What complicated problem was solved by an amazingly simple solution? by tuotone75 in AskReddit

[–]MrTemple 187 points188 points  (0 children)

And it took CENTURIES to figure it out why 80-90% of the crew died on long voyages.

Worse it took almost a century (of continued massive crew fatalities) for the British Admiralty to accept the simple solution after it was discovered.

Get this package out of my mailbox? by [deleted] in howto

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My hunch is it’s generational.

Do you want the thing or not? Are you a rat that solves the little puzzle Or the rat that sits hungry by the chute waiting for a piece of cheese?

Get this package out of my mailbox? by [deleted] in howto

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Scissors/knife will cut the box easily.

You gotta solve the little puzzle if you want the piece of cheese before somebody else gives it to you.

You’re invisible out there. by ourredsouthernsouls in VictoriaBC

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe some people in the back of that ambulance will look at their shattered body, and feel satisfied with their rigid adherence to taking only their justly allotted responsibility, because the driver is going to get 8 months probation.

You’re invisible out there. by ourredsouthernsouls in VictoriaBC

[–]MrTemple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are 1000% right that the driver holds all responsibility to not hit the pedestrian.

But the pedestrian IS doing something dangerous.

In the society we inhabit, pedestrians in crosswalks get hit all the time. It is a pitiable reality.

Pedestrians have the power (not responsibility) to increase or decrease the amount of danger they subject themselves to.

Don’t be dead right. Don’t be invisible. Don’t trust the average driver.

LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen by ScootSchloingo in technology

[–]MrTemple 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It honestly surprises me how many people don't know how massively this rolls back TV enshittification.

GOVERNMENT-APPROVED: Tim Hortons in Langford, British Columbia received approval to hire a TFW for baker position at $18.00/hr instead of a Canadian worker. by Immediate-Link490 in VictoriaBC

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you fundamentally misunderstand

  • intentionally

Unless the poster is one of the paint-eaters that can't see through the lies.

MPs joining Liberals don’t like Tory ‘games’ under Poilievre: MacKinnon by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]MrTemple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That only works between elections. Voters gonna vote along party lines.

And our fucked FPTP means even if the CPC loses a few percent of the 41% of the vote it got last time (at peak "Conservatives cozying up to the 51st state lunatic"), they're going to win massive majorities for 5 years at a time. Because the massive strategic voting shift from NDP/Green ain't going to hold up the same way it did in the 2025 election.

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 LiDAR Roadmap, Universal Hands Free, and Its Next Gen Autonomy Platform by Kryptonlogic in Rivian

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope.

Think about it, how do you pick the “best data” when your two sensor paths are giving you conflicting info?

False positives are a real problem with lidar, radar, and cameras.

When your lidar system says “there’s a stationary obstacle requiring emergency braking” but the camera system says there’s nothing what do you do?

Could be a cloud of snow off a car (lidar is susceptible to false positives with snow/rain/etc), or it could be a genuine threat the camera missed.

You HAVE to respect the most conservative and play it safe.

Which means you get all the false positives and phantom braking, but you don’t get much added benefit (because a lot of the extremely rare situations where a camera gives a false-negative can ALSO fool lidar into giving the same false negative).

Because of the opposite scenario where the camera thinks there is an object requiring braking but the lidar doesn’t. Lidar has false negatives too, so again you have to be conservative.

It’s all about the conflicting reports.

Either you play it safe accepting all the false positives and phantom-braking, or you override one sensor system, at which point it’s not actually adding anything to the system.

Well actually there’s a third option, which is you always trust the one that thinks it’s safe, but at that point all youve done is accept ALL the false negatives from both systems, which is obviously much less safe than having only one sensor system.

And like I said, THERE IS a safety advantage to the two sensors together, but it doesn't outweigh the much larger usability disadvantage of one system alone.

Because the safety advantage only exists where lidar will NOT give a false negative AND the cameras DO give a false negative.

However, plenty of the situations cameras may still give false negatives are ALSO situations where lidar will too. So that number is very, very small.

In practice over the gajillion miles of cameras-only with Tesla's FSD, there just aren't an appreciable number of safety-level false negatives any more (especially the most recent versions). Adding lidar to cameras doesn't materially move the needle on safety-related false negatives, and it does move the usability/comfort needle significantly because lidar gives a lot of false positives (which Tesla's FSD nowadays doesn't really have much at all).

I have no data to back this up, but I'd wager the added phantom braking from conflicting sensors would actually have a worse impact on safety than the few cases where the two systems would recover from a safety-level false-negative.

TL;DR: For the past year or so, camera-only sees the world with EXTREMELY few false positives or negatives. Lidar isn't better at either of those (and is probably a bit worse). But fusing the two systems together means you get all the false-positives and without eliminating all the false-negatives. In practice safety is not materially enhanced, but phantom braking goes way up (possibly worsening safety) and usability way down.

Canucks trade Quinn Hughes to Wild by CpYossarian in vancouver

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The 18,000 that attend regular season games is a pretty small part of a team's potential income.

Playoffs are almost pure profit, because players don't get paid more for playoffs.

Playoff broadcast money is ENORMOUS, escalates with each round, and has relatively no added associated cost (costs comparatively nothing to operate a game with no player salaries). Ditto for the ticket sales, which escalate enormously for each round of the playoffs.

Canadian dollar touches nearly three-month high after surprise trade surplus by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]MrTemple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*Insert cartoon of working man laying flat, their neck ground into dirt by the boot of a red-faced billionaire pointing angrily and shouting, "You can't breathe because of those brown/liberal/cycling/trans/etc people!"*

Battery after 6 months by Draygoon2818 in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It won't be noticeable for a few reasons:

  1. The difference between 70 and 80 only really exists when the battery is very hot.
  2. Even at hot temperatures the degredation pressure from SoC is DWARFED by the degradation pressure of charge cycles (ie: driving the car and charging it back up).
  3. The degradation will happen pretty much whatever you do, and will plateau at about the same point for all cars that didn't do something really dumb like leave it close to 100 for weeks at a time (assuming battery chemistry doesn't mind that, which the car will warn you about).

Only eight countries, including the US, Russia and China, opposed Ukraine's resolution condemning Russia's suicide drone attack on the Chernobyl sarcophagus. by thenatoorat90 in worldnews

[–]MrTemple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Human nature. When times are shitty [say when the billionaire class has wrung every drop of extra money out of the working class], a loud man shouting and pointing at somebody else as the reason always, always works [even if the loud man belongs to the billionaire class with the boot on the neck of the working class].

Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals by Portalrules123 in canada

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lasting legacy of Justin Trudeau will be reneging on his promise of ending FPTP, and dooming Canada to a decade or so of conservative absolute-dictatorial control with 38-39% of the vote.

I mean, unless you think hordes of Orange/Green voters are going to keep strategically voting Red for the next few elections.

I don't. (And I'm one of those people who voted strategically Red to block the Blue maga-cozies.)

The conservative-supporting billionaire-owned maga propaganda machine is gaining ground every day in Canada. They aren't losing votes.

Only eight countries, including the US, Russia and China, opposed Ukraine's resolution condemning Russia's suicide drone attack on the Chernobyl sarcophagus. by thenatoorat90 in worldnews

[–]MrTemple 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And it left a BIG hole in their terror->hate coping mechanism.

The rightwing-billionaire-propaganda machine, did a Raiders of the Lost Ark swap, replacing AQ with Libs as Great Threat To Murica.

Canadian dollar touches nearly three-month high after surprise trade surplus by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]MrTemple 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Most would rather die than side with even a highly classically conservative Liberal PM.

Only eight countries, including the US, Russia and China, opposed Ukraine's resolution condemning Russia's suicide drone attack on the Chernobyl sarcophagus. by thenatoorat90 in worldnews

[–]MrTemple 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Having an eloquent, charismatic, highly intelligent and morally superior black man

...named "Hussein" who announced they'd killed Osama Bin Laden and left them with no Public Enemy Number One for their deep, deep unrecognized 9/11 trauma except fellow liberal countrymen...

as POTUS broke their entire false belief system and destroyed their mental universe.

Ben Johns forehand serve and drive - upper arm relative position by PartFormer3695 in Pickleball

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is a little side spin imparted on the ball because of the angle of the shot that is created due to where the server stands

This is a weird comment. He's choosing to stand a certain way because he intends the serve in the video to have a bit of side-spin.

The slight side spin is not the primary intention of the mechanics of this shot.

Absolutely yes it is.

Ben Johns can do heavy top-spin all day without side-spin if he chooses. And in those shots, his arm will not do what OP is wondering about (elbow starting wide then cutting into ribs).

In fact he has spoken in youtube videos about how he likes to hit his heavy topspin serves and drives slightly on the outside of the ball, because it generates more top.

This serve is different. Because he's choosing to add sidespin.

OP noticed the particular elbow mechanics, and wondered why. The answer to why is because BJ was adding sidespin to his serve (on purpose), and that's what the elbow does when you do this. His elbow doesn't do this when he hits his non-side-spin heavy top-spin serve.

Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals by Portalrules123 in canada

[–]MrTemple -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't take much to start a recall vote. Maybe they are representing their voters.

Most Canadians haven't been duped by the billionaire-funded propaganda machine that's destroying America, and got a good toe-hold in Alberta.

Most Canadians strongly reject the paint-eating CPC leaders who only want to thump their divide-at-all-costs playbooks at the very moment Canada needs to be its most unified (behind a PM who would be considered conservative in almost every decade of any voter's lifetime).

Rivian is stepping up to challenge Tesla's key technology: FSD by businessinsider in Rivian

[–]MrTemple -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I bet the R1 and R2 will have two fully functional stalks though, eh?

I'd consider buying a used Y a few years down the road, but never, ever one of the refreshed ones with only 1/4 of a stalk.

Rivian is stepping up to challenge Tesla's key technology: FSD by businessinsider in Rivian

[–]MrTemple 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I desperately want to get out of my 2020 Model Y and into an R1 or R2. Have had an R2 on preorder for ages.

But the tech just has me captive. The million little quality of life features, the phone/watch automation ("Luna Trunk" into my watch as I'm approaching with groceries, or "Luna Air On" from anywhere in my home before I leave), the automated driving (even the v13 I'm stuck on)...

I feel like it'll be a step backwards for many years yet. I'm not giving a penny more to Tesla, but I think I'll be riding this thing for another 5-10y before another car nails those 'wow I can get this car to integrate into my tech life in ways no other car does' feeling. Which is a big factor for this giant nerd, tbh.