jumpmanjr · HackerTrans

I just drove that stretch of road twice. I had no trouble seeing any portion of the road where the pedestrian was crossing, from easily 100 yards away. This human could have stopped. My assessment is that the majority of human drivers in AZ could have also.

jumpmanjr

8 lat temudiscuss

The self driving car executive’s children. These guys are willing to risk my family to make a lot of money. We should make it mandatory that their kids play an extravagant game of frogger, instructed (when/where to cross) by college kids who get paid $$$ if one of the kids gets hit. Televise it. Let’s see how confident they really are in their technology.

jumpmanjr

8 lat temudiscuss

Can you create an option to find the most distant connection for a topic?

jumpmanjr

8 lat temudiscuss

This is a great application for police motorcycles. Instantaneous acceleration, and long periods of completely idle. Couple it with being US made, and the police forces will eat them up.

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

The used Toyota RAV-4 EV from 2012-2014 is the best used electric car out there. For <$20k, you get 100+ miles range, a Tesla drive train, faster than an i3 in both 0-60 (7.0 sec) and top speed 100mph, a usable rear seat and trunk, and it’s not ugly. It’s the best kept secret in EV.

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

Possibly make up another “you”, with the same name, but a different age. When I google myself, I get a criminal who’s 10 years younger than I am, and incarcerated... for about 3 pages of search terms. Gave up before I found anything on myself.

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

So, time to invest in VPN services marketed towards the 13-17 year old male UK audience?

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

Could someone use this to broadcast a satellite TV encryption key for others to use?

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

Thanks! Unfortunately the raid controller needed those blocks during boot time, or it couldn’t recover properly. I may have convinced the engineers to turn on “read after write” for those blocks.

After explaining this discovery to my manager, I also explained how Benford’s law could be used to detect fraud in his corporate travel expenses. He seemed more interested in that application.....

jumpmanjr

9 lat temudiscuss

I applied Bendord’s law against hard drive bad block addresses across 20,000 enterprise storage arrays that called home. In theory, drive bad block LBAs should map perfectly to Benford’s distribution. In our system, there were a number of anomalies. Digging in further, I discovered that the engineeers periodically had the drives seek to a certain location, and write a status block. This happened frequently enough that it interrupted the drives internal “swirl” algorithm that was developed to keep the head from carving a “canyon” into the medium. At a microscopic level, our drives looked like the Grand Canyon.

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