Geek_King @ Geek_King @lemmy.world

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Sir, that is a car shaped aeroplane. Nothing about that is like the flying cars envisioned by the likes of The Jetsons.

That's a pretty good point, the part about if it's raining or snowing, LIDAR can't be used, which could leave the system in a much worst spot. It's getting to the point where I'm beginning to think that fully self driving cars just won't be 100% possible in all conditions in all locations.

For instance, where I live, we can have some bad winters, snow, ice, slippy conditions. People have a tough time with these conditions, and I'd imagine it'd be even harder for a self driving car, especially given how the sensor suites work. My car has that intelligent cruise control where it'll slow down when it senses a car ahead of me, then match it's speed. That feature stops working if too much snow accumulates on the sensors.

If we're talking about the safety of the driver and people around them, why not both types of sensors? LIDAR has things it excels at, and visual spectrum cameras have things they do well too. That way the data processing side has more things to rely on, instead of all the eggs in one basket.

I disagree with you, I don't think visual camera's alone are up to the task. There was an instance of a Tesla in auto pilot mode driving at night with the driver being drunk. This took place in Texas on the high way, the car's camera footage was released and it showed the autopilot not identify the police car in the lane with it's red/blue lights flashing as a stationary obstacle. Instead it didn't realize there was a car in the way around 1 second before the 55 mph impact, and it turned of autopilot that 1 second before.

Having multiple layers of sensors, some being good at actually sensing a stationary obstacle, plus accurate range finding, plus visual analysis to pick out people and animal, thats the way to go.

Visual range only cameras were just reported to have a harder time recognizing people of color and children.

That was distressing to say the least. It gives the impression that when push comes to shove a lot of people put in that situation won't retaliate due to doubts.

Thank you for all the great suggestions and discussion! I feel that MS is more trust worth then google, but yes, they're still a mega corp. I also think paying for a service/product generally reducings the amount of data mining being done, IE, if it's free, you're the product.

I do have a NAS at home, but was worried about running a home solution that may be troublesome to access when out and about.

I'll check into Skiff, or Filen, those seem like good alternatives to OneDrive and M365.

I don't have any excitement about this game, I know a lot of people are literally buzzing with hype though. Every video I've seen makes it look like a less good bland version of Fall Out in space. Holding off to see what reviews say on this.

I'm in the process of switching over to Proton for my primary email. The Proton Drive seems nice, but I don't think it has any support for documents.

Yep, and given my experience talking with other US citizens about universal healthcare, they'll argue how it's some how a bad thing. It's just a reoccurring thing, people seem to be programmed to hate stuff that'd help them.

And cars are 100% safe, I've been riding in cars my whole life and have never died once. So since my experience has shown cars to never hurt me, I don't believe they can be dangerous.

Do you see how that sounds? The point is, studies are showing that using natural gas stoves can attribute to kids developing asthma, which sucks. So why not move away from that technology to other methods like electric or magnetic stoves which don't have the possibility of causing asthma.

The part about tiktok and youtube shorts that feels different to me is the short form videos giving a quick little hit of enjoyment, and the drive to view more short form is strong. I absolutely hate short form, but have found myself checking youtube for some new little short video.

That type of conditional feels detrimental to me.

Yeah, I know, still sucks. The current numbers I heard for tinder was 25% women, 75% men. The amount of likes a day the average woman gets must be exhausting. Online dating is just awful now.

Not so much, the rare ones I get generally don't respond when I message them.

I'd like to add to your list:

Matches who don't talk, and sadness

Your post got me thinking. The huge shift in Hollywood and gaming to almost exclusively be reboots, remasters, and sequels speaks to an over all problem in the gaming industry. If you compare how game companies were run on average in the mid 90's vs now, I think you'd see a lot more companies in the 90's were ran like startups, you had a group of talented passionate devs who had a grand vision and wanted to make something they'd love playing too. Those passion type companies yielded us games like Halo 1, nearly everything from Bullfrog Entertainment, looking glass studios and the thief series.

When you think of now, gaming is a much much much larger industry and many more companies are ran and old by mega large companies, who want to squeeze every dollar out of consumers. Battle passes, micro transactions in full price games, buggy and unfinished releases, and may other scummy things. The reason we're seeing much more in terms of reboots/remasters and sequels is, these large companies look at their bottom line and are extremely risk adverse, they're much more motivated by the profit then the passion of it, and as such want "Sure Things" instead of risky new IPs.

This is just a side effect of our favorite hobby getting so much more main stream. When huge companies only care about the profits and keeping their stock prices up, it's less about the passion more about greed. I hate it, but there isn't a solution.

I love seeing this stuff! I really started PC gaming around 1995, but by the time Quake 2 came out, my old 75mhz Pentium Acer couldn't keep up, so I didn't get to play Quake 2. But it does my heart good to see these classics get loving remasters.

Huh, this one went right over my head, but it turns out it's because I was pronouncing it "oh-kah-pee" in my head.

In terms of technical questions, especially older Microsoft related stuff, it does very well. My experience hasn't been any where near 80-90% wrong answers. It all depends on the topics you're asking about I suppose.

Sure, ChatGPT isn't actually intelligent, but it's a good approximation. You can ask ChatGPT a technical question, give it a ton of context to the question, and it'll "understand" all the information you've given it and answer your question. That's much more akin to asking an expert human who takes in the info, understands and answers, vs trying to find the answer via a search engine.

For me and other people in my life, ChatGPT has been intensely helpful job wise. I do double check any info it gives, but generally it's been pretty solid.

The culture of being e-famous at any cost causes people to do all sorts of awful shit. The fact that some people are misrepsenting situations, framing them falsely, then posting them online and getting millions of views is disgusting.

But what could be done to stop that? The government in my country is very very slow to adopt new laws to address the reality of what life is like now. Just look at how long it took them to do anything about middle schoolers vaping.