What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.

eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either. You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.

Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps. Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.

So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?

I'd say it's 100/100.

Sounds like a solved problem and you can buy a solution with a perfect accuracy?

I don't read the previous comment as either "you can buy" nor "perfect accuracy".

Like them, I don't understand what you're asking by "proportion". Bits/second? Sensor modules/vehicle? Features detected by the AI?

Is there a point you're trying to make?

Because it really feels like you're just JAQing off, either to come to some "gotcha" moment or a pseudo-intellectual exercise. In either case, the questions feel bad faith.

Who said that?

> To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.

Similar for the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who has gone into great detail about the advantages of raising kids in a city planned around pedestrian and cyclist usage, and not in a suburban sprawl.

Sure they may become mercenaries. Maybe "Hyundai factory worker" is akin to "remote oil rig worker".

Or they could just be regular people with regular, stable jobs because they haven't chased a life of risk.

But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.

Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?

If it's going to help US in any way, why not? TikTok is eating the lunch of US social media apps so fair to play the protectionism game.

So basically a stream deck. Those things are pretty tempting, I must admit. When similar functions are shrunk down and integrated into regular keyboards, my wallet will be in trouble.

Although this reminds me, my old Logitech G15 from 2008 already had an LCD screen and a bunch of app-customisable buttons.

So, paying for a night shift will increase the cost to customers, but higher salaries negotiated by on-call employees won't?

Or did you leave out the part where those employees discover how little negotiating power they really have

But, but, if the employer doesn't steal wages from employees, where will they get the money to pay them higher salaries?

I recently had a slack message on my Friday evening from my delayed-timezone manager starting his Friday. There was no expectation to answer out of hours, but it was some small detail I could answer in a few seconds. And this was from a new and intense 24/7 workaholic ex-FAANG manager, whose high expectations I was still getting used to, and who would likely spend his whole weekend working on this project. So I gave a quick response.

He said thanks, told me to turn my phone off, and sent a group message to the team reminding us not to work outside hours, with a link to instructions on disabling slack notifications. And then he started scheduling his own overnight/weekend DMs to send at 9am Monday.

It was an awesome response, and those firm self-imposed boundaries helped allow the work to be rewarding, rather than an absolute nightmare.

I had one of these and quite liked it. Then one day I plugged my phone in before bed as a million times before and the cable display popped and started emitting smoke.

You're not alone, this is the only type of USB cable i've had that has smoked out. Loud noise, little plume.

Same here. Those killed a couple of my (expensive) devices. Strongly advise against it.

Chargers, cables, batteries - you literally get what you pay for. In this category, the ultimate risk is nothing less than burning down whole house. I ain't rich enough for that cheap crapware. Anker it is for me.

For cables, I usually go for TrippLite. I have some Anker power banks and chargers and they work well, but a few cables from them just stopped working after a while.

Isn't Anker the definition of cheap crapware (sold under a brand name)?

This is news to me and doesn't confirm my own experience. Ie their pretty basic 65W wall charger is much better than 65W usb-c chargers from both HP and Dell they give to their laptops - much smaller and doesn't heat up at all with full day work from it, plastics are really solid so whole device just oozes quality, compared to properly cheap stuff from say aliexpress claiming the same.

Their 20,000 mah battery charger works exactly as advertised, has exactly the charge we expect, keeps working few years after purchase just as new.

So, to end suspense - what are actually high end manufacturer(s) in this area? I don't mean gucci-style appearance or some useless branding inflating the price, I mean actual internals.

I don’t closely follow the space, but Anker has always seemed like reasonable quality at a reasonable price. Maybe I’m easily marketed to or something. But I’ve had quite a few adapters and cables and such from them and have never had an issue.

Anker replaced a tablet computer that a defective USB cable fried.

I now love and trust Anker.

Alternatively that means they sell cheap chinese crap at such a markup that they can easily afford to just replace the ones that break. Basically customer QA

Just wondering, do you know of a better alternative? I've pretty much only bought Anker recently because they haven't failed me yet. Trying to determine what is quality online now is very difficult.

How did you prove to them their USB cable fried your computer? Did they ask for the devices for investigation?

I recorded a cell phone vide where I used a USB cable tester to show their cable was wired 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, 5-4, 6-3, 7-2, 8-1 instead of straight-through. I also showed another cable testing correctly.

I showed that when the SmartQ q7 tablet computer was plugged into my PC's USB port using the cable my PC threw a warning about excess power drain, but when another cable was used, it did not throw an error. I proved that by recording a cell phone video.

I might have also used a USB power meter but I do not remember.

Here is more on the ancient tablet: https://www.engadget.com/2009-05-27-smart-q7-reviewed-deemed...

Where did you purchase it?

Fry's Electronics (this was long before they shut down)

They are not that cheap, and most stuff I've seen from them works as advertised.

This comment needs to be higher up. Yikes.

Did it destroy peripherals for you too?

Bummer, guess it was only rated for 1 million plug-ins. (:

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll look at mine in a different light from now on.

Yeah, darkness, as the screen's blown.

I've been getting this a lot. Especially with Rust, where it will use functions that don't exist. It's maddening

same thing happens in any language or platform with less than billions of OSS code to train on… in some ways i think LLMs are creating a “convergent API” in that they seem to assume any api available in any of its common languages is available in ALL of them. which would be cool, if it existed.

It doesn't even provide the right method names for an API in my own codebase when it has access to the codebase via GitHub Copilot. It just shows how artificially unintelligent it really is.

Agreed. I've taken to uploading all relevant documentation as a text file along with my prompt. Even that doesn't always work.