EndlessNightmare
@EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
The argument is that humans can drive with just 2 eyes, so cameras are enough. I disagree with this position, given that the limitations of a camera-only system. But that’s what it is.
Different sensors excel at different tasks and different conditions, and cameras are not always it.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
Good luck. They’re fucking everywhere, at least where I live.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
this makes me never want to bike in the US again.
I live close enough to work for it to be a very reasonable biking distance. But there is no safe route. A high-speed “stroad” with a narrow little bike lane. It would only be a matter of time before some asshole with their face in their phone drifts into me.
I am deeply resentful of our automobile-centric infrastructure in the U.S. It’s bad for the environment, bad for our wallets, bad for our waistlines, and bad for physical safety.
- Comment on Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel' 6 days ago:
Then you have failed. Quit trying to make it happen, we aren’t going to support a genocidal regime.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
But that just means that viewing it is opt-in rather than default. Since most people probably won’t bother to install those apps, the farmed karma won’t be worth squat.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
I deleted my last alt account last week. I’m done.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
The enshittification of Reddit continues on.
- Comment on fuckery 4 months ago:
“What kind of fuckery is this?”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 months ago:
but that’s not the only questionable design decision on the X.
They didn’t want sliding doors because that makes it a minivan. And minivans are “uncool”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 months ago:
When I first learned that Teslas (and almost all other EV’s) have electronic only doors
I really just want a regular car with an EV power train. Don’t to change a bunch of shit on the car, unless it is germane to its function as an EV. Things like doors, instrument clusters, turn signals, infotainment, HVAC controls, shifting (e.g. park, reverse, drive) should be the same as any other vehicle.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
Not only redundancy, but different types of sensors actually serve different purposes because they excel at different tasks.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
The rest of the industry said LIDAR is important and focus on trying to make it more practical.
Volvo is using LIDAR. I trust them way more than Tesla when it comes to something pertaining to safety.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
Didn’t stop afterwards, didn’t even attempt to brake
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
In the day, we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In the suicide machines
“Born to Ride” - Bruce Springsteen
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 5 months ago:
If it were anything other than money, it would be considered a hoarding problem in need of treatment.
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 5 months ago:
One can look at art as either being about “the end result” or about the process of human expression. AI can produce the former (of varying quality), but not the latter.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
You know full well this wouldn’t have happened if this was any other vigil not for black or brown people. Specifically not Palestine as well.
Yep. The pro-Israel bias of those in power in the U.S. is absolutely disgusting. A vigil for other groups would have been no problem.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
This seems like it should be more of a “write-up” type of offense, rather than skipping straight to terminating employment. This is a vigil, not a protest. Microsoft: “how dare you mourn those killed by a genocidal regime.”
BTW - what is everyone’s favorite non-MS suite of office programs? I’ve been using Only Office, but curious what others think.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 5 months ago:
Video games are probably thought of more as “tech” rather than “culture.” And obsolescence is a part of tech.
I don’t agree with it, but that is what I think their view on it is.
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 5 months ago:
Due to the way office buildings are configured, they’d need to be converted to some sort of communal living (think college dorms). It seems feasible in theory, but it would have a very limited audience and would be a difficult living situation for most people.
Converting to individual units would require extensive retrofits and renovations.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 5 months ago:
My issue with technological progress is that at this point most of it seems like it is no longer of benefit to the average person. Rather it is more about ways for corporations and governments to control us or extract more (e.g. money, data) from us. Most consumer tech is trending towards enshittification.
The exception to this is medical advancements.
- Comment on Veganism is pro-fossil fuel 5 months ago:
I always wonder how many people who think eating meat is murder, evil, etc. have actually watched animals die in the wild.
My issue pertains more to forcibly breeding animals into existence for the sole purpose of exploiting them, and also the often terrible conditions they are kept in. I consider hunting and fishing to be more ethical than industrial animal ag, so long as it is done in a responsible manner (yes, I know this is subjective).
Nature is brutal, but industrial animal ag has absolutely heinous abuses.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 5 months ago:
I’ve been driving AEB equipped cars for almost 10 years, on 2 different vehicles, and have never had a false brake event triggered. I have had multiple false warnings (without braking) on the older vehicle and no false warnings on the newer one.
I know anecdotes are not data though. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing something from NHTSA or IIHS on this to see how much of a problem it is.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 5 months ago:
Tesla uses only cameras because Musk is an idiot
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 5 months ago:
Meanwhile, human driving skill seems to be getting worse over time
- Comment on Show your face and AI knows who you are. 5 months ago:
AI has become another buzzword
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 5 months ago:
United: “Fly the friendly skies”
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 5 months ago:
Grossman
What a fitting name. Because he is quite gross
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
I absolutely do not trust that an “off” phone is actually off, unless the battery is removed (assuming it can be).