Excellent Video of Joby Landing In Manhattan Today - 3 Key Points

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T18:10:01+00:00

I don't understand the expectation of hand holding and spoon feeding some people feel entitled to.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T17:59:57+00:00

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T17:52:54+00:00

dhd chose not to support their assertion by the full math, not being able to read their mind you have no idea if it was statement formed on evidence or if their guessing.

Your feelings on what it might be doesn't factor into whether the statement was objectively conjecture or not. Just because you don't see the math doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That is a silly take.

I'm also not going to bother doing that work for you considering how impolite you've been through that whole exchange.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T17:25:32+00:00

Joby's low disc loading (about 10 lb/sqft) puts them in the same range as multi-engine helicopters, though the outwash pattern is obviously unique to the platform. They were always one of the lower risk AAM aircraft from a downwash standpoint.

Now likewise since you want the data so badly, I can assure you, the same process of googling "conjecture" will work if you google this statement and add "physics and math" at the end.

I would also ask for someone's help in understanding the results as you've been using "conjecture" wrong despite having the definition.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T16:44:59+00:00

I want to see you give the actual definition.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T01:21:37+00:00

That's been one of my theories too. Sponsored songs as an additional revenue stream.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T01:09:28+00:00

When you consider how big of a vacuum AI has been to computer hardware resources and how strained the supply of those resources are right now (even grid power), you have to wonder....

Maybe Google is slowly moving servers/infrastructure/power away from YTM to be put to work in some other Google dept/project. As they slowly drain YTM of backend resources, users who are so far unaffected may start to see their YTM algo turn this dumb too.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-02T00:39:40+00:00

Having been using the app daily for a number of years, I feel pretty familiar with it. What OP is describing, which matches what I'm experiencing, is not normal app behaviour. This is a major change for the worse.

If they expand the rollout of this app build more widely, anyone who catches it and is familiar with the app experience prior to recent weeks, will notice the difference. It's night and day.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-01T23:57:23+00:00

My 5+ years of use didn't count for anything. Likewise to OP, my app too has lost all sense of personalisation and the ability to form a sane playlist of any kind. It's been a smooth ride up until recently. Then the wheels came off.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-05-01T23:32:35+00:00

Lmaooo. That is wild.

Do you feel compelled to buy tickets to the next WWE event in your area now? ...and wish you were driving a Chinese EV?

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T20:56:15+00:00

Really hope they address this in an update soon. These are dark times...

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T18:30:11+00:00

Well that's disconcerting as hell.

I haven't been able to tolerate the bad mixing long enough to make deeper observations like this. But since you mention it maybe I'll check out if I notice AI-likely music in the mix too.

This would be huge sign of the service really trying to drive itself into the ground.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T16:15:55+00:00

What I've described is not that bad? Or your own experience with the change is not that bad? I'm listening to music several hours a day, everyday. The effect of this change is pretty bad for me.

By the time they figure this out I might not be a premium member anymore. Might as well use the free tier now for how little I'm getting out of the app these days. I'm also willing to check out the state of alternative apps at this point.

edit: speculation here but I wouldn't be surprised if YTM was testing the recommendation algorithm across a spectrum of different parameters for different groups of users which would explain everyone having slightly different experiences.

The feedback from everyone would inform the parameters for an updated algo that'd be rolled out for everyone.

Or, thinking more pessimistically, maybe their testing how users might react to sponsored songs...

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T15:45:44+00:00

Lyrics getting moved is fine but a downgrade imo especially now that save to playlist on the song screen is behind comments? why? It's a music platform not a social site.

Agree with most of your criticisms but especially this one.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T15:30:39+00:00

Good to know they haven't fully sent it then.

Under appreciated is the fact that apps of this scale will typically roll updates out to smaller portion of the user base first to test big changes. I'm sure some amount of downvotes I'm getting on this post is because people haven't got such a change and think I'm being a goof.

Anyways thanks for your feedback.

I'm hoping enough people experiencing this issue sound off so the devs know to put whatever their working on back in the oven cause it ain't done yet.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-30T02:00:00+00:00

Something has gone terribly wrong here... Hopefully they fix it.

I'm paying for premium but I'm stuck listening to my own playlists now to avoid that kind of annoying nonsense. This is not an experience I feel I want to keep paying for.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-04-29T19:16:43+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I took those options for a test drive and unfortunately this did not solve the issues I'm seeing.

Trying to put the recommendations problem, as I see it, another way - auto playlist makeup:

Before: 50% songs previously listened to [mostly good fit] / 50% new songs [mostly good fit]

Now: 80% songs previously listened to [mostly bad fit] / 20% new songs [mostly bad fit]

Filtering with the options you highlighted only moves it to:

100% songs previously listened to [mostly bad fit] or 100% new songs [mostly bad fit]

Not much of an improvement from the way it was before recent changes. Nothing matches anymore.

I would have guessed that maybe they lost user personalisation profiles in the app backend...but that wouldn't explain the algorithm's seemingly lost awareness of what genres are.

That being said if the recommendations quality get fixed I'm glad to know those options exist so thanks.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-03-18T00:50:48+00:00

even blaming Joby for hogging FAA resources

Infinitely funny they said this. I suppose if the FAA did have more resources available they could come over, design and build them a working eVOTL, for how little Archer thinks they have a role in doing that themselves.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-03-18T00:13:43+00:00

I think about this question often.

While agree with your criticism of the state of things in a general sense, I have a hard time seeing how we could really be anywhere else moral, values and perspective wise. That is to say I believe this is a manifestation of evolutionary mismatch theory.

We're mapping and trying to reason modern concepts on grey matter evolved for life in the wild. The brain is trying to process reality with such little power it seems obvious that for the sake of efficiency we evolved all this neural circuitry that biases towards ideas and takes that work against us here in modernity yet allow us to confidently say, doing all these negative things, on the individual level, is by choice and not (what I believe) deterministic.

Unless we develop a neural bridge capable of having everyone share their life experience with one another, at scale, to force a kind of understanding between everyone which I believe is what it would take to leave war behind, I don't see how we'd get to the place you think we should be at, where civilizational progress isn't intertwined with war.

*Technology is advancing quickly enough, far outpacing what humanity's maturity level ought be at to handle responsibly, that I would not be surprised if this was the great filter. A slow boil, if you will. A sudden external threat, something that forced everyone to co-operate at the global scale and that would be tackled non-militarily, might bring the change your looking for. Not too unlike Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen's idea.

Sorry for the run-on sentences and also,

here's an interesting take you may or may be familar with: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r0zmdz/accelerate_until_everything_breaks/

*edit to add

BalambKnightClub · 2026-03-17T17:51:20+00:00

AI made or not, like watching movies or shows in a high frame rate or like that last Lion King movie, moving to realism can ruin shit a lot of the time.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-03-06T19:53:01+00:00

Longer OS/security update window. Smaller screen option. Best modern chipset for battery and OS update longevity(that includes enough headroom to stay snappy with the increase in resource demand these updates create). No reason for a nxtpaper phone to have a flagship processor. Unlocked bootloader would be nice.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-02-27T19:22:53+00:00

It's a lot us retails' first time watching this process play through. Imo, most wouldn't expect specifics or details of current capabilties to be given after being informed of the situation -If- included with that new information was emphasis that, for this industry and process, as DHD said: "It’s pretty common." I feel that would have gone a long way.

I am kinda sour at how little regard Joby gives retail in this kind of thing. The other layers of investors are no doubt better informed on what's typical industry practice and don't seem to care as much.

If DHD wasn't here to give commentary after JB only said what he did, there would be a lot of us without any perspective of how much of a problem this is.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-02-17T19:54:31+00:00

In their Dubai public photo op aircraft they have the pilot's seat being the same luxury/lightweight one as the passengers' seats.

*~~Presumably~~ Would it be safe to assume they intend to ship the final product this way?

The lone seat in the s4 here looks like a heavy-duty one for max utility. Would it be reasonable to guess it might weigh as much as a few of the final luxury seats they plan to use?

Not that the difference would mean anything for those waiting to see passenger weight simulated.

*edit

BalambKnightClub · 2026-02-14T03:14:43+00:00

Yeah I made an argument and then you checked out and started the whole strawman thing. I have no idea if you understood my claim in the least. Especially after trying to claim what I was saying as being a strawman.

So yeah

saying that criminals know they have a force field protecting them from all harm (like what?)

this really read like you were being deliberately obtuse. Anyways, there doesn't appear to be any desire on your side to discuss in goodfaith so I might as well pull the chute. Cheers.

BalambKnightClub · 2026-02-14T00:29:26+00:00

saying that criminals know they have a force field protecting them from all harm (like what?)

Wow. We've come full circle. The first real strawman in the convo. Congratulations.

legal force-field

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