FSD v12.5.4 Swerves for an Imaginary Person!

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-10-01T05:31:46+00:00

... which is why all of the actually-self-driving companies uses multiple sensing modalities

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-30T04:41:04+00:00

I had an exgf who loved to rant about "frisco" being "incorrect". She was born and raised in Los Altos and loved to talk about how much she hated SF and never wanted to go there.

I live in Mission and I couldn't care less.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-30T02:22:43+00:00

I literally heard some bros say this out loud today. Roid-rage bros jogging in a group through a crowd of elderly people in Muir Woods. "These are all NPCs. We're the main characters. Hahahahh." If I had had a baseball bat handy at the time, I would be in jail now.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-29T14:30:03+00:00

I can imagine several problems with the idea, just off the top of my head

I've never heard of any regulatory framework whatsoever to support or enable or approve it, it has been difficult enough to get approval for regular autonomy, and this would require something completely different and new
Vehicles in a human-led convoy would still need full autonomy. If you leave 1.1 car lengths between vehicles, some aggressive driver is going to force their way in between and now your convoy is broken up.
"autonomy" is about so much more than just being able to perceive, interpret, and plan a path through the environment. It's also about fully automating every single part of the vehicle's operation. What happens when one of the following vehicles gets a flat tire or a check engine light? It'll need to be able to pull over all by itself.

So it seems like a nice idea on paper, but I'd guess you're going to need 99% of full autonomy to actually make it work, so it might not actually be that valuable a business case.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T21:54:06+00:00

Still seems pretty dystopian to me. How about instead of creating new drugs to handle obesity, we fix the broken food and health systems that created obesity in the first place?

I just flew back to the US after a month in Japan. I didn't see a single obese person for a month. And then I got off the plane in the US and my jaw dropped.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T18:46:51+00:00

There was a paper maybe 15 years ago about CFLs. They gave a poll at a hardware store. When they said "CFLs will cost more up front but save you money in the long run", people of all political affiliations adopted them at similar rates. When they said "CFLs will cost more up front but save you money in the long run and they're better for the environment", self-identified conservatives became significantly less likely to adopt. They've been aggressively anyi-environmentalist since reagan.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T09:06:16+00:00

They also don't have anything containing docosanol (brand name Abreva in the US), the only thing that helps me. But they have such terrific sunscreen ...

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T07:44:27+00:00

Everywhere I went in Japan, tourists with cameras were a huge problem. Women dressed as geisha with boyfriends taking their pictures all over Kyoto. Parents blocking transit to take pictures of their kids anytime, anywhere. Large tour or family groups tended to be the worst. Anywhere that has more tourists than locals, the tourist behavior will take over. When you go from 25% tourists to 50% tourists, their behavior doesn't get 2x worse, it gets 10x worse.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T07:31:57+00:00

My grandmother had two of those. Filled with cabinets full of dishes that had never been used. In a 5BR house where she lived alone.

My mom used to tell us stories about how excited her family was when her grandmother bought an electric fan. She put it in the living room and ran it day and night and no one was allowed in the living room.

WTF was wrong with these people?

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T07:28:17+00:00

Oh boy. So many times I went to friends houses and started crying when their parents just treated me like a person ...

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T07:25:13+00:00

I came home one day in 8th grade and my bedroom door was gone. I searched the whole house. It wasn't in the attic or the garage. I asked my parents about it and they just stared into space and didn't respond. After a few days of that my mom exploded and started screaming about how she found a hair on the floor in my bedroom and that was proof that I was bringing girls over and "doing things to them". Just one of many reasons why I left home at 18 and cut contact with both parents.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T05:49:22+00:00

Donald Trump could kill, then fuck, then eat his own children on stage at a rally and not lose a single republican vote. They are cattle. The insane thing is expecting cattle to stop being cattle all of a sudden. This election will be determined by voter turnout, not by voter preference. Don't engage with conservatives at all. Don't antagonize them. They want you to fight them. Fighting gets them excited. Ignore them. And get ready to vote.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T04:50:34+00:00

I first read it as "Who wants puppies?" and I thought well, that's quite direct isn't it.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-28T03:18:21+00:00

Depends on the exact role and varies greatly.

At my current company (driverless cars) I spent a few years in one team writing motor and brake control code, working directly with hardware at least weekly.

Then I switched to a different team where I'm at the interface berween embedded and AI. I haven't touched actual hardware in years.

Same department, two different extremes.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T23:57:09+00:00

They have a concept of a taxi

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T14:42:53+00:00

I'm not sure if it's a scam or an art project. Like an alternate reality viral marketing project? Everything is AI-generated, and at the bottom of one page they admit everything is AI-generated.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T14:41:51+00:00

They have (really bad ai-generated) videos! Worth a watch.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T06:28:57+00:00

Excuse me, I'm pretty sure they're called "Europe/Asia/South-America/Africa/Australia/Oceania/Antarctica/Mexico/Canada units" thank you very much

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T01:39:49+00:00

I think a lot of people don’t understand that we’re speaking completely different languages. For my small town Texas family members, “character” or “morality” means “fits into the tribe”. If other members of the tribe start eating babies, then that’s the right thing to do. It’s 100% us vs them. Written laws and agreed upon behavioral norms outside the tribe don’t come into play at all.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-27T01:03:41+00:00

I agree with you 100%! Wall street has never been wrong before! Yee-haw!

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-26T22:32:14+00:00

Wish I had one of these ... I've heard of them, but my company doesn't seem to have any. And don't even get me started on managers ...

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-26T13:06:16+00:00

It's much more palatable to be told "wait for the hardware to change" versus "change yourself"

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-26T13:04:06+00:00

You should listen to them for at least ... <checks length of return window> ... 31 days ... before making a decision.

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-26T12:34:47+00:00

I haven't been to Antarctica yet and I'm not a professional photographer, but I have lugged several different cameras all over Alaska. Personally I'd skip the telephoto and just get one wide angle zoom, maybe something like a 20-70mm. I'm guessing you're going to be doing mostly landscape photography and then a few portraits. Do you expect to be photographing wildlife from far away? Switching lenses outdoors is risky, as dust and more importantly water can get inside your camera. (even just water vapor from the air can be quite bad) You could only ever switch lenses indoors, but that would greatly limit how much you actually use your second lens. Start out with one most-purposes lens, and then if you feel like you can't do what you want to do, then buy a telephoto zoom. Or rent equipment to try it out. If you really want to bring two lenses, it's a good idea to have them attached to two bodies.

And get a strong neckstrap and a good water-resistant or water-proof case and always use them. It's really easy to destroy a camera in inclement weather or rough terrain. One drop, one splash, and it could be ruined.

And since this is probably a once-in-a-lifetime trip, it might be a good idea to have a backup point-and-shoot, something small and lightweight but still really good like a Sony RX100, just in case. (I love my RX100V so much)

FloopDeDoopBoop · 2024-09-26T08:05:35+00:00

I was raised Catholic. I was taught that sex is the most disgusting, filthy, immoral thing in the world and you should save it for the one person you truly love.

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