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  • Doesn't always work. Hannibal Lecter is probably the most memorable character in Silence of the Lambs and a huge draw but he's neither the main character or the main villain, and has minimal screen time.

  • Who do you know that took a path you didn't expect?
  • Had a friend, super advanced in math/science. Basically finished high school in 2 years, went to university at 14/15, took computer engineering or some similar hard STEM program, was a teaching assistant tutoring people older than him, snuck into the university bars a few times showing his student ID while he was underage because how many people expect a 17 year old graduate student?

    Anyways he became a pastor.

  • Waymo is now valued at a staggering $45 billion
  • 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.

  • Waymo is now valued at a staggering $45 billion
  • 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.

  • How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?
  • 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.

  • The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!
  • 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

  • What's valuable, but not worth stealing even if you could get away with it?

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    Are you going to need an unlimited data plan to use The 8 Pro's Video Boost feature?

    From my understanding, the P8P's video boost can't be done in the phone itself, but it's actually uploading the video to Google's servers, processing it there, then downloading the finished product back again. In fact, it probably uploads two videos, one at high ISO and one at low ISO to get the full HDR range.

    For anyone who wants to take lots of videos, this sounds like it'll blow through your data caps very quickly.

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    Leaked prices: Pixel 8 $699, 8 Pro at $899

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    Leaked prices: Pixel 8 $699, 8 Pro at $899

    Big jump for the regular 8 but no increase at all for the pro?

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    Pixel 8/pro camera features leaked - no main sensor upgrade?

    Looking at the details listed from this leak, it looks like all the previous leaks were wrong. The specs for the main sensor are the same as the P7, the Samsung GN1 sensor.

    Also rumors of the IMX787 ultrawide appear to be incorrect as well, only 48MP instead of 64.

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    18 drivers, 18 vehicles, 10 swaps. Testing EPA rating vs real world range

    arstechnica.com What happens when you test the real-world efficiency of hybrids and EVs?

    18 drivers and 18 hybrids and EVs, tested on the same day on the same route.

    What happens when you test the real-world efficiency of hybrids and EVs?
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    Canoo delivers Crew Transportation Vehicles to NASA

    www.engadget.com Canoo made a cute trio of EVs to carry NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts to the SLS | Engadget

    This week, a trio of Canoo's Crew Transportation Vehicles arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida..

    Canoo made a cute trio of EVs to carry NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts to the SLS | Engadget

    Still waiting for Canoo to produce a consumer version, but at least they've made the vehicles for NASA. Maybe the publicity from this will help them get enough interest for the initial production and sales?

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    First Tesla Cybertruck rolls off production line

    arenaev.com Tesla Cybertruck begins its journey to success - first unit rolls off production line

    Tesla finally begins its next big chapter with its first production Cybertruck rolling out from Gigafactory Texas.

    Tesla Cybertruck begins its journey to success - first unit rolls off production line

    I'm guessing it's still a production line test unit, but it seems like the design is finalized and volume production could actually begin by the end of the year

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    arstechnica.com Amazon has 5,000+ Rivian EV delivery vans on the road

    Amazon will also send Rivian vans to Germany.

    Amazon has 5,000+ Rivian EV delivery vans on the road

    Can't wait to see more of these. I hope that Rivian eventually makes an RV/camper version of this, it would go well with their adventure vehicle branding

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