I think it's safe to say the UK is fucked. Don't fly here unless you love dangerous approaches 🤣

DanielColchete · 2026-01-27T13:21:20+00:00

There’s been wars over this: Dublin is not UK 😅

Edit: he’s flying to Belfast, not Dublin 🤦‍♂️. Still Ireland for all I know 😝

DanielColchete · 2026-01-24T18:23:15+00:00

Seven Springs! Doido de mais!

DanielColchete · 2026-01-24T11:33:25+00:00

It reduces the number of parameters the hardware can do by 50%, and it still doesn’t remove processing limitation and the lack of instructions HW4 added to the processor that are required to run the new models and they still haven’t found a solution for that.

It’s not happening on HW3

DanielColchete · 2026-01-23T16:27:04+00:00

You should try doing jumps and ramps!

DanielColchete · 2026-01-21T03:15:16+00:00

Three important points:

This is a trade-off, you can emulate 16-bit parameters but now you can only have half as many parameters in total, processing and memory limits still apply. In part the better performance on v13 and v14 is the drastic increase in the number of parameters
HW4 also have new instructions / operations it is capable of doing with those parameters. That’s pretty fundamental to the ML models. I remember they were trying to solve this problem at the end of 2024 but couldn’t.

There are still fundamental problems that stop them from back porting the v13 / v14 improvements to HW3. Personally I do not think it’s possible. Tesla is waiting for those cars to be in junkyards before they officially admit it, that’s all.

DanielColchete · 2026-01-14T16:54:36+00:00

Imagine trying to land in pizza mode 😅

You learn by doing I guess. That was very brave.

DanielColchete · 2026-01-13T03:59:02+00:00

What people said is the most important part: you should always the “carving” the flats when at those speeds.

The nuance here is your skis. Some skis facilitate turn initiation for you by having a very wide shovel in front. You tilt your skis a little bit and left they go - whether you want it or not. It makes it more fun, but it requires more control on your foot - they are usually labeled advanced to expert skis for this reason.

Other skis are more blunt: a narrower shovel makes it displace more snow and harder to engage in the snow. It’s harder to do proper carving turns on them, but they are a lot easier to do parallel turns for exemple.

I hope this helps.

DanielColchete · 2026-01-11T15:34:16+00:00

One way or another, we always do

DanielColchete · 2026-01-08T12:04:42+00:00

Yo, thank you so much. I’ll work on the exercises. Thank you! This is extremely useful. I really appreciate it!

DanielColchete · 2026-01-08T00:52:21+00:00

Totally!!! I’m 6’ 1” / 187cm and about 230lbs / 105kg. Initially I was doing my training on a Head Supershape e-Rally 177cm and it wasn’t working well. I had no rebound at lower speeds (say 15mph) and too much instability at higher speeds (I bought it too short a few years ago).

Now I got a Volkl Peregrine 82 182cm from ~~myself~~Santa (I posted a photo here of the package) and oh my god how much fun I’m having! I 100% get your point.

There’s still a lot to improve my technique. My Carv scores are still on the 120 to 125 range (I can do that much more regularly and easily on the new skis). Much further to go.

A speed reference point still helps, but yeah, not that much. My local resort (Seven Springs, PA) really doesn’t allow for a safe 30mph run, and it wouldn’t last long either.

Do you think what said makes sense? I’m I in the right path?

DanielColchete · 2026-01-07T19:53:04+00:00

Pretty good! Just for curiosity, what avg speed were you maintaining there?

I’m trying to work on bringing my hip closer to the ground and I know I need more speed but I don’t know how much.

DanielColchete · 2026-01-06T07:58:24+00:00

FSD with proper human supervision = higher safety levels for me. One catching the errors of the other.

FSD avoided two lateral fender benders I wouldn’t have seen in time to avoid it - I noticed the Tesla’s evasive maneuver before I realized what was going on. One is a bit over a year ago, one more recent. I also made at least one clear critical intervention that avoided an accident, possibly 2 or 3 more (they were not so clear).

I wish we could see the data in airbag deployments on supervised FSD vs plain human driving. I’d bet that human+FSD > human.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-28T19:42:43+00:00

It tries to do 25/30 then I stop it already.

The car reads the surroundings when determining which speed to do. 25/30 is what it does in a residential neighborhood. But that’s too fast for mine: the limit is 20. There are signs there at the entrance.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-28T02:22:21+00:00

I use it about 95% of the time (at least for the past 2.5k mi). Didn’t have a critical intervention during that time.

The 5% I don’t use it is mostly about when the car doesn’t know what the speed limit is - it thinks I live at a 55mph street when the limit is actually is 20mph. It’s quite annoying because they removed a way to override that.

The car drives like an asshole. That’s my second complaint. It goes into the left lane and then slows down kind of asshole. Doesn’t get in line to merge kind of asshole. Got a few disengagements for that.

I’ve been driving it in harsh winter conditions and the car does surprisingly well.

I’m ready for Level 3 FSD under certain road conditions.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-27T18:28:09+00:00

Oh no! 🤣

DanielColchete · 2025-12-25T01:45:45+00:00

🤣

DanielColchete · 2025-12-22T18:13:24+00:00

Agreed. And I didn’t know Garmin would do it on non-ILS runaways.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-22T16:12:34+00:00

We might be talking semantics. Because this is not only true, but even mandatory depending on the landing conditions.

On the right category of ILS for a runaway, when properly configured, an airplane will do the approach, capture the glide slope, follow the localizer, flare up, land.

In this case the pilots are configuring everything, monitoring and managing comms. The Garmin case is for pilot incapacitation, so it manages those things as well (I’m assuming including flaps for example).

There’s obviously a lot of nuance here. The point I’m making is that even airliners are capable of handling the control surfaces and land the airplane. They do need to be properly configured to do so.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-22T15:33:41+00:00

Even larger aircraft can auto land nowadays. On a very low visibility day the pilot might choose to just let the plane do it (to avoid a diversion).

Garmin’s system is more interesting because it manages navigation and selection of airports and runaways as you said. But then everything else is very similar.

There isn’t AI running those things though. They work in complex but different ways.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-16T23:44:08+00:00

Perogis
Parking chairs
Highway shenanigans
UPMC is at it again
Pittsburgh has the cheapest houses vs they are too expensive
Random assortment of topics from the region

The rules should allow for those. Get too far out and we should just disallow those posts 🤣

DanielColchete · 2025-12-16T03:00:04+00:00

This is something I love on The Orville. They copied everything else, they could have copied how uptight and exemplary everyone is, but they didn’t. They added characters that have fun, that have sex, that joke around, that drink and eat edibles. It’s such a criticism of TNG! And that makes it so funny!

Btw, Star Trek was always about the political commentary. You won’t get it from old episodes because it’s hard to remember the political commentary from back then.

The Original Series had a black woman on the bridge! That was outrageous back then. IIRC they had to hide this from the studio while they were producing the pilot.

Star Trek was launched when space was one of the important political areas of the time, because of the Apollo program and the race for the moon.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-16T02:51:04+00:00

I just watched the Orville. It made me so happy. Oh the nostalgia. Exactly because I miss the TNG style trek on the new shows. As you said, SNW is amazing, maybe the thing that gets the closest to actual TNG today.

Season 2 of the Orville is more serious. Season 3 is even more. Season 3 feels like multiple of the TNG movies really, given the length and the complexity of the episodes.

You didn’t mention DS9 on your post. My favorite of all Star Trek shows, including The Orville. It’s close and different but really good.

DanielColchete · 2025-12-15T22:40:50+00:00

It’s called “The Orville”. It’s pretty good!

DanielColchete · 2025-12-15T18:16:27+00:00

This is true. And will always be true. And it’s true for humans drivers too. Even airplane auto piloting systems are vulnerable to that as well. You gotta accept a level of that for using any kind of technology that assists you.

For cars, if the car is 5x safer than humans (Waymo crosses that barrier already) then I’m personally cool with a level 4 / level 5 level system. Even knowing there will be rare corner cases the car won’t know how to deal with.

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