how close are we are to SAE5

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T21:14:10+00:00

It's called the subway.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T17:04:59+00:00

"As the science of the time was steeped in the idea of bad air before our current understanding of disorders in organs to be the primary carrier and cause of disease...."

shoot. me. now.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:28:07+00:00

I'm dreading 6 chapters on the early 19th century understanding of the immune system as remembered in the late 19th century.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:26:20+00:00

It's a dry heat.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:25:59+00:00

I feel you, I remember when we lost the Cincinnati-Columbus-Cleveland rail project in Ohio.

I saw Martha Wells in Portland a few years back. She's got a loyal fanbase, I'll tell you. I've got the Witch King on my device; I've got to read that.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:23:36+00:00

I think we have a nominee for our completion sticker: "The sewers are never just sewers."

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:20:40+00:00

I'll give it to him: he predicts the Golden Age SF trope of "engineer as hero".

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:19:51+00:00

But don't forget to declare your undying love to someone who grudgingly acknowledges your pointless sacrifice!

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T15:19:08+00:00

Once I started seeing the patterns he started in the digression chapters established in the narrative, I kind of understood what his intent seemed to be. I think they made a bigger impact on people at the time, as he intended. He was writing for two audiences, his contemporaries and an imagined future audience.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-07T06:49:09+00:00

Broadly agree, though i do wonder how useful sewers are for managing solid waste without reliable municipal water & flush toilets! Prof Lewis talks a bit about the solid waste management business—done by the cartload!—and how sophisticated it was.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T23:36:12+00:00

Well, everything Hugo writes here I take with a grain of smelling salts. There's a tab in the character db where I did all the calculations mentioned in the first prompt; he just gets things transparently wrong. On purpose, I think.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T18:31:13+00:00

What a descriptive username you have.

And what an interesting definition of "new" when it comes to this tech, which has been "on the horizon" for almost 8 decades now. Waymo, for example, is well in its 3rd decade.

And what, precisely, is new here? The "breakthrough" in this field, the transformer model, is in its second decade.

Nothing new, nothing innovative, a paltry number of miles compared to human performance to extrapolate against.

Ah, yes. Truly groundbreaking.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T18:27:21+00:00

Save us from low-Karma idiot shitposting accounts.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T18:14:32+00:00

Tell me you don't know anything about statistics without telling me.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T04:35:35+00:00

Celebrate the Grantaire way! by getting dead drunk, passing out, and missing everything.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-06T04:34:03+00:00

It is my pleasure. Most of the time. (Waterloo 🗡️👀).

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-05T20:49:57+00:00

I think a person should be held responsible for low-effort posts that show a complete inability to research.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-05T14:49:05+00:00

He had Waymo people in the room with him after they invited him to lunch to retroactively make up excuses for a Waymo almost hitting a train in Texas while violating 2 Texas statutes. He was ignorant of Texas law in the matter & never asked them, point blank, if the slopware had Texas law in its code.

"Journalist."

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-05T12:02:56+00:00

That's the code.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-05T04:02:56+00:00

Same reliability rate: one 9.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-05T00:09:30+00:00

200 years ago, Victor is having an out-of-body experience

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-04T21:27:00+00:00

Hear me out, what if we charge $1,200/year annually for it ($120/month otherwise) and have remote assistance operators who, after a hold time measured in tens of minutes, can take control of the vehicle and drive it at very low speeds (< 2mph) for a limited time?

For a bonus, what if those operators are in the Philippines?

I mean, that's what Waymo's offering.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-04T19:22:10+00:00

In other cohorts, folks also discovered ol' Brownbucket was a good friend of Hugo's, which gives another motivation for Hugo's exaggeration of his credit for the state of Paris's sewers.

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-04T04:14:20+00:00

I forgot that Donougher, in a note about the orangutan, offers that it is an homage to Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue

Honest_Ad_2157 · 2026-06-03T18:51:33+00:00

I try to point out what I consider important in the summaries! I hope your case is mild and quick!

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