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katbyte··on Microsoft gets green light in UK to buy Activision
Latency can only go down so much because as parent comment said: laws of physics dictate the minimum response time between two points given the distance. And it will be higher with each hop /media change
katbyte··on Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
It’s easy to swap the bottom. It’s also easy to search for a similar model brick the device, swap bottom with the serials, and send that.

You can also reprogram the serial with the right equipment but that is a much harder task

katbyte··on Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification
Yep. And it won’t be 100% efficient. The energy to capture and store the co2 is likely greater then the energy you get in hydrogen
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Wow I guess you don’t own your Tesla if they can randomly disable features
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Maybe because the bottom of a truck trailer is far below an overpass? Lol like multiple meters?

You are making up statistics now

And because camera’s improve safety in some situations when used in conjunction with radar?

That point is meaningless in a discussion about Tesla who removed radar entirely and the point being made here “cameras alone are not as good as radar” not “radar plus camera is better then radar”

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Not your info, Tesla’s - find a source that isn’t Tesla.
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Again, you are making wild assumptions as you have no idea what it is for the 30%, it could be .5.
katbyte··on Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
Also no security and you. An arrive 5-10 before departure vs 1-4 hours depending on the airport and time (and just not dealing with security period)
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
I’m not digging up something Elon has said many times about Tesla autopilot

Also right here, in this case, we have a Tesla owner who seemed to think it was, and is dead.

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Yea he does, which is the problem. People will hear the claims and believe them, go out buy a car, then die or kill someone’s because of it.
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
A half meter is fine, more then enough to look for 2-3m of “thing” Infront of the car

And that is not specifying the cone/detection range of the radar? It is just the work area to keep clear while performing an alignment - otherwise the horizontal range of the sensor would be near useless

Ultra sonic is not radar, and using radar cars regularly will follow things 10s of meters away. Seeing a semi with them is not a problem.

Parking is not collision avoidance- and using cameras for it is dumb. They don’t work in fog snow or adverse conditions that radar will

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
How about instead of nitpicking someone’s comment you actually try to reply to their valid criticisms of your link? It doesn’t actually collaborate teslas claims (it is also as they said even more slimy and blog spammy) and the bit you are talking about are just links to it’s own articles which again don’t really have real metrics or stats on how their autonomous systems fare
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
You are still comparing meaningless numbers. If Tesla assisted driving systems are less safe then the rest that is where the focus should be, and last I checked 70% of accidents involving driver assisted systems where teslas, and they are only 1% of cars on the road.

That is a HUGE problem and 100% where regulation should be focusing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/tesla-us-car...

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Elon has said it is better/safer then a human.
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Your data and comparison is bad. Just bad and wrong.

Autopilot deaths vs all car crash death? When Tesla is <1% of cars on the road? And that 19 is just autopilot not all involving a Tesla, the stat your comparing to??

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
I tried but found nothing to verify your claim most collision avoidance systems do not sense veritable enough, nor anything discussing them plus truck guards outside Tesla failing.

Can you please provide some sources for your claims?

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Even more wild they haven’t been fined or successfully sued for millions by the families of the dead yet
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
I’m sorry if I don’t believe anything from the company that has been proven to lie, deceive, deflect and make things up.

Independent source?

katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
Normal collision detection systems don’t try to use cameras. Radar will have no issues in an instance like this if the detection zone is vertical enough
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
It did, but they removed it in 2021, and I think disabled it in software of cars shipped with it
katbyte··on The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
I would say the problem is they are experimenting with self driving tech on the general public. And it’s resulting in deaths of people not driving teslas - like heck read how the truck driver feels post incident dudes shook up
katbyte··on The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
UV reflective stickers
katbyte··on MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach
This comment is not addressing “only possible with crypto” - because only with the advent of unregulated crypto have we seen the rise in ransomware.

It provides no real benefit it and is a net negative to humanity imho

katbyte··on Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could raise prices: FTC
Because people would be unable to afford/pay it
katbyte··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Prefer? It’s more cannot afford to have kids
katbyte··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
People are not having kids in the west because we’ve made life/kids to expensive- immigration is just a way to keep enriching the rich and suppressing wages
katbyte··on The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)
Your really not addressing their comments and kinda missing the point..

But I’ll address toyota - unlike ibm they make a product that is well regarded and not in any danger of being supplemented- while they dropped the ball on ev for hydrogen their existing hybrid tech means “drop in a bigger battery and call it a day” - I think comparing them to imb is a poor comparison at best

And there are many other companies doing quite well in Japan so you shouldn’t be focusing one just one

katbyte··on Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe
> The reality is we need advertising to enable discoverability

no we don't. i live a near advertisement free life, and its great.

no radio or tv, block all internet ads. the one ads i see are the ones in the physical world like billboards.

never once has an ad been the reason i "discovered" something, and i discover all sorts of new products/services naturally in my life.

if anything ads make actually make it so hard because they never can be trusted, often full of lies, and wading through all that to find the truth can be hard and is often why i don't actually go out and buy a new product cataogry.

katbyte··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
personally i did it because i like my servers to be debian & i wanted it to match all the other VMs i have running

so thanks for keeping it around :)

katbyte··on FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
? Sure there is

Newegg Best Buy Walmart Home Depot bh photo wayfair webpage that takes you to shoppay or something else

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