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roxgib commented on 5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients cbc.ca/news/world/havana-... · Posted by u/awnird

someotherperson · 2 years ago

I'm waiting for it to turn out to be something stupid like highly lead-contaminated cutlery, furniture and other things. Or maybe some sort of pesticide or insecticide being sprayed on or around the building.

roxgib · 2 years ago

Can't speak to pesticides, but lead would have been detected in blood tests

roxgib commented on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck cnn.com/2024/02/14/busine... · Posted by u/reteltech

simion314 · 2 years ago

So in future your self driving car might be recalled at any random time because a new corner case from an infinity was found. If the car can't be driven by a human all owners of thsi cars will be stuck wherever they were at that moment.

roxgib · 2 years ago

This will be interesting to watch. If I bought an autonomous car and the autonomous mode was disabled for a few days or even weeks while a bug was fixed I can always fall back to driving it myself. If that's not possible (maybe because the car doesn't support it or I didn't have a licence or human drivers had been banned) and suddenly it's a whole different situation. Of course owning a car might become less common in itself, if you're just taking them like an Uber you can always switch to a different company.

roxgib commented on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck cnn.com/2024/02/14/busine... · Posted by u/reteltech

im3w1l · 2 years ago

I'm thinking it might make sense to have a sort of hierarchy of models. The stupidest model predicts that everything will be stationary. The second model predicts that everything will travel in a straight line. The third model tries to predict a circular arc based on same fusion of path history and observed steering input. Fourth model uses a notion of action to predict whats going to happen, like "the car is changing lanes". Fifth model uses body language and common sense to predict intention "the pedestrian wants to cross".

Each model can potentially predict longer into the future but also has more complexity and things that can go wrong. So you keep track of how well each model is doing (on an object basis) and if one level is failing then you fall back on a stupider one. You might also want to increase caution if your models are not doing well (lower speed and increased safety distance).

roxgib · 2 years ago

These cars can and do slow down or even stop and wait for human assistance in response to unexpected situations. I'm actually quite surprised this didn't trigger here, although we don't really know much about the specifics of the situation.

roxgib commented on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck cnn.com/2024/02/14/busine... · Posted by u/reteltech

antisthenes · 2 years ago

The average speed of a commuting car is around ~23mph, when you account for stops and red lights. 35mph is only a hindrance if you commute by freeway every day, which many people don't.

People will take them if they're priced right and they can do things in the car without having to pay attention to the road.

roxgib · 2 years ago

But autonomous vehicles tend to perform best on freeways, that's where they are most likely to be allowed

roxgib commented on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany alexwlchan.net/2024/big-p... · Posted by u/alexwlchan

denysvitali · 2 years ago

I can't wait for people to start rendering their CVs with this trick >:)

roxgib · 2 years ago

I'm a bit disappointed in myself that it didn't occur to me to submit my CV in A3.

roxgib commented on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany alexwlchan.net/2024/big-p... · Posted by u/alexwlchan

DontBreakAlex · 2 years ago

Wait, pdf files aren't binary ?!

roxgib · 2 years ago

I was surprised that the underlying format doesn't implement compression (though I assume objects can be compressed). Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since I often get text only PDFs with unreasonably large sizes.

roxgib commented on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany alexwlchan.net/2024/big-p... · Posted by u/alexwlchan

TowerTall · 2 years ago

I really hate that too. You are in a intersection and the voice says "Drive north for x miles/km". What is wrong with "turn right and drive for x miles/km"? I normally have zero clue in what direction north is especially when I am in a location i have never been before. I drive a bike and have the phone in my pocket and can therefore not see any arrow that the app might display. I only have the audio to navigate from.

roxgib · 2 years ago

It will do that if it doesn't already know what direction you're travelling, which is usually because you've just activated navigation and you aren't moving yet. Unless I happen to know which direction north is or which way to towards my destination I'll just pick a random direction and it will adjust the route if I guessed wrong.

roxgib commented on It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 androidauthority.com/phon... · Posted by u/thunderbong

rightbyte · 2 years ago

> replacing an 80% capacity battery in two years

The falloff has to be way more than 20% for two years?

roxgib · 2 years ago

I bought my iPhone XS at launch and it just reached 80%, although on the latest version of iOS 80% doesn't get you as far as it once did. I'm not a super heavy smartphone user though.

roxgib commented on It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 androidauthority.com/phon... · Posted by u/thunderbong

jsmith45 · 2 years ago

> Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries or LMT batteries shall ensure that those batteries are available as spare parts of the equipment that they power for a minimum of five years after placing the last unit of the equipment model on the market, with a reasonable and non-discriminatory price for independent professionals and end-users.

roxgib · 2 years ago

Five years is much too short, although it's nice to see that it's measured from the date of sale stop rather than start.

roxgib commented on It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 androidauthority.com/phon... · Posted by u/thunderbong

lb4r · 2 years ago

> Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during the lifetime of the product. That obligation shall only apply to entire batteries and not to individual cells or other parts included in such batteries.

So would this apply to something like the Nintendo Switch, and/or Steam Deck?

roxgib · 2 years ago

I'll be interested to know if it applies to things like AirPods, those would be more challenging to redesign with replaceable batteries (though obviously not impossible).