I had a horrible experience with my XC90 plug in hybrid. It took months of back and forth with the dealership and thousands of dollars to find out that it's dangerous behavior (refusing to stop without flooring the break with all my might) was due to a wire harness a critter had chewed on. Very similar response from Volvo in my case. No accountability and very low competence. Avoid Volvo.
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jorlow commented on Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles trianglesplatting.github.... · Posted by u/ath92
Can someone explain what a splat is? I did graphics programming 25 years ago, but haven't touched it since. I don't think I've ever heard this word before.
It's basically a blob in space. When you have millions of them, you can use gradient descent to minimize loss between them and source images.
jorlow commented on Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005) tecr.com/galactica/... · Posted by u/Tomte
I wonder which came first? This site or https://www.b5tech.org/ ? Both sites clearly use the same templates.
I think this is just what a lot of websites looked like back then :-)
Does this compete at all with openAI's triton (which is sort of a higher level cuda without the vendor lock in)?
jorlow commented on WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing github.com/WebKit/WebKit/... · Posted by u/mkurz
I imagine there are some stories out there of people tearing their hair out over issues in prod can’t be reproduced in localhost (or vice versa) due to quirks exceptions.
I wonder why browsers don't show a bit of UI that it's in compatibility mode and give a way to disable (or enable for other domains for dev/testing).
jorlow commented on WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing github.com/WebKit/WebKit/... · Posted by u/mkurz
That's messed up, why should I put up with CORS when others have a special treatment...
If a browser has too many compatibility issues, users will switch away. Outreach to the sites in question takes time and is often unsuccessful. Quirks is the pragmatic answer.
jorlow commented on Japan billionaire Maezawa cancels Dear Moon space tourism project apnews.com/article/japan-... · Posted by u/hydrolox
It doesn't really add up. The schedule was always uncertain. Why not postpone? Why a big announcement only a year and a half ago? Seems pretty cruel to all the people selected to take the trip...
jorlow commented on Phone cameras can take in more light than the human eye theconversation.com/phone... · Posted by u/rntn
Try birding at 500mm or more. Pixel soup (pun intended) vs crisp details from the R5 with 100-500, even at f7.1 or higher. No comparison.
Even at 105mm f4 the difference is night and day. Portrait mode is good enough for casual use, but the real thing still looks better.
Sure, it's weaker in telephoto. (I rarely shoot beyond 85mm.) Fwiw I never use portrait mode -- too artificial. The main lens still gets pretty nice shallow DOF tho
jorlow commented on Phone cameras can take in more light than the human eye theconversation.com/phone... · Posted by u/rntn
I got an Google Pixel pro 8 a few weeks back and holy shit it's good.
I stoped using my Canon DSLR 80D this holiday and we took a handful benchmark picture I will analyse later.
The night mode in dark areas wow. Tele? Wow. Macro? Awesome.
I have a pixel 8 pro and a canon r5 and honestly, unless I'm shooting at f2.0 or less, I generally prefer the pixel images. Not to mention they're instantly sharable.