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Also Tesla which moved away form Lidar in 2016 (maybe because Mobileye didn't have confidence in how Tesla's "Autopilot" would use their technology) is now returning to it just at the same time that Mobileye is dropping it.
This self-driving thing is not at all an exact science.
Odd that you should choose to post that from a year ago, and not e.g. this from a month ago:
Germany Issues Arrest Warrant for Ukrainian Over Nord Stream Explosion
But perhaps the German government should instead be thankful that Ukraine has quickly and decisively corrected its energy policy.
The 2x productivity easily comes just because the majority of bugs show up in the form of nice compiler/linter errors shortly after writing them
Which reminds me of the fallout from the recent Debian bcache-tools SNAFU:
it seems that some Rust people have lots of confidence that if something builds, it will run fine.
There are a whole class of runtime errors where the problem isn't if the program compiles or works without crashing, rather if it does what it is supposed to do in the first place. Rewriting everything again in a new language is an easy way of introducing these kinds of bugs which take time to find and fix.
director of engineering for Android Programming Languages at Google and chair of the Board of Directors of the Rust Foundation
I suppose rustifying everything in Android will get further than rustifying everything in the Linux kernel, because he's the guy in charge who gets to fire people if they don't rustify everything.
As for this rumoured 2x productivity? Easy to reach if you're just translating one language to another and probably not including the regressions found months or years in the future due to reimplementating software in a new language.
Now that Oracle's acquired The Federation there'll be no more talk of SQL injections.
Perhaps the r strategy works in a growing market, but we're not in a growing market any more. Maybe MS need to work on switching to a K strategy and nurture the customers it has by giving them something they want, because as it stands there are plenty of reasons to bail on Windows 10/11.
Perhaps someone had to sit Musk down and explain to him that this was a persuasive argument.
If that doesn't work they could always try becoming an Olympic athlete.
U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village
MS have been trying at this in one form or another for a quarter of a century now. This is just using a problem created by themsleves as another step in coming up with an identity management scheme for the whole world, or at least that part of the world which is online.
The fact that some nations would be happy to cede control of this to MS and OpenAI and others do identity management so badly that their citizens are motivated to go to MS and OpenAI, does not mean that everyone should have to use them.
What checks and balances are there for those of us living in functioning democracies? Many. What checks and balances do MS and OpenAI have? Only shareholders who want to see the line go up.
The EFF managed to hardwave concerns away and start talking about governments which is completely the wrong idea. They should be more concerned about those who create tools which allow the Internet to fill up with AI slop that will make it impossible to trust anyone who expresses any idea online and, instead of offering ways to identify AI output, they want to impose their way of identifing people.
"It provides for governments – or potential hand-wavy other issuers, but in reality, probably governments – to grant people their personhood, which is actually something that governments are historically very bad at," he said.
Apart from birth and death certificates, passports, ID cards (those countries that have them), driving licences, social security, etc... In fact, if you wanted an organisation to check that someone was a real actual live person, then the government would probably be the best one to do it and they wouldn't need Microsoft, Open AI, or the rest of band of hangers on who have signed up to this to help them do that.
EFF meanwhile has a few more paragraphs railing against the government. Is that their default position or something? It's MS and Open AI that came up with this "solution" for a problem they themselves created in the first place. Perhaps the EFF could comment on that.
Odd how Microsoft's recommendation is to switch Microsoft Outlook where possible... They say per passwords are apparently not good enough yet you can disable individual clients just as well as you can disable clients connecting using OAuth.
Google's support page starts with a message which makes it look like they want a bit of that lock-in action in a few years.
Not that impossible, the database is unencrypted and doesn't immediately delete rows.
There used to be a Firefox setting to have two separate bars but that got removed in the frog boiling so beloved of modern tech companies. However you can still configure a separate search bar.
Perhaps Zen has a similar setting. I can't tell at the moment, the site looks like it's been Slashdotted^WEl Reg'd.
Wasn't the complaint that he (T'so) couldn't change stuff without breaking things and couldn't be arsed to fix the things he's broken?
Hello, I'm going to commit a bunch of Rust stuff which affects your area of the kernel. I'm not going to force you to learn Rust or prevent you from refactoring your C code, but if there is a dependency which means the Rust part doesn't compile any more, and therefore the kernel doesn't compile any more, then you'll have to learn Rust to fix it or not refactor your code. What, you don't like that? Why not?
It's not the same person proposing a Linux-compatible kernel at the end of the article. That's someone else and it seems he's worked out that no true Rustacean will be happy until the whole Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Rust, so they may as well go and rewrite it in the same way as they rewrite user-space software, which is disappear for a while and come back and announce they wrote a replacement for something. It sounds much more easier for everyone than Rustaceans arriving in ships to the fabled lands of the Linux kernel, disembarking, and trying to convert all the non-believers.
I don't know if you can but I know I can.
2) is what happened between the ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K (successfully), C64 and C128 (successfully), Acorn BBC machines (successfully), Amstrad CPC464/6128 and CPC464/6128+ (unsuccessfully, launched too late) but compatibility was always lost in the jump from 8 to 16 bits except for the Archimedes where you could run BASIC programs or use an emulator, but then you could also emulate the BBC on the 16-bit computers too.
0. It already had developed it, remember?
They started development on the C65 in 1989 and then sat on it until bankruptcy in 1994 when it was discovered. There was no money in developing a new 8-bit machine but they could have cost reduced the C64 again.
In 1989 there could have been another cost reduction on the A500 and they should have been working for a while on a better Amiga (better than the A1200 and A4000). The A500+ and A600 were just distractions.
Instead it wasted millions on the C16 and +4.
These were supposed to be cheap and compete with the Spectrum and make people want to upgrade to the C64, but once Tramiel was gone everyone else who didn't know how to do anything took over and the price was raised so instead of competing with the Spectrum they competed with the C64. Foot-gun moment.
But the key requirement is ROM cartridge software, and Sinclair (and indeed Apple) didn't have that.
Sinclair did but they fumbled it. They put the cartridge slot on a separate peripheral instead of on the back of the Spectrum so there weren't enough users to sell to. At least Commodore got that right.
12 criminal charges that Telegram’s founder is facing in Paris
The last three charges seem merely a failure to follow procedure, but they want to charge him with as much as possible. It's difficult to argue that the other charges are meaningless, even the EFF know that.
It seems like he came to some agreement with Russia. It might explain why they're so unhappy about him been detained in France.
If he were not a French national he would have the right to consular assistance from Russia, however he is a French and Russian national (amongst other nationalities).
I guess that's the downside of going round buying citizenships as if they were going out of fashion.
And that's the single greatest mistake in the history of computers.
People needed operating systems, no other language around between 1970ish-1995ish was as portable or made it as easy. The closest was Pascal and it lost that battle.
As for me, HiSoft C on the Spectrum and SAS C on the Amiga got me to uni and through uni.
It seems that the PDP-7's B compiler was ported from assembly to B, altered to be a cross-compiler and generate PDP-11 machine code, and then modified into the C language. So it was built on a PDP-7 for a PDP-11.
Source: DMR's C history - the paragraph above the "Embryonic C" heading.
Well you couldn't even get multiple apps at once on a QL, not in its released form. Yes it could do multitasking if you wrote the assembly language program to do it but then again you could do something approximating multitasking on the Spectrum too if you wrote the assembly language program to do it.
It had higher resolution graphics but it wasn't supplied with a monitor and users could get by with lower resolution graphics on a TV. It didn't have a GUI or mouse. It came with decent office software, but you could also find similar software for the 8-bits. It had a better BASIC but then again BBC BASIC was also pretty good. There were 8-bit computers with a better keyboard if you wanted one for office work.
So it didn't offer that much new over the 8-bits, apart from the built-in tape loop shredders. And Sinclair compromised quality by pressuring to get it released in 1983 even though the Spectrum did away with naming the machine after the year of release. In the end they released a compromised computer in 1984 and people could see it was late and had problems with ROMs... Not a compelling purchase.
Google says each TPU v5p pod composes together 8,960 chips over our highest-bandwidth inter-chip interconnect (ICI) at 4,800 Gbps/chip in a 3D torus topology. If it took that to make something which looks like Doom running at 20fps on a 486, maybe it could run Crysis on all the data centres in Ireland...?
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