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- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 6 days ago:
The police running into the crowd are violent, certainly; as is the white mob. The response to a movement being violent doesn’t make the movement violent, any more than getting mugged makes the victim violent.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 6 days ago:
I understood US Civil Rights movement to be peaceful, as in the people in the movement did not instigate violence. Calling a protest violent because those in power struck back violently seems nonsensical to me.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 week ago:
It’s usually for the kid’s safety. Little kids especially run off sometimes; and while it’d be nice to be able to be a continuously attentive parent, sometimes you need to get shit done out and about while they’re with you. Sometimes they’re fine with just being carried or sitting in a shopping cart, but if not, a leash & harness (usually just integrated into a backpack) lets them wander safely while you take care of what you’re there to do.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid older than 4 or so in one.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 2 weeks ago:
Nice, thanks!
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 2 weeks ago:
It sounds utopian…
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 2 weeks ago:
…okay, I really want to know the story behind that picture!
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
That can easily lead to “othering” those kids as well. Also, many parents who can still give their kids food from home might still struggle to do that at times.
Schools are already monitoring a whole mess of kids at once. Why not just take care of feeding them too? That ensures that, regardless of what happens at home, they have at least one good meal each day.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Reading through the article, it seems like one scenario is that a vehicle stopped at an intersection might be about to pull out, endangering another vehicle about to cross? It seems like the thinking is, if you notice a front/side brake light stops being lit as you approach the intersection, it might indicate they’re about to accelerate - be cautious!
I’m not fully convinced either, it seems like a lot of the benefit they’re projecting is based on analysis of historical accidents, rather than any kind of experimental results. It sounds like the study is to justify expanding research to that sort of simulated experimentation, though - I’m curious what that kind of testing would find.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like it can help oncoming traffic as well as traffic to either side of the vehicle
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 2 weeks ago:
Pretty confident that’s the intention of that name
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
Given the state of the US justice system, that’s not much of a gotcha.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
For example, my grandad was a killer. Fought Nazis in WW2.
- Comment on Grieve with me 4 weeks ago:
Might consider how you’re storing it, too - used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. Also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 4 weeks ago:
“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”
The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 4 weeks ago:
We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 4 weeks ago:
Or I don’t actually get to update the version my company is using, is there a workaround?
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 5 weeks ago:
This is what I’ve been calling it. Not as a pejorative term, just descriptive. It has no concept of truth or not-truth, it just tells good-sounding stories. It’s just bullshitting.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 5 weeks ago:
Nah. The current crop of US pickups is, I’ll agree; but there’s plenty of older pickups that are much more reasonably scaled. Not to mention non-American models.
- Comment on Disney wolves 1 month ago:
Eyelashes!
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 1 month ago:
This was Amos’s preferred (planetside) ride for a while in The Expanse!
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 1 month ago:
Get it home and you’ve got the start of a pretty good generator!
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
Sure, and such regulations should be reformed. We should not just start turning stuff off and seeing who breaks!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
Everyone is busily selecting a fork, and I’m trying to figure out if the apostrophe was an intentional troll …
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 1 month ago:
Why do they even want to encourage cow milk consumption?
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 1 month ago:
That is a fascinating take on the general reaction to LLMs. Thanks for posting this!
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 1 month ago:
It sounds like you can connect with your phone, which reduces the energy footprint quite a bit.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
It’s well within tolerance. Functionally 1 billion :p
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
Eh, it’s a 0.1% difference
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 1 month ago:
The rest of the world has been trying to move away from fossil fuels for decades. Why these guys didn’t figure out they should diversify beyond oil I do not understand.