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it is a good ilustration of something like moores law, for a comming end point where a hand held device will have more than enough cabability and capacity to do

by metalman 11mo ago

it is a good ilustration of something like moores law, for a comming end point where a hand held device will have more than enough cabability and capacity to do ANYTHING, a meer mortal will EVER require, and the death of options and features, and a return to personal autonomy and responsibility AI is the final failure of "intermitent" wipers,which like my latest car, is irevocably enabled to smeer the road grime and imperceptable "rain" into a goo, blocking by ability to see

immibis 11mo ago
use the washer button to spray the windshield with water and help the goo wipe off
- metalman 11mo ago
  yes, obviously, but my point is that I am now tasked with helping the "feature" limp along, whenever it lurches, unexpectedly, into action, therby ADDING distraction which if you read the ancient myths and legends is one of the main methods that evil spirits and deamons undermine and defeat the unwary....and lull them into becoming possesed, hosts, for said entities. who's working for who here anyway? already?
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makeitdouble 11mo ago
True. Then we cross a threshold where things that weren't even thought as possible become reachable, and we're back on the treadmill. That's what we're having with VR: we came to a point where increasing DPI for laptop or phone seemed to make no sense; but that was also the point where VR started to be reachable, and over there a 300DPI screen is crude and we'd really want 3x that pixel density.
rogerrogerr 11mo ago
On what car can you not disable auto wipers?
MarkusWandel 11mo ago
On my car the automatic features - automatic headlight on/off, automatic high beam, automatic lock when you walk away etc. - work well enough to be a plus (except when you switch to the other, older car that doesn't have those features). But the cruise control. You can not disable the adaptive part. It's either adaptive cruise control or nothing. And at night, the camera-based system sometimes gets confused in the mess of over-bright headlights coming the other way and brakes for no reason. So you end up not being able to use cruise control at all. I guess the reason they make it that way is exactly the habit problem. You don't want people crashing into the car in front because they forgot that the cruise is not in adaptive mode. Automatic wipers would be great (if optional to enable!) After all that same camera that makes all the other wizardry work can see rain drops on the windshield in front of it. So why don't the make that feature?

immibis 11mo ago

use the washer button to spray the windshield with water and help the goo wipe off

metalman 11mo ago
yes, obviously, but my point is that I am now tasked with helping the "feature" limp along, whenever it lurches, unexpectedly, into action, therby ADDING distraction which if you read the ancient myths and legends is one of the main methods that evil spirits and deamons undermine and defeat the unwary....and lull them into becoming possesed, hosts, for said entities. who's working for who here anyway? already?
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makeitdouble 11mo ago

True. Then we cross a threshold where things that weren't even thought as possible become reachable, and we're back on the treadmill. That's what we're having with VR: we came to a point where increasing DPI for laptop or phone seemed to make no sense; but that was also the point where VR started to be reachable, and over there a 300DPI screen is crude and we'd really want 3x that pixel density.

rogerrogerr 11mo ago

On what car can you not disable auto wipers?

MarkusWandel 11mo ago

On my car the automatic features - automatic headlight on/off, automatic high beam, automatic lock when you walk away etc. - work well enough to be a plus (except when you switch to the other, older car that doesn't have those features). But the cruise control. You can not disable the adaptive part. It's either adaptive cruise control or nothing. And at night, the camera-based system sometimes gets confused in the mess of over-bright headlights coming the other way and brakes for no reason. So you end up not being able to use cruise control at all. I guess the reason they make it that way is exactly the habit problem. You don't want people crashing into the car in front because they forgot that the cruise is not in adaptive mode. Automatic wipers would be great (if optional to enable!) After all that same camera that makes all the other wizardry work can see rain drops on the windshield in front of it. So why don't the make that feature?