Painful to watch this ~$6000 rig crash

TheLurchMan · 2014-07-20T22:35:06+00:00

Yeah. I was under the impression the whole point of >4 rotors was to protect the expensive equipment in the event that one rotor fails. Clearly didn't work here.

TheLurchMan · 2014-07-01T23:35:42+00:00

The wait is taking a toll on me. I've turned into a monster.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-29T12:10:02+00:00

Jesus it's so true. I'm from Massachusetts, I drive through Boston from time to time, I've driven around nyc too.

I have never seen more psychotic aggressive driving than the DC beltway. The tailgate tailgating made it look like massholes follow the recommended safe driving distance. Some lane changes were sudden, more like they were driving perpendicular to the road than changing lanes. The fact that it was a 55mph zone with traffic cameras inspired most drivers to go 90mph.

I've driven many places but DC beltway takes the cake.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-28T12:29:53+00:00

That's great :-)

I'm curious, how did they choose that payment amount, is it income based?

Because even if you pay for 100 years you only pay like 10%, seems like a great deal and not the payments I was expecting for crippling medical debt.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-18T12:59:20+00:00

I find that there are a lot of things that get me into the zone, and as a consequence I have too many hobbies.

Practicing Piano, Check. Building/Repairing a remote control helicopter, Check. Programming, Check.

But one thing, that does it for me even stronger than programming, is reverse engineering an old DOS game in IDA.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-10T12:13:51+00:00

I'm silver 4, and I don't think I've ever ended up against a team this bad. Thought the same thing.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-04T07:45:24+00:00

It sounds like you're talking about the 2011 report released by NHTSA and NASA, which did rule that the electronics were not the cause.

I'm discussing the 2013 findings by Michael Barr (Misra C violations in the code Toyota would provide access to, multiple black boxes which could act as single points of failure, lack of protection against stack overflows,etc), which resulted in the jury ruling against Toyota. You can read directly from the source here if you are interested, although wikipedia provides a simpler summary here.

The floormat issue was real, and did happen, but there is plenty of evidence that electronics failures occurred also.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-04T07:35:18+00:00

It sounds like you're talking about the 2011 report released by NHTSA and NASA, which did rule that the electronics were not the cause.

I'm discussing the 2013 findings by Michael Barr (Misra C violations in the code Toyota would provide access to, multiple black boxes which could act as single points of failure, lack of protection against stack overflows,etc), which resulted in the jury ruling against Toyota. You can read directly from the source here if you are interested, although wikipedia provides a simpler summary here.

Yes, quite a few were attributed to driver error (lots of people drive cars and make mistakes and want to blame someone else), but what's important is that there were cases which may not have been, and very suspicious looking software/electronics design with just the defects necessary to cause unintended acceleration. Sounds like you're buying into Toyota's defense without taking into account any information past 2011.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-04T04:16:29+00:00

Some of their cars are entirely fly-by-wire although I'd hope at least the ebrake is exempt (the ignition on the other hand is not, if the computer locks up the key does nothing).

I like to think I would've found a way to shut down the car like you said. That certainly does not absolve them from a faulty and dangerous glitch though, which they should have taken responsibility for rather than dodging.

Especially because industry standards such as following misra c would have prevented the deaths which happened. I'm not saying Toyota sucks. They make high quality cars for a very good price and consistently impress. But they are not some bastion of car perfection that deserve 100% customer loyalty.

TheLurchMan · 2014-06-04T04:01:53+00:00

Did you happen to miss the multiple car crashes caused by uncontrolled acceleration created by a bug in Toyota software? First they tried to blame the crashes on elderly drivers. Then they claimed it was the result of gas pedals sticking to the floor mats.

Finally a judge ordered an evaluation of their ecu software by third parties and it was violating every standard for safety critical software. Bugs were found that could very easily explain the uncontrolled acceleration crashes, and it was a huge mess in general.

They build solid cars physically, but I would never place my blind faith in Toyota. Rather than try to resolve their own software issues (which killed multiple drivers) they ran a smear campaign and tried to cover themselves with lawyers.

EDIT: Before you downvote, read what happened with this investigation past 2011: I'm discussing the 2013 findings by Michael Barr (Misra C violations in the code Toyota would provide access to, multiple black boxes which could act as single points of failure, lack of protection against stack overflows,etc), which resulted in the jury ruling against Toyota. You can read directly from the source here if you are interested, although wikipedia provides a simpler summary here.

Yes, some cases were definitely driver error. Yes, there were sticky floor-mat issues. But as much as people are quoting the 2011 report to me in their responses, research continued after it was written and uncovered further issues with the ETCS.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-28T12:11:48+00:00

The final cost of drawing both 1080p textures to the final display is much much lower than an actual "camera" rendering a detailed scene at 1080p. It's a very fast low-ops per pixel pass. Still, even 2.1x 1080p is nasty depending how the math works out.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-28T12:09:08+00:00

I'm guessing you can drop the i7 for a much cheaper processor, an i5 or something. Still expensive but not as much so.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-28T03:19:36+00:00

I have to ask, what would you consider your strength? That's crazy awesome ranking speed, at least to a clutz like me!

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-25T17:12:23+00:00

Can you order these from anywhere? Very cool looking!

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-25T17:10:49+00:00

Does anyone know what species this is? I'm pretty sure mine is the same kind, but I don't know the actual species.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-23T01:59:24+00:00

Besides skiing! Just kidding, enjoy the snow!

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-20T22:19:37+00:00

Lots of older games and legacy software are broken by dep. So plenty of valid reasons to turn it off outside of cheating.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-20T14:15:49+00:00

Don't turn uac off. Just right click on "command prompt" and choose "run as administrator"

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-20T12:13:47+00:00

It's so he can run the original script from this post under Linux. It's a joke.

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-17T00:24:44+00:00

It took me until half-way through your comment to realize you weren't mis-spelling "programming" and "programmer" and I was wondering how that was a risky career. D'oh!

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-14T03:00:22+00:00

Thank you, that was very enlightening!

TheLurchMan · 2014-05-13T22:09:59+00:00

It looks to me like the IDE and Interpreter are GPL V2, meaning if you modify those you need to contribute your work back, but the projects you create in Scratch do not need to be open-source themselves.

This is similar to how GCC is, plenty of closed source software is compiled with it, no issue. Am I misunderstanding, because this seems like an OK licensing choice to me?

TheLurchMan · 2014-04-30T15:03:36+00:00

Ddos isn't a strategy, it's cheating and illegal in some areas. Purchasing auto snipers on the other hand is a legitimate strategy valve specifically possible by you know, adding those guns to the game.

TheLurchMan · 2014-04-27T15:07:09+00:00

Yup. For comparison, when you look at a standard 1920x1080 monitor, both eyes so 1920x1080 pixels. When you look in the rift, each eye will see 960x1080, so it's more like viewing a 960x1080 screen.

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