Above a certain height, trucks should be mandated to have the engine behind, like eurotrucks.
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tibi@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"You should probably just throw it away"English2·24 days agoWhile I agree this is a shit thing to do, I am looking forward to the influx of cheap hardware.
Sø I shøuld slash all my Øs sø they can be distinguished from 0. Gøt it.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Waymo trains its cars to NOT stop at crosswalksEnglish1·4 months agoThis would only be in ambiguous situations when the confidence level of “pedestrian” and “cyclist” are close to each other. If there’s an object with 20% confidence level that it’s a pedestrian, it’s probably not. But we’re talking about the situation when you have to decide whether to yield or not, which isn’t really safety critical.
The car should avoid any collisions with any object regardless of whether it’s a pedestrian, cyclist, cat, box, fallen tree or any other object, moving or not.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Waymo trains its cars to NOT stop at crosswalksEnglish1·4 months agoIn such situations, the car should take the safest action and assume it’s a pedestrian.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Waymo trains its cars to NOT stop at crosswalksEnglish41·4 months agoTraining self driving cars that way would be irresponsible, because it would behave unpredictably and could be really dangerous. In reality, self driving cars use AI for only some tasks for which it is really good at like object recognition (e.g. recognizing traffic signs, pedestrians and other vehicles). The car uses all this data to build a map of its surroundings and tries to predict what the other participants are going to do. Then, it decides whether it’s safe to move the vehicle, and the path it should take. All these things can be done algorithmically, AI is only necessary for object recognition.
In cases such as this, just follow the money to find the incentives. Waymo wants to maximize their profits. This means maximizing how many customers they can serve as well as minimizing driving time to save on gas. How do you do that? Program their cars to be a bit more aggressive: don’t stop on yellow, don’t stop at crosswalks except to avoid a collision, drive slightly over the speed limit. And of course, lobby the shit out of every politician to pass laws allowing them to get away with breaking these rules.
I was very confused at first thinking this was something related to java.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Linux@programming.dev•Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence42·5 months agoWhile I’m absolutely for reusing old hardware and am doing it myself, keep in mind that the security landscape has changed. Old hardware might have security vulnerabilities which could be exploited by malware. Running an up to date OS is not enough to keep you secured.
tibi@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Romania orders election recount after shock far-right winEnglish141·5 months agoThe difference between 2nd and 3rd candidates is 2000 votes. There were 9 million votes in total. That’s insanely close. There is widespread fear that during the recount some votes will be nullified, and some will be changed in some god forsaken villages, resulting in an overturn (which will result in a re-election according to the constitution).
Candidate #1 is a pro russian fascist. #2 is progressive pro-european. #3 is just very corrupt and made a lot of people angry. If #1 goes against #2 in the second round, #2 has a decent chance of winning. #1 against #3 would be really bad, like having to choose between hitler and trump.
tibi@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Russia is dropping millions on pay for up to 100,000 North Korean soldiers. They're unlikely to see much of it.English7·5 months agoThat’s a decent salary for Eastern Europe. In Ukraine, the median salary is below $500/mo. Just look at the map, $2000/mo puts you above average for all the countries in Eastern and Central Europe.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?31·6 months agoThe internet when it wasn’t overtaken by a few major corporations.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?3·6 months agoThat would be terrible for worldwide peace and stability. US has too much power and influence for an implosion to not cause worldwide chaos. Trump would mean US siding with other dictatorships, like Russia, China, Iran. Russia would likely succeed in Eastern Europe. Taiwan would likely be occupied by China. NATO vs an alliance made of US, Russia and China would be very uncomfortable.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100?6·6 months agoThe RPI400 is basically a full solution. You just need a display and a mouse, and you have a fully functional desktop computer. Not very powerful, but good enough for basic tasks like writing documents or browsing the web, coding etc.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100?3·6 months agoLow end phones aren’t that bad, if you are willing to make some sacrifices, like an uglier screen, worse camera.
For example, the Samsung Galaxy A05
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100?30·6 months agoA full working computer, more powerful than what we used to go to the moon, and using less power than a light bulb.
It can take many forms, like smartphones, SBCs or older PCs/laptops.
tibi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100?30·6 months agoThe tape head is basically a small and really sensitive electromagnet. Magnetized tape creates small disturbances in the magnetic signal. Amplify those disturbances and you get sound. Similar to an antenna, but only works in close proximity.
This also works in reverse. Feed an audio signal through the electromagnet, and the electromagnet will create the disturbances in whatever is next to it. You can do this to record to a tape, or you can do this to pass sound to another tape head, which is how these aux cassettes work.
You can build one yourself really easily. Just take the tape head from a broken player and solder to an aux cable. Take a cassette, remove the tape, and put the tape head in the middle portion so it comes into contact with the player tape head.
You can still yank the power chord out.
Women are not good for the network connectivity
tibi@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update4·8 months agoI actually tried it before for my TV PC that I wanted to also use as a miniserver, with gpu pass through and everything. It was painful to get it working properly, was like 30-40% slower. I also had constant problems with USB peripherals not connecting properly, or going in a sleep state and not waking. Many games didn’t work properly.
Then I decided to just buy a cheap second second hand PC and never looked back.
History tells us probably not. Did the US pay anything for the extermination of native americans? Or for the generations of people who lived in slavery? Did Turkey pay for the Armenian genocide? Did Russia pay for the millions of people killed in gulags and the Holodomor?