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No offense to the brilliant engineers out there, but after going through many migrations in my career, I believe that brilliant engineers are the last people you want anywhere close to the project.
Also, you should budget 25-50% of your project time and effort on getting the legacy system "ready" for a migration.
Excellent comment, thank you :)
What would really make me excited would be if Pi4 could eliminate the RTL-SDR altogether by doing the DSP via ARM Neon instructions.
Is it even close to being powerful enough?
Yes, based on literally thousands of hours of video footage.
Well that's fantastic! Probabilities can be established for all sorts of in-game occurrences and the probability of this dude's game being legit or not.
Not only that, but the gamer ability can then be separated from the randomness of the game on any particular play! Are all the high scores the result of aberrations in the game, or because the player is just that great???
Is there any reason to believe that cheating is something that started recently? Is there any reason to believe that the ROM loaded on every single original Donkey Kong cabinet is exactly the same? Is there any reason to believe that the components on every single original Donkey Kong cabinet perform the same?
If you look at the sports world you have, more or less, the acceptance that cheating happens, the components change, training regimens change, etc. Professional baseball has comprehensive statistics dating back to the 1860s and the result is that people have divided the sport into eras, and when you compare players in different eras you don't look at the stats alone, you compare how they performed relative to their peers, etc.
A "high score" list that ignores the reality of change is worthless.
He wrote it in Cuba, so it is likely a Corona #3
I don't agree with the downvotes: it's a concept that should get more discussion, in the sense of "where should the line be drawn between common carrier behavior and publisher behavior?"
Agree, it's the top story on my news feed here in the midwest.
It's probably going to get somewhat diminished coverage, as by Monday it's highly likely that there will be 4 named storms in the Atlantic, with a large hurricane forecast to hit Bermuda and another bearing down on Texas or Lousiana by the end of the week.
We've got an expensive infrared medical thermometer (purchased long before Covid) and it appears to be quite accurate for everyone in our family except me. According to it, I am pretty reliably dead.
For example (maybe - nobody will ever know):
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre, Haymarket riot, or Haymarket Square riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day, the day after police killed one and injured several workers. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded.
In a typical year, the police and fire helicopters spend more time doing search and rescue on the lake [0] and aerial coordination at actual fires than anything else. They're assets to the city.
[0] Chicago has just about the same amount of coastline as SF - from Mussel Rock Park all the way around to Brisbane is almost exactly the same distance as the Indiana state line to Evanston.
I just picked out a few cities - Chicago [0], NYC [1], and Wichita [2] and it turns out that they all spend very similar amounts per FTE (105-120k). I tried to find the online budget for my hometown PD, but couldn't.
[0] https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/obm/supp_info...
[1] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...
[2] https://www.wichita.gov/Finance/Operating%20Budget/Police%20...
This article is about business vans, not consumer cars. The needs and economics are vastly different.
Do a quick search for 'van upfitter' and see. That's the market they are aiming for. What Tesla offers is completely orthogonal. Given the way that Tesla treats 3rd party repair shops, it's hard to believe that they could possibly make a serious offering in this space.
Ford sold a fully-electric Focus for about 8 years. They've sold multiple generations of plug-in hybrid vehicles, and codeveloped (and sold) a fully-electric delivery van about 10 years ago.
They know how to do it.
Less talking and more building, please.
For GM and Ford, building the vehicle is the easy part. At this point, they all know how to build an electric vehicle.
They definitely need to do a lot more talking. They need to normalize the idea. They need the buyers to believe that it's better. These are commercial vehicles, they need to have a lower cost of operation. And buyers have to believe it. So keep talking (and also build them).
Do delivery cars, scooters, trucks not produce noise?
There are a lot of existing laws about aircraft noise that cars, trucks and scooters don't need to worry about. And once you reach a certain number of takeoffs and landings your "airport" falls under additional regulations that require things like permanent noise monitoring and paying money for noise abatement for nearby property owners.
In my state, any citizen can file a public nuisance suit for unreasonable noise that interferes with quality of life. With trucks, cars and scooters it is perhaps a little difficult to track and attribute noise sources. One company making thousands of drone deliveries makes for a very easy target.
It's not just WordPress config they're after. My logs are filled with thousands of 404s for hundreds of different paths all containing a file called ".env"
I don't even have PHP installed, so I have Nginx set to 444 on anything with php in the name. I suppose I should add env to the list, but seriously a $5 DO droplet handles this without much effort.
My office is in a ~95 year old skyscraper, so even when we used cubicles everyone was close to a window. Instead of the current style in which office buildings have huge rectangular floor plates with elevators in the center, new office tower construction can take design cues from the old days with H shapes or central light shafts.
"04/05/2020", you have no way of knowing whether it means crazy American dates
In just about every professional setting I've been in (in the US), Americans are just as confused as everyone else. We deal with people and documents/data from the entire world too. We look for clues elsewhere, such as other dates from the same source that have any number greater than 12, etc. There are very few documents these days where you be 100% confident without some other confirmation.
Signs of realization that pay is only weakly correlated with skill
This is of course the big problem. Facebook is admitting that developers elsewhere in the world are just as good as developers in Silicon Valley. Or if you want to put it another way: if Silicon Valley is special, it's NOT because the developers.
I don't think it's ironic, I think it's entirely predictable. We're removing people and their brains from all decision making and turning it over to data and algorithms.
If the data doesn't "show" a problem, there is no problem.
Just in the first 3 paragraphs of the article:
...An analysis of multiple sources of aggregated smartphone location data has found.
You need a smartphone and apps/settings that enable aggregation of location data. This is not something that is going to be evenly distributed throughout the city. Further, that is likely to be primarily advertising data, so quality is less than you would desire. How many people are going to be counted twice when you merge this data together?
Roughly 5 percent of residents — or about 420,000 people — left the city between March 1 and May 1.
That's not a lot of people for NYC.
Some of these areas are typically home to lots of students, many of whom left as colleges and universities closed
There are nearly 600,000 college students in NYC[1]. That's more than the number of people that left!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_York_City
It's pretty hard to argue that there's EVER been market based capitalism
In the United States? No, Article 1 of the Constitution makes it clear that we don't do pure capitalism here.
Categorize Google's products into two buckets - "home grown" and "bought the company". Then it starts to make a lot more sense.
The midwest has too many deer. Pretty much everyone acknowledges it, but what usually happens is that you get an argument about extra deer hunts vs birth control for the deer.
I'm not a hunter, but I think that most places in the midwest limit deer hunting to a bow season and a shotgun season, so at least you don't have the danger of people firing rifles all over the place.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the X series ThinkPads are the main competitor to the MacBook Pro series. IE, thin and targeted at professionals.
It's been years since an X-series has had a removable battery and the option for two of them. Decent-quality screens are a significant upcharge and even then barely match the Apple screen. And going over to their website, an X1 carbon 7th gen with a 10th gen Intel processor still uses LPDDR3, just like the Apple.
If you do a real comparison - beyond just "processor cores/speed, ram and disk quantity", you'll find that there really isn't a huge difference in price for specs and that you can comfortably buy the one you prefer and not feel ripped off.
If a corporation can own patents and have legal personhood, then you might get to the point where an AI is the corporation, and thereby could own patents.
Patents can be assigned to corporations, but corporations cannot be named inventors.
In a lawsuit, each inventor can be forced to sit for an hours-long deposition, under oath. Better hope you don't screw up the answer to any of the questions...
In the 90s, I worked at a little place that was crammed full of PCs and other electronic equipment. It got uncomfortably hot in the summer. A couple of us went around to all the PCs and changed the settings - instead of a screensaver, turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity. Problem solved. The age of CRTs...
Maybe not stop it, but make it a really big pain. They'll need you to sign off on court filings, etc. If you're obstinate, you can certainly encourage them to "deal with this house later".