It's possible, but my anecdata is that the four people who have run into the back of my car in the past ten years have all been middle-aged men distracted by phones.
Two Audis (one of them written off to the point it had to be lifted onto the breakdown truck with a Hiab), one Hyundai of some sort, and one bicycle.
The cyclist was the only one I felt in any way sorry for, because he did actually hurt himself pretty badly and obliterated his carbon wheel and forks, but he shouldn't have been dicking around with his phone while riding down a steep hill at what I can tell from his Strava trail was around 35mph.
At no time did my car suffer any more than a bit of scuffing and damage to the old tennis ball over the tow hitch to stop the grease getting on my trousers.
I get downvoted to hell and gone for saying such controversial things as "AI doesn't really solve any problem I have", so I just assume people who downvote to disagree instead of commenting to explain why they disagree are too lazy or too stupid or too stoned to get enough of a spark across a synapse and not really worth caring about.
If I was in it for the karma I'd be in the billions by now.
> This is also why the n64 has weird 9-bit ram, it is so they could use a 18-bit pixel format, only taking two bytes per pixel, for cpu requests the memory controller ignored the 9th bit, presenting a normal 8 bit byte.
The Ensoniq EPS sampler (the first version) used 13-bit RAM for sample memory. Why 13 and not 12? Who knows? Possibly because they wanted it "one louder", possibly because the Big Rival in the E-Mu Emulator series used μ-law codecs which have the same effective dynamic range as 13-bit linear.
Anyway you read a normal 16-bit word using the 68000's normal 16-bit instructions but only the upper 13 were actually valid data for the RAM, the rest were tied low. Haha, no code space for you!
I'd like something like this in C or C++ quite honestly.
Something like a struct that I can say "this struct is global to the whole program and everyone can see it, but once this function exits those values are locked in". Maybe something like that one function is allowed to unlock and update it, but nowhere else.
Think in terms of storing a bunch of precomputed coefficients that are based on the samplerate of a system, where you really only need to set it up once on startup and it is unlikely to change during the application's running lifetime.
I feel like there probably is a way to do this, and if I was good at high level languages like C I'd know what it is. If you know, tell me what I'm not understanding ;-)
> So much of practical CS is abiding by standards created by solo programmers in the past.
I wonder if this shows up in other disciplines? Do surgeons do this? I'm thinking in particular of the bit in Richard Heller's book M * A * S * H (you're probably more familiar with the TV series) where one of the old hands is reviewing the Young And Enthusiastic Newbie's work, and says something like "Your work is absolutely perfect and it's the neatest job I've ever seen, but you're going to kill a patient doing that because it took you two hours and some of these kids don't have two hours".
I'm taking a break from doing Clever Stuff and just working on the networks team at work, because there's a big infrastructure update happening and if you want a thing done right you have to do it yourself.
Anyway.
People are starting to log support tickets using Copilot. It's easily recognisable, and they just fire a Copilot-generated email into the Helldesk, which then means I have to pick through six paragraphs of scrool to find basic things like what's actually wrong and where. Apparently this is a great improvement for everyone over tickets that just say "John MacDonald's phone is crackling, extension number 2345" because that's somehow not informative enough for me to conf up a new one and throw it at the van driver to take to site next time he's passing, and then bring the broken one back for me to repair or scrap.
I’m not entirely sure how your response maps to my comment, but indeed the airstream impacts on weather cause a much warmer climate in much of Europe compared to North America. This can confuse many folks when guessing the latitude of locations in each region. I remember how shocked I was when I was younger to learn Paris is nearly the same latitude as Vancouver, especially considering the climate difference.
It's more that there's comparatively little insolation here, unlike pretty much all of the US. If you go to one of the US cities that's incredibly far south like Seattle, you've got way more sunlight pretty much all year round.
Even down here at 57°N I'd need a solar farm the size of a football pitch to run a few lights in winter, and it would have to have the panels practically vertical because for the six hours or so the Sun is up the highest it ever gets is 9° above the horizon.
You're pretty okay for wind though, although if you're on the north-west coast it needs to be good for maybe 140-150mph sustained.
Your AI is acting up - Seattle is not incredibly far south, nor has abundant sunlight.. few minutes more than London, but if we're including cloud-vs-sunshine, less hours.
London would be "up" from Seattle (47.6->51.5) not "down here".
The 140mph sustained wind in Seattle is regularly featured in tourist guides, though. Fair play
Seattle is further south than most of the EU, and being down about the 45° point gets far more insolation than anywhere even five degrees north. It's just basic trig.
Consider that from where I'm sitting right now the border between Canada and Alaska is only like an hour's drive north for me, albeit 4500 miles west ;-)
I live in Canada (North of you) and get far more sunlight than you (~2350 hours/year vs London's 1640 or Edinburgh's 1430.. at 57.. are you just south of Inverness?)
Cracking beaches all down that coast though especially a little south.
I go up to Aberdeen quite a bit, and as I'm coming over the brow of the hill on the AWPR as it passes Blackdog to the north and you get a view of the sea, I trip the dashcam to get a photo of my favourite wind turbines that really really really upset a certain elderly conservative guy.
> This could be true, but why ignore the fact that you create a full blown native Mac app, with a single sentence?
Isn't that a bit overblown? I just fired up Copilot in VSCode and typed in "make me a DAW plugin that will inject MIDI control changes into the track output" and it didn't even know where to start.
Two Audis (one of them written off to the point it had to be lifted onto the breakdown truck with a Hiab), one Hyundai of some sort, and one bicycle.
The cyclist was the only one I felt in any way sorry for, because he did actually hurt himself pretty badly and obliterated his carbon wheel and forks, but he shouldn't have been dicking around with his phone while riding down a steep hill at what I can tell from his Strava trail was around 35mph.
At no time did my car suffer any more than a bit of scuffing and damage to the old tennis ball over the tow hitch to stop the grease getting on my trousers.
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