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m463 commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

taneq · 2 days ago

Do you really have a privately owned rail car in order to go fast? It sounds to me more like a self-driving campervan, you can sit back and watch the world roll by.

m463 · 2 days ago

I think the railcar equivalent will eventually become reality (if it isn't already)

Lots of people tool around in giant class-a motorhomes. They are 40 or 45 feet long. They are basically small apartments with double-door fridges, dishwasher, washer/dryer, starlink, etc

if they add the self-driving stuff, it will make them extra popular.

I think mobileye might have something.

m463 commented on Where is the exponential growth part of AI? · Posted by u/anon191928

m463 · 2 days ago

I think of early voice recognition

at first everyone was going to talk to their computer

and there were programs that would let you do just that!

and then it all fizzled

except it didn't. Phone trees quietly started to use voice recognition, and some devices used it, and now it is pretty commonplace.... but it seeped into place, not a giant wave.

Funny thing - lots of computers are losing their jobs to AI. I think it has replaced search quite quickly.

and new computer jobs are being created. The AI summaries of amazon product reviews are pretty good.

m463 commented on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ndsipa_pomu

no_wizard · 2 days ago

The only time a chatbot worked for me is Amazon's, of all things. It auto approved my return after I answered a few questions.

I haven't had any chatbot outside that be useful to me. I always end up getting to the end of all the prompts only to be told I need to speak to a human or the chatbot going in a circle, in which I have to reach out to a different layer of support.

m463 · 2 days ago

On the other hand, amazon chat support, which they forced on at some point, treats your time as worth zero.

I think I used to just type in my problem into a text box and press send like an email.

m463 commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

Lammy · 2 days ago

Until it's an established payment model for one product category, after which it fill feel more natural to extend it to others.

The worst part of it isn't even that devs would get their wallets shaken out but that it's really just surveillance in disguise. Those apps would “““have to””” spy on me as an end-user in order for them to know what to charge.

m463 · 2 days ago

I think phoning home is the platform for data collecting ("advertising") revenue.

m463 commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

m463 · 2 days ago

I wonder if slide to type has any overlap with cursive writing.

I do know I unlearned a bunch of my handwriting hardwiring when I learned to use a palm pilot. It had a system called graffiti that "simplified" some letters... which ended up replacing them in my handwriting habits after a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29

m463 commented on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform old.reddit.com/r/Entrepre... · Posted by u/bilsbie

m463 · 2 days ago

All the negative responses.

I have been at countless places where the engineers are out of sync with the product.

And it might be something silly like their coworker added something they didn't know about and the UI is now confusing. Could even be the website started proclaiming something that didn't align well with the product.

Another factor is that the [product -> PM -> bug system -> engineer -> fix -> QA -> product] loop is heavy. It takes a long time and major things get fixed but minor friction doesn't.

having [product <-> engineer] can be amazing.

Engineers might have never encountered the full experience, or may merely be out of sync with how it works today vs last year.

m463 commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

roxolotl · 2 days ago

When I was in college the philosophy program had the marketing slogan: “Thinking of a major? Major in thinking”.

Now as a hiring manager I’ll say I regularly find that those who’ve had humanities experience are way more capable and the hard parts of analysis and understanding. Of course I’m biased as a dual cs/philosophy major but it’s very rare I’m looking for someone who can just write a lot of code. Especially juniors as analytical thinking is way harder to teach than how to program.

m463 · 2 days ago

I would say you have some bias.

yes, sometimes you need people who can grasp the tech and talk to managers. They might be intermediaries.

But don't ignore the nerdy guys who have been living deeply in a tech ecosystem all their lives. The ones who don't dabble in everything. (the wozniaks)

m463 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

mlyle · 2 days ago

Detecting a face is not the same as recognizing a face in either engineering parlance or typical usage.

If I don't determine this is a face that I've seen before, I've not recognized the face (maybe I have recognized that there is a face there).

To recognize entails re-cognizing: knowing again what was previously known. Simply noticing that something is a face does not satisfy that; it is only detecting. Without linking it to prior knowledge, recognition hasn’t occurred.

m463 · 2 days ago

but just think about other things.

Like the google 'incognito' mode that wasn't private browsing, and google was found guilty.

engineers might say "of course it's not private" but the court opinion differed.

common sense to a normal person might not match engineer thinking.

m463 commented on Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects cnbc.com/2025/08/20/trump... · Posted by u/donsupreme

m463 · 2 days ago

I kind of wonder if trump does this:

1) attack someone or something over-the-top

2) outrage

3) recants, but negotiation happens

This pattern happened with: apple ceo, intel ceo, tariffs for country <x>

m463 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

delichon · 3 days ago

The green box around his face in the image is evidence that it detected a face, but not that it had collected or stored identifying biometrics. It would be legal for a POS device to detect any face, e.g. to help decide when to reset for the next customer. But as I understand it, this would usually be enough to trigger discovery, where he could learn the necessary technical details.

Even if this suit fails, the store is vulnerable to continuous repeats by other parties. Written consent from each customer is the only viable protection. So the BIPA law may mean that face detection, not just recognition, is not practical in Illinois.

m463 · 3 days ago

It still "recognizes a face" and shows this. Legal terms do not have to be scientific or engineering terms.

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