nxdefiant
@nxdefiant@startrek.website
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 6 days ago:
This ad is literally the perfect opposite of their famous Think different ad:
We have an actual gigantic, unfeeling machine, literally crushing an effigy of the sum total of human creativity, only to proudly declare that everyone now needs to do all those things in the same, apple-approved way.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Lemmy’s bigger than ever, and that’s a direct consequence of reddit’s enshittification, so there’s that at least.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
Yo Bro, Nah.
- Comment on Thanks Biden 1 week ago:
The reality of global geopolitics stands as evidence against your assertion being correct. It’s similar, that’s true enough, but there are some key differences:
Back then, the six-day-war was fresh, Israel and its allies had proven Israel couldn’t be easily destroyed, and Israel learned it is vulnerable. Lots of local opposition to its actions in Egypt and Lebanon.
Today: Israel is in a much better defensive position, and is actively the aggressor with little pretense. Lots of local support for a very aggressive PM that is hell bent on openly killing all the Palestinians.
It’s very worse, and very different today.
- Comment on Thanks Biden 1 week ago:
I’m not saying he’s in the right, I’m just directly comparing the current PM of Israel with the guy from your Regan quote. It’s not the same situation, Netanyahu, sadly, is being encouraged to continue on his path, and nothing will change until he’s ousted.
- Comment on Discovering what this man has done has ruined my day 1 week ago:
He looks so much like Gary Oldman. It must be the Zorg haircut.
- Comment on Thanks Biden 1 week ago:
We only get a summary, not a transcript, but:
whitehouse.gov/…/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-…
I think this speaks far more about Netanyahu than it does about Biden. I have no doubt he’d double down on the crazy if the U.S. unilaterally ceased support, even going so far as to threaten or use nukes. Menachem was under significant economic and political pressure in his own country at the time, Netanyahu isn’t facing that yet. His own people will have to force his hand before a foreign leader can.
- Comment on Motorist dies after crashing into White House gate 1 week ago:
The gate is a 1/5 wall that is indestructible and has deathtouch.
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
One will make you urinate, the other will make you uraniuminate.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 week ago:
It doesn’t pay well, but “park ranger” is exactly that.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 week ago:
Fuck. That’s exactly it.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
You may not like it, but this is what beak performance looks like.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
nothing, it’s an open standard now: SAE J3400
- Comment on Google Gemini is really bad. 2 weeks ago:
The whole point of a language model is that you shouldn’t need to be an engineer to talk to it. The LLM is bad.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy to decide these things from the other side of history. At the time, when very little was known about survivability, transmissivity, etc, it was absolutely an emergency.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
“It was probably either religious in nature, or used for deciding when to put seeds in the ground”
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s a shiny bead in your brain that regulates your temperature. Keep in mind, all my knowledge on this subject comes from Osmosis Jones.
- Comment on MRIs 2 weeks ago:
cremortionist hath slain me.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
Once more, I’m literally not injecting an opinion here or arguing for or against anyone’s point. All the articles here talked about counts of individual accidents with zero context about sample size, something that is absolutely crucial to establishing exactly what you’re talking about, rates. You can shit all over that, and then pretend you didn’t, but Im only pointing out that the math doesn’t work unless that context is there.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
Hell, maybe even above average if the model can update itself in real time.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
we should go with “conscii”
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
No one’s talking about rates. The article itself, all the articles linked in these comments are talking about counts. Numbers of incidents. I’m not justifying anything because I’m not injecting my opinion here. I’m only pointing out that without context, counts don’t give you enough information to draw a conclusion.
- Comment on "Also, try our new deep dish special." 2 weeks ago:
Little Caesars guy maybe?
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 weeks ago:
Abbot has the ability to call the legislation into session whenever he wants to make them address special needs, he doesn’t need to wait for the next once-every-two-years session. Instead he tweets about it.
Nothing will get done to address his until someone greases his palm about it, and given the signaling here, he’s angling for that grease to come from the corps.
- Comment on Analysis: Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory? | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
- Comment on Analysis: Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory? | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
You’re so close
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
The NHSTA hasn’t issued rules for these things either.
the U.S. gov has issued general guidelines for the technology as a while here:
They have an article on it discussing levels of automation here:
www.nhtsa.gov/…/automated-vehicles-safety
By all definitions layed out in that article:
BlueCruise, Super Cruise, Mercedes’ thing is a geolocked lvl3 system
Tesla’s FSD is a lvl 3 system
Waymo and Cruise are a lvl 4 system,
Lvl 5 systems don’t exist.
What we don’t have is any kind of federal laws:
www.ncsl.org/transportation/autonomous-vehicles
Separated into two sections – voluntary guidance and technical assistance to states – the new guidance focuses on SAE international levels of automation 3-5, clarifies that entities do not need to wait to test or deploy their ADS, revises design elements from the safety self-assessment, aligns federal guidance with the latest developments and terminology, and clarifies the role of federal and state governments. **The guidance reinforces the voluntary nature of the guidelines and does not come with a compliance requirement or enforcement mechanism. **
The U.S. has operated on a “states are laboratories for laws” principal since its founding. The current situation is in line with that principle.
These are not my opinions, these are all facts.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
I’m saying larger sample size == larger numbers.
Tesla announced 300 million miles on FSD v12 in just the last month.
notateslaapp.com/…/tesla-on-fsd-close-to-license-…
Geographically, that’s all over the U.S, not just in hyper specific metro areas or stretches of road.
The sample size is orders of magnitude bigger than everyone else, by almost every metric.
If you include the most basic autopilot, Tesla surpassed 1 billion miles in 2018.
These are not opinions, just facts. Take them into account when you decide to interpret the opinion of others.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
No one else has the same capability in as wide a geographic range. Waymo, Cruise, Blue Cruise, Mercedes, etc are all geolocked to certain areas or certain stretches of road.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
So Neptune has a rogue rock in its orbit that also orbits the sun and we’re just gonna give Neptune a pass on that one because we saw it first.
At best, this is size discrimination, and neptunotism, and we both know it!