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monotremata

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  • Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

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  • Are you saying that there are three modes, one called "autopilot system," one called "Autopilot," and one called "Full Self-Driving"? Because otherwise this phrasing:

    the driving mode in question was Tesla’s “autopilot system,” instead of the proper Autopilot

    is confusing in a way that's independent of the way that Tesla's names are confusing.

    My understanding was that there are two modes, one misleadingly called "autopilot" which is basically adaptive cruise control plus lane keeping, and one even more misleadingly called "full self driving," which integrates with the GPS and will also do lane changes and exits. Both will happily plow you into a semi at speed, which makes the names REALLY dumb. But the distinction the article is making, between the "autopilot system" and capital-A "Autopilot," seems like it needs more explanation, and I don't think that's a Tesla distinction.

  • Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

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  • The reporting states the driving mode in question was Tesla's "autopilot system," instead of the proper Autopilot, which is Tesla's less advanced driving system. Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is Tesla's more capable feature, although its name is a misnomer, since it's not capable of fully driving itself and requires constant supervision.

    I feel like this section needs a rewrite. What is the distinction they're drawing between "Tesla's 'autopilot system'" and "Autopilot"?

  • Banh mi

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  • I would swap the mint for thai basil, but I'm kind of a fool for basil. Oh, and maybe add some extremely thinly sliced jalapenos, with the seeds and core removed, though this is up to your spice tolerance. It definitely looks the part, though. Hope it's tasty!

  • AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch

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  • Okay, yes, but that's because they had messed up their application enough that the updater itself couldn't be updated, which they presumably discovered in the process of trying to remedy his bug. That is, the flaw he found couldn't actually be exploited only because of a deeper flaw he hadn't found. (Shades of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation there, whose deep fundamental design flaws were almost totally hidden by their superficial design flaws.) He still led them to a critical vulnerability that took them months to fix.

  • Trump assessed by 22 medical specialists at latest checkup; The White House has declined to identify the physicians.

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  • But then there's that whole exchange from World Enough and Time that ends with this:

    DOCTOR: Please, listen to me. Look at me. Go on, look at me. That's good. That's very, very good. Now, do you see this mad woman sitting in this chair? Her name isn't Doctor Who. My name is Doctor Who.

    NARDOLE: It isn't, is it?

    DOCTOR: I like it.

    I know they're doing a bit, but I think it provides adequate cover for proper geeks to nevertheless use the expression when it'll provide shorthand clarity.

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  • Yep. They cited it as a source of climate panic. Which, like, yeah, knowing what's actually happening with the climate right now definitely will freak you out, but...

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • Over-hopped is a major style here, and I find it baffling. Give me the toasty, malty, barley, coffee, bitter, chocolate notes of a good porter or stout any day of the week. But no, the menu is 6 IPAs, 2 ciders, a bock, and a weiss.

  • What are your BEST tech purchases?

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  • For me the best tech purchases aren't really the ones that bring me joy. They're the ones that become invisible because they take away points of friction.

    So I would say my Brother printer is one. It's been incredibly reliable for more than a decade now.

    Switching over to Ubiquiti Unifi access points for wifi has been worth it too. It's a pain to run wires for them, but having a solid signal everywhere in the house in all kinds of weather is just amazing. They've been running for a decade too, though I did just replace one so I can have a 6GHz connection in one room. Not really sure that particular upgrade was actually worth it, but the system as a whole has been so nice. There's just never anything to fix about the wifi anymore. (Well, okay, occasionally there's something to fix with the Internet, but it's usually just "Comcast is down," and we have to wait until they fix it, and sometimes also reboot the modem. The wifi itself is pretty bulletproof.)

    So yeah. Tech that works reliably and invisibly for years on end is what I find really valuable. Gadgets can certainly be fun, but great tech is just there in the background making things easier.

  • I'm going to hoard toilet paper and pasta again.

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  • But not in 2053. We have "the post-atomic horror" to look forward to first.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • Don't forget Mr. Card Game!

    (it's actually pretty okay to forget Mr. Card Game, it's not great)

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  • Thanks for the reminder! I had switched to Lawnchair, but I just realized I had forgotten to uninstall Nova. Fixed!

  • What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?

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  • If the song you listened to was "Why Does the Sun Shine," you should know they didn't actually write that one (it's from a 50's educational record they liked as kids) and it's not very representative of their ouvre. They've even released a follow-up track ("Why does the sun really shine?") which corrects a lot of that one. It starts with the line "The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma, the sun's not simply made out of gas, no no!"

  • 8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data

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  • I mean, this was my first question as well. If you say "I don't trust that guy with my kids," then you also should not be leaving that person alone with your kids. If you do leave him alone with your kids, people aren't wrong to say that you very much are trusting him with them.

    So I think it's legitimate to ask whether they mean they "don't trust Chinese and US firms with their data" in the sense that they do not provide their data to them, or just in the sense that they do give them a bunch of data, and then feel misgivings about it.

    Which, y'know, it's something you have a limited degree of control over, certainly, and we don't want to fall too much into blaming the victims. But as someone who didn't manage to actually get off Facebook until last year, I definitely felt for a long while before that like I was complicit in my own exploitation, and contributing to a societal problem. I think even the people still there know that cancelling it is the low-hanging fruit in terms of reducing the amount of data in the hands of dubious firms.

  • Is Trump trying to lose the midterms?

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  • Extreme solopsist?

  • Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’

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  • That would be the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

  • Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.

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  • Yeah, this is what I was going to call out. Calling it "100% solvable by humans" and saying "if human scores were included, they would be at 100%" when 20-60% of humans solved each task seems kinda misleading. The AI scores are so low that I don't think this kind of hyperbole is necessary; I assume there are some humans that scored 100%, but I would find it a lot more useful if they said something like "the worst-performing human in our sample was able to solve 45% of the tasks" or whatever. Given that the AIs are still scoring below 1%, that's still pretty dark.

  • Has anyone here built their own printer?

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  • I built one, but it was a (top-down) resin printer, so I don't think I have any useful advice to offer. Also, I kinda burnt out on the project after I came in one morning and found the resin had melted the vat and leaked onto the floor--somehow I just totally failed to consider that the solvents in the resin could obviously dissolve a lot of plastics. Huge mess, huge pain to remediate. At least it was a concrete floor. I got a replacement vat in glass, but I never worked up the will to work on it again. It did basically print before that, but I had a lot of off-layer curing and didn't get to do much work on tuning that in before the accident.

  • Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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  • Yep. I've only got three APs, and one is by the modem and router, so it's really just two long wires, and one of those is to my office, which is also where my main desktop PC is, so I needed that wire anyway. The other one was annoying, and I had to drill a couple holes for it as well as exploit a laundry chute, but all that was ten years ago, and having pretty complete wifi coverage since then has been worth it.

    The one weak spot is the kitchen, where there's coverage, but it tends to be a bit slow. I just decided to upgrade my bedroom AP to Wifi 6 (from AC), though, and I might try switching the old unit over to mesh mode and mounting it to cover the kitchen. Mesh involves two wifi links so it's a bit slower, but the connection strength will probably make up for that. It's worth the experiment, at least.

  • Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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  • I turned off wifi on my router and instead use multiple wifi access points connected to the router by ethernet. It's way easier to get good coverage and speeds that way.