michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter for practical purposes you can’t make people pay attention as if driving without the actual engagement of driving. There is going to be a delay in taking over and in a lot of cases it wont matter by the time the human is effectively in control.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 week ago:
Autopilot isn’t being marketed to aviation enthusiasts nor is it a plane so it doesn’t matter how autopilot in planes works it matters what the perception is. They could have used a more appropriate term like advanced cruise control
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 week ago:
FSD is just a lie because its a description of a product they intend to develop not something that exists on the car you are buying now
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 1 week ago:
I would instantly discount it based purely on not having third party verification or enough details for a third party to replicate.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t useful or sufficient. You have to consider how many bots get banned and cost to determine efficacy. If you want 10,000 fake people to manipulate real people $10,000 doesn’t seem a high price if you make the fake people act organic enough that they largely aren’t banned.
It would be more useful if a singular service verified sufficient credentials to prove you were an authentic human and allowed you to auth to various sites. This in turn creates the problem that verifiers now know a LOT about your online life.
If the verification involved site -> verifier -> government held public key I think you could arrange so that none of the parties had enough info to identify users.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 4 weeks ago:
It’s really not. A pair of shoes has one owner by its nature we can’t both wear it. If I take yours you can no longer wear it. Because valuables are locked up the only way to take it is usually to commit some other crime like breaking into your house or your locker or assaulting your person.
Copyright isn’t something I agreed to or even had any meaningful say in its something lawmakers promised they wouldn’t let happen on my behalf without any input from me before I was born. Rather than enforcing the safety of my person and home against removal of my property it says that you own certain combinations of words and even if I use my paper and ink to write them as soon as I write enough similar words it becomes your property. Moreso than just not being an enforcement of the inherently exclusive nature of physical property it is a violation of it because it assigns my physical property to you.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 4 weeks ago:
Please link to a story substantiating this. What I have heard of happening repeatedly is that they trick criminals into communicating outside of tor, running an executable, or just take over the endpoint and nail people eg take over dark web drug markets and use information to track down the folks using it.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
In a few years my computer will be able to run an acceptable but obviously not chatGPT4 level AI that will among other things pre filter this crap from my feed as part of normal ad blocking. Buckle up bitches.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 1 month ago:
Anya Taylor-Joy
Her eyes are too far apart and her head is oddly proportioned to her chin. She isn’t UGLY or anything but she isn’t that attractive.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 1 month ago:
Why would you do that? People don’t even watch shows in portrait even when they use their phones. They watch short form content designed to fill idle moments. It is nearly exclusively bullshit filler or one person content. Real content will continue to be viewed in landscape forever.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 1 month ago:
If the content isn’t one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It’s just practically unsuitable
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
They don’t collect tips for the terminal holder
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
It’s highly unlikely that a POS terminal software directs tip money directly to the software company. Hopefully tips are shared by staff. Pessemistically they could be stolen by the company. In either case it doesn’t match the normal expectation of tipped service.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
In many places including Washington state servers are actually paid minimum wage of a bit over $16 an hour. We also have pervasive tip requests. I have gone to a restaurant where ordering and drinks was self serve, the employee makes you a hot sandwich which you take to go and the robot which takes your order requests a default 20% tip.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
A business is free to offer mandatory tipping and they do have to make up the difference if its not the minimum wage. The minimum wage could be higher of course.
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 2 months ago:
It is sort of by definition. Third world doesn’t actually mean poor or backward
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 3 months ago:
You don’t have to eat fast food AT ALL. You would be more healthy and you would avoid funding awful people.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 3 months ago:
This logic only works if you pretend that there aren’t other nearby restaurants needing service workers if business slows down at bigot chicken.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
I’ve never met anyone that actually uses the new prefixes for 1024 and the old prefixes to mean 1000
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
You can’t store data in base 10, nor address memory or storage in base 10 given present computers. It’s a bit more than a matter of opinion that computers are base 2
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
It more accurately describes how much space you have and how you can expect to see it shown in your software when you actually install it somewhere.
- Comment on The Hyperloop was always a scam 4 months ago:
The ISS travels at a constant speed in relation to the earth. People have to get on and off a train
- Comment on Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025 5 months ago:
In this case machines sold as recently as 2020 are not supported and for the for the last 8 years since 10 came out old computers were less obsolete than in prior eras as SSD were already common and other than gaming or specialized apps computer software hadn’t become notably heavier.
Basically many of those now forcibly obsolete machines bought as late as 2020 would have been expected to be in service for years yet either as primary machines or hand me downs. Basically much bitching will be heard.
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 5 months ago:
Lots of folks are killed by their own baby. The fellow behind the Segway died while “touring his estate” on his. Bump over a root and into the drink and drowned.
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 5 months ago:
They give a shit about banning competitors
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
As an American I wish I could
- Comment on You guys need to stop 5 months ago:
Short of actual full self driving which doesn’t presently exist why do you think your cell phone is part of your commute?
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
You can’t just peg things to an expensive thing people do rarely and say something people do commonly should be just as expensive while ignoring the cost of the device that runs the game.
- Comment on apple users in a nutshell 5 months ago:
I think the problems include the fact that an actual apple computer starts at 1000 and going higher than 8GB of RAM and 256G of storage costs you another 1000 because hardware isn’t really modular and storage and ram are a huge tool of market segmentation.
Meanwhile a traditional desktop starts at $7000.
It’s like they have lifted everything but the absolutely cheapest market segments out of reach of virtually any normal folks.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 5 months ago:
One of the indications the signals we perceive automatically regarding whether an idea is “truthy” is that something is either prevalent, common, worthy of considerations (2 sides), laughable, stupid, immoral.
Balkanized feed driven experience can help expose people to erroneous signals eg seeing pro flat earth things constantly because it was selected to be like previously engaging content and confusing that with it being commonly believed.
Treating an idea seriously in other venues only makes this signal problem worse not better. If they were capable of reasoned argument they wouldn’t be flat earthers to start with the only thing between them metaphorically or perhaps literally shoving pancakes up their ass is the type of social signals they are getting. I believe that ridicule is a net positive in deterring stupid beliefs because it deters SOME folks from believing whereas respectful argument is virtually worthless again when dealing with such folks.
Consider the same flat earther is all over the net speaking the same nonsense hundreds of times per year. Nonsense and ridicule is seen by hundred or thousands of folks whereas everyone is still talking to the one asshole. It’s pretty easy to see why it ought to be a net positive.