watty

@watty@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn’t exist. I’m pointing out that it does exist.

  That’s all. Should we pretend like there’s no problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a summary of this thread:

  Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there’s public transit

  Guy 2 - last mile problem

  Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

  Me - it doesn’t work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it’ll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

  You - you chose to live there so stop complaining

  Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

  That’s how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it’s just my own fault and I should shut up.

  We have a long way to go ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

  I’m saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

  You want to know what’s harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So fuck everyone who can’t afford to live in the city?

  Yea, I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

  I’m not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

  That’s great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person you are replying to is talking about pink sky being built on bluesky, and you equate that to Lemmy being based on Reddit. One is a hard technical dependency, and the other is a conceptual inspiration.

  You are engaging in an equivocation fallacy, and it’s super dishonest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

  This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the cost:benefit analysis here. All this cost for some shitty chatbots? Even the more practical uses for AI just don’t seem worth that cost.

  It kind of feels like this is another symptom of wealth inequality where some people or companies are so wealthy that they can make unjustifiable investments like this.

  I’d like to think that the AI bubble will pop and take these investors with it, but that’s probably wishful thinking.