foobarian

What kinds of things do these devices get used for in legit enterprises? If you're able to say :-)

I wonder if all the cards in the photo are active at once, or only activated on some rotation. The latter would certainly make them a lot harder to detect

And furthermore I find it remarkable how much people like the visual format where you indent nested things with whitespace. I'm pretty sure it's the main reason Python took off as well.

I hate to find out how much that movie prop bag would cost. Labor alone would probably amount to $300

> I take it that you're saying that if we provide the Tesla a road which contains nothing to hit, it won't hit anything?

Not quite. I am saying that basing the judgment on a rare anomaly is a bit premature. It's a sample size of 1, but I base this on my own driving record of 30 years and much more than 3000 miles where I never encountered an obstacle like this on a highway.

> Also, not interesting

I would have liked to see the planned cross-country trip completed; I think that would've provided more realistic information about how this car handles with FSD. The scenario of when there is a damn couch or half an engine on the highway is what's not interesting to me, because it is just so rare. Seeing regular traffic, merges, orange cones, construction zones, etc. etc. now that would have been interesting.

I think the reason is mainly that modern pipes are big enough that there is no need to bother with a protocol as complex as BT.

I think it's probably because of mostly driving in enough traffic that other cars would have encountered any critical objects first and created a traffic jam around an impassable section.

What if there is no debris the other 999 times, and the system works fine? The video does not give me that information as a prospective Tesla customer. This looks like a fluke to me.

Honestly no, not in the middle of the road, but plenty on the side. The only things I come across in the middle of the roads are paper bags or cardboard for some reason.

But also, I doubt you would break your swaybar running over some retreads

I don't disagree with that characterization of the technical details. However I felt the task those drivers set out was asking a different question: how good would the FSD system be at completing a coast-to-coast trip? I don't think this can be answered after hitting a singular, highly unlikely accident without a lot more trials.

Imagine there was a human driver team shadowing the Tesla, and say they got T-boned after 60 miles. Would we claim that human drivers suck and have the same level of criticism? I don't think that would be fair either.

I've been driving on local and highway roads for 30 years now and I have never come across a piece of debris so large that driving over it would damage my car. Seeing that video, I don't have high confidence that I would have dodged that hazard - maybe 70% sure? The thing is, usually there is plenty of traffic ahead that acts very obviously different in situations like this that helps as well.

All that to say that I don't feel this is a fair criticism of the FSD system.

So... human proof of work? Wonder if we could start a new politeness trend by asking our tribespeople to solve short hashes

> Why would they leave money on the table?

Because if they don't, the customer will go to the competition who does.

And it's especially great if you have a neighbor with a son who are willing to do the labor for you. [1] [2]

[1] https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075110

This seems eerily similar to modern churches. A UU group I have some exposure to is on the brink of going broke and only sustained by 1-2 really wealthy members, and from what they say it's not a rare case.

The question is, what can YOU do now to avoid risk to your own estate once you are old and start losing your mental faculties?

Yes and how about also people in older generations who are done paying off mortgages and now live paying just the real estate tax.

You just reminded me how awesome the wedding scenes were in the Diriliş: Ertuğrul TV show. [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlaVdEv74NU&ab_channel=TRTDr...

I use a nice 32" 4k IPS panel for work and it's borderline OK in the corners. However I got a really wide curved screen for a second computer and in that case I really appreciate the shape just because it mitigates the distortion somewhat.

First you teach them to talk and walk, and then you tell them to shut up and sit down.

- old 90s joke

I got one, I got one: national guard on college campuses

Are federal public schools a bad idea then? Wonder how much of this kind of thing would be unlocked without their interference. Presumably the bottom would also get a lot lower though

Could also be a form of effort justification. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification

> it's a shame that we've let it go so far,

It's hopeless to expect that things don't end up in this state. A decentralized system will naturally tend to a state of equilibrium balancing between desirability and pain, e.g. people will keep moving to a "nice" area until commutes or prices become unbearable.

I think the only way to end up with an utopia-like metropolis is to run it with a benevolent dictator government SimCity-like, which would probably involve restricted entry leading to very expensive real estate; therefore a lottery or similar admission system into low-cost housing would be needed to balance the needed support population. In other words probably unconstitutional in a dozen different ways and never going to happen.

We did something similar with our now 12yo. She self-regulates and tries to stay off the worst doom scrolling garbage sites, and tries to explore different sites and such like Pinterest cards and so on. She knows intellectually that the apps and services are designed to suck away attention. This kinda broke my heart but the other day she made a "bored jar" probably based on a Pinterest card which is a jar filled with little scraps of paper with ideas for what to do when you're bored. It felt like I was watching a drowning person trying their best to stay afloat if that makes sense.

I promise you I would love and worship a phone like that every single minute of my life. :-)

But yeah, I know you are right and the market has spoken. I accept this however begrudgingly.

> Genlock

Finally caught up to the Amiga I see

Sigh. I can't stand the camera bump. I would run not walk to the nearest Apple store with all my savings if they made a phone where the camera bump is made flush by adding thickness elsewhere to match, filled with extra battery. Thing would last for weeks. Ah well back to reality.

Like I always said to my friend complaining you can't reserve a table at the Border Cafe: they don't need a reservation system if there is always a line around the block

Of course they are gone now but point stands. :-)

Thanks for those details! I came along a similar trajectory, starting when we had our first kid which happened right around the time when phone cameras got good. Which means many gigabytes of video from phones filling up monthly.

I actually ended up building something like immich just a bit more halfbaked for our home use, that could take the whole /MobileSync iOS backup and pull out anything that looks like a photo or video. That way our workflow was, back up the phone in iTunes, let the app process the MobileSync backup, confirm they are visible, and hit the delete all button on the phone. Rinse, repeat. The storage was on a beige box with a couple mirrored drives.

At this point the collection is about a terabyte, which is not extreme by modern home lab standards. My main remaining concern at this point is that the file system is just plain ext4. Even though I mirror the collection on a regular schedule, more and more I am wondering if there is a chance of bitrot since as far as I know none if it is checksumed. I would love a solution that periodically scans objects on the file system. I would love to have an easy way to tell which of the copies is the corrupted one, since with two copies in my case I can't take the majority.

p.s. and I guess one question for you, do you think I would benefit from switching to immich for part of this workflow? I'm thinking I can't just throw raw iOS backups at it so maybe I need a bit of preprocessing there, but otherwise let it take over the cataloging and just keep the underlying storage backed up.