It’s supposed to be trained to drive like a human, but I expected it would drive like a human who had immediate access to extremely detailed map and GPS information.

Just to clear things up, the Tesla turned off of the road and onto train tracks.

Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” mode requires the driver to pay attention the entire time. For common things like not stopping on train tracks, the driver is expected to perform this. Obviously, that’s not “Full Self Driving”, but it’s something that you can get used to.

On the other hand, turning onto train tracks is unforgivable. In an unfamiliar area, the driver may be confused about what is the correct place to turn, especially in the early morning as this was, and it might be natural to defer to the car’s superior knowledge of the map and GPS. As a driver, it would be hard to imagine that the car would turn you on to train tracks.

Tesla’s Full Self Driving feature is definitely not “Full Self Driving”. At best, it is useful for freeing up a driver’s attention for other things. At worst, it tricks people into thinking that the car is driving by itself when it cannot.

Similar to how if you use cruise control, you don’t have to pay as much attention to speed, and you can use that attention to look at the road and other cars. Staying in a lane and following cars and even turning a corner are all things that free up the driver’s attention so that the driver can pay more attention to the road and other drivers.

So, it’s a useful tool for experienced and attentive drivers, but it is not “Full Self Driving”, and it obviously lacks polish.

Plus, a lot of the completely necessary features for a robot taxi are completely missing, like keeping passengers from accidentally disengaging FSD. Taxis are used to transport drunk people. Drunk people will press all sorts of buttons and do things like touch a steering wheel that is moving by itself.

Musk is completely shameless. Always doing these cash grabs by promising things that are impossible, and then doing an alternative half-assed version. It’s really weird. You’d think at some point that a grifter that managed to become the richest person in the world would stop doing the most obvious grifts ever.

You think there are mental health problems now? The more AI takes people’s jobs, the worse mental health problems we’ll see.

I mean, that’s right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn’t because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There’s simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

This is the same market that tried to add blockchain to everything when that first became well-known.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

“There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne

I’m guessing you’re basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven’t seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

It says they use publicly exposed or leaked IAM keys with RW permission to do this, in case anybody is interested in how they get in.

That is one of the things the article says. That making certain parts of the processor bigger reduces error rates.

Don’t forget crypto currencies.

Since these people aren’t treating any ear injury, you might as well call these “ear diapers.”

The idea that a state government is unnecessarily at the mercy of any corporation is hard to comprehend. Especially, as in this case, a foreign corporation.

Open source shouldn’t only be the standard for governments. It should be the minimum requirement.

Those splice type of cheats require a highly skilled player who can play well for short amounts of time.

Another thing is that I feel like the era of the private phone number has passed. I see the use case for phone numbers for businesses, but people just don’t use them very much anymore otherwise.

Like, we don’t memorize them. We don’t dial them. They’re just entries in our contacts.

At this point, we could create an alternative way of contacting private phones. Something based on whitelisting instead of blacklisting. Something that can be easily shared but not easily guessed. Something that would be easy to trace who called you.

All of these phone scams rely on the idea that a stranger can just up and contact you without any effort. It’s ridiculous. If we got rid of that, we’d save people from untold billions of dollars of scams almost instantly.

My computer is good enough to run any games I want to play, even recently released FPS types of games at reasonably high settings. Still not good enough for Win11. My weak-ass tablet, though, was upgraded straight away.

Even people who build their own computers usually buy all the RAM they want at the time that they’re building it.

The biggest difference to them is likely the feeling that they’re losing their ability to upgrade, more than the actual upgrade itself. I still think that feeling is an important factor, though.

I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it’s strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won’t make any difference in the future.

Do you remember a few years ago, it came out that some company was working on a new idea that, when you were given an advertisement on a TV, it could require you to say the product name aloud or it wouldn’t continue?

I try not to concede anything related to advertising because everything they want seems so dystopian.