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« devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or wi-fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality » 911 not working without BlackBerry servers? SMS and calls too? Did they route all of that through their servers?

How would you get vaccinated twice and get covid twice? I thought most countries allowed to do one shot only if you recovered from covid once.

1) the screens are really close to your eyes, which is an issue for your eyes to focus on 2) the screens need a high field of view 3) the headset need to provide 6D pose feedback to the computer 4) battery

5-8 layers but how many weights per layer? I can’t access the article but it says it’s a deep CNN so probably in the order of a few thousands weights per layer.

It does, governments can pass laws, big businesses can't. They may buy politicians to pass the laws for them but in the end they can't pass the laws themselves.

What do you mean? I thought we were able to run programs on these processors already.

How much have changed since 2007? CPUs are more and more parallel, GPU have taken a big role in computations with specific memory types, etc... ?

Color is tricky because it varies way too much depending on the lighting conditions, right?

French firefighters do this when arriving at a scene. The first messages sent over the radio will say:

- I am... (who you are and where you are)

- I see... (describe what you see in simple non-ambiguous terms)

- I do... (what action you are taking now)

- I ask... (ask for reinforcements if necessary, you may be asked to justify yourself more)

In the demo video, for every basic task it needs some setup by a human (see how they fixed stuff on the stretchable arm for every action other than picking-up something) and all the interesting tasks were teleoperated.

I don't care about teleoperation, for a home robot I want automation.

The article is mainly about how cis white males don't like astrology and thus it is misogyny. So the connection is pretty much perfect as he is giving an example of how you can be annoyed by astrology without being a cis white male.

edit: typo

Looks like the journalist is trying to convince us that Google is in fact a company created by the CIA. It's amazing that the CIA had already predicted that Google would beat Yahoo!, Lycos, Altavista, and Ask.com in 1995.

Which probably means an regular engineer assigned to customer service, I don't think it is means that customer service is viewed as an engineering discipline.

I guess it was used as to mean "without value", which is not exactly what it means.

The prefix "in" of "invaluable" does mean negation but it means negation in the way that the value of the object is such that it doesn't exist. It's so valuable that you cannot even quantify it, it transcends the notion of value.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invaluable#note-1

Looks like the GPU stores collections of triangles then used to perform the ray computations.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/practical-real-time-ray-tracing-...

> (n=2 vs n=6) * There was a SINGLE asian male in the data set

From my understanding of statistics and biology this is not significant at all then.

> It's because communication wasn't as global as it is today. And you seem to think that just because each nation/language has their own ecosystem that somehow the world will stop communicating with each other.

True, it would not but the communication surface would be much smaller, we would depend on a few bilinguals.

> Nothing will really change except a lot of french people who wouldn't program in english would program in french. You can still program in english if you want.

People barely speak English already so if you remove the need for some English keyword to do development, you can be sure you are heading toward a generation that doesn't know how and doesn't care about speaking English.

> No. Is there an added layer of dependencies and complexity to compiling languages in english?

No because they are built from the ground up to use English. So if I understand your idea, by creating languages that are based on each local language we would not be able to share source code without having to translate it into our own language?

> So translate it.

So I need to learn Chinese. And English. And Russian. Or, more realistically, I need to depend on someone to do the translation for me. Automatic translation is not really that good for books and websites from the experience I have. Just taking cppreference which translates automatically, most of the time it's non-sense.

> Do you feel helpless that russian literature is in russian and you can't read russian? No, you'd find a french translation of russian literature right?

Yes but I miss on a lot of Russian literature.

I agree with you that if we had a programming language in French of the quality of Java or C or Python it would allow some individuals, that see English as a barrier, to get into programming. But the cons and the issues it brins largely outweight, in my opinion, this benefit.

> So the french can't translate german and russians can't translate german?

You can but then it's a work to do for each language. That's how science got reinvented in multiple places before virtually all papers start to be written in English and shared in international journals.

> You make it sound like you can't change it. Like older languages are set in stone.

Do you suggest adding a layer of dependencies and complexity to the build systems to preprocess the source code to make it compilable by GCC/clang/Visual?

And it would make sharing open-source project limited to their language speakers, until you have someone translating the project. And what happens when that person can't keep up with the pace of the original project? Just look at all the material in Chinese on Github that is just inaccessible to non-chinese speakers.

All engineering schools in France require a minimum score on tests like TOEIC/TOEFL (in my school it was TOEIC 785 / 990, got raised to 800). High school graduation requires a CEFR level of B2 (even if not all students reach it) in English.

> I know if I had to learn french in order to code, I wouldn't be a programming. And I'm sure it's the truth for the vast majority of american programmers.

Except that a lot of the world is already exposed to English in movies, series, books, websites, memes, YouTube, work. American are not exposed to French, German, Japanese, Chinese.

Well, why do banks don't port all their code to recent and efficient languages? Pretty much the same here. All the code currently in use is written in English and it will take decades to completely transit from English to French computing (let's take the example of France, since I'm French). Add to that that all classes resources are for English programming languages and that to share knowledge between French, German and Russian programmers English is the only way to go.

But don't be fooled, in most companies all the comments and documentation are written in French. Variables are in English because it's the only language that only use the ASCII charset. Only recent languages have the support for Unicode identifiers names.

English reading comprehension (at the very least) is a mandatory skill to have in our modern world.

> when the process of making software is itself intensely political

How is making software more political than doing maths?

Isn't it the same as before? If 4gb of data was too big because you had 2gb of RAM, then the methods used at that time are the same you would apply for a 500gb dataset that can't fit in a 250gb RAM machine, right?

New issues appear when you have to analyze 2Tb with a 32gb RAM machine, but when the order of difference is the same, the issues and thus the answers are the same as before?

Nope, I pay 1.99€ / month for 100 GB. No more, no less.

Doesn't match mine either. Here in Japan (at least in Tokyo) it's uncommon to see wired headphones. Most are random wireless headphones, I would estimate 20-40% only being AirPods.

"learned pacifism as a self-preservation strategy" this is an interpretation, not what the bot intended to do, in other words, you're reading into it

ACSL (acsl.co.jp) is the first drone-making startup to enter Tokyo's exchange. They seem to have clients and are making money.

They do B2B drones though, maybe this article was too focused on B2C companies.

Excuse me if this sounds stupid but, vector instructions are assembly. I know we can use inline assembly or compile and link assembly alongside C but isn't it the compiler that is in charge of using vector instructions ?

IIRC GCC has -mmx, -sse(2|3|4) options to enable this kind of instructions.