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Apple Maps in iOS 15 will have leave at/arrive by. I've been using it in the beta

aiddunon Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]

Good point. Street view cars since 2017 have had high def Lidar sensors on them[0], and they have some prowess in extracting features [1], but I'm not sure if that's enough detail.

[0] https://www.geoweeknews.com/blogs/google-putting-lidar-new-s...

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/16/google-maps-is-roll...

aiddunon Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]

Per "it's unscalable to get HD 3D maps of all the roads on earth", it's interesting to consider that Google/Waymo has been growing this for years with street view and the sensors on each car. Curious to see how that plays out

aiddunon Clubhouse Payments

I have a feeling that if they took a cut, they would also have to pay the 30% Apple tax. I bet they'll find a way around this though

aiddunon The future of college is online, and it’s cheaper

Shopify actually has a program like this: https://devdegree.ca

aiddunon A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall

Current college student here at a school with a large off-campus housing population - one thing I've been hearing from some of my friends (although anecdotal) is a decent amount of people still want to go to their apartments next semester even if it's online. I don't know how much of a dent this behavior will do overall, especially because I think an overwhelming majority of people would prefer not to have to pay rent every month for an unnecessary apartment.

aiddunon A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall

College student here, got room and board refunded

aiddunon Waymo Via

When I saw the headline I honestly thought Waymo had bought Via

aiddunon Has GeForce Now Quietly Killed Google Stadia?

The biggest draw of GeForce Now over Stadia for me is that I can still play my existing Steam library and don't have to buy new copies of the same games. That, for me, is a dealbreaker.

aiddunon Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

In college right now, and last semester I had an experience similar but someone different in my data structures class. The professor didn't take attendance, and stated that while we didn't have to show up,

a. It was strongly recommended in order to do well in the course (a difficult honors course), and

b. He wanted to make the class interesting enough that we wanted to show up.

The class almost always had perfect attendance. It opened my eyes so much.

aiddunon YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are Getting Burned Out

From what I’ve heard, YouTube ad revenue drops significantly in January after the holiday season, which is also sometimes a (contributing) factor in YouTubers taking the month off

aiddunon Google Announces .new Domain Availability

As does https://document.new

aiddunon YC Fall Hackathon 2019

Will there be travel grants?

aiddunon It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?

As a corollary to that, I can’t believe that the FDR is only 3 lanes at most points. It’s ridiculous for a road with that should in practice be a highway.

aiddunon Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water

Yep. Someone from my high school also got a planet named after him, but I think it was from ISEF.

aiddunon Ha-ha wall

A small youtube channel I follow just posted a video about these- specifically one next to an unfriendly military base on a street aptly named “ha ha road”.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pHHGSfd6rPk

aiddunon Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions for Google Maps

How much of a battery drain is current AR tech? I would imagine it's decently computationally expensive.

aiddunon Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate

Same thing happened with Via in NYC. They used to offer $5 flat rides to anywhere in Manhattan, now prices for the most part are variable and sometimes much more. It was unfortunately too good to be true. They offer a subscription pass that can use pre-tax dollars but for me personally it's not the same.

aiddunon Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

I believe the newest, 'more resilient' one. Don't know how to check for sure though. I have a 2018 model.

aiddunon Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

Just did this, space bar was double pressing. It took them two weeks including having to order the parts after they said they would be faster in changing them and would hold parts in stock— at at Apple store in the middle of NYC.

If I knew it would take this long I would probably just go with this if I really needed my laptop.

aiddunon Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons

Makes sense with the ubiquity of Alexa/Echos in homes. Why quantize consumer selection to a finite number of items when one can be able to order anything with the same seamlessness.

aiddunon DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

+1 for Seamless in the city, at least within my family/close friends. Might be because NYC has a strong fast delivery network within most restaurants and doesn't truly need a decentralized delivery network. The big draw to these apps to most of my friends has been the delivery of previously undeliverable food (Chipotle, McDonalds etc).

aiddunon Bethesda removing mandatory login from Doom re-releases after fan backlash

https://www.pcgamer.com/skyrim-special-editions-audio-is-not...

Bethesda also shipped the Skyrim remake without replacing the compressed development sound files, making the game's audio worse quality than the 5-year-older original until they patched it decently later.

aiddunon Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser

Wow, that's really interesting. You would think this wouldn't be okay with channels because it's still depriving them of cable retransmission fees. Looks like they just got a $500,000 donation from AT&T.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/streaming-service-challenges-br...

aiddunon Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser

> What channels can I watch? Puffer re-transmits free over-the-air broadcast television signals received by an antenna located on the campus of Stanford University.

Is this legal? Aereo [0] had to shut down because broadcasters sued them for streaming OTA TV signals, which went all the way to the Supreme Court where they lost. Aereo even had an antennae per customer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo

aiddunon It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die

I bound it to esc to try to learn vim with a touch bar. Delete sounds like an really good use. Might try that.

aiddunon Running an eInk Display with Elixir, Scenic and Nerves

What’s the current state of eInk/ePaper? I remember reading a couple years ago that the industry was bogged down by patents. Wonder if costs have gone down.

aiddunon Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty

I recently got a new MBP as a graduation gift and had the same experience with you. Everything was going great until about a month in when the space bar started randomly double pressing, sometimes putting periods mid sentence. It's in the shop now. Coming from using an already pre-owned Thinkpad Yoga for many years with a perfect keyboard, this is crazy for a product like this.

aiddunon BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics

Yeah. I remember the Chevy Volt (Electric w/ gas reserve) was decently covered/had decent popularity back in the early 2010's. I think there was another notable pure electric one as well.

aiddunon Superhuman: Read Statuses

You can still get location data from any email on an external mail client (mail.app, Mail app, etc with images loaded). Gmail only proxies images in the browser client (and maybe the the mobile app?).