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by platinum1 4y ago
The Cruise first responder procedure ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qjR38RAQ2cgjxic69TMseT_-Bhj... ) instructs them to call Cruise to take the vehicle out of AV mode, if needed.
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by platinum1 4y ago
The "control of the device" hasn't been handed over to anyone. If you log into another account, or go into guest mode, GoGuardian will not be present. In fact, you couldn't find out if GoGuardian was installed on anot
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by platinum1 5y ago
The verbiage of this article: "Google’s experiment ... has failed" - seems to be written by someone who doesn't know what an experiment is for. It did exactly what it was meant to - provide the data needed to make the right
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by platinum1 5y ago
Goodwill is already a 501(c)3, why not just donate to them directly and let them decide how to best use the funds?
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by platinum1 6y ago
Your friends can control their profiles, including seeing how their ads are personalized, changing certain aspects of that personalization, or turning off ad personalization totally, at http://adssettings.google.com
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by platinum1 7y ago
> Am I a freedom fighter if I tell my boss that I'm not going to code that thing they want to get out the door next week, I have a pet project that I really like, and then me and all my other co-workers go on strike when I can'
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by platinum1 9y ago
For the majority of the history of land lines and analog phones, the phones and lines were owned by the telephone company, and leased by the consumer. This change happened in 1982, 10 years AFTER mobile phones were invented. http:/&#
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Waymo and GM still lead the pack in California’s new self-driving report cards(theverge.com)
1 points by platinum1 9y ago|0 comments
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by platinum1 9y ago
Great question, I didn't even notice that. Based on this article ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/uber-signs-d... ), it might be that they aren't doing development themselves, and are co-
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by platinum1 9y ago
No real surprises here, but the notable front runners are Waymo, with 352544.2 miles and 63 disengagements (5595.9 disengagements/mile) and GM Cruise with 131675.94 miles and 105 disengagements (1254.1 disengagements/mile). A dist
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2017 California Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Reports Are Out(dmv.ca.gov)
2 points by platinum1 9y ago|3 comments
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Moviepass pulls support for some AMC theaters(theverge.com)
3 points by platinum1 9y ago|1 comments
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The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS(androidpolice.com)
158 points by platinum1 9y ago|108 comments
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by platinum1 9y ago
Bram Cohen just announced Chia to address this, using storage and time as the proof-of-work. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/chia-network-cryptocurrenc... previous conversation here: https://news
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2016 Disengagement Reports Show Waymo Leading on Every Metric(driverless.id)
1 points by platinum1 10y ago|0 comments
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(Ab)using Google's Chromium EC for your own projects [pdf](fosdem.org)
46 points by platinum1 10y ago|5 comments
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by platinum1 10y ago
> Your entire search history is fingerprinted, associated, shared, and sold. I've often been curious about this. I've heard this sentiment many times, but I've never heard of where/how anyone could actually buy a sea
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by platinum1 10y ago
It's different for each of my reports, and it's different when I have my 1:1 with my manager as well. My manager and I usually talk about high level strategy - he does more talking, letting me know about direction decisions that h
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by platinum1 10y ago
"we experimented by conducting the same battery tests using a Chrome browser, rather than Safari. For this exercise, we ran two trials on each of the laptops, and found battery life to be consistently high on all six runs" Specifi
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IEC has published an interoperability standard for charging over USB Type-C(webstore.iec.ch)
2 points by platinum1 10y ago|0 comments
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by platinum1 10y ago
It's the law: https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/wages.cfm
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by platinum1 11y ago
13 + 23 + 33 + …63 = (1 + 2 + 3+ …+ 6)2 Is this confusing anyone else?
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by platinum1 11y ago
I wonder if the real issue is not just the net neutrality issue, but calling it "free internet", using the internet.org domain, and not being totally forthcoming about the limitations. Would people still have a problem if they sim
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by platinum1 11y ago
It's right there in the proposed sec.41A.5(f) If no violation has occurred and the complaint was dismissed, the "Interested Party" may sue, and if prevailing "shall be entitled to an award of actual damages, attorneys fe
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by platinum1 11y ago
Oh wow - thanks so much for this!! I just got a huge nostalgia hit back to the days of The Shadow of Yserbius/Fates of Twinion, which were some of the earliest games I played. I think both your game engine and art style have somehow
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by platinum1 11y ago
You can be authentic and speak your mind without being arrogant, insulting, and condescending. In terms of tone, I wouldn't hold this up as a good example - it distracts from any legitimate argument the writer may or may not have.
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by platinum1 11y ago
I just googled "who is the next president?" and got this: http://imgur.com/eV8W5zr Although I can't imagine this strongly affecting someone's decision, the subtler issue of result ordering (especially ba
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by platinum1 11y ago
The actual new/old fiber itself isn't really what makes it possible to get Google Fiber, it's more about having a regulatory framework that allows Fiber to be cost effective. From: http://www.broadbandforamerica.co
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by platinum1 11y ago
Also from the article: "These biases occur unconsciously and without intention or malice." In my opinion, the origin of these biases is in the early, formative years: When children see mom stay at home and dad go to work, they lea
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by platinum1 11y ago
Haswell introduced C7-C10, as described in a slide here: http://www.techpowerup.com/175374/haswell-ult-processors-cou...

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