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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 fu…

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 t…

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 i…

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 th…

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 …

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…

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 val…

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 …

> 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 plac…

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 deca…

> 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 f…

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.…