Comment Re:Latency? (Score 1) 90
The only possible legitimate feature is linking multiple speakers together properly.
And that was one of the selling points of the speakers that this article covers.
Submission + - New Python documentary released on YouTube (youtube.com)
destinyland writes: "From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies — this is the story of Python," says the description of a new 84-minute documentary.
It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam back in 1991. (Although the first time Guido van Rossum showed his new language to a co-worker, they'd typed one line of code just to prove they could crash Python's first interpreter.) The language slowly spread after van Rossum released it on Usenet — split across 21 separate posts — and Robin Friedrich, a NASA aerospace engineer, rememers using Python to build flight simulations for the Space Shuttle. (Friedrich says he also attended Guido's first in-person U.S. workshop in 1994, and "I still have the t-shirt...")
Dropbox's CEO/founder Drew Houston says they were one of the first companies to use Python to build a company reaching millions of users. (Another success story was YouTube, which was built by a small team using Python before being acquired by Google). Anaconda co-founder Travis Oliphant remembers Python's popularity increasing even more thanks to the data science/macine learning community. But the documentary even includes the controversial move to Python 3 (which broke compatability with earlier versions) — though ironically, one of the people slogging through a massive code migration ended up being van Rossum himself at his new job at Dropbox. The documentary also includes van Rossum's resignation as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" after approving the walrus operator. (In van Rossum's words, he essentially "rage-quit over this issue." But the focus is on Python's community. (At one point, various interviewees take turns reciting passages from the "Zen of Python" — which to this day is still hidden in Python as an import-able library as a kind of Easter Egg.)
It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam back in 1991. (Although the first time Guido van Rossum showed his new language to a co-worker, they'd typed one line of code just to prove they could crash Python's first interpreter.) The language slowly spread after van Rossum released it on Usenet — split across 21 separate posts — and Robin Friedrich, a NASA aerospace engineer, rememers using Python to build flight simulations for the Space Shuttle. (Friedrich says he also attended Guido's first in-person U.S. workshop in 1994, and "I still have the t-shirt...")
Dropbox's CEO/founder Drew Houston says they were one of the first companies to use Python to build a company reaching millions of users. (Another success story was YouTube, which was built by a small team using Python before being acquired by Google). Anaconda co-founder Travis Oliphant remembers Python's popularity increasing even more thanks to the data science/macine learning community. But the documentary even includes the controversial move to Python 3 (which broke compatability with earlier versions) — though ironically, one of the people slogging through a massive code migration ended up being van Rossum himself at his new job at Dropbox. The documentary also includes van Rossum's resignation as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" after approving the walrus operator. (In van Rossum's words, he essentially "rage-quit over this issue." But the focus is on Python's community. (At one point, various interviewees take turns reciting passages from the "Zen of Python" — which to this day is still hidden in Python as an import-able library as a kind of Easter Egg.)
Submission + - 'Chuck E. Cheese' handcuffed and arrested in Florida on charges of using a stole (nbcnews.com)
destinyland writes: "Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday," https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...">reports NBC News/. (They've even got video footage of the arrest!)
"I grabbed his right arm while giving the verbal instruction, 'Chuck E, come with me Chuck E,'" Tallahassee police officer Jarrett Cruz wrote in the report.
"I grabbed his right arm while giving the verbal instruction, 'Chuck E, come with me Chuck E,'" Tallahassee police officer Jarrett Cruz wrote in the report.
Comment Re:So basically phones, then (Score 2) 116
Specifically women? Citation needed.
Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 2) 116
Nearly all of Microsoft's Windows revenue
Um did you forget Microsoft Office exists? Offices a little more than twice as profitable as Windows...
Office is profitable. But that is not Windows revenue. That's Office revenue.
Comment Re:400m more LInux desktops -- Year of Linux Final (Score 2) 116
Or it could just mean that people who had multiple computers have ditched their older ones as they're unsupported, instead of replacing them. I've got several, and only one (two if you count the work laptop) has been powered on at all this year.
Comment Re:Marvel (Score 1) 183
And it's got nothing to do with the lack of fresh new ideas with pretty much everything being a sequel, prequel, remake or reboot.
Comment AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright (Score 4, Insightful) 100
AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright
Then your business model is illegal. Shut it down.
Comment Re:Won't matter (Score 3, Interesting) 273
Who do you vote for when they all do it?
Comment Re:Quit deving with proprietary (Score 1) 45
Most game studios don't target these APIs, they use a 3rd party (usually proprietary) engine like Unreal or Unity.
Comment Re:No legal standing (Score 2, Insightful) 371
Trump has no legal standing to rename a territory that he doesn't have majority control over.
Comment Re:Why didn't he get a longer sentence? (Score 1) 98
Apparently each call is only worth ~4 days.
Comment Generic? Really? (Score 1) 68
and we'll start discovery to show how 'JavaScript' is widely recognized as a generic term
But is it a generic term? It is only ever used to refer to that specific language.
Comment Re: [NOT a] Misleading article, 0.002% of cars...7 (Score 4, Informative) 172
It's better than it sounds. Ford sold 30,176 EVs in 13 weeks. That'd come out to 120,704 for a year -- but since sales increased over previous quarters, their growth rate is also jumping. So 2025's figures will be even higher.
People say "we need Tesla's levels of sales" -- but we have it. It's just spread across a dozen different automakers. You see that in the final sales figures for 2024.
Tesla: 633,000
GM: 114,432
Ford: 97,865
Hyundai: 61,797
Rivian: 51,579
BMW: 50,981
Kia: 43,732
Nissan: 31,024
Toyota: 28,267
Audi: 23,152
Volkswagen: 18,183
Mercedes-Benz (and others) bring this about to where Tesla's sales are -- and Tesla's sales are roughly the same as the year before (dropping 1.1%).
Other interesting stats: last year about 1 in 8 cars sold in America were (battery-powered) electric. And while at the end of 2023 there were 2.4 million electric cars on America's roads, 2024 saw another 1.2 million electric vehicles sold -- a 50% increase. In just 12 months.
So I think you have to say electric vehicle sales are increasing, quite a bit. The idea is it reaches a "critical mass" of adoption, and then all the infrastructure swings into place.
People say "we need Tesla's levels of sales" -- but we have it. It's just spread across a dozen different automakers. You see that in the final sales figures for 2024.
Tesla: 633,000
GM: 114,432
Ford: 97,865
Hyundai: 61,797
Rivian: 51,579
BMW: 50,981
Kia: 43,732
Nissan: 31,024
Toyota: 28,267
Audi: 23,152
Volkswagen: 18,183
Mercedes-Benz (and others) bring this about to where Tesla's sales are -- and Tesla's sales are roughly the same as the year before (dropping 1.1%).
Other interesting stats: last year about 1 in 8 cars sold in America were (battery-powered) electric. And while at the end of 2023 there were 2.4 million electric cars on America's roads, 2024 saw another 1.2 million electric vehicles sold -- a 50% increase. In just 12 months.
So I think you have to say electric vehicle sales are increasing, quite a bit. The idea is it reaches a "critical mass" of adoption, and then all the infrastructure swings into place.
Comment Re:TP-LINK routers and OPENWRT (Score 3, Informative) 55
Removing these devices from the market will make it much harder to find a supported device to run the community created and maintained firmware package.
What about OpenWrt's own OpenWrt One network router?
What about OpenWrt's own OpenWrt One network router?
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