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- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 2 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 1 week 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% 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t just VW. It was like a dozen of the major brands all doing it in some way or another.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t really called it a solved problem when waymo with lidar is crashing into physical objects
www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/…/ar-AA1EMVTF
NHTSA stated that the crashes “involved collisions with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be expected to avoid.” The agency is continuing its investigation.
It’d probably be better to say that Lidar is the path to solving these problems. But not solved.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
Wow, well TIL!
Thanks for taking the time to explain that.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
Ya, I’m not opposed to the taxes, we gotta pay for the services somehow.
How do you actually do the taxes though? Is it completely separate from your federal/state that get filed each year? Or is it somehow combined with those into 1 filing and the city gets paid yearly from that? It seems like it would be a huge burden to be a separate thing, and it would be easier if it was somehow incorporated into a federal/state tax system where if your municipality has taxes you fill out a few spots and they money gets sent to them?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’ve never personally seen that.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
The thing about yearly property taxes is they often go to the city/municipality and that’s how they pay for things.
The city doesn’t charge income tax, that’s a state/province/fed level type thing.
We’d need a new way for cities to collect taxes themselves, or a new system to properly and fairly distribute taxes from the incomes to where they live based.
Definitely doable, but it’s a bit different than just raising taxes.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 3 weeks ago:
At first I thought, this isn’t toooooo terrible as making batteries to store any excess would actually be great, although there could be situations where you don’t need excess due to excess baseload already…
This is just bonkers though. Wow.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 4 weeks ago:
There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.
Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
A thing would need to officially be a flop to be considered squandered like the Cybertruck is looking like.
They might have a few failures ahead of them yet though.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
The article doesn’t say they’ve never made a profit on any of their cars. If that’s what you got from that, you should try reading it again.
Also, if you make 1 billion in profit on something, and then spend 2 billion researching and developing and setting up a factory to build a new product you end up with a loss of 1 billion. That does not mean your first thing is unprofitable. This is pretty basic stuff.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
Not a single tesla vehicle has ever been profitable as an actual vehicle.
This honestly couldn’t be further from the truth.
Tesla’s vehicles once ramped have always been extremely profitable (except probably the CyberTruck)
Any losses you see are due to their aggressive growth involving capital expenditures and research and development. It’s not that the vehicle isn’t profitable.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
There are other electric trucks out there, but none (at least as of last year) compare in specs and capabilities. The big issue is their power consumption is much higher than the Tesla Semi which has been repeatedly validated as even better than what Tesla advertises.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 4 weeks ago:
He also said Canada is ‘not a real country’ so…
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 4 weeks ago:
The dual motor was originally announced at 50k
There are three versions of the truck available:
Single motor rear-wheel drive with 250 miles of range, 7,500-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph capabilities in under 6.5 seconds, for $39,900 Dual motor all-wheel drive with 300 miles of range, 10,000-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph in under 4.5 seconds for $49,900
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 1 month ago:
Ah, back to the good ol this medication might be more harmful to women and we don’t know because we only use middle aged white men for the tests!
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 1 month ago:
I hope the authors skin is white