Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 11 hours ago:
Rocket equation notwithstanding, there is the tyranny of development. Electric motors, rocket engines, ion thrusters… All of these locomotive technologies went through iterations. Even if alien scientist invented a warp drive capable of carrying an infinite amount of mass an infinite distance with no energy, there would still be a development process to implement and integrate that drive into a spaceship.
Technological progress, or the accumulation of knowledge does not happen overnight, it’s built layer by layer.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 13 hours ago:
We’ve been looking all over for signs of life. Earth screams “there is life here!”
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 14 hours ago:
I always giggle at the idea that aliens would come here in some super advanced spaceship.
Look at the spacecraft we’ve managed to land on other celestial bodies. They’re basically the lightest, sketchiest, life support boxes with a rocket motor that we can manage to get to the destination. It would be reasonable to assume that any alien out there reaching earth for the first time would either send a rover, or it would be the jankiest craft that could just barely get here.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 14 hours ago:
Sam Altman is an alien in a human suit. Our AI sucks because aliens had to adapt their software to our crappy binary logic/architecture.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 days ago:
The electric motor for the Mach-E is available in a crate.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 days ago:
Eh, my family camped frequently and reno’d/repaired multiple house. I think the only time we used a truck was to take a bunch of bathroom tile scrap to the dump. Everything else was done with minivans or a club wagon.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 5 days ago:
Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th…oh, nevermind.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 6 days ago:
I would have been your daddy…
It’s an old Halo CE reference that gets shortened to that acronym a lot.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
IWHBYD
- Comment on A Mouse, No Hands! 1 week ago:
Can’t speak to the usefulness of a foot mouse, but a cheap set of 3 USB foot switches is a game changer, literally.
For tactical shooters I bind lean/peek to the side pedals, and set the center pedal for voice communications.
For solo gaming, you can take your obnoxious overlay commands, set them to impossible key combinations, and then bind those combos to the foot pedals. No more accidentally opening up the Steam or AMD overlays, but they are still there if you want them.
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 1 week ago:
For real? I got my GMRS license a few years ago, and sometimes I just put a radio on scan to see which construction companies are violating FCC regs. Haven’t found a rando to talk to yet, but the range is pretty small. I’ve been mulling over getting my HAM license and Baofeng to dick around with.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Was he using 300-win or 6.5? From what I heard it was 223 or 5.56.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Fixed, thank you.
Chest shot wouldn’t work. Like I said, at that point in the campaign, the former president has secret service protection and was probably wearing soft armor underneath. Even then, you would need a hit that is instantly lethal. If you hit the lung, liver, or even a major blood vessel, and he still lives because he has priority medical care on standby, so you would need to hit the heart to get the job done. Heart is smaller than head.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
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Range - Trump was over 300 yards away from the shooter.
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Equipment - AR pattern rifles ( I think it was a Daniel defense) with a red dot sight. That setup is for quick target acquisition and field of view. It is not meant for hitting distant targets.
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Shooting conditions - The shots were taken outdoors, where there was a cross breeze.
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Difficult Target - if you’ve ever seen trump on stage, he has this weird wobble he does all the time, which shifts his head rapidly and unpredictably from side to side multiple feet. He had to get hit in the head too. He probably was wearing soft body armor at this point, and there are multiple ambulances nearby and he gets priority medical care. Anything less than instantly lethal would not take him out. So it had to be a headshot.
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Counter-fire. There are multiple trained and properly equipped snipers guarding trump. There was an armed policeman trying to get on the building with the shooter. This is not simply lying down at a range and taking your time.
TL; DR - it’s not like videogames.
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- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this is fake.
Two reasons. I was unable to find a video clip of this, and it’s not nearly racist enough for these shit-hawks.
If some has the clip, please share.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
Well, he meant " the little number, and the big number of economic troubles the liberals, Biden, globalists and illegal Mexican drug cartels, wrote over your number in the box, even though you were writing the best number, perhaps even, perhaps, many people you know are saying it. Lower number. Lower. The lowest number you’ve ever heard of. It’s the lowest number since the last time I wrote a low number. Ask Sean Hannity about it. Why won’t anyone ask Sean…loooow, I like like low number, you like low numbers? I like 'em low! I like low numbers when they aren’t supposed to be high. Lower good numbers, lower is better, just like in women, when women’s numbers are lower, unless they are tens, but even then that is a pretty good low number for me. Democrats hate my low numbers, and my high num…frankly, I didn’t want to say it, they hate any number from me."
Or something like that.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
Chip with a closed face technique, but forget what you were doing during your back swing and open up your club face instead.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
The real rich thing about trump cheating at golf… Is that golf is a game of personal development. It’s downright poetic that he is both bad at it (no shame there really) and cheats/lies about it rather than put in the time or effort in his 78+ years to get better at it. That really shows what kind of a person he is.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
I’m an atheist, and there are plenty of people I would stone to death if given the chance.
So if the number really is zero, it’s probably due to a lack of opportunity.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Awww fuck… Bees are mostly colonies of females living in harmony?
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
There can always be more.
- Comment on I mean......if you really think about it..... 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Yes, your back pain is just behind the curtain.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
Carried portable media (USB drive).
Used earbuds/headphones with a cable.
Used a standalone calculator.
Replaced a disposable battery.