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by ajross 9mo ago
Emergency braking in non-camera/non-LIDAR cars requires a significant radar signal which you're only going to get from another vehicle (and even then it's noisy and tends to produce frustrating false positives, leading to lat
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by ajross 9mo ago
So... the thing is it's really not. They're behind on schedule, having just launched in public. But FSD has been showing capabilities in regular use (highway navigation, unprotected left turns in traffic, non-geofenced operation
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by ajross 9mo ago
Isn't a troll definitionally just a plausibly-innocent statement that is "mildy funny" to some but offensive to others? It's just not good faith discussion to rename someone else's nationality or identity as a jok
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by ajross 9mo ago
I'm of that opinion too. The framing behind the gag is wrong anyway. Americans call ourselves "Americans" because we were the American colonies of Great Britain. That is: "Are you English? No, I'm American"
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by ajross 9mo ago
The dissonance is conflating criticism of someone's fee structure with a demand that someone be disallowed from charging a fee. That's just dishonest spin. No one thinks Apple shouldn't be allowed to make a buck. No one thi
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by ajross 9mo ago
This is the "people with anxiety should just stop being worried" attitude that failed to help for centuries. Whether or not you believe SSRI's are clinically effective, denying the existence of mental health disorders is not
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by ajross 9mo ago
> We have numerous studies on why hallucinations are central to the architecture, And we have tens of thousands of years of shared experience of "People Were Wrong and Fucked Shit Up". What's your point? Again, my point
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by ajross 9mo ago
> [...] are fiction machines. All they can do is hallucinate, and sometimes the hallucinations are useful. That alone rules them out, categorically, from any critical control loop. True, but no more true than it is if you replace the ant
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by ajross 9mo ago
It's not anything about CachyOS in particular, frankly I don't know it and I'm sure it's fine. It's that the culture of "I'll grab this known-good base and tweak it, then advertise it to the world as the
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by ajross 9mo ago
> There are at least a dozen very stable and reliable distros Exactly. "WTF?! There are a dozen distributions?!" Users love customization and choice when they understand it. No one wants to be confused. The Linux desktop wo
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by ajross 9mo ago
> I installed CachyOS, a performance-focused Arch-based distribution Ooph. It's frustrating to see the community starting (again) to get purchase in public mind share at exactly the moment when it's least prepared to accept n
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by ajross 9mo ago
To be clear: the crypto in question wasn't managed in even a slightly competent manner. It was literally embezzled.
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by ajross 9mo ago
> protestors behaving legally or practicing civil disobedience can still have their lives ruined by people in power. They surely can. But the point was more than the people in power don't really need Signal metadata to do that. On
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by ajross 9mo ago
> Your comment is longer nonsense. Sigh, here we go. > Individual data points in a population cannot be biased. Indeed they[1] cannot! By the first definition I listed . Conversely, the term "tea party" is a "biased&q
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by ajross 9mo ago
Honestly if you want to learn retro stuff for retro reasons... maybe consider using the retro materials? Here's the MOS programming manual for the original parts, it's what Woz would have used when hand-assembling Integer BASIC:
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by ajross 9mo ago
Purely semantic arguments aren't helpful to anyone. The word "bias" clearly has two senses in this context. The original term from signal processing indicates a persistent offset, which got appropriated in politics to reflec
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by ajross 9mo ago
It's garbage in the same way that the Bourne shell is garbage. People can pontificate 19 replies deep in the comments about the right way to express a problem using sum types in Rust, but sometimes you just want to check the script in
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by ajross 9mo ago
Just to point out, because the article skips the step: YouTube is a hosting site, not a source. Saying that something "cites YouTube" sounds bad, but it depends on what the link is. To be blunt: if Gemini is answering a question
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by ajross 9mo ago
> You make it sound like there are easy things that can be done that are somehow win win. There are indeed easy things that can be done that make things better. There are harder things that can be done that make things better still. Obv
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by ajross 9mo ago
> But that’s like telling a poor person to spend less money if you can’t tell them to make more money. Not sure where you're going with this metaphor. We absolutely should be helping out people who are financially struggling with
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by ajross 9mo ago
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by ajross 9mo ago
Some pedantry first: you're describing "water shortage", which is a resource management issue, and not "drought", which is purely a precipitation thing. But yes: you need to manage resources if we want to live in th
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by ajross 9mo ago
> theres no drought in california. CA is not in a drought right now . CA has been in conditions of persistent drought, with no more than a year or two of respite, for two decades. The last sustained period of sustained at-or-above-des
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by ajross 9mo ago
This construction: > whether the protestor could possibly have wielded their gun while being restrained by agents, or whether he is disarmed by the gray-jacketed agent, or what caused the agents to fire when they did Is a list of excuse
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by ajross 9mo ago
> This is a disgraceful ad hominem attack. An ad hominem argument is an argument constructed around characteristics of a person outside the bounds of what is being discussed. Inferring someone's opinion[1] about the subject under d
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by ajross 9mo ago
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by ajross 9mo ago
https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/2015144869497311275
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by ajross 9mo ago
> I am not watching your videos Oooph. Just watch it.
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by ajross 9mo ago
I suspect it won't matter to you, but there's clear footage now of officers having removed the gun from the suspect long before he was shot. He was pinned and prone when he was executed. Claiming this was "defensive"
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by ajross 9mo ago
Seems like the "I" and "C" might be more relevant? For hundreds of years of civil jurisprudence, enforcing immigration and customs has not involved shooting non-smuggling citizens in the back . Or face. We all know wh

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