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jesscxc · on Jan 31, 2019

Is there another vehicle company that is close to Tesla in self-driving capabilities?

If Teslas drive themselves and other EVs don't, are they a comparable car?

xkjkls · on Jan 31, 2019

Tesla's don't drive themselves though. Tesla has removed the FSD option from all it's model's since October. Most self driving engineers don't actual believe the strategy of using only standard cameras installed in the vehicle is going to work out long term, and their self driving unit has less funding than BMW's, GM's Cruise division, Google or Uber.

It's hard to see how they win the self driving game, and if they do, it will be years off.

jesscxc · on June 16, 2018

Does a library support the authors/creators, though?

That's probably my biggest philosophical hurdle.

jesscxc · on March 17, 2018

And that digging-into-questions can be effectively done by writing. :)

jesscxc · on March 17, 2018

As an essayist I've found the abstraction of thinking in terms of "lisp" being about "list processing" to be very helpful when reasoning about and abstracting ideas precisely.

Lisp can have almost zero syntax, so can last a long time and be picked back up quickly, I've found.

This doesn't necessarily mean lines-of-code is the most productive immediately; as much as there is resistance to it from current (i.e., 2018March17) mainstream programmers, hyperdimensional programming (i.e., 2D+, and higher in VR) like with Unreal Engine 4's Blueprint, are likely going to win out with pure advancement of results, perhaps (that is, creating effective art quickly).

Imagine finessing functions of different shapes in VR, rather than lines of text code.

jesscxc · on March 14, 2018

Another way to look at it is that the effort is in the enduring of the pivots.

jesscxc · on March 2, 2018

Really interesting and helpful advice, thanks. Saved it to a personal wiki for stuff like this.

I use a kitchen timer, too, which has minutes and seconds (e.g., digital).

Some tasks with too much inertia/resistence I ask: "Can I work on this for 5 minutes? 2 minutes? 15 seconds?"

That will build momentum and show that it's often not as hard as it seems when you're on the other side of history.

jesscxc · on Jan 26, 2018

From what I've read (which isn't hard to find, but I'm mobile right now), the danger of VR for kids is not an issue, and in fact can actually more quickly bring to attention if they have a biological issue (like more quickly reveal if glasses would benefit them).

jesscxc · on Dec 23, 2017

I'm running High Sierra on a 2012 MacBook Air and haven't noticed any slowdown. Heats up if I run a lot of things at once, but individual apps seem fine.