Who cares if they release a new one every year? Just buy a new phone when you actually need one.

Imagine trying to squeeze toothpaste out of a tube but it’s almost empty vs almost full.

Your gut is meant to keep things moving along… If it doesn’t, it ain’t good.

Like I said, the argument is that if AI vision is actually solved, at that point it’s like walking with perfect vision and a blind cane.

LIDAR’s true strength isn’t even useful for driving at speed. LIDAR is super precise - useful for parking perhaps, but when driving at 50km/h or faster, does it really matter if the object in front is 30.34m ahead or 30.38m?

Also, the main problem with LIDAR is that it really doesn’t see any more than cameras do. It uses light, or near-visible light, so it basically gets blocked by the same things that a camera gets blocked by. When heavy fog easily fucks up both cameras and LIDAR at the same time, that’s not really redundancy.

I’d like to see redundancy provided by multiple systems that work differently. Advanced high resolution radar, thermal vision, etc. But it still requires vision and AI 100%: the ability to identify what an object is and its likely actions, not simply measure its size and distance.

People are hopping on LIDAR as the one stop solution to self driving without understanding what it is. Probably for no reason other than the fact that Musk doesn’t like it, therefore the complete opposite must be true!

LIDAR just makes the “easy” problem of self driving more robust. i.e. “Don’t crash into object”

It does nothing for the “hard” problem of self driving. “What does that road construction worker mean when they are waving their hand that way?” or “Is that pedestrian waiting to cross the road or just standing there waiting?”

LIDAR does absolutely fuckall to solve those types of problems. It will basically say, very precisely, “there is a 1.86m tall object 8.54m in front of you, don’t crash into it.” And “there is a 1.71m tall object standing 4.55m to your right, don’t crash into it.”

To solve self driving, vision AI MUST be solved.

Tesla is betting that they will solve the vision problem, and by the time that is solved LIDAR will be redundant. Like a person with perfect vision walking with a blind cane. Yes, the cane can serve as a backup, but… why bother at that point? Although right now Tesla is basically like a very nearsighted person walking without glasses or a cane.

Waymo is using LIDAR so it avoids the catastrophic, headline-making screwups that Tesla does. They just kinda… get stuck, call a human operator to assist, and still use individual human operators to fix the problem. Kinda like the blind man with the cane, who has to call his friend to help out constantly. He might be fine on well travelled routes he’s memorized.

Both are not at the point where they are truly self driving without human oversight. And again, vision AI is the key, not LIDAR. LIDAR is just the trumped up version of the anti-collision radar every car has today.

X is just a vague term though. It’s also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the “formerly Twitter” is going to stick for quite a while.

It’s like naming a product “The Thing”. Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.

Nope. If your other finger is still resting on the mouse, it fucks up and can’t tell the difference between left and right click. It’s a 50/50 gamble unless you lift your fingers off beforehand.

Yes, I did use the mouse before, and I was wondering why the fuck the thing kept right clicking when I left clicked and left clicking when I right clicked. Only after googling did it reveal that it misinterprets shit if both fingers are resting on the mouse.

What kind of fucking mouse requires googling to click?

YoU’rE HolDiNG iT wrONg

Rich people want to get richer. Rich people can afford to bribe/wine and dine/trade favors with the select few who actually write the law.

That is all. Nobody enjoys paying taxes, but the rich are just the ones in a position to actually do something about it.

That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.

Not without lifting your fingers off the mouse every time.

It’s garbage to begin with. You can’t right click with both fingers resting on the mouse. Shit design through and through, it’s equally functional right side up or upside down.

It’s Amazon Outlet

The main issue with wireless is heat, at any charging speed it produces more heat than wired charging equivalent. With that said, if your room/charging spot is well ventilated and the ambient temperature isn’t too warm to begin with, it could be negligible.

If they were software engineers, they saved $200,000+ per person laid off

That’s how he makes dem big bux, by telling other people to fuck off

Hello, fellow kids

Because in 3-5 years I can just press a button and magically have 100% again when I need it. It’s not the same boat at all.

The real question is why would you deliberately accelerate the degradation when you don’t need it?

Healthiest = slow charging via cable to 80% limit.

The further you stray from that the worst it is for your battery.

There might be even greater benefit limiting it to below 80, but not as significant as cutting the top end. The majority of battery damage happens at the last 10% of capacity and high heat.

That’s why Nvidia is making bank right now

Yeah, but the 0.1% remaining will take over the world.

Does anyone remember the era when there were a million search engines? Google didn’t spawn alone.

Same with Amazon. You think nobody else tried to make an online store in the 90s? Lol.

People are trying to vindicate their dislike of AI, pointing to trends like this as if it were supporting evidence. But saying “AI is going to be a big flop because 99% of companies today will end up failing” is as stupid as saying “online shopping will never work because 99% of online stores will close by the year 2010”

Data recovery specialists exist, and nobody would pay for them if the data they were recovering wasn’t, you know, valuable enough to pay a specialist to maybe retrieve it. They probably deal with multimillion dollar industrial/financial/business secrets all the time, and do it discreetly, or else their business wouldn’t even exist.

I mean, as long as they are willing to pay all the costs of digging up a landfill up front… Why not?