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AceOfFlames posted:Counting the days until they strap a bunch of guns to this thing... They will create a giant robot army and then control it using unsecured wifi or something, and some random person in (insert next country we invade) is gonna take it over.
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Elon also tweeted the other day about making Tesla tequila, because why not at this point
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It's amazing how Musk has become more ridiculous than his parody character in GTA: Online
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aware of dog posted:Elon also tweeted the other day about making Tesla tequila, because why not at this point Tila Tequila? AceOfFlames posted:It's amazing how Musk has become more ridiculous than his parody character in GTA: Online Go see Venom
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Tila Tequila? Yeah recasting the Life Foundation as a Silicon Valley tech company is goddamn amazing.
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Weatherman posted:You might want to put some oil on the wheels under your goalposts - they squeaked pretty badly when you pushed them. That was literally my first post in this thread. I'm not disagreeing whatsoever with the claim that Americans are ineffectual hypocrites. I just find it amusing to point out in a grotesque fashion that better reflecting the will of the electorate does not necessarily result in better policy outcomes.
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~*~DISRUPTING~*~ traffic lights with IoT devices https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes
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Jose Valasquez posted:~*~DISRUPTING~*~ traffic lights with IoT devices https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes more silly proposals to make the inherently inefficient model of personal transportation vehicles become somehow efficient through proper application of technology all this talk about making traffic lights more responsive to vehicle behavior while ignoring the actual cause of the issue, which is that there are always more vehicles on the road than the network can effectively process oh jesus christ, gently caress off with this quote:In the longer term, the bicyclist and pedestrian challenge might be solved with Internet of Things technology. As the IoT expands, the day will finally come when everyone carries a DSRC-capable device at all times. carry a device to ensure you can cross the street safely Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Jose Valasquez posted:~*~DISRUPTING~*~ traffic lights with IoT devices https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes Flashing one's high-beams when approaching lights works surprisingly well, particularly at night.
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VideoGameVet posted:Flashing one's high-beams when approaching lights works surprisingly well, particularly at night. this does not work at all actually, traffic lights are not sensitive to lights from vehicles. it is an urban legend, like how when people flash their brights at you it is part of a gang initiation and you will be murdered if it seems to work it is because the road network you are on has advance sensors that detect incoming traffic whether your lights are on or not
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luxury handset posted:this does not work at all actually, traffic lights are not sensitive to lights from vehicles. it is an urban legend, like how when people flash their brights at you it is part of a gang initiation and you will be murdered I'd have to do an experiment, of course, but at 4:15am the flash makes the light turn before I get to the metal sensors. Probably doesn't matter: The devices used by firefighters and other emergency personnel signal detectors on the traffic lights in a way headlights can’t. One company describes the signal sent by their preemption transmitters sold for emergency vehicles as “a high-intensity forward-facing strobe light that is flashing at a rapid rate.”
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Jose Valasquez posted:~*~DISRUPTING~*~ traffic lights with IoT devices https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes loving stupid. Like every other idea that developers come up with because they cant be bothered to bring themselves up to the understanding of modern traffic sciences and the people who work with them. "Disruption" Only works when you are able to actually co-op a part of the existing system. Which gently caress me if I'm going to let some tech doofus access to my traffic light system with his IoT garbage. You would have to unlearn an entire generation of drivers, you would have to get every car equipped with these sensors, you would have to convince every municipality to pay the ridiculous licensing fees associated with the disruption technologies software and hardware. Last I checked there aren't enough normal traffic engineers. gently caress these guys they should maybe actually ask a traffic engineer what help they really need . Not some sort of way to make randian douchebags get home faster. Also I caught up on this thread and any one trying to defend Musk also deserves to be shoved in a locker with him. SpaceX is awesome, Tesla could be awesome, they all succeed in spite of Musk not because of him. *end rant*
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VideoGameVet posted:I'd have to do an experiment, of course, but at 4:15am the flash makes the light turn before I get to the metal sensors. yeah that's infrared and not your stock headlights. also super illegal to own i promise you that traffic lights do not detect headlights because just think about that for a few minutes and all the problems associated with it https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flash-point/ reminds me of an old message board i saw where a dude in montana was using his hunting rifle to snipe all of the "spy cameras" on traffic lights to prevent the government from tracking his movements (they are super low res cameras that detect stopped vehicles through contrast of vehicle/pavement color and are an extremely cheap sensor option for newer lights in low density areas) BlueBlazer posted:You would have to unlearn an entire generation of drivers, you would have to get every car equipped with these sensors, you would have to convince every municipality to pay the ridiculous licensing fees associated with the disruption technologies software and hardware. Last I checked there aren't enough normal traffic engineers. gently caress these guys they should maybe actually ask a traffic engineer what help they really need . Not some sort of way to make randian douchebags get home faster. it's just electrical engineers trying to solve a problem the best way they know how, via electrical engineering meanwhile the problem is just that you will never, ever make automotive travel efficient while relying on it as a primary mode of travel because anyone who wants a car can get one and get on the road. so as soon as you squeeze out your 20% efficiency gain or whatever then folks will make more trips because traffic is a gas that expands to fill all possible road volume. traffic engineers have known this for decades, it is called triple convergence https://walkablestreets.wordpress.com/1994/08/18/the-triple-convergence/ also lol at the comments Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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That's what I'm talking about. Either those guys never went and actually talked to a traffic engineer about their field, or they were told about it and went nuh-uh and kept going anyway. Its the same poo poo in self driving cars. The things that have to improve to make self driving cars feasible or even see improvements with assisted driving are not being addressed at the same level of dick waving is at developing new driverless technologies. There aren't enough people in those rooms going "STOP, think and work with the system you are in!"
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agreed and that's the relevant and silly portion of this mock thread, all these highly educated refrigerator designers who spent years in the lab creating cutting edge developments in appliance technology never stopped to think about whether anyone really wants or needs to get a text from their fridge reminding them that they're low on milk and eggs it's all super neat technology. too bad it's completely pointless as we drown our one and only biosphere in more irrelevant consumer tech
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I work in ops, and have to deal with the fact that no, I don't have the man power and money to change the widget this one neat way that marketing will love. Of course everyone would like their car to drive for them. A bunch of slick salesmen are out there conning money out of investors with the dream that this one neat trick will make it happen. Except that the science and real research has said "No, not really and here's why." Throw in some willful ignorance though and that train will just keep rolling. Will power and strength of resource can get through difficult problems but only if they are identified. We didn't fly to the moon, we were propelled there. You cant fly if there is no air. I used to go get my daily aneurysm from the Trump thread but this one is oh so much more effective at getting my blood pressure up. It's about people who really should know better getting sold dreams and given orders by people who have no loving clue.
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luxury handset posted:agreed and that's the relevant and silly portion of this mock thread, all these highly educated refrigerator designers who spent years in the lab creating cutting edge developments in appliance technology never stopped to think about whether anyone really wants or needs to get a text from their fridge reminding them that they're low on milk and eggs Yes, but putting PornHub on the fridges at Home Depot is pretty amusing. Not that I would do that, but it makes for good reddit.
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innocent kenmore gets STUFFED with german footlong sausages!!!
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aware of dog posted:Elon also tweeted the other day about making Tesla tequila, because why not at this point
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ShadowHawk posted:This was literally a joke in Silicon Valley (Russ Hanneman makes "3 comma tequila") i mean Washington has been turning Veep jokes into reality since mid 2015, Silicon Valley is finally catching up to its HBO sitcom counterpart
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal-googles-intellectual-property posted:Some of the biggest fights involved risks that Levandowski was taking in self-driving experiments. The software that guided Google’s autonomous vehicles improved by ingesting immense amounts of test-drive data. One effective way to teach autonomous vehicles how to, say, merge onto a busy freeway is to have them do so repeatedly, allowing their algorithms to explore various approaches and learn from mistakes. A human “safety driver” always sat in the front seat of an autonomous vehicle, ready to take over if an experiment went awry. But pushing the technology’s boundaries required exposing the cars’ software to tricky situations. “If it is your job to advance technology, safety cannot be your No. 1 concern,” Levandowski told me. “If it is, you’ll never do anything. It’s always safer to leave the car in the driveway. You’ll never learn from a real mistake.” The sacrifices made by the people killed by self-driving cars will not be in vain.
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SimonChris posted:The sacrifices made by the people killed by self-driving cars will not be in vain. loving  both of these people right. now.
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Levandowski, Watching the Space Shuttle Columbia: This is valuable data!
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SardonicTyrant posted:The Tree of Innovation must be constantly watered with the blood of QA and Early Adopters. Sometimes you just need a basement full of dead homeless people.
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luxury handset posted:reminds me of an old message board i saw where a dude in montana was using his hunting rifle to snipe all of the "spy cameras" on traffic lights to prevent the government from tracking his movements (they are super low res cameras that detect stopped vehicles through contrast of vehicle/pavement color and are an extremely cheap sensor option for newer lights in low density areas) I remember talking to a DOT engineer who said state cops were asking the DOT for video feed from said cameras. Their responses over the years varied from somewhere between “good luck reading anything even if you can find the funding to stream data from these things and store it on a server farm” to “lol no”. Also that Montana dude sounds like some sort of 2018 folk hero, I’d fuckin’ buy that dude a beer and listen to stories of the lizard people from planet Gor.
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Ripoff posted:I remember talking to a DOT engineer who said state cops were asking the DOT for video feed from said cameras. Their responses over the years varied from somewhere between “good luck reading anything even if you can find the funding to stream data from these things and store it on a server farm” to “lol no”. I did a couple of projects with various cities and traffic cams. And during the discussion, I asked about recording video and it was like stomping a landmine. They were adamantly opposed to any recording of video because they didn't want to deal with insurance companies or lawyers requesting their footage. Made them super easy to work with.
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SardonicTyrant posted:The Tree of Innovation must be constantly watered with the blood of QA and Early Adopters. We are all QA now, friend. There is nowhere to hide.
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Is it self-aware? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTW8uAo_6s
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SardonicTyrant posted:The Tree of Innovation must be constantly watered with the blood of QA and Early Adopters. 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Spacewolf posted:Yeah, but what would they use ultrasound for, aside from pregnancy checks? I got an ultrasound on my heart to look for cancer.
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HootTheOwl posted:I got an ultrasound on my heart to look for cancer. If you get enough ultrasounds then eventually you can interpret an MRI from the data! 
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SimonChris posted:The sacrifices made by the people killed by self-driving cars will not be in vain.
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"we have open plan offices so that employees can communicate more easily, resulting in synergies between diverse departments" "why do your workers wear blinders" "so they can avoid being distracted by excessive communication"
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suck my woke dick posted:"we have open plan offices so that employees can communicate more easily, resulting in synergies between diverse departments" this strikes me as a "well our previous idiot execs redesigned our entire office around this idiot open plan but after we fired them into the sun we needed to fix it on the cheap" sort of thing
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