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Comment · 5 days ago
Who is this for? Is just just an exercise in tokenmaxxing? Who in their right mind would ever go like "Perfect, a free clone of this huge paid proprietary tool I've been using vibe-coded along other 100 unrelated huge paid proprietary tools by someone who doesn't understand the domain of ever actually seriously used any of it. Just what I've been looking for!"
Comment · 9 days ago
I don't think anybody above 10 years old is seriously expecting to be able to buy the flying version of the car or be able to do thrust-assisted 0-60 on a public road.

This whole video was just 9 minutes of "duh" for me.

I personally don't think we'll ever see this tech in action again. Maybe there will be a couple of billionaire collectors who receive their invite-only thruster cars only to put them in a garage and never touch it again. Maybe there'll be some "Jay Leno's garage" walk-around style youtube video. But I don't think anybody would ever actually seriously let this thing fly in the wild.

Comment · 12 days ago
Comment · 12 days ago
I feel like even if a next generation of chips dropped tomorrow, it'd be a while until they can scale up production and actually start selling products you or I could realistically purchase and by that time this new generation chip would already by a couple of years old with something much better and powerful in the final stages of design.
Comment · 12 days ago
Why didn't they name it 4.2 Flash or something? I find the naming highly confusing.
Comment · 15 days ago
One of my friends commutes exclusively on FSD in this Tesla. He even purchased a device on Alibaba that disables the attention checks. He spends most of his time doomscrolling on this phone or napping when the car drives itself.

The only time he takes over is in a very tight garage where you need to drive really close to walls and FSD freaks out a bit.

I'm not condoning his behavior, but it tells me that FSD if "mostly works" for normal applications.

Comment · 22 days ago
As someone born and raised in Russia now living in the US as a naturalized citizen I still see a lot of difference, but not going to lie, it's shrinking quite a bit faster than I'm comfortable with.
Comment · 22 days ago
They shipped a metric ton of new features in 1.4 and it seems relatively stable enough that it doesn't require too much hot bug fix releases.
Comment · 23 days ago
If the device does anything with network, other devices can likely sniff a lot of information about it with high degree of accuracy based on how they react to certain network probes. But also lot of useful protocols rely on devices explicitly announcing themselves and their capabilities, like Bonjour or Chromecast.
Comment · 23 days ago
Right, or laptops. Or TVs. Or other IOT devices like coffee makers, dishwashers, washers, garage openers, smart locks, vacuums etc.
Comment · 23 days ago
I'm sure they could've collected the same data they're collecting with 0.1% of the traffic. This particular case seems to be greed AND incompetence.
Comment · 23 days ago
It collects the data about your home appliances and personal devices. This data can tell a lot about your income level and spending habits. This is extremely useful for advertisers for obvious reasons.
Comment · 23 days ago
Perfect. I want my power armor before the Great AI Uprising and the first Robot War begins!
Comment · 29 days ago
When I give something a "Full Disk Access" permission, I expect it to have full access to what's on my disk, including "files, mail, messages, and even (gasp) browsing history"! Who are those mysterious people who expect their browsing history to be magically excluded from something called Full fucking Disk Access?

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