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Doesn't the US regularly fuck with Russian elections anyways? This is kind of par for the course.

Starshot plans on sending small probes to other systems in the near future provided they get all their funding together. I'm pretty sure they'll get their little probes up to 20% of the speed of light using a high powered laser and a light sail which makes for roughly a 20 year journey to Alpha...

Depending on what went wrong this could delay them for months :/ Plus it might undermine them flying humans to the ISS in the next couple years. Hopefully it was something really stupid and nothing wrong with the rocket itself.

After playing around with F1 fan cars in GT5 I can't fucking wait for this. I'm not super big into motor sports but watching some extremely high speed racing with crazy aerodynamic cars would be really exciting. Plus you never have to feel guilty about taking pleasure into an extremely...

Hah I feel like I should get this, I haven't really done any rendering work :( Or this is a straight up math reference that's over my head hah I love the concept of it on the surface, but there is just so much stuff we can't explain that going down the simulation route almost seems like the...

When people bring up the topic of us living in a simulation it always makes me think about quantum mechanics. Using probabilities and never having to determine a position until it was necessary are great ways from a computer science perspective to save on computing resources. I doubt that we...

Great video on Dyson Spheres (Swarms?) and how we could achieve type II/III status in a relatively short period of time (50-100 years?) if we wanted to. We could build a partial Dyson Swarm using Mercury as materials then use the energy from the swarm to make tiny black holes we could use for...

Cool quoting works from other threads~ From the political thread I don't think I am, mainly because the most expensive part of transportation is the human element. If you can eliminate humans AND keep your vehicles running 24/7 because they no longer have a driver who needs rest, well you're...

Well the shifty part is they charge 2-3x the blue book cost then 19-29% interest to people who can't really afford the vehicle. Then put clauses in to be able to take the car back for just one missed payment, couple that with keeping the down payment money..

I wouldn't say the limiting factor to getting a level 4 will be price but simply a matter of production limitations. Uber and Lyft have been very clear in their desire to buy every autonomous car that's produced and I wouldn't be surprised if they're partnered with Ford. Those cars are going to...

I couldn't find the article but there is another version that uses blade legs to get around that can get up to a decent speed and deal with most terrain.

Hah they already have robot cowboys that will herd cattle and keep them moving between grazing areas. It's still the early stages but they appear to work well enough! Meet SwagBot, the Robot Cowboy that Can Herd and Monitor Cattle on Its Own - Modern Farmer

I know nothing about LIDAR or really imaging hardware in general, but wouldn't multiple units in close proximity cause interference? Or can they actually tell whether or not the reflection they're registering is from their laser.

I've read that they plan to make the autonomous trucks go city to city on their own, but they would park themselves at depots where regular drivers would take over for the city movement. Whoever ends up owning the robots that do the work, are going to be the only people who end up rich when...

Ahh you're talking about level 5, okay that makes sense now. Yea I agree that's a long way off, I just think most people would be ecstatic with level 4. If it can get me from A->B within a city and between major cities on it's own I'd be lining up to buy one.

This is an awesome idea actually, I could see high end retailers having a store vehicle they can send around to pick up clients. Ford is saying 2021 is the year they'll have fully autonomous cars available for sale, am I missing something when you keep saying it'll be far in the future? Ford...

Long term I wouldn't be surprised if some of these ride hailing services just become free. Watch a 30s advertisement every 10 minutes or something of driving and they can earn the cash back for the ride. It's not really feasible with gas powered vehicles, maintenance costs are simply too high...

I fucking haaaaaaaate traveling long distances via car but I love to travel, It's exactly why I want one as well. My only concern with autonomous vehicles is that they will dramatically increase the amount of travel people are willing to do and in doing so increase pollution. Any time movement...

I'll probably never use this, so I might as well throw it there if somebody finds it interesting. The idea would be to create a inventory management system combined with a Point of Sales that lives in the cloud. The system would provide a website for the business that could either be a read...

Couldn't be more wrong! Heroin is just a perfect example of a drug made significantly more dangerous via prohibition. I am in no way advocating it's use, I am just using it as an example of what kind of risks people think are acceptable contrasted with ones they aren't and how illogical their...

I specifically said that its better from a toxicology stand point to be addicted to heroin presuming it's a clean source than it is to alcohol. The majority of the damage that heroin causes is because of the tampering of the product and the inconsistent doses. The addiction rate for alcohol is...

Presuming you had a pure supply and safetely injected, heroin is a much safer drug than alcohol in terms of addiction. Alcoholism can damage a plethora of organs, and lead to a pretty brutal premature death. Pure heroin on the other hand causes no damage to organs and long term addiction shows...

If you use a tincture and rather than swallow it let it sit under your tongue it will fully absorb through the mucus membranes. I'm told it's very similar to smoking in terms of effects and duration (I've never tried, it sounds like a waste to me). If I had a choice between smoking and edibles...

Was the HTC Vive also under 200$? Or just the Rift? The Rift I can believe, the Vive is probably more with the base stations and controllers, probably not much but definitely more. Weren't they going around saying they were selling these things at cost? lol

Anyone had experience with deploying/updating stored procedures and table structures using something like Chef/Puppet/Ansible etc? We'd need something that supports Oracle and MSSQL and ideally would allow us to delta's between versions. I see lots of stuff that manually handles this with...

I hadn't tried it. When I went looking for settings to fix project cars they had some basic instructions on what you needed to get Asseto Coursa going. I'll give these a try later this week, the other instructions I found made it sound like you had to purchase it through the Oculus store to get...

PSA - Stay away from Project Cars, at least in it's current incarnation. I was playing before at medium with my 7970, and on the 970 I temporarily had it played okay with those settings in VR. I have the 1080 now and tried cranking up the settings and it turns into a total shutter fest...

For the most part our code base has no macros in any of our code, and we've never really had them either. So I can't really comment on them as they've never been a problem for me! I'll agree that includes suck a big dick, so do compile times. If I don't use our build accelerator it takes...

If you're using C++/11 properly and not doing your own memory management it's a much better language then it was. Unique_ptr and shared_ptr are fucking god sends to bad developers, as long as people use those it's almost impossible to have memory leaks. The std library definitely has holes, but...

The "biggest" great filter is most likely behind us, it was the long term stability for complex life to iterate long enough for intelligent life to exist. As far as we know we're the only creature that is/was capable of passing knowledge between generations well enough that we continuously...

I really hope this is successful, their lobbying against GMO's like Golden Rice is absolutely despicable. Golden Rice is a GMO rice breed that produces vitamin A, and a lack of it can be fatal or cause blindness. The strain is given away to 3rd world countries for free, no licensing. There was a...

I tried 1.2-1.5 and it still seemed quasi blurry, and 1.6 was the sweet spot for me when I stopped noticing it at all. After reading how it worked I didn't see much use in increasing it further. For anyone interested there is an internal multiplier 1.4 that you're multiplying by. So 1.6 would be...

Well I'm glad I found out about the super sampling multiplier (Super Sampling Screenshot Steam Overlay comparison : Vive) as it seems to be the only thing that's made my Vive's screen clear. I'm running it at 1.6 now with a 1080GTX and it's like night and day.

Yea I tried that last night for quite awhile. I've taken the foam off, tried the narrow face insert, made sure it's sitting on top of my cheeks. It fucking sucks! I've had "perfectly" clear vision just a single session playing job simulator and haven't been able to reproduce it since then. I...

Anyone with a Vive have issues with "god rays" and have any kind of solution for it? I spent a solid hour yesterday trying to fix them to no end. It seems to be some kind of internal reflection when the screen is bright inside the mask and it seriously distorts my view. It just happens if there...

From largest to smallest. EATX -> ATX -> Micro ATX -> Mini ITX Any case that supports ATX will most likely mount anything smaller and you can carry that on through to the mini ITX size. So EATX supports everything below it, and ATX everything below that etc. That's the norm on most cases but...

Got my Vive yesterday and it's fucking awesome. I don't have much new to add that hasn't already been said but I've had a couple people try it so far who aren't gamers in any sense and they've taken a real liking to it. I think that comes down to how natural the controls are and easy it is to...

Bastards! The Canada shipments for early April are just going out now. It was a total cluster fuck as they were just mailing them out randomly and a bunch of people who ordered in May got orders before people who ordered in March. Lots of people after me have gotten theirs already :/ Hopefully...

The 480X is going to sell like hot cakes, it's just that we're not the target demographic to buy it. Anyone willing to plop down 500$+ on a graphics card has little interest in a budget performance card but the vast majority of graphics card sold are exactly in that segment and NVIDIA has...

NCIX has already jacked up the the price! All the ones at 909 are already floating around 940-950 :/ Luckily the VR headset isn't hitting my direction anytime soon and I can maybe skip this founders garbage.