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This wave of redundancies is a choice made by the managements of the FAANG (excepting Apple?) & related companies: Google in particular has spent more in share buybacks this year than it would take to employ the people management laid off for decades to come if I understand the numbers correctly.
It’s going to be a lifesaver on the next long holiday drive with the kids.
It’s probably not going to keep up with a PS4 on a 1080p TV, but Valve has done a lot of optimisation work & the output might be surprisingly “good enough”.
It looks like OpenAI have specifically added Othello game handling to chat.openai.org, so I guess they’ve done the same fine-tuning to ChatGPT? It would be interesting to know how good an untuned GPT3/4 was at Othello & whether OpenAI has fine-tuned it or not!
(Having just tried a few moves, it looks like ChatGPT is just as bad at Othello as it was at chess, so it’s interesting that it knows the initial board layout but can’t actually play any moves correctly: Every updated board it prints out is completely wrong.)
Relevant quote: “UK banks with GBP25 billion or more in "core deposits" are required to ring-fence their retail and small and medium sized enterprise deposit-taking business into a legally, operationally and economically separate ring-fenced body (RFB). An RFB is prohibited from certain activities such as dealing in complex derivatives, principal and commodity trading activities and operating branches and subsidiaries outside the UK and the EEA.”
SVB-UK is RFB setup by SVB in the US as a (presumably wholly-owned) subsidiary of the parent company. The Companies House entry for them is here:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
But you're right - it's terrible engineering to have the entire car shut down just because the in car heat fails.
There are no one way streets blocked by these restrictions.
> The videos I've seen from the "conspiracy theorists" show residents sabotaging blockades in a residential area.
Those are anti-LTN protests.
LTNs are for eliminating through traffic from residential neighbourhoods by selectively blocking through roads. Effectively they turn a residential area into something more like a typical American or English suburb, which are usually built without through roads to prevent drivers using them as shortcuts to avoid congestion on the major arterial roads. No LTN prevents people from driving out of their own neighbourhood. The plans being described here aim to block arterial roads in Oxford to through traffic whilst allowing buses, taxis and some other traffic to pass, so have a wider impact than any individual LTN.
Oxford has extremely limited road space even on arterial roads - the city grew organically & the road network was established in the medieval period - this plan is an attempt to reduce through traffic on these roads in order to make enough “road space” to allow public transport (buses mostly) to make more efficient use of the available capacity.
Not sure why the conspiracy theorists have decided to make Oxford their place to protest all this stuff, but they seem to have decided that we need saving or something.
All the rest of the stuff you quote is stuff that particular people might like to do, but none of which is being planned or implemented here in Oxford. Nor is it likely to be, without the backing of the local population: This scheme is being implemented by democractically elected counsellors, all of whom the local population had the opportunity to eject in recent elections where they were opposed by anti-restriction candidates. A small minority may be making a great deal of fuss, but the voters don’t appear to agree with them.
They are not permits to allow people to leave their “designated 15 minute zone” or whatever else the conspiracy theorists have cooked up this time.
A resident of Oxford who owns a car can drive anywhere in the country (including around the ring road to a destination in another part of Oxford) 365 days a year. No permit is or will be required beyond those that everyone has to have if they wish to drive a motorised vehicle in the UK.
I’m not sure why this story has resonated so strongly with the conspiracy theorists out there, but I guess it’s some wild cross-pollination between the idea that the world government is out to control everyone & hearing the phrase “15 minute neighbourhood” and jumping straight to the most insane conclusion possible.
In fact, if you live in one of these parts of Oxford you will be able to drive to and from where-ever you like: The only new constraint is that some routes that go through Oxford itself will be blocked - you’re still free to drive via the ring road around Oxford & get to your destination that way if you want to.
“City blocks road to through traffic” is not usually headline news. There’s something about this story that seems to trigger the conspiracy theorist mindset for some reason.
All of this is installed by default with a normal Debian install.
The primary one is:
1) FSD turns itself off whenever things get too difficult or complex for it. Human drivers don’t get to do this. Recent crowdsourced data suggests a disengagment every 6 miles of driving: https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1602774341602639872
If you eliminate all the difficult bits of driving I bet you could eliminate a lot of human driver crashes from your statistics too!
A secondary issue, but relevant if you care about honesty in statistical comparisons is
2) The average vehicle & driver in the non-Tesla population is completely different. Unless you correct for these differences somehow, any comparison you might make is suspect.
Risk homeostasis in action!
https://soaringeconomist.com/2019/10/30/experience-can-kill-...
Speaking as someone who has written an lsp server: yes, it is indeed unpleasant to work with.
Extracting the actual firmware update from the files Samsung gives you might be an issue though.
Still not great of course! Now you’ve spread the second bomb’s worth of Pu or U over a wide area with the energy of the first one. Toxic /and/ radioactive. What’s not to like!
(I may have been digging up a partial memory of muclear missile fratricide by Pu predetonation during compression due to the extra neutron flux, which IIRC is a real thing, but would require the second warhead to go through a full conventional explosion.)
There are (sadly) plenty of people out there who will install a browser extension & tweak an about:config setting if you set up the right incentives to get them to look past the warnings.
The price of protecting these people from those that would take advantage of them is developers having to download a different version of the browser in order to develop their extensions.
Where does it say that this is impossible?