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yakz commented on The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07... · Posted by u/janandonly

wavemode · 3 days ago

Is the use of "literally" here, and the use of quotes, meant to be taken literally (as in, he literally said this)?

Or is this the sense of "literally" which actually means "figuratively"?

yakz · 3 days ago

A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

That's the closest thing I'm finding. Not seeing reporting that he literally said "war is peace".

yakz commented on The Waymo World Model waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx

bonsai_spool · a month ago

I think I'm misunderstanding - they're converting video into their representation which was bootstrapped with LIDAR, video and other sensors. I feel you're alluding to Tesla, but Tesla could never have this outcome since they never had a LIDAR phase.

(edit - I'm referring to deployed Tesla vehicles, I don't know what their research fleet comprises, but other commenters explain that this fleet does collect LIDAR)

yakz · a month ago

Tesla does collect LIDAR data (people have seen them doing it, it's just not on all of the cars) and they do generate depth maps from sensor data, but from the examples I've seen it is much lower resolution than these Waymo examples.

yakz commented on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn

monooso · 2 months ago

The answer you seek is right there in the article (emphasis mine):

> Tesla offers its vehicles on long-term leases, and in such a scenario the leasing company is typically the registered keeper of the car.

> Drivers of rented or company cars caught speeding have to be named before they can face prosecution and companies which fail to return paperwork to police can be prosecuted instead.

A company leases the car, and that car may then be available to multiple employees. The police need the company to confirm which employee was driving the vehicle at the time of the office.

yakz · 2 months ago

The answer is not in the article. The question is: why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car? How are rented or company cars even relevant, since that's a different company between Tesla and the driver that would have the information about the driver? It seems like a weird quirk that there's not a registration process closer that leads somewhere closer to the actual driver. Is it a privacy issue? Is it just because enforcement is easier against a larger company?

yakz commented on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn

yakz · 2 months ago

Seems like some kind of weird quirk that the government doesn't already have this information readily available. Why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car?

yakz commented on Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making electrek.co/2025/10/20/te... · Posted by u/ndsipa_pomu

LeifCarrotson · 5 months ago

Check out Slate:

https://www.slate.auto/en

https://images.ctfassets.net/20dhmw20vttc/3FXvexNHHbtaijk1Ur...

Worried about infotainment and AI processors? It doesn't even have a radio. See those things on the door cards by your knees? They interface with an advanced window regulator and associated torque-sensing motion control system that uses evaporative liquid cooling to prevent failure due to overheating.

You could buy three for the price of a Tesla.

yakz · 5 months ago

You can't buy it at all, yet.

Also, with the way these kinds of things have gone in the past:

- It's not certain that you'll ever be able to buy it. - If you can buy it, it'll probably be closer to $40k than $25k with no add-ons. - It's not certain that you'll ever actually be able to buy it with no add-ons. - Orders that include all of the most expensive add-ons will be heavily prioritized, so even if you can order it without add-ons, the queue could be months or years long. - The ones that you can actually get in a reasonable amount of time will be closer to $50k than $25k.

yakz commented on RFK Jr. Must Go quillette.com/2025/09/17/... · Posted by u/kamaraju

notmyjob · 5 months ago

Even if they don’t act on that view? Sounds a lot like “thoughtcrime” to me and antagonistic to freedom of religion and therefore also antagonistic to our constitution. While I support your constitutional right to free speech, calling for violence against people because of their religion is imo a shameful and self destructive stance.

yakz · 5 months ago

I don't think it's a huge stretch to consider supporting circumcision of children as being a call to violence against children, though. Just because it's being done for religious reasons and it has been done by a large population for a long time really doesn't change what it is: involuntary body modification of children.

yakz commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

glouwbug · 5 months ago

It is in many fields. They're Professional Engineers, and they build nearly everything that's important to a society. Software is overrun by literally anyone and everyone because it's not a protected field of engineering

yakz · 5 months ago

Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it. Am I wrong?

yakz commented on Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology thebrakereport.com/bosch-... · Posted by u/effnorwood

kbos87 · 6 months ago

Non-blinding headlights already exist. Modern projection headlights can map where the light ends up on the road to illuminate your path while avoiding oncoming traffic. It just isn't widely adopted (in the US at least) as of yet.

yakz · 6 months ago

Adaptive headlights have only been approved for use in the US for ~3 years. They were sold in cars in the US before that, but the adaptive function was disabled.

yakz commented on Meta Ray-Ban Display meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ba... · Posted by u/martpie

jrowen · 6 months ago

I think continuing to go for the classic Ray-Ban look is a mistake. I don't think this product is enticing to the Ray-Ban crowd at this point. Ray-Bans are for looking effortlessly cool, not maybe secretly filming people, it's a wolf in sheep's (bulging) clothing. I would go for more steampunk goggles. Get nerds and hobbyists really excited about it. Create a new lane.

yakz · 6 months ago

A version that is just plainly nerdy (and more comfortable) might not be a bad idea; maybe call it the developer version or something to avoid any association with fashion or luxury.

yakz commented on Meta Ray-Ban Display meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ba... · Posted by u/martpie

paxys · 6 months ago

I saw the keynote, and while everything about the glasses was more or less as expected, seeing Zuck easily navigate the interface and type 30 words per minute while barely moving his fingers was a true WTF moment. If they can actually make the neural interface work that well then Meta has won this round.

yakz · 6 months ago

Doesn’t that make the wrist accessory the important part? The chunky glasses look like they’re still too early, not enough tech.