Posts by werdsmith 7122 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
well isn't that just the worst combination? You are mostly not needing to focus on the driving, but every now and again you need to take over at short notice, without warning?
Errm, that's how these systems are supposed to work. It's in the law.
And it really is no big deal in practice.
This sudden phantom braking is not unique to Tesla. It happens on other makes of car with driver aids. I’ve kind of learned what conditions cause it and when to expect it. But your hands should be on the steering wheel and then button to engage/disengage the driving aid directly under your thumb. I’ve had to do it a couple of times. Not on Tesla though.
It’s clear enough that he is saying RPi5 will be delayed from going into production because of supply chain problems, and the existing models will be brought back to ready availability.
Development work on RPi5 is ongoing, of course it is. Likely it began before covid and the availability problems and continued throughout. Hardware development guys don’t work on production logistics.
So I understand this to mean that at some point after 2023 when the RPi4 and other models Pi demand are being met with equilibrium of component supply/ production capacity, then Pi5 production can be quietly introduced to begin preloading the retail channel around the world to meet the inevitable very high initial demand without causing too much disappointment.
The BBC gets most of its money with the backing of the police, an advantage many businesses would love to have.
As far as I know, most shops have this too. Go to your local Tesco and try and walk out with a few bottles of whisky, see what happens.
If the other providers are supposed to be entertaining, how come I find more entertainment on BBC?
This is the point of the BBC remit. They provide programming for things that wouldn't normally get air if it were only commercial considerations. Therefore those of us that like BBC 4, Radio 4 and Countryfile get catered for. I also prefer the BBC over the Fast Food TV that dumbed down services like Netflix offer. There is more stuff available on BBC than I have time to watch/listen.
The annoying thing is that the continuing pressure from the dumbed down audience has led to BBC planning to take the education/arts BBC 4 to online only in favour of the reality trash TV BBC 3. They are also moving local and regional TV away from some regions. It's been hilarious watching the mealy mouthed twats come on TV trying to justify this.
I watch French TV and it's been very interesting to follow the argument between TNTSAT and canal+ about TF1 distribution. The TF1 channels were removed from the TNTSAT card access (for which a 4 year fee is paid). Now it is available on the free services in the higher numbers.
It’s human nature, and there is quite a lot of variance in that.
A system that has to use a big stick to make it work doesn’t fit so well with human nature compared to one that uses a nice big carrot. It’s unfortunate that the best system we’ve found so far is so flawed.
I can’t comprehend anything travelling at Mach 10 in the lower atmosphere. The gas molecules in the air are not going to co-operate. I would like an explanation about how this problem is addressed. Surely the phase of trajectory at this speed is above the stratosphere? It’s a re-entry from orbit kind of velocity. As the projectile comes down to lower altitudes it must be much slower.
I use an iphone as my personal phone. I don't particularly like it, but it's not an infuriating dogs dinner of a phone to use like my employer provided Android phone, which I absolutely detest.
The iPhone cost next to nothing as it is 5 years old, but still streets ahead of the brand new Android phone.
If there was a decent alternative to the iPhone then I would be interested, but as yet, nobody has offered one.
As for this sideloading thing. I don't give a shit. I probably wouldn't bother anyway.
I always associate booing with under 10s when the villain appears on stage in a pantomime. I've no idea why grown adults do it. If a person was recorded on video booing, and then viewed the recording I think they would feel the full cringe.
If fusion power were to become available as a true self sustaining process with excess energy out and it was scaled up to provide a source of energy to the world, this could have a massive destabilising effect. The order of things with all this money being funneled toward oil producers would dwindle and some parts of the world would become more volatile as a result. It would be like a pole reversal in the Earth's magnetic field.
Some forethought and careful planning required.
If you were to look at the Wishlist features that people have suggested for a future Pi SBC, the RK3588 seems to have it all covered. It's not just about performance. For example, up to 32GB RAM, eMMC 5.1, SDIO, SATA 3.0, 4-lane PCIe 3.0, and 3x PCIe 2.0. All stuff that Raspberry Pi people keep patting us on the head and telling us we don't need. We shall see.
It really is the software and "ecosystem" support that has sustained a lead for Raspberry Pi. The fact that they have a stable OS and they have invested time in slowly and incrementing the optimisations to drivers and linux support for their hardware. This seems to be the difference in approach.
Inherent weakness maybe, but C and C++ are like bridges without parapets.
We are all very good at walking in a straight line, but how would you feel crossing such a bridge?
Perfectly ok if it’s a low one in an ornamental garden. Not so good if it’s a high one above a deep rift.
Of course if your bridge has parapets then somebody could still manage to fall off it. But not because of a little stumble.
Rust is your bridge with parapets.
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