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kazil posted:LegalEagle video recently went up about this
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Nowher posted:Does Zuck think this is the future?? Billions of dollars really does rot your brain. It's basic and lame but I guess I'm mostly shocked by how patronizing the "onboarding" experience looks. It's like someone took the "how corporations will ruin the afterlife" short, or a throwaway gag from a Black Mirror episode and somehow took that completely straight as a source of inspiration and tried to reverse engineer it into a user experience. The horizon avatars look a lot like those of the human hamster maze inhabitants in the dystopian fantasy of Fifteen Million Merits. Welcome to Your New Life in the Perfect World We Created For You. There are so many ways they could have done this better, for a lot less. The technology on display is shockingly basic. The floating-torso avatars glitching around in random hops create about as much realistic "presence" as the little 2D habbo hotel sprites did around 2005. The art direction is so insulting and terrible, everything is flat shaded plastic with no shadows. Those loving trees. THAT's what they throw at you as the official landing zone? Consider how Valve encourages community participation in forming the post-release lifecycle of their games and technology. The Steam Workshop is full of vibrant communities having fun doing whatever they want, however they want. The experience starts outside of the game world. Users must have a solid sense of ownership of stuff they contribute. If your users are normally functioning grownups then don't loving patronize them with unconditional, cheerful "great job!" feedback for their first terrible and experimental and probably only vaguely committed attempts at hammering something together with the jankiest imaginable in-game building tools with assets resembling kindergarten block toys. Meta is being too greedy, too imposing when delineating the boundary of the experience such that on connection you "land" inside their world. Why isn't there a (groan) meta lobby space around it that is neutral and conceptually (if not practically) user-owned? You should be able to land in "your" space, or a public lobby space of your choosing, and trivially work on your avatar and building stuff, experimenting with the technology, socializing, etc, without stepping into the "official" Meta poo poo with their hideous designs and baby games. There's just nothing to LIKE about horizon worlds. VRchat as it currently exists, fulfills about 99% of everything that Meta claims they want to do with their tech.
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Nov 7, 2022 16:04
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pro starcraft loser posted:What are the odds Elon implements a payment system to get off of suspension/bans? $8 for a redtick custom av for another user seems fair
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Nov 7, 2022 19:37
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Random Stranger posted:$44 billion in dollar bills is roughly 55,000 cubic meters of dollars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg $44 billion as a stack of dollar bills would be about 4,400 kilometers tall. Or laid on its side, it's the road distance from Tijuana to NYC.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:07
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Pookah posted:It's been barely 14 days since he took over. maybe the stupid bathroom sink was supposed to represent the vessel for a chaos vortex into which all effort, passion, money and reason would be flushed.
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Nov 11, 2022 13:58
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Elon wanted to go after the bots. The best way to make that meaningful is to ensure the bots exist. Twitter pink. Sign up now. Your feed will be infused with AI generated fake posts from your favorite follows. For only $13/mo half of these will be filtered out, or at least made less conspicuous.
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Nov 11, 2022 14:54
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John Wick of Dogs posted:There is no such thing as a free lunch Shades of WorldCom, for oldtimers who might still remember what that even was. It was february or march of 2002, during the times of the grisly final contractions of the DotCom Bubble. Ashburn, VA. Dear Leader had already screwed up the company to the tune of what was then a shocking a mount - hundreds of millions of dollars worth of inappropriate loans to cover bad dotcom bets, disguised by cooking the books. Our stock was in the toilet but officially things were "still fine" and Uncle Bernie appeared weekly on TV screens for all-hands meetings, assuring us everything is under control. All the while more and more people were being laid off. But one monday morning we came into office to find all snacks and the free coffee makers had been removed from all the campus pantries. Instead old 1980s style vending machines had been put in. Really old clunkers. Dispensing stale coffee into dixie cups for $0.50 a pop*. They wanted us to come to work with a pocket full of quarters to buy coffee from these loving vending machines. These were the "frugality measures" that should save the company. I put in my two week notice a couple of weeks later. A few weeks after that the company went bankrupt to huge global headlines only eclipsed a little while later that summer when Enron folded. * the dixie cups were dispensed with a probability of around 95%.
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Nov 11, 2022 15:22
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kazil posted:The gently caress does any of this mean? ad agencies. they're huge, unavoidable, titanic forces you want to stay on friendly terms with if you want to sell ads on your platform.
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Nov 11, 2022 22:37
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ErrEff posted:I... that's 200 thousand subscriptions? I may be very wrong here. people just haven't realized what a great deal they're missing out on. Half. The. Ads. And you get the blue tick. You always wanted one of those right? Everybody wants them! Under the old management those were reserved for so-called officials and important people representing brands and governments. Some stinky elitist club! But not anymore! Look at mr. VIP there. Blue tick! verified! BONA FIDE member of the blue tick society! Much better. No?
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stealie72 posted:A few aggrieved programmers having oopsies can do a shitton of damage very quickly, right? that depends. does the hypothetical organization currently have a complete and functioning software org?
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Nov 12, 2022 23:56
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63672307 all employees now locked out of offices, all badge access revoked. (until Monday) LOL
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Nov 18, 2022 12:31
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They're not opening on Monday, you know it and I know it. Hell, the building could be sold or demolished by Monday at this rate. I figure SpaceX engineers are constructing a fall guys stage in what used to be the cafeteria. Are you hardcore enough to work here?
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Nov 18, 2022 13:02
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CheshireCat posted:Did they go on to kill people like that altered design? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2t0MOGnVc
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Nov 18, 2022 18:45
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Nessus posted:People are gonna post about futbol. & they're gonna post things adjacent to the futbol that some people will find embarrassing. Like the qatari stadium built on rivers of immigrant slave worker blood, or the fact that said stadium is filled with paid-for fake fans of the different teams holding up flags and cheering like if they were paid to do so. This futbol-adjacent discussion is going to produce millions of tweets with kinds of highly charged political commentary that could reasonably require a substantial moderation and probably language and locale-specialist staffing to handle gracefully.
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Nov 18, 2022 21:35
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Party Ape posted:Don't forget Orkut which I believe was bought by Google (or a google prototype?) Orkut had a few good communities but iirc everything fell apart with the Portuguese language crisis. Brazilian poo poo posters invaded every community until Anglophones gave up and left.
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Comstar posted:You will need a Modulator/De-modulator and telephone subscription. no OS/2 support 
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Nov 22, 2022 07:49
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Mx. posted:what At least read it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/11/is-criticizing-billionaires-new-wearing-blackface/ Toles is all right.
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QuarkJets posted:In all honesty I expected FSD to recognize the child and immediately turn off right before hitting it. I guess the tech just isn't there yet with lidars and radars the car would have had a far better integrated picture of the scene. I wouldn't get into a "FSD" test in a vehicle that didn't have at least lidar. The tesla 3 series initially shipped with radars. But not anymore. Big brain musk deleted all sensors other than the cameras and declared that they would be enough for FSD. Tesla invested substantially in realistic simulation of what the cameras see in different situations so as to feed scenarios to the AI training work, but cameras are often just blinded by adverse lighting conditions or covered in dirt.
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Machai posted:Hold up. Teslas only use cameras for detection? And you're supposed to let it control itself? How does it even stay on the road in low/no light conditions? LOL https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23523201/tesla-fsd-braking-crash-bay-bridge-california-chp ever driven through the famous Third Street tunnel in Los Angeles? It's a narrow two-lane structure that's been in like a thousand films, including Blade Runner. The glossy tiles lining the tunnel create beautiful, mesmerizing reflections from the lights of the cars. There's another less famous tunnel in San Francisco with a similar reflecting effect. This one is unidirectional and multi-lane. So all the tail lights from the cars ahead of you are reflected in the ceiling above. Beautiful red mirages. That "FSD" teslas will forever confuse for red traffic lights.
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Data Graham posted:
what a difference a year makes
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thathonkey posted:i always thought musk was a dipshit but the earliest incident i can really remember of him "opening his mouth to remove all doubt" was when the thai kids got trapped in the cave, he tried to do a PR stunt involving sending a rigid bluetooth enabled submarine vessel through a tight and complex network of caverns. when it failed as miserably as anyone with a fraction of a brain expected (similar to the "we're making covid ventilators!" thing), he doubled down and called one of the divers who performed the actual rescue successfully a pedophile Musk sent P.I.s to dig up sleaze and dirt on the diver, which didn't yield anything. Even so, he continued insulting and defaming the diver on twitter. elon posted:calling the guy who found the children a pedo musk of course won through the test of infinite lawyer money the ensuing defamation lawsuit. At some point he deleted the accusatory tweets but said in an interview that calling someone a pedo is just a common insult in boer culture and doesn't really mean pedo. frumpykvetchbot fucked around with this message at 20:35 on May 20, 2023 |
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May 20, 2023 19:52
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Poil posted:Maybe the money can be burned for heat and as a signal fire? Unless it's in quarters. if you build a primitive kiln, maybe you can melt them down to form arrowheads.
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Jul 12, 2023 13:42
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The janky-rear end assembly looks super improvised. What in hell are those LED modules they've made the sign from? they don't look like any signage LED module I've ever seen. The bulk and depth of the modules looks high powered. The video shows how absurdly bright they are, completely inappropriate for inner-city signage.
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Jul 29, 2023 17:54
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Sockser posted:$40 truck LED bars from Amazon, just like 50 of them nah, the shape is wrong. Too deep. I'm thinking those are DMX stage lights. The erector set scaffold and the lights probably came from the same stage equipment rental place. Not from a commercial sign maker; they would have been able to form the logo shape exactly from sheet metal and CNC or lasercut plastics. This is some kind of janky-rear end improvisation put together with very little preparation, and you can see they can only approximate the logo shape because the block sizes don't fit.
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Jul 29, 2023 18:08
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poisonpill posted:san FRANCISCO nanny state once AGAIN interfering with PROPERTY OWNER RIGHTS to drop giant strobe lights on pedestrians from 140 feet in the air implying that senpai Elon's elite team of rocket surgeons are capable of unsafe engineering, :laugh-cry emoji: :laugh-cry emoji: :laugh-cry emoji:
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Jul 30, 2023 20:34
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https://www.vari-lite.com/global/products/sl-nitro-510c the rooftop "X" sign was apparently made from about 60 of these. each rated at 50,000+ lumens.
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Aug 3, 2023 23:36
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Lol so it cost at least $150k for the lights alone, amazing the peak light output possible from this system was at least a few percent of what a 60-inch 15kW carbon arc WW2 search light was capable of.
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Escape From Noise posted:Oh boy! Jetsons meets Grease! your malt shakes will be served by wibbly wobbly geriatric tesla bots on RGB rollerskates.
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Three Olives posted:Elon is murdering people. elons rationale for deleting the radar was that human drivers don't need radar. but humans are a lot besser at processing and reasoning about vision input than Tesla's lovely autopilot AI. also, the night-time camera footage from all tesla model years I've seen so far, look like rear end. radars are awesome. Never will I ever use even a basic lane keeping assist feature in a vehicle that doesn't have radar.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:whats with the legs in this picture it's AI piss art
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Aug 12, 2023 12:41
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Mr. Fortitude posted:ID verification coming to Twitter where you need to provide government ID and take a selfie. and all the biometric data capture is outsourced to an israeli security firm with definitely zero Mossad ties.
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Aug 16, 2023 20:06
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FlocksOfMice posted:See, this is what I'm talking about. I'd respect him so much more if he wore gothic industrial and built a smart-phone attachment so he could wear it on his arm and type into it like a loving duel disc. You have all the money in the world why aren't you having fun. Why aren't you playing, you won. because then only some people into the same poo poo would know about his antics. by buying up not just the cosplay convention, but also the town square and the whole loving rest of the city he can insert himself into everything that's going on. You can't tune him out. You can't ignore him. His stupid ugly face will scroll into your feed every few seconds. You'll hear stories about him every day, you'll love him, you'll adore him, you'll laugh at his jokes or he'll use his own-everything powers to ruin your day with anything from petty HOA Karen poo poo to having his howling sycophant army swarm and brigade whatever you care about. And of course he can straight up exile you for the smallest offense. quote:Is it possible that winning capitalism means you become its slave? I think buying twitter and utterly destroying it is in fact a perfect move for a hyper-narcissistic supervillain. If you can burn that much cash and not care about it, I can scarcely think of any other thing to do that would be quite that satisfactory.
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Collapsing Farts posted:Even when you get rid of them new ones will sprout and then you have a whole new crop of 'em that just means there can be a sustainable harvest.
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the bulletproof X phone won't have those limitations 😂😂😂 tim apple will be living under a bridge this time next year 😂😂😂 frumpykvetchbot fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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Aug 18, 2023 20:40
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William Bear posted:How on Earth is this car street legal? Imagine being in a car that's on fire or flooding. You might have useful consciousness measured in seconds. If you're in the back of a Model Y, in order to live, you must: it's a design thing you plebs tesla is 𝔸𝔼𝕊𝕋ℍ𝔼𝕋𝕀ℂ (please pay no attention to randomly misaligned panels and bits and pieces sticking out by a quarter inch or more)
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Aug 21, 2023 17:28
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Tiny Timbs posted:Tesla wanted frameless doors but didn't want to spend the pennies on figuring out how to make a mechanical latch lower the window to clear the frame when you open the door. cars with frameless side windows have existed since the 1950s, maybe earlier and nearly all of them convertibles. However, my impression is that the earliest of these models didn't really have a good seal between the rolled-up windows and the roof. Only by the early 1980s did convertibles have reliable electronic automation for this stuff. I had an antique $5K BMW E36 shitbox 5-speed convertible built in 1996 and it had a microprocessor that pulled the side windows down to clear the roof frame in like a split second as you pulled the door handle from either side, or when the canvas top was rolling up or down.
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Aug 21, 2023 20:32
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MrMojok posted:After all, you can’t even know what the article is about, without clicking! my favorite memory of late-1990s web UIs was "mystery meat" menus with like a salad of inscrutable icons that told you nothing about what they were for. You had to click on them one by one, wait for the screen to load, and then click back, wait for the previous screen to load if that wasn't what you wanted.
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Aug 22, 2023 03:35
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re. meds, If you're on the fence regarding the legitimacy of this stuff, highly suggest watching one of Robert Sapolsky's lectures on behavioral biology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA
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Burns posted:Genuine question, but who is the cybrrtruck aimed at? Tesla already has an suv and the pickup line is dominated by the F150 types for good reason. It doesnt look like the cybertruvk has anything in terms of storage or hauling capacity. Can it do off-roading? Is it just a ploy to get idiots with money stuck in the wilderness? Help me techbro, I'm stuck. in my interpretation, the cbrtrk has these design drivers: * It is styled to evoke 1990s James Cameron type scifi military poo poo like the APC from "Aliens". * The marketing bullshit should tick boxes to make you think you're getting a practical, civilian version of the Marauder, as demonstrated on Top Gear. Recall the disastrous demonstration with the (LOL) armored side windows. Elmo of course probably didn't even tell his engineers that they were supposed to be bulletproof or whatever he claimed at the time. Look at the "armored" wheel covers. The concept is ferrying rich white people from one secure gated community to another, through the genpop wasteland full of poors. I don't think the engineering is quite going to deliver any meaningful level of utility or protection in that regard, but I think word-of-mouth marketing for the thing is going to be full of dog whistles to that effect.
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Prettz posted:Famous 1996 movie Aliens 1990s adjacent
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