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by parl_match 7d ago
there was a common "shock site" called "last measure" that did this. it loaded all sorts of offensive images, blasted a loop of a guy yelling something offensive about pornography, and then proceded to lock up your machi
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by parl_match 8d ago
No, but we can know that there are zero at fault for Waymo. That's important context.
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by parl_match 8d ago
I am not the one saying "fault doesn't matter as fault is not included in the other stat either". And yes, I'm aware of the fault of the incidents.
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by parl_match 8d ago
> Waymo says it has 170 million miles and I found 2 fatal accidents it was involved in (fault doesn't matter as fault is not included in the other stat either) fault absolutely matters. and with two fatal accidents, it should be tri
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by parl_match 8d ago
It feels like a made for TV ad for accessibility.
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by parl_match 8d ago
I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point
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by parl_match 9d ago
> Non-example 2: There are worries about AI-facilitated biological weapons. I haven’t seen any evidence that’s happening. https://www.science.org/content/article/made-order-bioweapon... Being able to use AI to
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by parl_match 9d ago
people in the industry, especially those who work for oai, refer to it as "chat" at least in the ai industry, chat is like kleenex
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by parl_match 13d ago
depends on the jurisdiction in the us, entirely legal. you may get law enforcement knocking on your door with questions, from time to time. best to do it as part of a non profit or other organization, and being open about running a node, so
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by parl_match 16d ago
When someone says > decades, which is as long as they've been unable to crack double digit users and you say > I honestly don't really want you to use it. then you kinda make their point entirely for them. I'm not even
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by parl_match 17d ago
Personally, I just think that LLMs are an artificial line to draw based on current personal preference. I'm not an AI maximalist, but I really can't see the issue with using it to preserve this hardware (especially into RTL for FP
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by parl_match 17d ago
> Understatement of the year. Normally yes. For VPK, actually, no. The file format that we're describing was part of a proprietary embedded SDK for the PS2. The majority of professional integrations would be using the Sony SDK. Toda
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by parl_match 20d ago
Hardly? Credit cards passed cash for retail purchases last year. They're neck and neck. If you break down by age demographic, you'll probably guess who's using what. And the ones using cash are quickly disappearing. And let&#
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by parl_match 21d ago
i imagine not being reliant on american payment networks for your nation's retail economy has lit a fire under their asses.
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by parl_match 21d ago
it's widely used but in "industry" applications. so ffmpeg is probably being used in a lot of offices (studios) and maybe even being included in end user software.
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by parl_match 24d ago
last place i worked at had internal telemetry on end user machines. i dont know the way it was being used, although i suspect it was a document viewer.
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by parl_match 24d ago
> it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it. about a third of windows users used wordpad. that's not a small amount the issue, as i see it, is that they took two tools with two different user communities
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by parl_match 28d ago
The batteries the gshocks use goes for about $15 or less. Regular batteries may be a better deal but that doesn't include the process of opening the watch, replacing the battery, and then resealing the case. I'll trade $15 and a 1
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by parl_match 29d ago
imo just get a pixel. unlockable bootloader and almost guaranteed support from pretty much every major privacy-related android fork. and many of them are building support for the titan chip if they dont have it already
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by parl_match 29d ago
10 years ago, 80% of columbian homes had refrigerators and almost every home suffers from at least one blackout a year. this can be hours or days, during certain seasons. and lastly, cultural reasons inform appliance design, which loops bac
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by parl_match 29d ago
i love the product design aspect of a product that only needs to have one thing set (in this case, the time zone), to be eternally a functional device which is why i love gshocks, both for design but also specifically the ones with tough so
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by parl_match 29d ago
"Works for me and if it doesn't work for you, just fix it." Great, I should learn to become a kernel and device driver developer just to have a working desktop environment with non-tearing windowed video (still somehow an iss
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by parl_match 1mo ago
The Linux Desktop people have been singing the song of "works for me" for decades, which is as long as they've been unable to crack double digit users.
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by parl_match 1mo ago
repair costs, more substantial than bom. > I insist on a wired headset usb audio generally works great, and because it's powered, you often get better audio quality (with microphone arrays for anc) and even neat features like system
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by parl_match 1mo ago
"fully" "about 95% of the time" folks you can't make this stuff up
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by parl_match 1mo ago
If you have it, it'll always be free.
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by parl_match 1mo ago
it's very advanced adas. it is useful but you said "FSD" which stands for FULL Self Driving. You didn't say FSDS, or FSD Beta, or "Tesla's Level 2" self driving. It is NOT a FULL self driving solution yet.
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by parl_match 1mo ago
The argument made more sense 5+ years ago, but the hardware costs of sensors such as LIDAR has plummeted. In addition, a certain CEO of a certain car company has made very aggressive sales pitches about how LIDAR isn't necessary and ev
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by parl_match 1mo ago
"depth estimation" precision matters! and it's still prone to optical illusions and other issues (many solutions struggle with road shadows, for example. sound familiar?) I think the natural solution is a 360 lidar as a sourc
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by parl_match 1mo ago
Because Waymo is largely unsupervised, they take a much more conservative route than Tesla does. Their route planner includes avoiding high-incident rate stretches of road. If there is a stretch of surface road with a complex intersection a

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