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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
Moo2 was so fucking good.
I’ve tried many many 4x space games, but none have ever matched the joy that one brought.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 3 days ago:
Full address via recordings of where you live would be PII
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 3 days ago:
those are saved on external drives. That being said, they could also have it set to save something like this to the external storage if it was too large for the internal memory as well.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
I saw a post saying /r/period required an age check.
They’re gonna censor as much as they can with this.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 4 days ago:
No, I want the people to buy a warehouse, have the utility run pipe into the building and back out to the water supply, have the warehouse pay wholesale rates and resell it to the people after its half second journey through the detour pipe in the warehouse.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 4 days ago:
Because that usually means it’s hot and sunny so things grow well if you can get water to it.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 4 days ago:
So the people should build a giant warehouse that uses a bazillion gallons of water that feeds into the warehouse and in the same pipe back to the water system, get wholesale rates and charge consumers the cheaper rate!
Same pipe, just make sure it goes into the warehouse so you can charge people for what leaves.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 5 days ago:
The end game is probably sex isn’t legal unless married, but also, you’re allowed to marry 12 year olds again.
Then sex outside of marriage is isn’t legal.
All porn becomes illegal.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 5 days ago:
You gotta remember we’re also back in 2019. Most of the talk back then was about what it was going to be able to do when FSD was ready, but no one got access to it until 2020 and that was a very small invite only group, and it lasted like that for years. I’d say the potential for confusion today is immensely more.
I have used AP back then, and it was good, but it clearly made lots of little mistakes, and needed constant little adjustments. If you were paying attention, they were all easy to manage and you even get to know when to expect problems and take corrective action in advance.
My the big beef with this case, is that he kept his food on the accelerator, and the car tells you while you do this, that it won’t brake, and having your foot on the accelerator is a common practice, as AP can be slow to start, or you need to pass someone etc, so it’s really unfathomable to think that the first time this guy ever did this, was when he decided to try and pick up his dropped phone, and thought, I should keep my foot on the accelerator while doing this! No amount of marketing, should be able to override “Autopilot will not brake. Accelerator pedal pressed” type active warnings.
That being said - The NHSTA has found that Tesla’s monitoring system was lacking, and Tesla has had to improve on that because of that. People would attach oranges to the steering wheel to defeat the nag to pay attention type thing back then, but this goes well beyond that IMO.
Had his foot not been on the accelerator, this would have been a very different case.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
The car tells you WHILE you do it.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
Just a further follow up - you actually can appeal that the jury was just outright wrong, but that would be a really hard case to win here.
law.cornell.edu/…/judgment_notwithstanding_the_ve…
A judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) is a judgment by the trial judge after a jury has issued a verdict, setting aside the jury’s verdict and entering a judgment in favor of the losing party without a new trial. A JNOV is very similar to a directed verdict except for the timing within a trial. A judge will issue a JNOV if he or she determines that no reasonable jury could have reached the jury’s verdict based on the evidence presented at trial, or if the jury incorrectly applied the law in reaching its verdict.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial
Well, their lawyers stated “We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial”
They can also appeal the actual awards separately as being disproportionate. The amount is pretty ridiculous given the circumstances.
There was some racial discrimination suit Tesla lost, and the guy was awarded 137 million. Tesla appealed and got it reduced to 15 million. The guy rejected the 15 million and wanted a retrial on the reward, and then got 3.2 million.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
This is correct. And when you do this, the car tells you it won’t brake.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
FSD wasn’t even available in 2019. It was a future purchase add on that only went into very limited beta in 2020.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 week ago:
This is gonna get overturned on appeal.
The guy dropped his phone and was fiddling for it AND had his foot pressing down the accelerator.
Pressing your foot on it overrides any braking thing, it even tells you while doing it.
Maybe if he hadn’t done that.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Practically no one in the world who accepts payments for their business directly integrates with visa or Mastercard. It’s all 3rd party companies who integrate (because it’s fucking hard and tedious) and then resell it
In almost all cases, any talk about payment processors, is them, not visa/Mastercard.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 week ago:
I’d use ethereum with a USDC token for anything that didn’t need to be ethereum specifically. Then you’re not subject to the volatility of the crypto itself, but still gain the ability to pay for things or transfer money globally.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
Things are still happening, it’s just slow to adopt.
E.g.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
The Air Canada AI chatbot gave wrong policies to someone around bereavement flights, went to court, and lost having to refund the ticket price difference.
They tried to claim they weren’t responsible for the Ai.
cbc.ca/…/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416
So at least in Canada we have some precedent that if their AI pricing fucks up, it’s their own fault.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
Delta CEO determined sales decline is related to costumers calling in with complaints and the call center not handling them to their satisfaction. Fires entire call center staff and replaces with AI.
- Comment on COVID-19 vaccine technology adapted to develop first mRNA defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria 3 weeks ago:
Clearly, the brainworms know they’re gonna be targeted by the tech in the future and need to stop it now.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 4 weeks ago:
might be better to have a bunch of gibberish with a few named places.
They might think it’s code and deploy there, and you’re not actually making a legitimate threat they could come after you for somehow.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 4 weeks ago:
CNBC loves to hate on anything Musk.
They’re the ones who wrote a story about SpaceX polluting the area with high levels of mercury because of a conversion error / typo on the report.
I’m too lazy to look up exact figures, but it basically went like this in the report. (Smaller is better)
In 1 spot it said
Mercury test 1: 0.01 Mercury Test 2: 100
Then in another spot talking about the same values it said
Mercury Test 1: 0.01 Mercury Test 2: 0.01
I don’t think they ever retracted it, but the headlines were all SpaceX polluting massively over allowed thresholds kinda thing.
The reporting was either so sloppy they didn’t read the whole report or cross reference anything and just ran with it, or they knew and said fuck it we can get the clicks and it’s technically in the report.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 4 weeks ago:
Try to make it on VEO3 and Google will come back saying it’s against the TOS.
Make anything else on the exact same basis except sub out rich people for anybody else… allowed!
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 5 weeks ago:
checks post, 9h
sets VPN to UK
“I support Palestine Action”
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
All push notifications go through APNS on apple. That’s Apple Push Notifications Service.
APNS requires the device to authenticate with it and can uniquely identify the device by an id. Its how it sends messages to devices.
Firebase cloud messaging acts the same way for true push notifications.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
Ya, for sure. My beef was just with people saying you can roll your own, but glossing over the reduced user experience and reliability if you do.
With those trade offs it’s absolutely doable.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
Ya, it can be brutal on battery.
I worked on an app once where delivery was critical, so we gave them the option of the active service+websocket, but for them the trade off was acceptable.
Pushes can be pretty flakey given all the shenanigans OEMs do on the device, even when marked as high priority correctly.
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 5 weeks ago:
They don’t treat their people like shit, they treat them like slaves.