This is why I still come to slashdot. Fan of your work.

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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I have owned or used several pieces of Panasonic video equipment back in the day. A compact VHS-C consumer camcorder and some full-sized pro S-VHS cameras and VCRs and editing equipment. I also owned a Panasonic Toughbook laptop (one of the W series semi-rugged ones) and a Panasonic Lumix pont-and-shoot camera.

Its a Chromebook. Think about what's in a flagship phone and a top of the line laptop 10 years ago. Now think about what people are doing on laptops and whether or not they could use that 10 year old one just fine. The "power of a phone" is all relative - in this case it can service the needs of a cheapo chromebook type experience just fine. (Its apple so will cost 2x a chromebook).

I remember there was a phone laptop docking combo a while back that did just this - you plugged the phone into the laptop and just used it there, but it looked clunky as hell. That would be pretty cool, and Apple could probably pull it off pretty slickly, but the software is probably one of the most important things and I guess some of the recent ipad merging to macos things are making that more possible.

If its tricky because of specifying the location its probably going to work, you can set a pin to your desired pickup location. If its tricky because of the area Waymo will currently do worse because it generally isn't going to do the stuff a human is going to get away with like double parking, blocking a hydrant etc. Teaching a robot to follow the rules is easy because robots really want rules to follow. If you follow all the rules in a complex traffic environment, its likely you won't do so well, other drivers don't obey the strict rules of right of way, blocking the box, etc. Waymo does pretty well at this in some areas, but poor in others, and parking for pickup seems like one of them.

I can play Crysis on my expensive cryptomining/AI hardware now??? First DOOM on a refrigerator and now this!

Found the Kenny Bania fan. (What, you said you liked sitcoms! :)

I tend to find them 50/50, and certainly don't go by the critics scores either. Murder Mystery was a good time, and as with most sequels the sequel sucked. Haven't seen Happy Gilmore 2 yet but I probably will eventually just because of the original.

Your issue is that the state of the art is rapidly advancing faster than even 6-12 months for anecdotal experiences. I'm having AI build something for me while I type this, and I guarantee you its stringing more than a few lines together. I would not rely on second hand data for this, I'd go figure it out for yourself. Every single person that hacks out code for a living right now needs to go see what the stat of the art is and figure out how to deal with it. To me it sounds like you've chosen "door ostrich" as for how this is radically going to reshape how engineers work.

Yeah how much is it gonna cost? BMW already make you buy a subscription just to get "connected charging" where you can see and control your charge session from your phone. Bet you anything if you want V2L/V2H you will have to be paying. I was a very loyal BMW customer until about 10 years ago. It's a total clown show today.

Skynet was the product, Cyberdyne was the company that created Skynet, so they'd need to change to that.

Excuse me! Excuse me! This person was OUTRAGED on the internet. How dare you attempt to add facts or reasoning into the situation! Its obvious that PG&E will force them into putting the battery on the wall and then use it any time they want at gunpoint! And even if it's not true, it _could_ be true because they imagined it, so that's just as good!

Come on, he's not giving away Alaska, they're just going to slice up Greenland and the rest of the Arctic. Then take a play out of Putin's book and get a little slice of Canadian bacon so he can drive home. (/s???)