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Self-driving trucks are a major research area for all the USA truck suppliers. The USA has a major long-haul trucking industry, using the trans-continental freeways. Even if they use drivers for delivery, they want to point the truck at one end of the freeway, and collect it at the other end.
If there are driverless trucks, self-repossessing will be only a small part of that.
Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag)
More or less controlled out of New York. Equally important, IBM NY continued to direct other IBM subsidiaries to sell paper and card to DHM. That might not seem like much. but IBM cards (the razor blades in the IBM handle) were the technological edge that distinguished IBM equipment from their competitors. Without the support of IBM NY, there still would have been a Holocaust, but the machinery of the Holocaust would have stuck, jammed and torn.
Post-war, IBM continued the same sales approach: what history teaches you is about their over-priced main-frame CPU's, but the reason people bought them was that IBM tightly controlled sales of other ancillary equipment: if you didn't want your tapes to stick, jam and tear, you bought from IBM.
WW2 fighter pilots were happy to destroy their engines if it meant getting away with their lives
I've always wondered about landing craft. War movies show them stopping in water, and the soldiers/marines wading off.
But my father recounts supervising sailors who couldn't swim in the immediate post-war period. When they thought the landing craft was sinking, they "broke the seals", put on full power, and landed well up the beach.
Windows supported USB in Win95 (not well, but it was there)
And in 96-97, I deliberately specified USB hardware because of the well-known fact that USB was supported in Win95.
But by the time we moved to Win2K, we still hadn't got USB support working in Win95 or Win98.
By 2010 USB was possible, but even then we didn't consider it useful. It was so flakey we preferred RS232 where we had a choice.
The vast majority of Europe-Asia-California cables seem to go along the China Coast. (https://www.submarinecablemap.com/)
It was interesting that ACC-1, announced a year ago, is going to avoid the China coast, and also apparently avoid coming up in Hawaii -- which I suppose indicates that the flexibility of routing around breaks on either side of Hawaii is balanced by the extra risk of coming ashore.
It's the role of Elected Government to pick winners and losers. I didn't agree with my government's lockdown position -- as a labour government, they chose "everyone must be treated the same" and treated school children the same as hospitality workers and the elderly -- but I voted against them at the previous election, and I lost. That's democracy.
And yes, they pretended to be "just following medical advice", but since I'm personally familiar with medical economics, I understand that real medical advice of this kind is more nuanced than that, and explicitly requires priority decisions (aka, political decisions). If they weren't making a "winners and losers" medical decision, it's because they'd already made the necessary decision by choice of advisors.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship
The mate was a mighty sailing man
The skipper brave and sure
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour
f not for the courage of the fearless crew
The minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost
"Everyone" does not include guest/anonymous on Windows (since 2000). This change has no effect on "everyone" permissions or authentication.
This is a client-side change. This change has no effect on folder or network access permissions.
This is a change to the client in Windows workstation, which will prevent by default the client attempting guest access when authenticated access fails, which will affect systems connecting to SAMBA servers which are set up for guest/anonymous access. (Which used to be very common, because network authentication used to be hard to support on *nix systems).
The willingness of old 'everyone' SAMBA servers to accept guest/anonymous access from macOS and linux clients, has caused me nothing but trouble, but those are problems that won't be fixed by this.
What a masterpiece of engineering.
There's a lot of different options available, and no good documentation or reviews. If you collect the condensate, and use it to cool the hot side, then you can get good energy transfer with low volumes, and it doesn't matter where the air intake is.
More commonly, what you get is iced-up cooler coils, an overflowing condensate tray, and piss-poor energy transfer.
I don't know whats going on here. Microsoft says that PEAP is best practice for NPS. So either most people are just using password-login for remote access, or perhaps just not using Microsoft for remote access and Radius. I'm not aware that it's a case of not using it "anymore".
Beginner question: I notice that the OS is binary compatible with linux, but uses a different compiler and library.
In my (8 bit embedded app) world, using a different compiler and library winds up with me not having a binary compatible object. Not that it makes any difference either way, but how does it work for LLVM, musl and linux?
but ended up with every hair stood on end including the tail I stood literally face-to-face with a frightened and angry rat. After it was dead, it was abut 6 inches in the body. But when it had all it's fur stood up it was double in size -- and from my point of view, almost arm to arm in length.
use convoys to protect your ships against U-boats
And for 50 years afterwards, and in all the documentaries in that time, people actually believed that it was the discovery of "convoy" tactics that magically reduced shipping losses in WWII.
It was only when the people involved started getting letters telling them that they were no longer covered by the Official Secrets act, and the American equivalent, that information about WWII code breaking, Naval codes, and location of German u-boats, started to come out.
My friend told me that the (Australian) tax department loved having the police come along. To handle criminal actions by the person under investigation. And the police loved having the tax department come along -- to do warrantless searches of anything that looked interesting as permitted by the tax investigation law.
My sister had her parents on the other end of a leash in the 1960's. So did I for that matter, but I don't remember it. I've heard her reminisce with other leashed kids about the security of knowing that your parents couldn't get away from you, and the relief of knowing that you couldn't be shouted at after you'd wandered off the sidewalk onto some harmless looking bitumem/asphalt.
There's also the disc use on start-up. ... Half an hour if you are lucky.
I found that Win10 was unusable without SSD boot drive. Using a spinning drive, my wife thought it was broken. She'd click on things and nothing would happen, so she'd click so more, and more nothing would happen. Perhaps if we'd left it for half an hour at startup it might have become more responsive: certainly 10-15 minutes wasn't enough.
And maybe it could have been better with a different software profile, but she wasn't running third party AV, corporate bloat or unwanted downloads: just a fairly normal work machine.
it wasn't generating reliably accurate information,
Yes. But it only became illegal when it was automated. As long as it was staff using the algorithm to generate bad decisions it wasn't illegal, because staff are responsible to the department head, who is responsible to the minister, who has legal immunity for decisions of his department.
The minister and the department lost this qualified immunity by implementing decisions made by a system, not by the minister on the advice of his department.
Normally, when a person complains about some official department, the government claims "oh no, we couldn't possibly comment, because of privacy concerns". Which we all know is bullshit. But when, for once, a person complains to the press, with name, photograph and allegations about payment, the government actually responds with information about the complaint, then it's "doxing".
FWIW, the illegality of robo-debt was that it didn't include a space for lawyers. Lawyers know that any system which doesn't consist of a decision by a statutorily defined officer, is illegal. Because they've built the law that way. And there must be a space for the insertion of lawyers. Because they've built the law that way. The actual (grossly unfair, bizarrely incorrect) recovery algorithm dated from the previous government, and only became "illegal" when it was automated.
I've only glanced at the research paper, but it appears that the bulk of the study had to do with peoples use of known unreliable advice .
As, "I'm right 80% of the time, and the computer is right 85% of the time, which answer should I go with?
I didn't find all the information this article seems to be referencing, but perhaps the example answer, which appears to be incorrect for the example question, was one of a set of "wrong" answers that made up the "unreliable advisor".
When I first met Comp Sci students socially, I was surprised and un-impressed by their demand that all Intellectual Property belongs the programmer, and their readiness to break laws and contracts achieve that end.
I was an engineering student at the time, and came from an engineering background. The engineers I knew, and the engineering students I met, did not have that expectation: they understood and accepted that IP belonged to the employer, and that learning came with the job. That is, they regarded engineering as a shared enterprise, built on the shoulders of giants, dedicated to the common welfare, and funded by contractual obligations.
If that seems like some kind of religious holiness, all I can say is that the attitude of the comp sci students seemed like some kind of self-righteous asshole criminality.
One of the nice things about leaving Japan for Malaysia was the relief of being no longer the least polite person in any given situation.
But one of the interesting things about Japan was the realization that in spite of the politeness and cultural differences, underneath the Japanese are human after all -- and just as likely to smoke, spit, and break things when nobody is looking.
Although that is the description used by Microsoft, it is a particularly poor description. -- a problem with trying to use one word to describe a system with several independent variables
In the brave new world of 'blocked' VBA, VBA, which was already blocked, must now be unblocked from a check box in Windows Explorer / File Explorer, rather than from a button in the Office Application, and a policy may be set to choose either behavior.
As demonstrated by the well known self-training bail-application-recommendation AI of a few years ago. It trained on feedback about it's own output. It recommended that people with a high chance of re-offending not be granted bail, and those recommendations were approved, retraining it gradually to reject all bail applications from black applicants.
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