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IphtashuFitz

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  • I signed this years ago. It still hasn’t been banned???

  • A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

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  • I can recognize when a police officer is directing traffic at a dead traffic light. I can also recognize the intent of other drivers who may wave, flash their headlights, etc. I doubt any current self driving cars can accurately recognize any of those.

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  • Exactly. Any such remote control would have to be trivial for a cop to use, and also need to directly control only the car(s) the cop is currently interacting with. Think of a situation like this where a traffic light is disabled and a cop is there directing traffic. If driverless cars are approaching from multiple directions then how does the cop direct his commands to only the one he’s focusing on at the given moment? Not all that easy when you think about it…

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  • It wasn’t a cloud failure. The self driving cars are highly dependent on traffic lights being red/yellow/green. With the signals inoperative the cars don’t know what to do. Even if there were police officers directing traffic at intersections, the cars aren’t programmed to recognize & respond to them.

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  • This is one of the many edge cases that I’ve been convinced will keep self driving cars from becoming mainstream unless/until true AGI is achieved.

    A few years ago I stopped at a red light next to a construction site. I was watching the traffic light, so at first I didn't notice a cop at the construction site trying to wave me through the red light. He finally took a few steps towards me and yelled to get my attention. Only then did I realize he was waving me through, so I did just that. I seriously doubt any current self driving car would recognize a police officer (and not just a random pedestrian) that’s overriding the traffic signal like that.

    Another edge case, coincidentally at the same intersection a few years earlier was when there was a car fully engulfed in flames as I drove up. I could hear sirens in the distance, and the cars in every direction were making sure to safely get out of the way of the approaching fire trucks. At least one or two cars cautiously crossed on the red to get out of the way. Again, I doubt any current self driving car would have navigated that situation anywhere nearly as well as a human.

  • What was it like the first time you had to call 911?

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  • Not exactly 911, but somewhat similar. A few years ago my wife & I were in a rental SUV while on vacation. It was a fairly new car with only something like 2000 miles on it. We were in the third lane of a 4 lane highway when a drunk driver hit us from behind with almost no warning. It caused our car to spin 360 degrees across 3 lanes before coming to a stop in the breakdown lane.

    Within about 5 seconds of the car coming to a stop we heard a voice asking if we’d been in an accident and were we ok. It turns out the rental car had one of those OnStar types of services. We were so pumped full of adrenaline that it was all just a blur as we tried to remember what highway we were on, near what exit, etc. We were so panicked… Luckily a state trooper on a routine patrol stopped maybe a minute later so we didn’t have to keep trying to figure out how to tell the OnStar person where we were.

  • Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function

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  • I worked on a memory manager back in the days of DOS & extended memory overlays. The original author liked to refer to blocks of memory as “cookies” and temporary variables as “handy”, among other things. My favorites however were a flag identifying memory corruption as “shit_cookie_corrupt” and a panic function when it couldn’t recover that was called ohShitOhShitOhShit().

  • Trump dealt major blow as Europe threatens ‘nuclear option’ over Ukraine

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  • Maybe. Let’s see if they follow through.

  • New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI

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  • Clearly some techbro wants to monetize buzzwords plus laptop.

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • In the original.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • They still haven’t proven the boat had drugs, or have they?

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  • IT professional for 20 years. C/C++ developer for 10 years prior to that.

    My first job out of college was mostly luck. I took a job doing tech support but after a couple of years was able to transition into development work.

    Virtually every job since that first one has been thanks to connections I made among coworkers. I got my current job because I knew two employees here. One of them was a co-founder of the company, and somebody I’ve known since the 1990’s and worked with at 3 other companies prior to this.

  • Trump slapped with major lawsuit as Costco demands refund on his tariffs

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    The Internet without IP addresses?

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    The Internet without IP addresses?

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  • MTG goes on extraordinary rant about Charlie Kirk, Republican men and her resignation

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  • Good. The more the Republican voting block is fractured the better.

  • Founder Admits His "AI Transcription" Startup Was Just Him Joining People's Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

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  • Reminds me a bit of Theranos. “Pay no attention to the man (or woman) behind the curtain”…

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Does anybody else miss Compuserve, Delphi, etc?

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    TIL about Marianne Bachmeier who shot dead the man who sexually assaulted and murdered her 7 year old child

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  • Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands over the kidnapping and rape of his son back in the 1980s.

    Plauche learned that the suspect was being flown back to town in police custody, and figured out the flight he was on. He waited at the airport, pretending to be using a pay phone. As the suspect was escorted past him he walked up and shot him in the head at almost point blank range. A local TV station caught it all on camera and I think you can still find it if you search for it.

    Plauche was ultimately convicted of manslaughter but was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service. No jail time.