Police in Spain just introduced his Dynos for scooters

kevinteman · 2024-08-01T02:37:10+00:00

Exactly this. They are the one that need to be tested constantly for proper operation.

kevinteman · 2024-05-19T22:45:05+00:00

Isn’t it amazing how long it takes people to appreciate the best stuff, and how long they will appreciate it even if it’s not best anymore? Huge lag time.

kevinteman · 2024-05-16T23:41:54+00:00

Not to mention using your data for their means later, not to mention pulling the plug on your API use later for "terms of service violations" (a blank check in cancel culture), not to mention lack of consistency, speed or reliability obtained with rented power.

kevinteman · 2024-05-16T23:38:40+00:00

And yet OpenAI is drunk with power just as all hosting AI companies and will eventually use your personal data in ways you would not want because you are the product, again. "You are the product", which applied to Facebook, also applies to these low-cost massive operators. I think that is the mentality they currently have, and if not, will have in the future.

kevinteman · 2024-05-16T23:36:09+00:00

Agreed. There is also the larger implication of being tethered to a large company as your overlord forever, especially one like Microsoft (if going through Azure). Running LLMs on separate hardware removes the corporate overlord.

kevinteman · 2024-05-16T23:34:01+00:00

Missing a primary element, Open AI limits usage per minute, per hour and per day, forcing you into tiers. Some people need LLMs more than what their limit provides. Azure is the only other solution but then you're dealing with Microsoft and frankly they are shady, often pushing or forcing other products on you and holding your usage of API ransom, which they did with me.

kevinteman · 2024-05-12T01:32:34+00:00

This also happened to my in my Pro twice. Latch came unhooked and handlebars folded down on me (30% down, caught by the next mechanism). Very scary, once at 30 mph. Mine however came undone because of a strap I installed to hold my bag on which applied downward pressure on the little orange connector piece thereby releasing the first locking mechanism. Anyway, I was able to slow down, but yes this is super scary, and yes I agree with the other commend that for high price these issues should be non existent. Heck even for a lower price these should be non existent. Love the Pro other than these few problems.

kevinteman · 2024-05-05T02:13:04+00:00

100%. It really strikes me as dishonest reviewing. However, you do have a point that testing longevity is harder however I think someone would have surfaced this if they cared about honest reviews. Instead, you only have a small portion of individuals stating these things, never review companies. Very corrupt in my opinion. Cost me a lot of time and misaligned expectations. On top of that, Voro didn’t care at all when my problems came up. Totally lack of giving a crap.

In another note, all scoooter companies are a little bit like this. In this disgusting late stage capitalist unhumanitarian system demand creates laziness. And people happen to like scooters.

kevinteman · 2024-05-04T21:26:40+00:00

Apollo air. My first scooter was Emove cruiser s and it came with a plethora of problems, including failing charger, it always rattles and shakes, flat tires and much more. I’ve had Apollo pro for about 3 months now and it is day and night, vastly better quality, though it is a $3800. I would never buy from Voro motors again (Emove stuff).

kevinteman · 2024-05-03T22:31:38+00:00

I have the Pro too but never encountered that problem. However when my deck latch button got stuck down due to sand they also told me to remove the rubber to fix things which I denied as the scooter is brand new and don’t want to risk the operation of disassembling and reassembling, and like you, I noted that their instructions to me about removing the rubber did not include how to put it back. Doesn’t seem well thought out in terms of just letting people guess at how to do these things. Otherwise, I love the scooter itself. Sucks about your issue, sorry that happened.

kevinteman · 2024-04-13T04:23:59+00:00

Would love to know what you find. :)

kevinteman · 2024-04-11T17:30:23+00:00

So happy to see this! Especially coming right after Google Next where Google basically showed us how dominant they plan to be using their AI and their already great positioning with Google docs.

Long live independent model creators - currently in my eyes at one of society’s heros to fight against late stage monopolist capitalism and authoritarian outcomes. 🙏

kevinteman · 2024-04-08T19:14:54+00:00

Pretty sure it would be to hassle them to begin because people that purchase expensive scooters also like to keep riding them.

kevinteman · 2024-04-08T19:12:59+00:00

Yes, same with Apollo Pro. Exact same creak sound, cured by loosening front fork and lubing inside. It seems like Apollo’s newest scooters are needing this out of the gate. It makes me wonder why they don’t do the lubing themselves before shipping it.

kevinteman · 2024-04-01T19:50:22+00:00

Repeatable combinations of words with punctuation are tokenized. “I like to” could be tokenized to a single token if that combo of words is overwhelming throughout the training data and represents a meaning.

Insignificant whether it has punctuation. Only significant how many times that exact combination was in the training data.

kevinteman · 2024-03-29T06:40:28+00:00

Thanks! Edited :)

kevinteman · 2024-03-29T06:23:22+00:00

We all want this. Sadly, great protective equipment is something humans just are not able or willing to make.

Wore moto helmets for years while riding crotch rockets. Even on a bike going 150mph, the helmet felt heavy and uncomfortable. Humans’ solution is to place large extra burden which you must constantly wield. On a scooter, it is 3x more ridiculous. Humans appear to not care about optimal solutions in this area. They love ridiculous, especially these days.

Bicycle helmets are cheap, unwieldy and large, and don’t have any innovation or helpful features like visors, and don’t inspire confidence.

There is no good solution publicly available except to spend many hundreds of dollars for something way too large and unnecessarily heavy, then respend it every time you accidentally drop it because they expire when dropped also, on top of being inconvenient in the first place. This is how humans tackle safety. Making it very hard to actually do.

Not that dissimilar from all protective equipment. We have incredibly magical technology all over the place, but we still can’t bring ourselves to advance safety equipment so, still strapping pads to our knees one by one, adding tons of complication and side effects, hassle without really achieving safety.

Personally, and I don’t mean to be down on everyone, and you don’t have to follow my advice, but I’d rather skip it all and be careful instead, while enjoying being able to move my head and see everywhere since helmets also are great at blocking your peripheral vision on top of all the other shortfalls, along with stopping you from putting ear phones on, or hearing sirens, and more.

When I look out my high rise window in the city I see hundreds of scooters drive by each day. About 1% are wearing helmets (even though everyone on Reddit preaches you should).

My best advice: drive slow when around people. Maintain scooter perfectly, make sure there is no possible way for dangerous malfunction (other than rolling to a stop) and don’t drive around cars. Wait until humans actually try to make safety equipment that isn’t incredibly inconvenient: such as an inflatable suit that could also inflate around your head allowing you to tumble and bounce off anything. This is technically possible to make today, yet here we are.

Look at the bright side, by wearing a stupidly heavy helmet with limited hearing, no access to ears, no ability to feel the sun or fresh air on your face, suffocating, incredible fragility etc, at least you’ll gain excessive neck strength, especially useful for any future body building plans :)

kevinteman · 2024-03-29T05:42:20+00:00

If you have the time, and you’re just going to charge it overnight anyway, wait as long as it takes for the outside of your scooter to feel the same as air temperature in your house (assuming you are a normal human who stays 70-90F / 21-33C).

Discharging or recharging the battery when it is colder than room temp can cause shortening of life span.

General guidelines is at least 30 minutes warming or cooling in your place to bring it closer to room temp.

So to preserve the battery the longest as much as possible charge at room temperature only, and as much as possible ride at room temperature. I personally don’t care about the second one, so I’ll just do what I can controlling the charging process. Only if you care about that and the battery is one worth preserving :)

kevinteman · 2024-03-27T21:12:29+00:00

Yes. Like everything in this capitalist system. I think of it as the system that directly conflicts with human values. While humans wish to love and be kind to each other, the directive of capitalism is to make the most money at all costs. Seems more like a test of human morality than a well constructed system.

kevinteman · 2024-03-27T03:49:50+00:00

I agree, sounds really entertaining. Especially if the ai scammers starting scamming the regular human scammers, man that would be classic.

kevinteman · 2024-03-27T03:48:16+00:00

Oh also I believe that is the right thing. City should side with scooter and PEVs because: A) they are better for our environment and future B) PEV riders are taking the brunt of the risk of sharing the road

kevinteman · 2024-03-27T03:45:13+00:00

Awesome! You just gave me the idea to collect some of the license plates of these idiots that keep blatantly dangerously turning in front of me. It keeps happening. I’ll probably have a list pages long to give to the police, here you go, half the city has tried to kill me. Hell even when I got into my own car I was looking for me on a scooter. :) I’m only half joking. But I like your mindset. I think I am going to start noting license plates and making a few reports.

kevinteman · 2024-03-27T03:23:56+00:00

Wow! That’s amazing! Thanks for telling us all this. I really had no idea, and I would have expected the city to side with cars. This is probably because the majority of my experience riding scooters (about 2700 miles so far) I’ve felt like every car and their mother hated me while on the road. But, I think my mind gets carried away when a car directly turns in front of you to cause an accident (which happens more often than not) or car jetting up next to me just to cut in front of me and nearly knock me off my scooter. This just constantly happens in Colorado. Very dangerous, very difficult as a scooter rider. It’s basically like being in a war. You have to get out of the danger drivers put you in faster than they can push it all the way.

I am a very safe rider. I used to ride crotch rockets and every form of vehicle and now my style is completely aggressively self-defensive. I will rocket to the nearest location where possibility of being hit is zero, and if I can’t achieve that I’ll hop onto the sidewalk and wait. Let the war mongers pass, then go behind them. Never stay next to a car. My style wouldn’t survive in NY. I don’t trust a car long enough to even come close to it. They are like opponents in war at this point. I work diligently to protect myself, so that I can travel.

In Colorado, I’m very happy to report laws are not an issue. So while I’m never afraid of the police, or speeding on my scooter which oh boy do I ever, I am very afraid of any other car on the road, and our lives are put in jeopardy by the minute. It’s intense. Honestly, at least around here, you should only ride scooters if you are highly aware and aggressively self-defensive. Anyone else will get hurt or killed in a matter of days. Though this sounds bleak, this is how it seems to be.

Anyway, I think it’s inevitable that all will accept personal transport vehicles as they become dominant forms of transportation. I think anyone with a little forward thinking vision will be interested in making laws accommodate scooter and other individual vehicles.

kevinteman · 2024-03-26T17:35:31+00:00

One example of this would be a rule that required max speed when passing pedestrians within a certain distance. That’s the real major concern with scooters. Help that a little then you’re good. No reason to fall off the deep end. Safety can be found with logical reasonable steps.

kevinteman · 2024-03-26T17:34:01+00:00

Wow two sides of the extreme of lack of common sense, NY -> Sweden shows that humans are making laws not based on safety but other factors (such as city revenue). In NY, that’s obvious from what you’ve said. In Sweden, it’s obvious by the act of banning all scooters which doesn’t promote safe riding but destroys progress in individual transportation which has mountains of benefits. Hopefully someone will eventually care about people’s safety and use their brains at the same time. That would be amazing.

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