jgibson

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by jgibson 7y ago
I've been thinking about this more and more, and it just makes so much sense. No one cares what shape a beer bottle is, the label is enough to tell them apart. Marketing people will complain if they can't differentiate on packagin
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by jgibson 7y ago
It's not just ram that we care about, its all the other CPU caches that are significantly smaller that a larger binary will take up more space in
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by jgibson 7y ago
Another side of the organizational improvements that batteries have: redeployable. Underprovision? Pour some more concrete, truck a couple more batteries in. Overprovision? Load em up again and resell them to someone who wants them. Can&#x
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by jgibson 7y ago
The article claims: "In the cities of New Zealand and Australia, the convenience store is known as a milk bar" As a native kiwi, I've never ever heard it called a "milk bar". Dairy is the more common term. What say
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by jgibson 7y ago
Not that this makes the Bombardier problem trivial, but that seems fairly simple compared to most cars on the road today, which have over 100 micros. Software can be done well in complicated systems if you have the expertise, design, time a
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by jgibson 7y ago
Tesla Inc, USA | INTERNS (Fall 2019) | Vehicle Integration, Simulation or Automation Infrastructure | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE Chassis Controls Software (the smarts behind track mode [1], stability control [2] and more) is looking for an inte
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by jgibson 7y ago
Er, doesn't hashmap do pretty much the same thing? https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...
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by jgibson 7y ago
Think about it from a supply/configuration/logistics point of view. It might be cheaper to make 500k cars with 100% heated seats rather than 250k w/ heated and 250k w/o heated. Even if BOM cost is lower, the additional c
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by jgibson 7y ago
Eye colour has a lot to do with how much light your retinas let in, iirc. Would this explain your sensitivity?
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by jgibson 8y ago
My info may be a little dated, but yes, most of these companies (Huawei, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, etc) also provide network services and ops to run the network.
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by jgibson 8y ago
Note: Only email me if you are interested in the internship specifically!
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by jgibson 8y ago
Tesla | Interns | ONSITE | Palo Alto, CA, USA| VISA? We're always hiring for pretty much any SW related roles (see the main website), but I'm after a bunch of self-starter interns to work on some projects we have coming up. You&#x
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by jgibson 8y ago
Electronically assisted, but still mechanically coupled for 99% of consumer cars. I've completely lost 12V on a car before and still managed to bring it safely to the side of the road. Inifinity tried steer-by-wire but ended up retrofi
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by jgibson 8y ago
They are manual in the sense that there is a physical connection: the steering wheel is usually mechanically coupled with the steering rack, brakes usually through through hydraulics. That said there are probably 5-20 systems in a car that
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by jgibson 8y ago
> dictates how to start a note (lacking the English term here) Intonation perhaps? I often used the word "attack" to indicate the style of start of the note when I used to play flute, but I'd say thats far from proper term
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by jgibson 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model This is already in common use as far as I'm aware. Its used in the Netherlands to predict electrical grid load based on the number of EVs driving about.
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by jgibson 8y ago
Maybe. The battery chemistry for a car vs stationary storage differs greatly. Stationary storage they optimised for ability to hold charge for long periods of time, and not loose capacity over time. Car batteries optimised for weight and ch
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by jgibson 8y ago
They have a graph in the article that showed foreign ownership (not necessary as investment) that showed it at around 3% for NZ over all, with between 5-10% in popular places (Queenstown and Auckland)
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by jgibson 8y ago
The Renault Zoe does something like this. You buy the car, but you lease the battery from Renault (at least, thats how it used to work) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe
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by jgibson 8y ago
Multiplexing different camera feeds perhaps? Could could do 200/fps split over 10 different camera feeds.
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by jgibson 8y ago
What attracts you about the S more than the 3?
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by jgibson 8y ago
While I agree the lack of repair documentation and available spare parts is a concern, Isn't the whole point of integration (at least on a chip/board level) to increase reliability? I'm a mechanical engineer masquerading as a
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by jgibson 8y ago
What parts would require more fancy equipment? Induction motors are pretty dead simple and probably built to lower tolerances than the average ICE. An EV has more reliance on fancy electronics, which would be hard to replicate, but that app
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by jgibson 8y ago
From an engineering standpoint, Apples devices became hard to repair because they optimized for weight and size over maintainability. Would Tesla do the same? Size isn't going to be something they care about because cars are all the sa
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by jgibson 8y ago
Is it just me, or are a lot of people here conflating source control management and dependency management? The two don't have to be combined. For example, if you have Python Project X that depends on Python Project Y, you can either ha
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by jgibson 8y ago
Access modifiers are something that I only ever find to get in the way. I've recently moved to Java from Python for work. The underscore convention in python works fine for hiding stuff from the general public namespace, but its still
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by jgibson 8y ago
Doesn't Ada have this ability where you define numeric types with a range?
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by jgibson 8y ago
Android already does this. When you plug in you get a notification with options for - Charging only (with direction selection if your phone supports it) - USB media protocol - USB flash storage
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by jgibson 8y ago
You still pay tax on the gain when you sell though (assuming there is any gain). Depending on how long you hold them there will be normal income tax or long-term gains tax
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by jgibson 8y ago
I'm not so sure. Whats the average lifespan of a house? 50-80 years? To me it makes sense to invest the time to optimize design to make best use of the land area. I guess you could still use somewhat standarized parts though, spend mor

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