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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hurt low income people, mortgage our future, sell off national assets to enrich oligarchs, personal enrichment. Yep, that’s about the speed for DODE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re being too pedantic. We clearly have cars that do a lot of their own driving, we clearly have people (multiple) making claims, and we clearly have at least one company piloting self-driving taxis. Let’s consider our ethics before it’s too late

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a word anyone uses? While I had no idea it was considered a slur, I also don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon claims Tesla is already past that point. I’ll accept a much larger approximation that several manufacturers are past or near that point. Even if you’re skeptical of the claim, it’s clearly close enough to be concerned about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In this context they’re identical - some automated process looking at all your content. While some of these agents may be honest, there’s no real distinction from search or ai or archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No manufacturer does good self-driving yet.

  Several manufacturers including Tesla make driver assistants more reliable than humans in at least some cases, possibly most of the time.

  It’s easy to say you don’t want to allow companies to profit from unsafe technology that kills people but what is the other choice? If you send the trolley down the other track, you’re choosing different deaths at the hands of unsafe humans. We will soon be at the point, or already are, that your choice kills more people. Is that really such an easy choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  1. There’s a practical concern: how do you prevent ai without preventing people.
  2. What if you want to allow search, and how is that different than ai, legally or in practice?
  3. Does this put Reddit in a new light? Free content to users but charging for the api to do bulk download such as for ai?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the ai doing anything that isn’t already allowed for humans. The thing is, generative ai doesn’t copy someone’s art. It’s more akin to learning from someone’s art and creating you own art with that influence. Given that we want to continue allowing hunans access to art for learning, what’s the logical difference to an ai doing the same?

  Did this already play out at Reddit? Ai was one of the reasons I left but I believe it’s a different scenario. I freely contributed my content to Reddit for the purposes of building an interactive community, but they changed the terms without my consent. I did NOT contribute my content so they could make money selling it for ai training

  The only logical distinction I see with s ai aren’t human: an exception for humans does not apply to non-humans even if the activity is similar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We already have that

  Yes, we have the definitions, but I haven’t read about whether they’re effectively required. Is there a test, a certification authority, rules for liability or revocation? Have we established a way to actually require it.

  I hope we wouldn’t let manufacturers self-certify, although historical data is important evidence. I hope we don’t aid profitability of manufacturers by either limiting liability or creating a path to justice doomed to fail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is humans are horrible drivers, costing a huge toll in lives and property every year.

  We may already be at the point where we need to deal with the ethics of inadequate self-driving causing too many accidents vs human causing more. We can clearly see the shortcomings of all self driving technology so far, but is it ethical to block Immature technology if it does overall save lives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably we have the intelligence to set requirements before something can be called self-driving - that’s usually what the fuss is about, whether the marketing is claiming it’s something it’s not.

  If they fail with their approach, I’m fine with that, just like I’m fine if Waymo fails with their approach. Obviously there’s a problem if it runs over some old lady at a stop sign and drags them down the street but that’s clearly a failure for them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the glitter is biodegradable ….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, don’t read into that unnecessarily. It could be someone seeing you and thinking “that’s unusual. How cool!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but that’s kind of arguable. Bagpipes make a lot of noise so it’s just understandable there may be some objections. I love it when a piper is down the street so you can hear the music echoing through the buildings, but it is loud and may not be for everyone

  Juggling is no different than the yoga or tai chi class in the next open area. There’s no impact on anyone sharing the space, except possibly some social conventions. Just do it (be careful not to put a coffee mug out or you may get donations)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames using randomized nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you found a convenient way of generating those? And does it integrate with any password manager you might be using?

  I use Apples “Hide my email” with the password manager so I always have a randomly generated email and randomly generated password and they’re managed together. However there’s not really support for a username distinct from but in addition to email, nor a way to generate those randomly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames using randomized nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually a good idea - I need to figure out how to do that.

  For the last several years I’ve used randomly generated email addresses for every account. I can turn off forwarding when they’re inevitably leaked to spammers and there’s one less thing for demographers to aggregate data on me with. That works well when every service insists on a working email address.

  But then I get lazy and use a more obvious username so I can remember it. I need to be able to auto-generate those as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We finally moved in!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice. It’s taken me until this part of my life to really appreciate color schemes that go together like this and still have no idea how to make such things happen, so very impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We finally moved in!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in houses where the fridge blends with the cabinet so they do exist. My ex actually has a “counter depth” fridge and is able to make do but it is really tiny. I suppose you’re less likely to lose things in the back since there is no back.

  I don’t have the organizational skills to make that work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cameras alone are not sufficient enough for autonomous driving.

  I disagree with this assertion, because they’re correct that the only being that can currently drive is relying on vision. Vision alone is sufficient for driving.

  But autonomous driving really hasn’t succeeded yet. We still have no idea what is required for autonomous driving or whether we can do it at all, regardless of sensors.

  So you’re implying that we can definitely do autonomous driving but can’t do it the way humans do, whereas I say we won’t know the requirements until we find some that succeed, and we may never

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried fsd demo this spring and it’s getting pretty good. I wouldn’t use it but it was perfect on well marked roads. The thing is it made me realize just how poorly maintained our roads are and everything is an edge case. For example it didn’t stay in lane at one Intersection but the intersection was a weird offset plus the lines were all faded away. Although I also disnt give it any chance to recover so I suppose it could have been ok: Im not risking it not recovering

  It might surprise everyone but mostly by staying in a well maintained well mapped area, like Waymo did. There’s no way it fulfills the claim of self-driving everywhere without more improvements

  The robots is will have the next generation computer and higher resolution cameras which may help. However that also allows more overhead for the next ai update

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually I do. The thing is a Chromebook can’t really do things you normally associate with performance, like gaming. However I’ve found decent ones to have a snappier ui than low to medium windows laptops

  That’s the thing with a tablet: what’s your use case?

  I’m not a fan of the keyboard and mice: they work well enough but now you have a bunch of pieces to keep track of and you need a table or desk. If I need a keyboard I prefer a laptop/chromebook form factor because it’s just one piece to deal with and you can use it on your lap

  I realized that I spend way too much time e consuming media, but with light typing, such as this reply. a tablet is great and I’m perfectly happy writing on screen. Actually I’m on my phone at the moment. I do use my phone for most things, so maybe I think of the tablet as a larger phone screen for times I don’t need to be as portable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, I never learned that lesson. When I first heard about the one chip challenge, I was seriously tempted to challenge my teens to see if they could beat me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s the intended result. It helped fund one or more purely EV manufacturers for the future. Legacy companies chose not to invest for the longest time, but had to pay the price. At some point that price is too high but the innovators are awarded and the technology has become cheaper, so the surviving legacy manufacturers can adopt it.

  The only real failure is the credits were apparently too cheap since legacy manufacturers still had to be forced

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or instead of trying to keep Airlines’s from sinking, we could invest in intercity rail, so there would be travel options. Imagine having a choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not good. There’s still some remnant of the idealistic vision, hiding from the Nazi.

  • robotaxis will eventually be a good thing, but it will be a long time before they’re profitable. I’m all for the experiment, whether teslas approach succeeds or not, but Tesla can no longer afford to stick to a money losing experiment
  • the semi has huge potential to disrupt the trucking industry and rapidly decarbonize it. While I do see other companies experimenting with battery trucks, no one else has the potential combining mass produced parts from other vehicles, mass produced charging stations and mega storage, nor are taking the risk to scale up manufacturing. We need to electrify trucking and like it or not Tesla has some unique strengths that may help them succeed. We need this
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aura

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome fellow codger. Back in my day we had books made from real paper and we loved in. Handing in an assignment meant writing by hand in actual paper and physically handing it to the teacher.

  Everything is online. My kids have had very few physical textbooks in years. “Handing in” an assignment means dropping some sort of file into an online folder. It’s not really a matter of learning anything, but that school resources are all online and every student needs access.

  Also the online services are all “free”. Yeah they might be exploited by advertising but no kid pays and no kid is locked into a commercial vendor (Google at least doesn’t charge)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was having a similar conversation with my teen - out hiking and wondering how the trails were built and maintained. We talked scouting service projects and all the way back to the WPA, but have no actual info. The park is a hill so there are several rough stone stairways up to the ridge trail. They probably last years but do need attention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are very cheap. We had to buy them ourselves for our kids, which at least gave choices. We settled n $400 because for the cost of the cheapest piece of shit laptop, we could get a high end Chromebook that ran circles around it: faster, much more durable, much lighter, multiple times battery life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Brick buildings still burn. There’s flammable paint, contents, furniture enough to ruin a brick building.

  Although found it interesting that my niece got in trouble for hanging curtains in her dorm room. Apparently that’s one of the places they have strict fire codes