Readit Newsk__ commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
I’m curious if autonomous cars will become targets for aggressive drivers. Like a driver isn’t going to be as scared cutting off a Waymo or tailgating one because the AI isn’t gonna get road rage or honk like hell. In some places I could see the Waymo’s getting severely bullied if that’s the case.
If they don't get any feedback, they might not get anything from it anymore.
I have been distro-hopping since probably around 2004, whenever now someone is asking me what to recommend as a Linux, it’s as follow:
- Entry level and everything you will ever need, stable, etc: Mint
- Feeling adventures: go with arch or some of its arch-based distros.
- Used linux before: NixOS.
Manjaro definitely has Mint vibes.
"some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice, or hibernated underwater"
What did people in Africa think? I mean, they also saw birds disappearing.
k__ commented on What if A.I. doesn't get better than this? newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/sundache
Good question.
In the one side I read stuff about exponential gains with every new model. On the other side, the coding improvements look logarithmic to me.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that shorter line limits (80, 120) make my life easier for non-trivial merge conflicts and diffing changes.
I think, it's also depending on the language used.
When I write JS or Python, In getting along with 80 no problem.
But when I do TS or Java, the annotations can stretch lines quite a bit.
Awesome.
Is it deterministic like Lua?
k__ commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
Half-OT: Anything useful that runs reasonably fast on a regular Intel CPU/GPU?
I ended up going with Proton because they had a good solution for mail, calendar, and drive which I was looking to replace. I set up my custom domain to point to it and have my Gmail forwarding to it - any time I get an email to the old Gmail address I go change it on the website or delete the account altogether.
For Google Docs / Keep, I switched over to Obsidian and pay for the sync there. It's a great replacement for my main use case of Docs / Keep which is just a dumping ground for ideas.
For Google Photos, I now self-host Immich in Hetzner on a VPS with a 1TB storage box mounted via SSHFS. I use Tailscale to connect to it. It took a few days to use Google Takeout + immich-go to upload all the photos (~300GB of data) but it's working really well now. Only costs $10/mo for the VPS and 1TB of storage.
Android I think I'll be stuck on - I have a Pixel 8 Pro that technically supports Graphene but there are too many trade-offs there. Next time I need a new phone I'll take a serious look at Fairphone but I think the Pixel 8 Pro should last a few more years.
My FitBit Versa is really old and starting to die - I ordered one of the new Pebble watches and am patiently waiting for it to ship!
YouTube I'm stuck on because that's where the content is. I have yet to find a suitable replacement for Google Maps - OpenStreetMap is still really hard to use and gives bad directions.
I'm still using docs, sheets, drive and maps.
Most of it because my clients use it. But drive and maps out of convenience. Don't know if there even exist something with a similar feature set as maps.
I probably could move my stuff to proto drive but the docs and sheets integration is vital for me.