bipson

My experience is 180° opposite to what you describe.

I never had a mentionable issue with AMD cards since switching to the open source driver approx. a decade ago. I have a NVIDIA 1060 card in my workstation for CUDA - every single time I put it in running state again, I have a realistic chance of completely borking my system.

In fact I had an AMD card installed after the first two incidents, simply to have at least a chance of having working video output when the NVIDIA driver once again doesn't want to talk to the kernel.

That and the whole practical implications and idealistic differences of having an (mostly) open source driver vs. a (mostly) closed source driver (I think we can agree that the open source NVIDIA driver is out of the discussion).

Obviously you might run into problems if you try to run very recent hardware right after availability. Kernel driver development is not ideal for cutting edge hardware and some things might break and it might need some time for your distro to ship the newest kernel/driver.

TL;DR: You can't reconstruct a generic video stream from a dozen detected facial data points.

Not sure if I understood your post correctly, but you're slightly misled here.

Watch the video. This is not a new general purpose video codec, it is basically Deep Fake - taking a still image (key frame) and superimposing detected facial expression/movement on this key frame (leaving out some technical details).

This is an improvement over (not-anymore-)state-of-the-art h264 since transmission of only a few coordinates mapping your facial expression is significantly less data to transmit then a delta of arbitrary video and periodic keyframes (again generously leaving out important technical details of modern video codecs). Trying to reconstruct a moving car/background/etc. from these facial expression key points will lead nowhere.

Woodworking is one of those "skills" that might seem so unapproachable, and yet the learning curve is quite steep (in the technical sense).

I'm nowhere near a master and make a lot of stupid mistakes. But my relatives think I'm worrying to much about those, nobody notices, nobody cares besides me. But next time I do the same thing again, I know. If it really counts or is entirely botched I just redo the piece.

Wood is similar to clay. You just try by sawing pieces in two smaller pieces, start to grind them, then come different sawing tools and techniques, then finishing (oil, laquer, etc.), then routing... Obviously you start with smaller, simpler things.

And in contrast to what others said: Don't be afraid of mistakes. A dent is just a dent, the piece is supposed to "live" anyway. Your kids will put their teeth in soon. And a piece of wood can be replaced cheaply (don't start with ridiculously expensive hard woods obviously). You can always cut a new one.

How is this anti-democratic? Democracy means the reign of the people - nothing in that concept involves that corporations can't remove someone (pressure someone to step down) because of his views/actions.

To be more precise: In a democracy corporations can still be concerned with their public image and distance themselves from (particularly high-ranked) employees, if they consider them detrimental for their business.

I agree with everything you said - besides the "necessary" part.

As someone that currently (not going to sit in full trains/subways for 2h a day the way it is right now) sits in the car for around 100 minutes a day (at least for every day me and the little one commute in) - I really like cars for technical/nostalgic reasons, but god I hate cars so much.

It is not what a single car does, it is what happens when everyone drives cars - out of necessity and even worse: "for fun". The emissions, the wasted space, the streets, the parking, the noise, the stress, the anger (had a young girl on a bike beat my passenger window and swearing like a dock-worker because of a slightly dangerous confusion), the pain, the costs (for individuals and the society). It is just sad.

And no, sorry, electric cars will only solve one aspect of all the issues caused by everyone sitting in his own car. Autonomous driving only some others. There is no way ever growing societies can sensibly continue this way.

I want my train ride back. My little one also.

I guess most people in need of an utalitarian Family car for longer trips buy an ICE for cost vs. utility reasons, even if they consider a Zoe as the second car for daily commutes/shopping.

There are simply no affordable electric family cars in most European markets. By affordable I mean in the range of regular income families - most families don't have the money to spend twice the price just to have an electric car. Of course this is not true for heavily subsidized markets.

That's the point. Taking what you earn a and live with in Norway, and comparing it with other countries, due to massive subsidies (luxury-tax excemptions that usually apply to cars), a Tesla is an affordable option for an Norwegian looking for a nice car, while this is simply not the case for most other European countries.

The same applies to Denmark and Netherlands to some degree, btw. They just have other subsidizing programs.

E.g. VWs built in Germany are cheaper to import back from Netherlands to Germany, because Netherlands adds more tax to cars in general, VW thus reduces the price for this market, and you I individually don't pay the tax if you export.

That's one explanation that focuses on the differences between European an American markets.

But also, the Zoe is is in the affordable range for people looking for an electric car in non-massively-subsidized markets (Norway, Denmark), while VWs and Teslas are rather in the luxury range.

The amount of car (utility & status & luxury) I get for Tesla or VW money in e.g. Germany, makes most prospective customers buy either an ICE (looking for a family car), or BMW or Audi SUVs (looking for luxury & status) - unless they are idealists or in search of image polish (business cars bring larger tax benefits for electric cars).

Then there are simply not much electric cars on the market that aren't in the Zoe-class in the first place (although several alternatives are bound to hit the market soon), besides very expensive SUVs and Teslas. And the regular e-Golf pricing is simply not competitive, for what you get.

So most people buying a Zoe is put very simply a "cheapest price will attract the masses"-phenomenon - given what people are looking for (an electric car, maybe as replacement for the smaller second commuter car).

Even after all explanations and presented use-cases, I fail to understand how full reading access to a users clipboard by random third-party apps was ever considered a good idea - from apps in the background nonetheless! Only in a world were I, the device manufacturer, write all apps exclusively, maybe.

The moment I draft such a feature my head turns red from all the alarm-bells going off. I sincerely fail to follow the though process here.

I think it is an age thing. If you're younger or at least not "settled"/bound by family obligations you want to see/enjoy things e.g. you didn't or don't currently have in your life - most people prefer exotic places, e.g. "beach".

The importance of family and friends comes once you realize it actually doesn't really matter that much where you live (unless it is downright terrible to live there). Life is what you make off it - this goes for your "place" as well. And for some people, their friends are essential to do that. For others not at all.

I would have never moved for family unless it concerns my household. I only moved once because of "friends"/people I knew when deciding where to study. Wasn't really stupid, just the wrong reason. It is never easier to make friends than as an 18 year old beginning your studies.

I always intended to move after studying to work abroad for a few years. Scandinavia or California would have been awesome.

I prefer not to move at all now because I/we prefer stability in life now as parents. The doctors we know, the shops we know, the handymen we know - and life isn't that terrible where we are and the daily struggles interesting enough. I would work remote to be able to stay where I am right now, just as an example.

Having moved across the continent as a kid I don't fear moving - I just prefer not to unless really necessary. Moving across the country in a few years, to a place I know more "adolescent-friendly" and with "nicer people" to build a house is still an option for me though - but harder for my partner to feel comfortable with.

I guess a lot of people (including my dad) are more adventurous and need to see the "foreign land", but everyone has their own incentives and anchors.

Interesting argument.

In fact if the fault would lie only between screen and the 'last mile' on the GPU you would be correct. But GPUs are slightly more than simple display renderers (at least nowadays), so (vast simplification) multiple renderings happen before the actual display output is generated and sent over the wire to the display.

E.g. a failing memory on the GPU might only corrupt the output of a single window/application, since this window is using the GPU to render content, while everything else is fine.

The mere fact that you would expect a system process or anything else visible to the operating system, indicates that you haven't read much about Intel ME :/

The article talks about mandatory masks, i.e surgical masks, for shoppers, to reduce spreading by shoppers.

No N95 masks needed, those are needed for healthcare workers (and need to be replaced very frequently).

You most certainly:

don't need it

would reduce the amount available for people that need it

would wear it wrong

would wear it too long

touch it with your hands

would get a false sense of safety

In difference to ... ?

Utter nonsense - CERN is neither a company, nor has it millions to give out.

Do you have any idea how multi-national government-funded research institutions work?

This has tradition at CERN. I wonder why they even considered Facebook's offering, but I guess they do not dismiss proprietary solutions as well. Whatever works?

Often enough they end up writing their own tools, if nothing fitting is available, and this might end up in the public domain (since AFAIK everything at CERN is basically paid for by the public, i.e. various member states, EU etc.).

Nothing can be "demonstrably" secure if we cannot demonstrate it. We simply cannot guarantee control over the depot for the given time-frame. A lot of things can happen in 1 million years.

You should really read this for another view on that "simple" topic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2019/11/26/the-stag...

"The project completion cost at Hinkley Point C is now estimated at 21.5 billion to 22.5 billion pounds". [1]

Agreed, the project hit some regulatory roadblocks, yet, this is a lot of money. The original cost bid was 18 billion already. Imagine how much solar/wind that would give you. And the costs for operation and waste storage are not even considered.

Also in this article: "The giant atomic project is expensive compared with U.K. wind, for example, where power from the latest offshore auction sold at less than half that from Hinkley" [...] "The additional costs will be borne by EDF [...], though they’re still set to receive 92.50 pounds for every megawatt-hour of power Hinkley generates -- more than double the current market price" [1]

This is a state-of-the-art reactor.

Nuclear is not the solution, particularly not the "cheapest", and particularly not green.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/edf-raise...

edit: forgot to cite source

Hm, if you consider storing something for a timeframe that well exceeds everything we are possible to plan ahead "safe". We simply put it in underground storages we consider "safe" for the time being. We have no idea what will happen with this deposits considering such a long timespan.

And this storage does not come for free. All these sites are maintained and must be. Just as much as the (very complicated) transport of the material. Every single castor transport in Germany and France is a huge operation.

And "Nobody has ever died from" is such a great argument. "Nobody has ever died from radiation in space" does not mean we should ignore it, does it?

4) Nuclear is and always was incredibly expensive to set up. There is a reason why nuclear plants are never paid for in their entirety by any private firm/operator and heavily subsidized (at least in the EU)

5) I am still fascinated by the lack of awareness regarding waste (particularly since it is with well educated/smart people)

Yes, I know, there are alternative nuclear power sources where we don't need to safely store nuclear waste for millions of years. But those are not readily available.

We still do not have a real solution for nuclear waste. Just dumping something so dangerous for thousands (or millions) of years is mindbogglingly reckless. And loudly asking to increase this amount by plastering waste-producing facilities everywhere... That's like pouring poison in the floor below your own garden, hoping the next guy will have a solution for it.

But I guess good ol' America, where dumping any waste is not considered a problem, there is simply no awareness for this practice. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it has no effect.

Dumping. is. not. a. long-term. solution. And just because You don't need to care about it anymore, doesn't mean nobody has to.

"What's wrong with ..." for me literally means "What should be done about ..." or "How to make ... better".

I found your defense, which basically just says "It wasn't better before - so, no critique allowed?", considerably less valuable than the article.

At least some of them don't really work at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9CJZpqfpA

With something as simple and effective as HEPA-filters, it seems unreasonable to try other technologies.

I have one of those.

It does not "wash" the air. It has a HEPA-filter on the intake side before the humidifying cycle. So it is basically the same thing as all other examples on this comment page.

You can actually run it without water (which we do), then it does only filtration.

Don't buy this particular product. It is overprized and has dramatic production quality issues (we sent two back, amazon reviews indicate larger issues).

Huh? You have a weird "relationship" with yourself.

I never did not trust myself anymore if I did more reps than I "promised" myself before.

Would a child ever grow distrust against her parents if she changes her mind and wants to do more dishes than initially asked for and they allow her to do it?

You might want to read this small section on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Fruit_versus_vegetable

Was the irony intended?

I fully agree.

The problem is: Even to well educated parents the summary "Everyone could be affected by life-long effects due to vaccination" has a drastically different meaning compared to an objective bystander that looks at the real numbers, and this leads to (seemingly irrational) decisions. Some even are mislead into feeding crusades against this "well known danger called vaccination".

Why did you leave out this (essential) information that associates your cherry-picked statement?: (emphasis mine)

>The data on the association between GBS and seasonal flu vaccination are variable and inconsistent across flu seasons. If there is an increased risk of GBS following flu vaccination it is small, on the order of one to two additional GBS cases per million doses of flu vaccine administered.

They clearly never state your conclusion, they said 'If there is such an increased risk, it is incredibly small'.

Now the question is, why would you do that?

1. Yes, I heard about them. And the point remains, as soon as their effects were discovered, they were pulled.

2. These are not vaccines, but medications. So this has virtually nothing to do with "known vaccine-induced ongoing illnesses"

Could you stop mingling "flu like symptoms" with "serious ongoing consequences"?

Every single Flu-vaccine has a high probability of showing flu-like symptoms. These are from a medicinal standpoint nothing compared to the seriousness of the real flu.

Even MMR-Vaccines are expected to cause a harmless form of "vaccine-measles", which can show up as mild rash, low fever, etc. Again, no these are not to be concerned about.

These vaccination-associated symptoms are widely harmless and there is no reason to mingle them with ongoing side-effects caused by vaccinations.