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dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
which one of you hosed up the old thread

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dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
where i live the lights are always green and everyone's self driving car knows how to avoid all the other self driving cars

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
so all I need to rob a tesla trunk is a 12v battery? nice

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
i worked in palo alto for a while and people liked to blather on about the tap water being so great there for some reason. tasted the same as what i got in san mateo and san francisco, although i haven't bothered to really compare them since i'm not a weirdo.

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
watching the two rockets land side by side pretty much simultaneously was cool as gently caress

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

cis autodrag posted:

What even is the point of landing rockets? They're mostly fuel so the part that's actually valuable is gone when it lands.

lol what. the fuel is the cheap part

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

this has reminded me that that other company that is trying to rival spacex plans to try and literally catch the boosters in a net from a helicopter which like an idea a child would have

i hope it's Bezos company because lol

I hope they use UberCopters

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

lancemantis posted:

I didn’t see the launch but I overheard someone watching it and it sounded like a Super Bowl half time show production and nerds were eating it up

there was a huge crowd there cheering every time something didnt go wrong and i think they all poo poo themselves when the boosters landed

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

ate all the Oreos posted:

my favorite part was after the launch when they thanked the eastern range for something like "helping out" or "consulting with us"

yeah that's it, not "control access to the area, provide backup redundant telemetry systems and make sure your rocket doesn't kill anyone," they were just our fun consultant friends!

what a weird thing to nitpick

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
back on more tech bubbly type stuff, my new vacuum cleaner has wifi. i can’t wait to annoy my roommate by turning it on every 5 minutes when I’m on vacation



the weird thing is instead of sharing my wifi credentials with some bluetooth thing, the vacuum creates its own wifi hotspot that you connect to to start the setup and then it shuts it down and connects to your home network after. i wonder what kind of neat security issues that could cause

dc3k fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Feb 7, 2018

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
it's called a neato botvac. it's like a roomba but instead of being round it's shaped like the letter D

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
not yet

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

infernal machines posted:

the $70k suv i was in today had the proximity alarms going off intermittently because apparently moderate snow is enough to convince it that you're about to plow into a wall

it's made by californians and reacts like californians. OH MY GOD, WE'RE SURROUNDED BY SNOW EVERYBODY FREAK OUT

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Xaris posted:

is it just "bad" subscriber rate of increase, or actual total # of subs down?

they added 5.2m subscribers vs 6.2 in april

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Shaggar posted:

nah I love buying cheap poo poo from china. I don't think amazon is gonna sell me 2 sets of mx revolution mouse feet for 0.99 shipped

son of a bitch, i just bought 2 sets of g502 mouse feet from amazon for $7

ive been bamboozled

e; also lol at amazon packaging. these things take up as much space as half a credit card and they sent it in a giant (relatively) cardboard box that could have fit a book

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
drat, that's gotta be the winner.

this is my worst. sennheiser sent me back some repaired earbuds in this:

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
i want a non reversible but non stabby thing. my fear of sharp things near me is currently outweighing my desire to never have a kid

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

exploded mummy posted:

https://twitter.com/PMourdoukoutas/status/1020654721655242754?s=19
this man is a chairman of a university economics department

lmao his response to "you have to pay for books at amazon" is amazing
https://twitter.com/PMourdoukoutas/status/1020777941838585858

this is every stupid american that's told me how much higher my taxes were in canada in a nutshell

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

infernal machines posted:

https://twitter.com/bielsaussoccer/status/1021133022903463936

lol, i guess we found one of the lot cars that's been delivered

lol that looks like the hubcap on my 13 year old jetta

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
old man who doesn’t know how libraries work is getting poo poo on by pretty much everyone. this is wonderful

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/23/twaddle-librarians-respond-to-suggestion-amazon-should-replace-libraries

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Captain Foo posted:

he knows exactly how they work and hates them for it

i dunno maybe. but his tweets like "most people dont take out $450 a year in books" makes me think he's just a rich idiot with tenure

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

darthbob88 posted:

Considering they're now showing the murderer's face and head, I suspect it is actually autocropped.

both photos are just the center of the photo at a certain aspect ratio. “fyi twitter” guy is just outraged over nothing because reasons




still looks kinda bad to post her photo like that but it’s not “hurr durr look at the bad ai” that he wants it to be

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
every single sfchronicle article crops out the middle of the first photo in the article to 600x314. this isn’t some ai eye tracking conspiracy

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/74/53/76/15908747/5/gallery_medium.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1021524447918874624/J7EwZaOC?format=jpg&name=600x314

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/74/53/73/15908577/5/gallery_xlarge.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1021531975771803648/FURq9D1Y?format=jpg&name=600x314

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/74/52/20/15901706/11/gallery_xlarge.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1021525704054382593/7_xNDxjh?format=jpg&name=600x314

dc3k fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Jul 24, 2018

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Uptime Sinclair posted:

in Canada the Big Mary from Mary Brown's is better than either and always on special on Mondays.

what the hell, how have i never heard of this place?

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

infernal machines posted:

now a&w on the other hand, they're going nuts. there's like three 24 hour a&ws within 10 minutes up my place

no joke, a&w is one of the things i miss most about canada. i stopped by an american one in some shithole town in montana when i was moving to sf and it was fuckin weird. like a completely different restaurant

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

word has it that it’s not because of italian elon musk but rather because a bunch of buttcoiners got scammed by accounts named “elon musk”

which just makes it funnier if you ask me

we used machine learning
:goonsay:

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.


i love whoever made this

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
i never see twitter ads bc i use tweetdeck and tweetbot. it's great

i also block every hashtag keyword and account i see related at all to us politics because im sick of this clownshow. it's a much nicer experience now

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
https://www.boringcompany.com/dugout

boring co is building a tunnel that can transport a whopping 250,000 people per year. what an amazing transit revolution

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
which sticker is the bad one

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

infernal machines posted:

the poorly drawn hooked nosed caricature?

oh yeah i see it now

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
can someone give me a tldr on who sarah jeong is. this thread is the only place ive seen her name mentioned but it happens a lot so :confused:

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
sf isn't a city. it's a garbage patch floating in the water

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
just replace all the roads with railway tracks and everyone has their own train

toot toot

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
what is this thing I saw in front of Uber HQ this morning. it’s like half of a smart car


dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.


hell yeah

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
it's not for shootings only, it's for any reported crime in the area. usually it's just heroin addicts hitting each other with golf clubs. san francisco is a shithole.

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.

Tokamak posted:

nice story gavin belson

silicon valley is going to have so much writing material for the next season i cant fuckin wait

dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
why the hell would anyone need a nest protect anyways. i get the thermostat idea, but an internet smoke alarm? lol

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dc3k
Feb 18, 2003

what.
it’s a feature.

https://twitter.com/chriswelch/status/1075514940763594753

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