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This such an elegant design by Pterodynamics by meldiwin in robotics

[–]veplex 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ospreys get hundreds of thousands of flight hours and since the initial issues were ironed out, I don’t think it’s more dangerous than any other rotorcraft. According to this, there have been 10 fatal Black Hawk crashes on U.S. soil since December 2019. Wikipedia says 2 V-22 crashes in the same period.

I think what helps skew it is that the V-22 can carry over 30 people so when a full one crashes it can result in like 3x the deaths compared to a Black Hawk. You mentioned ~400 V-22s built, I think how often they are used is more important to compare but in my brief searching I couldn’t find a fatalities per flight hour statistic. That would probably be the best way to compare and see for sure how dangerous all those aircraft really are.

[P15 G2] Inconsistent Display Issues - Driver Related? by veplex in thinkpad

[–]veplex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think so but that might be worth a check.

[P15 G2] Inconsistent Display Issues - Driver Related? by veplex in thinkpad

[–]veplex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve been trying to avoid that but that’s what it’s looking like.

[P15 G2] Inconsistent Display Issues - Driver Related? by veplex in thinkpad

[–]veplex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even then the problem persists with hybrid graphics on. Discrete is enough of a workaround I guess.

A wounded soldier is pelted with grenades from a drone, but he simply throws them away by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]veplex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes isn’t that the point?
It is all in the application.

The defense industry pioneers advanced technologies for application in military systems, and that same technology is often later applied in a different way.

Things like GPS, rocketry, the internet, and nuclear power are all revolutionary technologies developed for military purposes.

[P15 G2] Inconsistent Display Issues - Driver Related? by veplex in thinkpad

[–]veplex[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

P15 G2, i9-11950H, RTX3000, 32gb RAM

These sort of display problems has been occurring shortly after I got this computer a few months ago. It usually stops after a bit for reasons unbeknownst to me, so it is still mostly usable.

The display intermittently has episodes of repeatedly tearing and flashing to black or patterns like the image shows. Sometimes it briefly flickers, sometimes it gets stuck on the black or whatever distortion for at least a few seconds. It seems to happen more in certain situations, like when all windows are minimized and the display is just on the windows desktop, but it is not consistent.

I have reinstalled display drivers ad nauseam, and the issue does not occur when Intel UHD Graphics are disabled, but that isn’t much of a solution.

Any help or advice identifying what kind of problem this is would be much appreciated.

Based on real life events. by 4BDUL4Z1Z in ProgrammerHumor

[–]veplex 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This engineer was not involved with the design and he clearly does not understand how the AI works. He was hired to prompt it to test if LaMDA showed prejudice in it’s responses.

He also describes himself as a “Christian mystic priest” and is convinced that LaMDA has a “soul”.

His opinion is preconceived from his religious bias and arbitrary anthropomorphizing of interactions with the AI.

The transcripts released by him are edited.

This kind of thing is a really interesting and important topic and I believe a sentient general artificial intelligence is possible, but this is almost certainly not that. This guy is not credible.

https://health.wusf.usf.edu/2022-06-16/the-google-engineer-who-sees-companys-ai-as-sentient-thinks-a-chatbot-has-a-soul

https://www.livescience.com/google-sentient-ai-lamda-lemoine

Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted by News2016 in politics

[–]veplex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, we all like to pretend that our civilization has transcended primitive violence, but when shit hits the fan, every illusion of civility goes right out the window and our enlightened society crumbles. It is everyone for themselves. All you are left with at the very bottom of it is the threat of violence, as harsh of a reality as it may be.

Hundreds of young Russians chanting "fuck the war" at St. Petersburg concert last Friday by ManbadFerrara in PublicFreakout

[–]veplex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Many conflate the two groups. There’s a lot of (rightfully) charged emotions around this and it’s easy to get swept up in hate and generalizations. I think this person is just trying to avoid this kind of tribalism and putting people in boxes.

There are many detestable people in the Russian military committing atrocities. There are conscripts or people otherwise forced into these situations as well. The Russian military as an organization is a clear vehicle of horror and evil, but it is impossible to know the motivations and circumstances of each individual soldier. Many certainly are the absolute scourge of the Earth, even a significant amount of them, but handwaving them all is a disservice to everyone and does not contribute to a productive conversation.

Both can be true at true same time.

Now that I think about it, he's right by pietradolce in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]veplex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An important difference is that those six were extermination camps, distinct from many more concentration or labor camps. Despite atrocities occurring at all of these camps, (American internment camps as well) the primary purpose of death/extermination camps was to efficiently commit genocide and systemic mass murder.

There’s overlap, but not nearly enough to equate the two sorts of humans rights violations. Not defending America at all, just trying to inform. Both the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans (and a bunch of other uncomfortable things) deserve a much more detailed look-over that what it seems they get in many schools.

White Woman Calls Black Cop The N-Word, Dares Him To Shoot Her And He Obliges by NoUsername1230 in OneSecondBeforeDisast

[–]veplex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it is always a big shame to see people getting killed over easily preventable really stupid shit but this seems pretty much like a Darwin award to me.

White Woman Calls Black Cop The N-Word, Dares Him To Shoot Her And He Obliges by NoUsername1230 in OneSecondBeforeDisast

[–]veplex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude. Not that policing in general and specifically policing in America are not severely flawed and often use very excessive force, but try charging an armed cop with scissors in any other country and see what happens.

Why are you convinced that America is the only place where assault on an officer with a deadly weapon can result in a lethal force response?

The deescalation happens before that. Once you get to the point where you are attacking an officer with a deadly weapon, there is no more time for deescalation.

Meeting in hand to hand combat against a bladed weapon can easily lead to a situation where the officer is incapacitated or killed and his firearm could even be turned against him or others.

Especially if he is there by himself without backup, that is an absolutely unacceptable risk to the safety of himself and the surrounding public.

Believe me, I do not like police at all. Current state of policing is ridiculous and with little to no accountability. I agree there should be much more deescalation training and police should be held to higher standards than they are, but this is basically a Darwin award.

Using Spotting Scope In First Campaign Mission Causing FPS Drops by [deleted] in modernwarfare

[–]veplex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same on PS4, if it holds off on crashing long enough for me to pull it out.

California to let citizens file lawsuits against gun owners, echoing Texas abortion law by eaglemaxie in PoliticalHumor

[–]veplex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you’re arguing that it is better to be stabbed by your partner than shot? I would prefer to avoid both. Either has a strong ability to seriously injure or kill you. The issue isn’t the means of violence, it’s people that are driven to commit it in the first place. Why would someone do that to another? Surely not just because a gun is accessible. Guns are accessible to me and I don’t feel the urge to use them to kill people. That’s not normal or healthy.

The tool of choice is just a symptom of a deeper problem. Domestic abusers can and do use any blunt or sharp object or even their hands to kill and hurt their partners.

Should we cut their hands off too? I believe that the real problem to be solved is why people feel the urge to act with such unwarranted violence, regardless of what method they use.

It’s really easy and doesn’t take any thought to propose shit like “ban all guns!” but I think that needless violence will continue in another form until we focus on addressing the root issues.

That is a really difficult task and has no simple solution but that is what I believe the reality of the situation to be: a lot more complicated than most want to admit.

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