Why, what's the hurry?
Probably worried about competition from Tesla's Robotaxis.
The quote was from the Bavarian government guy, so it seems unlikely that he's concerned about Waymo's competitive worries.
Also, German regulators are very cautious, so I expect Tesla's camera-only and less-mature robotaxi service will have a harder time getting approved.
Now we need to move quickly from testing to real-world deployment.
Really? That is a need? Why, what's the hurry?
You know another company that moved really quickly from testing to real-world deployment? OceanGate.
Well, given that Waymo has been testing for nearly 20 years and been operating commercially for six years, currently operating nearly 4000 vehicles in 11 cities doing 500k rides per week... there's not a lot of risk.
Roads in Munich aren't terribly different from roads in US cities. Stoplights work a little differently. Munich does get a little snow, but rarely very much and it almost never lasts long. If Waymo's vehicles can't deal with it they may just suspend service... though I expect they'll probably handle it fine. They're supposed to go live in Detroit and Minneapolis this year, and if they can handle the weather there (where just shutting down for snow is not an option), Munich will be no problem at all.
So, not much like OceanGate.
That execution is the recording engineer's job. Dre is mostly a producer now, and that does require considerable talent and creativity. Depending on the situation, they may do everything except write and sing the lyrics.
The recording engineer only records (and maybe mixes) the audio that is generated, which is part of what I meant by "mechanical process", along with generating the audio. Dre could use AI to transform his ideas into digital audio tracks, obviating the recording engineer and the performers, and to then select and mold the results. This would still require talent and creativity, which was my point.
Really, a lot of us in I.T. should have seen this coming.
Earlier in the year, my significant other was still gaming on an Alienware laptop that was about 3 generations behind on its nVidia GPU and had issues like a non-working trackpad (someone messed up the ribbon cable inside it while replacing dying cooling fans in it). We found a high-spec upgrade for it at the local Micro Center, selling for around $3500 with an RTX5090 in it, 64GB RAM, etc. Just about all of our friends advised us not to dump that kind of money on a gaming laptop. "Just wait, they said.... You can surely find something cheaper than that." I told her to ignore all of them and to pull the trigger on it if it's really one she liked.
Only a month later? That same machine was up over $5500. There's basically nothing on the market today with the same GPU in it selling for less than $1000 or so more than we paid for that system. And typically, they only have a 1TB SSD vs the 2TB in hers.
None of us have a crystal ball, but I saw this trend started with price increases on RAM and storage with the rise of AI and new data center construction -- and knew PCs weren't going to go down in price for quite some time...
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I thought Chrome devs went hard on fuzzing API's after the timing attacks went big
Back to the drawing board.
> Only the richest of us are worthy of privacy, right?
I put GrapheneOS on a $179 Pixel I got off eBay. Works fine. Battery is at 97%.
You only buy new phones? Must be nice, moneybags.
They were not in any way the same company
This is, of course, capitalism-worshiping nonsense. Corporations are legal fictions. Having bought one, you have become the owner of the entire fiction, including the name. They are SCO now in every sense that matters, and I say that as someone who used to run SCO software and who knows several former SCO employees. That SCO is dead, hopefully this SCO can also die soon, but they are legally the same SCO.
Caldera didn't buy SCO.
On top of that I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's possible to take fees paid to the government as tax-writeoffs. Sufficiently large firms might well simply write off the money spent this way directly against their taxes.
It's almost certainly all operational expense, same as the salary paid, which means it's "written off". But "write off" doesn't mean "it's like you didn't have to pay it", it just means that it's subtracted from revenues when calculating profits. Net is that writing something off saves about 21% (the corporate tax rate) of the amount written off.
It's the same as your personal taxes, more or less. When you donate to charity, you get to subtract the donation from your adjusted gross income. If you make $100k and donate $10k, then it's as if you made $90k. Supposing (for simplicity) you pay a flat 20% tax rate, and you didn't make the donation, you'd pay $100k * 0.2 = $20k in taxes. Having made the donation, though, you only pay $90k * 0.2 = $18k in taxes. You donated $10k and basically got $2k of it back from Uncle Sam so the donation only cost you $8k out of pocket. But you still ended up $8k poorer (but the charity is $10k richer!).
The principle is the same with corporate "write-offs", though the mechanics are different.
will you pay 100k or just hire a local. i think they wont pay the 100k.
Silicon Valley companies will pay the $100k. The positions typically pay $500k+ (base + bonus + equity + benefits) and companies are accustomed to spending tens of thousands of dollars in addition to deal with the H1B filings, and for other immigration services, including fees for green card filings, etc. An additional $100k is painful, but since it's good for 6 years, they're already paying around $3M, so it's only a ~3.5% increase.
They sold a pretty decent x86 Unix throughout the 80s and early 90s.
They did no such thing. SCO Unix was, by far, the worst one. Nearly as unreliable as Windows. Just as an example, their serial port driver was so bad, you had to download an open source driver (Final Asynchronous Solution, anyone?) to get serial ports to work properly, especially if you were using a modem. And Deity help you if you accidentally started getty on a port with modem control enabled, and no modem...
I used it quite a bit and found it pretty decent. I never used a modem, though, so you may be right about that.
What bank (or credit union) doesn't have web-based online baking?
Many require you to use the phone app for MFA, even if you're using a web browser.
I guess there's the option of just doing all your banking in person, at a physical branch location... or at least an ATM.
More like he’s lazy and his talent was being at the right place at the right time
Assuming for the sake of argument that what Dre does is creative and that he is talented, very little of making great music is about the mechanical process of executing on the generation and recording of sound. That's important, but there are a lot more people who can do that than create something that is new, and good.
Creation (in any medium) is about the ideas, and about the ability to recognize what works well and what doesn't. Given that, I could completely see AI being a useful tool for a creative, talented artist. They have to supply the ideas, in the form of prompts, and they have to recognize whether the results are good. The AI is just a time-saving device for the middle step of generating representations of the ideas.
Seriously, I think politicians on the left are dropping this nonsense, and DEI everywhere, and Pro-pal lunacy. We reached peek woke.
We reached peak woke four years ago. DEI is dead. The corpse is still twitching in a few corners of academia, but that's about it.
I wonder if that is the end of it, and the center left move back to somewhere near the center again, or are they just keeping it quiet until elected because they know normal people realize how STUPID it all is?
I don't think the center left ever moved. The center left just didn't push back against the far left because why alienate them? I mean, the far left is perfectly capable of just deciding to sit out the elections. A non-trivial number did exactly that in 2024 because they were mad that Biden didn't take a hard line with Israel. And given that the GOP has turned insane...
IMO, the center left does need to push back against the far left. But I don't think the mainstream Democrats are going to get that message until they get smacked in the face with just how out of step a lot of those far left positions are. It's not going to be DEI/woke crap now, it's going to be the full on socialists.
But the only way for the voters to deliver that much-needed smack is by handing them a severe electoral loss. Which also isn't going to happen because the GOP has gone insane.
Likewise, the GOP needs to be smacked in the face with a solid loss to bring them back to reality. But that's not going to happen because DSA...
I think for the next cycle or three, we're going to be stuck with two increasingly-extremist, increasingly out-of-touch parties, and neither is going to get the kind of big loss needed to wake them up.
And in, say 10 years time, will the people who fell for it look back on these demented times and realize how gullible they were?
People don't do that. Even if they come to their senses the vast majority will just not want to talk about it... or else they're revise history and say they never actually supported what they support.
you can get this behavior in C if you tag your pointers with strict
I meant restrict, of course.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard
