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trca

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    Comment #47007157

    Same thing has happened to me with Siri. It's absolutely garbage. For years, I've said "Hey Siri, turn on Bright" because I have a "Bright" Home scene configured. About 2 months ag…

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    Comment #28694044

    About dang time. Hey Facebook, your turn.

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    Comment #25573833

    The Model S and X both have two screens -- one behind the steering wheel, and one in a portrait orientation to the right of the driver. The Model 3 and Y are the ones that have onl…

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    Comment #24569443

    The app does talk directly to the car, when you're in range of Bluetooth. That's how the phone key functions, all handoff and communications are done via bluetooth, not the interne…

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    Comment #24569406

    Even with my phone in Airplane mode (WiFi / Cellular disabled), and only Bluetooth on, I'm still able to get into my Model 3. Internet connection is not required by the car, or the…

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    Comment #24022838

    Just because you don't know anyone that uses Snapchat doesn't make that an authoritative source on popularity of a company. Snap's user base has grown consistently and show's no si…

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    Comment #23568394

    That's the thing, the rules aren't clearly defined, and aren't universally equally enforced and thinking that they are is naive. I've had numerous apps launch without question, the…

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    Comment #23435657

    Thank you!

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    Comment #23435449

    Could someone copy / paste the text here for those of us who have blocked *.facebook.com domains in our /etc/hosts file?

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    Comment #23363619

    Best way to figure out how complex things fail is to keep pushing them to their limit and observe

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    Comment #23222408

    Could also be mentioning of "quarantine" directly. Might make sense to make your app description more generic to just being home, so that it will still be applicable after the COVI…

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    Comment #22964205

    We're almost entirely migrated into GCP now, roughly 95% done. Here's a CodeAsCraft article from when we started the project in 2018 about how we selected GCP vs AWS or Azure, and …

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    Comment #22795003

    Tesla has partnered with Medtronic to increase their production capacity ( https://www.massdevice.com/tesla-to-reopen-new-york-facility... ). So Tesla isn't approaching this as a h…

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    Comment #22407018

    According to Hidden Figures (which to the best of my knowledge is quite accurate in representing Katherine Johnson), she actually hand checked most if not every calculation perform…

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    Comment #22231488

    Their head of AI talked about this during their AI Investor Day and he said that even when the road is entirely covered, there is still enough subtle clues for the neural net to pi…

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    Comment #22231460

    Can confirm: There is an overlay that appears which asks whether you consent to collection of video (only from the 7 outside cameras -- there is one facing the interior but it does…

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    Comment #22231420

    In the "FSD Preview" update that came out around Christmas time, the car now shows a bunch of symbols on the road, and signs (aka stop signs) that it recognizes. They don't flicker…

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    Comment #22231401

    Karpathy (their Head of AI) showed how they are able to generate a 3D depth map of an environment given 2 forward-facing stereo cameras, it's possible that's what the car is attemp…

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    Comment #22231382

    You mean just basic bounding boxes around an object?

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    Comment #21997873

    Where has Tesla ever said they needed to abandon all of their training data?