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- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 days ago:
Essentially, everything is Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Brave, edge etc are chrome.
Google controlling chrome controls what the vast majority of people use to see the internet, and then they change chrome to make it harder for you to block ads that they want to show.
- Comment on FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business 3 days ago:
FTC drops investigation into Microsoft in (checks calendar) 67d 13h 31m
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Ah, I can see how that may have come across like that. My bad.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Back doors is a whole other story.
Thats what this means. The back seats are hit and miss depending on the vehicle.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
It used to not lower the window and could damage the window.
Shortly after the 3 was released it was changed. When there is power it lowers the window now.
But if there is no power, it can’t lower the window and it may break.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
The front handles aren’t hidden. They’re so obvious everyone I take in my car tries to use them first if I don’t tell them.
Back doors is a whole other story.
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really have much more to add, but just wanted to say I appreciate the conversation we had.
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
even if you CAN rely solely on vision, why hamstring yourself?
Their stance is that by using lidar OEMs are hamstringing themselves on solving vision because they are so reliant on it. They spend less time and resources perfecting vision so they never truly solve the problem. From their perspective you got it backwards.
and there’s no good reason… just add extra sensors
The more sensors you deal with, the more your attention gets divided. You aren’t laser focused on one thing.
The extra sensors also cost a lot of money, you can’t put waymo’s sensor package onto millions of cars that consumers can buy when the suite is 10s of thousands of dollars (and originally well over 100k).
By focusing on vision where the system can be put onto millions of cars, you can get massive amounts of extra training data and training data is going to be a huge part of solving this problem.
You might not like the reasons, or their stance, but it’s not such an unreasonable position to take. Mobile Eye even cancelled their next gen lidar project after seeing improvements in vision and radar. What happens when they keep seeing improvements in vision and now radar isn’t needed?
I don’t know if you’ve ever used AP but all the crazy headlines you see about it are idiots in cars being idiots. As a L2 vision only system it works very well.
If you wanna blame Elon for convincing people to be idiots, sure, you can do that, but that has nothing to do with the actual approach they are taking.
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
The point is that to be truly autonomous when vision is the only fail safe reliable sensor, then vision MUST work to have a truly autonomous vehicle.
You can’t rely on radar without vision or lidar because it can’t see stopped vehicles at high speed.
You can’t rely on lidar in rain/fog/snow/dust because the light bounces off of the particles and gives bad data, plus it can’t tell youanything about what the object is or might intend to do, only that it’s there.
Only vision can do all of those, it’s just a matter of number of cameras, camera quality, and AI processing capabilities.
If vision can do all those things perfectly, maybe you don’t need those other sensors after all?
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
Except the radar doesn’t know where every object is. It can’t detect stopped things while traveling at high speeds.
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
Nothing yoy said there can’t be done by cameras other than sound and the car has a microphone inside.
All it really means is maybe the car needs more cameras and more microphones.
Determining distance with images from multiple angles can provide accurate distances.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
It’s for your safety.
That new surface is very risky, and if you don’t use the right connector it might catch the whole mini on fire!
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
it opens up a whole new surface for things. Soon there will be a dozen USB C ports on the bottom and you’ll need to buy special apple right angle cables to access them that they charge $30 per 1m cable.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
Do people from Virginia never travel 350miles north?
The guidance on that page is incorrect and if that’s what they teach it might kill someone.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
If you can safely change lanes then of course change lanes as your normally would do to avoid anything in your lane.
Beyond that it’s now dangerous. Stay in lane, hit the deer.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
The idea of don’t swerve for deer is very common and is taught in driving schools. If you’ve never heard it until today, well, today you learn. You don’t know dismiss it because you haven’t heard it.
Swerving is dangerous and even if you think you can do it safely, having a deer at night appear while travelling at high speeds is risky.
You’re supposed to slow down but stay in lane.
The reason you’re supposed to swerve for things like Moose is because moose are big as fuck and tall, and if you hit one head on, you will cut the legs out from under it, and it’s massive body will roll through the windshield and crush you, killing you or causing massive bodily harm.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
Hit the deer head on, but swerve for moose and elk.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 3 weeks ago:
There are a lot of scams out there pretending to be Musk. If you want to watch a SpaceX launch, there’s probably at least 1 scam youtube stream out there that looks legit and then turns into a scam before the launch.
After all of the send me crypto and i’ll send double back… I find it hilarious that he’s now telling people to do things and he’ll pay them… and it’ll be even funnier when they realize they don’t get it and were scammed into giving him their info for no money.
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 3 weeks ago:
Both actions would cost billions more than the any amount they would move or a signed transaction.
The price would crash knowing those coins were back in play.
It’d be a huge influx of potential coins.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how things would go if they made you agree to the terms before being allowed to purchase it.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
There a lot of reasons to hate Elon. He’s making new reasons every day lately.
A lot of people hate him for completely bs reasons like this though and then come off as hating anything he does just for the sake of hating him.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Those aren’t the same, they require the browser to be open.
I don’t know if that means it works with a tab in the background though if the browser is open but you aren’t on their page, but it’d make sense if it did work that way.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Among other things said, you lose access to push notifications / scheduling which a lot of apps are reliant on.
You could have those come in an email instead, but now it’s not personalized to the app, and if you’re like me, I actually disable alerts on my gmail because most of the things in there aren’t important and it was too disruptive.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
Oh shit i thought that was a software gone wrong they couldn’t easily update.
That’s crazy.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
I’m using plex but still hosting it on my desktop which is a little inconvenient at times. I really should set up an always available NAS
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
People do like Hyundai’s EVs and I would definitely check them out when you’re looking, but don’t kid yourself that Hyundai also doesn’t have it’s own issues.
For example people have been stealing Hyundai/Kia for years now due to faulty security software that makes it trivial.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
Maybe over an extended period of time, but that’s not something people get fired for right away. Also bugs are a fact of life in software, and while some developers may ship more bugs than others, work still needs to get done, and it’s often better to try and train and improve an existing employee than fire them too soon.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
What’s a good EV?
They all have recalls. Very few vehicles have few recalls.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven’t watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.