Bytemeister
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- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 4 hours ago:
Actual AI?
Imagine your phone knows that you have a business meeting downtown today. It’s already reserved a parking space for you, set your car to warm up before you leave and looped your contact in on your ETA, along with automatically notifying you of any delays. Then, your kid wakes up this morning in with a horrible toothache, you ask your phone what to do and it rings up your family dentist, who has a full schedule today, but makes you a referral nearby. You agree to try that other dentist today, and your AI books an appointment, checks your meeting today, coordinates with their AIs and approves a 15 minute delay so you can get to the dentist. It also notifies your kid’s school of their absence and has their teachers AI automatically queued up to send transcripts, notes and homework assignmenta from today’s classes.
That’s the kind of stuff actual AI can do. Overgrown autocorrect? It’s basically a multi-billion dollar Magic Eightball.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 7 hours ago:
Yeah, this makes sense to me. ChatGPT isn’t crunching the numbers, looking at conservative ideology, foreign policy goals and media optics before recommending the ideal number for the trump admin to implement. Instead it’s just looking for the most widely publicized set of numbers in relation to that query and regurgitating that.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
It’s hard to tell, but from about 15 minutes of searching, I was unable to locate any consumer vehicles that include a LIDAR system. Lots of cars include RADAR, for object detection, even multiple RADAR systems for parking. There may be some which includes a TimeOfFlight sensor, which is like LIDAR, but static and lacks the resolution/fidelity. My Mach-E which has level 2 automation uses a combination of computer vision, RADAR and GPS. I was unable to locate a LIDAR sensor for the vehicle.
The LIDAR system in Mark’s video is quite clearly a pre-production device that is not affiliated with the vehicle manufacturer it was being tested on.
Adding, after more searching, it looks like the polestar 3, some trim levels of the Audi A8 and the Volvo EX90 include a LiDAR sensor. Curious to see how the consumer grade tech works out in real world.
Please do not mistake this comment as “AI/computer vision” evangelisim. I currently have a car that uses those technologies for automation, and I would not and do not trust my life or anyone else’s to that system.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
Because the march of technological advancement is inevitable?
In light of recent (and let’s face it, long ago cases) Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” needs to be downgraded to level 2 at best.
Level 2: Partial Automation
The vehicle can handle both steering and acceleration/deceleration, but the driver must remain engaged and ready to take control.
Pretty much the same level as other brands self driving feature.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
Awww fuck… Bees are mostly colonies of females living in harmony?
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
Send them a letter back with the definition of a weed.
a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
If you want them there, they aren’t weeds.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
I’ll hop in here and add that your locality probably does pesticide fogging/spraying. For what it is worth, you can ask them not you spray your property. Make some local wildflower patches in your yard. Less stuff you have to mow, more food and habitat for native birds and insects. It’s a win-win.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
There can always be more.
- Comment on I mean......if you really think about it..... 2 days ago:
It’s only a meter of time until anime titles and wish/temu item descriptions collide.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
Yes, your back pain is just behind the curtain.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
Carried portable media (USB drive).
Used earbuds/headphones with a cable.
Used a standalone calculator.
Replaced a disposable battery.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
1 point. Never cared for what was playing on the radio.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 4 days ago:
They can use some of the solar energy to cycle the air using a fan, or just run the AC if it’s really bad.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 4 days ago:
We’re also going though an insect apocalypse. You probably won’t hit a dragonfly, butterfly or thick and smeary grasshopper on any road trip anymore.
Yes, we’re all gonna die.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Don’t talk to anyone about your politics. You’re a quiet, hardworking shut-in who feels like nothing can be done to fight this.
Reality is, 10 million people organized against the US government is peanuts. They can track 10 million people. They can lock up, deport and enslave 10 million people.
10 million “lone wolfs” with no connections or communications? That shit is more than enough to cripple the country.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Yeah, the burger quality was on par with just about any other smash burger, and the fries were limp, undercooked, slimy and pale.
I think it was only 14 bucks for me at the time, but this was when you could get a whopper combo for like 6.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
The Museum of African-American history is already on the chopping block for having content that does not paint the US in a good light.
I wish I was fucking joking about that. The proper way to be remembered well is by doing good things, not by having orange hitler demand that the history of bad things be erased.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
I can’t tell which way this comment is going, but Five Guys is the most I’ve spent for the worst French fries I’ve ever had in my life, and the burger is “meh” grade. Burger King does a better burger and fries faster and cheaper.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
A fookin’ pencil!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The real truth is our stupidty is not unusual, it’s just a preview of what is coming down the pipe for some of you. Right-wing populist dipshits are gaining ground in a lot of countries. It tends to go alomg with economic hardship. People look for other people to blame for their problems. The real truth is that it’s not immigrants, or jews, or woke women that are ruining everything for everybody, it’s a very small number of inconceivably rich people. Sure, the economy looks great (historically speaking) but real measures of happiness, like the cost of medical care, education and household measured in working-hours has shot through the roof, something which “the economy” does not capture very well.
Tl:dr, shit is going bad almost everywhere, and if you don’t get the to root cause of the issue ( a few rich people owning everything) then the stupids in your county are going to elect right-wing dipshits too.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
I’d rather fucking kill myself.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
A Lemmy of culture I see. Love the Visconti.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
None of these pieces of shit.
Probably would stick with my Pilot S95 Elite, or if I wanted something a little less flashy, my Lamy Vista.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
It doesn’t really matter actually. Electric motors are so much better at delivering power, that you will get more range from a gallon of gas by towing an ‘flat battery’ EV behind a truck and then driving the EV than you will just driving the truck without towing the EV.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
Drop in the bucket compared to what enabling this billionaire shit bag is going to do.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
It’s because the hot idea in business right now is rental models for everything.
If your business plan doesn’t have a way to lock customers in and force them to keep paying forever, then no investor is going to look at it.
Software is subscription, infrastructure is subscription. Hell, your own data is probably subscription based these days. Buy a car? Bet your ass it has at least 1 subscription service in it.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
I’ve got some really bad news for you…
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
There are huge tax breaks for…
Buying a car for your business. Buying a car that has a 6ft bed for your business Buying a car with 6000+ lb curb weight for your business. Buying an electric car for your business. Buying a car that is wrapped or decorated to promote your business.
When you put them all together, the CT is basically 100% tax write off.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
Collard Greens. Get them done right, and they are like crack.
American cooking is awesome, just stay away from the fair-food and fast food.