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Mister Facetious posted:Why would anyone bother with that bullshit when the restaurant industry solved this a decade ago with infrared sensors mounted just under the faucet/next to the seat/stall? You can't play interactive ads with an infrared sensor.
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eXXon posted:You mean the ones that flush the toilet you're sitting on if you lean too far forward, or the ones that refuse to turn the faucet on unless you position your hands just right? Let alone the fuckers that make you run your hands together before they turn on. 1.) I've never experienced that, personally. Do you wear your winter coat on the toilet or something? 2.) You mean like, under the faucet? Cause the sensor is mounted directly underneath the spout barely four inches away. 3.) Never seen one that requires motion, just that your hands are in front of the sensor.
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Ate those the sensors that don't trigger for black people?
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Mister Facetious posted:1.) I've never experienced that, personally. Do you wear your winter coat on the toilet or something? Since I am not alone in this, I might have been wearing a dark shirt and unwittingly confounding it. Mister Facetious posted:2.) You mean like, under the faucet? Cause the sensor is mounted directly underneath the spout barely four inches away. Have you never been to a lovely airport bathroom where the faucet wouldn't turn on unless you moved your hands right under the faucet, or at all? Most likely the battery was running low or dead entirely Mister Facetious posted:3.) Never seen one that requires motion, just that your hands are in front of the sensor. You've never seen an automatic faucet with a sign instructing you rto rub your hands together on a washing motion to activate it? FilthyImp posted:Ate those the sensors that don't trigger for black people? Well if the touch faucet isn't working well then surely facial recognition is the answer! Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 5, 2021 |
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FilthyImp posted:Ate those the sensors that don't trigger for black people? was about to post this.
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eXXon posted:Since I am not alone in this, I might have been wearing a dark shirt and unwittingly confounding it. Weird. You'd think with using body heat it wouldn't matter, because anything above ambient should work. Or is a heat sensor and an infrared sensor different things? quote:Have you never been to a lovely airport bathroom where the faucet wouldn't turn on unless you moved your hands right under the faucet, or at all? Most likely the battery was running low or dead entirely I haven't been to an airport since 2005, vv but I've yet to experience that issue in a restaurant/public building. quote:You've never seen an automatic faucet with a sign instructing you rto rub your hands together on a washing motion to activate it? Not yet.
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Mister Facetious posted:Weird. You'd think with using body heat it wouldn't matter, because anything above ambient should work. Or is a heat sensor and an infrared sensor different things? I think they're just a near-infrared LED (since I see red lights coming out of them, presuming that's the short wavelength end of the LED rather than a power/status light), paired with a camera that detects the reflected light from your clothing. So if you have a shirt that's not very infrared-reflective, or you lean at angle/too far away, it won't reflect enough light back and will either think you got up or maybe never sat down in the first place.
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# ? May 5, 2021 06:00 |
im imaging that patent drawing where you have to jump off of hte couch and enthusiastically yell mcdonalds to escape the ad and continue watching your teevee show, except now you have to watch an ad and proclaim your everlasting love for your corporate overlord if you want to wash your hands. progress! they have a bathroom at an old office building i worked at with one of the sinks had a foot operated bar (probably ADA something or other) and it was 100% more reliable than the sensors on any of the sinks. this tech is a nightmare!
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When I'd visit my grandparents in Mexico City in the 90s, basically all the public bathrooms had these things. You had to physically hold the metal thing to get the water flowing and there was a technique to it that you figured out by living in mexico for a while. Just bring these things back but maybe put in an app that times you or something i dunno, I havent had as many problems with these things as some people have with the other kinds of automatic sinks.
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Good writeup on that big Finnish mental health record breach: They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All quote:At around 4 pm, Jere checked Snapchat. An email notification popped up on his screen. His hands began to shake. The subject line included his full name, his social security number, and the name of a clinic where he’d gotten mental health treatment as a teenager: Vastaamo. He didn’t recognize the sender, but he knew what the email said before he opened it. I think we're going to see more and more attacks like this going forward, and it'll just hasten the unraveling of the fabric of polite society further. People will be even more reticent to talk to mental health professionals when they can't trust that anything they say won't inevitably be stolen, pored over, and weaponized by the absolute scum of the earth.
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Strawberry Pyramid posted:Good writeup on that big Finnish mental health record breach: That is loving soul crushing. Hopefully 12 months of free credit monitoring will fix the issue.
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Phy posted:in the vein of goods-as-a-service/internet of things tomfuckery, this made it into Cycle Asylum earlier this week:
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Survival-as-a-Service
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# ? May 6, 2021 11:24 |
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A tech billionaire needs a new liver and suddenly the failure rate of cycle airbags ticks upward.
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https://twitter.com/Greene_DM/status/1390287432180973574
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# ? May 6, 2021 14:45 |
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Die you piece of poo poo. It'll be a fitting end for passing that public bill in California.
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:51 |
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There is no reason why they would die now they're losing the same amount of money they always were. The of self-driving car poo poo only existed as a post-hoc justification for their sky-high stock prices so investors would think there's something to the company other than losing money on every ride and having no plans to achieve profitability but they've realized that the stock market is way stupider than they thought and they don't even need a justification
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:There is no reason why they would die now Remember when they released that bullshit whitepaper about Uber helicopters? One guy I went to school with who worked there was so pissed when I called it "investor story time".
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rip stupid flying car concept, you were the same as thousands of other stupid flying car concepts and you will be the same as the thousands of stupid flying car concepts to come, all of which equally feed the hollow emotional needs of gullible consumer tech advocates and business journalists on tight deadlines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWOUEFB_IQ it is fun going back through empty promises long after they've expired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LpDsYzRQ8k Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 6, 2021 |
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Test flights in 2020 lol I wonder what's going to happen to all the Uber dependent tech heads once it and lyft and all the other ones go belly up. I feel like the taxi industry is so hollowed out now it would almost require state intervention to rebuild.
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I am always astonished by the idea that technology advances through big dreams instead of the laborious process of extracting knowledge from the void of our understanding and then grinding out the practical engineering issues. No one thinks traffic congestion or disease is good poindexter, do the hard work.
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the thing about taxi companies is that in many places they are very easy to set up. this is the biggest problem uber faces, in that they can't meaningfully raise rates to become solvent without getting undercut by a bunch of competitors. the plan was to try to force every other provider under the uber banner, but that didn't pan out. then magical stories of magical self driving taxis which will lower costs, somehow, to keep the funding rolling in while uber gropes for a path towards sustainable profits
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MickeyFinn posted:I am always astonished by the idea that technology advances through big dreams instead of the laborious process of extracting knowledge from the void of our understanding and then grinding out the practical engineering issues. Yeah there's a pretty huge problem where people confuse science fiction with actual technological development. There's also a problem with people wanting tech to imitate sci-fi, even when the sci-fi was dystopian. Neuromancer and 1984 were meant to be cautionary tales, not blueprints for a better future.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:rip stupid flying car concept, you were the same as thousands of other stupid flying car concepts and you will be the same as the thousands of stupid flying car concepts to come, all of which equally feed the hollow emotional needs of gullible consumer tech advocates and business journalists on tight deadlines This whole time we've had Uber all wrong. They were playing the long game until they came out with a way to efficiently kill off rich people.
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# ? May 6, 2021 21:37 |
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i've posted about this before but flying car concepts have a long history of being obvious bullshit and also forever five years away. turns out the technology side of the thing is not the problem with the concept of everyone whizzing around in their own personally owned flying machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plNO7fntQkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv7w6wqR98Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5iJnctzLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bomcplQqfog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNp_iO-2Jfg
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Flying cars aren't obvious bullshit that's perpetually 5 years away, they're just waiting on the invention of miniaturized cold fusion reactors.
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Don't know why anyone would want a flying car when they can't land on top of their office tower or near a crowd of people like a helicopter can.
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Mister Facetious posted:Don't know why anyone would want a flying car when they can't land on top of their office tower or near a crowd of people like a helicopter can. It's the same assholes who's choose flight over invisibility: they want everyone to see what obnoxious douchebags they are and also be physically unable to do anything to them for it.
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# ? May 6, 2021 23:06 |
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None of these proposals have even started to address the issue of: okay, you have a cheap, working "flying car." Now: how do you address the regulatory and licensing issues such that you can use that flying car to do anything people usually want flying cars to do?
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# ? May 6, 2021 23:14 |
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parking is the immediate problem that comes to mind, personally
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:parking is the immediate problem that comes to mind, personally Parking, pilot licensing, flight plans, weather issues, aerodrome licensing (you can't simply land a helicopter wherever you like, legally speaking), traffic separation, maintenance requirements, even something as trivial as safety briefings. There's a lot of poo poo to deal with.
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# ? May 6, 2021 23:27 |
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The flying cars never land, you just parachute out, like the popular game Fortnite.
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Libra posted:The flying cars never land, you just parachute out, like the popular game Fortnite. Yes but how do you get in? Grab a rope as it swings by and start climbing?
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Strawberry Pyramid posted:It's the same assholes who's choose flight over invisibility: they want everyone to see what obnoxious douchebags they are and also be physically unable to do anything to them for it. Wait what? What's a noncreepy thing you could be doing with invisibility? gently caress that, be a birb.
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Strawberry Pyramid posted:It's the same assholes who's choose flight over invisibility: they want everyone to see what obnoxious douchebags they are and also be physically unable to do anything to them for it. But a helicopter can display conspicuous consumption much more obviously because it isn't restricted to an airport to land. Probably why Trump loves Air Force 2 (or whatever that helicopter is called) so much. He could land directly on the lawn of the Mara Lago.
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aphid_licker posted:Wait what? What's a noncreepy thing you could be doing with invisibility? gently caress that, be a birb. Be a cool casino thief like Danny Ocean. But yeah, flight is better but only if you assume you can fly faster than you can walk/run. Otherwise it's mostly pointless. Flying cars can only come after we solve self driving cars. Because I've seen Baton Rouge drivers in 2D, God help us all if you let them drive in 3D.
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aphid_licker posted:Wait what? What's a noncreepy thing you could be doing with invisibility? gently caress that, be a birb. You could be the best nature photographer in the world A really great health inspector or regulatory person. The worlds greatest puppeteer / ventriloquist. Flying is way more likely to result in self injury or accidental death so I'm good on that.
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Driving is already a nightmare in on a flat surface, I don't even want to think about having to merge and deal with other drivers in a three-dimensional space hundreds of feet in the air.
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god you nerds, flying obviously has some light defense buffs and other required secondary powers so you dont self injure unless you do dumb poo poo like max speed stuff. you dont do flying because it means that the gov. super agency will find you faster unless you only do stealthy night flights.
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