Flisty
@Flisty@mstdn.social
Just another Twitter migrant. Enjoying it here! Mostly a reader not a poster.
I live near Cambridge (the UK one not the Boston one), I like active transport and I read books to pay the bills.
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- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 4 weeks ago:
@daddy32 @aesthelete yup I'm sure it's worth quite a lot to some larger private investors
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@dogslayeggs I know you were only talking about cars. My point is you can't only think about cars because there are too many other factors, including drivers of other cars who don't know whether or not they can go if the other "driver" doesn't indicate whether they've seen them or not. It's not about "banning people for not waving", it's that if someone doesn't let the other person through, nobody moves. The endpoint will be everyone hating Waymos and always going first.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@dogslayeggs this is not a good solution unless you're expecting to mandate that all pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, guide dogs, whatever, wear them too, and that all existing cars are retrofitted with them. Kind of dystopian.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@ripcord unpredictable but maybe not standard practice? Just a guess, could be a bad assumption! British driving culture is reliant on eye contact and waves and nods and flashes - you have to signal if you're giving way (to other drivers as well), and say thank you; lots of places where there's only room for one vehicle on a two way road and someone has to decide who's going. Might be my failure of imagination but I don't know how that works with no driver.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@MoreFPSmorebetter @vegeta I just can't see this type of tech working in places with a more pedestrian-first culture / more unpredictable human behaviour, i.e. countries without jaywalking laws. If you tried to drive this through London and people realised it will just have to automatically stop for you (and also *won't* stop for you out of politeness if you wait hopefully) then everyone will just walk in front of it. What's the plan, special "don't stop the Waymo" laws?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@Curious_Canid @vegeta this is the case for the Amazon "just walk out" shops as well. Like Waymo they frame it as the humans "just doing the hard part" but who knows what "annotating" means in this context? And notably it's clearly more expensive to run than they thought as they've decided to do Dash Carts instead which looks like it's basically a portable self-service checkout. The customer does the checking. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133029/amazon-just-walk-out-cashierless-ai-india
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
@meco03211 @Jayk0b cars can't either - it's a false premise. Not everything is drive-thru. How far is, say, the bakery section from your car when you go to the supermarket?
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 5 weeks ago:
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter the funniest ones are people who go "to Europe" on holiday and then get confused when they can't get exactly the coffee they are used to. I do think the algorithm pushes this stuff in people's faces though. I left after the day the US wasn't on it and I suddenly got shown Aussies and Canadians and English-speaking Africans and Europeans. Made me realise quite how bad the feed was normally.
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 5 weeks ago:
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter spent some time on TikTok between the election and the inauguration and the defaultism is reeeeally apparent on there. There was a big thing about Robbie Williams being "some guy who was big in the UK" at Christmas, and recently another one about how jacket potatoes and baked beans are "war rations". And endlessly recurring takes on how the US is more culturally diverse than Europe because it is ... bigger. The video element makes it all so much more *out there*.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 5 weeks ago:
@GoofSchmoofer @Bronzie I've been watching and I think quite a lot has already been happening, it's just not well covered by the news. A lot of big, furious town halls are just organically happening (Rs are scared to turn up). 50501 and Indivisible have organised a lot of stuff. And some of the Tesla Takedowns have been huge.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 5 weeks ago:
@Bronzie @GoofSchmoofer I get it, from the UK. We've had the same uncanny valley experience with Brexit going on for years and the same incompetence from politicians (who STILL pretend a massive majority voted "no deal" rather than 52% voting "mystery box"). If it's any consolation, after a really dragged-out leaving process where we didn't see any effects for years, most people now think it was a terrible idea. Hopefully the swift insanity going on in the US means minds will change quicker.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 weeks ago:
@surph_ninja urgh
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 1 month ago:
@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT 'American cheese' is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we'd call 'plastic cheese' but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren't 'American cheese' as they have extra milk in.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 1 month ago:
@Ulrich @ggppjj does it help to compare an image generator to an LLM? With AI art you can tell a computer produced it without "knowing" anything more than what other art of that type looks like. But if you look closer you can also see that it doesn't "know" a lot: extra fingers, hair made of cheese, whatever. LLMs do the same with words. They just calculate what words might realistically sit next to each other given the context of the prompt. It's plausible babble.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
Slushy the rich?
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
sorry, I'm viewing this from mastodon so the setup's different.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
@btaf45 @nossaquesapao thank god someone had pointed this out because I'm old and I've been getting confused. Nokia 3310 all the way
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
@alekwithak @techforwhat Norton Antivirus is still at it
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
@lepinkainen @penquin Kobo has a basic browser so you probably could. I downloaded a few copyright-free books from standardebooks.org directly onto my Kobo the other day.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
@penquin @lepinkainen Kobo also comes preloaded with overdrive so you can get books from the library as well. The wait can be quite long though - but if you have enough on hold that doesn't really matter too much
- Comment on AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 2 months ago:
@SnotFlickerman @cm0002 unless he's done the research himself he won't know whether the results are viable - as he says, they've got to test the "new" one. So at best it gives you a bit of a head start on new avenues, at worst it completely wastes your time down a new rabbithole.