Also, not only do they rely on “just vision”, crucially they rely on real-time processing without any memory or persistent mapping.

This, more than anything else is what bewilders me most.

They could map an area, and when observing a construction hazard save that data and share it with other vehicles so they know when route setting or anticipate the object. Not they don’t. If it drives past a hazard and goes around the block it has to figure out how to navigate the hazard again with no familiarity. That’s so foolish.

Oof. Everything about this bill feels like having a car driven over you slowly. Fuck.

Oof.

This month is really feeling like one gut punch after another.

This is a genuine concern that we should recognize.

I’m about 99% confident it isn’t, but considering it is the kind of caution we should all be exercising these days.

I have a lot of problems with this episode. The writing on this show just feels like it’s gotten way too loose.

The reveal that Joe is Zeke is because he has “Obadiah S.” written on a ziploc bag containing his father’s ashes? Who labels a bag like that?

Riri’s sneak into the base requires her to swim around under water and find a vent? And then cut a lock using a laser underwater? I know we already tend to just ignore the fact that real life lasers don’t cut things like this, but now we’re doing underwater lasers? She just found that, cut it, and then went in like she doesn’t need to breathe any more. How’s she even seeing shit? She’s got no goggles!

And then she sneaks into the guy’s lair and is just trying to discretely cut a piece of a a guy’s clothes with a high powered laser!? How does that work? It’s like the least discrete thing ever! He’s just walking around talking to this billionarie and she’s blasting off this lock cutting laser everywhere, except for some reason now it takes longer to cut through leather than it does steel. The guy should be cut in half and on fire and everyone screaming.

Why are there all these people-sized vents that are covered by openings that are taped on? They don’t even screw that on? Why design a gate that traps people in the vent? Why not just put a permanent obstacle inside your vent? Why wasn’t that their break-in plan? That was effortless? But the labs have no fire escape. The most obvious requirement for every lab. But she has no trouble getting out of the vent. We don’t even see how she gets out, she just kind of gets trapped and then we see her leave.

And this business tycoon expected him… and then wrote a check? And also planned to have the security system entrap him but never considered the idea that the guy who broke him might just physically attack him? And also what are you doing, dude? Why are you gardening at night waiting to be attacked? Go home! And a hire a body guard!

And what is with these motherfucking contracts? I get that it’s probably an allusion to Mephisto, but those contracts are worthless. So someone signs a paper promising to give you money. Where do you actually get the goddamned money? Where did they get the physical cash they’re throwing around? Did they go to a bank and say, ‘I’d like to withdraw $100,000 from my bank account. You’ll find I have the money, because I got a billionaire to sign a contract promising me this money.’ Like… think how fucking stupid this is. There’s a reason why no one holds rich people hostage for a signature. They can do it for crypto. That’s actually a real thing that is happening a lot these days. But a paper contract? It’s meaningless! You have to actually get someone to execute it! And that’s impossible because (A) you can’t do that anonymously, you’d have to identify yourself and (B) contracts signed under duress are invalid. They’re a legal concept, not a magic wand! This is so goddamned dumb.

Also, why the fuck is Zeke trusting Riri? Because she promised? They’re not friends, and have no basis of trust at all. She’s like, ‘You have my word.’ And he’s like, ‘Okay, be sure not to get me arrested for life. Here’s a priceless …’ also what the fuck is that “bio-mesh”? Literally what is it supposed to be? It’s like… organic? And how did she make it a metal detector cloak in 10 minutes? And why and how did he have an enormous bone-deep gouge in his arm? And why would you have blueprints for any of this? Blueprints are how they used to sketch out buildings fifty years ago. Was he drawing the dimensions of a new metamaterial with a ruler and compass? Writing out its dimensions? Like what is any of this? This feels like it was written by a 10 year old and ChatGPT.

This story makes no sense. I want to like it, but this is DUMB.

I’m just reminiscing, man.

That’s there take. I think context and audience makes a huge difference, so I’d rank it higher.

I remember the experience. I watched it at the Rave Cinema at the Baldwin-Crenshaw mall, in Leimert Park. And let me tell you: the theater was so fucking amped. This theater was built by Magic Johnson in a part of LA that hadn’t had a nice theater, and it’s held up well. The neighborhood has really come up around it, too, so when Black Panther played, it was filled with folks dressed to the nines. There was LA street fashion, Panafrican garb, kids grown-ups, elders… The movie was good to start with, but it was just hard not to get caught up in the energy in the air. It truly was an event.

What’s the drawback of self hosted? I’ve had a self-hosted instance running on a raspberry pi for a few months now, and so far it’s working out great.

I’ve gotta say that MCU armor peaked around Iron Man 2. And I’m disappointed that they didn’t take the opportunity to finally return to greatness.

I don’t mind high-tech armor, but I was so disappointed that we see her donning high tech shiny self-assembling armor in the first few minutes of the show.

I miss the gantry. I miss the sense that it was a physical thing. Imagine the prop artists preparing the parts of Riri’s suit that weren’t pure CGI. The casting and the polishing and the fingerprint removal before she put it on. How about this? Actually design a suit. Imagine you had a high enough power source to power it and repulsors exist. What would it look like? Imagine something like Andrea Piccinno’s exo frame with some plating and a motorcycle helmet. Remember the Mark 1? Remember watching the firmware boot up on an old CRT monitor while Yinsin sacrificed himself to buy Tony time?

I feel like what I’m saying is straight-up CRAZY to the people who make these shows. But PLEASE: if you must, work up to the fancy polished CGI stuff by the end! Let us see something that looks a kinda real. Let her impress us by showing us stages of development instead of literally starting with a product that is finished and capable of cross country flight!

Bring back a gantry. Or let us see her step in and tighten a harness! I feel like if these people were in charge of Top Gun, everyone would get in planes by just running onto an air ram in street clothes and getting launched into the cockpit while the plane is flying. ‘Flight suit? Ladder? No, audiences will be bored.’

It really disappoints me that this show is dismissing this opportunity. We got a glimmer of it in Wakanda Forever, but oh well.

My understanding was that she used up the grant money and/or overextended the term of her scholarship without graduating.

It was a little hazy, tho

This is welcome news, but it still feels bizarre that people continue to act as though the settlements are part of a black market criminal operation. These are just private contractors of the Israeli government. You can’t cut ties with the settlements while remaining in bed with the Israeli government than you can forgo using using one half of a hammer.

This article is better than I expected.

I thought it was going to be overly credulous nonsense about what the strategy is for an operation that is clearly a purely selfish gimmick to keep Bibi in power at the expense of Israel’s long term reputation, security, and stability.

Overall, this author appears to be using dry sarcasm to allude to the fact that the emperor obviously has no clothes.

It makes me sad that Jewish Israelis let Bibi puppeteer them like this. It’s unfortunate, and it reminds me that at least until something changes, change will have to come from abroad. I think American Jews are probably the greatest hope for an intervention. But it’s not a hopeful situation.

Honestly, I don’t think this is really correct. It’s not a bad take, I just think the truth is that no one really wants more than violence for the sake of power.

Iran has never really supported Palestine, they just arm anyone who will attack Israel. And claiming that Netanyahu wants to install a puppet leader is giving him away too much credit. He wants nothing more than an indefinite war so he can start in power. He’ll fight in Iran until something shocking happens like a terrorist attack from the West Bank and then he’ll shake the etch a sketch and do all this again. And again. And again. Until anyone with sufficient power stops him.

This is silly.

First, I don’t know why you’re using the past tense. I don’t call water “wetted” I call it “wet”. And while I wouldn’t call fire “burned”, I would call it “burning”.

But here’s the thing: you’re welcome to have your idiosyncratic opinion on this. The fact that you seem to want me to argue my side when I feel perfectly comfortable letting you have a subjective opinion most people consider ridiculous says to me that (A) you know which one of us holds the broadly agreed upon position and (B) this isn’t about resolving a dispute. It’s just online debate for sport.

Enjoy believing a hotdog is a sandwich. Sleep well in your claims that cereal is a soup. I’m not going to explain to you why water is wet because it’s a waste of my time.

If you’re wondering what the point is, you can just go to one and ask for a tour.

I pay $65 a month for a membership to my local YMCA mainly so I can use the pool.

Most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other sensation.

But if you define wet as ‘made of liquid or moisture’, as some do, then water and all other liquids can be considered wet.

So… by a highly common definition it is wet. That’s not much of a debate.

There are plenty of words that mean different things in scientific contexts that are different from common use. It’s like saying “the sky is blue” is a false statement. Yes, there are contexts where the sky isn’t blue. At night. On other planets. Perhaps earlier periods in our planet’s history. But are we in those contexts right now? And is my meaning ambiguous?

There are a lot of times where language is unclear, and we must work to bridge communication barriers. But to insist on debating things when no genuine confusion is present is just an a bizarre antisocial practice.

That’s a fun song (but also obviously silly and wrong).

This article is fine, but kind of superfluous.

We get it. Everyone can see this. If you don’t have actionable advice or some additional insight, you’re really just reporting that water is wet.

I love LA.

China would be an unstoppable juggernaut.

…Isn’t it?