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Mercedes' Plan to Screw Car Headlights and More to Solve Repairability(carbuzz.com)
1 points by toss1 6mo ago|0 comments
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YouTuber Turns $2k Wrecked Tesla into Wild Go-Kart – Then Tesla Shuts It Down(guessingheadlights.com)
5 points by toss1 6mo ago|2 comments
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by toss1 6mo ago
Size, Scale, Intensity, and Intent. All are different here. Yes, Hamas and Hezbollah are the IRGC's remote occupying armies in the adjacent territories of Gaza and Lebanon, and they have launched rockets into Israel on a near-daily bas
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by toss1 6mo ago
>>The FTC's 2024 rule banning fake social influence metrics carries penalties of $53,088 per violation - and the SEC has already charged startup founders for inflating traction metrics during fundraising Six million fake stars is
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by toss1 6mo ago
You overlook the "long time" in your last sentence. Of course any of these problems can be solved in a long time, 5-10 years. The article is talking about the problems of between potentially supply being shut off tomorrow and be
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When the cost of verification exceeds the cost of trust(twitter.com)
2 points by toss1 6mo ago|0 comments
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by toss1 6mo ago
Red lights reduce injury and deaths due to car crashes. Red light cameras do NOT do so, and when the companies/cities screw with the properly engineered yellow light timing to increase revenue, the cameras INCREASE crashes and inju
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by toss1 6mo ago
So, you are saying it is unreasonable to take a company at its word. You are saying it is unreasonable to understand the words a company uses as having the same meaning as understood by every other speaker, writer, listener, and reader. And
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by toss1 6mo ago
Human nature. We already ban the thing that is being abused — running red lights. Yet people do it with deadly results so much we're looking for another solution. With the cameras, the camera salespeople and the town managers just can&
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by toss1 6mo ago
>>"never once seen a productionalized version of these" YET Just because we have not YET seen one does not mean it should not be pursued. Examples are endless, start with: 30 years ago, no one had seen a solar panel with 2
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by toss1 6mo ago
Not GP, but I've seen multiple credible news stories on this. The problem isn't the red-light camera itself, it is that whoever installs/manages them also reduces the time of the yellow-light warning, so the red light comes
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by toss1 6mo ago
THIS! An autonomous robot that I program, I update (or don't) as and when I see fit, and does not need to connect to the internet or to anything, for $20k that does dishes, or helps me lift things at the shop, and returning data to it&
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by toss1 6mo ago
This was addressed in the article: >>Flares, the standard IR countermeasure, are less effective against imaging IR seekers that can distinguish an aircraft shape from point-source decoys.
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by toss1 6mo ago
>> its executives just didn't care to understand the consequences of their actions. This, a day or two after a top story about Marc Andreessen refusing to engage in introspection. Nah, there's not a pattern here among the te
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by toss1 6mo ago
I don't think GP is talking about average users; they seem to be talking about decision-makers in organizations, e.g., a town board that wants to achieve digital independence, but is made unsure by apparent turmoil in the governance in
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by toss1 6mo ago
YUP He is wrong about almost everything, and especially about introspection. But he got lucky and wrote a good-enough-for-the-time browser at just the right time. Now, he mistakes his luck and his F_U_Money for skill and intelligence. And
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by toss1 7mo ago
Not at all necessarily. It could be, but it is definitely not necessarily true. It depends entirely on usage patterns and attitudes. I just used a piece of material that was sitting on the shelf for at least ten and probably closer to
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by toss1 7mo ago
Even more wild to read that sarcasm about "removing locks from doors for 87% speedup" is considered extreme... And yes, we agree that running unconstrained AI agents with --dangerous-skip-confirm flags and seeing nothing wrong wit
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by toss1 7mo ago
Unsurprising people complain. "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why so few people do it" — attrib Henry Ford Now we have tools that can appear to automate your thinking for you. (They don't really think, but th
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by toss1 7mo ago
IOW, if you are doing this, it does not matter what you are doing afterwards. You are assuming that a human's particular typing pattern is consistent, when the fact is that any number of ordinary events will render your assumption
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by toss1 7mo ago
Yes. This is from that page: >>While you type, the keyboard quietly records how you type — the rhythm, the pauses between keys, where your finger lands, how hard you press. >>Nobody types the same way. Your pattern is as unique
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by toss1 7mo ago
Oh Gawd, not this idea again! This idea of capturing the timing of people's keystrokes to identify them, ensure it is them typing their passwords, or even using the timing itself as a password has been recurring every few years for at
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by toss1 7mo ago
True, and this sounds very cool. But might it just be easier to develop and apply similar sugar adhesives, or other compatible or soluble adhesives (in quantities that will not affect the recycling process)? OFC, if you never introduce anyt
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by toss1 7mo ago
>>I'm always confused as hell how little insight we have in memory consumption. >>I look at memory profiles of rnomal apps and often think "what is burning that memory". Because companies starting with Microsoft a
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by toss1 7mo ago
Weird. No activity or response to an obscure post beyond a couple upvotes. Then, the next day a brigade no-engagement downvotes. IDC, but seems like some corporate image management trying to hide negative takes on Google properties? Shees
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by toss1 7mo ago
Or, OP is not hiding their position and shutting down conversation — they are not imposing their position and are opening it up to discussion. What prevents you from saying "Yes, and Xyz!!" and another poster "Yup, and Pdq, a
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by toss1 7mo ago
Isn't this conversation, not publishing scientific hypotheses, theories and findings? If so, it is customarily permissible to use rhetoric and sarcasm to more strongly emphasize a point. Or, to leave the conclusion as an exercise for
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by toss1 7mo ago
Indeed!! If you consider how the reading, audio, and video you consume either builds or degrades your capabilities and character, as the food or poison you consume either builds or degrades your physical health, then [looking at US top vide
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by toss1 7mo ago
YES! This is the critical data —» how many people hang up on the AI chatbot vs how many people hang up on the voice message prompt. If it is even close, well, the AI needs to be improved. If the AI is way ahead, but still loses/drops m
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by toss1 7mo ago
Yep. A full moat is the only sure way, and indeed, the OPSEC lectures and even pre-announced severe punishments will never be 100% — there is always some idiot who thinks he is special and rationalizes it in his head. Allowing traffic to o

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