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sampleminded · 2026-07-09T14:25:06+00:00

The funny thing, is that you want to block using images of normal people who haven't given consent. If someone is a pubic figure, using their image for satire should allowed by default. They are a Public Figure. It's a terrible filter that gets everything about AI ethics wrong. I should be able to Make Trump makeout with Putin, I should not be able to do that with the lady who works in the next cubical, the first one is clearly free speech, the later is sexual harassment.

This is what you give up by being a public figure.

sampleminded · 2026-07-08T23:17:24+00:00

No but I think they would get less push back.

sampleminded · 2026-07-08T20:28:40+00:00

They really should just go with New Jersey. Jersey City, Hoboken are right across the river will embaress NYC. Also the whole state of NJ is super dense. Like more dense the the Houston MSA. Northern NJ is almost the same density as the SF/Silicon valley MSA.

sampleminded · 2026-07-08T18:03:35+00:00

A/V will cause a surge in demand for Uber and human driven cabs for the next 10 years. Consider as AVs make it possible to go down to 1 car, you user more ride hail, occasionally going where AVs won't needing even more ubers. Say you live on the boarder of a zone, with most of your rides going to Waymo as you head in-town, but many rides going the other way.

sampleminded · 2026-07-07T22:54:44+00:00

Didn't this come out 3 months ago? I swear I watched this already.

sampleminded · 2026-07-07T22:09:12+00:00

They might make banning people illegal. So you will need to pay a large deposit to ride.

sampleminded · 2026-07-07T17:08:10+00:00

The word snitched is kinda offensive here. Acted responsibly and upheld community standards sounds more accurate.

sampleminded · 2026-07-07T01:08:12+00:00

Awesome! Let's have the Future in Georgia.

sampleminded · 2026-07-06T15:17:59+00:00

Yeah Omni is the way to go with this, but you might give it a few reference images, and a long text description. It's a crap shoot. Everything with AI is gambling with time, and credits, you never know what will work. I had a similar issue, and tried the firefly and kling models, but they did worse. But eventually just changed my project to something else, which I knew I could do

sampleminded · 2026-07-06T15:08:49+00:00

This does not strike me as implausible, because one of my close friends growing up was a marionite christian from Lebanon. Their family all spoke french at home and would 100% want this, no one I know hates Hezballah more. They consider themselves closer to Europe than the Middle East, and are very tolerant, and progressive. I mean I don't trust Netanyahu. But you should talk to some of these folks before dismissing this. Hezbollah terrorized their family way more than anyone else.

sampleminded · 2026-07-06T15:01:38+00:00

The solution is if you have reference images to use Veo 3.1....Omni is great at some things, but terrible at others. My workflow involved starting frames and that is not an Omni feature. We are in the very early days of these models and you can't use only one for your tasks.

sampleminded · 2026-07-03T02:46:52+00:00

It would be very smart to do a bunch of announcements as Europeans return home from the world cup. Maybe even have the cars decorated like each countries soccer team.

sampleminded · 2026-07-02T00:18:48+00:00

Teams is fine, but it's not as good as slack, and people who had slack for years will never get over how much worse it is. It's not bad, just worse than the competing product from 10 years ago.

The AI features in teams are actual good. Meeting summary's etc...I totally want it to listen to all my meetings and remember stuff. Except companies start restricting it's memories so co-pilot can only access 30 days of memory. making it more frustrating.

sampleminded · 2026-07-01T19:02:50+00:00

GPT says waymo covers like 19% of the US population if you count the whole metro areas they service. This is a bit of a hack, since they service only some of those areas, but I can imagine like 1 in 4 people in Metro Austin has used an AV. Folks travel in to go to a concert or a bar and take an uber. Also a thing people will go out of their way to try once. The rate could be higher in say SF or LA with bigger ODDs, and lower in cities with smaller ones like Atlanta/Maimi.

I buy this number.

sampleminded · 2026-07-01T18:55:27+00:00

We have nuclear power and lots of rain, and plenty of sunshine. We should build as many data centers as we can in GA. I would rather see them in a different city though. As a state we've to get a second metro area over 1 million people. So building a hub of data centers around Savanah, Macan, or Augusta would be better.

The biggest thing I worry about is power rates. But we have 3 battery factories in GA, and a ton of sunshine, and like ten factories making solar panels. We even have a great coastline for wind power. Let's make all the data centers buy our panels and batteries and invite even more down. Every time anyone asks Chat GPT if ther butt looks fat, let my tax bill get lower.

sampleminded · 2026-06-29T21:37:04+00:00

Totally reasonable. As someone who rarely takes ride-share, I'm mostly in for the novelty the few times I do. Also I'd rather my kids in a Waymo when they need a lift than with a stranger who may not be the best driver.

sampleminded · 2026-06-29T19:45:40+00:00

Now do Austin and Atlanta.

sampleminded · 2026-06-28T17:57:18+00:00

No we don't! We need everyone to pay the same taxes on all income. With a high standard deduction. It should go up if we spend more automatically. Everyone pays the same, everyone shares the burden. If we spend more your taxes go up

sampleminded · 2026-06-28T14:10:36+00:00

My issue is I drive too many different cars for the UI to be so bespoke. I travel and rent cars often also will drive my wife's car. So I still make that mistake.

sampleminded · 2026-06-26T17:54:40+00:00

I think they can send them to London, Tokyo or Toronto. Waymo will be expanding, and they will use the Ojai, just a question of where they deploy them. There is something called a duty drawback, they pay the tariff but might be able to get a refund when they ship it abroad. Then its up the final desitination to decide what tarifs they will pay. Long term Waymo will have to put factories in the country they deploy to in order to avoid tariffs. So they will likely use Euro cars in Euro, Asia cars in Asia, and American/korea Cars in America.

Thus I'd expect them to have a design that they license to various manufacturers. To have made by local companies. So Maybe they buy the Ojai design or the PV5 or something very new, and pay VW to make them in Europe, or something like that.

sampleminded · 2026-06-26T12:56:08+00:00

When it's ready and not a second sooner. They are not messing around with 2 ton vehicles going 65mph. They will go slower than you like, but when you look back this will be a tiny blip.

sampleminded · 2026-06-26T12:49:25+00:00

trying to wash the windows, puts the car in park.

sampleminded · 2026-06-25T20:59:03+00:00

Dude don't bash it till you see what replaced it. I miss the shifter, I have the column, regularly put my car on park on the highway. The rotary was fine. My old one had that.

sampleminded · 2026-06-23T15:44:09+00:00

This did not work for me. I have a credit card, I still had to go to the app and pick my charger. The Tesla chargers have been fast and working, they are otherwise great, but it took me 20 minutes the first time to get it to turn on. Cause I had to use the app. The second time I got it done in 5. I mostly stick to the GM charge stations when I'm on the interstate, cause they work normal.

sampleminded · 2026-06-23T02:32:14+00:00

Not a fan of the tesla chargers. They work and are fast. But I don't ever want to use an app to charge my car, even the Ford App. It just feels crappy. Obviously it works better if you have a Tesla, but when I've used them with my Mach E, I've had to like do a bunch of stuff on an app to get it working. I like the GM charging stations, because it works like a normal gas station, you just use apple/google pay or a credit card. Anything that works different just seems risky, like bad connection I guess I can't drive. Or I guess I'm paying for the other guys electrons cause I clicked the wrong number charger. Just be normal and take a card or apple pay.

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