Good lidar systems see much, much better than camera based systems in adverse weather. I work on FMCW lidar systems and I recall driving to work one day where the fog was so bad that I couldn't even find the road to my office. Once I got work, I turned on the lidar system I was working on and it imaged a building 100 meters away without issue. Road lines are trivial to identify in a lidar system since they have much different reflectivity than the road surface. Objects are also easier to identify because you aren't trying to pull three dimensional information out of two dimensional images. On an FMCW lidar system, you also get doppler information for free. You don't have to try and decide if an object is moving towards or away from you by comparing subsequent images. Every single point in the point cloud includes a meters/second doppler value.

I have to assume your familiarity is with those awful spinning Velodyne systems. They are utter garbage. No self driving car company that I've interacted with is even vaguely entertaining the idea of using them in a production car. They don't even really like using them in their mule cars but, until very recently, they were the only real option available.

The real problem with lidar is that people aren't good at consuming lidar data yet. Once they start to get some experience with it, I have zero doubt that lidar will be the primary sensor on the car. It's the only way you can really build a model of your surroundings with high accuracy, high refresh rate and high tolerance to ambient conditions. So, I actually agree with the GM guy here: Tesla is full of shit. They aren't going to make a level 5 autonomous car with cameras and radar.

This is exactly why I used it for years. You can't stream anything of quality over a rural 3Mbit ADSL connection and you can't afford to stream anything over a higher bandwidth satellite connection. Thankfully, the movie studios have done me a huge favor by only releasing like 1-2 good movies a year so, there is no need for any of that nonsense anymore.

Even as a borderline Fanatical Linux Guy, I'm pretty much OK with this. It sounds like they are just adding some kernel tweaks to make it work better with their hypervisor. No real drama there. Ubuntu has a bunch of different kernel flavors that are similar in nature.

Having said that, if they start creeping into userspace, it's time to get out your pitchforks and torches.

Come on... Everyone knows that as soon as you link against TensorFlow, you are now an AI company.

Still totally worth it.

I agree that it should have been free but, a stable adult rarely needs to do anything related to credit checks. Even beyond that, I am 100% willing to give up convenience for palpable online security. I've never had my identity stolen, never had a virus on my computer, never had a website password breach compromise another account, etc. And the reason for that is that I'm cautious and willing to inconvenience myself to avoid a threat. As soon as I read about credit freezes (on this website!) I decided that the threat was much, much larger than any inconvenience I would invoke by freezing my credit. The Experian breach is a Big Deal and the adults in the room are inoculating themselves against it regardless of the hassle.

Right. Just like how in 2008 the narrow miss of a global economic meltdown has caused necessary change in the entire industry...

Uhhh... I just finished freezing all 3 credit agencies and it cost me $6 and about 10 minutes of time. As far as Security Bang For Buck goes, I don't know if it gets any better than that. They give you a pin number so, in a few years, if I need to unfreeze, it should take about 10 minutes and, if it again costs me $6, I'm definitely OK with that.

I wonder if this is an assumption on the part of the article writer. XXVI is clearly a stock-symbol-shortened version of ".xX VI Xx.". The new company name is just a strong suggestion to employees as to what editor they should use. Hopefully this means we will have VI bindings in Android soon.

This is the crux of it. If you are young and a "jack of all trades", people are going to think you lack depth of knowledge. If you are older and a "jack of all trades" people will hire you just for your breadth of knowledge.

Come on, man. You bought it so, what? You think you own it? That's totally 90s thinking. You just rented it until we decided you can't use it anymore.

I have that Stallman manifesto around here somewhere...

The other way to do it would be to close loopholes that let multi-billion dollar corporations pay less tax than I do. We, the people, via taxes, effectively subsidize the entities that are trying their damnedest to fuck us over as much as possible as long as it's profitable.

What I'd like to see is a study on how well a corporation like Google would fair if it was headquartered in Somalia. And then take that data and figure out what percentage of their profit is due to the infrastructure that the taxpayers have payed for. And then use those figures to work out an equitable taxation figure that totally disregards bullshit corporate tax haven schemes.

Corporations massively benefit from our tax dollars so, they should share a lot of that burden. Instead they move their money to places that don't tax it as much but where none of the actual work is done. Just making corporations pay their fair share would have an enormous impact on our society. But, unfortunately, the people that are elected to our government are bought by the corporations before they even take office.

I've built systems for about that long and I did a simple CPU upgrade about 2 years ago. About 6 years ago I built a dual Xeon E5645 workstation for myself ($500 per CPU at build time) and two years ago I upgraded them to Xeon X5690 CPUs. The X5690 CPUs were about $2000 each when I built the machine but only $200 each used on eBay 4 years later. I've also piecemeal upgraded a bunch of other parts like RAM, disks, etc.

The end result is a 6 year old workstation with shockingly good performance when compared to anything but a new $5000k workstation. I recently got the upgrade bug and decided to use the Phoronix Test Suite to test the performance of my workstation against modern i7 and Xeon chips. The new i7 chips were definitely much faster at single core tasks but, my old school Dual Xeon X5690, with 4xRAID5 SATA*2* SSDs and 96GB of RAM, handily crushed them for any task I care about: Compilation times, multi-core number crunching, etc.

My point is that if you buy cheap and shitty consumer grade hardware, you can expect to throw it away after a few years. If you buy low end professional/enterprise hardware, and that suits your needs, you have a cheap and easy upgrade path.

Writing to that directory with a Windows program will bring you pain and misery. I learned this the painful way the first time I used WSL, did a "git clone" then brought up Visual Studio on that directory. Couple hours of work lost as my disk writes just went poof.