How nice for you and the other guy.

We were both fans. But allegedly it had a low number of tens of millions of users, but then firefox has a decent number of tens, so the percentages weren't terrible.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

yeah yeah if you're not paying you're the product yada yada.

Cool. But it was also useful to me. The bookmarking and tagging was very useful. The recommended articles were really good. And I shouldn't use it because?

If this is what passes for news for nerds or stuff that matters than things are not OK.

I mean yeah, but everyone knows which are the good universities and which aren't.

The Mozilla foundation has pissed away tens of millions of dollars on "features" nobody asked for

I liked and used pocket.

I can't believe how angry people are about an online bookmarking and tagging service integrated into a browser.

I thought light tricks also included SUVs. My figure was supposed to be pickups only, but take it work a huge pinch of salt because I didn't spend very long searching. But yeah either way the point stands :)

Something like 20% of all car sales are trucks.

The implication of course being that a substantial fraction on the entire country, after their weekly 9-5 grind and school run lines to kick back, have a few beers and haul trailers all weekend!

Though I think that's why a lot of people buy trucks, it's the idea that you might be the kind of rugged person who needs a truck, or at least the kind of rugged person for whom a truck is better than a car (even if a van would be superior).

And rugged men haul things (truckers I suppose being the epitome of manliness next to lumberjacks), so you gotta have rowing capacity even if you don't have a boat yet.

If instead of "The internet", whatever that means,

Are you really that stupid?

you go to pretty much any store

let me introduce you to a thing called "the internet" when you can visit stores from the comfort of your chair.

you'll quickly notice that all of the most popular models

Ho do you gauge popularity? Seems there are both kinds on sale, with LiDAR ones being more expensive, on the whole.

sold are lidar models.

You said they don't use lidar, before. Now you're saying lidar is more popular. Please make up your mind.

LiDAR is the newer tech. The first gen used what another poster described as the cockroach algorithm. Second gen used cameras and vision based SLAM. Third gen use lidar.

So why haven't the Slashdot editors been replaced by AI yet then?

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.