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- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 11 hours ago:
Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.
It’s been inevitable since.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 days ago:
LOL wasn’t expecting that.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 days ago:
Cop: WTF happened here?
Driver: It drove itself onto the tracks
Cop: Okay, but what about the other 49 feet of the 50 feet it’s on the tracks?
Driver: …
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 days ago:
LOL right? Like deciding to see what the car will do ON RAILWAY TRACKS is absolutely fucking bonkers.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 days ago:
How the fuck do you let any level 2 system go 40 to 50 fucking feet down the railroad tracks.
We’re they asleep?
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
Oh I’ve totally forgotten about potatoes. I used to do that ages ago and it worked really well.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
I do so many things with my air fryer, such a great appliance.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
Does anyone actually cook in their microwave? I don’t mean reheat things or heat up a pizza pop, but like actually cook something with the varying temperatures and all that shit they can do. Like is anyone making raw meatballs, saucing them and cooking them in the microwave?
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
Up and down isn’t a hard problem in the grand scheme of things. It’s expensive and doesn’t offer much benefit.
Going up and over at orbital velocities and coming back is the hard part, and none of these new spaces companies have done that successfully yet.
New Glenn from Blue Orgin might be the first but it blew up coming back on their first attempt.
- Comment on Say hello if you see this more than 6 hrs from posting 2 weeks ago:
Hello
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
I would bet money they used that language to make them seem less dangerous than they are.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
I thought they were all supposed to be at the ground as well, so I learned too!
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s the non lethal rounds they fire, but it sounds like there are newer ones.
Originally, they were intended to be bounced off the ground.
Looks like LAPD now use some that are intended to be bounced off the ground now, and some that are meant to be fired directly at the target.
www.reuters.com/graphics/…/zdpxalxkyvx/
In fact, the LAPD does not use rubber bullets, the department told Reuters.
Instead, the LAPD uses foam rounds, a condensed sponge projectile that resembles a hard Nerf ball.
One version, which has a plastic body with a hard foam nose, is fired from a 40mm launcher and is usually aimed directly at a target.
A second version, fired from a 37mm launcher, disperses five foam baton rounds toward the ground in front of a hostile crowd once an unlawful assembly has been declared, before bouncing up into the crowd. It is not to be fired directly at individuals, the LAPD said.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
You’re also supposed to bounce them off the ground. Never a direct hit.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
The answer might be no today, but always seems like a stretch.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
I’m annoyed the pieces are bottom adjusted…
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
Okay, but could ChatGPT be used to vibe code a chess program that beats the Atari 2600?
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 3 weeks ago:
The FCC revoked that award before it was given because starlink wasn’t meeting the speeds they needed to meet by the deadline 3 years in the future.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
I wish there was more municipal fiber. It’s absolutely insane that the big ISPs fight it and often win.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
It depends on the distance, but yes. Those laser interlinks are fast.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
The problem with fiber is it isn’t direct, and the satellites do use lasers (light!) to travel longer distances. The longer the distance the bigger edge satellite internet gets.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
They weren’t just paid, they were paid repeatedly and they repeatedly didn’t do it.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 weeks ago:
Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 4 weeks ago:
Someone told me they are public some months ago? Like if someone wanted to look up your lemmy DMs they could.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 4 weeks ago:
I read the headline expecting to need some ELI5 on how they had some crazy optimizations… but guess it’s nothing like that hahaha.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 4 weeks ago:
No the systemic problem is real, but I don’t think this one independent company has succumbed fully to it yet.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 4 weeks ago:
I think if it was really late stage capitalism they wouldn’t have fixed it nearly as good as they did and just called it a day.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
You barely saw it in the news compared to VW as well. Even if an article would bring it up, it’d usually be headlines with VW in some way or another.
It’s a shame so many of our choices for cars out there are run by bad people at the top 😞
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
That wouldn’t even need to be malicious, but it definitely could be.
I could see a selling point being, oh ya you can monitor the system and then adjust things for more power, but it’ll be dirtier.
And then at that point it’s up to the OEM to keep it within regulations, but they could offer different power modes.
Then everyone’s like oh this would make cheating so easy!
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t just VW. It was like a dozen of the major brands all doing it in some way or another.