|
What makes a lot of us treat our solution as the best, while talking bad about other solutions? "No time for losers 'cause we are the champions"
|
|
|
|
|
I think in a lot of domains, not just software, there are some more-or-less objectively bad solutions; but there are almost always several good solutions, with no one of those solutions being objectively better than the others.
Kevin
|
|
|
|
|
A team of UCF astrophysicists has developed a scientifically based, standardized method for creating Martian and asteroid soil known as simulants. I hear it's good for growing potatoes
|
|
|
|
|
Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source robotics middleware originated by Willow Garage and Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory that provides low-level device control, hardware abstraction, and other useful services. Hopefully the robots will take the BSODs well (and not start killing us in response)
|
|
|
|
|
Today, we're re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. Why? Because it's much easier to find, read, and refer to MS-DOS source files if they're in a GitHub repo than in the original downloadable compressed archive file. For those still curious how the official file copy code looks
As opposed to what it does now - think for 15 minutes, *then* copy that 5k file to the destination folder. All while displaying a 85% done progress bar.
|
|
|
|
|
Next up, using 3-D printers to make those awesome stagecoaches.
|
|
|
|
|
Solid lets you decide where info resides and who can use it. Yeah, what does he know about the web?
Seems to me I use that one whenever there's an article about him. My poor one track mind. Hopefully there's never a need to divert to kill five people.
|
|
|
|
|
What? It doesn't use a distributed hash, peer-two-peer computing, hashgraphs, merkle trees, and blockchains?
How can you talk about control, data, and the web without using the above tech???
Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
|
|
|
|
|
Wait, why is the German Chancellor in a tree?
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
It's from that song; "and a Merkel in a pear tree."
|
|
|
|
|
Facebook is already facing immense fallout from revelations this morning that a hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of the social network to steal account credentials of as many as 50 million users. Well, it is for sharing, isn't it?
|
|
|
|
|
A programming language to skip the things you have already computed Been there, done that, moving on
|
|
|
|
|
Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security provider, has increasingly been pushing into businesses that intersect with its core missions. "All the time, our customers ask us, 'How do you make money doing this?' The answer is simple: Volume."
|
|
|
|
|
Researchers were able to attack a common speech recognition system using voice commands hidden in other audio recordings. That explains the 40 kg bag of bird seed that just got delivered
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: The researchers’ only caveat is that they haven’t tried playing their doctored songs or chirping birds yet–they’ve only fed the device actual audio files. However, they’re totally confident that playing the attacks out loud will have the same effect.
... which is why they didn't do the one thing that would actually show there was anything to what they're doing.
Quote:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Musk will have to step down as the chairman of Tesla within 45 days, and will not be able to take that role with the company again for three years. He will be able to remain Tesla’s CEO during that time.
We are all equal, but some are more equal than others.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Read the other day that he was having problems.
Didn't realize they were putting such a tight muzzle on him though!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
|
|
|
|
|
Looks like "joking" with the company stocks is not that funny.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Yep and what is it with tweeting? They know what they tweet is permanent and accessible why do they (and by they I mean, the haves...you know who else I mean in particular) persist in tweeting sensitive info?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
|
|
|
|
|
Seems to have got off very lightly for a pretty serious lapse of reason. Corporate regulators in other jurisdictions may have taken a much dimmer view.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
|
|
|
|
|
Exactly - in a previous company I worked for that went public we were told a story of someone who was jailed simply for chatting with a friend over a beer about his company's future plans which led to the share price rising and his friend making money on the information.
The head of finance told us that we should not mention anything about future plans of the company to anyone outside of the company as we too could risk going to jail.
It does demonstrate that money buys influence, as I wonder what would have happened to one of his engineers if they had tweeted the same information.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
Nelek wrote: We are all equal, but some are more equal than others.
Indeed. I wish I were "equal" in the ability to pay the $20 million fine.
Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
|
|
|
|
|
So he's still CEO, just not chairman of the board. For a few years.
So nothing will really change.
And frankly I hope it doesn't. He's full nutbag crazy but he's pushing the industry above and beyond what they would have done by themselves. When the iPhone came out the feature phone was dead. Every major camera maker scrambled to make something that cool. When the Tesla came out suddenly the entire EV industry became cool and the horrid tiny Evs aimed at incredibly niche market of what appeared to be those who didn't actually like cars was replaced by a market of car enthusiasts who expected a car with a big "Ludicrous mode" button that could beat any car on the road.
That's what Elon brings and I hope he keeps pushing.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Chris Maunder wrote: So nothing will really change. I would like to think that he has at least learned the lesson.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
It's still a niche market. And will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Reason being, they're still f***ing expensive for anyone except rich people.
Lithium batteries are a mature industrial product and the price for them isn't dropping anymore, except on some fanpages, so the cost of a full range battery pack will remain prohibitive for the majority of people.
For reference, there used to be a pricetag for an exchange battery pack for the S85 on Teslas homepage of $46,000. It's since long gone, together with the $35,000 model E (you can find it on the wayback machine if you bother).
Hybrid cars though, is a completely different question.
|
|
|
|