You’re dead right that the company isn’t worth anything in a traditional sense.

However, the existence of truth social directly contradicts your claim that they don’t want an echo chamber.

Oh sure ok. Silly me. I can’t wait to be embraced by the utopia of open standards bluesky is going to inspire.

Dude. Isn’t truth worth billions?

I guess you’re mostly right, but the exception is that they need one safe space in which to congratulate each other and wank about NFTs and what not.

Isn’t the only thing that really matters decentralised control?

Open protocols and APIs seem pretty meaningless to me if there’s a single point of control for the brand.

If everyone migrates to bluesky and then bluesky says “of we’re not doing that open thing anymore because of this new embiggened thing we’re doing” everyone will still be on bluesky.

It doesn’t work as a deterrent though. In states that have the death penalty people still do bad things.

Yeah this is pretty much how I feel.

I loathe musk, and despise twitter, and I’m happy about anything they will be unhappy about.

That said, I don’t have a lot of respect for anyone who is still there. Journalists, politicians, anyone who has to be there for their job… I still just don’t have a lot of respect for them.

Yeah. I tend to agree.

Being able to drive without killing someone is only one aspect of an autonomous vehicle, and security is one that I’m not confident about in the least.

I’ve noticed that my wife’s Level 2 car is just hopeless outside of the city. Sure that’s where most people live and it’s fine for most people.

Driving on country roads it spends more time having self-disabled it’s autonomous features than not, simply because it can’t see the road or what have you.

You’re not wrong, but that’s not really what I meant although perhaps I didn’t explain it very well.

Another way to say the same thing, if you group together all the various components or aspects of “driving”, 95% of them might be solved relatively easily, but getting the last 5% right is extraordinarily difficult.

It’s deceiving because the first time you saw a Level 2 car in 2018 it’s natural to think that if they’ve made so much progress seemingly overnight, then surely in the next few years we will have Level 6 cars.

I do take your point that humans are also good drivers 95% of the time and mistakes only occur within 5% of situations. The issue there is the imperative that autonomous cars must be better than a human in all circumstances. If a human makes, on average, 5 serious mistakes every 500,000km, but an autonomous car makes 6, you’d probably not want to put your family in that autonomous car.

It’s this.

To me, saying “this too shall pass” reminds me that life is a journey of good things and bad things my purpose is to experience them all as fully as I can.

Yesterday was great because x, today is shit because y, tomorrow will be new and different because z.

When I’m obsessing and disparing about y, saying “this too shall pass” reminds me that there’s a bigger picture, and that y situation will change just as x did.

Oh fuck me. I hate this one.

I just do whatever I feel like doing at the time.

I’ve never heard someone’s strong opinion about it. Do guys really diss guys for sitting down?

The tech hasn’t regressed, it just hasn’t progressed while the marketing has.

Look up the automation levels: https://au.pcmag.com/cars-auto/94559/is-your-car-autonomous-the-6-levels-of-self-driving-explained

My wife’s car is 6 years old, and is level 2. Nothing amazing now, but kinda cool in 2018.

Since then expectations have increased dramatically, and the problems you’re hearing about are cars expected to have the higher levels of automation but failing to achieve that.

It seems like this is one of those technical problems that gets exponentially more difficult to solve, the closer we get to solving it. What I mean is, suppose a human averages 100,000km per “incident”. It was easy to make a car do 90,000km per incident, less so to have it do 95,000km per incident, but we’re finding it very very difficult to get that last 5% performance.

Obvious shill gonna shill obviously.

A few years ago mastodon seemed to be awash with bots posting… young scantily clad anime girls.

Whether or not you find it offensive, it’s not really ideal for building a community around and it’s a shame admins just let it go.

Yeah I don’t know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this…

“Just let us keep doing what we’re doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems.”

Obviously, the answer is… we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we’re doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.

I think your angle is a bit reductive.

Conversations or interactions generally don’t go from 0 to how-dare-you-not-care-about-my-baby instantaneously.

For example, in a cafe, order coffee, I’ve never met the barista before, they’re not going to flop out baby photos and grill me about how much I don’t care about their kidlet. They might make casual conversation, how are you, great day, bit tired, newborn up all night, oh I have a newborn too, she’s been unwell, yeah ours had HFMD last week, oh that’s tough, is she better now, was the fever bad, and so on and so forth. What I’m saying is, it’s through the too and fro that you guage how interested someone is in the things that are important to you.

If my sister had a child then she would probably just expect me to care about her new baby because she’s family and we see each other every week and the new baby is going to be part of my life for the rest of my life.

Another thing that happens is… people just get excited about things and that’s ok too. I became a new father almost a year ago. To me, it’s the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me. Of course I understand that it’s not very amazing to anyone else, but for those first few weeks of course I was excited about it. It would be fine if I were to “overshare” with my barista, but it would also be fine if they were to tell me to keep my baby photos to myself.

This is just plain untrue.

In all cases you need to drive to the conditions. Observe your circumstances and adapt your behavior accordingly.

3s is a good yard stick, but there’s plenty of situations in which it is not the ideal safe distance.

At 110km/h that’s about 90 metres. Every idiot around is going to try to move around you to take up that spot. Being overtaken by idiots is unsafe. This is just one example, there’s plenty of others.

It depends.

On a well developed well maintained “freeway” with multiple lanes, shoulders for break downs, gentle curves, et cetera it’s common. 3 car lengths is more common here I think.

That said, on a “highway” (interstate?) without everything listed above I aim for 2 seconds, which is about 60 metres at highway speed.

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I used to think that but honestly now I avoid it where I can. Like between a wall and cornice a sash brush is fine. Removing switches like like fittings and switches is better than taping too.