Unless the ramdisk (AKA tmpfs in modern Linux) is compressed.
Many low footprint Linux installations now include swapping to zram, which is compressed. The net effect is positive since you usually have an abundance of spare CPU cycles.
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Many low footprint Linux installations now include swapping to zram, which is compressed. The net effect is positive since you usually have an abundance of spare CPU cycles.
I find it extremely immature sounding, very grating, not funny at all.
You could actually just press that "off" button at any time, and the dog would look around and do that funny "Dog shrug" thing they do, and go upstairs and lie down, even if it was the middle of the day. We had, essentially, a remote controlled dog.
I don't think there has been enough time to say if any "great programmers" (ugh, that's a horrible horrible term) have learned from graphical tools. MIT's Scratch came out (just) 15 years ago, and was quite primitive. Many career developers really start programming at around age 10, so even if they started on scratch, they would be just 25 now. Only beginning their journey to becoming "great". There just hasn't been enough time to say if this is an effective introductory tool or not.
I'm guessing that there will be more pressure to have similar programs in developing nations.
Couldn't get past the first paragraph.
This isn't going to end well.
Have you ever seen a font and thought "oh, that's ugly" but it's really hard to put into words exactly why? Font design is all about aesthetics and custom hand-tweaking every single curve of every single letter and making them look exactly right.
What matters more in a portable computing device (i.e. "phone") the software or the hardware?
Essential seems to be flaunting unique hardware designs, but in fact, it seems that as though without a software stack that's at least as innovative, that this doesn't have any chance of being a success.
If they follow the "luxury watchmaker" pattern, and yet they have a new & unique software platform to enable new functionality, how will they attract the app developers?
There is a bit of a "chicken and the egg" type problem here for sure. I think that in the future there will inevitably be new platforms and new solutions that enable new functionality and attract developers away from existing platforms (as iPhone did), but I don't feel that the time is ripe for this to happen yet.
That said, I wonder if this thing just runs heavily modified stock ASOP?
- Pilot can't reasonably fly more than 8-10hrs a day Need at least 3 pilots per aircraft for 24/7 delivery support.
- Pilot needs a salary, drastically increasing the OpEx of each drone (vs. "just maintenance and electricity")
- Ability to train & hire pilots limits total fleet size.
- Pilots require insurance, which is likely a nontrivial amount. (depending on regulatory environment, of course)
Imagine being able to build 1,000 drones in a factory. Can you as easily hire, train & pay 3,000 pilots? Probably not.
In other words: I was hoping to hear a musical composition or performance using samples generated by WaveNet.
I think a better, more realistic title for the article would be more like "Generating Experimental Sounds Using WaveNets" or similar. Even the authors inclusion of animal sounds in the generation made this more of a novelty and not really useful for actual musical sound generation.
Would be interesting to compare this approach with other "Less neural-net-y" approaches, like combining samples in the frequency domain and mixing samples over time.
They sell these features as "parking assist" or "smart cruise control" or similar, but don't kid yourself into thinking that there's not a very sophisticated software system that could, if hacked, take over control. Has this ever happened? Have there been catastrophic bugs documented?
More advanced vehicles (i.e. Tesla) have enough hardware to be be nearly fully autonomous today. (i.e. they could rend control from a driver and continue to pilot the vehicle to an alternate destination if hacked)
There are a host of obvious reasons why even a "simple" L4 car will beat a human hands down:
* Reaction time.
* 360 awareness / visibility.
* Lack of exaggerated "Human Reflex" to surprising events (i.e. swerving violently to avoid a dog, and hitting other vehicles)
* Keeping perfect space around the vehicle for safe stopping at all times. (don't tailgate, don't get rear-ended)
* Assuming a LIDAR-based system, virtually no difference in day vs. night vision. No "sun in your eyes" or "road glare".
* No fatigue related accidents.
* No DUI and related prescription drug accidents.
* No distraction-based accidents. (kids, cellphone, food)
* No "road rage" based accidents.
I could go on, but this should drive the point home pretty clearly, IMHO.
I didn't see any mention of resolution in the blog post, and many comments here and elsewhere about low quality.
Is the resolution still capped?
I know the Optane SSD drives are fast -- is this just device-side driver software that allows you to virtually expand available "RAM" and mmap it to the SSD?
Why just i7 CPUs? Is there a hardware component?
"Just download and install the driver..." (Linux?)
Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague:
"A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing."
So... It's a text editor? A test framework? What languages does it work with? Web APIs or native? Why would I use it over my existing toolchain?
* Blog post (linked) is very vague, no "About Postman" or similar link.
* Toplevel of blog page is the same, no "About Postman" or "What is Postman" link.
* Toplevel of "postman.com" is amazingly, similarly vague, with the most descriptive text above the fold being:
> "Developing APIs is hard. Postman makes it easy. Download the free Postman App"
* Still, there's no "About" link or anywhere obvious to actually describe what the product is. I clicked on ALL of the tabs in the upper right: "Products", "Pricing", "Documentation" and "Cummunity" and NONE OF THESE has any text explaining what Postman is or why I would want it.
If your site(s) don't have a simple "Postman is a ..." or "Postman can help you..." paragraph, then you've absolutely failed to attract your target market.
https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
PJON™ (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media communications bus system. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements a totally software-emulated network protocol stack. It is a valid alternative to i2c, 1-Wire, Serial and other Arduino compatible protocols. Visit the Wiki, Documentation and Troubleshooting wiki pages to know more about the PJON Standard.
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Features
* Configurable 2 level addressing (device and bus id) for scalable applications
* Multi-media support with the data link layer abstraction or Strategy framework
* Configurable strategies inclusion (for memory optimization)
* Configurable 1 or 2 bytes packet length (max 255 or 65535 bytes)
* Master-slave or multi-master dynamic addressing
* Configurable synchronous and/or asynchronous Acknowledgement of correct packet sending
* Collision avoidance to enable multi-master capability
* Selectable CRC8 or CRC32 table-less cyclic redundancy check
* Packet manager to handle, track and if necessary retransmit a packet sending in background
* Optional ordered packet sending
* Error handling
This appears to be true (from other comments on terminal performance in this thread) but other VTE-based terminals (gnome-terminal) have high performance and work great on sub-1GHz class machines.
I rarely (never?) see any "terminal glitching" except for the cases where I've done something absurdly wrong, like running a bash inside emacs-shell with the wrong setting for TERM.
Terminal emulation is essentially a solved problem (state machines and control code sets are small and well defined, there are many reference implementations and compatibility tests). If you see glitching, it's probably from what you're doing inside the terminal, not from the terminal itself.