stepintomydojo

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[–] stepintomydojo 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genius. If you vaporize them they can't melt.

[–] stepintomydojo 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hear Greenland has WMDs - in the form of melting glaciers that will cause some kind of climate catastrophe. /s

[–] stepintomydojo 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They do. The problem is that controlled burns are by definition small so they can be controlled and there's a lot of forest.

[–] stepintomydojo 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Trains must have stopped derailing, all we hear about now is planes. /s

(Proving the point about the news and its tendency to focus on the currently popular issue)

[–] stepintomydojo 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The actual website, since the article fails to link to it: https://visdeurbel.nl/en/the-fish-doorbell/

[–] stepintomydojo 6 points 1 year ago

This is excellent and really helps show how it was going engines first at the end.

[–] stepintomydojo 1 points 1 year ago

I would define the core capability as "takes audio, extracts meaning, matches to intent, executes intent". Everything else is an implementation of a specific intent/action. Some of them are likely fragile and depend on integration APIs that may be changing or going away.

Ultimately, yes, it is corporate-speak to sugarcoat what looks like a net negative for users at the current time with nebulous claims of a better future.

[–] stepintomydojo 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"focus" is the key word. There are only so many resources, and if you have to spend time maintaining and testing features that don't get use, you can't spend those resources on the features that do get use, or on anything new.

Is the end result truly a better experience? Who knows, but the phrasing isn't quite as nonsensical as it seems.

[–] stepintomydojo 6 points 1 year ago

I'll bet you one upvote, and I'll pay it right now!

[–] stepintomydojo 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Or, using the adaptive cruise control and lane keeping that many cars have these days. (Regular) Autopilot is becoming less of a unique feature of Teslas.

I would like to believe (but lack data to point to to support it) that ADAS is making roads safer overall. There are cases that aren't covered yet, and driver complacency is a problem for those, but so is complacency in a driver's belief that they can stare at a phone in their lap but not drift out of their lane and cause an accident, which is something ADAS will protect against.

[–] stepintomydojo 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seeing an annular eclipse is an excellent application of orbital mechanics! Enjoy!

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