I was able to punch in a route I frequently take. It seems to figure out what direction the bus is going to go and know if the sun is on the left or the right. I dunno if it is assuming the bus goes in a straight line or computes a more realistic route but I guess that doesn’t usually change which side the light comes from most of the time. I noticed afterwards that you can set the time, which makes a difference.
I’m not sure how much I care though. Last time I rode the bus was full and I sat (1) where I could and (2) on the inside. I was really going to be happy wherever I wound up.
No idea. I think it is a mistake in this case because it makes it sound like this is a brand, like maybe a new bus line or something.
What it makes me think of is that in my town (Ithaca, NY) there has been a proliferation of new bus lines in the years since Greyhound and Trailways went out of business. It is much harder to go west (say Cincinnati or Detroit) but competition is fierce for the New York City route and there is a pretty wide range of choices at different price points and luxury levels.
When I look at the form with that brand it’s easy to come to the conclusion that they want to be the AirBNB of buses or something.
I used to carry a desktop replacement laptop but now my “go” kit is an ordinary iPad, when I want to do heavy computing I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and log into a desktop Windows machine with RDP.
Maybe 10 years ago I would go to hackathons with a similar kit but based on a cheap Fire tablet and a cheap plastic clip to hold it. It is a hassle if you want to do keyboard stuff with it on your lap but if you have a desk available it is sleek compared to any laptop and gets more attention than a macbook or gaming laptop.
I have some sense of what an unleashed iPad would look like, maybe we’ll get it.
Two big developments in the last 20 years that have gone into different directions. One is video game emulation which proves the universality of computing, the other is the phone/computer split which obscures it. (So often if you know your Turing you’ll encounter some youngster that says something like “Silly Boomer, don’t you a phone is one thing and a computer is another thing?”)
when entering a “clean space”, like a home or even a fitting room,
take off your shoes
I remember playing a Yakuza game where you could walk the protagonist through a house with a tatami floor without taking off your shows and I figured it was alright because he was a badass.
This is norm in much of Europe (as in east, west, north and FWIW some south too), middle east and north Africa. Shoes are always dirty, even on non-rainy day. Sure, you can have rather mess at your home (absolutely unavoidable with smaller kids) but you can do some basic effort to tackle it.
Also, massively unhygienic for various fungus that loves damp warm places on your toe nails or between toes.
I am not so impressed with the Turing test. The ability to listen actively and change the subject when your are over your head will get you pretty far in conversation.
Many of those systems have no real authentication so they are vulnerable, like the 802.11p.
Strong authentication for that kind of system is really tough because cars would be interacting at the datagram level, not have a lot of time for connection setup, probably requiring some authority like the cellular network to manage access control, etc (with the politically fraught "require a subscription" and less than 100% spatial coverage.)
If authentication is not good the killer apps to V2V may well be:
(1) Somebody lives in a residential neighborhood that they feel gets too much traffic. They set up a transmitter that makes it look like there is demolition derby going on which will presumably activate warnings and make people slow down.
(2) Same, for the driver who doesn't like being tailgated. (Now if you could only trigger an anti-collision radar.)
WSL2 seems to virtualize the GPU pretty well, I had an easier time getting my GPU to work for machine learning inside WSL2 than I have with plain Windows and Linux in the past.
It does, but it’s a whole rabbit hole of specialized settings from what I can tell. Toying around with GPU-PV in Hyper-V with a Windows 11 guest was complicated and ultimately had performance & compatibility problems. (With my previous PC even deadlocking when I used the onboard video encoder from within the VM)
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