Funnily enough though Ford managed to adapt the Transit to the e-transit and by all account it's a very good van.

Vans unfortunately don't have the lifestyle connotations of trucks, however.

Modern ones haven't built a map visually in a long time (if ever).

The early ones certainly did, since cheap lidar sensors only became available recently. I'd be surprised if they weren't using range and vision fusion because relocalisation and loop closing is much easier with vision than with range sensing.

The internet says that lidar is newer and better, but vSLAM is still more popular for cost reasons.

The camera is how the mapping works. It's pretty hard to do a good job without one of those.

There's 3kW European ones??

I though they stopped selling those decades ago. It's been 900W for nearly a decade now.

I've got a 1200W wet/dry extractor and it's noticeably more powerful, but those pro ones aren't domestic vacuum cleaners so they are exempt. It's also easy excessive for domestic vacuuming though you can use it for that if you don't mind a huge, heavy and noisy machine with excessive suction.

It's not a good example of "US invents, China interests, EU regulates".

The fundamentals of the visual map building that these cleaners rely on voices from these two papers:

https://scholar.google.com/cit...

https://scholar.google.com/cit...

You'll more they both come from within the EU (at the time).

Of course they built on other work and were built on by other work from around the world.

Now do Israel oppressing Palestinians.

That's a nice bit of racism right there: all Jews are really responsible for Israel.

I didn't have you being a little bitch on my bingo card for today.

Better that than whatever the hell you are. Idiot on the internet? Anonymous loudmouth wanker?

Tell me again about how it's 100% about race.

It's 100% about race. Did the shooters bother to check the religion of any of the individuals there first? No? Well then it's not about fucking religion.

You're focused on this incident,

Oh yeah this is a completely isolated incident and no one else in history has ever decided to have a crack at the Jews regardless of whether any of the individual Jews they are targeting are actually are religious or not.

A significant number of Jews insist that their ethnicity and their faith cannot be separated which is only true to the extent that some of their sects refuse to consider you to be a Jew unless your mother is a certified Jew

Ah yes just what I needed today: some asshat trying to explain the Jews to a Jew. Your ill thought out, half baked explanations don't cut it, frankly.

I can't be arsed to explain why you're completely full of shit and that's fine because I very much doubt you'd have any intention of listening.

But they are improving. They have dropped by over 20% in the last year.

Since 2000 all the countries I listed have improved by a larger percentage then Germany too.

Celebrate their progress rather than pissing in their beer..

Their mediocre progress?

Many Jews literally insist upon this confusion. If you attack the Jewish faith, they insist you are attacking the Jewish people. This is especially true of Zionists

Just please fuck all the way off and take your shit with you as you go.

Did those murderous arseholes in Australia this morning bother to check whether any individual jews they were shooting were observant or flat out atheists? No.

It is absolutely 100% about race.

It's not great but considering where they started from, and the progress they have made, they deserve some credit.

Yeah but have they though?

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

Compare 2000 to now:

Germany: 573, 344, 60%
UK: 522, 211, 40%
Spain: 471, 146, 31%
Italy: 502, 288, 57%
France: 80, 44, 55%

Out of the top 5 Western European economies, they've had the smallest reduction in CO2 for electricity generation. So where they are now is not very good and their progress is not very good either. Ever other one of the top 5 there has done a better job in reducing carbon emissions.

I don't get the praise, frankly? Why not lavish it on the UK or France instead?

I think this is some middle ground to modify section 230. Abolishing all protections for websites for what their users post will have a terrible chilling affect on online speech.

Indeed. For what it's worth we see the same black-and-white expreme thinking over here in terms of political solutions as well.

If something isn't working perfectly, shred it and take a shit on the shreddings! It's the only way.

I think modifying section 230 to limit protections for large sites for algorithmically generated feeds,

Yeah, exactly!

Sec. 230 provides some marvelous things in it allows people to provide a platform for users, which is good because having them liable for everything users say would make that basically impossible. The problem is the platforms for users have become platforms for the platform owners. It's now being used as an excuse whereby a company is completely protected from its own actions.

Huang maybe belongs on the list. He founded NVidia in 1993 and has stuck with it ever since. Also they saw people trying to use GPUs for other stuff, what used to be called GPGPU, and got in on it early. Then they noticed that ML was gaining ground in CUDA and released CUDNN less than two years after AlexNET.

Regardless of the hype, their hardware is very powerful, and usable as well (something AMD only appeared to realize is important about 15 years after the horse bolted).

That's not what I took away from his post. The US is a giant which appears to be dying slowly. But what replaces the US? The answer is possibly nothing, and the world will consist of regional players for a long time.

Also, I don't think the US is going to die as such. Europe is littered with the remnants of powerful empires. None of them have returned as a great empire, sure, but the EU does have global economic influence. In a kind of cack handed and incompetent way, sure, but it does. You get that for simply being big and reasonably stable. I don't see why the US would decay to below the level of the EU, unless it falls apart internally.

If you need the "unsafe" keyword or have to write convoluted code to work around its absence, C is likely still a better choice.

Maybe you could argue C++ here but C? No.

Doing a ton of stuff by hand when it can be easily automated seems to me to be a terrible choice. Even simply using a more expressive language over C, with a richer type system to express programmer intent and good facilities for error free generation of repetitive code is a better choice.

And secondly, the argument doesn't even hold up on its own merits: only the "unsafe" blocks are subject to memory unsafety. Sure pay more attention to those, but the facilities stop you fucking up elsewhere too.

it's a major miracle we still have Nikon, Canon, Leica

It's not like CCDs and CMOS sensors or even phones have destroyed optics or the optics industry.