on your TV and was connected to your landline. It didn’t collect anything automatically: every time you turned the TV on you were contractually obligated to press a button every 20
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by ddol 3y ago
eventually they’ll go to (pre-)school/daycare[0] and you’ll get some time back. it gets better. [0] at least, they really should. kids need to socialise with others their age
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by ddol 3y ago
KPH receiving station is 45 miles north of San Francisco, without bridge traffic you can make it in a little over an hour. My father-in-law was an engineer in the navy and loved seeing the morse & radio equipment. But the trip was fun f
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by ddol 3y ago
Upper Story’s Turing Tumble and Spintronics are solid favourites in our house too. Weaving a graphic novel into the instruction / tutorial book is a brilliant tactic which really helped my eldest grasp the concepts covered. Spintronics
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by ddol 3y ago
see also: * Frank Sinatra - _In the Wee Small Hours_ (1955) * David Bowie - _The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars_ (1972) * The Who - _Quadrophenia_ (1973) * Pink Floyd - _The Dark Side of the Moon_ (1973) * The St
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by ddol 3y ago
Another great small budget movie is Primer (2004). It has one of the biggest Budget to Box office multiples I know of: ~120x ($7k -> $841k)
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by ddol 3y ago
Set your alarm for February 22nd so, 47 days to go.
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by ddol 3y ago
iMessage supports attachments up to 100Mb and groups of 32 participants. It’s certainly more resource intensive than 140 byte SMS.
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by ddol 3y ago
> In the AI space it's unclear what/who they could buy They bought the most promising AI startup in the world for $650m and failed to integrate it or make use of it until ChatGPT was released. That was DeepMind, nine years ago.
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by ddol 3y ago
Airbnb was open plan (it still is, I’m just not there anymore). They also have an amazing Food team who would occasionally, randomly, bake treats for us (this is relevant, I promise). There was no sales bell, but there was an outage gong. A
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by ddol 3y ago
Nationalising the corporation would delist it from an exchange, preventing stock sales.
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by ddol 3y ago
I got access to Waymo recently and it is astoundingly good, it has replaced Uber for me (in SF). I suspect it will be some time before we can get insurance policys for privately owned autonomous vehicles. If Google own the car and wrote the
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by ddol 3y ago
I can’t imagine time delay will make a gunman happy.
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by ddol 3y ago
Knowing that a vendor you selected is mishandling your users data and doesn’t care to secure their systems is unacceptable. Time to find a new vendor, as your continued usage of their unsecured services is now a liability.
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by ddol 3y ago
Would Mr. Bean[0] have been sued? > Even though Mr. Whistler was perfectly aware that his mother was a hideous old bat who looked like she had a cactus lodged up her backside he stuck wither her and even took the time to paint this amazi
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by ddol 3y ago
It was quite spectacular. I hear they spared no expense.
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by ddol 3y ago
What’s the test for “has never been made and is totally new”? If I look at a photo of Prince and then using that image as reference create a new silkscreen painting is that fair use or infringement? Because the US Supreme Court has ruled th
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by ddol 3y ago
This feels like it can’t be true. Who do they sell them to, and why?
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by ddol 3y ago
Yes. I was born in Ireland, my wife was born in the US. We had our eldest son in San Francisco a few years ago (he’s in elementary school). My wife gave birth at UCSF, a world class hospital in a liberal city, in the land of personal freedo
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by ddol 3y ago
I had a similar experience at Airbnb. My title at Airbnb was “Data Engineer” in 2016, then “Software Engineer - Data” 2016-2019, then just “Software Engineer” 2019-2023. When I joined the DE team we were not in the Engineering Org, our mana
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by ddol 3y ago
From[0]: > Plexiglass vs. Plexiglas®: Acrylic Sheeting Facts > These two terms are pronounced the same, spelled almost identically, and can be compared to the relationship of tissue and Kleenex. These are known as proprietary eponyms,
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by ddol 3y ago
The article specifically mentions Cloud Kitchens, and my understanding is that they do not allow for pickup. Is your experience different with your local Cloud Kitchens location, if so, how do you order pickup (call/text in)?
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by ddol 3y ago
admission of guilt, liability
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by ddol 3y ago
reminds me of my favourite SI unit, the MegaGram (1 metric tonne)

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