excitingburp

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[–] excitingburp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never had issues with it because it shuts off when indicating in the direction that you are turning.

[–] excitingburp 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last year, or the year before, there was a murder in Iceland and it made national news. Why? Because there are virtually no murders in that country - it is an exception to the rule.

Mile-for-mile, self-driving cars fare significantly better than humans: who are actually the ones "mowing down people." Especially the drunk ones. It's exactly the same situation as Iceland with the murders, if you had national news each time a human caused a casualty there would be hardly enough time to tell the news.

The "mowing down" hyperbole is doing your cause no justice. I certainly agree that it's too early to go completely driverless (especially when your trustworthy humans go hands/eyes-free in cars that explicitly disallow it) - but humans have never had the qualifications to deal with something that drives 10x the speed than they can sprint.

If you want to pull self-driving cars off the road then, great! I think we can all agree with that. Let's pull all human drivers off the road first - not only do the statistics support that we're incompet, biology does too.

[–] excitingburp 1 points 1 year ago

Did a full blood panel, turns out I was GABA deficient. Doc recommended a hero daily dose for a year and I've been good since. My neurologist recommended EMDR for the PTSD that precipitated the deficiency, and that's been helping a lot.

[–] excitingburp 5 points 1 year ago

Probably less resource intensive: https://conduit.rs/.

[–] excitingburp 1 points 1 year ago

My phone autocorrects this wrong frequently, like it's life depends on it. One can assume GP typed the correct thing.

[–] excitingburp 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Hololens is slightly more advanced. At least the last I saw it uses waveguides etc. to overlay the content over a transparent panel. Much like Google glasses, but way, way more advanced (and therefore justifiably expensive - last I saw, again, it was something like $15000). AVP is no different to a $300 Quest (plus internal cameras for iris and expression tracking and obnoxiously bad FOV) - it's 10x Apple tax.

Hololens is still alive and kicking btw, but it's exclusively enterprise.

[–] excitingburp 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think masers (microwave lasers) are the new theory for achieving this, previously it was beaming microwave down much like your microwave oven beams your food.

[–] excitingburp 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's/his staff are actually doing a fairly good job. It's hard to live up to Obama, and he's not as loud as Trump. He hasn't made huge progress, but he's made some - and most of it's "boring." So yeah - I like Biden.

[–] excitingburp 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are both senile. But take it from someone who lived under Robert Mugabe, senile dictators seem to live frustratingly long lives - even in the face of terminal illnesses. If the choice has to be between two seniles, take the one that doesn't have dictator aspirations.

[–] excitingburp 5 points 1 year ago

Greedflation, but he has already commented on being concerned about it.

[–] excitingburp 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an EV zealot I 100% support tinkerers, racers, and people who simply love the spirit of an ICE. But not in commuting/traffic, where nobody is enjoying anything anyway.

[–] excitingburp 6 points 1 year ago

100% this. I'm passionately on the other end of the spectrum, where a car's entire purpose is to get me from A to B without fanfare, prestige, or hassle. Also needs the birds eye camera because fuck parallel parking. Trains are a better way to do all that. And we should be moving more good with trains. Trucks are expensive and should be last mile exclusively.

The problem for most people is that trains, and other public transport, don't take you from doorstep to doorstep. God help us all if we have to walk 1/4 mile to a stop. There is also politics preventing it, at least in America.

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