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> No effort to make other chips perform [...] worse is expended. I don't know about nowadays, but it used to be that the intel libs and compiler would specifically disable SIMD ins…

Serious question: how do you think Home, Alexa, Siri, etc were trained before coming to the market ? Another serious question: couldn't you ask ME to fix the data every so often (l…

> What exactly is the human bringing to the table? He can see the big truck 200 yards in front of him, and recognize that it is indeed a truck, and not an overhead traffic sign. Ap…

Wait. I thought their hydrogen cars were hybrid cars, just like the prius. Why do you say they gave up on batteries ?

You missed the part about the trusses in the bell tower that didn't burn. If they burnt and the bells fell (13 tons for the biggest one!), then the whole building would have collap…

Apparently, a significant difference between American and French firefighters is that the latter prefer to fight the fire from the inside (e.g.: avoid the heat and steam to accumul…

This post shows some false-positives and present them as bugs. It is mildly disingenuous for the casual observer.

I disagree strongly. It looks obvious to me that they can be equal and that this is a special case. The comparison is done only after checking for A<B, and only if a boolean called…

It could be solved, but is it really ? Shall I remind you of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal#UK_Inv... The blockchain doesn't offer a technological solu…

No, I think you "only" need to trust the veterinary, and make sure that all animals are tracked (which is the case in Europe, which is why the Lasagna scandal came to be a scandal)…

There's one I like: the farmer has a veal and introduces its date of birth on the blockchain. The veterinary that comes to check it posts a validation mark on the blockchain. If yo…

I hate the blockchain hype. I think most uses can be solved by a simple database hosted by a trusted authority. Yet, just reading the first two samples, I already disagree with the…

We had a big teletext offering in France too at some point. Minitel is not it. Minitel was a modem+terminal in your house. So, it was bidirectional, secure, and had incorporated bi…

Maybe they needed to get a bigger marketing budget. Now, if only the majors could predict which movie need to be marketed how...

And I'm sure you've heard of the taskbar.

For your information, Jesus Christ never wanted us to argue about mobile phones on the internet.

It's even better than that. They key mentioning that the crap you buy gives you no competitive advantage, it's cosmetic only. In an age of loot-boxes and pay-to-win, this is super …

It's not just the salary. It's often about personal growth and wanderlust. Let me try an odd comparison: after graduating, would you choose to live with your parents if they fed yo…

I've only been once in Washington, and it was ages ago. But they have this incredible system where they put you in a massive bus (At first I didn't even realise it was a bus, it lo…

> Yeah, I don't understand why they aren't doing something like this But... Uber was planning to do exactly this ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-4uWmuESQ

In France, Polytechnique is probably the most sought after. There's an oral exam to get in, and guess what ? Only 25% of student from Paris are eliminated, versus 40% of kids from …

It was probably proofread before they inserted the ad just in the middle of that paragraph.

I picked that one in the article: > The origins of albur are as hard to pin down as the quick tongues of its users.

I have one for two reasons: a bad knee prevents me from cycling, and a bike doesn't fit in the train I take to go to work, whereas even the bulky m365 does.

> My guess is that Uber simply wants to maintain some hope of future growth, particularly with their autonomous car program in shambles. They also benefit from future free advertis…