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Comment · 6 days ago
The beatings will continue until cybersecurity improves.
Comment · 2 months ago
The cost of buying the encyclopedia becomes disposable income to be used on other consumer goods. In that sense in shows up in lots of other companies profit-and-loss statements.
Comment · 2 months ago
Here in Denmark there is no block list, but you have to explicitly opt-in to receiving telemarketing calls. By default, it's illegal to call you.

I never opt-in to anything. If I do get a call, I usually ask for the callers employee name and employee ID, their supervisors name and employee ID and the name of the company. Then I point out that it is illegal to call me and ask for them to get my name off their list.

It's been years since I've gotten any sort of telemarketing or survey call.

Comment · 2 months ago
Why does Doug Burgum need to underscore the fact that the RWE investment is 'voluntary'?
Comment · 3 months ago
Why use LLMs at all if you're doing this?
Comment · 4 months ago
1984 is not inspirational, it's cautionary. The main character has already lost from the first page of the book.
Comment · 5 months ago
If they believe it's OK to cane the kids, why limit it to boys? Girls can also be extremely nasty to each other
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll get some downvotes for this but PhD vs master's degree difference is mostly work experience, an element of workload hazing and snobbery.

Somebody with a masters degree and 5 years of work experience will likely know more than a freshly graduated PhD

Comment · 1 year ago
Remember to factor in all the trees that will need to be cut down in order to provide the wood.

Of course, over time we can increase the amount of industrial forest, but that will take 40-50 years.

Comment · 1 year ago
To someone that knows nothing about car SW architecture, that is surprising to me, I would have expected a number of control loops for things like fuel injection, ABS brake control, drive-by-wire, EV battery charge and discharge, etc. each running on their own processor due real-time safety considerations. These I would expect to be different implementations and parameterizations of the same control theory maths.

On top of this comes some functionality to control windshield wipers, lighting, AC, seat heating, etc. Stuff which is probably not top-tier safety critical, but still important. I would expect that stuff to run on one, maybe two processors.

Then comes the infotainment system, running on its own processor.

Sensors are supplying data to all processors through some kind of modernized CAN bus and some sort of publisher/subscriber protocol. Maybe some safety critical sensors have dedicated wiring to the relevant processor.

A lot of variations on this seems possible with the same SW platform, tuned and parameterized properly. The real-time safety critical stuff would need care, but is doable.

Am I completely off the mark? Can you give some examples of where I am going wrong?

Comment · 1 year ago
There is a low-stress driving environment in Italy? Where's that?

Milan is the only place I have ever been where reversing on the high way is a reasonable solution to missing an off-ramp.

Comment · 1 year ago
Lost techniques are the field of experimental archaeology.
Comment · 1 year ago
The main problem with development of new antibiotics is not that it requires groundbreaking new science to be invented, but that there is no business case for it. Or at least the business case for spending your R&D on anti-obesity medicine looks a lot better.

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