olex

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Comment · 3 months ago
The biggest problem I always have with elevators is not the algorithm, it's the people seemingly being unable to grasp the concept of pressing either the up or the down request button, depending on where they want to go. Almost always I find someone will press both, because "then the elevator comes faster". Completely ignoring the fact that they end up going the wrong way first half the time, and adding an unnecessary halt for everyone already in there. How hard can it be to understand?..
Comment · 4 months ago
Some companies only get to a "hello world" level with a new kind of tech via a 50k per head training. The organizations are setup in a way that people can't experiment or learn by themselves, it's really the only way.
Comment · 4 months ago
The Fastmail client is good when it's up and running, but not as good as well-implemented native apps. The initial startup is much slower, and the iOS / iPadOS app (which is the same webapp iirc) is pretty bug-ridden, with the webview freezing or app not progressing past the loading animation without a close swipe / reopen.
Comment · 6 months ago
The calibration is a 10 minute drive on any marked road though, not the precise positioned target stuff that others use.
Comment · 7 months ago
Do I understand the voting / results wrong? Looking at this: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

The measure voted on is "Extension [of Chat Control 1.0]", it was voted 36% "for" and 49% "against" (so result is "against"), and looking at "Political groups", majority of EPP MEPs voted "against" (137 out of 164 votes).

Comment · 7 months ago
It's already called "Extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse".
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Apparently you get unlimited data capped at 500 kbit/s. So that would be a clear "yes".
Comment · 8 months ago
I don't have a specific source, no. I think it was mentioned in one of their presentation a few years back, that they use various techniques for "ground truth" for vision training, among those was time series (depth change over time should be continuous etc) and iirc also "external" sources for depth data, like LiDAR. And their validation cars equipped with LiDAR towers are definitely being seen everywhere they are rolling out their Robotaxi services.
Comment · 8 months ago
That's exactly what Tesla is doing with their validation vehicles, the ones with Lidar towers on top. They establish the "ground truth" from Lidar and use that to train and/or test the vision model. Presumably more "test", since they've most often been seen in Robotaxi service expansion areas shortly before fleet deployment.
Comment · 1 year ago
They've acknowledged an issue now on the status page. For me at least, it's completely down, package installation straight up doesn't work. Thankfully current work project uses a pull-through mirror that allows us to continue working.
Comment · 1 year ago
I realize that if the authorities target me specifically, there's not much I can do. Even though I am not in the States and do not expect my local police to be quite as... forceful.

However, I do not intend to make it easy to just grab my footage along with any other that can be found, without at least asking.

Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely, I will be running PoE wherever possible, definitely for the doorbell. Not just because of Amazon drivers, I've read reports of burglars using WiFi jammers to make sure wireless cameras are useless during a break-in.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, this is my idea as well. Good to know that the Reolink app still works locally and via Wireguard, that means I'll have less UI to set up in HomeAssistant.
Comment · 1 year ago
Initially I believe so, but they can then be isolated via VLAN / firewall rules and cut off from internet access.

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