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This reminds me of that solar road project that seems really cool until you realize that a lot of road traffic isn't your Honda Civic and has poo poo like gravel or god forbid studded tires and the panels would get beat to poo poo within a week. People with good intentions who have no loving clue what life is like outside of their very narrow experience.
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I'm brainstorming for a quick column about what a fraud musk is, thinking about using three or four examples. So far I can think of the submarine in Thailand, his hyperloop, and his virus response. Any other gently caress ups I might want to include?
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gschmidl posted:https://elonmusk.today/ has a large amount. 
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BMan posted:- Neuralink Thank you. This should be great. I try to focus my work on environment, arts and policy. This is a good angle of both fake environmental solutions and the problem with looking to single individuals for those solutions. Like with Chicago, instead of investing in increased public transit infrastructure to the airport they buy into this poo poo.
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I got stuck on a ski lift with a Elon musk fan. Kid must have been in his mid to late teens. I brought up all the dumb as poo poo things that Elon musk has "invented" and the utterly presidential poo poo he says. Kid took it ready personally and stopped talking to me. Lol
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Adopting left talking points to justify my competition not getting government subsidies that my billions are from Is he even doing that though? I thought that the tax breaking only was available if the vehicle was certified Union made in America
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trucutru posted:So not only you get electricity but also free sunlight? love the panel! Not even that. It looks like it just destroyed the sheetrock. The roof is still there, it just is more like a colander now
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commando in tophat posted:There is also this problem with "machine learning", "artificial intelligence" and "neural network", that laymen think they understand what it means, because it sounds so simple and obvious, while in reality machine doesn't really learn anything as human would, it doesn't have intelligence to use what it would learn, and the neural network is so simplistic and tiny that it most likely cannot learn anything as human would. Yet my father seems convinced that world ruling true AI could be developed any second now by some dude in a garage When my cousin got his first smartphone in around 2010/2011, even I could see that Siri was just responding to the most basic if-then statements and couldn't actually put any complex decisions together. But he was so impressed that his phone could call him "God King Sam" I generally appreciate certain workflow automations that have come from having smarter machines, but I also know that there's no loving replacements at this stage of the game for a human brain. Machines can only do complex tasks with the very best of conditions set up for them because they simply can't account for all the variables in the way a human can It's still all binary trees
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Carthag Tuek posted:i use switches and buttons & dont have hot mics in my home Same here in my life doesn't feel at all diminished
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infernal machines posted:i like having a light that turns on when i flick the switch, regardless of whether AWS us-east-1 is responding today poo poo my wifi router burned out guess I won't have light in my home for 18 hrs
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WhyteRyce posted:You guys know the switch still works physically even if the internet is down Giving you a hard time about it, but I mostly poking fun at the people who IOT their entire homes. It's the kind of oblivious "the internet and technology can only make things better" mindset that ignores why things exist as the do.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Every smart switch also just acts like a normal switch when used like a normal switch. I think the problem everyone sees with this, and most of the other things in this thread is that their solutions in search of problems and they're often not great solutions at that. Home automation stuff is pretty benign, but when you think about the energy it takes design and where that could have been better applied to real issues, it's frustrating to think about. I don't think anyone's mad at people that use iot things, but there's a certain degree to which we see that and shake our heads thinking about what else was possible
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Well if it costs more it must be better, that's just science. Re: the home automation, I generally think it's benign, but poo poo like sensored lights or programmable thermostats have been around for a long time and never need a wifi connection. I also think poo poo like putting a touch screen and camera in your fridge is presidential
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Is this just lifted from the London subway map?
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Iron Crowned posted:I've been ranting about Tesla quality for years, but that didn't stop my brother from buying one and my parents being enamored with it. US consumer culture is really loving weird. I'm not sure if it's like this anywhere else in the world and I don't think it is, but but the way we attach our identities to the products we buy and the brands we associate with is a driving factor for the US economy. Even looking back at the power tool discussion earlier you can kind of see it. Goons are a little more savvy and less blindly loyal to brands, but it still is there. I use Makita tools some of my colleagues use Milwaukee tools, some use DeWalt. I think that by and large all three of those brands are on level and I don't get all up in arms about bagging on Milwaukee users or DeWalt users. Imo American corporations and marketers have done a great job of tapping into consumer tribalism and managed to irreparably damage our culture in the process
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:
I genuinely thought this was some Geiger art piece as a joke.
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Waffle House posted:I'm glad to see other auto makers getting into the market, and after all the twitter showboating and resulting failure, it's going to be interesting to see Tesla try to stay competitive. Like I got an email about Toyota/Subaru's EV, the bZ4X/Solterra, expected to go for $45k and has a range of 220 miles and I'm like I'm basically waiting for this. Subaru makes great conventional motors so I think they'll do their homework on an electric engine.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah when I say that it's because it's the single greatest difference between a human and The Car. The human knows that that red car from 10 seconds ago was driving like an rear end in a top hat and merits special attention, where The Car has already forgotten. I had to explain this to some friends over the weekend who didn't really understand the difference between AI as it exists in ai and science fiction, and it really blew their minds. It's hard to overstate the degree to which people don't understand the limits of computers these days because tech marketing has done such a number on our culture.
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