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CellBlock posted:We're in the home stretch of having Metro to Dulles here in NoVA! That's only been in the works for... Our city just started constructing its eighth subway line, 50km long, entirely underground, with over 30 stops. To be finished in 2030. Must suck to live in the US
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Peak capitalism is going to be redefined when robots can kill humans with impunity. I'm really starting to wonder if the Matrix was just the only way the robots could stop humans from killing themselves.
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Motronic posted:So "cruise control" is automation now? Cool cool. I guess that 1950s thermostat with the mercury switch in my old house is also automation too. In any reasonable definition, both absolutely are. For driving specifically, there are even rough levels to distinguish between the automation degree...
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Jan 12, 2022 12:03
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Can I choose a self-driving AI option to be really slow and obnoxious, right along the beach or the ol' neighbourhood? Complete with blasting rap music?
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Jan 12, 2022 12:41
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Peak capitalism is going to be redefined when robots can kill humans with impunity. Alternatively, in the case that the robot programming considers a zero divide to give inf instead of nan, they will just kill all humans.
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Jan 12, 2022 13:13
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Motronic posted:So "cruise control" is automation now? Cool cool. I guess that 1950s thermostat with the mercury switch in my old house is also automation too. If you don't have to flip switches or turn valves manually, it most definitely is. Not computerised, but certainly automated. Computers don't have to be digital or even electronic either. We certainly aren't the first generation in history to use technology in stupid, pointless, counterproductive or irresponsible ways. We can just do them much faster than ever before in history.
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Jan 12, 2022 14:02
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PT6A posted:Yes it does. I can set my cruise control at 30 over the limit trivially. Thus, it in fact has a "definitely break the law constantly" button. If you can’t see the difference between “here, let me choose to set this speed to a dangerous and illegal level right now while I’m already going said speed” and “let me, the person sitting here in a parking lot not driving right now, touch this option here for the car to then decide to do something dangerous and illegal - or not - at some indeterminate point in the future”, I don’t know what more we can talk about. And before you say “but Rod, cars already let you set a cruise speed at 30 and then increase it in 5mph increments until you’re pushing 90,” I know they do and I don’t like it.
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Less Fat Luke posted:They are options describing profiles for FSD, literally not "what to do when a driver driving takes their foot off the pedals". I mean, "rolling stop" and "hold stop" are language they use in other places. Hold stop means the car exerts energy to hold the car when stationary, rolling stop means it just doesn't use the motors when stopped. I am pretty sure they are just using language consistently for the modes they already had.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:49
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Using rolling stop there with that meaning would imply that the car is not applying the brakes when stopped which means it would not come to a complete halt.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:52
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This morning I was walking on the sidewalk on my way to work and a Tesla pulled in the lane by the sidewalk and I genuinely feared for my life.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:56
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hobbesmaster posted:Using rolling stop there with that meaning would imply that the car is not applying the brakes when stopped which means it would not come to a complete halt. The car still uses the brakes to stop. In an automatic transmission a stationary car will slowly creep the wheels. In a manual car the car will roll freely in neutral. The action on an electric motor without a gearbox is undefined. so they make it a menu you pick from. Car rolls freely, car creeps forward, or car goes into park. I don't think it's anything more than that. It's just the language they already use for the modes. Once the car is stopped is it set like an automatic, manual or parked car. In hold it takes a little mini second to get moving again, in neutral (rolling) mode it gets going immediately.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The car still uses the brakes to stop. It's talking about how the "FSD" will treat these things. A rolling stop means not coming to a complete stop. This is incredibly obvious given the language used with the modes. But ok let's see how this might play out in actual use: FSD Video oh looky a rolling stop as described. Must be a bug.
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Time to get into the Metaverse real estate market: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/business/metaverse-real-estate.html quote:In October, Tokens.com, a blockchain technology company focused on NFTs and metaverse real estate, acquired 50 percent of Metaverse Group, one of the world’s first virtual real estate companies, for about $1.7 million. Metaverse Group is based in Toronto but has virtual headquarters in a world called Decentraland in Crypto Valley, which is the metaverse’s answer to Silicon Valley. Decentraland also has districts for gambling, shopping, fashion and the arts. https://fortune.com/2021/12/09/snoop-dogg-rapper-metaverse-snoopverse/ quote:An NFT collector spent a little under a half-million dollars for the privilege of becoming Snoop Dogg’s next-door neighbor. In the metaverse, of course. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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I think discussing the rolling stops misses the point: Tesla has been unable to show its vehicle can safely, without user interaction, handle traffic and navigation. Its just not capable of doing so. So expecting it to be able to handle a stop properly is a huge ask.
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proletariando posted:Looks like it's time to get into the Metaverse real estate market: What's funny is that all of this (NFTs, digital currency, virtual businesses, VR avatars) was already explored in the early 2000s with Second Life and MMOs like EverQuest and World of Warcraft. The actual value was ultimately found to be pretty minimal. Now we have a second generation making the same market attempt, only with a stronger emphasis on tax evasion and money laundering.
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Hopefully something comes of this: Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/12/lawsuit-aiming-to-break-up-facebook-group-meta-can-go-ahead-us-court-rules
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Kaal posted:What's funny is that all of this (NFTs, digital currency, virtual businesses, VR avatars) was already explored in the early 2000s with Second Life and MMOs like EverQuest and World of Warcraft. The actual value was ultimately found to be pretty minimal. Now we have a second generation making the same market attempt, only with a stronger emphasis on tax evasion and money laundering. But you can play with the NFT weapon or costume you got in multiple games! I'm sure that's trivial to accomplish and not a complete waste of time that developers will steadfastly refuse to do, right?
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So when are us goons going to organize the Metaverse equivalent to the giant flying peter horde?
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proletariando posted:So when are us goons going to organize the Metaverse equivalent to the giant flying peter horde? I am currently minting NFTs of the entirety of Kirk Johnson's oeuvre, comrade
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proletariando posted:So when are us goons going to organize the Metaverse equivalent to the giant flying peter horde? We send flying dicks during some dorks metaverse presentation, then we sell NFTs of the flying decks used in said raid.
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BigRed0427 posted:We send flying dicks during some dorks metaverse presentation, then we sell NFTs of the flying decks used in said raid. If we convince the metaverse the flying dicks are NFTs we'll be rich.
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minting an nft of my penis and balls as I speak
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Is it just me or does the "metaverse" just sound like second life?
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Charliegrs posted:Is it just me or does the "metaverse" just sound like second life? No, it sounds like the vr world depicted in "Snow Crash"
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CommieGIR posted:If we convince the metaverse the flying dicks are NFTs we'll be rich. Don't worry the NFT basilisk AI will come to realize all memes originated from Something awful and we will be gods.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Don't worry the NFT basilisk AI will come to realize all memes originated from Something awful and we will be gods. I think you mean "image macros"
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Don't worry the NFT basilisk AI will come to realize all memes originated from Something awful and we will be gods. I got bad news for you bud, the NFT basilisk is Roko's. The good news is that it's on the Blockchain, so it ultimately won't be able to do anything but grift everyone who hasn't worked feverishly to bring it into existence.
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I'm surprised no one has come up with some insane hybrid of Roko's Basilisk and prosperity gospel yet
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Xand_Man posted:I'm surprised no one has come up with some insane hybrid of Roko's Basilisk and prosperity gospel yet Cool, you just have, thanks rear end in a top hat.
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Xand_Man posted:I'm surprised no one has come up with some insane hybrid of Roko's Basilisk and prosperity gospel yet It's called Roko's Basilisk. If you donate to MIRI, you'll help quicken the creation of the good god-machine and not get tortured, and you will receive your rewards on earth which shall be as heaven.
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Anticheese posted:It's called Roko's Basilisk. If you donate to MIRI, you'll help quicken the creation of the good god-machine and not get tortured, and you will receive your rewards on earth which shall be as heaven. THANK YOU! I was trying to remember what this was called after playing Cyberpunk. Theres a faction in that game thats basically trying to do this.
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The overall impression I currently drunkenly get is that the tech industry usually has to be dragged kicking and screaming into making products that people actually want to use, and its entire executive class defaults to desperately and exclusively making poo poo No One Wants.
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Charliegrs posted:Is it just me or does the "metaverse" just sound like second life? It's just Facebook trying to be Second Life, But Worse.
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This seems mostly "Ultra HD Blu-ray was dead on arrival as a format"  Like the whole market for 4k disks is basically everyone buying one disk to show off their new tv then never buying a second one ever and just using netflix. Then DVDs still being the main format of people who can not afford netflix. I think movies that aren't avengers or something especially pretty end up selling like a triple digit amount of uhdbr disks. the format probably won't exist at all in a few years. It's basically a corpse.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think movies that aren't avengers or something especially pretty end up selling like a triple digit amount of uhdbr disks. the format probably won't exist at all in a few years. It's basically a corpse. plenty of 720 and 1080 sets still out there and most people have no reason to upgrade
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The overall impression I currently drunkenly get is that the tech industry usually has to be dragged kicking and screaming into making products that people actually want to use, and its entire executive class defaults to desperately and exclusively making poo poo No One Wants. People here describing it as inventing solutions to non existent problems seems appropriate but tech also creates solutions to problems that they themselves created in the first place. I think if you really look at it and balance overall the things that tech provides (convenience, speed, entertainment) versus the price and problems it really solves I think that overall it's a wash at best. Ostensibly, it's supposed to provide us with all this free time but nobody I know feels like that's working and all I know is I wish I could shut my loving phone up for 10 minutes and not have to manage spam and manage passwords all the time. The last couple of jobs I've worked required me to spend most of my day monitoring texts, Google messages, 2 or 3 separate emails, a dropbox, the company's job order/workflow system, an FTP site and pretty much spending all my time online instead of actually doing work. The weirdest thing to me is being physically in an office or something similar but still have to use a CPU kiosk or solve my problems through my phone or "register" even though I am standing right there and have my DL, credit cards, insurance cards, papers and anything else someone might need.
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BiggerBoat posted:People here describing it as inventing solutions to non existent problems seems appropriate but tech also creates solutions to problems that they themselves created in the first place. I think if you really look at it and balance overall the things that tech provides (convenience, speed, entertainment) versus the price and problems it really solves I think that overall it's a wash at best. Technology has actually made all of us dramatically more performant. The problem is that the benefits of this have not gone to us, the people who are not extremely wealthy business owners.
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Shrecknet posted:there's also the issue of 4k tvs that can actually display them being not-the-standard. Eh, 4k tvs themselves seem to be doing pretty well. Internet says 30% of households in 2020 and 40% in 2021 had them. So adoption is happening pretty rapidly. 4k blurays though basically are totally dead. They just never found a market and decline in sales yearly. Most movies don't come out on them, companies are stopping production on their players. intel dropped support from their chips. 4k blueray disk drives for computers barely exist and had built in security vulnerabilities. It really is a format that sells one copy of tenet/zack snyder cut/dune to one guy who just bought a new tv and has a ps5 anyway and then just nothing else. I mean even 4k streaming is starting to be a thing and multiple months of it cost less than one disk. It's just a totally failed format.
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A huge issue with 4K is it's just not that much better for 90% of things. If you go back and watch standard definition stuff, you can really easily tell the difference. Between standard HD and 4K, you can absolutely tell the difference if you try, but you really have to focus on it. There's much less motivation to seek it out, which basically means 4K-capable televisions will slowly become standard through attrition as older TVs get replaced, and 4K content will become common provided it's easy to use and doesn't cost much additional money, but anything which requires substantial extra effort or investment will flop.
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