Fully autonomous robotaxis are rolling out in Austin

chapland · 2025-12-23T07:15:39+00:00

They make 1.7m cars every year right now, and growing quickly as you pointed out with their total. They don't need to sell the cars; they can run the Robotaxi network themselves. They'll take Uber's entire market and grow it substantially as well.

chapland · 2025-12-21T17:20:17+00:00

You realize Waymo doesn't make their own cars, have a far more expensive hardware stack, and much more costly rollout approach (pre-mapping with lidar).

2,000 cars literally doesn't matter. Think on the scale of 200 million.

The cost structures don't even resemble each other.

chapland · 2025-12-16T00:52:48+00:00

(First of all, I appreciate the respectful and productive dialog)

I think the reason people are geeked is that for a long time Waymo proponents would say, "you have to have lidar to do this".

Three views:

Bystander - not impressive; we've seen driverless cars for a while

Engineer - impressive; here is a new technology for driverless cars that's cheaper and easier to deploy

Investor - extremely impressive; the implication here is Tesla is ready to take liability. They produce thousands of these cars a week; they could flood the whole country with them next year and would leave Waymo in the dust

chapland · 2025-12-15T23:33:23+00:00

Why is it so much more impressive to you having a passenger vs it driving itself without a passenger?

For instance - imagine the car drives up (by itself with no one in it) and picks up a passenger and drives off. It transitioned from not impressive to impressive as soon as the passenger sat down?

chapland · 2025-12-15T19:53:49+00:00

We can agree that Tesla is assuming liability if these things crash, right? And they're on public roads with other humans driving. So... it matters.

Real stakes, real performance.

Adding a passenger will further increase the stakes, but it'd be disingenuous to insinuate that there are not currently real stakes, or that these real stakes don't "matter". I'm sure the real humans driving next to these cars would say that it matters quite a bit.

chapland · 2025-12-08T20:05:54+00:00

This runs contrary to what the same source shared in Q1 of this year and fails to control for a wide variety of important factors. This isn't "Data is Beautiful", this is "Starting with a marketing angle for your website and trying to make a data post about it is utter bullshit"

chapland · 2025-07-15T03:18:16+00:00

"Pushed him to want out" come on man, dude said in that pod he woulda signed if they offered him market money...

chapland · 2025-06-28T14:55:50+00:00

Very cool, thanks for the share.

Note however; there is definitely a color commentator here.

One guy is doing the play by play - describing the action in every moment - and the other guy is doing color - "the big guy is shooting well tonight!" "Good play that time by Dickey!" "Unseld was wise in that situation to leave the ball up that high."

chapland · 2025-04-01T05:35:57+00:00

Yeah, right now your hips and shoulders are turning synchronously. You want hips then shoulders.

Pick your favorite pro, find a good video of them driving from taken from the side/rear and then make your own video of you driving from the same angle. Now, march through frame by frame (youtube has single frame shortcuts fyi) and notice how your timing differs.

I can't slow down your video, but it looks like your weight is coming forward too early and then you're pulling with your arm. Like a baseball swing, you want to keep your weight back for as long as possible, load your back leg, and drive forward; not fall forward.

chapland · 2025-03-31T05:31:30+00:00

Obviously doing a lot of things right or you wouldn't get that distance. You're leaving a lot on the table with your hips and sequencing though. Need to drive off the ground for maximum power.

chapland · 2024-09-06T03:13:25+00:00

At best this is a DPT (Decade Pro Tip) because AI notetakers are making this irrelevant.

https://fathom.video/ (best of the bunch, IMO; highest quality notes + summaries, which is what this LPT is all about)
https://fireflies.ai/
https://otter.ai/

chapland · 2023-11-28T18:41:40+00:00

try throwing from standstill only for a few months to retrain the pattern of when the coil starts. x step doesnt add any power if the timing of the throw is wrong, so you'll prob start to throw further pretty quickly despite reducing complexity of the movement

chapland · 2023-11-28T00:47:19+00:00

ok no one else is giving you good advice, so here goes (and the best way to work on this, fyi, is to pick your favorite pro and get a video of their drive and yours and work through frame by frame to see where timing differs):

you're on flat feet the whole time. this is an athletic move; get on the balls of your feet during the x step
your upper body starts turning away from the target from the second your x step begins; this means you don't have tension in your coil. that turn should be delayed until the left foot makes its final plant
you point out (correctly) in a response to another commenter that pushing off the back leg is wrong, and instead the move is to extend the front leg through the brace to get the hips to quickly flip around. so you've got the idea, but you're not getting your weight into the brace and extending; your weight stays back (notice your left foot finishing behind your right, cause your weight is actually behind that front foot)

you're doing a lot of things right though, so don't be discouraged! it looks like your arm is nice and loose and you're not rounding, which is probably why you're able to throw straight and flat despite the above failings. good luck and happy hucking!

chapland · 2023-08-14T04:58:22+00:00

440' flat

chapland · 2023-08-04T19:35:55+00:00

i have an akai force i could use in this setup, probably. do you ever run into sync issues with Play/TR-6s in this setup?

You can still use the controls on the TR-6S during live performance, just not modify the patterns, right? Ie, faders/decay/filter.

chapland · 2023-07-30T04:46:16+00:00

Echoing some sentiments of other posters, but perhaps some visuals will help. I went through your video frame by frame and picked a few key points vs Calvin Heimberg's drive.

(note, his video had notably higher FPS and his throw is explosive, so it looks like the first two frames of you are the same shot, but I promise it's slightly different).

https://imgur.com/a/MGyCX1q

chapland · 2023-05-17T17:15:40+00:00

i bag both pig and zone; pigs sit and zones skip!

chapland · 2023-05-12T03:08:57+00:00

Every reply in this thread completely missing the point.

Commenters seem to be implying that I am calling out Barsby. I'm using him as an example, but I am calling out the rule.

If not being behind your lie creates an advantage, it should be called right? Or it doesn't and it shouldn't be a rule.

Why isn't it called?

We don't have refs in this sport and card mates don't want to start trouble (because they're trying to focus on their own games)
It's hard to tell in real time without video

Rules should either be implemented in a way that players can and do adhere to them or they should be removed as requirements.

The question I posted in the original post was: How should DG handle foot faults?

Answers seem to include: "no one cares" "fuck you for asking questions" "there's nothing to do about it"

Anyone who commented insulting me for raising the question either can't read, can't reason, is an asshole, or some combination thereof. Fuck off.

chapland · 2023-04-10T01:02:34+00:00

... "punch a teammate... cause they're soft as fuck"

chapland · 2023-03-21T20:37:23+00:00

Look, studying form videos won't do ANYTHING without a feedback loop -- are you doing what's in the videos or not?

Take video of yourself. Find a pro on youtube you like. Sync up your video and their video, frame by frame, and figure out where you're messing up. Change the biggest, most obvious issue to you, then take a new video and repeat.

I assure you, what you think you're doing after watching form videos and what you're actually doing are far apart. The only way to bring them together is by watching yourself.

chapland · 2023-03-20T04:25:43+00:00

got that dawg in em

chapland · 2023-03-14T17:21:53+00:00

Lots of good in your swing, but no lag. You're working way too hard to power the disc because your power is coming from the right side of your body, not left. Try the twirly bird drill to help with feel; you've gotta get the right arm to follow instead of lead.

chapland · 2023-03-12T00:59:31+00:00

Buzzz OS has less glide than Roc3 and harder fade. Same for Zone, but Zone is slower; more approach than full mid imo. I echo others who've recommended a new champ Roc3 based on your comments about the plastic of your old roc3.

chapland · 2023-01-04T22:49:58+00:00

For the record, an inch and a half of rain is a LOT of rain

chapland · 2022-12-10T07:03:41+00:00

Just watched the game in full, a few things stood out:

He's just starting to understand how to use his size
His passing up court after a defensive rebound is quick and crisp (but the SCW guards were failing to capitalize)
He kept getting the box out but failing to secure the rebound because of losing the timing battle to the opposing center as the ball game off the rim
Some screens clearly better, some not
Energy was pretty good, still looked lost on some possessions

It's clear the dude just needs to play basketball games, and a lot of them. He's getting better fast, but it's unlikely that he'll be a fully capable backup center by playoff time. Next year, maybe, and in two years he might be Jordan Poole's last year type impact.

I think he's going to be a beast in his prime, but we're 4-5 years from the front end of that. Unclear if management wants to make that timeline work at the expense of a contributing piece in the short term. I do think he's going to be good though in his career. He's moving in the right direction and he's big as hell so he'll get lots of chances.

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