jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I have absolutely not shifted a goal post. What I believe is immaterial, what's important is that the companies that really know this industry are behaving as if there's no future in robotaxis. That should give you pause.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
No. The big automakers are abandoning this idea. Why? Because they don't see a path to profit. They've been at this for 120+ years. Their judgment is probably better than some ads company with an automotive side project.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It's not a different question. Passion projects that aren't profitable don't last. It doesn't matter what a technology can do if there's no reason to use it.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
When will it be profitable? The carmakers are betting that L3 autonomy is a profitable investment, but robotaxis aren't. Regardless of what Waymo can or can't demonstrate technically. So either the carmakers are wrong or Waymo is.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
That's what I'm trying to get at--why would there be any will? Why should we all decide to give up a lane to people who are rich (or stupid) enough to buy a brand new car?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This seems like an industry wide admission that this stuff doesn't actually work, tbh. I've heard similar things from Farley at Ford--advanced lane keeping cruise control systems work, robotaxis don't. Only the "tech&quo
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
making public transit convenient is easy: congestion price the cars the fuck outta downtown. Bingo, public transit just got more convenient!
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Those things are easy to detect. It's much less easy to prevent a simple lane change. Some cities have "bus only" lanes, which cars use anyway, but it's easy to detect them since they don't look like busses. How are
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
How are you going to keep me in my non-autonomous car out of your special "autonomous only and also maybe busses" lane? EDIT: and yes, it's a completely reasonable question to ask why invest in special new kinds of roads when
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Simple and rugged will beat "sophisticated" every day of the week. Underpowered is an asset because you don't break shit. Simple is an asset because you can keep it running. Steering box NLA? No problem fit one from a differe
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
If you're going to block off lanes and install sensors why not just lay track and use streetcars? Rail is way more efficient. This has been a solved problem for the better part of two centuries.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The Russians are working on their very own Project Pluto: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I agree. It seems that "open core"[1] is a failed experiment. I'm hopeful the idea will be replaced either by governments being smarter about the computers, or companies agreeing to sponsor foundations, or... something. But c
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
So the entire license is just a bad faith trap? I could see it being used that way, potentially, but I don't believe that's actually Confluent's, MongoDB's, Elastic's, Hashicorp's, or Redis Labs' intent. I
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Redis, Inc. could some day be acquired by Oracle This is truly the nightmare scenario, and it'll be interesting to see how it plays out when such a thing happens. Not saying specifically with these two companies, but so far these
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This is a great point, it'll probably take the better part of the next decade for all this to shake out. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The question of what constitutes a "service" seems very murky, and although it's obviously not the intention of all these source-available, BSL style things, in a dark timeline it seems like there's a lot of room for lit
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> more extensively thanks to Redis Labs later: a freaking Robin Hood of open source software, where I was well compensated by a company and no, not to do the interests of the company itself, but only to make the best interests of the Red
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
They protect their own and serve themselves. But they have the state backing them up and we don't.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> anyone of any class The American elite do (and have always) taken steps to insulate themselves from the rest of the system, including medically. There are "boutique doctors", "family physicians" and the like.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> they don't give the suspect the option of turning themselves in That seems a lot like the responsibility of the suspect? Like, if you're planning on shooting a high profile target in midtown Manhattan isn't the exit some
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Reliable, repeatable coincidences like that are called "skills".
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm not. Hunting people in a safe democratic society isn't "romantic", it's not "The Most Dangerous Game" or anything else. Your analogy is absolutely accurate. Harvesting an oyster would be another. Stil
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
He stalked his prey and killed it. That's hunting. Then law enforcement tracked him and trapped him. Also hunting! But none of the rich family has done any hunting (yet). So far they are the hunted.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
So far the record indicates he was better at hunting them than they him.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> He lies. He's a cop turned politician.. cows moo, crocodiles chomp, and these critters lie. It's their nature.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yes, they do that. Lying is how they operate, especially when questioning or trying to mess with suspects. You can never trust anything a cop says.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
People vastly overestimate the ability of giant bureaucracies to keep secrets. It only works if a few people are in on it (that's part of what compartmentalization is for). I'm always suspicious of claims that federal agencies are
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
..And he was smart enough to ditch the burner phone, clothes, and the backpack but he kept the untraceable weapon and the fake ID? Seriously what..? I hope we'll learn something that brings this all to a sensible narrative but here and
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This is really interesting, I remember seeing the Mar/IO video and being psyched that someone took Kenneth O. Stanley's work and applied it to something fun, but I had no idea how impactful that video actually turned out to be. Ha

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