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Comment Re: Meaningless statements? (Score 1) 201

Yeh, but heâ(TM)s also skipping right past âoecomputers can keep track of far more variables than humans.â Watch a Teslaâ(TM)s screen while itâ(TM)s in self drive and youâ(TM)ll observe it tracking 10s or even hundreds of cars exact position and speed. A tesla is already significantly superhuman in some regards. Where itâ(TM)s not is in decision making.

I mean, itâ(TM)s fine to make the argument that âoewe want as much redundancy as we can because weâ(TM)ve not found the place where more redundancy doesnâ(TM)t make things significantly betterâ, but thereâ(TM)s also a question of whether not perfect, but significantly better than human acceptable if it means that we donâ(TM)t have ugly, non aerodynamic bumps with lidar systems in them.

What theyre really arguing is âoeour system canâ(TM)t be made to perform well enough without lidar, so youâ(TM)d better accept the big bumpsâ.

Comment Re: Survivable crashes are now rare (Score 2) 63

Survivable crashes are the norm. Itâ(TM)s a commonly cited fact that youâ(TM)re far safer in a plane than a car. Whatâ(TM)s much less commonly cited, and even less intuitive is that thatâ(TM)s still true even if you assume youâ(TM)re going to be in a crash.

Letâ(TM)s take a look at this years crashes with more than 20 people on boardâ¦

- May 3. 767 hit light pole on landing, barely counts as a crash.
- Mar 22. Bombardier CRJ-900 hit an ARFF vehicle on the runway. 2 pilots killed, all passengers and cabin crew survived.

Comment Old man yells at clouds (Score -1, Troll) 40

I get the wish to avoid changing your process, and Iâ(TM)m sure Linus puts a lot of thought into how he does things, but I think heâ(TM)s very likely yelling and shaking his fist at the clouds here.

I think anyone whoâ(TM)s worked in a professional setting is going to know the value of code review. Having a tool that can easily give you an extra, high quality code review is incredibly useful. No matter how skilled Linus is (and he undoubtedly is), I think heâ(TM)s daft to overlook such powerful tools.

Comment Re:Can we please stop using MW for storage capacit (Score 5, Informative) 63

Both power, and energy are relevant here. The amount of energy the storage can store is one relevant metric, but the rate at which it can supply that energy is another very important metric. For most grid operators it's *far* more relevant to say that a battery bank can provide 100MW for 15 minutes, than to say that it has a capacity of 25MWh.

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