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The space agency revealed the telescope’s images of the planet Jupiter, as well as an asteroid, used as reference targets when engineering teams were calibrating the observatory’s instruments. "But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions"
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IT departments are frequently feeling the sting of buyer's remorse following big-ticket enterprise technology purchases. Hopefully you don't regret buying this newsletter
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As more workers choose to work remotely, organizations face a dilemma: do they pay remote workers the same as those living in high-cost metropolitan regions? For some companies, that conundrum is already a reality. Making the big bucks, while out feeding the ducks
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If they don't, they'll lose employees to more local companies with lower budgets but willing to invest them in their people.
Also it may or may not be illegal, since it's a discrimination based on provenience. I'm not particularly knowledegable of the US laws and Consitution though. In my country it's becoming a Sword of Damocles, since it would be very much illegal straight up to the first articles of the Constitution.
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The future of digital everything is currently under pressure and under staffed. Maybe he could do a bootcamp or something?
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Reported on before, but this gives more details:
Quote: The safety agency found that there were 16 crashes involving a Tesla striking first responder and road maintenance vehicles. Many of these incidents had some form of intervention from the forward collision warning and/or automatic emergency braking systems, but on average, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than 1 second prior to impact. Of those crashes, NHTSA found that driver attention warnings were issued in just two cases.
- NHTSA Expands Tesla Autopilot Investigation - Consumer Reports
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What I don't get is this notion that just because is electric doesn't just automatically mean AFAIK, that you have to, or now get to, do autopilot. Why don't we have this in high end ice cars like jag who ran out of stuff to try when price was no object? I'm all for Tesla and the rockets, maybe seducing Fred and Ethel to run with autopoilot like it's gonna save them is a bad idea. Just drive.
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Ron Anders wrote: just because is electric doesn't just automatically mean AFAIK, that you have to, or now get to, do autopilot
It doesn't; there is no technical reason why similar systems could not be developed for any vehicle. I suspect that Market Research showed that people who buy high-end cars like Jaguars do so for the joy of driving them, while those who buy electric vehicles do so just to get from A to B while feeling good about their "contribution to the planet".
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: while feeling good about their "contribution to the planet".
the sad part is that few see that the total impact is not really that much lower than before 
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While 16 crashes sounds serious, and they probably were for those involved, they are but a small portion of all crashes involving road work crews. Since Autopilot is not advertised as a fully autonomous system I think the NHTSA would be better served ensuring that full self driving systems handle this situation.
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obermd wrote: Since Autopilot is not advertised as a fully autonomous
and since crashes have happened multiple times on it, perhaps it should be disabled until it is fully autonomous.obermd wrote: the NHTSA would be better served ensuring that full self driving systems handle this situation
The car manufacturers are the ones that ensure it. NHTSA can only define it and enforce that definition.
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David O'Neil wrote: and since crashes have happened multiple times on it, perhaps it should be disabled until it is fully autonomous.
In this case let's disable all driver assist features, including automatic transmission slush boxes that allow the car to creep forward if the driver's foot isn't on the brake. The bottom line is that until fully autonomous vehicles are proven safe on the roads safety remains the driver's responsibility.
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Yeah, maybe the safety agency should create a universal test course for autonomous vehicles that standardizes the way they are tested.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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obermd wrote: roads safety remains the driver's responsibility.
So take away the system that makes them think it isn't.
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reminds me of will smith in irobot
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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God I hated that movie. Loved the book. Hated the movie.
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The only thing the movie had in common with the book was the name.
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Although we can’t draw exact comparisons between the two, as FDD is a framework while TDD is a process, we’ll discover that each has noteworthy pros and cons As opposed to sales-driven development?
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Or throw sh*t against the wall development.
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SDD fits nicely with sales-driven promises on delivery dates!
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I prefer SSD 
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Eventually it all turns into maintenance-driven development. New features, new innovation, updating frameworks and language versions, it all gets tossed out the window because the financial people say there's no budget, even when the product is making money. Basically, they don't want to spend money.
And so the product slowly obsoletes itself until browser technology, database technology, framework/language support ends, third party licenses expire, and we're back to square one:
This sh*t needs to be rewritten from scratch because it's so archaic and obsolete!
And if "they" only had had the foresight to do small incremental changes, maintain the licenses, etc., the cost would be significantly less. Not to mention retaining customers (gov't customers in our case) that when the contract for the product they are using ends, they sign up with someone that looks better and probably is better.
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Marc Clifton wrote: And if "they" only had had the foresight to do small incremental changes, maintain the licenses, etc., the cost would be significantly less. Not to mention retaining customers (gov't customers in our case) that when the contract for the product they are using ends, they sign up with someone that looks better and probably is better.
Agree to a point - management doesn't recognize the need to keep licenses and frameworks up-to-date, and when the software implodes due to management's neglect, the developers are eventually blamed for the subsequent software failures and inevitable budget crisis'. Sure a rewrite is okay as long as it doesn't involve the devs with the tribal knowledge because it's their fault everything went to hell in a hand basket.
In the case of government contracts, award decisions are made based on personal/political agendas, and have nothing to do with a rewrite. If a rewrite is done, it's under a different contract project name with no consideration for backward compatibility with the pre-existing system, nor training requirements because the UI is so radically different.
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The system, called “Make-A-Scene,” is meant to demonstrate how AI has the potential to empower anyone to bring their imagination to life. Why are there no happy little squirrels?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how AI has the potential to empower anyone to bring their imagination to life.
And I am sure it is going to be used properly and without evil intentions...  
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