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Data analyst located in Norway. Originally from Chicago
That was an impressive takeaway from the first machine learning course i took: that many things previously under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence have since been demystified and demoted to implementations we now just take for granted. Some examples were real world map route planning for transport, locating faces in images, Bayesian spam filters.
Well by next year it won't be available for anyone so no one will be dissatisfied with what it can and can't do!
VW’s e-Up comes very close to that modern but minimal EV I wish someone would keep making. No touchscreen, just a smartphone mount. Analog HVAC controls. Even the battery-remaining gauge is an analog needle (though the usability of that detail is debatable!).
it conveys that you know what ex post and ex ante mean
This ability was demoed in the third or fourth minute of the intro. (NBA 2K23 with a PS5 controller)
Your odyssey has a radar component not a LiDAR sensor. (Big gap in resolution)
Yea the first thing I looked up was Hongqi (specifically the E-Hs9) as they’ve grown popular here.
NIOs are very much for sale in Europe and Oslo, Norway has two battery changing stations (more coming supposedly).
Very interesting what happens to car depreciation when decoupled from any particular battery pack.
Something like one third of new vehicles sold in Norway last month were Chinese EVs. All internet connected, always on like all new EVs
kind of the same direction here in Oslo -- they reeled in how many scooters any given operator was allowed to have in distribution and started applying real road rules to the scooters.
Being caught drunk driving an app-based e-scooter is as serious as any motor vehicle violation and will result in your car license being revoked.
rather than one per waiter
Just want to correct this idea which has been repeated several times on this topic: You only need 3 or 4 for a larger restaurant. The entire restaurant does not pay simultaneously.
When you (the server) are done with them you just put them back in a charging dock or some other communal space.
Norway has no inheritance tax at all; property taxes are microscopic (relative to other places that levy property taxes with intended market effects).
The us is unusual in offering fixed rates that are fixed for 30 years. They mean fixed rate.
I would just like to say how much I appreciate the whole No-ICE-Construction-Vehicles thing as an Oslo parent who has to squeeze by a long-term waterworks project site every morning and afternoon for daycare dropoff. There's only a narrow pedestrian passage to get around the dig site.
The backhoes, augers -- even the dumptrucks -- are all full electric (!). It's a small, older street with narrow pedestrian detours on either side, but the noise levels are so low I can continue speaking at normal volume to my kids the whole way.
Have you seen roundabouts of this scale in person? They aren’t meant for people to be around at all
In Norway, sales of new gasoline and diesel cars ends in 2025. No exceptions for hybrids, plug-in or otherwise. Norway is a microscopic market but it still is astounding to me that Toyota will likely be shut out of the country in four years as they have almost nothing in the pipeline except an as-yet nameless crossover using some GM EV platform.
Must be weird to be a dealer in Oslo now, considering the RAV-4 and Yaris hybrids still sell in ok numbers.
I got the impression that with Shareplay HBO Max subscribers could only watch HBO content with other HBO Max subscribers. (And then all involved parties are streaming from HBO, not the share initiator)
It wouldn’t make any sense any other way, given you can sync TV to TV.
Many many models of macs and iPads have been announced at WWDC keynotes. Including the iMac Pro and the original Mac Pro.
https://www.amazon.com/Urbanears-Multi-Room-Bluetooth-Connec...
These came quite close to this (but have since been discontinued by Urbanears). Physical knob presets to internet radio stations (or turn it to “airplay/Bluetooth mode”)
I'm now curious how blind people manage these things.
The key ingredients that make iOS an excellent computing platform for those hard of sight are
* enforcement of UI guidelines that enable the screen-reading to work well
* a collection of accessibility gestures meant for no-screen operation.
NOT Siri.
My organization has been slowly rolling out the use of Cisco Desk Pros which are hardware endpoints that connect to Webex but are in a practical sense essentially monitors with very nice camera modules and microphone arrays built into the bezel. Laptops connected to the monitor with USB C can use the camera/mic. These cost like $4000 though.
I find the video flattering (camera angle/focal length?)
I thoroughly enjoyed American Factory's take! It presented many aspects of such a venture without taking too strong of a narrative one way or the other. Petty politics big and small, cultural mismatch, the rich getting richer, union busting. But also the very real attempts at bridging the culture gap and the stories of some imported foreigner workers who develop a serious fondness for life in America.
An under-reported pattern I see in larger Norwegian organizations:
- Someone leaves for 8 months of maternity leave
- Org hires a replacement with determined-end contract
- Org loves this new person
- New person also enjoyed their time in this position, made new contacts and learned new skills which they can leverage elsewhere
- Org also now knows who to contact immediately when there is another opening or new full-time position
A growing company or government office can absolutely benefit from the "overhead" of such extensive parental leave, it's just subtle.
I always felt the film minority report was onto something with regard to this: the vehicles depicted in the movie are (non-optionally) self-driving within dense urban regions and drivable by humans in the country
It’s a problem at the high end (which is most of what’s been built lately) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/realestate/new-developmen...
There are a lot of great deals on MacBook 12's now that it's end of line. I think you'll probably find the Pinebook 11" seriously lacking in power.
Otherwise consider a Surface Laptop! The 3:2 aspect ratio is surprisingly sticky
It really isn’t. Between the existence of Norwegian Airlines and the fact that the Norwegian crown is hovering at 9 to a dollar, flights are almost never over $200 one-way from New York and it’s now cheaper for an American to drink an Aperol Spritz here than in Manhattan.
I’ve lived in Oslo for six years now and repeatedly talked myself out visiting Tromsø for a long weekend because of this.
At some point I need to accept that it’s really the primary way to get around the north.
Why does one need this on macOS (which has had a dedicated toggle for this in System Preferences for a few versions now)?
Oslo uses roving fare inspectors and has a wonderfully-unified time-based card system that applies to all subways, trams, buses and ferries. No gates anywhere.