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by Fricken 8mo ago
The cartilage in your knees is a living tissue. Like muscle, it responds and adapts to stimulus. If descending stairs gives you knee pain that isn't from some past injury being aggravated, then train them. You get people who go skiing
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by Fricken 8mo ago
It's so they can stick a Tesla logo on a bunch of chinese tech and call it innovation.
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by Fricken 8mo ago
I don't know what he's on about. Here's a better list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_Autopilot_crashe...
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by Fricken 8mo ago
The original Mobileye EyeQ3 devices that Tesla began installing in their cars in 2013 had only a single forward facing camera. They were very simple devices, only intended to be used for lane keeping. Tesla hacked the devices and pushed the
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by Fricken 8mo ago
Open AI the hare had an exciting sprint and is now a bit winded. Google the tortoise is going to keep plugging along. LLMs give me flashbacks to the self-driving car race 9 years ago. Uber, Tesla and other flashy companies were drawing a gr
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Neither China or the West handled the transition to industrial civilization well. A key difference is that most Chinese died due to incompetence on the part of their leaders, but in the west they mostly murdered one another on purpose. Once
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by Fricken 9mo ago
For a cyclist high speed traffic is scary. Speed kills. Slow traffic –like, gridlocked car traffic– is freedom for a cyclist.
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by Fricken 9mo ago
The NY Governor's office has always been pro-SDC's, the Mayor's office has always been against them.
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Do you have anything coherent to say in rebuttal to the substance of Hinton's arguments, or are you just out to do some baseless character assassination?
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by Fricken 9mo ago
I was a film student in the 90s, I would watch a dozen films over a weekend. Now, if I want to sit through a film and give it my full attention I have to either go to a movie theatre or break the movie up into a series of bite-sized segment
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Linking to a Nazi website? Seriously?
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by Fricken 9mo ago
A game, by the definition of a game, is just a set of rules. Nobody asks if chess, hockey, or Monopoly is art. We don't conflate the game itself with it's art assets. You can play chess on a golden chess board using pieces inlaid
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Video games are far too derivative to be taken seriously as art. People saying that with a straight face are suffering some serious Dunning-Kruger. Video games at least ought to produce examples of great design , but even those examples ar
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Here's a segment from a Live television broadcast special covering Ron Kauk and Jerry Moffat on their ascent of Yosemite's Lost Arrow Spire in 1982. John Long is the colour commentator. The full special was 12 hours long, and at o
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by Fricken 9mo ago
I'm saying the administration is aiming to provoke violence from the citizenry so they can declare martial law, and that they were hoping to achieve their aim sooner. It is astonishing that no real violence has yet been inflicted upon
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Woe is you
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Shared stressors are what bring people together. Communities form when a group of people all have the same problem. Go around egging peoples homes in your neighbourhood, and keep doing it. By the time your neighbours finally catch you they
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by Fricken 9mo ago
I suppose human patients are also prone to telling their psychoanalysts what they want to hear.
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by Fricken 9mo ago
My dad and I picked out a Braun Espresso maker as a Christmas gift for my mom in the mid-80s. When I grew up and moved out I took it with me, and used it daily up until 2010. When it was finally time to replace it the replacement lasted 6 m
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by Fricken 9mo ago
All the cold cuts in Calcutta are smelly. Please Mum buy meat at the New Delhi.
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by Fricken 9mo ago
Google's ham-fisted rollout of Bard as an answer to Chat GPT's was a confounding variable because otherwise there was little reason to doubt Google's ability to compete at AI over the long-term. It's in their DNA.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
That imperialism shit doesn't care what you think because it's bigger and meaner than you are and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
The whole reason for Taiwan's existence is to be a thorn that western powers can press into China's side. It would never have come into existence in the first place if it was not propped up by hostile meddling foreign powers.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Or maybe Schizophrenia is linked to increased risk of cat ownership
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Generated video is just as costly to stream as non-generated video.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Getting Bladerunner vibes from several things but mostly that giant translucent synthwave Marco Cochrane statue.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
>some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file. That's the first sentence of the article, and that's all there is to it.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
The latest Spider-man movie was shot on the streets of Glasgow this summer, and they went the distance to shoot spider-man swinging down the street practical, having built a massive truck-mounted boom that supports Tom Holland so he can phy
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Not everything needs a software based solution. When it comes to nudity I believe that the best way to prevent the spread of nudity is to stop it at the source, right there at the genitals, with physical coverings. This way the nudity is bl
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by Fricken 10mo ago
They were never worth anything in terms of reputation, hence the "TIL"

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