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Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Zikan posted:

lmao google

too bad that means uber "wins"

google can't take any project to completion

also I kind of wonder if maybe google had a realization of how unlikely it is that Lidar-based fully autonomous car tech would see mass market adoption and decided getting $250M and letting another company continue to burn money on it was win-win.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2018 17:57

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 10:58

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

crabrock posted:

if google scholar ever went away i would be sad. it's good at finding papers.

it is okay at it (and getting worse), microsoft academic shows more promise imo. it actually respects proximity operators and will return zero results when there are zero results instead of just silently deciding that you must have really meant "funny" AND "near" AND "computer" instead of "funny" NEAR "computer" like scholar has a really nasty habit of doing. the new gimmick is that it uses machine learning to classify the documents so that you can prevent your results from being gunked up with documents from some random field which just happens to also use the same term and it seems to work decently well.

neither are anywhere near as good as Proquest or even IEEE XPlore

qirex posted:

I think they're trying to show more of what actual humans post over the 100000 identical lovely procedural dessert videos people like or share but there's no way to know for sure because facebook refuses to tell people what they're doing and also refuses to let users customize their own feeds because that might interfere with promoted content

i could see people being mad at that because for some people 90% of what their real people contacts post are MLM ads

# ¿ Feb 10, 2018 15:47

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

the scholar discussion is either way tainted a fair bit by the fact that academic publishing really needs to change more in response to the new realities that people actually get at a much broader set of often worse papers

in the small whenever i have a paper at some small conference and then write it up into a full journal version for e.g. theoretical computer science, where the historical logic would be that that is a fine journal which people subscribe to and read, the fact is that the (usually then flawed and outdated) paper at the conference will keep racking up the citations while the tcs one will get one now and then slowly, simply by virtue of being less accessible and therefore less searchable etc.

the most extreme example of this is dissertations. a bare bones conference paper will get cited all over the place but the 200 page tome explaining in meticulous detail every aspect of the research and subjected to an extreme version of peer review will just gather dust because it is impossible to stumble across.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2018 16:38

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

infernal machines posted:

having an option buried under a menu to enable "search for what i actually typed" is also some amazing loving UX design

wait... is this an option? where?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2018 16:38

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Wheany posted:

i think tech companies have some weird problem where they feel bad about lying to you about the time a post was made, but only about that specific thing. so they feel bad about inserting an ad in the middle of your timeline that is otherwise sorted by time.

therefore they have to invent some "goodosity" score for posts that might appear on your feed, then they can just adjust the goodosity score of promoted content so that they appear in their proper place (everywhere).

I think the tech companies know that >90% of the stuff people post is crap and that causes social media services to eventually hit a point where users either become accustomed to just scrolling past everything (including ads) or stop using the service entirely because it is just stuffed with poo poo.

nextdoor has hit that point for me. despite the racist guy always starting "saw a suspicious person" posts it used to actually be a useful place to find out about upcoming events and such. now that anything useful is buried in an endless stream of people plugging their businesses or trying to sell furniture for 10x what it is worth, why bother?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2018 13:45

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

JawnV6 posted:

hey, military nerds who knew where to dig up sled driver stories, i heard this joke/story a while back about the first spy satellites going up that is either an actual history and/or something a jerk made up at scout camp

the USA has theirs, the russians go out to a field and write "GO HOME YANKEE"
the russians are monitoring an air base, the US military knows and spells out in garbage bags "GO HOME RUSKIE"
then, when the satellite's in the other half of the orbit, they send a buncha guys out there to trim 6 inches off the trash bags, over and over and over, until the russians think their satellite is drifting from orbit and self-destruct it

idk if that's true but I do know that the NSA painted a smiley face on some of the radio dishes they used to monitor soviet satellites

# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 01:03

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Trimson Grondag 3 posted:

http://www.bestmaid.com.sg/Filipino-Maid.html

sortable by ethnicity of course and includes marriage status!

why are people so awful?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2018 12:17

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i don't think fusion will ever be a source of electric power, period. not in my lifetime, not in your lifetime, probably not in the lifetime of our species

iter and the stellarator are fascinating exercises in high energy physics but i have no idea how either one is meant to lead to electric power generation

when you think about it solar power is fusion based :v:

iirc one of the proposed electrical power extraction methods for fusion reactors is to line the thing with optical ports and direct the visible-UV radiation onto photovoltaic arrays.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 13:08

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

silence_kit posted:

when solar cells get warm, their efficiency degrades. hopefully when they evaluate this idea, they include the solar cell efficiency penalty and/or necessary refrigeration energy cost when running the solar cells at intensities of what I assume are many many multiples of 1 sun.

I didn't say it was a good proposal.

silence_kit posted:

that reminds me�during the height of the solar cell research/funding era, with Solyndra and all of that, the US government funded research of transparent solar cells lol

it�s probably not that much money and so it doesn�t really matter but man what a stupid idea

it is actually a lot less dumb than you are thinking. the idea is for the cells to be transparent to visible light while generating electricity with the IR and UV light.

the potential application that always gets trotted out is having windows that generate power but the really big promise imo is in placing a transparent PV on top of a traditional Si PV to make use of some of the 500W/m2 in the IR band that currently is completely unused by PV panels. you might even be able to retrofit it into place to give an efficiency boost to existing installations.

too bad IR photons aren't really energetic enough for true PV operation.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 19:49

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Xarn posted:

Is "think about the small business" the "think of the children" but for economical policies? What is funny is that I live in a socialist hellhole with universal healthcare, paid sick leave, minimum wage law that also applies to waitstaff, etc, but basically every economic policy that isn't "cut all taxes all the time" is always countered with this.

pretty much, except to be really equivalent you'd have to adopt some crazy definition for "child" that includes people that are in no way children.

there are quite a few billion-dollar "small businesses".

# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 14:55

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

President Beep posted:

do they though? it seems like it's a royal pain in the rear end to even get them to enter orders and poo poo digitally.

that's definitely true and is why there is demand for that software. doctors are often used to dictating notes which then get sent off to someone else to transcribe them into the medical record. as you can imagine this is often an extremely expensive logistical and security nightmare that hospitals want to get rid of, but haven't been able to stamp out because of doctor tantrums.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 17:45

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

how exactly are these vehicles parsing and processing that amount of data quickly enough for it to be useful for driving?

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 19:08

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Bhodi posted:

the lobstrocity is fine compared to goodkind's evil chicken, like, that's just the genre. it's all bad

lol this is the portrait goodkind insists on using in his cover flap author bio:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 04:37

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Jonny 290 posted:

Normally, i'd laugh at you and say "gently caress you i'm in Denver forever", but you happen to pull this poo poo while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna say no, I wanna come visit. But I can't visit there, because I know i'd move there right away.. Besides, I've already been through too much poo poo this morning over this city to move away from this dumb poo poo.

seattle is very nice and the cascades are loving gorgeous, but i've visited a few times and pretty much concluded that yeah i could live there but i'd rather just visit regularly.

i know it is a cliche but seriously the rain and the lack of sun would just drive me nuts.

seattle:

Denver:

also holy poo poo is it expensive

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 12:49

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Improbable Lobster posted:

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should both be shot into the sun

bring the rocket back though, it at least has some scrap value.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 18:35

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

infernal machines posted:

holy gently caress.

these are meant for a table of 20 right?

they are exaggerating. the real thing is ~4000Cal.

so you know... just a 160mile bike ride at 20mph.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 02:45

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

lancemantis posted:

tesla basically makes 2 different cars at this point (model s and x are practically the same), and this is the second model they�ve done the full car for

whatever the market cap of the company is, they probably have only a tiny fraction of the investment any other large automaker does for their manufacturing processes so yeah they�re going to suck and make no money

like most other small automakers are niche and do ok because they have a lot of experience but they still tend to have plenty of issues but their consumers care less because it�s niche (like lotus); they also charge niche prices while tesla is trying to be a luxury and economy marque simultaneously

no the s and x are probably quite different from an assembly point of view thanks to the stupidly complex doors on the x.

really tesla probably should have switched from primarily making cars to supplying complete drivetrains to traditional automakers. keep making the S and new roadster to keep the "Tesla = crazy fast performance" branding in popular consciousness while making money off the combined e-vehicle production of all the automakers.

but Musk is a control freak and would never go for not being able to treat the company like his personal playground. he was probably pissed at the mercedes b-class and i bet it only let it happen to secure mercedes' (now sold) investment in tesla.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2018 13:27

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Facebook still hasn't fixed its real estate advertising problem and advocacy groups aren't just asking anymore

quote:

According to the lawsuit, Facebook provided the fake Realtors with pre-populated lists of groups they could choose to exclude from seeing the ads, including women or men or families with children. They could also opt to exclude people with certain interests, including disabled veterans, disabled parking permits, or learning English as a second language.

In January, for example, the National Fair Housing Alliance says it made an ad for a fake apartment, using Facebook to promote it to people in Washington. Choosing from a list of preset options, the fictitious landlord was able to exclude people with interests in the �National Association for Bikers with a Disability,� �Disabled American Veterans,� �Disability.gov,� and �Disabled Parking Permit.� Facebook estimated that the ad would reach 1.2 million people, the group reported.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2018 15:15

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Jonny 290 posted:

somebody jacked a mobo and chip from the computer shop and i was changing light bulbs on a ladder. i ran outside and threw the ladder behind their lovely celica or w/e and they backed into the rungs and got stuck lol

I saw a guy from Guitar Center chase a shoplifter with a guitar across four lanes of traffic and a parking lot where the shoplifter managed to make it to their car to get away

only to not look when they turned right out of the parking lot so they immediately got t-boned by a Mercedes into a drainage ditch which they crawled out of just in time for the police to say hello.

made for some great entertainment as I watched from a restaurant patio.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 03:01

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Wheany posted:

so what's the deal with trump and bezos? i think i might have missed something here

Bezos owns the Washington Post.

The Washington Post has repeatedly embarrassed Trump.

Trump blames Bezos.

Sagebrush posted:

the apple engineer crashed in silicon valley and the road signs in that video say indiana.

Here's the actual spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJSjeHDvfY&t=28s

lol it still does it even though someone died there. you get a second or two at most to respond.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 11:42

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Condiv posted:

at least social media won't shoot you to death if you go to it for help

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 21:28

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

One thing I've found from using it for a few years is that the people in geographic or specific hobby subs are often depressingly old.

the geographic subs seem to attract the same old angry folks who used to write racist rants in the local TV and newspaper comment sections before everyone else but the spambots abandoned them.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 15:46

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i don't care how much effort was put in, or how good the product is

the dangerous thing is the dream of somehow making money without integrating into a broader social fabric. it is a cultural problem. that is just not a good thing to want, much less actively pursue

but the streaming and youtube channels are a part of the social fabric for this generation. wanting to be a youtube star is really no different than previous generations wanting to be a movie star or musician.

a much bigger concern is that youtube dgaf about anything other than you viewing as much of their poo poo as possible so the algorithms Youtube uses tends to reward the person who is the most extreme with views and money. probably something to do with how those who share those extreme views are much more likely to like/comment/share the content that agrees with them and keep viewing it over and over again while someone who is middle of the road watching middle of the road content won't. that's why you end up with your recommended video list stuffed with poo poo from Paul Joseph Watson after clicking on some one minute video of some vaguely conservative topic.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 18:04

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

eschaton posted:

yeah, she was really shaken up, said she just keeps hearing the click as the woman chambered a round

she should be talking with a ptsd specialist asap.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 19:56

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

eschaton posted:

just gonna save this to my �agitprop� folder to use the next time someone brings up visual programming

I've seen some amazing stuff done with Labview.

I've also seen it used in strange places. in ~2007 at least some of the Chemical-Mechanical Planarization systems used in semiconductor manufacturing used labview to control the detection of the process endpoint.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 13:54

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

haveblue posted:

the algorithm can't possibly be the problem, you're just doing it wrong

ok, why don't you just update the dataset the algorithm runs on

waze/google's not-our-problem no effort approach to routing fuckery aside, I love how in every case of a neighborhood traffic issue the residents reject any solution which would require them to experience even an iota of sacrifice.

make the street one way? nope! no left turn onto the street? maaaybe, but only if it is for the hours when I wouldn't make a left turn.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2018 15:42

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

oh hey looks like the California Supreme Court just hosed Uber (and all other 1099-exploiting "tech" companies)

quote:

Under that test, the worker is considered an employee if he or she performs a job that is part of the �usual course� of the company�s business.

By way of an example, the court said a plumber hired by a store to fix a bathroom leak would not reasonably be considered an employee of that store. But seamstresses sewing at home using materials provided by a clothing manufacturer would probably be considered employees.

In addition, a company must show that it does not control and direct the worker, and that the worker is truly an independent business operator, not just classified that way unilaterally.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 15:18

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

lancemantis posted:

considering pretty much every fortune 500 abuses the hell out of contracting, and Uber is just an extra visible one, I won�t be surprised if there are strong challenges

or other companies will just silently break the law like they�ve more or less been doing for decades because they�ll never face consequences

it will be the latter because the article points out a bunch of other states already use the same test. companies will also have to weigh the risk of the appeals court or even the SC going "yep, this is indeed the test for determining employment". that's a real risk because the test is much simpler to implement than the current one and that makes it appealing to the SC Justices who don't want to have to deal with complex fights over every drat nuance of the 10 factor test.

the ruling is mainly a problem for companies which use contractors for their primary workforce.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 17:03

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Beast of Bourbon posted:

I was a "contractor" for ea and msft and both times i was W2'd by either Volt or PRO Unlimited. But I was W2 with health benefits and OT and all that jazz.

that's the usual setup.

with the occasional exception temp agencies don't screw workers through making them 1099s. they don't need to because it is much more lucrative to screw them by negotiating up the amount the amount the end company pays per hour without passing it along to the employees.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 18:20

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

qirex posted:

I�ve always assumed that �biohacking� silently implies massive amounts of recreational drugs

wasn't "microdosing" LSD a thing in tech bubble recently?

# ¿ May 2, 2018 03:23

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

President Beep posted:

bad humors.

the pos theory of disease

# ¿ May 2, 2018 17:57

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1000560168608980993

:allears:

# ¿ May 27, 2018 04:01

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

muckswirler posted:

they most definitely aren't. it's a graft scam.

I was more thinking it was a typical case of "tech bro experiences minor inconvenience, formulates over complicated solution around which to start a business, then throws every single possible use case at the wall, no matter how absurd, in the desperate hope that one sticks."

because I've seen articles where they hype up that it can be used for: easy registration, fleet management, indicating a car is outside of an approved zone, drunk driving probation indication and tracking, to indicate a person with a learner's permit is operating the car, indicating payment for parking, and of course advertising.

municipalities are giving it permission because it is an easy way to look like they are keeping up with high tech stuff, and any trial deployment is doubtlessly being heavily or entirely subsidized by the company.

# ¿ May 29, 2018 14:49

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

don't they by law have to warn people in advance if cuts will be more than some rather low number of employees?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 02:03

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Musk using a mass layoff to prevent anyone from blowing the whistle on Tesla's safety record:

la times article

quote:

A proposed severance agreement the Elon Musk-led automaker presented to one of the more than 3,000 workers dismissed last week required acknowledgment that the employee �had the opportunity to raise any safety concerns, safety complaints, or whistleblower activities against the company, and that if any safety concerns, safety complaints, or whistleblower activities were raised during your employment, they were addressed to your satisfaction.�

The document obtained and reviewed by Bloomberg News also barred the former worker from sharing �business-related� information; required that the ex-employee assist Tesla�s defense against claims; released any claims made against Tesla; and dictated that any disputes under the agreement will be handled in individual arbitration.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 18:32

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Elon starting to hype up building a pickup, let's see... yup production numbers for the model 3 being announced this week.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2018 00:20

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

infernal machines posted:

tesla is just going nuts, subpoenaing errybody

apparently apple, facebook, and dropbox have all been stealing trade secrets

Lol management destroyed evidence by deleting all his photos in front of him and just now realized they likely nuked a fuckton of their own case against him.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2018 00:19

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Roosevelt posted:

buy an av, you faceless nobodies

they could use this one. don't worry about attribution or anything the original owner will like the exposure

# ¿ Jun 28, 2018 13:50

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

ate all the Oreos posted:

they did for a long time, then kinda got lazy and content with their position, completely missed the boat on mobile then jumped on board far too hard and far too late, on top of this made the idiotic prediction that IoT would be most of their future market, and now they're just kinda aimlessly flopping around

what's crazy is that when i was in the industry (jfc that was 10 years ago) intel had something that would have let it completely dominate the current market: their equipment was all perfect copies. an insane amount of engineering time went into it and in some cases they would literally exactly copy even the quirks such as reproducing a circuitous pipe routing which was only there because there was something temporarily in the way when the equipment was first installed in the original fab. that meant the equipment was for the most part interchangeable and greatly aided flexibility and ability to ramp production because once you got it working on one set of tools you could very rapidly deploy it to the others. it was done to an extent that you could pull a batch of wafers mid-production (at a non-time-critical step) in one fab, send it to another fab, and it would be essentially indistinguishable yield and defect wise from a batch you had just held at that step for the amount of time it took you to ship between fabs. that's loving insane and i didn't believe it until extended discussions with an engineer who used to work there.

in comparison our fab would take a 10% yield hit if you ran the initial transistor area patterning steps on one set of tools but didn't use those exact same tools to run gate, contact, and bit-line patterning and it was just accepted as "eh that's the way it is, we've matched them best we can". experiments were run testing the capability of transferring product between fabs en-mass in case of an emergency which took out a fab's ability to run a critical step (using one fab to make it halfway, the other to produce it the rest of the way) but those batches routinely yielded ~25-30% lower and yet the this was considered great results for the company.

the reason why that would help them dominate the current market is every millisecond the equipment isn't running full-bore is money lost, so the matching would let them more easily move orders between fabs to run smaller orders with other orders using similar processing conditions (the equipment idles as it shifts between different conditions, with larger shifts taking more time) or to keep underutilized equipment in one fab running something (long idle periods do very strange things to semiconductor equipment).

but evidently noooooooppppe.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2018 15:24

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 10:58

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

iirc starting ~10 years ago intel bet heavily on extreme-uv lithography being production ready "soon" while other manufacturers resigned themselves to honing their multiple-patterning techniques and the use of sacrificial structures as they knew there was no way they could afford the euv equipment with the production scraps they were getting as business.

intel lost time playing catch up design-wise each time euv got delayed. now that euv is finally getting into meaningful production the other fabs can afford it thanks to the large and reliable ARM revenue stream they got by default due to Intel insisting on making mobile-x86 a thing.

so a bad bet on the fab side gave competition an opportunity and a bad bet on the design/business side gave the competition the money needed to capitalize on it.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2018 17:32

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