Courant d'air 🍃

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  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lutoMemes@lemmy.mlI hate the rich
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    2 months ago

    Is that really a thing? I’ve seen it in a few job offers but I have trouble understanding how it works…

    As I understand it you can take as many days as you want and it works on the company’s trust, but that system sounds really toxic to me, isn’t it?

    Edit: I’m European with almost 7 weeks off a year for context



  • I tend to disagree.

    Even with same weight/same tires/same everything, different teams will use different algorithms to control the car and to take decisions. There are a thousand ways to make a car follow an “optimal” path and I doubt everyone will use the same, and even if they do every team will have their own implementation which will lead to small differences.

    Adding to that all the uncertainties brought by measurements of the outside world (correctly estimating where are the car and the other cars) and the possible interference between the different car’s sensors (if they run all at once like in real F1), we would certainly have surprises. Controlling a real car is not the same as controlling an AI in a video game, a lot of mistakes can be done.

    Source: I work as an R&D engineer in an autonomous vehicles company



  • I’d say more than 10 years now. Computers evolved a lot more between the 90s and the 00s than between the 00s and now, my old laptop is 10 years old and it’s still perfectly running linux, and I hope it will keep running for years.

    The problem is more hardware obsolescence, it’s a Acer so every part of it is slowly falling apart (keyboard, screen, battery) and OEM parts are impossible to find after all those years. I guess this problem is less important for desktop.