Nvidia’s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove. I’ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot. “KITT, drive me home!”
Category: Mood
Liberty Eiffel, Mood
Dad, may I play?
Dad, may I play with your computer?
And I have to move to the humble, smallish and slow old eeepc.
At least I’m lucky enough of using vim and tmux so I don’t have to really stop. Just detach the session and reattach it into a new ssh connection.
Mood
Proficient with….
I was naïvely opening Linkedin when I saw this telling people I’m able to use “Microsoft Office” would attract up to 15% more views? Really, are they serious? I’ve been a proud user of StarOffice then OpenOffice then LibreOffice since… forever, or better since it was still called StarOffice… Yes, I’ve used Microsoft Office and…
Status
I’ve been tweaking a little “Tutorial tour – Liberty Eiffel Wiki“
After having been extensively using WordPress and Markdown for a while the syntax of MediaWiki feels almost alien…
Amiga, Mood
Amiga Workbench Emulator by Christophe Résigné
Christophe Résigné wrote Ia full javascript (~3000 lines of code) remake of the classic Amiga’s operating system in his Chrome Experiments. And it feels almost like the original! A truly smart guy!
Mood
Fool’s day
Only on the fool’s day I could have done the foolishness of coming to work on hour earlier than usual for the sake of a.l bet with a coworker… 🙂
Torvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot
Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”
I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.
Status
VoCore: Mini Linux Computer, Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet!
This is more powerful than my first Linux box, which was an Amiga 1200 with 16mb of memory and a 50mhz Motorola 68060 CPU! They can’t make it smaller, they’ve hit the size of an Ethernet plug!
Microsoft, Mood
They got an Elephant In the House
From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding…
Mood
“all in one” show events as regular posts – Cerca con Google
The one thing I really liked in “The Events Calendar” from Modern Tribe, Inc. is its ability to show its events in the flow of WordPress posts. Sadly its calendars cannot sync so people can’t just say “let’s subscribe to this nice calendar and see all those events in my calendar on my smartphone or…