Archangel1313
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- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 9 hours ago:
I have personally never opened a can of creamed corn, so this whole post is new information for me. The chips thing though…that was solved decades ago. Not sure why the confusion persists.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 9 hours ago:
Chip bags have all that air in them, so the chips don’t get crushed as easily.
- Comment on China warns of retaliation as US pushes 100% tariffs for importing Russian oil : Peoples Dispatch 10 hours ago:
No sanctions on Europe for doing the same thing, though?
- Comment on ladies get urself a mothman 12 hours ago:
Well, that got weird.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 1 day ago:
Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel’s storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.
I don’t understand why they didn’t just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.
I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives…leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them…as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.
None of this “Universal Star-child” bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.
- Comment on Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video 1 day ago:
Looks like they just gave Ukraine a new drone target.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 3 days ago:
I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith,at this point. You send me an article about a specific humanoid robot, claiming it costs $8k. That article clearly states the make and model, as well as provides pictures of the unit in question. It is the Pudu D9 humanoid robot.
So, I sent you the website where it is being sold, which clearly states a price, that doesn’t match your claim…and now all of a sudden, you don’t even know what robot you were talking about before?
Give me a break, man.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Buddy, it’s right there on the page I linked. Even your article says they’re hoping to get the price down to under $30k, at some point. That’s why I looked up their website directly, to see how much they’re currently selling them for. It’s $214k. I don’t know what else to tell you.
- Comment on Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show 4 days ago:
Or…now just hear me out on this…they’re lying.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Were you not able to open the link to their website? You can buy one today for $214k. It’s the D9 model from your article.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Lol! The Agility Robotics model used by Amazon costs $250k per unit. And is currently only capable of moving empty totes around in a controlled environment.
And the Pudu model you linked, is listed on their website for $214k.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Ummm, except you didn’t give me examples. Can you post a link to these robots that are actually being tested in real world conditions?
Or even a link to the $8k robots that are not the same as the one I found for $6k? I have a hard time believing that another $2k is going to somehow provide the difference between that thing, and something functional.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Lol! Are you talking about this? Dude, this is what I meant when I called them a gimmick. And if I recall correctly, the “shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially”, are not actually"working commercially". In fact, they didn’t work at all when given actual things to lift and stack. They could only carry empty boxes, and dropped them more often than not, and tended to fall over all the time.
Like I said, even if they improve to the point where they don’t fuck everything up…all they will be able to do, is the same thing people already do. Except people can also do all kinds of different things, without requiring an engineer to be onsite to set them up for the new task.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Lol! This isn’t “happening, and quickly”. Boston Dynamics has been working on their humanoid robots for decades, and they’re basically at the same stage they were at the beginning.
It’s just a gimmick, my friend. Not a viable alternative to human labor. They don’t perform tasks “better” or “more efficiently” than people. It isn’t even a matter of them improving over time. You simply don’t invest in new technologies that promise to do the exact same thing as the old ones.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 4 days ago:
Because they don’t want to admit that they’re fascists, so they leave out all the characteristics that would confirm that they are.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Lol! Dude. It isn’t “already happening”. Where are you hearing that?
And are we still talking about humanoid robots, or are you talking about drones and automated roller carts? Because they do have those, but there’s no way they are able to repair each other or build more of themselves. What they do have, is as I said, very task-specific and non-intuitive. If even one variable is out of place, the whole system goes off the rails, and an actual human being is required to put things right again.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
That’s pure science fiction. It will never happen. Training people to do various manual tasks is always cheaper than using robots. Automation involves dedicated, task-specific machinery that improves on existing (manual) methods. People are always there to fill in the gaps in what those machines are capable of. We provide that required versatility.
Replacing people with people-shaped robots to do the exact same job that people do, is the opposite of efficiency. There is no improvement involved. It’s literally a lateral shift, with an enormous price tag attached to it.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 4 days ago:
“What did they ever do to me?”
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 4 days ago:
Wouldn’t it be nice to live in his tiny little bubble?
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Labor is the supply. Demand determines its value.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Over time, maintenance costs on machines tend to increase. They all have a practical limit on profitability, before that cost exceeds their contributive value. Then they need to be replaced.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
The I ly thing that makes manual labor worth .ore, is demand. And adding more competition to the market does the opposite of that. If anything, robots will make human labor even cheaper. And that will only get worse, the cheaper the robots get.
Same goes for every other factor you listed. All of those things add cost to a business’s bottom line. Where they will inevitably try to claw back some of those losses, are labor costs. “Sorry, but due to overhead constraints, this is the best I can offer you. Take it or leave it”. And in an economy that’s under pressure, people will take whatever they can get.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 5 days ago:
It’s still up, in some places.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 5 days ago:
Did they replace the elevator operator with a robot that looked just like an elevator operator? And did they make that robot stand inside the elevator, and pull the lever, just like the old elevator operator would?
No. Of course not.
Because that would be insane. Replacing a person with a robot that does the exact same thing that a human can do, is pointless. It doesn’t improve anything. It doesn’t save you money. It isn’t more efficient. It’s just a very expensive gimmick.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 5 days ago:
No, man. History is the indicator here. They’ve been talking about automation replacing people for so long now, that the idea has become more myth than fact. In certain cases, for certain jobs, it works…but it costs enormous amounts of money. In almost every practical instance, that cost is prohibitive.
Most places will weigh their options, and simply decide to keep hiring people for those jobs, since they don’t have to rely on either a massive influx of investment, or take on the burden of securing enormous loans. In almost every way, it is cheaper to hire people to do the work that people are good at.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 5 days ago:
Yeah, no…“always”. Technology like humanoid robots, is never going to get cheap enough to replace low-paid manual labor. That’s a marketing lie that tech CEO’s like to use, in order to drum up more investment capital.
Considering that humanoid labor often works in tandem with actual automation…the idea of robots using machines to accomplish tasks that a human could just as easily do, with far less overhead…makes no sense.
The only way automation is effective, is when it exceeds the limitations of what the human body can accomplish. Designing it with the same basic limitations doesn’t improve on anything.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 5 days ago:
I think it’s implied that having spent enough time with R2, he eventually picks it up. I know that according to the lore, all X-wings are equipped with a translator, so that pilots can understand their astromechs. Given enough time flying together, it makes sense that Luke would need the translator less and less.
Not to mention it just helps move the story along, considering all the scenes they spend alone together in ESB, without C3PO. In a New Hope, C3PO is always around to translate when R2 has something to say.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 5 days ago:
I don’t think he understood binary during a New Hope. C3PO has to translate for R2 when they first meet.
- Comment on No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag. 5 days ago:
Giving your wife a crampie does not automatically make you a good person.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 5 days ago:
It is always cheaper to use human labor, where a humanoid form is best suited to do it. Automation is best implemented in situations where the human form doesn’t work best.