The lack of a speedometer in front of your face is a pretty glaring quality issue. You have to turn your head to look at the massive touchscreen. The one that replaces all other dashboards and most tactile controls for manufacturing cost savings to be a cool futuristic vehicle of the future.

I won’t even start talking about the whole CyberStuck thing again because that’s too easy; except to point out that it has turn buttons on the steering wheel instead of a turn signal stalk, a shifter on the ceiling, and the steering wheel is not round.

I only recently bought my first car and it’s just old enough that it didn’t even have a backup camera until I got one installed. Honestly half the reason of buying used was so I could have a car without a touchscreen haha.

As AI technology advances, human oversight in military operations, though rooted in ethics and legality, may emerge as a strategic liability in future AI-dominated warfare.

Yeah it’s sad. As the article points out similar incidents have happened repeatedly. Anyone who saw the door design could have (and did!) predict something like this would happen. My coworker was trapped in his Tesla in his garage for 15 minutes (and he wasn’t in a panic).

Look at the picture of the manual door release here: It’s pretty well hidden, you reach in and pull up on the door buttons.

… then scroll down and look at the picture of the rear door manual release. You have to pull off some trim from inside the pocket, pull off another panel, and then pull a cable.

… but wait! There’s more!

Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.

Jesus, I hope the engineers who signed off on this think about what they’ve done and do better. I would say I hope someone regulated bad emergency door releases out of existence but… y’know.

A bit of an aside, but how did everyone decide to use the exact phrase “decisive victory” when congratulating president elect Trump? It keeps jumping out to me and I find it kind of weird. It has almost a militaristic tone.

Apparently the 1x engineer is taking weekends instead of working 24/7.

Clearly everyone working on google knowledge graph are a bunch of dune movie purists who don’t recognize the existence of the 2021 film for being too hollywood.

Mass media try not to cozy up to fascists challenge: impossible!

I hated seeing that guy just wanting to live his life dragged into weird net drama and pushed under the bus by his company. And wow look at how collected and reasonable he was compared to anyone else in the story.

All Mr. Paul had to do was shut the hell up for once and the world’d still be talking about his moldy cheese bread instead of about his moldy cheese bread and how he bullies and doxes retail workers.

All Fred Meyer had to do is be like “whoops looks like the product recall procedure at that store was vague recollections, we’ll get a policy in place”.

Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.

Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–

“This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”

“people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”

Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

“When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”

“Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.

Oh.

A woman was scheduled to give a talk at an AI conference. The organizers run her photo through an AI image expansion program to get the aspect-ratio right (how did we ever manage to show photos of speakers before AI existed?).

The AI image expansion invents a bra / undershirt which wasn’t visible in the original photo.

https://xcancel.com/elizlaraki/status/1846252781851890026

OpenAI is in the position of constantly working on newer bigger shinier models, while saying every model they do release will be the one.

AGI is just around the corner and we promise 3, 4, 4-Scarlett-Johansson, o1, 5 is the one that will be good enough to help you with your homework and legal letters and medical questions and remove the loneliness from your life!

Would be funny if they manage to pop the bubble in the process of trying to go for-profit.

Sshh don’t tell the investors, I’ve managed to be paid for a decade by updating my code to work with other people updating their code to work with other people updating their code, all without actually doing anything new.

We as a profession have developed a careful balancing act where we’re always busy doing nothing. If the balance was off just a little someone might actually have to think about new features instead of, say, migrating from CGI to PHP to JavaScript to jQuery to AngularJS to Angular to React to ???, rejecting LLM generated changes, “fixing” the same bug year after year, or reverting reverts of reverts of reverts of reverts of changes.

And thinking is hard.

not much emphasis on boring normal “L” and “G”

“Look I’m not really saying G-word and L-word are normal, but I might be willing to invite them to my BBQs if they never mention it, hate rainbows, and allow straight people to cut in line ahead of them as a civic duty.”

Also wait is not even “B” ‘normal’ enough for this guy?

one sort by controversial later and they are indeed a culture war person

Instant regret.

This is asked in all sincerity: Why is there a coherent “community” of lesbians, gays, and transgender people? What is the important linking commonality that makes those groups into a community?

Gee I wonder. Also new rule whenever someone posts that they’re asking something in sincerity or just wanting to understand or “confused”, you’re allowed to laugh in their face before they can finish. Seriously does anyone even fall for this anymore? It’s so obvious.

Does a kernel that crashes itself before it can process any malicious inputs count as secure?

The guy running a hostile workplace while hanging out with Logan Paul, selling junk food to children, and putting on reality shows so hostile to the contestants that they get compared to torture is… into cryptocurrency?! I’m shocked! Shocked!

Goodness kids need some better role models because sometimes it seems 90% of people on the social networks are morally bankrupt.

Alternative headline for this Washington Post opinion piece from Jeff Bezos: We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!

^{more US politics I know. There is sadly no escape from the fiery vortex that is the U.S. election.}

His comment history is a weird mix of programming language discussion, terrible takes, simping for Musk, simping for Musk even harder (just in case you didn’t realize how much he liked Musk the first time).

Musk is the sane one. It’s the rest of us that are insane.

Holy hell.

I see RicksCEO.eth has since quietly removed the “.eth” part of his name. Presumably it was way more embarrassing than being a strip club tycoon.

Introducing Chat-GPT version EATERY SHORTAGE

I had a mini identity crisis when i realized I’m more aware of techno-fascist writing than Elon Musk of all people.