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Dimmable lights that can change colour are an absolute godsend for my eye problems but I admit that's a fairly small subset of the population. Still. Love em.
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BeeSeeBee posted:The whole thing, no, it was meandering and just rehashed a bunch of stuff. Care to make a point? Yes, it's like you didn't even read the article. Your scaled down version of what you hope for is very unlikely outside of some other technologic breakthrough (in computing) that will fundamentally change what autonomous vehicles and most other industries that use computers will have to work with. It's going to require one of those quantum leap technologies that spurs a who era of "new stuff" that can be created because of this discovery/invention and autonomous cars will be the least of the things benefiting from something like this. The entire point of the article is that we've hit a wall on "machine learning"/rote memorization and these vehicles will literally never be able to turn left safely unless they are on a closed course.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 13:44 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63oJtX0dP8 I always think of this when using Google to change my lights.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 14:03 |
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starkebn posted:Turning off the lights in my house using the switch takes literal seconds. I've never wanted them dimmer, I've never wanted them coloured. Dimming is nice at nighttime. Colors are pretty. It takes me literal seconds to change as well.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 14:11 |
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If you aren't walking up and down the stairs in the dark at 4 AM are you even living?
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 14:27 |
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Motronic posted:Yes, it's like you didn't even read the article. Your scaled down version of what you hope for is very unlikely outside of some other technologic breakthrough (in computing) that will fundamentally change what autonomous vehicles and most other industries that use computers will have to work with. It's going to require one of those quantum leap technologies that spurs a who era of "new stuff" that can be created because of this discovery/invention and autonomous cars will be the least of the things benefiting from something like this. The comment also discusses the root of many a tech nightmare: the desire to solve non-technical problems with tech solutions. People harassing cyclists is still going to happen unless we work on solving that specific problem, because it's a problem with driver intent, not driver skill or capability.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 14:39 |
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Humphreys posted:Yeah. I was kinda being specific for my usage sorry. I was just clarifying for myself, no worries. I have a few Pis sitting around, I should throw HamPi on one and hook it up to my HackRF and make an APRS node, but I'm lazy af. I have a handful of Yeelight's in my room cus they're useful sometimes and executive disfunction means that I often work in the dark for hours cus I just didn't think to turn on a light, or turn it off before I fell asleep and leave it on all night. Any outside access is blocked behind my router, though, and everything is handed through self-hosted Home Assistant. Neito fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Oct 7, 2022 |
# ? Oct 7, 2022 16:05 |
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PT6A posted:The comment also discusses the root of many a tech nightmare: the desire to solve non-technical problems with tech solutions. Lol yeah like I said, it's sheer desperation, I'd much rather have sensible transportation everywhere, but we aren't getting that either. If I can get rolling traffic calming, I'll take it. Motronic posted:Yes, it's like you didn't even read the article. Your scaled down version of what you hope for is very unlikely outside of some other technologic breakthrough (in computing) that will fundamentally change what autonomous vehicles and most other industries that use computers will have to work with. It's going to require one of those quantum leap technologies that spurs a who era of "new stuff" that can be created because of this discovery/invention and autonomous cars will be the least of the things benefiting from something like this. I didn't think the article was all that well written or sourced enough to make the leaps they were. Like, the quotes are from a vision only company guy and Levandowski so it would be nice if they provided some actual insight into numbers, but it's just some annecdotes and generalizations. They needed to tell me how Waymo's doing and why what's currently live, picking up passengers is or isn't a dismal failure, not about Tony's trucks. I don't actually know what the state of the industry is as of late, but I didn't learn anything new about it from the article. Who cares about lefts, just make a bunch of rights to avoid them like delivery companies BeeSeeBee fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Oct 7, 2022 |
# ? Oct 7, 2022 18:59 |
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I think the sudden pivot to electric vehicles matters a lot more right now. Still, that market is so tempting, I bet car manufacturers will keep investing in research when they can.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:40 |
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Yeah, and really the #1 far out there, cutting edge, future tech I want for cars in light of their growing EV weight and power are speed and acceleration governors. But honestly, it's probably less realistic than robo-taxis in terms of possible adoption.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:48 |
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It's fairly well established in traffic engineering that the way to make cars safer is by changing the road infrastructure. Putting up a speed limit sign has quite limited effectiveness; making the road and/or the lanes narrower so the environment comes closer to the drivers makes the road feel faster, so drivers are more likely to maintain a safe speed. There are tons of other little tricks traffic engineers can use to make roads safer, but a lot of them are essentially the direct opposite of what American car-centric environments tend to look like. Changing infrastructure is expensive and takes a long time, but it's most likely both cheaper and easier than changing the habits of hundreds of millions of drivers. So many of the problems techbros attempt to solve by making individuals consume the right products are actually infrastructure problems, or can be solved with infrastructure, but you can't get funding for that :/
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 21:00 |
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/amazon-suicide-kits-have-led-to-teen-deaths-according-to-new-lawsuit/quote:Amazon lawyers have allegedly told parents that the online retailer had a right to sell these so-called “suicide kits." The kits are described in the lawsuit as bundled items that Amazon suggests buyers purchase together, including a potentially lethal chemical called sodium nitrite, a scale to measure a lethal dose, a drug to prevent vomiting, and a book with instructions on how to use the chemical to attempt suicide. The online retailer’s lawyers also allegedly said that it would be “unfair and inhumane” to hold Amazon liable for the teens’ deaths.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 21:17 |
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The Financial Times sent a reporter to go have lunch with the future owner of Twitter, and the reporter got some political insights out of Musk along with the free meal. Some hot new solutions to geopolitical problems, too! It's gonna be wild having this guy owning a social media platform, what with his personal resentment toward the left for (apparently) using neo-Marxist ideology to brainwash his teenage daughter into not liking him. https://www.ft.com/content/5ef14997-982e-4f03-8548-b5d67202623a quote:The table is too small for the large plates we are sharing as a second course: a slow-cooked lamb that melts in the mouth, chillies in a walnut-based sauce and shrimp in creamy chipotle sauce. Musk is right: it is the best Mexican food I’ve ever had.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 22:42 |
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Jose Valasquez posted:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/amazon-suicide-kits-have-led-to-teen-deaths-according-to-new-lawsuit/ poo poo I thought we were at least a few years away from Amazon selling suicide booths.
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# ? Oct 7, 2022 22:46 |
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Vegetable posted:I shout “Lights out” and my google nest turns out the lights. It’s great. More accurately you have to shout "OK Google, lights out" right? I thought Google was going to get rid of that at some point but I never heard about it happening EDIT: Apparently it only works with the most expensive speaker model lol. Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 10, 2022 |
# ? Oct 10, 2022 21:21 |
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Civilized Fishbot posted:More accurately you have to shout "OK Google, lights out" right? I thought Google was going to get rid of that at some point but I never heard about it happening Does it learn your voice or can you link people to like a YouTube clip of someone shouting "OK Google, lights out"
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# ? Oct 11, 2022 18:21 |
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Neo Rasa posted:Does it learn your voice or can you link people to like a YouTube clip of someone shouting "OK Google, lights out" It learns your voice, some stuff is restricted on voice some is not. With my setup (I bought a lot of this crap when I was a dumb teenager), you could turn off my lights with a YouTube clip like that but you couldn't access my calendar or photos.
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# ? Oct 11, 2022 18:36 |
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It's me, walking into a Google I/O bathroom after the original release of glass and shouting "ok Google, take a picture"
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# ? Oct 11, 2022 19:32 |
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Didn't they eventually put in a nonverbal cue for picture taking, but had it make a sound every time a picture was taken?
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# ? Oct 12, 2022 09:32 |
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Kwyndig posted:Didn't they eventually put in a nonverbal cue for picture taking, but had it make a sound every time a picture was taken? Someone I know plays a lot of Pokemon Go and complained to me the other day that no matter what he does, his phone will always make a shutter sound when he takes a pic of pokemon. Trying to explain that it's to alert people around him that someone could be taking photos of their kids really took too long to get into his head.
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# ? Oct 13, 2022 02:28 |
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IIRC it's a legal requirement in Japan, because some dudes are somehow physically incapable of not taking upskirt pictures
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# ? Oct 13, 2022 03:15 |
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those people will still root their phone and replace the shutter sound with an empty wav
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# ? Oct 13, 2022 03:35 |
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It's not a legal requirement at all, just something all the carriers got together and decided was the new normal. Also, they don't have to root the phone because they all use video to do their upskirts now.
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# ? Oct 13, 2022 04:21 |
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Yeah this is one of those things where the tech companies saw the writing on the wall and decided to get ahead of the legal regulations. If you do something voluntarily you can usually get away with the cheapest option (in this case just adding some code to the camera app on your phone) and it will be done the way you want it, instead of some legislature who might decide to have different standards in different locales.
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# ? Oct 13, 2022 04:30 |
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Hey remember back when Zuckerburg said that they got that leg technology for the metaverse side project thing that nobody uses? Turns out it was a lie. https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1580714050706554880
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 04:57 |
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Between this and New World, it's kinda amazing that despite the constant dysfunction of the video game industry, everything else manages to be somehow worse at it and literally refuses to learn anything from it. Can really tell Zuckerberg is boomerbrained as gently caress because only boomers have that level of complete inability to acknowledge video games.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 04:59 |
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I think the only game that Zuck has played in the past decade is Civ5. I only know this because he joined a Civ5 Facebook group a friend is in.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 05:49 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:I think the only game that Zuck has played in the past decade is Civ5. I only know this because he joined a Civ5 Facebook group a friend is in. He definitely mains Rome.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 06:18 |
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tbf, how many fps'es actually model your legs when you look down? tbf2 I guess this means you shouldn't model the body either, just rayman arms.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 07:44 |
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Maybe he needs to ask Tarantino's assistance.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 09:28 |
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PhazonLink posted:tbf, how many fps'es actually model your legs when you look down? The VR ones do. I know you can see your legs in Robo Recall.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 12:45 |
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Nenonen posted:Maybe he needs to ask Tarantino's assistance. ZZ Top will handle legs, Tarantino will consult on feet.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 13:38 |
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There was a tweet yesterday quoting Ursula K LeGuin on how mediocre fantasy gets praised by critics who've never touched fantasy since they they were eight, akin to a chef being impressed by buttered toast. I wish I'd saved it because it was posted in relation to all the techbro attempts to reinvent the wheel.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 14:01 |
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PhazonLink posted:tbf, how many fps'es actually model your legs when you look down? In most of them I'm familiar with, you get to look at other people's legs too.
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 14:59 |
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thread title please
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 16:03 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:Hey remember back when Zuckerburg said that they got that leg technology for the metaverse side project thing that nobody uses? They made a big deal about having Rob Leefield handle this project. And we all warned them, but did they listen.....
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 16:14 |
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Thomamelas posted:They made a big deal about having Rob Leefield handle this project. And we all warned them, but did they listen.....
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# ? Oct 14, 2022 18:55 |
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listening to ScienceFriday and their segment about "gamification", lol at Amazon having some pokemon ripoff to make people box or find things faster. god and I thought ubisoft, their towers, and checklists were bad.
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PhazonLink posted:listening to ScienceFriday and their segment about "gamification", lol at Amazon having some pokemon ripoff to make people box or find things faster. Climbing the warehouse shelves so I can get housewares on my minimap
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